Such hard and arbitrary measure here;
Elfe, could a law like that which I relate
Once have the fanction of our triple state,
Some few, that I have known in days of old,
Would run moft dreadful risk of catching cold;
While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow,
Might traverse England fafely to and fro,
An honeft man, clofe-button'd to the chin,
Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within.

TIROCINIUM;

OR, A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS.

Κεφαλαιον δη παιδειας ορθη τροφη.

Plato.

Αρχη πολιτείας απασης, νέων τροφα.

Diog. Laert.

To the

REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN,

Rector of Stock, in Effex.

THE TUTOR OF HIS TWO SONS,

The following Poem, recommending Private Tuition in preference to an Education at School, is infcribed, by his affectionate Friend,

Olney, Nov. 6, 1784.

WILLIAM COWPER.

TIROCINIUM.

T is not from his form, in which we trace
Strength join'd with beauty, dignity with

grace,

That man, the master of this globe, derives
His right of empire over all that lives.
That form, indeed, the affociate of a mind
Vast in its powers, ethereal in its kind,
That form, the labour of Almighty skill,
Framed for the service of a free-born will,
Afferts precedence, and bespeaks control,
But borrows all its grandeur from the foul.
Hers is the state, the fplendour, and the throne,
An intellectual kingdom, all her own.
For her the memory fills her ample page
With truths pour'd down from every distant age;
For her amaffes an unbounded store,

The wisdom of great nations, now no more;
Though laden, not encumber'd with her spoil;
Laborious, yet unconscious of her toil;

When copiously supplied, then most enlarged;
Still to be fed, and not to be furcharged.
For her the Fancy, roving unconfined,
The present Mufe of every penfive mind,