Now each May morning round her tomb,
Ye fair, fresh flow'rets ftrew,
So may your lovers 'fcape his doom,
Her hapless fate 'scape you.

On SUICIDE.

A Thought from Martial.

I.

WHEN fate in angry mood has frown'd,

And gather'd all her storms around,
The sturdy Romans cry,

The great, who'd be releas'd from pain,
Falls on his fword, or opes a vein,
And bravely dares to die."

II.

But know; beneath life's heavy load,
In fharp afiction's thorny road,

"Midst thousand ills that grieve,

Where dangers threaten, cares infeft, Where friends forfake, and foes moleft, 'Tis braver far to live.

EPITAPH for an Infant, whofe fuppofed parents were vagrants. By the Rev. Mr. O. of Northamptonshire.

WHEN no one gave the cordial draught,

No healing art was found,
My God the fov'reign balfam brought,
And death reliev'd the wound.

My name unknown, obfcure my birth;
No funeral rites are giv'n;

But, though deny'd God's courts on earth,

I tread his courts in heav'n.

ORATIO AD DOMINUM.

An bymn, written by Hildebert, bishop of Anomanum, or Mans, a city of France, in the twelfth century. It was first published by archbishop Ufher, at the end of a Latin treatife, De Romanæ ecclefiæ fymbolo apoftolico vetere, aliique fidei formulis, &c. 4. D. 1647. now grown very fcarce; communicated, with the above account of it, by a gentleman whe figns, H. P. and dates from Suffolk, Dec. 5, 1764.

EXTRA portam jam delatum,

Jam fœtentem, tumulatum,

Vitta ligat, lapis urget:
Sed, fi jubes, hic refurget.

Jube, lapis revolvetur:
Jube, vitta difrumpetur:
Exiturus, nefcit moras
Poftquam clamas, exi foras.
In hoc falo mea ratis
Infeftatur a piratis:

Hinc affultus, inde ductus
Hinc et inde mors et luctus.

Sed tu, bone nauta! veni:
Preme ventos, mare leni ;
Fac abfcedant hi pirate
Duc ad portum, salvâ rate.
Infoecunda mea ficus,
Cujus ramus, ramus ficcus,
Incidetur, incendetur;
Si promulgas, quod meretur.
Sed hoc anno dimittatur,
Stercoretur, fodiatur ;

Quod fi necdum refpondebit;
Flens hoc loquor, tunc ardebit.
Vetus hoftis in me furit;
Aquis merfat, flammis urit:
Inde languens et afflictus
Tibi foli fum relictus.

Ut hic hoftis evanefcat;
Ut infirmus convalescat;
Tu virtutem jejunandi
Des infirmo, des orandi.

Per hæc duo, Chrifto tefte,
Liberabor ab hâc pefte:

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Ab

Ab hâc pefte folve mentem,
Fac devotum pœnitentem.
Da, timorem, quo projecto,
De falute nil conjecto.
Da fpem, fidem, charitatem;
Da difcretam pietatem :

Da contemptum terrenorum,
Appetitum fupernorum.
Totum, Deus! in te fpero;
Deus, ex te totum quæro,

Tu laus mea, meum bonum,
Mea cuncta, tuum donum.
Tu folamen in labore,
Medicamen in languore.
Tu in luctu mea lyra.
Tu lenimen es in ira.
Tu in arcto liberator.
Tu in lapfu relevator.

Metum præftas in provectu,
Spem confervas in defectu.
Si quis lædit, tu rependis;
Si minatur, tu defendis;

Quod eft anceps, tu diffolvis;
Quod tegendum, tu involvis.
Tu intrare me non finas
Infernales officinas ;

Ubi moeror, ubi metus;
Ubi fœtor, ubi fletus;
Ubi probra deteguntur ;
Ubi rei confunduntur ;

Ubi tortor femper cædens,
Ubi vermis femper edens;
Ubi totum hoc perenne,
Quia perpes mors Gehennæ.
Me receptet Sion illa,
Sion David urbs tranquilla:
Cujus faber auctor lucis,
Cujus portæ fignum crucis:
Cujus claves lingua Petri,
Cujus cives femper læti,
Cujus muri lapis vivus,
Cujus cuftos Rex feftivus.

In hec urbe lux folennis; Ver æternum, pax perennis. In hac ordor implens cælos, In hac femper fetum melos. Non eft ibi corruptela; Non defectus, non querela.

Non

Non minuti, non deformes;
Omnes Chrifto funt conformes.
Urbs cœleftis, urbs beata,
Supra petram collocata:
Urbs in portu fatis tuto.
De longinquo te faluto ;
Te faluto, te fufpiro,
Te affecto, te requiro.
Quantum tui gratulentur,
Quam feftivè conviventur ;
Quis affectus eos ftringat,
Aut quæ gemma muros pingat,
Quis chalcedon, quis jacinctus;
Norunt illi, qui funt intus.
In plateis hujus urbis,

Sociatus piis turbis,
Cum Moïfe et Eliâ,

Pium cantem alleluia.

NOTA.

(By Archbishop Usher.)

Ex veteribus membranis Cottonianis (a quibus nomen authoris aberat) Rythmos iftos elegantiffimos defcripfimus; et, ex altero Bibliotheca Regiæ Codice ab amiciffimo Junio accepto, alicubi emendavimus; in quo tum Epiftola Hildeberti continebantur, tum Carmina; & in his, de Hermaphrodito, Lucretia, et Roma ruinâ, quoque, quæ veterum Poetarum catalectis habentur interjecta.

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