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CARBERI RUPES in comitatu Corgagenfi apud Hibernicos.

Scripfit Jun. Ann. Dom. 1723.

ECCE ingens fragmen scopuli, quod vertice

fummo

Defuper impendet, nullo fundamine nixum,
Decidit in fluctus; maria undique et undique faxa
Horifono ftridore tonant, et ad æthera murmur
Erigitur; trepidatque fuis Neptunus in undis.
Nâm, longa venti rabie, atque afpergine crebrâ
Equorei laticis, fpecus ima rupe cavatur :
Jam fultura ruit, jam fumma cacumina nutant;
Jam cadit in præceps moles, et verberat undas.
Attonitus credas, hinc dejeciffe tonantem
Montibus impofitos montes, et Pelion altum
In capita anguipedum cœlo jaculâffe gigantum.

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Sæpe etiam fpelunca immani aperitur hiatu Exefa è fcopulis, et utrinque foramina pandit, Hinc atque hinc a ponto ad pontum pervia Phoebo. Cautibus enormè junctis laquearia tecti Formantur; moles olim ruitura fupernè. Fornice fublimi nidos pofuere palumbes, Inque imo stagni pofuere cubilia phocæ.

Sed, cum fævit hyms, et venti, carcere rupto, 20 Immenfus volvunt fluctus ad culmina montis, Non obfeffe arces, non fulmina vindice dextrâ Miffa Jovis, quoties inimicas fævit in urbes,

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Exæquant

Exæquant fonitum undarum, veniente procellâ :
Littora littoribus reboant; vicinia late,
Gens affueta mari, et pedibus percurrere rupes,.
Terretur tamen, et longe fugit, arva relinquens.

Gramina dum carpunt pendentes rupe capellæ,
Vi falientis aquæ de fummo præcipitantur,
Et dulces animas imo fub gurgite linquunt.

Pifcator terrâ non audit vellere funem ; Sed latet in portu tremebundus, et, aëra fudum Haud fperans, Nereum precibus votifque fatigat.

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[We have added a tranflation of the proceeding poem for the benefit of our Englith readers. It is done by Mr. W. Dunkin, M. A. for whom our fuppofed author hath expreffed a great regard on account of his ingenious performances, although unacquainted with him. ]

CARBERY ROCKS in the county of Cork Ireland,

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O! from the top of yonder cliff, that shrouds
Its airy head amidst the azure clouds,

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Hangs a huge fragment; deftitute of props,
Prone on the waves the rocky ruin drops!
With horfe rebuff the fwelling feas rebound,
From fhore to fhore the rocks return the found:
The dreadful murmur heaven's high convex cleaves,
And Neptune fhrinks beneath his subject waves :

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For long the whirling winds and beating tides
Had fcoop'd a vault into its nether fides.

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Now yields the bafe, the fummits nod, now urge Their headlong course, and lash the founding furge. Not louder noife could fhake the guilty world, When Jove heap'd mountains upon mountains. hurl'd;

Retorting Pelion from his dread abode,

To crufh earth's rebel-fons beneath the load,

Oft too with hideous yawn the caverns wide Prefent an orifice on either fide,

A difmal orifice from sea to fea

Extended, pervious to the god of day:
Uncouthly join'd the rocks ftupendous form
An arch, the ruin of a future ftorm :

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High on the cliff their nefts the woodquefts make, And fea-calves ftable in the oozy lake.

But when bleak Winter with his fullen train 25 Awakes the winds to vex the watʼry plain; When o'er the craggy steep without control, Big with the blaft, the raging billows roll; Not towns beleaguer'd, not the flaming brand, Darted from heav'n by Jove's avenging hand, Oft as on impious men his wrath he pours, Humbles their pride, and blafts their gilded tow'rs,

Equal the tumult of this wild uproar:

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Waves rufh o'er waves, rebellows fhore to fhore. The neighb'ring race, though wont to brave the fhocks

Of angry feas, and run along the rocks,
Now pale with terror, while the ocean foams,
Fly far and wide, nor trust their native homes.

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The goats, while pendent from the mountain-top The wither'd herb improvident they crop,

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Wafh down the precipice with fudden fweep,

Leave their fweet lives beneath th' unfathom'd deep.
The frighted fifher with desponding eyes.

Though fafe, yet trembling in the harbour lies,
Nor hoping to behold the skies ferene,

Wearies with vows the monarch of the main.

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Upon the Horrid PLOT difcovered by HARLEQUIN, the Bishop of ROCHESTER'S French dog *.

In a dialogue between a Whig and a Tory.

Written in the year 1723.

afk'd a Whig the other night,
How came this wicked plot to light?
He anfwer'd, that a dog of late
Inform'd a minifter of ftate.

Said I, from thence I nothing know;
For are not all informers fo?
A villain who his friend betrays,
We ftyle him by no other phrafe;
And fo a perjur'd dog denotes
Porter, and Prendergaft, and Oates,
And forty others I could name.

Whig. But you must know this dog was lame.

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* See the proceedings in parliament against Dr. Atterbury the Bihep of Rochester, State trials, vol. 6. -- -He was tried by the Lords for a plot against the government, deprived of his bifhopric, banisted his native country, and died in France, Feb. 15, 1732.

Tory.

Tory. A weighty argument indeed!
Your evidence was lame: proceed :
Come, help your lame dog o'er the stile.
Whig. Sir, you mistake me all this while :
I mean a dog (without a joke)

Can howl, and bark, but never fpoke.

Tory. I'm ftill to feek, which dog you mean;
Whether cur Plunket, or whelp Skean.
An English or an Irifh hound;

Or t'other

puppy that was drown'd,

Tr Mafon, that abandon'd bitch :
hen pray be free, and tell me which :
For every ftander-by was marking,

That all the noife they made was barking..
You pay them well; the dogs have got
Their dog-heads in a porridge-pot :
And 'twas but juft; for wife men say,
That ev'ry dog muft have his day.
Dog Walpole laid a quart of nog on't,
He'd either make a hog or dog on't;
And look'd, fince he has got his with,.
As if he had thrown down a dish,....
Yet this I dare foretel you from it,
He'll foon return to his own vomit.

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Whig. Befides this horrid plot was found. By Neynoe, after he was drown'd.

Tory. Why then the proverb is not right,

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you can teach dead dogs to bite.

Whig. I prov'd my propofition full:

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But Jacobites are ftrangely dull.

Now let me tell you plainly, Sir,

Our witness is a real cur,

A dog of spirit for his years,

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Has twice two legs, two hanging ears ;

His name is Harlequin, I wot,

And that's a name in every plot :
Refolv'd to fave the British nation,
Though French by birth and education;

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