Pris'ners of War in fhining Fetters follow,
And Captains of the nobleft Blood of Africk
Sweat by his Chariot-Wheels, and lick and grind,
With gnafhing Teeth, the Duft his Triumphs raise.
The fwarming Populace fpread ev'ry Wall,
And cling, as if with Claws they did enforce
Their Hold thro' clifted Stones, ftretching and ftaring
As they were all of Eyes, and ev'ry Limb
Would feed its Faculty of Admiration.

Congr. Mourn. Bride.

What Tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive Bands his Chariot Wheels ?
Have you climb'd up to Walls and Battlements,
To Towers and Windows, yea to Chimney Tops,
Your Infants in your Arms, and there have fate
The live-long Day with patient Expectation,
To fee great Pompey pafs the Streets of Rome?
And when you faw his Chariot but appear,
Have you not made a univerfal Shout,
That Tyber trembled underneath her Banks,
To hear the Replication of your Sounds,
Made in her concave Shores.

Loud Acclamations to the Clouds arife,
And propagate the Triumph to the Skies.
The confluent Tides to a high Deluge grow,
And Waves of thronging Heads roll to and fro.
The gazing Clufters to the Windows clung,
And on the Roofs fublime and Ridges hung;
Whence with luxurious Pomp they fed the Sight,
And with their greedy Looks devour'd Delight;
Their ftarting Eyes the Multitude did strain,
And from their eager Pleasure fuffer Pain.

ENVY.

The Fury ftrait

Shak. Jul. Caf.

Crawl'd in, her Limbs cou'd fcarce fupport her Weight:
A noifom Rag her penfive Temples bound,

And faintly her parch'd Lips her Accents found.
Beneath the gloomy Covert of an Eugh,

That taints the Grafs with fickly Sweats of Dew;
No verdant Beauty entertains the Sight
But baneful Hemlock and cold Aconite:

In a dark Grot the baleful Haggard lay,
Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day:
Meagre, deform'd, and worn with fpightful Woes:
The chearful Blood her livid Eyes forfook,
And Bafilisks fate rooding in her Look.
A bald and bloate Toad-ftool rais'd her Head,
And Plumes of boding Ravens were her Bed :

L 4

Blac.

Gar.

From

From her chapp'd Noftrils fcalding Torrents fall,
And her funk Eyes boil o'er in Floods of Gall.
Volcanos labour thus with inward Pains,
While Seas of melted Ore lay wafte the Plains.
Around the Fiend in hideous Order fate
Foul-bawling Infamy and bold Debate:
Gruff Difcontent, thro' Ignorance mifled,
And clam'rous Faction at her Party's Head:
Retlefs Sedition, ftill diffembling Fear,
And fly Hypocrify with pious Leer.

Glouting with fullen Spight the Fury fhook
Her clotter'd Locks, and blafted with each Look.
Then tore with cancker'd Teeth the pregnant Scrolls,
Where Fame the A&ts of Demi-Gods enrolls:
She blazons in dread Smiles her hideous Form;
So Lightning gilds the unrelenting Storm.

Envy at laft crawls forth from Hell's dire Throng,
Of all the direfull'ft! her black Locks hung long,
Attir'd with curling Serpents; her pale Skin
Was almoft dropt from the fharp Bones within;
And at her Breaft ftuck Vipers, which did prey
Upon her panting Heart both Night and Day,
Sucking black Blood from thence, which to repair,
Both Day and Night they left fresh Poyfons there.
Her Garments were deep ftain'd in human Gore,
And torn by her own Hands, in which the bore
A knotted Whip and Bowl, which to the Brim
Did with green Gall and Juice of Wormwood swim
With which when fhe was drunk fhe furious grew,
And lafh'd her felf. Envy, the worft of Fiends;
Baby, good only when the her felf torments.
Afide he turn'd

For Envy, and with jealous Leer malign

Ey'd them askaunce.

Envy never dwells in noble Hearts.

Gar:

Cowl.

Milt.

Dryd. Pal. & Arc.

Wall.

Envy, like the Sun, does beat

With-fcorching Rays on all that's high and great.

ETERNITY. ·

Eternity no Parent does admit,

But on it felf did first it felf beget:

A Gulf whofe large Extent no Bounds engage,
A ftill-beginning, never-ending Age

Eternity that boundlefs Race,

Which Time himself can never run,

(Swift as he flies with an unweary'd Pace ;)

Which when ten, thoufand thoufand Years are done,

Is ftill the fame, and ftill to be begun,

Cong.

EVENING.

The Western Sun now fhot a feeble Ray, And faintly scatter'd the Remains of Day.

The Sun

Declin'd, was hafting now with prone Carreer
To th'Ocean Ifles, and in the afcending Scale
Of Heav'n, the Stars that ufher Ev'ning rofe.

Now came ftill Ev'ning on, and Twilight grey
Had in her fober Liv'ry all things clad.

And fee, yon funny Hill the Shade extends, And curling Smoke from Cottages afcends.

The fetting Sun defcends

Swift to the Western Waves; and guilty Night
Hafty to spread her Horrours o'er the World,
Rides on the dusky Air.

See from afar the Hills no longer smoke:
The fweating Steers, unharness'd from the Yoke,
Bring, as in Triumph, back the crooked Plough;
The Shadows lengthen, and the Sun goes low :
Cool Breezes now the raging Heats remove.

Night rushes down, and headlong drives the Day.
The Ev'ning now with Blushes warms the Air,
The Steer refigns his Yoke, the Hind his Care:
The Clouds aloft with golden Edgings glow,
And falling Dews refresh the Flow'rs below.
The Bat with footy Wings flits thro' the Grove,
The Reeds fcarce ruftle, nor the Afpine move:

Dryd. Virg.

And all the feather'd Folks forbear their Lays of Love. Gar.
When the low Sun is finking to the Main,

When rifing Cynthia fheds her filver Dews,
And the cool Ev'ning Breeze the Meads renews.
When Linnets fill the Woods with tuneful Sound,
And hollow Shores the Halcyon's Voice rebound.
Now the Day wears, the Sun-Beams faintly bound,
And taller Shadows ftretch along the Ground.

The gilded Planet of the Day
In his gay Chariot, drawn by Fire,
Was now defcending to the Sea,

And left no Light to guide the World,

Dryd. Virg.

Blac.

But what from Chloris brighter Eyes was hurl'd.
As when from Mountain-tops the dusky Clouds

Behn.

Afcending, while the North-wind fleeps, o'erfpread
Heav'ns chearful Face, the lowring Element

Scowls o'er the darken'd Lankskip Snow, or Show'r;
If chance the radient Sun with farewel Sweet
Extend his Ev'ning-Beams, the Fields revive,
The Birds their Notes renew, and bleating Herds
Atteft their Joy, that Hill and Valley rings.

Milt. EU.

EUNUCH.

Pleafure forfook his earliest Infancy;

Man:

The Luxury of others robb'd his Cradle,
And ravifh'd thence the Promife of
Caft out from Nature, difinherited

Of what her meaneft Children claim by Kind.
Quoth he, it ftands me much upon,
T'enervate this Objection;

And prove my felf by Topick clear
No Gelding, as you would infer.
Lofs of Virility's averr'd

To be the Caufe of Lofs of Beard,
That does, like Embryo in the Womb,
Abortive in the Chin become.
This first a Woman did invent,
In Envy of Man's Ornament:
Semiramis of Babylon,

Who first of all cut Men o'th'Stone,
To mar their Beards, and laid Foundation
Of the Sow-geld'ring Operation:

Look on this Beard, and tell me whether
Eunuchs wear fuch, or Geldings either.
EXAMPLE.

(Love.

Dryd. All for

Hud.

Sed. Ant. & Cleop

Example is a living Law, whofe Sway
Men more than all the written Laws obey.
Quoth Hudibras, the Cafe is clear,
As thou haft prov'd it by their Practice,
No Argument like Matter of Fact is;
And we are beft of all led to

Mens Principles by what they do.
EXPERIENCE.

Sixty Years have spread

Their grey Experience o'er thy hoary Head.

Some Truths are not by Reafon to be try'd,

Hud.

Cree. Juv.

But we have fure Experience for our Guide. Dryd. The Cock and

And giv'ft Accefs, tho' fecret fhe retire.

(the Fox.

Beft Guide! thou open'ft Wifdom's Way,

Milt.

The Confident of Age, the Youth's fcorn'd Guide.
EYES. See Beauty, Hell, Looks.

Dav.

Dryd.

Blac.

He ftar'd, and roul'd his haggard Eyes around.
Thus did his Fury rife,

And Streaks of Fire flafh'd from his raging Eyes.
Fate is in thy Face,

And from thy haggard Eyes looks wildly out,
And threatens e'er thou fpeak'ft.

Dryd. All for Love.

Who

Who knows how eloquent thefe Eyes may prove,
Begging in Floods of Tears and Flames of Love. Roch. Valent.
Then only hear her Eyes;

Tho' they are mute, they plead, nay more, command :
For beauteous Eyes have arbitrary Pow'r.

Dryd. Don Seb.

Our glorious Sun, the Source of Light and Heat,
Whofe Influence chears the World he did create,
Shall smile on thee from his meridian Skies,
And blefs the Kindred Beauties of thy Eyes.

Thy Eyes, which, could his own fair Beams decay,

Might fhine for him, and bless the World with Day. Rowe Amb.
So when the Night and Winter disappear,

The purple Morning rifing with the Year,
Salutes the Spring; as her celeftial Eyes
Adorn the World, and brighten all the Skies.
Crown'd with Charms,

She fhow'd her heav'nly Form without Disguise,
And gives herself to his defiring Eyes.

Proud of the Gift, he rowl'd his greedy Sight
Around the Work, and gaz'd with vaft Delight.

(Stepm.

Dryd, Theoc.

Dryd. Virg.

Soft am'rous Sighs, and filent Love of Eyes. Dryd.Pal.& Arc. FACTIOUS.

Avoid the politick, the factious Fool,

The bufy, buzzing, talking, harden'd Knave;

The quaint fmooth Rogue, that fins against his Reason,
Calls fawcy loud Sedition publick Zeal,

And Mutiny the Dictates of his Spirit.

FAIR. See Beauty.

Fair as the Face of Nature did appear,

Otw. Orph.

When Flow'rs first peep'd, and Trees did Bloffoms bear,
And Winter had not yet deform'd th'inverted Year.Dryd.Auren.
Lefs fair are Orchards in their Autumn Pride,

Adorn'd with Trees, on fome fair River Side.
Lefs fair are Valleys, their green Mantles fpread,
Or Mountains with tall Cedars on their Head.

Cowl.

As fair as Winter Stars, or Summer fetting Suns. Lee Theod:

Fairer to be seen

Than the fair Lilly on the flow'ry Green;

More fresh than May herself in Bloffoms new:

For with the rofie Colour ftrove her Hue. Dryd. Pal. & Arc. Form joyn'd with Virtue is a Sight too rare:

Chafte is no Epithet to fuit with Fair.

FAIRIES.

Like Fairy Elves,

Whofe Midnight Revels, by a Foreft Side,
Or Fountain, fome belated Peafant fees,

Or dreams he fees, while over Head the Moon

Dryd. Juu.