* Aufpiclis totum confecta duella per orbem, Clauftraque cuftodem pacis cohibentia Janum, * Et formidatam Parthis te principe Romam; u Si, quantum cuperem, poffem quoque: fed neque parvum Carmen majeftas recipit tua, nec meus audet Nec prave factis decorari verfibus opto: w Exhausted nations trembling at her sword, * And * PEACE long wish'd-for to the world restor❜d. y But your true greatness suffers no such praise, 315 My verse would fink the theme it meant to raise; Unequal to the task would furely meet Deferv'd contempt, and each presumptuous sheet Could ferve for nothing, fcrawl'd with lines fo fimple, a Unless to wrap up fugar-loaves for Wimple. 320 * A general peace was at this time just concluded at Aix la Chapelle. VOL. I. I то TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, ON HIS BEING INSTALLED KNIGHT OF THE GARTER. HESE trophies, STANHOPE, of a lovely dame, TH Once the bright object of a monarch's flame, Who with fuch just propriety can wear, As thou the darling of the gay and fair? See ev'ry friend to wit, politeness, love, With one consent thy Sovereign's choice approve! то TOA LADY IN TOWN, SOON AFTER HER LEAVING THE COUNTRY. WHILST you, dear maid, o'er thousands born. to reign, For the gay town exchange the rural plain, The cooling breeze, and ev’ning walk forfake For ftifling crowds, which your own beauties make ; One thought to love) what cruel pangs I bear, That all my blifs with CHLOE fnatch'd away. Say by what arts I can relieve my pain, Mufic, verfe, all I try, but try in vain; In vain the breathing flute my hand employs, In vain I oft harmonious lines peruse, And feek for aid from POPE's, and PRIOR's muse Here HELOISE mourns her absent lover's charms, And in their tender forrows read my own. Restless sometimes, as oft the mournful dove. Forfakes her neft forfaken by her love, I fly from home, and feek the facred fields ; Her |