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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,
Bold in arms, and bright in arts;
Land secure from all invasion,

All but Cupid's gentle darts!
From your charms, oh who would run?
Who would leave you for the sun?

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 :-
Happy soil, adieu, adieu!

Upon the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH'S House at

Woodstock.

Atria longe patent; sed nec cœnantibus usquam,
Nec somno, locus est: quam bene non habites!

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!
The chimneys are so well design'd,
They never smoke in any wind.
This gallery's contriv'd for walking,
The windows to retire and talk in;
The council-chamber for debate,
And all the rest are rooms of state.

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
With candid the mimic muse,

eye,

What schemes of politics, or laws,
In Gallic lands the patriot draws!
Is then a greater work in hand,
Than all the tones of Haines's band?
"Or shoots he folly as it flies?
Or catches manners as they rise?"
Or urg'd by unquench'd native heat,

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,
Quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana?

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
Wish better, to her fav'rite heir,
Than wit, and fame, and lucky hours,
A stock of health, and golden show'rs,
And graceful fluency of speech,
Precepts before unknown to teach?

Amidst thy various ebbs of fear;
And gleaming hope, and black despair,
Yet let thy friend this truth impart,
A truth I tell with bleeding heart,
(In justice for your labours past)
That ev'ry day shall be your last;

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,
Quam sapere, et fari possit quæ sentiat, et cui
Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,
non deficiente crumena ?"

Ver. 23. Amidst, &c.]

"Inter spem, curamque, timores inter et iras." Ver. 28. That ev'ry day, &c.]

"Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.
Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
Cum ridere voles, Epicuri de grege porcum."

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
Quid nunc te dicam facere in region
Scribere, quod Cassi Parmensis opu

Ver. 10. Does St. John Greenwich, &c.]

"An tacitum silvas inter reptare sa