ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, in which was painted the fory of CEPHALIS and PROCRIS, with the motto, AuRa Veni. 5 OME, gentle air! th' Æolian fhepherd faid, While Procris panted in the fecret shade; Come, gentle air! the fairer Delia cries, While at her feet her fwain expiring lies. Lo the glad gales o'er all her beauties stray, Breathe on her lips, and in her bofom play! In Delia's hand this toy is fatal found, Nor could that fabled dart more furely wound: Both gifts destructive to the givers prove; Alike both lovers fall by those they love. Yet guiltless too this bright deftroyer lives, At random wounds, nor knows the wound the gives: She views the ftory with attentive eyes, And pities Procris, while her lover dies. FA IV. COWLEY. The GARDEN. AIN would my mufe the flow'ry treasures fing, And 'And vary'd tulips fhow fo dazzling gay, If 20 There the green infants in their beds are laid, 15 W WEEPING. HILE Celia's tears make forrow bright, The fun, next those the fairest light, Thus from the ocean first did rife: And And thus through mifts we see the fun, Thefe filver-drops, like morning:dew, The baby in that funny sphere So like a Phaeton appears, 35 That Heav'n, the threaten'd world to fpare, 45 V.. Earl of ROCHESTER. On SILENCE. I. ILENCE! coeval with eternity; Thou wert ere Nature's felf began to be, 'Twas one vaft nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee. Thine was the fway, ere heav'n was förm❜d, or earth, Ere fruitful Thought conceiv'd creation's birth, Or midwife Word gave aid, and spoke the infant forth. III. Then various elements, against thee join'd, In one more various animal combin'd, And fram'd the clam'rous race of busy human-kind IV. The tongue mov'd gently first, and speech was low, 'Till wrangling Science taught it noise and show, And wicked Wit arofe, thy most abusive foc. V. But rebel Wit deferts thee oft in vain; Afflicted Senfe thou kindly dost set free, And routed Reafon finds a fafe retreat in thee. With thee in private modeft Dulnefs lies, And in thy bofom lurks in Thought's difguife; Thou varnisher of fools, and cheat of all the wife! VIII. Yet thy indulgence is by both confeft; Folly by thee lies fleeping in the breast, And 'tis in thee at laft that Wifdom feeks for reft. IX. Silence the knave's repute, the whore's good name, The only honour of the wishing dame; 25 Thy very want of tongue makes thee a kind of Fame. X. But couldst thou feize fome tongues that now are free, How church and state should be oblig'd to thee? At fenate, and at bar, how welcome wouldst thou be? XI. 30 Yet Speech ev'n there fubmiffively withdraws, From rights of fubjects, and the poor man's caufe: [laws. Then pompous Silence reigns, and ftills the noify XII. Past services of friends, good deeds of foes, What fav'rites gain, and what the nation owes, Fly the forgetful world, and in thy arms repofe. XIII. The country-wit, religion of the town, The courtier's learning, policy o' th' gown, Are best by thee exprefs'd; and shine in thee alone. XIV. The parfon's cant, the lawyer's sophistry, Lord's quibble, critic's jeft; all end in thee, All reft in peace at laft, and fleep eternally. 40 VI. Earl of DORSET. ARTEMISIA. HOUGH Artemifia talks, by fits, Reads |