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And justify their author's want of sense.
Let them be all by thy own model made
Of dulness, and desire no foreign aid,
That they to future ages may be known,
Not copies drawn, but issue of thy own. 160
Nay, let thy men of wit too be the same,
All full of thee, and differing but in name.
But let no alien Sedley interpose

To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. And when false flowers of rhetoric thou wouldst cull, 165

Trust nature; do not labor to be dull;

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He shunned the vengeance and concealed the shame,

Her house not ancient, whatsoe'er pretence

Her clergy heralds make in her defence; A second century not half-way run,

So lurked in sects unseen. With greater Since the new honors of her blood be

guile

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The Panther, sure the noblest next the
Hind,

And fairest creature of the spotted kind; Oh, could her inborn stains be washed away,

She were too good to be a beast of prey! 330 How can I praise or blame, and not offend,

Or how divide the frailty from the friend? Her faults and virtues lie so mixed, that she

Nor wholly stands condemned, nor wholly free.

Then, like her injured Lion, let me speak; He cannot bend her and he would not break. 336 Unkind already, and estranged in part, The Wolf begins to share her wandering heart.

Though unpolluted yet with actual ill, She half commits who sins but in her will.

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it

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The double, double, double beat Of the thundering drum Cries: "Hark! the foes come; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat!"

The soft complaining flute

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In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whispered by the warbling lute.

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CHORUS

Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,

None but the brave,

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Timotheus, placed on high

Amid the tuneful choir,

With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire.

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The song began from Jove,
Who left his blissful seats above,
(Such is the power of mighty love.)
A dragon's fiery form belied the god:
Sublime on radiant spires he rode,
When he to fair Olympia pressed, 30
And while he sought her snowy
breast;

Then round her slender waist he curled, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world.

The listening crowd admire the lofty sound,

"A present deity," they shout around; "A present deity," the vaulted roofs rebound:

With ravished ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,

And seems to shake the spheres.

CHORUS

With ravished ears The monarch hears,

Assumes the god,

Affects to nod,

And seems to shake the spheres.

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