try, teftified his fidelity to a young woman whom he had loved This hamlet-fair, by Fortune fcorn'd, Her neat, but homely, garment prefs'd, Oft fought in vain behind the veft Of decorated art.' There is certainly great beauty and fimplicity in the above ftanzas; nor is there lefs of true fenfibility and nature in the Village Beauty's addrefs to her faithful Lover: If fharing all thy cares, fhe faid, Ah! know! for thee the heart that bled, Bleft moment to my wish that gives When thy brave comrades fell around, Oft in the troubl'ing dream of night Nor did the moon's awak'ning light Difpel the ling'ring fear.' The lover answers by propofing the enfuing day for their nuptials, and foliciting her confent, which is thus delicately defcribed: • With look declin'd, fhe blufh'd confent Referve that takes alarm, And love and joy their influence lent To raise meek beauty's charm.' Their happiness, however, was but of fhort continuance : Scarce thro' one hafty week had love His grateful bleffings fhed, When blifs (as flies the frighted dove) "Twas at Bellona's voice it flew, That call'd to war's alarms; But But the ftill ftrain'd him to her heart, To lengthen the adieu : "Ah! What, the faid, should't thou depart, Say, valiant youth, when thou'rt away, Thy lov'd CABEYSA's dead?" After thefe tender expoftulations, the determines to accompany her lover, who, notwithstanding the dangers he forefees, is prevailed upon by his affection, to acquiefce in her resolution. Through the hardships and fatigues fhe is obliged to undergo in this enterprize, fhe falls fick, and in this condition lies at the diftance of a league from the camp, and, of courfe, from her lover.-Unfortunately, at this time, the general, to preferve the vineyards of the adjacent country, had made an order, that if any foldier fhould pafs a certain line, drawn for the purpose round the camp, he fhould be confidered as a deferter, and capitally punished.—In this fituation, what should the unhappy CABEY SA do? The image of his beloved Mary on the bed of ficknefs continually haunts him, and urges all her tender claims to his love and compaffion : For me, her native home, he said, Say, for a chofen lover's fake, What more could woman do? Now ftretch'd upon the naked ground, Now, now the weeps at my delay, He fpoke-and crois'd the line.' The confequence is obvious, and truly affecting: the unhappy youth is feized, and shot as a deferter; and the diftrated object of his affections breaks her heart over his mangled body, and dies. The two firft lines of this poem have not the fame fimplicity in expreffing the idea intended with the reft; and we would, therefore, recommend them to Mr. Jerningham's alteration. See the poem. REV. Feb. 1770. H ART. ART. IV. The Auction; a Poem: A familiar Epifle to a Friend, with the Head of Harpocrates, the God of Silence amongst the Egyptians, in a Ring. 4to. 2 s. Kearsley. 1770. Th HIS poem has confiderable merit: the language is pure, the numbers harmonious, the expreffion animated, the fentiments juft. Harpocrates, the God of Silence, being brought from Egypt by a travelling Peer, is fold amongst the reft of his Lordship's effects, when his affairs are ruined by his vices. This deity gives an account of the auction. In the following paffage a noble action is recorded in a very agreeable and fpirited manner: Poor PowELL's patent next appears, To pay off all his old arrears; When DAGGER MARR, and TOMMY CLOUGH, Blafted and fwore, and faid as how, 'Twas the advice of all their friends, That they should join their odds and ends; Might rife to entertain the town; DAGGER, fays Toм, how ftands your purse? Ah me, fays DAGGER! there's the curfe, Will prove a permanent barrier: He drew it forth, and wrap'd around In dirty rag, a fhilling found; This might have done in FLEETWOOD's days, Said Tom, when puppet fhews and plays, An equal fhare of fame poffeft, * The puppet fhew, in gen'ral beft; Toм loung'd, and MARR with tragic port, Stalk'd fwearing onward to Duke's Court, Now KING or HOLLAND 'twas agreed, But HOLLAND, when his friend was nam'd, Say, can I think, e're well the tomb A cant term for a fhilling. Say, Say, can I think at their expence, Others there were who ey'd afkance, Who curft their ftars, and left the place: And thus deliver'd his addrefs; The reflections on the fate of Herculaneum are fo pointed as to want no comment. A group of heads, but lately brought, And LANGFORD thus, their hit'ry told. "These were the men, when Rome arofe, Said he, with vengeance on her foes; H 2 And And Freedom, by the fwelling tear, ""Twas then her judges warp'd the laws, "At length enrag'd, the people rofe, And lo! beneath the fculptor's hand, We could, with pleafure, give more extracts from this ingenious poem; but would rather recommend to our Readers the perufal of the whole. ART. V. The Seats and Caufes of Difeafes invefligated by Anatomy; in five Bocks, containing a great Variety of Diffections, with Remarks. To which are added, very accurate and copieus Indexes of the principal Things and Names therein contained. Tranflated from the Latin of John Baptist Morgagni, chief Profeffor of Anatomy, and Prefident of the Univerfity at Padua, by Benjamin Alexander, M. D. 4to. 3 Vols. 21. 12s. 6d. boards. Cadell, &c. 1769. ONETUS had certainly great merit in collecting and Bdigetting the materials of his Sepulchretum; but at the fame time, it must be acknowledged, that there are many faults in this very voluminous compilation of morbid diffections. Some things are put down from hearfay: things incredible are likewife introduced; and the fame things are repeated again and again in different parts of the work; while, on the other hand, many ufeful hiftories and obfervations, at that time extant, are not inferted. The five books of Morgagni here tranflated, contain fome just criticifins on the Sepulchretum, and at the fame time furnish uch a collection of hiftorics, diffections, and obfervations, as make a very valuable fupplement to that work of Bonetus *. Morgagni, whenever he mentions the Sepulchritum, always refers to the enlarged edition which was made under the infpection of Mangetus, and published in the year 1700. Thefe |