САТО. TRAGEDY. AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, IN DRURY-LANE, BY HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS. Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat, intentus operi suo, Deus! Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus! Non video, inquam, quid habeat in terris Jupiter pulchrius, si convertere animum velit, quam ut spectet Catonem, jam partibus non semel fractis, nihilominus inter ruinas publicas erectum. SEN. DE DIVIN. PROV. VERSES TO THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY OF CATO. WHILE you the fierce divided Britons awe, And factions strive who shall applaud you most; Who hopes himself, not you, to recommend, RICHARD STEELE. THOUGH Cato shines in Virgil's epic song, * Tender Husband, dedicated to Mr. Addison. We hear his voice, asserting virtue's cause; On Tiber's banks thy thought was first inspir'd; 'Tis done the hero lives and charms our age! While nobler morals grace the British stage. Great Shakespear's ghost, the solemn strain to hear, (Methinks I see the laurel'd shade appear!) Will hover o'er the scene, and wond'ring view His fav'rite Brutus rival'd thus by you. Such Roman greatness in each action shines, Such Roman eloquence adorns your lines, That sure the Sybils' books this year foretold, And in some mystic leaf was seen enroll'd, 'Rome, turn thy mournful eyes from Afric's shore, Nor in her sands thy Cato's tomb explore! When thrice six hundred times the circling sun His annual race shall through the zodiac run, An isle remote his monument shall rear, And every generous Briton pay a tear.' J. HUGHES. WHAT do we see! is Cato then become |