"While horror fills the region vaft, Rheumatic tortures Eurus brings, Pregnant with agues flies the northern blast, Till mix'd with clouds the landscape ends? Where druids old fepulchred lie; Or up cold Snowden's craggy fummits toil, The town expects thee.Hark, around, New chariots rattle with awak'ning found, Marshals his threat'ning tropes anew, See See sportive Vanity her flights begin, And young coquettes in arms appear; The toils of study sweeter grow, AN · AN EPISTLE ADDRESS'D TO Sir THOMAS HANMER, On his EDITION of SHAKESPEAR'S Works. SIR, W By Mr. WILLIAM COLLINS. HILE born to bring the Mufe's happier days, While nurs'd by you she fees her myrtles bloom, And blushing hides her wreath at Shakespear's name. Hard Hard was the lot those injur'd ftrains endur'd, Not with more grief th' afflicted swains appear, With kind concern our pitying eyes o'erflow, a Trace the fad tale, and own another's woe. Droop'd their fair leaves, nor knew th' unfriendly foil. VOL. IV. E *The Edipus of Sophocles. As As arts expir'd, refiftlefs Dulnefs rofe; And Cofmo own`d them in th' Etrurian shade: But heav'n, ftill various in its works, decreed And ev❜n a Shakespear to her fame be born! * Julius II. the immediate predecessor of Leo X. Each |