342 The following Lines were sung by DURASTANTI, when she took her leave of the English Stage. The Words were in Haste put together by MR. POPE, at the Request of the EARL of PETERBOROW. GENEROUS, gay, and gallant nation, All but Cupid's gentle darts! Happy soil, adieu, adieu ! Let old charmers yield to new. In arms, in arts, be still more shining; All your joys be still increasing; All your tastes be still refining; All your jars for ever ceasing: But let old charmers yield to new :- Upon the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH'S House at Woodstock. Atria longe patent; sed nec cœnantibus usquam, Mart. Epig. SEE, Sir, here's the grand approach, This way is for his Grace's coach; There lies the bridge, and here's the clock, Observe the lion and the cock, The spacious court, the colonnade, And mark how wide the hall is made! Thanks, Sir, cry'd I, 'tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep, or where d'ye dine? I find by all you have been telling, That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling. The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of HORACE'S Epistles. SAY, St. John, who alone peruse eye, What schemes of politics, or laws, 5 Does St. John Greenwich sports repeat? 10 Where (emulous of Chartres' fame) Ev'n Chartres' self is scarce a name. NOTES. The Fourth Epistle] This satire on Lord Bolingbroke, and the praise bestowed on him in a letter to Mr. Richardson, where Mr. Pope says, "Their sons shall blush their fathers were his foes;" being so contradictory, probably occasioned the former to be sup. pressed. Ver. 1. Say, &c.] AD ALBIUM TIBULLUM. "Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide judex, Scribere, quod Cassi Parmensis opuscula vincat ?" Ver. 10. Does St. John Greenwich, &c.] "An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubres ?" To you (th' all-envied gift of Heav'n) Th' indulgent gods, unask'd, have giv'n A form complete in ev'ry part, And, to enjoy that gift, the art. What could a tender mother's care Amidst thy various ebbs of fear; Ver. 13. To you, &c.] NOTES. ." Dî tibi formam, Dî tibi divitias dederant, artemque fruendi." Ver. 17. What could, &c.] "Quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno, Ver. 23. Amidst, &c.] "Inter spem, curamque, timores inter et iras." Ver. 28. That ev'ry day, &c.] "Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. The Fourth Epistle of the First Book Epistles. The Fourth Epistle] This satire on Lor praise bestowed on him in a letter to Mr Pope says, "Their sons shall blush their fathe being so contradictory, probably occasion pressed. Ver. 1. Say, &c.] AD ALBIUM TIBULL Albi, nostrorum sermonum cand Ver. 10. Does St. John Greenwich, &c.] "An tacitum silvas inter reptare sa |