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III..

When beauty in distress appears,
An irrefiftlefs charm it bears:
In every breaft does pity move,
Pity, the tenderest part of love.
Amidft his triumphs great Atrides fued,
Unto a weeping maid:

Though Troy was by his arms fubdued,
And Greece the bloody trophies view'd,
Yet at a captive's feet th' imploring victor laid.

IV.

Think not thy charming maid can be
Of a base stock, and mean degree;
Her fhape, her air, her every grace,
A more than vulgar birth confess :

Yes, yes, my friend, with royal blood she's great, Sprung from fome monarch's bed

;

Now mourns her family's hard fate,

Her mighty fall and abject ftate,

And her illuftrious race conceals with noble pride.

V.

Ah, think not an ignoble house
Could fuch a heroine produce;

Nor think fuch generous sprightly blood
Could flow from the corrupted crowd ;
But view her courage, her undaunted mind,
And foul with virtues crown'd;

Where dazzling interest cannot blind,
Nor youth nor gold admittance find,

But still her honour's fix'd, and virtue keeps its ground.

VI. View

VI.

View well her great majestic air,

And modeft looks divinely fair;

Too bright for fancy to improve,
And worthy of thy nobleft love.
But yet fufpect not thy officious friend,
All jealous thoughts rėmove;

Though I with youthful heat commend,
For thee I all my wishes fend,

And if she makes thee bleft, 'tis all I afk of Love!

то M R.

WATSON,

On his EPHEMERIS of the CELESTIAL MOTIONS, prefented to Her MAJESTY.

ART, when in full perfection, is defign'd

To please the eye, or to inform the mind : This nobler piece performs the double part, With graceful beauty and inftructive art. Since the great Archimedes' sphere was loft, The nobleft labour finish'd it could boast; No generous hand durft that fam'd model trace, Which Greece admir'd, and Rome could only praife. This you, with greater luftre, have reftor'd, And taught thofe arts we ignorantly ador'd: Motion in full perfection here you 've shown, And what mankind defpair'd to reach, have done. In artful frames your heavenly bodies move, Scarce brighter in their beauteous orbs above;

And

And stars, depriv'd of all malignant flames, '
Here court the eye with more aufpicious beams :
In graceful order the just planets rife,

And here complete their circles in the skies;
Here's the full concert of revolving spheres,
And heaven in bright epitome appears.

With charms the ancients did invade the Moon,
And from her orb compell'd her ftruggling down ;
But here 's fhe's taught a nobler change by you,
And moves with pride in this bright fphere below:
While your celestial bodies thus I view,
They give me bright ideas of the true;

Infpir'd by them, my thoughts dare upward move, And vifit regions of the bleft above.

Thus from your hand w' admire the globe in fmall, A copy fair as its original :

This labour 's to the whole creation juft,
*Second to none, and rival to the first.
The artful fpring, like the diffufive foul,
Informs the machine, and directs the whole :
Like Nature's felf, it fills the fpacious throne,
And unconfin'd fways the fair orbs alone;
Th' unactive parts with awful filence wait,
And from its nod their birth of motion date::
Like Chaos, they obey the powerful call,
Move to its found, and into measures fall.

THE

THE RAPE OF THE UTILLA.

Imitated from the Latin of FAMIANUS STRADA.

THE INTRODUCTORY ARGUMENT.

Theutilla, a fair young virgin, who, to avoid the addresses of those many admirers her beauty drew about her, affumed the habit of a religious order, and wholly withdrew herself from the eye and converfe of the world: but the common report of her beauty had so inflamed Amalis (a young perfon of quality) with love, that one night, in a debauch of wine, he commands his fervants to force her dormitory, and bear off, though by violence, the lovely votarefs; which having fuccefsfully performed, they bring Theutilla to their expecting lord's apartment, the fcene of the enfuing Poem,

SOON

OON as the tyrant her bright form survey'd,
He grew inflam'd with the fair captive maid :
A graceful forrow in her looks she bears,
Lovely with grief, and beautiful in tears;
Her mein and air refiftlefs charms impart,
Forcing an eafy paffage to his heart :
Long he devours her beauties with his eyes,

While through his glowing veins th' infection flies;
Swifter than lightning to his breast it came,

Like that, a fair, but a destructive flame.

Yet

Yet fhe, though in her young and blooming ftate,
Poffeft a foul, beyond a virgin's, great;
No charms of youth her colder bofom move,
Chafte were her thoughts, and most averse to love :
And as fome timorous hind in toils betray'd,
Thus in his arms ftrove the refifting maid;
Thus did the combat with his ftrict embrace,,
And spurn'd the guilty cause of her disgrace.
Revenge the courted, but despair'd to find
A ftrength and vigour equal to her mind;
While checks of fhame her willing hands restrain,
Since all a virgin's force is her disdain :
Yet her refolves are nobly fix'd to die
Rather than violate her chastity,

Than break her vows to heaven, than blot her fame,
Or foil her beauties with a lustful flame.
The night from its meridian did decline,
An hour propitious to the black design:
When fleep and rest their peaceful laws maintain,
And o'er the globe b' infectious filence reign;
While death-like flumbers every bofom feize,
Unbend our minds, and weary'd bodies ease:
Now fond Amalis finds his drooping breast
Heavy with wine, with amorous cares opprest;
Not all the joys expecting lovers feel

Can from his breaft the drowsy charm repel;
In vain from wine his paffion feeks redress,
Whose treacherous force the flame it rais'd betrays :
Weak and unnerv'd his ufelefs limbs became,
Bending beneath their ill-fupported frame ;

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Vanquish'd

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