When Noble Sheffield strikes the trembling Strings,
The little Loves rejoyce, and clap their Wings,
Anacreon lives, they cry, th' harmonious Swain.
Retunes the Lyre, and tries his wonted Strain,
'Tis He—our loft Anacreon lives again.
But when th' illuftrious Poet foars above
The sportive Revels of the God of Love,
Like Maro's Muse he takes a loftier flight,
And towres beyond the wond'ring Cupid's Sight.

If thou wouldst have thy Volume stand the Test, And of all others be reputed Best, Let Congreve teach the lift'ning Groves to mourn, As when he wept o'er fair Paftora's Urn.

Let Prior's Mufe with foft'ning Accents move, Soft as the Strains of constant Emma's Love:

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Or let his Fancy chufe fome jovial Theme,
As when he told Hans Carvel's jealous Dream;
Prior th'admiring Reader entertains,

With Chaucer'sHumour,and with Spencer's Strains.

Waller in Granville lives; when Mira fings With Waller'sHand he strikes the founding Strings, With fprightly Turns his noble Genius fhines, And manly Senfe adorns his easie Lines.

On Addison's sweet Lays Attention waits, And Silence guards the Place while he repeats; His Mufe alike on ev'ry Subject charms, Whether the paints the God of Love, or Arms: In Him, Pathetick Ovid fings again, And Homer's Iliad fhines in his Campaign.

Whenever Garth fhall raise his sprightly Song, Senfe flows in eafie Numbers from his Tongue;

Great Phabus in his learned Son we fee,

Alike in Phyfick, as in Poetry.

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When Pope's harmonious Muse with pleasure

[Groves,

Amidst the Plains, the murm'ring Streams, and
Attentive Eccho pleas'd to hear his Songs,
Thro' the glad Shade each warblingNote prolongs;
His various Numbers charm our ravish'd Ears,
His steady Judgment far out-fhoots his Years,
And early in the Youth the God appears.

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And fome esteem old Elzevir:

Others with Aldus would befot us;

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