Whence with the marks of highest honours crown'd By GLORIANA, in domestick peace,

That port, to which the wife are ever bound, He anchor'd was, and chang'd the toffing feas Of bustling bufy life, for calm fequester'd ease.

II.

There in domestick virtue rich and great
As erft in publick, 'mid his wide domain,
Long in primæval patriarchal state,

The lord, the judge, the father of the plain,
He dwelt; and with him, in the golden chain
Of wedded faith y-link'd, a matron sage

Aye dwelt; fweet partner of his joy and pain,
Sweet charmer of his youth, friend of his age,
Skill'd to improve his blifs, his forrows to affuage.
III.

From this fair union, not of fordid gain,

But merit fimilar and mutual love,

True fource of lineal virtue, fprung a train

Of youths and virgins; like the beauteous grove,
Which round the temple of Olympick Jove,

Begirt with youthful bloom the ‡ parent tree,
The facred olive; whence old Elis wove

Her

Parent tree, the facred olive.] This tree grew in the Altis, or facred grove of Olympick Jupiter at Olympia, baving, as the Eleans pretended, been originally planted there by Hercules. It was efteemed facred, and from that were taken the Olympick crowns. See Paufanias. Eliac. and the Differtation on the Olympick Games.

Her verdant crowns of peaceful victory,

The guerdons of bold strength, and swift activity.
IV.

So round their noble parents goodly rofe
These generous fcyons; they with watchful care
Still, as the fwelling paffions gan disclose

The buds of future virtues, did

prepare

With prudent culture the young shoots to rear:
And aye in this endearing pious toil

They by a

*

Palmer fage inftructed were,

Who from deep thought and ftudious fearch erewhile Had learnt to mend the heart, and till the human foil. V.

For by cœleftial Wisdom whilom led

Through all th' apartments of th' immortal mind,
He view'd the fecret ftores, and mark'd the || fted
To judgment, wit, and memory affign'd;
And how fenfation and reflection join'd
To fill with images her darkfome grotte,
Where variously disjointed or combin'd,
As reason, fancy, or opinion wrought,

Their various masks they play'd,and fed her penfive thought.

VI. Alfe

Guerdons, rewards.

Palmer, pilgrim. The perfon here fignified is Mr. Locke, characteriz'd by his works.

Sted, place, ftation.

VI.

Alfe through the fields of Science had he ftray'd With eager fearch, and fent his piercing eye Through each learn'd school, each philofophick fhade, Where Truth and Virtue erft were deem'd to lie ; If haply the fair vagrants he † mote spy, Or hear the mufick of their charming lore: But all unable there to fatisfy

His curious foul, he turn'd him to explore

The facred writ of Faith; to learn, believe, adore.
VII.

Thence foe profefs'd of Falfhood and Deceit,
Those fly artificers of tyranny,

Aye holding up before uncertain feet
His faithful light, to Knowledge, Liberty,
Mankind he led, to Civil Policy,
And mild Religion's charitable law;
That fram'd by Mercy and Benignity
The perfecuting sword forbids to draw,
And free-created fouls with penal terrours awe.
VIII.

|| Ne with these glorious gifts clate and vain
Lock'd he his wisdom up in churlish pride;
But, ftooping from his height, would even deign
The feeble fteps of Infancy to guide.

Eternal

Alfe, alfo, further,
Aye, ever.

+ Mote, might.

Ne, nor.

Eternal glory Him therefore betide!

Let every generous youth his praise proclaim!
Who, wand'ring through the world's rude foreft wide,
By him hath been y-taught his course to frame
To Virtue's sweet abodes, and heav'n-afpiring Fame!
IX.

For this the FAIRY KNIGHT with anxious thought,
And fond paternal care his counsel pray'd;
And him of gentleft courtesy befought

His guidance to vouchsafe and friendly aid;
The while his tender offspring he convey'd,
Through devious paths to that fecure retreat;
Where fage PÆDIA, with each tuneful maid,
On a wide mount had fix'd her rural feat,
'Mid flowery gardens placed, untrod by vulgar feet.

X.

And now forth-pacing with his blooming heir,
And that fame virtuous Palmer them to guide;
Arm'd all to point, and on a courfer fair
Y-mounted high, in military pride,

His little train before he flow did ride.
Him eke behind a gentle Squire || enfues,
With his young lord aye marching fide by fide,
His counsellour and guard, in goodly thews,
Who well had been brought up, and nurs'd by every

Mufe.

XI. Thus

Enfues, follows.

Thews, manners.

XI.

Thus as their pleafing journey they pursued,
With chearful argument beguiling pain;
Ere long defcending from an hill they view'd
Beneath their eyes out-ftretch'd a spacious plain,
That fruitful fhew'd, and apt for every grain,
For pastures, vines and flow'rs; while Nature fair
Sweet-fmiling all around with count'nance fain
Seem'd to demand the tiller's art and care,

Her wildness to correct, her lavish wafte repair.

XII.

Right good, I ween, and bounteous was the foil,
Aye wont in happy seasons to repay
With tenfold ufury the peasant's toil.
But now 'twas ruin all, and wild decay;
Untill'd the garden and the fallow lay,

The sheep-fhorne down with barren || brakes o'ergrown
The whiles the merry peasants sport and play,

All as the publick evil were unknown,

Or every publick care from every breast was flown.
XIII.

Aftonish'd at a scene at once fo fair

And fo deform'd; with wonder and delight
At man's neglect, and Nature's bounty rare,
In ftudious thought a-while the Fairy Knight,

Bent

Fain, earneft, eager.

Brakes, briars.