ed.

of gathering Apples. Cider-washings.

ing wind-fall Apples.

Cider-mill, and prefs, dePoffibility of preferving and Caution against endeavoring

prove Cider, by mixing any thing with the pure juice be Apple-and against boiling it. Tithe of Apples to -aid. Signs of fair weather, and of fertile feafons.

feafon produces its appropriate fruits. Wine made of rent forts of fruits. Mead. Birch and Cowflip wines. ebaugh drunk in Ireland; Mum and Geneva in Holland. rink made of Juniper-berries, drunk by the Northern ions. Perfons in hot countries obliged to drink frequently. r fhould be kept two years in cafk before it is bottled ;be made of various forts of Apples, ground and pressed ther;—often refembles different kinds of wines fo exactly, o be mistaken by foreigners for the genuine wine that is particular growth of their own country;-fhould not be ed until it is quite fine ;-should be bottled in the Spring. fs; how made, and bottles blown. Different forts of

Cider

Cider require to be kept a different length of time in bottle, before they are fit for drinking. Potency of Stire Cider. The Farmer's Feaft. Praife of Bacchus, Christmas Gambols, and the Ruftic Ball. Temperance recommended. Fatal confequences of Intemperance. Battle of the Centaurs and Lapithæ. Civil-war between CHARLES I. and the PARLIAMENT. Panegyric on King CHARLES, and on Queen ANNE. England happy in a Monarchic Government. The contentions of the Heptarchy, and wars under our firft Kings, contrafted with the peaceable and happy reign of EDGAR. The Atchievements of Richard COEUR DE LION in the Crufades. Victories of EDWARD III. in France. Miferies of the civil war between the Houses of YORK and LanCASTER. Thefe Houfes united in the perfon of HENRY VII. The Crowns of England and Scotland united in JAMES I. Act of UNION between the two Kingdoms. The power and importance it gives to BRITAIN.

1. Harcourt.]

Simon, fon of Lord Chancellor Harcourt, was the fellow-collegian of r Author. He fpoke verfes to Queen Anne, at Christ Church, en fhe vifited the University of Oxford in August 1702; but, at the me this poem was written and published, was abroad on his travels. e ferved, in the two laft parliaments of the Queen's reign, for the roughs of Aylesbury and Wallingford; and marrying_Elizabeth, ughter of John Evelyn, Efq. and fifter of Sir John Evelyn, of ootton in Surrey, Bart. left one fon, Simon, afterwards Earl of arcourt, and father to the prefent Earl; and two daughters. He ed in 1720, at Paris, from whence his body was brought to England, d interred at Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, where a monument erected to his memory, with the following Epitaph by Mr. Pope, ich marks that Poet's affectionate regard for Mr. Harcourt, more in it difplays any peculiar talent for this fpecies of compofition

To this fad fhrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near,
Here lies the friend moft lov'd, the fon most dear:
Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide,
Nor gave his father grief, but when he dy'd.
How vain is Reafon, Eloquence how weak!
If Pope muft tell what HARCOURT cannot fpeak.
O let thy once-lov'd friend infcribe thy ftone,
And with a father's forrows, mix his own!

This was a debt due from Mr. Pope to the memory of a friend, who A complimented him on the appearance of his Poems, according to cuftom of that time, with a copy of verfes prefixed to his works; ere, among the great names that offer their tribute at the fhrine of

Poetry,

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Lament thy absence, whilst in sweet sojourn

Thou view'ft the reliques of old Rome, or what
Unrival'd Authors by their prefence made

For ever venerable, rural feats,

Poetry, that of Simon Harcourt appears, not lefs to his own credit, than that of the bard he celebrates. Mr. Harcourt was a Scholar and a Poet. A Latin Poem of his is printed in the fecond volume of the Mufa Anglicana; and he has been faid to have been the author of The Judgment of Venus, printed among Prior's Poems.

The family of Harcourt is very ancient. They are defcended, together with the noble family of that name in France, from Bernard, a nobleman of the blood-royal of Saxony, who was fecond in command to Duke Rollo, in his defcent upon Normandy, in the year 876, and obtained, with other Lordships, that of Harcourt, as the reward of his fervices upon that occafion. Anchitel, great-grandfon of Bernard, was the firft of the family who took the furname of Harcourt. His two eldest fons attended William the Conqueror to England; of whom Robert, the second, was the ancestor of the present Earl of Harcourt.

5.

-in fweet fojourn.]

Milton ufes fojourn, thus accented on the last syllable, in one place. Thee I revifit now with bolder wing

6.

Efcap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd

In that obfcure SOJOURN

-or what

P. L. B. iii. V. 13.

Unrival'd Authors by their prefence made

For ever venerable- -]

There is a remarkable fimiliarity of expreffion between this paffage and the following couplet in Pope's WINDSOR FOREST:

Led by the found I roam from shade to shade,
BY GOD-LIKE POETS VENERABLE MADE.

V. 267.

The veneration which we habitually entertain for any place that has been the refidence of perfons, whom we have much loved or admired, is beautifully described in a paffage of Cicero DE LEGIBUS. L. ii. C. 2.

Movemur enim nefcio quo pacto locis ipfis, in quibus eorum, quos diligimus, aut admiramur, adfunt veftigia. Me quidem illæ ipfæ noftræ Athenæ non tam operibus magnificis exquifitifque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione fummorum virorum, ubi quifque habitare, ubi federe, ubi difputare fit folitus: ftudiofeque eorum etiam fepulcra contemplor.

Tibur,

BOOK II.

CIDER.

Tibur, and Tufculum, or Virgil's urn,

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Green with immortal bays, which haply thou,
Refpecting his great name, do'ft now approach
With bended knee, and ftrow with purple flowers;
Unmindful of thy friends, that ill can brook
This long delay? At length, dear youth, return,
Of wit and judgment ripe in blooming years,
And Britain's Ifle with Latian knowledge grace.
Return, and let thy father's worth excite

10. Green with immortal bays]

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The Tomb of Virgil (or at least the ruined hut, which is fhewn to Travellers, as the fpot where the afhes of the Poet were depofited) ftands on the mountain of Paufilipo, in the neighbourhood of Naples; where an ancient bay-tree (as Dr. Moore, in his View of Society and Manners in Italy, well obferves) with infinite propriety over-hang's it."

15. Of wit and judgment ripe in blooming years]

This is Virgil's Animi maturus. N. ix. 246. Or from his defcription of Iulus, V. 310, of the fame book:

17.

Ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem.

thy father's worth-]

Lord Chancellor Harcourt, eldeft fon of Sir Philip Harcourt, (who was Member of Parliament for the county of Oxford, in the year 1681) was a student of Pembroke College in Oxford, and, having removed from thence to the Inner Temple, rofe through the various great fituations in the law to the highest of them. About the time that this Poem was published, he exchanged the office of Solicitor General for that of Attorney General; which laft employment he quitted not long after by a voluntary refignation. He appeared as principal Counfel for Dr. Sacheverel, at his trial, when impeached by the House of Commons. On the change of the Miniftry, in 1710, he was again made Attorney General; and, very shortly after, was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.Sept. 31, 1711, he was created a Peer, by the title of Baron Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire; and, the year following, was made Lord Chancellor, in which office he continued till the acceffion of George I. when the Great Seal was given to Lord Cowper. He became afterwards a great favorite with the King, who advanced him to the dignity of Viscount Harcourt, and made him one of the Lords Juftices, at different times, when he visited his German dominions.