"No pitying heart, no eye, afford "A tear to grace his obfequies. "Is the fablen Warrior fled ? 65 Thy son is gone. He refts among the Dead. "The Swarm, that in thy noon-tide beam were born? "Gone to falute the rifing Morn. 70 "Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows, "While proudly riding o'er the azure realm "In gallant trim the gilded Veffel goes; "Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the fweeping Whirlwind's fway, 75 “That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. II. 3. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, "The rich repast prepare: "Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feaft: "Close by the regal chair 80 n Edward the Black Prince, dead fome time before his father. • Magnificence of Richard the second's reign. See Froil fard, and other contemporary writers. P Richard the fecond (as we are told by archbishop Scroop and the confederate lords in their manifefto, by Thomas of Walfingham, and all the older writers) was starved to death. The story of his affaffination by fir Piers of Exton, is of much later date. "Fell Thirft and Famine fcowl "A baleful smile upon their baffled Guest. i Heard ye the din of 9 battle bray, "Lance to lance, and horfe to horfe! "Long Years of havock urge their deftin'd 85 course, "And thro' the kindred fquadrons mow their way. «Ye Towers of Julius, London's lafting shame, "With many a foul and midnight murder fed, "Revere his Confort's faith, his Father's fame, "And spare the meek "Ufurper's holy head. 90 Above, below, the rose of snow, # "Twin'd with her blufhing foe we spread : «The bristled Boar in infant-gore Wallows beneath the thorny fhade. Ruinous civil wars of York and Lancafér. Henry the fixth, George duke of Clarence, Edward the fifth, Richard duke of York, &c. believed to be mur dered fecretly in the Tower of London. The oldest part of that structure is vulgarly attributed to Julius Cæfar. Margaret of Anjou, a woman of heroic spirit, who Aruggled hard to fave her husband and her crown. Henry the fifth. Henry the fixth very near being canonized. The line' of Lancaster had no right of inheritance to the crown. The white and red roses, devices of York and Laneafter. The filver Boar was the badge of Richard the third; whence he was usually known in his own time by the name of the Boar. Now, Brothers, bending o'er th' accurfed loom, 95 "Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his "doom. III. Y. "Edward, lo! to fudden fate "(Weave we the woof. The thread is fpun.) "y Half of thy heart we confecrate. "(The web is wove. The work is done.)" 100 Stay, oh ftay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unblefs'd, unpitied, here to mourn: In yon bright track, that fires the western skies, They melt, they vanish from my eyes. • But oh! what folemn fcenes on Snowdon's height Defcending flow their glittering fkirts unroll? • Vifions of glory, spare my aching fight, foul! Ye unborn Ages, crowd not on my y Eleanor of Caftile died a few years after the conquest of Wales. The heroic proof the gave of her affection for her lord is well known. The monuments of his regret, and forrow for the lofs of her, are still to be feen at Northampton, Geddington, Waltham, and other places. z It was the common belief of the Welch nation, that king Arthur was ftill alive in Fairy-land, and fhould return again to reign over Britain. a Both Merlin and Talieffin had prophefied, that the Welch fhould regain their fovereignty over this island; which feemed to be accomplished in the house of Tudor. III. z. Girt with many a Baron bold • Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous Dames, and Statesmen old In bearded majefty, appear. In the midft a Form divine! Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-line ; 115 • What strings fymphonious tremble in the air! • What ftrains of vocal tranfport round her play! 120 • Hear from the grave, great Talieffin, hear; They breathe a foul to animate thy clay. Bright Rapture calls, and foaring, as fhe fings, ⚫ Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many colour'd ⚫ wings. III. 3. < The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, 125 b Speed, relating an audience given by queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, ambassador of Poland, fays, ' And thus fhe, lion-like rifing, daunted the malapert orator no lefs with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartnesse of her princelie checkes'. • Talieffin, chicf of the Bards, flourished in the VIth century. His works are still preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his countrymen, • And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest. • In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleafing Pain, • With Horror, Tyrant of the throbbing breast. 130 A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir, • Gales from blooming Eden bear; • f And diftant warblings leffen on my ear, That loft in long futurity expire. [cloud, 135 Fond impious Man, think'ft thou, yon fanguine Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day? < To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. • The different doom our Fates affign. Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' 140 He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. d Shakespeare. • Milton. The fucceffion of poets after Milton's time. F |