Retriev'd the Britons from unruly fate,

And overthrew the Phaetons of state!

These wife exploits thro' Gallia's nation ran,
And fir'd their fouls to fee the wondrous man:

The aged counsellors without furprise

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Found wit and prudence sparkling in his eyes; 155 Wisdom that was not gain'd in course of years,

Or rev'rence owing to his hoary hairs,

But ftruck by force of genius, fuch as drove

The goddess Pallas from the brain of Jove.
The youth of France with pleasure look'd to fee 160
His graceful mien and beauteous symmetry:
The virgins ran as to unusual fhow

When he to Paris came and Fontainbleau,
Viewing the blooming minifter defir'd,

And still the more they gaz'd the more admir'd. 165
Nor did the Court, that best true grandeur knows,
Their fentiments by leffer facts disclose,

By common pomp or ceremonious train
Seen heretofore, or to be seen again;
But they devis'd new honours yet unknown,
Or paid to any subject of a crown.

The Gallick king, in age and counsels wife,
Sated with war, and weary of difguife,
With open arms falutes the British peer,
And gladly owns his prince and character.

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As Hermes from the throne of Jove descends With grateful errand to Heav'n's choicest friends,

As Iris from the bed of Juno flies

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To bear her queen's commands thro' yielding skies,
Whilft o'er her wings fresh beams of glory flow,180
And blended colours paint her wondrous bow;
So Bolingbroke appears in Louis' fight
With meffage heav'nly, and with equal light
Difpels all clouds of doubt and fear of wars,
And in his miftrefs' name for peace declares:
Accents divine! which the great king receives
With the fame grace that mighty Anna gives.
Let others boaft of blood, the spoil of foes,
Rapine and murder, and of endlefs woes,
Detefted pomp! and trophies gain'd from far, 195
With fpangled enfigns ftreaming in the air;
Count how they made Bavarian subjects feel
The rage of fire and edge of harden'd fteel;
Fatal effects of foul infatiate pride,

'That deal their wounds alike on either fide, No limits fet to their ambitious ends,

For who bounds them no longer can be friends;
By diff'rent methods Bolingbroke shall raise
His growing honours and immortal praife.
He, fir'd with glory and the publick good,
Betwixt the people and their danger flood:
Arm'd with convincing truths he did appear,
And all he faid was fparkling, bright, and clear.
The lift'ning Senate with attention heard,

And fome admir'd while others trembling fear'd;

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Not from the tropes of formal eloquence,
But Demofthenick strength and weight of sense,
Such as fond Oxford to her fon fupply'd,
Defign'd her own as well as Britain's pride;
Who, lefs beholden to the ancient strains,
Might shew a nobler blood in English veins,
Outdo whatever Homer sweetly fung
Of Neftor's counfels or Ulyffes' tongue.

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Oh! all ye Nymphs! whilst time and youth allow Prepare the rose and lily for his brow.

Much he has done, but ftill has more in view,

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To Anna's int'reft and his country true.
More I could prophesy, but must refrain:

Such truths would make another mortal vain.

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An Apologue tranflated from the original of Æsop, written two thousand Years fince, and now rendered in familiar Verfe by H. G. L. Mag.

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GooD precepts and true gold are more valuable for their antiquity; and here I prefent my good reader with one delivered by the first founder of mythology, Afop himself. Maximus Planudes takes notice of it as a very excellent part of his production; and Phædrus, Camerarius, and others, seem to agree that his Eagle, and five others not yet tranflated, are equal to any of his that are handed down to us. Though Mr. Ogleby and Sir Roger L'Estrange had the unhappinefs to be unacquainted with them, yet I had the good fortune to discover them by the removal of my old library, which has made me amends for the trouble of getting to where I now teach. They were written, or dictated at least, by Æfop in the fifty-fourth Olympiad ; and though I defigned them chiefly for the ufe of myfchool, (this being tranflated by a youth defigned for a Greek profeffor) yet no man is fo wife as not to need instruction, ay, and by the way of fable too, ince the Holy Scriptures themselves, the best instructers, teach us by way of parable, fymbol, image, and figure: and David was more moved with Nathan's "Thou art the man," than all the most rigid lectures in the world would have done. Whoever will be at

the trouble of comparing this version with the original, let them begin at the tenth line, and they will find it metaphrastically done verbum verbo, as the best way of justice to the author. Those that are mere adorers of in noyo will not be angry that it is in this fort of metre, for which I gave leave, the lad having a turn to this fort of measure, which is pleasant and agreeable, though not lofty. For my own part, I concur with my mafter Ariftotle that ρυθμὸς καὶ ἁρμονία are very far from being unnecessary or unpleasant. May this be of use to thee, and it will please thine in all good wishes,

HORAT. GRAM.