Rouz'd from my bed, I speedily ascend | Nor only on the Trojans fell this doom,
The houses' tops, and listening there attend. | Their hearts at last the vanquish'd re-assume;
As flames roll’d by the winds' conspiring force, And now the victors fall: on all sides fears,
Ver full-eard corn, or torrents' raging course. Groans and pale Death in all her shapes appears :
Bears down th' opposing oaks, the fields destroys, Androgeus first with his whole troop was cast
And mocks the plough-man's toil, th’unlook'd Upon us, with civility misplac'd ;
for noise

Thus greeting us, “ You lose by your delay, . From neighbouring hills th' amazed shepherd Your share both of the honour and the prey; bears;

Others the spoils of burning Troy convey Such my surprise, and such their rage appears. Back to those ships which you but now forsake." First fell thy house, Ucalegon, then thine We making no return, his sad mistake Deiphobus, Sigæan seas did shine

Too late he finds: as when an unseen snake Bright with Troy's flames; the trumpets dreadful A traveller's unwary foot hath prest, sound

Who trembling starts when the snake's azure The louder groans of dying men confound; . Swolo with his rising anger, he espies, [crest, “Give me my arms,” I cry'd, resolv'd to throw So from our view surpriz'd Androgeus flies. Myself 'mong any that oppos'd the foe :

But here an easy victory we meet : [fect. Rage, anger, and despair at once suggest,

Fear binds their hands, and ignorance their That of all deaths to die in arms was best. Whilst fortune our first enterprize did aid, The first I met was Pantheus, Phoebus' priest, Encourag'd with success, Chorcebus said, Who, 'scaping with his gods and reliques, Aed, “O friends we now by better Fates are led, And towards the shore his little grandchild led. And the fair path they lead us, let us tread. “ Pantheus, what hope remains ? what force, First change your arms, and their distinctions what place

The same, in foes, deceit and virtue are."[bear; Made good ?" but sighing, he replies, “ Alas! Then of his arms Androgeus he divests, Trojans we were, and mighty Ilium was; His sword, his shield he takes, and plamed crests, But the last period, and the fatal hour

Then Ripheus, Dymas, and the rest, all glad Of Troy is come: our glory and our power

Of the occasion, in fresh spoils are clad. Incensed Jove's transfers to Grecian hands:

Thus mixt with Greeks, as if their fortune still The foe within the burning town commands; Follow'd their swords, we fight, pursue, and kill. And (like a smother'd fire) an unseen force Some re-ascend the horse, and he whose sides Breaks from the bowels of the fatal horse :

Let forth the valiant, now the coward hides. Insulting Sinon flings about the flame,

Some to their safer guard, their ships, retire; And thousands more than e'er from Argos came But vain's that hope, 'gainst which the gods conPossess the gates, the passes, and the streets, Behold the royal virgin, the divine (spire: And these the sword o'ertakes, and those it meets. Cassandra, from Minerva's fatal shrine (vain, The guard nor fights, nor Aies; their fate so Dragg’d by the hair, casting towards heaven, in near

Her eyes, for cords her tender hands did strain ; at once suspends their courage and their fear.” Choræbus, at the spectacle enrag'd Thus by the gods, and by Atrides' words

Flies in amidst the foes : we thus engag'd, Inspir'd, 1 make my way through fire, through To second him, among the thickest ran; swords,

Here first our ruin from our friends began, Where noises, tumults, outcries, and alarms, Who from the temple's battlements a shower I heard. First Iphitus, renown'd for arms, Of darts and arrows on our heads did pour ; We meet, who knew us (for the Moon did shine); | They us for Greeks, and now the Greeks (who Then Ripheus, Hypanis, and Dymas join Cassandra's rescue) us for Trojans slew. (knew Their force, and young Choræbus, Mygdon's Then from all parts Ulysses, Ajax then, Who, by the love of fair Cassandra, won, (son, And then th’ Atridæ, rally all their men ; Arriv'd but lately in her father's aid;

As winds, that meet from several coasts, contest, Unhappy, whom the threats could not dissuade Their prisons being broke, the south and west, Of his prophetic spouse;

And Eurus on his winged coursers borne, Whom when I saw yet daring to maintain

Triumphing in their speed, the woods are torn, The fight, I said, “ Brave spirits (but in vain) And chasing Nereus with his trident throws Are you resolv'd to follow one who dares

The billows from the bottom; then all those Tempt all extremes; the state of our affairs Who in the dark our fury did escape, You see : the gods have left us, by whose aid Returning, know our borrow'd arms, and shape, Our empire stood ; nor can the flame be staid : And different dialect : then their numbers swell Then let us fall amidst our foes ; this one

And grow upon us. First Chorcebus fell Relief the vanquish'd have, to hope for none.” Before Minerva's altar, next did bleed Then reinforc'd, as in a stormy night

Just Ripheus, whom no Trojan did exceed Wolves urged by their raging appetite

In virtue, yet the gods his fate decreed. Forage for prey, which their neglected young Then Hypanis and Dymnas, wounded by With greedy jaws expect, ev'n so among

Their friends; nor thee, Pantheus, thy piety, Foes, fire, and swords, t' assured death we pass, Nor consecrated mitre, from the sune Dukness our guide, Despair our leader was. Il fate could save; my country's funeral flame Who can relate that evening's woes and spoils, And Troy's cold ashes I attest, and call Or can his tears proportion to our toils ?

To witness for myself, that in their fall The city, which so long had fourish'd, falls; No foes, no death, nor danger, I declin'd, Death triumphs o'er the houses, temples, walls. Did, and deserv'd no less, iny fate to find.

VOL. VIL.

Now Iphitus with me, and Pelias

| And now between two sad extremes I stood, Slowly retire; the one retarded was

Here Pyrrhus and th’ Atridæ drunk with blood, By feeble age, the other by a wound.

There th' hapless queen amongst an hundred To court the cry directs us, where we found

dames, Th' assault so hot, as if 'twere only there, And Priam quenching from his wounds those And all the rest secure from foes or fear : .

flames The Greeks the gates approach'd, their targets / Which his own hands had on the altar laid ; cast

Then they the secret cabinets invade, Over their heads; some scaling ladders plac'd Where stood the fifty nuptial beds, the hopes Against the walls, the rest the steps ascend, Of that great race; the golden posts, whose tops And with their shields on their left arms defend Old hostile spoils adorn'd, demolisb'd lay, Arrows and darts, and with their right hold fast Or to the foe, or to the fire a prey. The battlement ; on them the Trojans cast Now Priam's fate perhaps you may inqnire : Stones, rafters, pillars, beams ; such arms as Seeing his empire lost, his Troy on fire, these,

And his own palaee by the Greeks possest, Now hopeless, for their last defence they seize. | Arms long disus'd his trembling limbs invest; The gilded roofs, the marks of ancient state, Thus on his foes he throws himself alone, They tumble down : and now against the gate Not for their fate, but to provoke his own : Of th' inner court their growing force they There stood an altar open to the view bring:

Of Heaven, ncar which an aged laurel grew, Now was our last effort to save the king,

Whose shady arms the household gods embrac'd; Relieve the fainting, and succeed the dead. Before whose feet the queen herself had cast A private gallery 'twixt th’apartments led, With all her daughters, and the Trojan wives, Not to the foe yet known, or not observ'd,

As doves whom an approaching tempest drives (The way for Hector's hapless wife reserv'd, | And frights into one flock; but having spy'd When to the aged king, her little son [run Old Priam clad in youthful arm, she cried, She would present) through this we pass, and “Alas, my wretched husband, what pretence Up to the highest battlement, from whence To bear those arms, and in them what defence ? The Trojans threw their darts without offence, Such aid such times require not, when again A tower so high, it seem'd to reach the sky, If Hector were alive, he liv'd in vain ; Stood on the roof, from whence we could descry Or here we shall a sanctuary find, All Ilium-both the camps, the Grecian fleet; Or asin life we shall in death be join'd.” This, where the beams upon the columns meet, Then weeping, with kind force held and embrac'd, We loosen, which like thunder from the cloud And on the secret seat the king she plac'd. Breaks on their heads, as sudden and as loud. Meantime Polites, one of Priam's sons, But others still succeed: meantime, nor stones Flying the rage of bloody Pyrrhus, runs Nor any kind of weapons cease.

Through foes and swords, and ranges all the court, Before the gate in gilded armour shone [grown, And empty galleries, amaz'd and hurt ; Young Pyrrhus, like a snake, his skin new Pyrrhus pursues him, now o'ertakes, now kills, Who fed on poisonous herbs, all winter lay And his last blood in Priam's presence spills. ('nder the ground, and now reviews the day The king (though him so many deaths enclose) Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young, Nor fear, nor grief, but indignation shows; Rolls up his back, and brandishes his tongue, “ The gods requite thee, (if within the care And lifts his scaly breast against the Sun; Of those above th' affairs of mortals are) With him his father's squire, Automedon, Whose fury on the son but lost had been, And Peripas, who drove his winged steeds, | Had not his parents' eyes his murder seen: Enter the court; whom all the youth succeeds Not that Achilles (whom thou feign'st to be Of Scyrps' isle, who flaming firebrands flung Thy father) so inhuman was to me; Up to the roof; Pyrrhus hijnself among

He blusht, when I the rights of arms implor'd; The foremost with an axe an entrance hews To me my Hector, me to Troy restord :" Through beams of solid oak, then freely views This said, his feeble arm a javelin flung, The chambers, galleries, and roums of state, Which on the sounding shield, scarce entering, Where Priam and the ancient monarchs sat.

rung. At the first gate an armed guard appears; Then Pyrrhus ; " Go a messenger to Hell But th’inner court with horrour, noise, and tears, Of my black deeds, and to my father tell Confus'dly fill'd, the women's shrieks and cries The acts of his degenerate race." So through The arch'd vaults re-echo to the skies;

His son's warm blood the trembling king he Sad matroos wandering through the spacious

drew rooms

To th’altar; in his hair one hand he wreaths; Embrace and kiss the posts : then Pyrrhus comes His sword the other in his bosom sheaths. Fi 'l of his father, neither men nor walls

Thus fell the king, who yet surviv'd the state, His force sustain, the torn portcullis falls, With such a signal and peculiar fate, Then from the hinge their strokes the gates di- ! Under so vast a ruin, not a grave, vorce,

Nor in such fames a funeral fire to have : And where the way they cannot find, they force. He whom such titles swell’d, such power made Not with such rage a swelling torrent flows

proud, Above his banks, th' opposing dams o'erthrows, To whom the sceptres of all Asia bow'd, Depopulates the fields, the cattle, sheep,

On the cold earth lies th' unregarded king, Shepherds and fulds, the foaming surges sweep. | A headless carcase, and a nameless thing.

ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD... TO A PERSON OF HONOUR. 943

Since man to that perfection cannot rise,
ON TAE EARL OF STRAFFORD'S Of always virtuous, fortunate, and wise;

Therefore the patterns man should imitate
TRIAL AND DEATH.

Above the life our masters should create.

Herein, if we consult with Greece and Rome, Great Strafford ! worthy of that name, though | Greece (as in war) by Rome was overcome; all

Though mighty raptures we in Homer find, Of thee could be forgotten, but thy fall,

Yet, like himself, his characters were blind; Crush'd by imaginary treason's weight,

Virgil's Sublimed eyes not only gaz'd, Which too much merit did accumulate:

But bis sublimed thoughts to Heaven were As chymists gold from brass by fire would draw,

rais'd. Pretexts are into treason forg'd by law..

Who reads the honours which he paid the gods, His wisdom such, at once it did appear

Would think be had beheld their blest abodes; Three kingdoms' wonder, and three kingdoms' And that his hero might accomplish'a be, fear;

From divine blood he draws his pedigree. While single he stood forth, and seem'd, although From that great judge your judgment takes its Each had an army, as an equal foe.

law, Such was his force of eloquence, to make And by the best original does draw The hearers more concern'd than he that spake ; | Bonduca's honour, with those heroes Time Each seem’d to act that part he came to see, Had in oblivion wrapt, his saucy crime; And none was more a looker-on than he ; To them and to your nation you are just, So did he move our passions, some were known | In raising up their glories from the dust; To wish, for the defence, the crime their own. And to Old England you that right have done Now private pity strove with public hate, | To show, no story pobler than her own. Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate: Now they could him, if he could them forgive ; He's not too guilty, but too wise to live; Less seem those facts which Treason's nick-name

bore,
Than such a fear'd ability for more.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF
They afier death their fears of him express,
His innocence and their own guilt.confess.

HENRY LORD HASTINGS, 1650.
Their legislative frenzy they repent :
Enacting it should make no precedent. [lose Reader, preserve thy peace; those busy eyes
This fate he could have 'scap'd, but would not

Will weep at their own sad discoveries ; Honour for life, but rather nobly chose

When every line they add improves thy loss, Death from their fears, than safety from his

Till having view'd the whole, they sum a own,

cross;
That his last action all the rest might crown. Such as derides thy passions' best relief,

And scorns the succours of thy easy grief.
Yet, lest thy ignorance betray thy name

Of man and pious, read and mourn : the shame
TO A PERSON OF HONOUR, Of an exemption, from just sense, doth show

Irrational, beyond excess of woe.
ON HIS INCOMPARABLE POEM7.

Since reason, then, can privilege a tear,

Manhood, uncensur'd, pay that tribute here, What mighty gale hath rais'd a flight so strong?

Upon this noble urn. Here, here, remains So high above all vulgar eyes ! so long?

Dust far more precious than in India's veins : One single rapture scarce itself confines

Within these cold embraces, ravish'd, lies Within the limits of fourthousand lines :

That which compleats the age's tyrannies : And yet I hope to see this noble heat

Who weak to such another ill appear, Continue, till it makes the piece complete,

For what destroys our hope, secures our fear. That to the latter age it may descend,

What sin unexpiated, in this land And to the end of time its beams extend.

Of groans, hath guided so severe a hand ? When Poesy joins profit with delight,

The late great victim 2 that your altars knew, Her images should be most exquisite,

Ye angry gods, might have excus'd this new 1 The honourable Edward Howard, by his

Oblation, and have spar'd one lofty light

Of virtue, to inform our steps aright; poem called The British Princes, engaged the By whose example good, condemned, we attention of by far the most eminent of his con

Might have run on to kinder destiny. temporaries; who played upon his vanity, as

But as the leader of the herd fell first the wits of half a century before had done on

A sacrifice, to quench the raging thirst that of Thomas Coryat, by writing extravagant

Of inflam'd vengeance for past crimes ; so none compliments on his works. See Butler's, Wal

" But this white-fatted youngling cou'd atone, ler's, Sprat's, and Dorset's verses, in their respec

| By his untimely fate; that impious smoke, tive volumes : and in the Select Collection of That allied Earth, and did Heaven's pity choke. Miscellaneous Poems, 1780, vol. III. p. 105, are other verses on the same subject, by Marton Clifford, and the lord Vaughan. . N.

, King Charles the First,

the

Let it suffice for us, that we have lost

Thus the constitution
In him more than the widow'd world can boast Condemns them every one,
In any lump of her remaining clay. ,

From the father to the son.
Fair as the grey ey'd Morn he was ; the day,

But John Youthful, and climbing upwards still, imparts

(Our friend) Molleson : No haste like that of his increasing parts;

Thought us to have out-gone
Like the meridian beam, his virtue's light

With a quaint invention.
Was seen, as full of comfort and as bright.
Had his noon been as fix'd as clear-but he, Like the prophets of yore,
That only wanted immortality

He complain'd long before,
To make him perfect, now submits to night, Of the mischiefs in store,
In the black bosom of whose sable spite,

Ay, and thrice as much more.
He leaves a cloud of flesh behind, and flies,
Refin'd, all ray and glory, to the skies.

And with that wicked lye,
Great saint ! shine there in an eternal sphere, | A letter they came by
And tell those powers to whom thou now draw'st From our king's majesty.
near,

[dead,

But Fate That by our trembling sense, in HASTINGS

Brought the letter too late, Their anger and our ugly faults are read;

'Twas of too old a date The short lines of whose life did to our eyes

To relieve their damn'd state.
Their love and majesty epitomize:
Tell them, whose stern degrees impose our laws, The letter's to be seen,
The feasted Grave may close her hollow jaws: With seal of wax so green,
Though Sin search Nature, to provide her here At Dantzige where 't has been
A second entertainment half so dear,

Turn'd into good Latin.
She'll never meet a plenty like this hearse,
Till Time present her with the universe.

But he that gave the hint
This letter for to print,

Must also pay his stint.
ON MY LORD CROFT'S AND MY JOURNEY INTO POLAND, That trick,

FROM WHENCE WE BROUGHT 10,0001. FOR HIS Had it come in the nick,
MAJESTY, BY THE DECIMATION OF HIS SCOTISH Had touch'd us to the quick,
SUBJECTS THERE.

But the messenger fell sick.
Tole, tole,

Had it later been wrote,
Gentle bell, for the soul

And sooner been brought, \ Of the pure ones in Pole,

They had got what they sought, Which are damn'd in our scrou).

But now it serves for nought. Who having felt a touch

On Sandys they ran aground, Of Cockram's greedy clutch,

And our return was crown'd.
Which though it was not much,

With full ten thousand pound.
Yet their stubborness was such,
That when we did arrive,
'Gainst the stream we did strive;
They would neither lead nor drive :

ON MR. THO. KILLIGREW'S RETURN FROM VENICE.

AND MR. WILLIAM MURREY'S FROM SCOTLAND. Nor lend An ear to a friend,

Our resident Tom, Nor an answer would send

From Venice is come, To our letter so well penn'd,

And hath left the statesman behind him :

Talks at the same pitch, Nor assist our affairs

Is as wise, is as rich; With their monies nor their wares,

And just where you left him, you find him. As their answer now declares, But only with their prayers.

But who says he was not Thus they did persist

A man of much plot, Did and said what they list,

May repent that false accusation; Till the diet was disinist;

Having plotted and penn'd But then our breech they kist.

Six plays, to attend

The farce of his negotiation.
For when
It was mov'd there and then

Before you were told
They should pay one in ten,

How Satan 3 the old The diet said, Amen.

Came here with a beard to his middle;

Though he chang'd face and name, And because they are loth

Old Will was the same,
To discover the troth,

At the noise of a can and a fiddle.
They must give word and oath,
Though they will forfeit both.

3. Mr. W. Murrey.