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"Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast :

"Close by the regal chair

"Fell Thirft and Famine fcowl

"A baleful fimile upon their baffled Gueft.

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"Lance to lance, and horfe to horse?

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Long Years of havoc urge their destin'd course, "And through the kindred fquadrons mow their way. "Ye Towers of Julius, London's lafting fhame, "With many a foul and midnight murther fed, "Revere his Confort's faith, his Father's fame, "And fpare the meek Ufurper's holy head.

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Above, below, the rofe of fnow,

"Twined with her blufhing foe, we spread:

"The bristled Boar in infant-gore

"Wallows beneath the thorny fhade.

"Now Brothers, bending o'er th' accursed loom,

"Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.

III. 1.

Edward, lo! to fudden fate

"(Weave we the woof. The thread is fpun)

"Half

ઃઃ + Half of thy heart we confecrate,

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(The web is wove. The work is done.)" 'Stay, oh ftay! nor thus forlorn

Leave me unbleffed, unpitied, here to mourn:

'In yon bright track, that fires the western skies,

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They melt, they vanish from my eyes.

But oh! what folemn fcenes on Snowdon's height
Defcending flow their glitt'ring fkirts unroll?
Visions of glory, fpare my aching fight,

"Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my foul!

'No more our long-loft Arthur we bewail,

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All-hail, ye genuine Kings, Britannia's Iffue, hail!

III. 2.

Girt with many a Baron bold,

Sublime their ftarry fronts they rear;

'And gorgeous Dames, and Statesmen old

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In bearded majesty, appear.

In the midft a Form divine!

Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-Line;

+ Eleanor of Caftile died a few years after the conqueft of Wales. The heroic proof she gave of her affection for her Lord is well known. The monuments of his regret, and forrow for the lofs of her, are ftill to be feen in feveral parts of England.

Acceffion of the line of Tudor.

'Her

'Her lyon-port, her awe-commanding face,
Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.

• What strings fymphonious tremble in the air,
'What strains of vocal tranfport round her play!
'Hear from the grave, great Talieffin *, hear;
'They breathe a foul to animate thy clay.

'Bright Rapture calls, and foaring, as fhe fings,

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Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings. III. 3.

The verfe adorn again

Fierce War, and faithful Love,

'And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest.

In bufkin'd measures move

Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain,

"With Horrour, Tyrant of the throbbing breast.

A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,

'Gales from blooming Eden bear;

And distant warblings leffen on my ear,

That loft in long futurity expire.

'Fond impious Man, think'ft thou, yon fanguine cloud, 'Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day?

* Talieffin, Chief of the Bards, flourish'd in the VIth Century. His works are ftill preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his Countrymen.

'To-morrow

To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,

' And warms the nations with redoubled ray. "Enough for me: With joy I fee

'The different doom our Fates affign. Be thine Despair, and fcepter'd Care,

To triumph, and to die, are mine.'

He fpoke, and headlong from the mountain's height

Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.

POSTS CRIP T.

HA

AVING now, by the advice and affiftance of my friends, brought this Collection of POEMS to a competent size, it has been thought proper that the farther progrefs of its growth fhould here be ftop'd. From the loofe and fugitive pieces, fome printed, others in manuscript, which for forty or fifty years past have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the most judicious opinions I could obtain in distinguishing their merits, endeavour'd to felect and preferve the beft. The favourable reception which the former volumes have met with, demands my warmeft acknowledgments, and calls for all my care in compleating the Collection; and in this respect, if it appear that I have not been altogether negligent, I fhall hope to be allow'd the merit, which is all I claim, of having furnish'd to the Public an elegant and polite Amusement. Little more need be added, than to return my thanks to several ingenious friends, who have obligingly contributed to this Entertainment. If the reader fhould happen to find, what I hope he feldom will, any pieces which he may think unworthy of having been inferted; as it would ill become me to attribute his diflike of them to his own want of Tafte, so I am too confcious of my own deficiencies not to allow him to impute the infertion of them to mine.

R. DODSLEY.

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