And aided by her fervile trains,

Leads kings, and fons of kings, in chains. Her darling minifter is PRIDE,

(Who ne'er was known to change his fide)

A friend, to all her interests just,
And active to difcharge his truft;
Carefs'd alike by high and low,
The idol of the belle and beau :
In ev'ry shape, he fhews his fkill,
And forms her fubjects to his will;
Enters their houfes and their hearts,
And gains his point before he parts.
Sure never minifter was known
So zealous for his fov'reign's throne!

Three fifters, fimilar in mien,
Were maids of honour to the queen ;
Who farther favours fhar'd befside,
As daughters of her statesman PRIDE.
The first CONCEIT, with tow'ring crest,
Who look'd with fcorn upon the reft;
Fond of herself, nor lefs, I deem,
Than Duchefs in her own esteem.

Next

Next AFFECTATION, fair and young, With half-form'd accents on her tongue,ke Whose antic shapes, and various face,. Distorted every native grace...

Then VANITY, a wanton maid, Flaunting in Bruffels, and brocade ;; Fantastic, frolick fome, and wild, With all the trinkets of a child..

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The people, loyal to their queen,
Wore their attachment in their mien:
With chearful heart they homage paid,
And happiest he, who moft obey'd;.
While they, who fought their own applause,
Promoted most their fov'reign's cause.
The minds of all were fraught with guile,
Their manners diffolute and vile;

And every tribe, like pagans, run
To kneel before the rifing fun.

But now fome clam'rous founds arife, And all the pleasing vision flies.

Once

:

Once more I clos'd my eyes to fleep, And gain'd th' imaginary deep.

FANCY prefided at the helm,

And fteer'd me back to FRIENDSHIP's realm.

But, oh! with horror I relate

The revolutions of her ftate.

The Trojan chief cou'd hardly more
His Afiatic tow'rs deplore.

For FLATT'RY view'd those fairer plains, With longing eyes, whereFRIENDSHIPreigns; With envy heard her neighbour's fame, And often figh'd to gain the fame. At length, by pride and int'reft fir'd, TO FRIENDSHIP's kingdom she aspir'd.

And now commencing open foe,
She plans in thought fome mighty blow;
Draws out her forces on the green,
And marches to invade the queen.

The river TRUTH the hofts withstood,

And roll'd her formidable flood:

Her

Her current strong, and deep, and clear,
No fords were found, no ferries near;
But as the troops approach'd the waves,
Their fears fuggeft a thousand graves;
They all retir'd with hafte extreme,
And shudder'd at the dang'rous stream.

HYPOCRISY the gulph explores; She forms a bridge, and joins the fhores. Thus often art or fraud prevails, When military prowefs fails. The troops an eafy paffage find, And vict'ry follows clofe behind.

FRIENDSHIP with ardour charg'd her foes, And now the fight promifcuous grows : But FLATT'RY threw a poifon'd dart, And pierced the Empress to the heart. The VIRTUES all around were feen, To fall in heaps about the queen. The tyrant strip'd the mangled fair, She wore her spoils, affum'd her air; And mounting next the fuffèrer's throne, Claim'd the queen's titles as her own.

Ah!

Ah! injur'd maid, aloud I cry'd ;
Ah! injur'd maid, the rocks reply'd ;
But judge my griefs, and fhare them too,
For the fad tale pertains to you;

Judge, reader, how my griefs abound
When FRIENDSHIP's foes were mine I found;
When the fad fcene of pride and guile
Was Britain's poor degen'rate ifle.

The Amazons, who prop'd the state,
Haply furviv'd the genʼral fate.
JUSTICE to Powis-Houfe is fled,

And YORKE sustains her radiant head.
The virtue FORTITUDE appears
In open day at Ligonier's;

Illustrious heroine of the sky,

Who leads to vanquish or to die!
'Twas SHE our vet'rans breafts infpir'd,
When Belgia's faithlefs fons retir'd:
For Tournay's treach'rous tow'rs can tell
Britannia's children greatly fell.

No partial virtue of the plain ! She rous'd the lions of the main :

Hence