From thence returning with deserv'd applause, UNDER Mr. MILTON's Picture, TH Before his PARAdise Lost. HREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftinefs of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature cou'd no further go; To make a third, the join'd the former two. ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, Who dy'd at BATH, and is there interred. ELOW this marble monument is laid All that heav'n wants of this celestial maid Preferve, O facred tomb, thy truft confign'd; The mold was made on purpose for the mind: And she wou'd lofe, if, at the latter day, Her limbs were form'd with fuch harmonious grace: So faultlefs was the frame, as if the whole So pious, as she had no time to spare For human thoughts, but was confin'd to pray'r. Yet in fuch charities the pafs'd the day, 'Twas wond'rous how the found an hour to pray. A foul fo calm, it knew not ebbs or flows, Which paffion cou'd but curl, not difcompofe. A female foftnefs, with a manly mind: A daughter duteous, and a fifter kind: In fickness patient, and in death refign'd. } Mrs. MARGARET PASTON, S Of BURNINGHAM in NORFOLK. O fair, fo young, fo innocent, so sweet, So ripe a judgment, and fo rare a wit, Require at least an age in one to meet. In her they met; but long they could not stay, 'Twas gold too fine to mix without allay. Heaven's image was in her fo well exprest, Now he is gone, the world is of a piece. ON THE MONUMENT O F THE MARQUIS of WINCHESTER, H E, who in impious times undaunted stood, And midst rebellion durft be juft and good; Whofe arms afferted, and whofe fufferings more Confirm'd the caufe for which he fought before; Rests here, rewarded by an heav'nly prince; For what his earthly could not recompence. Pray reader that fuch times no more appear: Or, if they happen, learn true honor here. Ask of this age's faith and loyalty, Which, to preferve them, heav'n confin'd in thee. Few fubjects could a king like thine deferve: And fewer, fuch a king, fo well could ferve. Bleft king, bleft subject, whose exalted state By fufferings rofe, and gave the law to fate. Such fouls are rare, but mighty patterns giv'n To earth, and meant for ornaments to heav'n. |