LYRIC POEMS. 291 On theDeath of theDuhe of Gloucester, just after Mr. Dryden. 1760. An EPIGRAM. DRYDEN is dead,Dryden alone could sing The full-grown glories of a future king. Now Glos'ter dies: Thus lesser heroes live By that immortal breath that poets give: And scarce survive the muse: But William stands, [hands. Nor asks his honours from the poet's William shall shine without a Dryden's praise, "Ilis'laurels are not grafted on the bays. An Epigram of Martial tó Cirinus. Sic tua, Cirini, promets Epigramntata vulgo, ut mecum possts, 8¡e. Inscribed to Mr. JOSIAH HORT, 1604. (Now Lord Bishop of Rilmore in Ireland.) SO smooth yournumbers, friend, your verse so sweet, So sharp thejest,and yet the turn so neat, That with herMartial,Rome would place Cirine, [to mine; Rome world prefer your sense & thought Yet modest vos, decline the public stage, To fix your friend alone amidst th' ap- plauding age. So Maro did ; the mighty Maro sings, In vast heroic notes of vast heroic things, And leaves the ode to dance upon his Flaceus' strings. He scorn'd to daunt the dear Hora- tien lyre, Tho'. his brave genius flash'd Pindaric fire, [lyric quire. And at his will could silence all the So to his Varias he resign'dthe praise Of the proud buskinand the tragic bays, When he could thunder with a loftier vein, [strain. And sing of Gods and heroes in a bolder A handsome treat, a piece of gold, Or so, [bestow; And compliments will ev'ry friend Rarely a Virgil, a Cirine we Meet, Who lays his laurels at inferior feet, And yields the tenderestpoint of ho- nour, Wit. EPISTOLA. Featri suo dilecto R.W. I. W. S. P. D. "RURSUM tuas, amande frater, accepi literas, eodem fortassb momentù, quo mea ad te pervenerntt; idemque qui te scribentem vidit dies, meum ad epistolare manus exritavit calamum ; non inane est inter nos fraternum nomen, umcos enim spirit.. nos Baas animai, . agitque, & concordes in ambobus efficit motus: O utinam crescat indies, & vigescat mutua charism; faxit Deus, ut amor sui nostra incendat & defacet pectora, tune etenim & alternis pura amieitia flammis erga nos invicem dirions: in modem ardebimus ; contemplemnr Jesum nostrum, celeste illud & adorandum exemplar charitatis. Ille est. QUI quondam aterno delapsus ab athere vultus Induit hnmanos,utpossetcorpore nostras (Heu miseras) sufferre vices; sponsores obivit Munia, & in lese Labula maledicta Minaci. Transtulit, & sceleris panas hominisgae reatum. Ecce jaeet desertas humi, diffusus in herbam Integer, innecues versus sua skiera Et placidum attollens vultum, nec ad Meula patri. Amplexus solitosve; artis r udatus amictu Sidereos, & sporte sinora patefactus ad iras Numinis armati. Pater, hic infige * sagjttas, " Hac, ait, iratum sorbebnnt pectora ferrera, [sauguis." Ablunt atherens mortalia crimina e Job iv. 6. 1Sizit, & horrendum fremuire tonitrua celi Infensnsque Deus; (quem jam posuisse paternum Musa Boeri vellet nomen, sed & ipsa fragores Ad Santos pavefacta silet,) jam dissilit ether, Pandunturque fores, ubi duro carcere regnat, Ira,& poenannm thesauros mille coercet, Inde ruant gravidi vesano sulphure nimbi, Centuplicisque volanteontorta volumina fiamma In caput, immeritum, dim hoc sub pondere pressup Restar, compressas dumque ardens qx- plicat artus [ Purpuree vestes tincta sudore tirades- . cunt Nectamen infandoVindex Regina labari Segnius incumbit, sed lassos increpat innes [.*, ensem; Acriter, & somno languentem suscitat 1+ Lúke xxii. 44: ' Zech. xiii. 7. 2
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