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Who travels in religious jars,

Truth mixt with error, fhade with rays, Like Whifton wanting pyx or stars,

In ocean wide or finks or strays.

But grant our heroe's hope long toil
And comprehenfive genius crown,
All sciences, all arts his spoil,

Yet what reward, or what renown?

Envy, innate in vulgar fouls,

Envy steps in and ftops his rife ; Envy, with poison'd tarnish, fouls

His luftre, and his worth decries.

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He lives inglorious, or in want,

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To college and old books confin'd; Instead of learn'd he's call'd pedant,

Dunces advanc'd he's left behind:

Yet left content, a genuine ftoic he,

Great without patron, rich without South-fea. 30

TO THE EVENING STAR.

ENGLISH'D FROM A GREEK IDYLLIUM.

BY GEORGE STEPNEY, ESQ.*

BRIGHT ftar! by Venus fix'd above,
To rule the happy realms o' love;
Who in the dewy rear of day,
Advancing thy distinguish'd ray,
Doft other lights as far outshine
As Cynthia's filver glories thine;
Known by fuperior beauties there,
As much as Paftorella here.

Exert, bright star, thy friendly light,
And guide me through the dusky night;
Defrauded of her beams, the moon
Shines dim, and will be vanish'd foon.
I wou'd not rob the fhepherd's fold;
I feek no mifer's hoarded gold;
To find a nymph, I'm forc'd to stray,
Who lately stole my heart away.

* Born 1663; dyed 1707.

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LOVE AND JEALOUSY.

BY WILLIAM WALSH, ESQ.*

How much are they deceiv'd who vainly strive;
By jealous fears, to keep our flames alive!
Love's like a torch, which, if fecur'd from blasts,
Will faintlier burn, but then it longer lafts.
Expos'd to ftorms of jealousy and doubt,

The blaze grows greater, but 'tis fooner out.

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BY THE SAME.

I.

THO' Celia's born to be ador'd,

And Strephon to adore her born,

In vain her pity is implor'd,

Who kills him twice, with charms and scorn

Born 1653; dyed 1708.

II.

Fair faint, to your bleft orb repair,

To learn in heav'n a heavenly mind; Thence hearken to a finner's pray'r,

And be lefs beauteous, or more kind.

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MULLY or MOUNTOWN.

BY WILLIAM KING, LL. D. *

I.

MOUNTOWN! thou fweet retreat from Dublin

cares,

Be famous for thy apples and thy pears;

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For turnips, carrots, lettice, beans, and pease;
For Peggy's butter, and for Peggy's cheese.
May clouds of pigeons round about thee fly;
But condefcend fometimes to make a pye.
May fat geefe gaggle with melodious voice,
And ne'er want gooseberries or apple-sauce :
Ducks in thy ponds, and chicken in thy pens,
And be thy turkeys numerous as thy hens:
May thy black pigs lie warm in little ftye,
And have no thought to grieve them till they die.
Mountown! the Mufes moft delicious theam;
Oh! may thy codlins ever fwim in cream!
Thy rafp- and strawberries in Bourdeaux drown,
To add a redder tincture to their own!

Thy white-wine, fugar, milk, together club,
To make that gentle viand fyllabub.

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Born 1663; dyed 1712.

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