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That all thy full-blown joys at once should fade

Was his most righteous will, and be that will obey'd.

XIX.

Would thy fond love his grace to her controul,

And in thefe low abodes of fin and pain

Her pure, exalted foul

Unjustly for thy partial good detain ?
No-rather strive thy grov'ling mind to raise
Up to that unclouded blaze,

That heav'nly radiance of eternal light,
In which enthron'd fhe now with pity fees
How frail, how insecure, how flight

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Is every mortal bliss;

Ev'n love itself, if rifing by degrees
Beyond the bounds of this imperfect state,
Whose fleeting joys fo foon must end,
It does not to its fov'reign Good afcend.
Rife then, my foul, with hope elate,
And seek those regions of ferene delight,
Whose peaceful path and ever open gate

No feet but those of harden'd Guilt fhall miss.

There Death himself thy Lucy shall restore, There yield up all his pow'r e'er to divide you more.

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By the Same.

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Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife;

Polite, as all her life in courts had been;

Yet good, as fhe the world had never seen;
The noble fire of an exalted mind,

With gentle female tenderness combin❜d.
Her Speech was the melodious voice of Love,
Her Song the warbling of the vernal Grove;
Her Eloquence was fweeter than her Song,
Soft as her Heart, and as her Reason strong;
Her Form each beauty of her Mind exprefs'd,
Her Mind was Virtue by the Graces drefs'd.

VOL. II.

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ABUSE of TRAVELLING.

A CANT O,

In IMITATION of SPENSER.

By GILBERT WEST, Esq;

The ARGUMEN T.
Archimage tempts the Red-Cross Knight
From love of Fairy-land,

With fhow of foreign pleasures all,
The which he doth withstand.

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I.

ISE was that Spartan Law-giver of old,

Who rais'd on Virtue's base his well-built ftate,

Exiling from her walls barbaric gold,

With all the mischiefs that upon it wait,
Corruption, luxury, and envious hate;

And the distinctions proud of rich and poor,
Which

among brethren kindle foul debate,

And teach Ambition, that to Fame would soar,

To the false lure of wealth her stooping wing to low'r.

II. Yet

II.

Yet would Corruption foon have entrance found,

And all his boasted schemes eftfoon decay'd,

Had not he cast a pow'rful circle round,
Which to a distance the arch felon fray'd,

And ineffectual his foul engines made:

This was, to weet, that politic command,
Which from vain travel the young Spartan stay'd,
Ne fuffer'd him forfake his native land,

To learn deceitful arts, and science contraband.

· III.

Yet had the ancient world her courts and schools;

Great Kings and Courtiers civil and refin'd;
Great Rabbins, deeply read in Wisdom's rules,
And all the arts that cultivate the mind,
Embellish life, and polish human kind.
Such, Afia, birth-place of proud monarchy,
Such, elder Ægypt, in thy kingdoms fhin'd,
Mysterious Ægypt, the rank nursery
Of fuperftitions fond, and learned vanity.

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IV.

But what accomplishments, what arts polite,

Did the young Spartan want his deeds to grace,
Whose manly virtues, and heroic spright,
Check'd by no thought impure, no falfehood bafe,
With nat❜ral dignity might well outface

The glare of manners false, and mimic pride?
And wherefore should they range from place to place,
Who to their country's love fo firm were ty'd,

All homely as she was, that for her oft they dy'd?

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V.

And footh it is (with rev'rence may ye hear,
And honour due to paffion fo refin'd)

The strong affection which true patriots bear
To their dear country, zealous is and blind,
And fond as is the love of womankind,

So that they may not her defects efpy,

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Ne other paragone may ever find,

But gazing on her with an aweful

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