So leaning Cheek to Cheek, and Eyes to Eyes, We mingled Tears in a dumb Scene of Sorrow. (Dryd. Span. Fry.

No farther Voice her mighty Grief affords ; For Sighs came rufhing in betwixt her Words, And stopt her Tongue: but what her Tongue deny'd, Soft Tears,and Groans, and dumb Complaints fupply'd. (Dryd. Ov.

In Sorrow drown'd,
Betwixt their Arms he finks upon the Ground:
Where, groy 'ling while he lies, in deep Defpair,
He beats his Breaft, and rends his hoary Hair.
Forgetful of his State he runs along

With a diftracted Pace, and cleaves the Throng:
Falls on the Corps, and groaning there he lies,
With filent Grief, that fpeaks but at his Eyes.
Short Sighs and Sobs fucceed, 'till Sorrow breaks
A Paffage, and at once he weeps and speaks. Dryd.Virg.
Thus long my Grief has kept me dumb :

Sure there's a Lethargy in mighty Woe;

Tears stand congeal'd, and cannot flow:

Tears for a Stroke unfeen, afford Relief,

But unprovided for a fudden Blow,
Like Niobe, we marble grow,
And petrify with Grief,

GRIFFON.

Dryd.

As when a Griffon feized on his prey,
A Dragon fierce encountreth in his flight :
Thro' wildest Ayre making his idle way,
That would his rightful ravine rend away;
With hedious horrour both together fmight,
And fouce fo fore, that they the Heavens affray.
The wife Soothfayer feeing fo fad a Sight,

The amazed vulgar tells of Warres and mortal Fight.

GROVE.

Into that Forrest farre they thence him led,

(Spen.

Where

Where was their dwelling, in a pleasant glade
With mountains round about environed,
And mighty woods, which did the valley flade,
And like a stately Theatre it made,

Spreading it felf into a fpatious plaine."
And in the midst a little River plaid

Emongst the pumy ftones, which feem'd to plaine With gentle Murmur that his courfe they did re

(straine.

Enforc't to feek fome covert nigh at hand,
A fhady Grove not farre away they fpide,
That promis't ayde the tempeft to withstand:
Whoes lofty trees, yclad with Summers pride,
Did fpread fo broad,, that Heavens light did hide,
Not perceable with power of any Starre :
And all within were paths and alleies wide,

With footing worne, and leading inward farre : Faire harbour, that them feemes; fo in they entred (are. Spen.

And now my Mufe, what moft delights her, fees, A living Gallery of aged Trees:

Bold Sons of Earth! that thruft their Arms fo high,
As if once more they would invade the Sky.
In fuch green Palaces the firft Kings reign'd,
Slept in their Shades, and Angels entertain❜d :
With fuch wife Councellors they did advife,
And by frequenting facred Groves grew wife. Wall.
Strait as a Line, in beauteous Order stood,

Of Oaks unfhorn a venerable Wood.

Fresh was the Grafs beneath, and ev'ry Tree
At diftance planted in a due Degree.

Their branching Arms in Air, with equal Space,
Stretch'd to their Neighbours with a long Embrace.
And the new Leaves on ev'ry Bough were feen ;
Some ruddy-colour'd, fome of lighter Green.
The painted Birds, Companions of the Spring,
Hopping from Spray to Spray, were heard to fing.

Both

Both Ears and Eyes receiv'd a like Delight,
Enchanting Mufick, and a charming Sight.

In a clofe Lane, as I perfu'd my Journey,
I fpy'd a wrinkled Hag, with Age grown double;
Picking dry Sticks, and mumbling to her felf.

Her Eyes with fcalding Rheum were gall'd and red,
Cold Palfie shook her Head; her Hands feem'd wither'd;
And on her crooked Shoulders had fhe wrap'd
The tatter'd Remnants of an old strip'd Hanging,
Which ferv'd to keep her Carcafs from the Cold:
So there was nothing of a Piece about her.
Her lower Weeds were all o'er courfly patch'd
With diff'rent-colour'd Rags, black, red, white,yellow,
And feem'd to fpeak Variety of Wretchednefs."

The patt'ring Hail comes pouring on the Main,
When Jupiter defcends in harden'd Rain :
The bellowing Clouds burft with a ftormy Sound,
And with an armed Winter ftrew the Ground.

(Dryd. Virg. Thus when fome Storm its cryftal Quarry rends, And Jove in rattling Show'rs of Ice defcends, Mount Athos shakes the Foreft on his Brow, While down his wounded Sides fresh Torrents flow, And Leaves, and Limbs of Trees o'erfpread the Vale (below. Gar.

As when thick Hail comes rattling in the Wind, The Ploughman, Paffenger, and lab'ring Hind, For Shelter, to the neighb'ring Coverts fly, Or hous'd, or fafe in hollow Caverns lie;

But that o'erblown, when Heav'n above them fmiles, Return to Travel, and renew their Toils. Dryd. Virg.

НАР.

HAPPINESS.

All Happiness is feated in Content. Otw. C. Marius.
In wishing nothing we enjoy still most:
For ev'n our Wifh is in Poffeffion loft:
Reftlefs we wander to a new Defire,

And burn our felves by blowing up the Fire:.
We tofs, and turn about our Feav'rish Will,
When all our Eafe must come by lying ftill
For all the Happinefs Mankind can gain,
Is not in Pleafure, but in Reft from Pain Dryd.Ind. Emp.
No Happiness can be, where is no Reft,
Th' unknown, untalk'd-of Man is only bleft.
He, as in fome fafe Cliff, his Cell does keep,
From thence he views the Labours of the Deep:
The Gold-fraught Veffel which mad Tempefts beat,
He fees now vainly make to his Retreat :
And when from far, the tenth Wave does appear,
Shrinks up in filent Joy that he's 110t there.

HARE.

(Dryd. Tyr. Love.

The Hare in Paftures, or in Plains is found,
Emblem of human Life! who runs the Round,
And after all his wandring Ways are done,
His Circle fills, and ends where he began,
Juft as the fetting meets the rifing Sun.

HARMONY.

Dryd.

Effoones they heard a moft melodious found, Of all that mote delight a dainty eare,

Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this Paradife, be heard elfe where Right hard it was for wight that did it heare,

To read what manner mufick that more bee:

For all that pleafing is to living eare,

Was there conforted in one harmonie,

Birds, voices, inftruments, windes, waters, all agree.

The

The joyous Birds, shrouded in chearful fhade, Their notes unto the voyce attempted sweet 3 The Angel call soft treambling voyces made To the inftruments divine respondence meet : The filver founding Inftruments did meet

With the bafe murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference difcreet, Now foft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling Wind lowe answering to all.

Monsters more fierce offended Heav'n ne'er sent
From Hell's Abyss for human Punishment :
With Virgin-Faces, but with Wombs obfcene,
Foul Paunches, and with Ordure still unclean,
With Claws for Hands, and Looks for ever lean.
With hideous Cry,

And clatt ring Wings the hungry Harpies fly :
Their fated Skin is proof to Wounds,
And from their Plumes the fhining Swords rebounds.
(Dryd. Virg.

HAVEN.

Within a long Recefs there lies a Bay;
An Inland fhades it from the rolling Sea;
And forms a Port fecure for Ships to ride;
Broke by the jutting Land on either fide,
In double Streams the briny Waters glide,
Between two Rows of Rocks : a Sylvan Scene
Appears above, and Groves for ever green.
A Grot is form'd beneath with moffy Seats,
To reft the Nereids, and exclude the Heats.
Down thro' the Crannies of the living Walls;
The crystal Streams defcend in murm'ring Falls ;
No Haulfers need to bind the Veffels here,
Nor bearded Anchors: for no Storms they fear.

(Dryd. Virg.

The Land lies open to the raging East,
Then bending like a Bow, with Rocks comprefs'd,

Shuts