So wealthy mines, that ages long before

Fed the large realms around with golden oar,
When choak'd by finking banks, no more appear,
And fhepherds only fay, The mines were here :
Shou'd fome rich youth (if nature warm his heart
And all his projects stand inform'd with art)
Here clear the caves, there ope the leading vein;
The mines detected flame with gold again.
How vaft, how copious are thy new defigns!

How ev'ry mufic varies in thy lines!

Still as I read, I feel my bofom beat,

And rife in raptures by another's heat.

Thus in the wood, when fummer dress'd the days,
When Windfor lent us tuneful hours of ease,

Our ears the lark, the thrush, the turtle bleft,
And Philomela fweeteft o'er the rest:

The fhades refound with song-O softly tread !
While a whole feafon warbles round my head.

This to my friend-and when a friend inspires
My filent harp its mafter's hand requires,

Shakes

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Shakes off the duft, and makes thefe rocks refound,
For fortune plac'd me in unfertile ground;

Far from the joys that with my foul agree,

From wit, from learning, -far, oh far from thee!
Here mofs-grown trees expand the fmalleft leaf;
Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf,

Here hills with naked heads the tempeft meet,
Rocks at their fide, and torrents at their feet,
Or lazy lakes unconscious of a flood,

Whose dull brown Naiads ever fleep in mud.

Yet here Content can dwell, and learned eafe,
A friend delight me, and an author please,
Ev'n here I fing, while POPE supplies the theme,
Show
my own love, tho' not increase his fame.

Part of the firft Canto of the RAPE of the

A

Lock.

ND now unveil'd, the toilet ftands difplay'd,
Each filver vafe in mystic order laid,

First, rob'd in white, the Nymph intent adores

With head uncover'd, the cosinetic pow'rs.
A heav'nly image in the glass appears,

To that she bends, to that her eyes fhe rears
'Th' inferior priestefs, at her altar's fide,
Trembling begins the facred rites of pride.
Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here
'The various off'rings of the world appear;
From each fhe nicely culls with curious toil,
And decks the goddess with the glitt❜ring spoil.
This casket India's glowing gems unlocks,
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.

The tortoise here and elephant unite,

Transform'd to combs, the fpeckled, and the white.

Here

A TRANSLATION of part of the first Canto of the RAPE of the Lock, into Leonine Verfe, after the Manner of the Ancient Monks.

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T nunc dilectum fpeculum, pro more retectum,

Emicat in mensâ, quæ fplendet pyxide densâ : Tum primum lymphâ, fe purgat candida nympha; Jamque fine mendâ, cœleftis imago videnda, Nuda caput, bellos retinet, regit, implet, ocellos. Hâc ftupet explorans, feu cultus numen adorans. Inferior claram Pythoniffa apparet ad aram, Fertque tibi cautè, dicatque fuperbia ! lautè, Dona venusta; oris, quæ cunctis, plena laboris, Excerpta explorat, dominamque deamque decorat. Pyxide devotâ, fe pandit hic India tota,

Et tota ex iftâ transpirat Arabia cifta;

Teftudo hic flectit, dum fe mea Lefbia petit;

Atque elephas lentè, te pectit Lesbia dente
Hunc maculis nôris, nivel jacet ille coloris.

;

Hic

Here files of pins extend their fhining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Now awful beauty puts on all its arms,

The Fair each moment rifes in her charms,
Repairs her fmiles, awakens ev'ry grace,

And calls forth all the wonders of her face;
Sees by degrees a purer blush arife,

And keener lightnings quicken in her

eyes.

The bufy Sylphs furround their darling care;
These set the head, and those divide the hair,

Some fold the fleeve, while others plait the gown,
And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own.

HEALTH