Then backward with a Swing they take their Way,
Repuls'd from upper Ground, and feek their Mother Sea.
With equal Hurry quit th' invaded Shore, (before,
And fwallow back the Sands and Stones they spew'd
Far off we hear the Waves with furly Sound
Invade the Rocks, the Rocks their Groans rebound.
The Billows break upon the founding Strand;
And roul the rifing Tides impure with Sand.

W. E E D.

(Dryd, Virg.

As withred Weed through cruell Winter's tine, That feels the warmth of funny beames reflection, Lifts up his head, that did before decline,

And gins to fpread his leafe before the faire funshine.

WEEPING.

Her brimful Eyes that ready ftood,

And only wanted Will to weep a Flood,

(Spen.

Releas'd their watry Store, and pour'd amain,
Like Clouds, low-hung, a fober Show'r of Rain :
Mure, folemn Sorrow, free from female Noife,
Such as the Majefty of Grief deftroys.

(Dryd. Sigif. Guif.

O'er her Adonis fo

Fair Venus mourn'd, and with the precious Show'r
Of her warm Tears cherith'd the fpringing Flow'r.
(Waller,

She filently a gentle Tear let fall
From either Eye, and wip'd them with her Hair:
Two other precious Drops that ready stood,
Each in their Crystal Sluice, he, e'er they fell,
Kifs'd, as the gracious Signs of fweet Remorse,
And pious Awe, that fear'd to have offended.
So thro' a warry Cloud

The Sun at once feems both to weep and fhine.

Milt.

(Dryd. Sec. Love.

She came weeping forth,

Shining thro' Tears, like April-Suns in Show'rs,

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That

That labour to o'ercome the Cloud that loads them.
While two young Virgins, on whofe Arms the lean'd,
Kindly look'd up, and at her Grief grew fad,

As if they catch'd the Sorrows that fell from her;
Ev'n the lewd Rabble, that were gather'd round,
To fee the Sight, ftood mute when they beheld her,
Govern'd their roaring Throats, and grumbled Pity.
(Otw. Ven. Pref.

Dumb Sorrow feiz'd the Standers by,
The Queen above the reft, by Nature good,
The Pattern form'd of perfect Woman-hood,
For tender Pity wept; when he began,
Thro' the bright Quire th' infectious Virtue ran;
All dropt their Tears.

In Palamon a manly Grief appears,

Silent he wept, aflam'd to fhew his Tears.

(Dryd. Pal. & Arc. The Tears ran gufling from her Eyes,

And ftopt her Speech in pompous Train of Woe.
Behold his Sorrows ftreaming from his Eyes.

With Head reclin'd,

(Dryd. Virg.

Like a fair Flow'r furcharg'd with Dew, fhe weeps.

(Dryd. Then fetting free a Sigh from her fair Eyes, She wip'd two Pearls, the Remnant of wild Show'rs, Which hung like Drops upon the Bells of Flow'rs. (Dryd, Sec, Love.

Look, Emperor! this is no common Dew;

I have not wept thefe forty Years; but now
My Mother comes afresh into my Eyes,

I cannot help her Softnefs."

By Heav'n he weeps! Poor good old Man he weeps, The big round Drops courfe one another down

The Furrows of his Cheeks.

His Eyes,

Dryd. All for Love.

Altho' unus'd unto the melting Mood,

Drop

Drop Tears more faft than the Arabian Tree
Her medicinal Gums.

Compaffion quell'd

Shak. Othel.

His beft of Man, and gave him up to Tears.
See where the fits, and in what comely wife
: Drops Tears more fair than others Eyes;
Ah! charming Maid! let not ill Fortune fee
Th' Attire thy Sorrow wears,

Nor view the Beauty of thy Tears,
For fhe'll ftill come to drefs her felf in thee.
Ne'er did I yet behold fuch glorious Weather,

As this Sun-thine and Rain together.
So Morning Dews on new-blown Rofes lodge,
By the Sun's amorous Heat to be exhal'd.

Bear my Weakness,

If throwing thus my Arms about thy Neck,
I play the Boy, and blubber in thy Bofom.

WELCOME.

Milt.

Cowl.

Otw. Orp.

(Otw. Ven. Pref.

(Dryd. Span. Fry.

Welcome as kindly Show'rs to long-parch'd Earth.

Welcome as the Light

To chearful Birds,or as to Lovers Night. Dryd. Tyr. Love. Welcome to me as to a finking Mariner

The lucky Plank that bears him to the Shore. LeeOedip. Welcome as happy Tidings after Fears.

(

WIFE.

Who loves to hear of Wife?

That dull infipid Thing without Defires,

And without Pow'r to give them.

Otw. Orph.

Otw. Orph.

To fo perverfe a Sex all Grace is vain ;
It gives them Courage to offend again :
For with feign'd Tears they Penitence pretend,
Again are pardon'd, and again offend :
Fathom our Pity when they feem to grieve,
Only to try how far we can forgive :

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'Till launching out into a Sea of Strife, They scorn all Pardon, and appear all Wife.

WINDS.

Like as a boiftrcus wind,

(Dryd. Auren.

Which in th' earth's hollow caves hath long been hid,
And fhut up fast within her prisons blind,
Makes the huge element against her kind
To move, and tremble as it were aghast,
Untill that it an iffue forth may find,
Then forth it breakes, and with his furious blaft,
Confound both land and feas, and sky doth over-cast.
(Spen.

Of what important Use to human Kind,
To what great Ends fobfervient is the Wind?
Behold where e'er this active Vapour flies,
It drives the Clouds, and agitates the Skies :
This from Stagnation and Corruption faves
Th' aerial Ocean's ever-rolling Waves.
This Animals to fuccour Life demand;
For fhould the Air onventilated ftand,
The idle Deep, corrupted, would contain
Blue Deaths, and fecret Stores of raging Pain.
The Scorching Sun would with a fatal Beam
Make all the Void with Births malignant team;
Engender Jaundice, fpotted Torments breed,
And purple Plagues, from peftilential Seed.
Exhaling Vapours would be turn'd to Swarms
Of noxious Infects, and destructive Worms,
More than were rais'd to scourge tyrannic Luft,
By Mofes' Rod, from animated Duft. Black, Creat.
When Northern Winds the Lakes and Rivers freeze,
Uncloath the Meadows, and difrobe the Trees.

He views with Horror next the noify Cave, Where with hoarfe Din imprison'd Tempests rave; Where clam'rous Hurricanes attempt their Flight, Or, whirling in tumultuous Eddies, fight..

Gar.

Thus

Thus rag'd the Goddess, and with Fury frauglit,
The reftlefs Regions of the Storms she fought.
Where in a fpacious Cave of living Stone,
The Tyrant olus from his airy Throne,
With Pow'r imperial curbs the ftruggling Winds,
And founding Tempefts in dark Prifons binds.
This Way and that th' impatient Captives tend,
And, preffing for Releafe, the Mountain rend.
High in his Hall th' undaunted Monarch stands,
And thakes his Scepter, and their Rage commands:
Which did, he not, their unrefifted Sway
Would fweep the World before 'em in their Way •
Earth, Air, and Seas, thro' empty Space would roul,
And Heav'n would fly before the driving Soul.
In Fear of this, the Father of the Gods
Confin'd their Fury to these dark Abodes,

And lock'd them fafe within, opprefs'd with Moun-
(tain Loads;,

Impos'd a King with arbitrary Sway,
To loofe their Fetters, or their Force allay.
Thus when the rival Winds their Quarrel try,
Contending for the Kingdom of the Sky,
South, Eaft, and Weft, on airy Courfers born,
The Whirlwind gathers, and the Woods are torn ;
Then Nereus strikes the Deep, the Billows rife,
And, mix'd with Ooze and Sand, pollute the Skies.
As when a Whirlwind, rushing to the Shore,
From the mid Ocean drives the Waves before;
The painful Hind with heavy Heart forefees
The Aatted Fields, and Slaughter of the Trees.
As when loud Boreas, with his bluft'ring Train,
Stoops from above, incumbent on the Main,
Where'er he flies, he drives the Rack before,
And rouls the Billows on th' Egean Shore.

Like Boreas in his Race, when rushing forth
He sweeps the Skies, and clears the cloudy North:
The waving Harveft bends beneath his Blaft,
The Forest flakes, the Groves their Honours caft: