Think not that France shall borrow all thy fame-
From British fires deriv'd thy genius came :
Its force its energy, to these it ow'd,

But the fair polish Gallia's clime bestow'd:
The Graces there each ruder thought refin'd,
And livelieft wit with foundest fenfe combin'd..
They taught in fportive Fancy's gay attire
To drefs the graveft of th' Aonian choir,
And gave to fober Wifdom's wrinkled cheek.
The smile that dwells in Hebe's dimple fleek.
Pay to each realm the debt that each may ask ::
Be thine, and thine alone, the pleasing task,
In pureft elegance of Gallic phrase
To cloath the spirit of the British lays.
Thus every flower which every Mufe's hand
Has rais'd profufe in Britain's favourite land,.
By thee transplanted to the banks of Seine,
Its sweetest native odours fhall retain.

And when thy noble friend, with olive crown'd,,
In concord's golden chain has firmly bound
The rival nations, thou for both shalt raise.
The grateful fong to his immortal praife.
Albion shall think she hears her Prior fing;
And France, that Boileau ftrikes the tuneful ftring,
Then fhalt thou tell what various talents join'd,
Adorn, embellish, and exalt his mind;
Learning and wit, with fweet politenefs grac'd ;.
Wifdom by guile or cunning undebas'd;

By pride unfullied, genuine dignity;
A nobler and fublime fimplicity.

Such

Such in thy verfe fhall Nivernois be fhewn:

France fhall with joy the fair resemblance own.;
And Albion fighing bid her fons aspire
To imitate the merit they admire.

EPITAPH ON CAPTAIN GRENVILLE;* KILLED IN LORD ANSON'S ENGAGEMNT IN 1747

YE weeping Mufes, Graces, Virtues, tell

If, fince your all accomplish'd Sydney fell
You, or afflicted Britain, e'er deplor'd
A lofs like that these plaintive lays record!
Such spotlefs honour; fuch ingenious truth,
Such ripen'd wisdom in the bloom of youth!
So mild, fo gentle, fo compos'd a mind,
To fuch heroic warmth and courage join'd;
He too, like Sydney, nurs'd in Learning's arms,
For nobler war forfook her fofter charms:
Like him, poffefs'd of every pleafing art,
The fecret with of every female's heart:
Like him, cut off in youthful glory's pride,
He, unrepining, for his country dy’d.

Thefe verfes having been originally written when the Author was in Oppofition, concluded thus (much better, perhaps, than at prefent).

"But nobler far, and greater is the praise

So bright to fhine in thefe degenerate days: "An age of heroes kindled Sidney's fire;

"His inborn worth alone could Grenville's deeds infpire."

But fome years after, when his Lordship was with Ministry, he erafed these four lines. See GENT. MAG. vol. XLIX, p. 601. N.

ON

O'N

TE

GOOD HUMO U R.

WRITTEN AT EATON-SCHOOL, 1729.

ELL me, ye fons of Phoebus, what is this
Which all admire, but few, too few, poffefs?

A virtue 'tis to ancient maids unknown,

And prudes who spy all faults except their own.
Lov'd and defended by the brave and wise,
Though knaves abuse it, and like fools defpife.
Say, Wyndham, if 'tis poffible to tell,
What is the thing in which you most excel ?
Hard is the queftion, for in all you please ;
Yet fure good-nature is your nobleft praise ;
Secur'd by this, your parts no envy move,
For none can envy him whom all must love.
This magic power can make ev'n folly please,
This to Pitt's genius adds a brighter grace,
And sweetens

every

charm in Cælia's face.

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SOME

SOME

ADDITIONAL STANZAS

то

ASTOLFO'S VOYAGE TO THE MOON

IN ARIOSTO.

I.

HEN now Aftolfo, ftor'd within a vase,

WH Orlando's wits had fafely brought away;

He turn'd his eyes towards another place,
Where, clofely cork'd, unnumber'd bottles lay.

II.

Of finest crystal were those bottles made,

Yet what was there inclos'd he could not fee:
Wherefore in humble wife the Saint he pray'd,
To tell what treasure there conceal'd might be..
III.

"A wonderous thing it is," the Saint replied,
"Yet undefin'd by any mortal wight;

"An airy effence, not to be defcried,

"Subtle and thin, that MALDENHEAD is hight. IV.

"From earth each day in troops they hither come,

"And fill each hole and corner of the Moon;

For they are never easy while at home,

"Nor ever owner thought them gone too foon.

V. "When

V.

"When here arriv'd, they are in bottles pent, "For fear they should evaporate again;

"And hard it is a prison to invent,

"So volatile a spirit to retain.

VI.

"Those that to young and wanton girls belong Leap, bounce, and fly, as if they'd burft the "glafs :

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"But those that have below been kept too long
"Are fpiritlefs, and quite decay'd, alas !!"
VII.

So fpake the Saint, and wonder feiz'd the Knight,
As of each veffel he th' infcription read;

For various fecrets there were brought to light;
Of which report on earth had nothing faid.
VIII.

Virginities, that close confin'd he thought

In t' other world, he found above the sky; His fifter's and his coufin's there were brought, Which made him fwear, though good St. John was by.

IX.

But much his wrath increas'd, when he efpied

That which was Chloe's once, his mistress dear': "Ah, falfe and treacherous fugitive!" he cried, "Little I deem'd that I should meet thee here. X." Did

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