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Who, free from Storms which on the Great ones fall,
Makes but few Wishes, and enjoys them all.
No Care, but Love, can difcompofe her Breaft,
Love, of all Cares, the fweeteft and the best.
While on fweet Grafs her bleating Charge does lie,
One happy Lover feeds upon her Eye.

Not one, whom on her Gods or Men impose,
But one whom Love has for this Lover chofe.
Under fome Fav'rite Myrtle's fhady Boughs,
They speak their Paffions with repeated Vows.
And whilft a Blush confeffes how the burns,
His faithful Heart makes as fincere Returns.
Thus in the Arms of Love and Peace they lie:
And whilst they live, their Flames can never dye.

COUNTRY-SQUIRE:

In Eafter Term,

My young Master's Worship comes to Town

From Pedagogue and Mother juft set free,
The hopeful Heir of a great Family;

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That with ftrong Beer and Beef the Country rules,
And ever fince the Conqueft have been Fools.
And ftill with careful Profpe&t to maintain

That Chara&er, left croffing of the Strain

Should Mend the Booby-Breed, his Friends provide
A Coufin of his own to be his Bride.

And thus fet out

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With an Estate, no Wit, and a young Wife,
The folid Comforts of a Coxcomb's Life;
Dunghil and Peafe forfook, he comes to Town,
Turns Spark, learns to be lewd, and is undone.
COURAGE.

The greatest Proof of Courage we can give,
Is then to die, when we have Pow'r to live.
But when true Courage is of Force bereft,
Patience, the only Fortitude, is left.

Rofcom

Roch

How. Ind. Queen.

Dryd. Cong. of Gran,

Conqueft purfues where Courage leads the way.
But ah! what ufe of Valour can be made,

Gar.

Well.

When Heav'ns propitious Pow'rs refuse their Aid? Dryd. Virg.
God-like his Gourage feem'd, whom no Delight
Could foften, nor the Face of Death affright.
All defperate Hazards Courage do create,
As he plays frankly, who has leaft Eftate;
Prefence of Mind, and Courage in Distress,
Are more than Armies to procure Success.

Their Courage dwells not in a troubled Flood
Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood;

Dryd. Auren.

Lodg'd

Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd,
Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reafon cool'd:
In Hours of Peace content to be unknown,
And only in the Field of Battle shown.

Meer Courage is to Madness near ally'd,

A brutal Rage, which Prudence does not guide.
Then Hudibras,

Turn'd pale as Afhes, or a Clout,
But why, or wherefore, is a Doubt;
For Men will tremble and look paler
With too much, or too little Valour.

COURT. See Flattery, Greatness.
The Court's a golden, but a fatal Circle,
Upon whofe magick Skirts a thousand Devils,
In chrystal Forms, fit tempting Innocence,
And beckon early Virtue from its Centre.

Be careful to avoid both Courts and Camps,
Where dilatory Fortune plays the Jilt
With the brave, noble, honest, gallant Man,
To throw herself away on Fools and Knaves.
Bertram has been taught the Art of Courts ;

Add.

Blac.

Hud.

Lee Nero.

Otw. Orph

To gild a Face with Smiles, and leer a Man to Ruin. Dryd Span.

Learn the cruel Arts of Courts ;

Learn to diffemble Wrongs, to fmile at Injuries,

And fuffer Crimes thou want'st the Pow'r to punish.

Be eafy, affable, familiar, friendly;

Search, and know all Mankind's myfterious Ways,
But truft the Secret of thy Soul to none:

This is the way,

(Fry.

This only, to be fafe in fuch a World as this is.

Row. Ulyff.

Courts are the Places where beft Manners flourish,

Where the deferving ought to rife, and Fools

Make Show. Why fhould I vex, and chafe my Spleen,

To fee a gawdy Coxcomb fhine, when I

Have Senfe enough to footh him in his Follies,

And ride him to Advantage as I please?

Otw. Orph

What Man of Senfe would rack his gen'rous Mind,

To practise all the bafe Formalities

And Forms of Bus'nefs? Force a grave starch'd Face,
When he's a very Libertine in's Heart?

Seem not to know this or that Man in publick,

When privately perhaps they meet together,

And lay the Scene of fome brave Fellow's Ruin.
Such things are done in Courts.

Otw. Orph.

Virtue must be thrown off, 'tis a coarfe Garment,

Too heavy for the Sunshine of a Court.
But Courtiers are to be accounted good,

Dryd. Span. Fry.

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When

When they are not the laft and worft of Men. Dryd. Span. Fry.
Farewel Court,

Where Vice not only has ufurp'd the Place,
But the Reward, and ev'n the Name of Virtue.

COW.

The Mother-Cow muft wear a low'ring Look,
Sowr-headed, ftrongly neck'd to bear the Yoke :
Her double Dewlap from her Chin defcends;
And at her Thighs the pond'rous Burthen ends.
Long are her Sides and large, her Limbs are great,
Rough are her Ears, and broad her horny Feet.
Her Colour fhining Black, but fleck'd.with White,
She toffes from the Yoke, provokes the Fight;
She rifes in her Gate, is free from Fears,
And in her Face a Bull's Refemblance bears;
Her ample Forehead with a Star is crown'd:

Denb. Soph

And with her Length of Tail fhe fweeps the Ground.
The Bull's Infult at Four fhe may fuftain,
But after Ten from nuptial Rites refrain:
Six Seasons ufe, but then releafe the Cow,
Unfit for Love, or for the lab'ring Plough.
The milky Mothers of the Plain.

COWARD. See Fear.
The Good we a&t, the Ill that we endure;
'Tis all for Fear, to make our felves fecure :
Meerly for Safety after Fame we thirst;
For all Men would be Cowards if they durft.
Let Fear upon the profp'rous Hearts take hold:
Cowards themselves in Miferies grow bold.

As Cheats to play with thofe ftill aim,
That do not understand the Game;
So Cowards never ufe their Might,
But against fuch as will not fight.

Dryd. Virg.
Dryd. Virg.

Rock.

How. Veft. Virg.

CRANE. See Creation, Pygmy.
CREATION of the WORLD. See Death.

They fung how God fpoke out the World's vaft Ball,
From Nothing, and from No Where call'd forth All.

I faw the rifing Birth

Of Nature from the unapparent Deep..

I faw when at his Word this formlefs Mafs,
The World's material Mould came to a Heap:
Confufion heard his Voice, and wild Uproar
Stood rul'd, flood vaft Infinity confin'd;
Till at his fcond Bidding, Dark nefs fled,
Light fhone, and Order from Disorder fprung.
Swift to their feveral Quarters hafted then

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The cumbrous Elements, Earth, Flood, Air, Fire,

And

And the ethereal' Quinteffence of Heav'n
Flew upward, spirited with various Forms
That roul'd orbicular, and turn'd to Stars.
Each had his Place appointed, each his Course.
Thus God the Heav'ns created, thus the Earth:
Matter unform'd and void, Darkness profound
Cover'd th'Abyfs; but on the watʼry Calm
His brooding Wings the Spirit of God out-fpread,
And vital Vertue infus'd, and vital Warmth
Throughout the fluid Mafs; but downward purg'd
The black, tartareous, cold, infernal Dregs,
Adverse to Life; then founded, then conglob'd
Like things to like, the reft to fev'ral Place
Difparted, and between fpun out the Air;
And Earth, felf-balanc'd, on her Centre hung.
Light.

Let there be Light, faid God, and forthwith Light
Ethereal, firft of things, Quinteffence pure,
Sprung from the Deep; and from her native Eaft
To journey thro' the airy Gloom began,

Spher'd in a radiant Cloud. And then God made
Firmament.

The Firmament, Expanfe of liquid, pure,
Tranfparent, elemental Air, diffus'd

In Circuit to the uttermoft Convex

Of this great Round.

Dry Land.

The Earth was form'd, but in the Womb as yet
Of Waters, Embryon immature, involv'd,
Appear'd not: Over all the Face of Earth
Main Ocean flow'd; not idle, but with warm
Prolifick Humour foftning all her Globe,
Fermented the great Mother to conceive,
Satiate with genial Moisture,

Immediately the Mountains huge appear
Emergent, and their broad bare Backs up-heave
Into the Clouds, their Tops afcend the Sky.
Sea and Rivers.

So high as heav'd the tumid Hills, fo low
Down funk a hollow Bottom, broad and deep,
Capacious Bed of Waters: Thither they
Hafted with glad Precipitance, uproll'd,
As Drops on Duft, conglobing from the Dry:
Part rife in cryftal Wall, or Ridge dire&t;

As Armies at a Call

Of Trumpet

Troop to their Standard; fo the wat'ry Throng,

Wave rolling after Waye, where way they found;
If fteep, with torrent Rapture; if thro' Plain,
Soft ebbing: Nor withstood them Rock or Hill;
But they or under Ground, or Circuit wide,
With ferpent Error wandring, found their way,
And on the wafhy Ooze deep Channels wore;
Within whofe Banks the Rivers now

Stream, and perpetual draw their humid Train.
Herbs, and Trees.

Next the Earth, till then

Defart and bare, unfightly, unadorn'd,

Brought forth the tender Grafs, whofe Verdure clad
Her univerfal Face with pleasant Green.

Then Herbs of ev'ry Leaf, that fuddain flow'r'd,
Op'ning their various Colours, and made gay
Her Bofom fmelling fweet: And these scarce blown,
Forth flourish'd thick the cluft'ring Vine, forth crept
The smelling Gourd, upftood the corny Reed
Embattel'd in her Field, and th'humble Shrub,
And Bush with frizzled Hair implicit: Laft
Rofe, as in a Dance, the ftately Trees, and fpread
Their Branches hung with.copious Fruit, or gem'd

Their Bloffoms: With high Woods the Hills were crown'd,
With Tufts the Valleys, and each Fountain Side
With Borders long the Rivers.

Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Then of Celestial Bodies firft the Sun,

A mighty Sphere, he fram'd; unlightfom firft,
Tho' of ethereal Mold: He form'd the Moon
Globofe, and every Magnitude of Stars.
Of Light by far the greater Part he took,
Tranfplanted from her cloudy Shrine, and plac'd
In the Sun's Orb, made porous to receive,
And drink the liquid Light; firm to retain
Her gather'd Beams: Great Palace now of Light!
Hither, as to their Fountain, other Stars
Repairing, in their golden Urns draw Light;
And hence the Morning Planet gilds her Horns.
First in his Eaft the glorious Lamp was feen,
Regent of Day, and all th'Horizon round
Invested with bright Rays; jocund to run
His Longitude thro' Heav'ns high Road: The grey
Dawn and the Pleiades before him danc'd,
Shedding fweet Influence. Lefs bright the Moon,
Bur oppofite in level'd Weft was fet,

His Mirrour; with full Face borrowing her Light
From him, for other Light the needed none

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