On Hyde park's circles if you chance to gaze 75 The lights revolving ftrike you with amaze.

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To Bath and Tunbridge they fometimes retreat, With waters to dispel the parching heat: But youth with reafon there may oft' admire That which may raise in him a nobler fire, Till the kind fair relieves what he endures, Caus'd at that water which all others cures. Sometimes at marriage rites you may espy Their charms protected by a mother's eye, Where to bleft mufick they in dances move, With innocence and grace commanding Love. But yearly when that folemn night returns When grateful incenfe on the altar burns, For clofing the most glorious day e'er feen, That first gave light to happy Britain's Then is the time for noble youth to try To make his choice with a judicious eye. Not truth of foreign realms, not fables told Of nymphs ador'd and goddesses of old, Equal thofe beauties who that circle frame, A fubject fit for never-dying Fame;

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Whofe gold, pearl,diamonds, all around them thrown, Yet ftill can add no luftre to their own.

But when their Queen docs to the fenate go, And they make up the grandeur of the show, Then guard your hearts, ye Makers of our laws! For fear the judge be forc'd to plead his cause

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Left the fubmiffive part should fall to you,
And they who fuppliants help be forc'd to sue.
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may their yielding hearts compaflion take, 105
And grant your wishes for your country's fake:
Eafe to their beauties' wounds may goodness give,
And fince you make all happy let you
live.
Sometimes these beauties on Newmarket plains,
Ruling their gentle pads with filken reins,
Behold the conflicts of the generous steeds,

Sprung from true blood and well attested breeds:
There youth may justly with difcerning eye

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It is no treach'rous or bafe piece of art

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T'approve the fide with which the fair takes part,
For equal paffion equal minds will strike
Either in commendation or dislike:

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And we 're spectators of the bloody fight,
Our nimble paffion Love has foon defign'd
The man to whom we must and will be kind.
We think the other is not fit to win;
This is our conqueror ere fight begin.
If danger dares approach him how we start!
Our frighted blood runs trembling to our heart:
He takes the wounds but we endure the fmart.
And Nature by fuch inftances does prove

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Therefore if Chance should make her faddle slide,
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Oh! think it not a too officious care
With eagerness to run and help the fair.
We offer fmall things to the pow'rs above:
'Tis not our merit that obtains their love.
So when Eliza, whofe propitious days
Revolving Heav'n does feem again to raise,
Whofe ruling genius fhew'd a masterstroke
In ev'ry thing fhe did and all she spoke,
Was ftepping o'er a paffage which the rain
Had fill'd, and feem'd as stepping back again,
Young Raleigh fcorn'd to fee his queen retreat,
And threw his velvet cloak beneath her feet:
The queen approv'd the thought, and made him
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Mark when the queen her thanks divine would give Midft acclamations that the long may live ; To whom kind Heav'n the bleffing has bestow'd, To let her arms fucceed for Europe's good; No tyranny throughout the triumph reigns,

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Nor are the captives dragg'd with pond'rous chains;
But all declare the British fubjects' cafe,
And that their war is for their neighbours' peace.
Then whilft the pomp of Majefty proceeds

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* Sir Walter Raleigh is well known to have been indebted to this little mark of gallantry for his rife at court.

From every place beauties may be seen
That will acknowledge none but her for queen.
Then if kind Chance a lovely maid has thrown
Next to a youth with graces like her own,
Much fhe would learn, and many questions afk; 160
The anfwers are the lover's pleasing task.

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“Is that the man who made the French to fly? "What place is Blenheim? is the Danube nigh? "Where was it that he with fword victorious food, "And made their tremblingsquadronschufe the flood? "What is the gold adorns this royal state? "Is it not hammer'd all from Vigo's plate? "Don't it require a moft prodigious care "To manage treasures in the height of war "Must he not be of calmeft truth poffeft "Prefides o'er councils of the royal breast? 66 Seafights are furely difmal fcenes of war! Pray, Sir, were ever you at Gibraltar? "Has not the Emp❜rour got fome envoy here? "Won't Danish, Swedish, Pruffian, lords appear? "Who represents the line of Hanover? "Don't The States General affift them all? "Should we not be in danger if they fall? "If Savoy's Duke and Prince Eugene could meet "In this folemnity it would be complete. "Think you that Barcelona could have stood "Without the hazard of our noblest blood?

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"At Ramilies what enfigns did you get?
"Did many towns in Flanders then fubmit?
"Was it the conq'ror's bus'nefs to destroy,
"Or was he met by all of them with joy?
"Oh! could my wifh but fame eternal give
"The laurel on those brows fhould ever live!"
The British worth in nothing need despair
When it has fuch affiftance from the fair.
As virtue merits it expects regard,

And Valour flies where Beauty is the reward.

That wife and most inftructing scene of art,
Where vice is punish'd with a juft reward,
And virtue meets with fuitable regard;
Where mutual love and friendship find return,
But treach'rous infolence is hifs'd with fcorn,
And Love's unlawful wiles in torment burn.
This without blushes whilst a virgin fees
Upon fome brave spectator Love may feize,
Who till fhe fends it never can have ease.

As things that were the best at firft
By their corruption grow the worst,
The modern stage takes liberties
Unseen by our forefathers' eyes.

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