Belgia receives him welcome to her shores ; Suftain'd the ball, nor droop'd beneath the weight. Sees half the empire join'd, and friend to France : From Tyber's bank, than now from Danube's fhore. The English Muse should like the Mantuan rise, human eyes. But we muft change the ftyle - just now I faid, Or the small genius which my youth could boast, That, though among ourselves, with too much heat, 66 Upon this Paffage in the SCALIGERIANA. "Les Allemans ne ce foucient pas quel Vin ils boivent pourveu que ce foit Vin, ni quel Latin ils parlent 66 pourveu que ce foit Latin." WH HEN you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, They never tafte, who always drink; They always talk, who never think. 02 Το To a CHILD of QUALITY, The AUTHOR then Forty. I. LORDS, knights, and 'fquires, the numerous band, That wear the fair Mifs Mary's fetters, Were fummon'd by her high command, My pen amongst the rest I took, Left those bright eyes that cannot read Nor quality, nor reputation, Forbid me yet my flame to tell, Dear five old befriends my paffion, years And I may write till fhe can fpell. IV. For, while fhe makes her filk-worms beds With all the tender things I swear; ̈ Whilst all the house my passion reads,, She V.. may receive and own my flame, For, though the stricteft prudes should know it, She 'll pafs for a moft virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. VI. Then VI. Then too, alas! when the fhall tear 'Tis fo ordain'd, (would Fate but mend it!) That I shall be past making love, When she begins to comprehend it. T PARTIAL 'I. FAME. HE fturdy Man, if he in love obtains, The fubtile Woman, if the fhould fucceed, II. Though He, for all his boaft, is forc'd to yield, Though She can always keep the field: He vaunts his conquefts, the conceals her shame; How Partial is the voice of Fame ! For the PLAN of a FOUNTAIN, ON WHICH IS The Effigies of the QUEEN on a Triumphal Arch ; The Figure of the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH beneath; AND The chief Rivers of the World round the whole Work.. YE active ftreams, where-e'er your waters flow, Let diftant climes and furtheft nations know, What ye from Thames and Danube have been taught, How Anne commanded, and how Marlborough fought. Quæcunque æterno properatis, flumina, lapfu, Dicite, nam vobis Tamefis narravit & Ister, THE CAMELEON. S the Cameleon, who is known To have no colours of his own; Sa |