Yet future times to thy fufficient store Thee will I fing in comely wainscot bound, 5 ΙΟ IS 20 Behind thy patron faint in armour fhines (So common that each peasant knows its pow'r) 30 Physicians in mysterious cant express T'amufe the patient and enhance their fees, So from the letters of our native tongue. And what is uncommon never coûts too dear; 35 41 Yet in all tongues the Hornbook is the fame, Taught by the Grecian master or the English dame. But how fhall I thy endless virtues tell In which thou dost all other books excel? No greafy thumbs thy spotless leaf can foil, Nor crooked dogfears thy fmooth corners spoil; To tell the blunders of the printer's hand; No fulfone dedication here is writ, Nor flatt'ring verfe to praise the author's wit; All parties in thy literal fense agree, * The Greek letters T, A. 45 .50 53 60 ***Too high the floods of paffion us'd to roll, Thy facred line he did but once repeat, "And laid the ftorm and cool'd the raging heat." Thy heav'nly notes like angels' mufick cheer Departing fouls and footh the dying ear. An aged peafant on his latest bcd 65 70 75 Wifh'd for a friend fome godly book to read; Yet in fome lands fuch ignorance abounds 80 *The advice given to Auguftus by the Stoick phi ofopher Athenodorus, who defired the emperour neither to say nor do any thing till he had first faid over the alphabet, as the obfervance of this rule would moderate his paffion, ånd prevent rath words and actions. Of Effex Hundreds Fame gives this report, But Fame I ween fays many things in sport: 85 Scarce lives the man to whom thou 'rt quite unknown, 'Tho' few th' extent of thy vaft empire own. Whatever wonders.magick spells can do On earth, in air, in fea, in fhades below, 95 99 What words profound and dark wife Mah'met spoke 100 Loofe grow the chains which bound my useless feet, Stiffness and pain from ev'ry joint retreat, 105 Surprising ftrength comes ev'ry moment on; I ftand, I step, I walk, and now I run. Here let me ceafe, my hobbling numbers stop, 109 On Queen Caroline's rebuilding the Lodgings of the BLACK PRINCE AND HENRY V. AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. WHERE bold and graceful foars, fecure of fame, In that coarse age were princes fond to dwell Their meals were frugal and their fleeps were fhort; They read an early book, the starry frame, Yet whofe ripe manhood spread our fame so far, Sages in peace and demigods in war! Who ftern in fight made echoing Creffy ring, IS 20 |