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On thy Voice Truth may reft, and on thy Plea
Unerring Henley found the juft Decree.

Henley! than whom, to Hardwick's well-rais'd Fame,
No worthier fecond Royal GEORGE cou'd name :
No Lawyer of Prerogative: no Tool

Fashion'd in black Corruption's pliant School;
Form'd, twixt the People and the Crown to stand,
And hold the Scales of Right with even Hand!

True to our Hopes, and equal to his Birth,
See, fee in Yorke the Force of lineal Worth!
But why their fev'ral Merits need I tell?
Why on each honour'd Sage's Praises dwell?
Wilmot how well his Place, or Foster fills?
Or fhrew'd Senfe beaming from the Eye of Willes?

Such, while thou fee'ft the public Care engage,
Their Fame increasing with increasing Age.
Rais'd by true Genius, bred in Phoebus' School,
Whose warmth of Soul found Judgment knew to cool
-With fuch illuftrious Proofs before your Eyes,
Think not, my Friend, you've too much Wit to rise:
Think of the Bench, the Coif, long Robe, and Fee,
And leave the Prefs to

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TRANSLATION of an ancient EPITAPH

In the Cloysters of Winchester College.

EPITAPH.

Laufus Johannes jacet hic fub marmore Clarkus,

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Qui fuit hic quondam Prefbyter et Socious.

In terrâ Rofeos folitus ftillare Liquores,

In cœlo vivis nunc quoque gaudet Aquis.

TRANSLATION.

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Eneath this Stone lies shut up in the dark,
A Fellow and a Prieft, yclept John Clark:
With earthly Rofe-Water he did delight ye,
But now he deals in heavenly Aqua-vite,

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To please the Fair, in courtly Lays
То The Poet plays his part,

One tenders Snuff, Another Praise,
A Tooth-pick or a Heart.

II.

Alike They all, to gain their End
Peculiar Arts disclose,

While I, fubmiffive, only fend

An humble Pair of Hofe.

.III.

Long may they guard from Cold and Harm
The fnowy Legs that wear 'em,

And kindly spread their Influence warm
To every Thing that's near 'em.

But

IV.

But let it not be faulty deem'd,
Nor move your Indignation,

If I a little partial feem

In Gift or Commendation.

V.

Each fair Perfection to display

Would far exceed my Charter;

My modest Muse must never stray
Above the Knee, or Garter.

VI.

And who did e'er a Bafis view

So worthy to be prais'd ?

Or from fo fair Foundation knew
So fine a Fabrick rais'd ?

VII.

Thou learned Leech, fage **** say,
Since fpite of Drugs and Plaisters,

You now can talk the live-long day

Of Pillars and Pilafters;

VIII.

You that for Hours have rov'd about,

Thro' Halls and Colonades,

And scarce would deign to tread on aught
But Arches and Arcades;

Dil

IX.

Did you in all your mazy Round

Two nobler Pillars view ?

What yielding Marble e'er was found
So exquifitely true?

X.

The fwelling Dome with ftately fhow
May many Fancies please;

I view, content, what lies below-
The Cornice and the Frieze.

XI.

The beauteous Twins fo fair, fo round,
That bear the noble Pile,

Muft fure proceed from Venus' Mount,
Or from Cythera's Ifle.

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XII.

Propitious Fates, preserve 'em safe,
And keep 'em fnug together,
And grant they may the Malice brave

Of Man as well as Weather.

Two Places from whence the Ancients brought Materials

for their moft noble Structures.

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