The gloffy White imbib'd a spreading Blot, What may this vifionary Dream portend, That Heat you try'd to fhun i'th' fhady Grove, But fhunn'd in vain, was the fierce Heat of Love: The Cow denotes the Nymph, your only Care; For White's th' expreffive Image of the Fair; And you the Bull abandon'd to Defpair: The pecking Crow, fome bufie Bawd implies, Who with base Arts will foon feduce your Prize. You faw the Cow to fresher Pastures range: As mixing with the Herd, you saw her rove; So will the Fair pursue promifcuous Love: Soon will you find a foul Incestuous Blot, At this my Blood retir'd, with difmal Fright,. And left me pale as Death; my fainting Sight Was quite o'ercaft in dusky Shades of Night. ΟΝ Α Miscellany of POEMS. TO BERNARD LINTOTT. Ipfa varietate tentamus efficere ut alia aliis; quadam fortaffe omnibus placeant. Plin. Epist. A [Guelt, S when fome skilful Cook, to please each With due Proportion and judicious Care To feast at once the Tafte, the Smell, and Sight. So, Bernard, must a Miscellany be The Mufes O'lio, which all Taftes may fit, Wouldst thou for Miscellanies raise thy Fame; The Lyrick Bard must strike th' harmonious Lyre; And fill fome Pages with melodious Woe; Those fwell the Piece, but very rarely please: Tran Translations should throughout the Work befown And at her Door in melting Notes complain: And each contribute to thy great Design: Through various Subjects let the Reader range, And raise his Fancy with a grateful Change; Variety's the Source of Joy below, From whence still fresh revolving Pleafures flow. In Books and Love, the Mind one End pursues, And only Change th' expiring Flame renews. Where Buckingham will condefcend to give, That honour'd Piece to distant Times muft live; |