And dar'd amidst the trembling Ghofts to fing, Th' iufernal Mansions nodding feem to dance: But leans attentive on his standing Wheel. Dryd Virg MUTABILITY. Such is the weakness of all mortall hope; So fickle is the State of earthly things, That ere they come unto their aimed scope, Inftead of comfort which we fhould embrace : MYRRH A. Spen. Mean-while the mif-begotten Infant grows, And ripe for Birth, diftends with deadly Throes The fwelling Rind, with unavailing Strife, To leave the wooden Womb, and pushes into Life. The Mother-Tree, as if opprefs'd with Pain, Writhes here and there, to break the Bark, in vain; And, like a lab'ring Woman, would have pray'd, But wants a Voice to call Lucina's Aid. (Wood, The bending Bole fends out a hollow Sound, NA NATURE. See how Sublime th' unlifted Mountains rife, And with their pointed Heads invade the Skies; How the high Cliffs their craggy Arms extend, Diftinguish States, and fever'd Realms defend; How ambient Shores confine the restless Deep, And in their ancient Rounds the Billows keep; The hollow Vales their smiling Pride unfold; What rich Abundance do their Bofoms hold? Regard their lovely Verdure, ravish'd, view The party-colour'd Flow'rs of various Hue; Not Eaftern Monarchs, on their Nuptial Day, In dazling Gold and Purple, fhine fo gay, As the bright Natives of th' unlabour'd Field, Unvers'd in Spinning, and in Looms unskill'd : See, how the rip'ning Fruits the Gardens crown, Imbibe the Sun, and make his Light their own: See the fweet Brook in filver Mazes creep, Enrich the Meadows, and fupply the Deep; While from their weeping Urns the Fountains flow, And vital Moisture, where they pafs, bestow: Admire the narrow Stream, and fpreading Lake, The proud afpiring Grove, and humble Brake? How do the Forefts and the Woods delight? How the sweet Glades and Openings charm the Sight? Obferve the sweet Lawn, and the airy Plaine, The fertile Furrows rich with various Grain ; How Ufeful all? how all confpire to grace The extended Earth, and beautify her Face? Blac.Creat. Nature deprav'd, Abundance does perfue, Her first and pure Demands are cheap and few : What Health promotes, and gives, unenvy'd Peace, Is all Expenceless, and procur'd with Eafe. NECROMANCER. Him have I feen (on Ifter's Banks he stood, Where last we Winter'd) bind the headlong Flood In fudden Ice; and where most swift it flows, Then, with a Moment's Thaw, the Stream enlarge, (Dryd. Tyr. Love. By my NEGRO E S. While in the Regions of the burning Zone, No Vifage but the footy Black is known; Short woolly Locks their horrid Fronts embrace, Thick Lips grin fearful, with a Fiend-like Grace, And Night,the Beldam,broods on each Barbarian Face. (Rowe's Call NEP NEPTUNE. Next unto him was Neptune pictured, They trembling ftood, and made a long broad dyke, (ride. His Sea-horfes did feen to fuort amaine, That made the sparkling waves to smoake againe, Ne ought, but dear Bifaltis, ay could make him glad. First came great Neptune, with three-forkt mace, That rules the Sea, and makes them rife or fall; His dewy locks did drop with brine a pace, Under his Diadem imperial. Spen. His finny Train Saturnian Neptune joyns.Then adds the foamy Bridles to their Jaws, And to the loofen'd Reins permits the Laws. High on the Waves his azure Car he guides, Its Axles thunder, and the Sea fubfides, And the smooth Ocean rolls her filent Tides. The Tempefts fly before their Father's Face, Trains of inferiour Gods his Triumph grace; And Monster-Whales before their Master play, And Quires of Tritons crowd the watry Way. The marshal'd Pow'rs in equal Troops divide, To Right and Left; the Gods his better Side (ride. Inclofe, and on the worse the Nymphs and Nereids } When When thus the Father of the Flood appears, And o'er the Seas his Sov'reign Trident rears, Their Fury falls; he fkims the liquid Plains, High on his Chariot, and with loofen'd Reins Majestick moves along, and awful Peace maintains (Dryd. Virg. NEREUS. Of all which, Nereus, the eldest and the beft, Did first proceed, than which none more upright, Ne more fincere in word and deed profeft; Most void of guile, moft free from foule defpight, Dooing himself, and teaching others to do right. Thereto he was expert in prophecies, And could the ledden of the Gods unfold, Through which,Paris hath brought his famous prife, The faire Tindarid lafs, he him fortold, That her all Greece, with many a champion bold, And fo well skil'd; nath'less he takes great joy NIGHT. Where griefly Night, with vifage deadly fad, And cole-black Steeds yborne of hellish brood, (wood. By this, eternall lamps, where with high Jove Doth light the world, were half yfpent, And the moist Daughters of huge Atlas fhove |