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In three Seal-Rings; which after melted down, Form'd a vaft Buckle for his Widow's Gown: Her infant Grandame's Whiftle next it grew, The Bells the gingled, and the Whistle blew; Then in a Bodkin grac'd her Mother's Hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.)

Boaft not my Fall (he cry'd) infulting Foe!
Thou by fome other fhalt be laid as low.
Nor think, to die dejects my lofty Mind:
All that I dread, is leaving you behind!
Rather than fo, ah let me ftill furvive,

And burn in Cupid's Flames, but burn alive.

Reftore the Lock! the cries; and all around Reftore the Lock the vaulted Roofs rebound. Not fierce Othello in fo loud a Strain

Roar'd for the Handkerchief that caus'd his Pain.

But fee how oft ambitious Aims are cross'd,

And Chiefs contend 'till all the Prize is loft!

The Lock obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain In ev'ry Place is fought, but fought in vain:

With

With fuch a Prize no Mortal must be blest,

So Heav'n decrees! with Heav'n who can conteft?

Some thought it mounted to the Lunar Sphere, * Since all things loft on Earth, are treasur'd there. There Heroe's Wits are kept in pondrous Vases, And Beau's in Snuff-Boxes and Tweezer-Cafes. There broken Vows, and Death-bed Alms are found, And Lovers Hearts with Ends of Riband bound; The Courtiers Promises, and Sick Man's Pray'rs, The Smiles of Harlots, and the Tears of Heirs, Cages for Gnats, and Chains to yoak a Flea; Dry'd Butterflies, and Tomes of Cafuiftry,

But truft the Mufe the faw it upward rife, Tho' mark'd by none but quick Poetick Eyes:

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So Rome's great Founder to the Heav'ns withdrew,

To Proculus alone confefs'd in View.)

A fudden Star, it fhot thro' liquid Air,
And drew behind a radiant Trail of Hair.

Vid. Ariofto. Canto 34.

Not

Not Berenice's Locks firft rofe fo bright,
The Skies befpangling with difhevel'd Light.
The Sylphs behold it kindling as it flies,

And pleas'd purfue its Progrefs thro' the Skies.

This the Beau-monde fhall from the Mall furvey, Aud hail with Musick its propitious Ray. This the bleft Lover fhall for Venus take, And fend

up Vows from Rofamonda's Lake.

This Partridge foon shall view in cloudless Skies,
When next he looks thro' Gallileo's Eyes;
And hence th' Egregious Wizard fhall foredoom
The Fate of Louis, and the Fall of Rome.

[Hair

Then ceafe, bright Nymph! to mourn the ravish'd Which adds new Glory to the fhining Sphere! Not all the Treffes that fair Head can boast

Shall draw fuch Envy as the Lock you loft.
For, after all the Murders of

your Eye,

When, after Millions flain, your self shall die;

When

When those fair Suns fhall fett, as fett they must,
And all thofe Treffes fhall be laid in Duft;3
This Lock the Mufe fhall confecrate to Fame,
And 'midft the Stars infcribe Belinda's Name.

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