fonable was deny'd; where Misfortune was a powerful Recommendation, and where (I can fcarce forbear faying) that Want it felf was a powerful Mediator, and was next to Merit.

The History of Peru affures us, That their Inca's above all their Titles, efteem'd that the higheft, which call'd them Lovers of the Poor: A Name more glorious, than the Felix, Pius, and Auguftus of the Roman Emperors; which were Epithets of Flattery, deferv'd by few of them; and not running in a Blood like the perpetual Gentleness, and inherent Goodness of the ORMOND Family.

Gold, as it is the pureft, fo it is the softest, and most ductile of all Metals: Iron, which is the hardest, gathers Rust, corrodes its self; and is therefore fubject to Corruption: It was never intended for Coins and Medals, or to bear the Faces and Infcriptions of the Great. Indeed 'tis fit for Armour, to bear off Infults, and preserve the Wearer in the Day of Battel: But the Danger once repell'd, 'tis laid afide by the Brave, as a Garment too rough for civil Conversation; a neceffary Guard in War, but too harsh and cumbersome in Peace, and which keeps off the embraces of a more human Life,

For this Reason, my Lord, though you have Courage in a heroical Degree, yet I ascribe it to you, but as your fecond Attribute: Mercy, Beneficence, and Compaffion, claim Precedence, as they are first in the divine Nature. An intrepid Courage, which is inherent in your Grace, is at best but a Holiday-kind of Virtue, to be feldom exercis'd, and never but in Cases of Neceffity: Affability, Mildness, Tenderness, and a Word, which I would fain bring back to its original Signification of Virtue, I mean Good-Nature, are of daily use: They are the Bread of Mankind, and Staff of Life: Neither Sighs, nor Tears, nor Groans, nor Curfes of the vanquish'd, follow Acts of Compaffion, and of Charity: But a fincere Pleasure, and Serenity of Mind, in him who performs an Action of Mercy, which cannot fuffer the Misfortunes of another, without redrefs; least they should bring a kind of Contagion along with them, and pollute the Happiness which he enjoys.

Yet fince the perverfe Tempers of Mankind, fince Oppreffion on one fide, and Ambition on the other, are fometimes the unavoidable

Occafions of War; that Courage, that Magnanimity, and Refolution, which is born with you, cannot be too much commended: And here it grieves me that I am scanted in the Pleafure of dwelling on many of your Actions: But αιδέομαι Τρώας is an Expreffion which Tully often uses, when he would do what he dares -not, and fears the Cenfure of the Romans.

I have fometimes been forc'd to amplify on others; but here, where the Subject is so fruitful, that the Harvest overcomes the Reaper, I am fhorten'd by my Chain, and can only fee what is forbidden me to reach: Since it is not permitted me to commend you, according to the extent of my Wishes, and much less is it in my Power to make my Commendations equal to your Merits.

Yet in this Frugality of your Praises, there are fome Things which I cannot omit, without detracting from your Character. You have fo form'd your own Education, as enables you to pay the Debt you owe your Country; or more properly speaking, both your Countries: Because you were born, I may almost say in Purple at the Castle of Dublin, when your

Grandfather was Lord-Lieutenant, and have fince been bred in the Court of England. hu/If this Addrefs had been in Verse, I might -have call'd you as Claudian calls Mercury, Numen commune, Gemino faciens commercia mundo. The better to fatisfie this double Obligation you have early cultivated the Genius you have to Arms, that when the Service of Britain or Ireland hall require your Courage, and your Conduct, you may exert them both to the Benefit of either Country. You began in the Cabinet what you afterwards practis'd in the Camp; and thus both. Lucullus and Cefar (to omit a crowd of fhining Romans) form'd themselves to the War by the Study of Hiftory; and by the Examples of the greatest Captains, both of Greece and Italy, before their time. I name those two Commanders in particular, because they were better read in Chronicle than any of the Roman Leaders; and that Lucullus in particular, having only the Theory of War from Books, was thought fit, without Practice, to be fent into the Field, against the most formidable Enemy of Rome. Tully indeed was call'd the learned Conful in derifion; but then he was not born a Soldier: His Head was turn'd another way;

When he read the Tacticks he was thinking on the Bar, which was his Field of Battel. The Knowledge of Warfare is thrown away on a General who dares not make use of what he knows. I commend it only in a Man of Courage and Refolution; in him it will direct his Martial Spirit; and teach him the way to the best Victories, which are thofe that are leaft bloody, and which tho' atchiev'd by the Hand, are manag'd by the Head. Science diftinguishes a Man of Honour from one of those Athletick Brutes whom undefervedly we call Heroes. Curs'd be the Poet, who first honour'd with that Name a meer Ajax, a Man-killing Ideor. The Ulyffes of Ovid upbraids his Ignorance, that he understood not the Shield for which he pleaded: There was engraven on it, Plans of Cities, and Maps of Countries, which Ajax could not comprehend, but look'd on them as ftupidly as his Fellow-Beaft the Lion. But on the other fide, your Grace has given your felf the Education of his Rival; you have studied every Spot of Ground in Flanders, which for thefe ten Years past has been the Seene of Battels and of Sieges. No wonder if you perform'd your Part with fuch Applaufe on a Theater which you understood fo well.