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Thus Troy for ten long years her foes withstood, nd daily bleeding bore th' expence of blood: 'ow for thick streets it shows an empty space, r only fill'd with tombs of her own perish'd race, erfelf becomes the fepulchre of what she was. Mycene, Sparta, Thebes of mighty fame, e vanish'd out of substance into name. id Dardan Rome that just begins to rife, Tiber's banks, in time shall mate the skies; idening her bounds, and working on her way; 'n now she meditates imperial fway:

t this is change, but she by changing thrives, ke moons new-born, and in her cradle strives fill her infant-horns: an hour shall come

hen the round world shall be contain'd in Rome. For thus old faws foretel, and Helenus chifes' drooping fon enliven'd thus; ➡hen Hium now was in a sinking state; d he was doubtful of his future fate: joddefs born, with thy hard fortune Atrive, by never can be loft, and thou alive.

y paffage thou shalt free through fire and sword, d Troy in foreign lands fhall be restor❜d. happier fields a rifing town I fee,

eater than what e'er was, or is, or e'er fhall be: d heav'n yet owes the world a race deriv'd from thee.

ges, and chiefs of other lineage born

e city fhall extend, extended shall adorn :

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But from lulus he muft draw his breath,

By whom thy Rome fall rule the conquer'd earth:
Whom heav'n will lend mankind on earth to reign,
And late require the precious pledge again.
This Helenus to great Eneas told,

Which I retain, ere fince in other mould
My foul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view
My country walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv’d anew,
Rais'd by the fall: decreed by lofs to gain;
Enflav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign.

'Tis time my hard mouth'd courfers to controll,
Apt to run riot, and tranfgrefs the goal:
And therefore I conclude, whatever lies
In earth, or fits in air, or fills the skies,
All fuffer change, and we, that are of foul
And body mix'd, are members of the whole.
Then, when our fires, or grandfires shall forfake,
The forms of men, and brutal figures take,
Thus hous'd, fecurely let their spirits rest,
Nor violate thy father in the beast.
Thy friend, thy brother, any of thy kin,
If none of thefe, yet there's a man within :
O fpare to make a Thyestaean meal,
T'inclofe his body, and his foul expel.

Ill customs by degrees to habits rife, Ill habits foon become exalted vice: What more advance can mortals make in fin So near perfection, who with blood begin? Deaf to the calf that lies beneath the knife, Looks up, and from her butcher begs her life:

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eaf to the harmless kid, that ere he dies II methods to procure thy mercy tries, nd imitates in vain thy childrens cries. 'here will he stop, who feeds with hqushold bread, hen eats the poultry which before he fed ?

et plow thy fteers; that when they lose their breath o nature, not to thee they may impute their death. et goats for food their loaded udders lend,

ad sheep from winter-cold thy fides defend ;
it neither fpringes, nets, nor fnares employ,
nd be no more ingenious to destroy.
ree as in air, let birds on earth remain,
for let infidious glue their wings constrain;
or opening hounds the trembling stag affright,
or purple feathers intercept his flight:
for books conceal'd in baits for fish prepare,
or lines to heave 'em twinkling up in air.
Take not away the life you cannot give:
or all things have an equal right to live.
ill noxious creatures, where 'tis fin to fave;
This only just prerogative we have:
ut nourish life with vegetable food,

And shun the facrilegious taste of blood.

These precepts by the Samian fage were taught, Which godlike Numa to the Sabines brought, And thence transferr'd to Rome, by gift his own: A willing people, and an offer'd throne. O happy monarch, fent by heav'n to bless A favage nation with soft arts of peace,

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To teach religion, rapine to restrain, Give laws to luit, and facrifice ordain: Himself a faint, a goddefs was his bride, And all the mufes o'er his afts prefide.

HARACTER

OF A

OOD PARSON;

IMITATED FROM

CHAU CE, R,

AND ENLARGED.

Parish-priest, was of the pilgrim-train: An awful, reverend, and religious man. eyes diffus'd a venerable grace,

d charity itself was in his face.

ch was his foul, though his attire was poor; $ God had cloath'd his own ambassador;) r fuch, on earth, his blefs'd Redeemer bore. fixty years he feem'd; and well might last o fixty more, but that he liv'd too fast; efin'd himself to foul, to curb the sense; nd made almost a fin of abstinence. et, had his afpect nothing of fevere, lut fuch a face as promis'd him fincere.

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