Over plains and rivers bounds,

And out-flies the winds and hounds.

When perhaps fome nymph, whofe eyes
Makes both men and beast her prize,
Swifter than Camilla's pace

Soon o'er-takes the winged race,

And with one bright glance the wounds,
And his faney'd hope confounds;
Who, reflecting his faint eyes
On her face, with pleasure dies.
When the sports are done, they reft
Underneath fome fhade, and feast
On fweet beds of violets, crown'd
With sweet roses on the ground.
Where they garlands weave, and pofes
Of green myrtle, pinks, and rofes:
For which grace the ravifh'd fwains
Pay foft kifles for their pains.
Thus they dally till the light
Falls behind the scene of night.

O

SONG.

I.

Go tell Amynta, gentle swain,

I would not die, nor dare complain Thy tuneful voice with numbers join, Thy words will more prevail than mine. To fouls opprefs'd and dumb with grief, The Gods ordain this kind relief;

That

That mufic fhould in founds convey,

What dying lovers dare not say.

II.

A figh or tear perhaps she'll give,

But Love on Pity cannot live.

Tell her that hearts for hearts were made,
And Love with Love is only paid.
Tell her my pains so fast encrease,
That foon they will be past redress;
But ah! the wretch that fpeechless lies,
Attends but Death to close his eyes.

A

S foon as mild Auguftus could affuage A bloody civil war's licentious rage, He made the bleffing that he gave increase,

By teaching Rome the fofter arts of peace.

* On or near the fcite of King Arthur's Caftle, king Charles II. in 1683 laid the foundation of a magnificent royal palace, only the fhell of which was finished. A cupola was defigned 30 feet higher than the roof, which would have been seen at sea; and a street was intended leading from the Weft end of the cathedral to the centre of the front. The length of the whole is 328 feet. A park was also projected ten miles in circumference; but the death of the king prevented the progrefs and execution of this noble plan. The palace is at prefent converted into a commodious prifon for French prifoners of war. See Warton's Defcription of Winchefter, p. 11. N.

The

f

The facred temples, wanting due repair,
Had first their wounds heal'd with a pious care;
Nor ceas'd his labour till proud Rome outvy'd
In glory all the fubject world befide.
Thus Charles, in peace returning to our inle,
With building did his regal cares beguile.
London, almoft confum'd but to a name,
He refcues from the fierce devouring flame;
Its hoftile rage the burning town enjoy’d,
For he reftor'd as fast as that deftroy'd :
"Twas quickly burnt, and quickly built again,
The double wonder of his halcyon reign.
Of Windfor cattle (his belov'd retreat
From this vaft city troublefomely great)
'Twas Denham only with fuccefs could write,
The nation's glory, and the king's delight.
On Winchester my Mufe her fong bestows,
She that finall tribute to her country owes.
To Winchefter let Charles be ever kind,
The youngest labour of his fertile mind.
Here ancient kings the British fceptre fway'd,
And all kings fince have always been obey'd.
Rebellion here could ne'er erect a throne,
For Charles that blefling was referv'd alone.
Let not the ftately fabric you decree,
An immature, abortive palace be,

But may it grow the mistress of

your heart,

And the full heir of Wren's ftupendous art!
The happy fpot on which its fovereign dwells,
With a juft pride above the city fwells,

VOL. II.

N

That

That like a loyal fubject chose to lie
Beneath his feet with humble modefty;
Faft by a reverend church extends its wings,
And pays due homage to the best of kings.
Nature, like Law, a monarch will create,
He's fituated head of Church and State.
The graceful Temple that delights his eye
(Luxurious toil of former piety)

Has vanquish'd envious Time's devouring rage,
And, like Religion, fironger grows by age :
It ftems the torrent of the flowing years,
Yet gay as youth the facred pile appears.
Of its great rife we no records have known,
It has out-liv'd all memory but its own*.
The monumental marbles us affure,
It gave the Danish monarchs fepulture.
Here Death himself inthrones the crowned head,
For every tomb's a palace to the dead.

But now my Muse, nay rather all the nine,
In a full chorus of applauses join

Of your great Wykeham!

Wykeham, whose name can mighty thoughts infuse, But nought can cafe the travail of my Mufe;

About the year 1079, bifhop Walkelyne began the prefent edifice, on the fcite of an older; and finished the tower, the choir, the tranfept, and probably the Weft end. The whole was nobly improved by William of Wykeham (the munificent founder of New College, Oxford) in 1394; and by bishop Fox, the pious founder of Corpus Chrifti College in Oxford, who was bifhop of Winchester from 1502 to 1528. See Warton, p. 69, & feqq. N.

Prefs'd

Prefs'd with her load, her feeble strength decays,

And the 's deliver'd of abortive praise.

Here he for youth erects a nursery,

The great coheiress of his piety *;

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Where they through various tongues coy knowledge
This is the barrier of their learned race,

From which they start, and all along the way
They to their God and for their fovereign pray,
And from their infancies are taught t' obey.
Oh! may they never vex the quiet nation,
And turn apoftates to their education !

When with these objects Charles has fill'd his fight,
Sal fresh provoke his feeing appetite.
A healthy country opening to his view,
The chearful pleasures of his eyes renew.

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On neighbouring plains the courfers, wing'd with speed,
Contend for plate, the glorious victor's meed.
Over the course they rather fly than run,

In a wide circle like the radiant fun.

Then frafh delights they for their prince prepare,
And hawks (the swift-wing'd courfers of the air)
The trembling bird with fatal hafte pursue,
And feize the quarry in their master's view.

Till, like my Muse, tir'd with the game they 've found,
They stoop for case, and pitch upon the ground.

* The first stone was laid March 26, 1387, near a school in which Wykeham, when a boy, was educated; and the building was completed March 28, 1393. By the first charter a warden and 70 scholars were established; by a fecond, 10 fellows and the officers of the choir. See Warton, p. 68. N.