ing in Love for Love with Mrs. Bracegirdle, for the Benefit of Mr. Betterton. 1705. On the laft Fudgment, and Happiness of the Saints in Heaven. From Gerhard. Epigram on a Lady who fhed her Water at fee- Mecenas. Verfes, Occafioned by the Honours conferred on the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax. 1714. Being that Year inftalled. Epigram, on the Prince's appearing at the Fire Epilogue, to the Cruel Gift. A Tragedy.. 81 Verfes made to a Simile of Mr. Pope's. Prologue to the Non Juror. Spoken by Mr. Wilks, Of the Manner of Living with Great Men Written after the Method of Monfieur de la Bruyere.86 The Golden Verfes of Pythagoras, Tranflated. On the Glorious Succeffes of her Majefty's Armsz TO THE READER ན Hope the Reader will forgive the Liberty I have taken in Tranflating these Verfes fomewhat at large, without which it would have been almost impoffible to have given any kind of Turn in English Poetry to fo dry a Subject. The Senfe of the Author is, I hope, no where mistaken; and if there feems in fome Places to be fome Additions in the English Verses to the Greek Text, they are only fuch as may be justify'd from Hierocles's Commentary, and deliver'd by him as the larger and explain'd Senfe of the Author's Short Precept. I have in fome few Places Places ventur'd to differ from the Learned Mr. Dacier's French Interpretation, as those that shall give themselves the trouble of a strict Comparison will find. How far I am in the right, is left to the Reader to determine. THE To His EMINENCY CARDINAL Julius Mazarine, PRINCE of the Holy ROMAN Church. May it pleafe your EMINENCY, HAVE long confulted with my felf, whether it became a prudent Man, to fuffer a POEM of this NATURE to take Sanctuary under A * the but one of a very partial and weak Judgment, would not blush to prefer a fruitful Harvest to a plentiful Family; Vines, when join'd to Elms, to a Bride and Bridegroom, married for the noble Purposes of procreating a beauteous Race; the keeping of a numerous Stock of Cattel, to the Care of Man himself, as he is forming in the Womb, coming into the World, and ripening into Perfection? NEITHER have we omitted, no more than Virgil has done in his Georgics, to touch, in the following PO E Mм, upon that noble Science, fo worthy an ingenuous Education, Aftronomy; for there we relate, under what Star, a fair Offforing may be conceiv'd, in a way not unaccurate, and, perhaps, not altogether disagreeable and undiverting. HERE |