This prince, though great in arms, the priest withstood :
Near though he was, yet not the next of blood.
Had Richard unconstrain'd, resign'd the throne,
A king can give no more than is his own:
The title ftood entail'd, had Richard had a fon.

Conqueft, an odious name, was laid afide,
Where all submitted, none the battle try'd.
The fenfeless plea of right by providence
Was, by a flattering prieft, invented fince;
And lafts no longer than the present sway;
But juftifies the next who comes in play.

The people's right remains; let those who dare Dispute their power, when they the judges are.

He join'd not in their choice, because he knew Worfe might, and often did, from change enfue. Much to himself he thought; but little spoke; And, undepriv'd, his benefice forfook.

Now, through the land, his cure of fouls he ftretch'd: And like a primitive apoftle preach'd.

Still chearful; ever conftant to his call;

By many follow'd; lov'd by moft, admir'd by all.
With what he begg'd, his brethren he reliev'd;

And

gave the charities himself receiv'd.

Gave, while he taught; and edify'd the more,
Because he fhew'd, by proof, 'twas easy to be poor.

He went not with the crowd to see a shrine;
But fed us, by the way, with food divine.

In deference to his virtues, I forbear

To fhew you what the reft in orders were:
This brilliant is fo fpotlefs, and so bright,
He needs no foil, but fhines by his own proper light.

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HILE Norman Tancred in Salerno reign'd,
The title of a gracious prince he gain'd;

Till, turn'd a tyrant in his latter days,
He loft the luftre of his former praise ;
And from the bright meridian where he food,
Defcending, dipp'd his hands in lovers blood.
This prince, of Fortune's favour long poffefs'd,
Yet was with one fair daughter only bless'd;
And bless'd he might have been with her alone:
But oh! how much more happy had he none !
She was his care, his hope, and his delight,
Moft in his thought, and ever in his fight:
Next, nay beyond his life, he held her dear;
She liv'd by him, and now he liv'd in her.
For this, when ripe for marriage, he delay'd
Her nuptial bands, and kept her long a maid,
As envying any else should share a part
Of what was his, and claiming all her heart.
At length, as public decency requir'd,
And all his vaffals eagerly defir'd,
With mind averfe, he rather underwent
His people's will, than gave his own consent.