Then his air was too proud, and his features amifs, So the rabble of Rome, whofe favour ne'er fettles, An EPISTLE to CHARLES MONTAGUE, Efq; afterwards Earl of HALIFAX. On his Majesty's Voyage to HOLLAND. SIR, SINCE you oft invite me to renew Art I've either loft, or never knew, Pleas'd my paft follies kindly to commend, To rival what I only would admire, The heat and beauty of your manly thought, The colours there fo artfully are laid, They fear no luftre, and they want no fhade; While Boyne fhall flow, and William's glory live. Yet fince his every act may well infufe Some happy rapture in the humbleft Mufe, Though mine despairs to reach the wondrous height,' She prunes her pinions, eager of the flight; When William's deeds, and rescued Europe's joy 'Tis to think treafon fure, to fhew no zeal, Let Albion then forgive her meanest son, And how two nations did with transport boast, When he withdrew from what his arm had freed, Ne'er be of me, and I of him poffefs'd? O ge Prayer-books, patch-boxes, fermon-notes, and paint, O N ORPHEUS AND SIGNORA FRANCISCA MARGARITA. HAIL, tuneful pair! fay, by what wondrous charms, One'fcap'd from hell, and one from Greber's arms? When the foft Thracian touch'd the trembling ftrings, The winds were hush'd, and curl'd their airy wings : And when the tawny Tuscan rais'd her ftrain, Rooke furls his fails, and dozes on the main. Treaties unfinish'd in the office fleep, And Shovel yawns for orders on the deep. Thus equal charms and equal conquests claim To him high woods and bending timber came, To her fhrub Hedges, and tall Nottingham. } CON c o N 1 NTENTS O F HALIFAX'S POEMS. On the Death of his moft Sacred Majefty King Charles Page 215 II. Ode on the Marriage of the Princefs Anne and Prince George of Denmark 220 224 The Man of Honour; occafioned by a Postscript of 229 237 Verfes written for the Toasting Glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 On the Countefs Dowager of **** ibid. 239 On Orpheus and Signora Francifca Margarita 240 R POEMS |