tary Praise_.
No wonder those who by _Proscriptions_ gain }
In _Marian_ Days, or _Sylla's_ bloody Reign, }
Of the divine _Augustus_ should complain; } 1060
Who stoops to wear a _Crown's uneasie Weight_,
As _Atlas_ under Heav'n, to prop the _State_:
No _Glory_ strikes his Great exalted Mind,
No _Pleasure_ like obliging all Mankind;
He lets the _Factious_ their weak _Malice_ vent,
Punish'd enough while they themselves _torment_:
_Satiate_ with _Conquest_, his dread _Sword_ he sheaths,
And with a _Nod disbands ten thousand Deaths_.
Who dares _Rebellious Arms_ against him move
While his _Praetorian Guard_'s his Subjects _Love_? 1070
Admir'd by all the _bravest_ and the _best_,
Who wear a _Roman Soul within their ample Breast_:
Tho _charm'd_ with _both_, which shall they more _admire_
In _Peace_ his _Wisdom_, or in _War_ his _Fire_?
--_One Labour_ yet remains, and that they _ask_,
_Alcides_ never clear'd a _nobler Task_;
O _Father_! banish'd _Vertue_ O restore!
Let _Hydra Vice_ pollute thy _Reign_ no more!
Strike through the _Monster-Form_, which threatning stands,
Fierce with a _thousand Throats_, a _thousand Hands_! 1080
_Rescue_ once more thy _Trojans sacred Line_ }
From _slavish Chains_, so shall thy _Temples_ shine }
With _Stars_, and all _Elysium_ shall be _thine_. }

_FINIS._

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Vide Edda Samundi--apud Sheringham, de Gentis Anglorum
Origine, pag._ 28, 29.

_Hiaelp beiter eitt eun thad thier hialpa mun
Vid Sikum og Sottum goiru allum,
Thad kenn eg aunad er thorfa Ita
Syner their ed vilia lakner lisfa._
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]

I know your only Help, the pow'rful Charm
That aids in ev'ery Grief and every Harm,
I know the Leaches Craft, and what they need
Who Doctors in that Noble Art proceed.

[2] the _Vide_ British Chronicle, _and_ Taliessin's _Prophecies_;

Prryff fard l'yffred in ydwyfi i Elphin
Am gwalad gynifio [indecipherable] Goribbin.
Ionas ddewn am golwis Merddin
Sebach Pob Brenmam geilw Taliesin.
Gwea a gasgle elud Tra feyna bud,
Gwererbin didd brawd in chospo i gnawd,
Gwae ni cheidw i geil ag if yufug eil,
Gwae in cheidw i ddefend chog bleiddna.
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]