Or, while their neighbours were asleep,
Have carry'd off a low-land sheep,
What boots thy high-born host of beggars,
Mac-leans, Mac-kenzies, and Mac-gregors,
With popish cut-throats, perjur'd ruffians,
And Forster's troops of raggamuffins ?
In vain thy lads around thee bandy,
Inflam'd with bagpipe and with brandy.
Doth not bold Sutherland the trusty,
With heart fo true, and voice so rusty, ·
(A loyal foul) thy troops affright,
While hoarsely he demands the fight?
Do'st thou not gen'rous Ilay dread,
The bravest hand, the wisest head ?
Undaunted do'ft thou hear th' alarms
Of hoary Athol f fheath'd in arms?
Douglas, who draws his lineage down
From thanes and peers of high renown,
• Mr. Thomas Forfter, jun. of Etherton in the county of Northum berland. He raised troops for the Pretender in the year 1715, and was among those who furrendered to the King's forces at Prefton. Being committed to Newgate, he had the good fortune to make his escape from thence before he was brought to his trial.
d This nobleman was very active at this time, in defence of the reigning family.
Archibald, Earl of Ilay, afterwards Duke of Argyle.
f The Duke of Athol.
The Duke of Douglas, then a minor.
Fiery and young, and uncontrol'd,
With knights and fquires, and barons bold,
(His noble houshold band) advances,
And on his milk-white courfer prances.
Thee Forfar h to the combat dares,
Grown fwarthy in Iberian wars :
And Monroe kindled into rage
Sourly defies thee to engage;
He'll rout thy foot, though ne'er fo many,
But fee Argyle with watchful eyes,
Lodg'd in his deep intrenchments lies!
Couch'd like a lion in thy way,
He waits to fpring upon his prey;
While, like a herd of timʼrous deer,
Thy army shakes and pants with fear,
Led by their doughty gen'ral's skill,
From frith to frith, from hill to hill.
Is thus thy haughty promise paid
That to the Chevalier was made,
When thou didst oaths and duty barter
For dukedom, gen'ralship, and garter?
Three moons thy Jemmy fhall command,
With highland fceptre in his hand,
The Earl of Forfar. He was killed at the battle of Sheriff Muir.
Monroe was one of the vaifals of the Earl of Sutherland.
Too good for his pretended birth.
Then down fhall fall the king of Perth.
'Tis fo decreed for GEORGE fhall reign,
And traitors be forfworn in vain.
Heav'n fhall for ever on him fmile,
And bless him ftill with an Argyle.
While thou, pursu'd by vengeful foes,
Condemn'd to barren rocks and snows,
And hinder'd paffing Inverlocky,
Shalt burn thy clan, and curfe poor Jocky.
O Whitton's fhades, and Hounflow's airy plain,
Thou, Kneller, tak'ft thy fummer flights in vain,
In vain thy with gives all thy rural hours
To the fair villa, and well-ordered bowers;
* This celebrated Painter was born at Lubeck, in the year 1648. He received his first inftruction in the fchool of Rembrant, but afterwards became a difciple of Ferdinand Bols, under whofe direction he
To court thy pencil, early at thy gates
Ambition knocks, and fleeting Beauty waits,
The boaftful Mufe, of others' fame fo fure,
Implores thy aid to make her own fecure ;
The great, the fair, and (if aught nobler be,
Aught more belov'd) the Arts folicit thee.
How can't thou hope to fly the world, in vain
From Europe fever'd by the circling main
Sought by the kings of every distant land,
And every hero worthy of thy hand?
Haft thou forgot that mighty Bourbon fear'd
He still was mortal, till thy draught appear'd;
That Cofmo chose thy glowing form to place
Amidst her mafters of the Lombard race ?
See on her Titian's and her Guido's urns,
Her failing arts, forlorn Hefperia mourns ;
While Britain wins each garland from her brow,
Her wit and freedom firft, her painting now.
ftudied a confiderable time. After travelling to Rome and Venice, he came to England in the reign of Charles the IId. and continued there during the remainder of his life. He was created a baronet by king George the firft, and died 26 October 1723.
1 Whitton, near Hampton Court, where Sir Godfrey built an ele gant houfe, in which he chiefly refided during the latter part of his
m Sir Godfrey was fent to France by Charles the IId. to draw the picture of Lewis the IVth.
"Cofmo, Grand Duke of Tufcany, requefted Sir Godfrey's picture to adorn the famous Florentine gallery; where it is ftill to be seen,
Let the faint copier, on old Tyber's shore,
(Nor mean the task) each breathing but explore,
Line after line with painful patience trace,
This Roman grandeur, that Athenian grace:
Vain care of parts; if, impotent of foul,
Th' induftrious workman fails to warm the whole !
Each theft betrays the marble whence it came,
And a cold ftatue ftiffens in the frame.
Thee Nature taught, nor Art her aid deny'd,
(The kindest mistress and the fureft guide)
To catch a likeness at one piercing fight,
And place the fairest in the faireft light.
Ere yet the pencil tries her nicer toils,
Or on the palette lie the blended oyls,
Thy careless chalk has half atchiev'd thy art,
And her just image makes Cleora start.
A mind that grafps the whole is rarely found,
Half learn'd, half painters, and half wits abound;
Few, like thy genius, at proportion aim,
All great, all graceful, and throughout the fame.
Such be thy life. O fince the glorious rage
That fir'd thy youth, flames unsubdu'd by age;
Though wealth nor fame now touch thy fated mind,
Still tinge the canvas, bounteous to mankind.
Since after thee may rife an impious line,
Coarfe manglers of the human face divine,
Paint on, 'till fate diffolve thy mortal part,
And live and die the monarch of thy art.
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