'Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-Line;

Her lyon-port*, her awe-commanding face,

Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.

*

Speed relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to

Paul Dzialinski, Ambaffadour of Poland, fays, • And thus

fhe, lion-like rifing, daunted the malapert Orator no less

⚫ with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the

⚫ tartneffe of her princelie checkes.'

• What

• What strings symphonious tremble in the air,

• What strains of vocal transport round her play!

Hear from the grave, great Talieffin †, hear;

They breathe a foul to animate thy clay.

Bright Rapture calls, and foaring, as the fings,

• Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd

[wings.

+ Talieffin, Chief of the Bards, flourished in the VIth Century. His works are ftill preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his Countrymen.

III. 3.

The verfe adorn again

*Fierce War, and faithful Love,

• And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest,

'A ‡ Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,

Fierce wars and faithful loves fhall moralize my fong.

Spenfer's Proëme to the Fairy Queen.

+ Shakespear.

Milton.

The fucceffion of Poets after Milton's time.

• Fond

Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon fanguine

[cloud,

'Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of

To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,

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

[day?

ray.

To triumph, and to die, are mine.'