Would you in envy'd pomp unrival'd reign, 45 In lineage, titles, wealth, and worth elate! Which, in due ftatues, to his fame fhall rife. In love, in war, in knowledge, or in ftate. 50 Thus shall your colours, like his worth amaze ! Thus fhall you charm, enrich'd with Clio's praife ! Clear, and more clear, your golden genius fhines, While my dim lamp of life obfcure declines : Dull'd in damp fhades, it wastes, unseen, away, While yours, triumphant, grows one blaze of day. 55 60 VERSE S SENT то AARON HILL, Esq. With the TRAGEDY of SIR THOMAS OVERBURY, expecting him to correct it. AS I. S the foul, ftript of mortal clay, And boundless roves the milky way, 11. This hero, clogg'd with droffy lines, As thy correcting hand refines, Bright fcenes around him rife. Thy touch brings the wish'd stone to pass, It turns polluted lead or brafs, PRO PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE REVIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE'S KING HENRY THE SIXTH, At the THEATRE-ROYAL in DRURY-LANE. Printed before the Play from a spurious Copy. O-night a patient ear, ye Britons lend, To And to your great forefathers' deeds attend. 5 Here, while a monarch's fufferings we relate, Thus when you fee this land by faction tost, K 2 15 20 THE THE ANIMAL CULE. A TAL E. Occafioned by his Grace the Duke of RUTLAND'S receiving the SMALL-POX by INOCULATION.. I. IN Animalcules, Mufe, difplay Spirits, of name unknown in song ! Nor think an ufeful comment long.. Far less than mites, on mites they prey; Fluids, in drops, minutely fwell; Thefe fubtil beings each contains ; Roll from the heart, and trace the veins.. Through every tender tube they rove, In finer fpirits ftrike the brain; V. If V. If they with purer drops dilate, And lodge where entity began, But, when our lives are Nature's due, VII. Thus once an Animalcule prov'd, In Rome this Animalcule grew Mæcenas, whom the claffics rate! In Britain, Halifax it rofe; (By Halifax, bloom'd Congreve's strains); And now it rediminish'd glows, To glide through godlike Rutland's veins. X. A plague there is, too many know; XI. From |