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Anno Etatis. 19. At a Vacation Exercife in the College, part Latin, part English. The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began.

'Ail native Language, that by finews weak

Hvidt move my fust endeavouring tongue to

And mad❜st imperfect words with childim trips, peak,
Half unpronounc'd flide through my infant-lips,
Driving dumb filence from the portal door,
Where he had mutely fate two years before;
Here I falute thee, and thy pardon ask,
That now I use thee in my latter task:

Small lofs it is that thence can come unto thee,
Iknow my tongue but little Grace can do thee:
Thou need'ft not be ambitious to be first,
Believe me I have thither packt the worst:

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And, if it happen as I did forecast,

The daintieft dishes fhall be ferv'd up last.
I pray thee then deny me not thy aid.
For this fame small neglect that I have made:
But hafte thee ftrait to do me once a Pleasure,
And from thy wardrobe bring thy chiefeft treasure
Not those new fangled toys, and trimings flight
Which take our late fantasticks with delight,
But cull those richest Robes, and gay'st atttire
Which deepeft Spirits and choiceft Wits defire:
I have fome naked thoughts that rove about,
And loudly knock to have their paffage out;
And weary of their place do only stay
Till thou haft deck'd them in thy beft aray;
That fo they may without fufpect or fears
Fly fwiftly to this fair Affembly's ears;
Yet I had rather, if I were to chufe,
Thy fervice in fome gaver fubject use,

Such as may make thee fearch thy coffers round,
Before thou cloath my fancy in fit found:
Such where the deep tranfported mind may foar
Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'ns door
Look in, and fee each blissful Deity

How he before the thunderous throne doth fie,
Listening to what unfhorn Apollo fings

To th' touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings
Immortal Nectar to her Kingly Sire:

Then paffing through the Sphears of watchful fire,
And miftie Regions of wide air next under,
And hills of Snow and lofts of piled Thunder,

May tell at length how green-ey'd Neptune raves,
In Heav'ns defiance mustering all his waves;
Then fing of secret things that came to pass
When Beldam Nature in her cradle was;
And laft of Kings and Queens and Hero's old,
Suck as the wife Demodocus once told
In folemn Songs at King Alcinous feast,
While fad Uliffes foul and all the reft
Are held with his melodious harmony
In willing chains and sweet captivity.
But fie, my wand'ring Muse, how thou doft stray!
Expectance calls thee now another way,
Thou know'ft it must be now thy only bent
To keep in compafs of thy Predicament:
Then quick about thy purpos'd business come,
That to the next I may refign my Room.

Then Ens is reprefented as Father of the Prædicaments his ten Sons, whereof the Eldest flood for Subftance with his Canons, which Ens, thus Speaking, explains.

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Ood luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birthThe Faiery Ladies danc'd upon the hearth; Thy drowfie Nurse hath fworn the did them spie Come tripping to the Room where thou didst lie; And sweetly finging round about thy Bed Strew all their bleffings on thy fleeping Head. She heardthem give thee this, that thou should'st still From eyes of mortals walk invisible,

Yet there is fomething that doth force my fear,:
For once it was my dismal hap to hear
A Sybil old, bow-bent with crooked Age,
That far Events full wifely could prefage,
And in Time's long and dark Prospective Glass
Fore-faw what future days should bring to pass,
Your Son, faid he, (nor can you it prevent )*
Shall fubject be to many an Accident.
O'er all his Brethren he shall Reign as King
Yet every one fhall make him underling,
And thofe that cannot live from him afunder,
Ungratefully fall firive to keep him under :
In worth and excellence he fall out-gỡ them,
Yet being above them, he fhall be below them;
From others he shall ftand in need of nothing,
Yet on his Brothers fhall depend for Cloathing.
To find a Foe it shall not be his hap,
And peace hall lull him in her flow'ry laps
Yet fhall he live in ftrife, and at his door
Devouring War fhall never ceafe to roar:
Yea it shall be his natural property
To harbour thofe that are at enmity.

What pow'r, what force, what mighty spell, if not
Your learned hands, can loose his Gordian knot? I

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Ivers arife; whether thou be the Son

Of utmost Tweed, or Oost, or gulphie Day)

Or Trent, who like fome earth-born Giant Spreads
His thirty Arms along the indented Meads,ano in
Or fullen Mole that runneth underneath, leik.
Or Severn Swift, guilty of Maidens death, et
Or Rockie Avm, or of Sedgie Lee,

Or Coaly Tine, or ancient hallowed Dee,
Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythians Name,
Or Medway smooth, or Royal Towred Thame...
The reft was Profe.'

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Re-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth,
Wherewith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ring,

And joyous news of heav'nly Infants birth,
My muse with Angels did divide to fing;
But headlong joy is ever on the wing,

In Wintry folftice like the shortn'd light
Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night,

For now to forrow niuft I tune my song,

And fet my Harp to notes of faddeft wo,

Which on our deareft Lord did sease ere long, Dangers, and fnares, and wrongs, and worfe than so, Which he for us did freely undergo.

Moft perfect Heroe, try'd in heaviest plight

Of labours huge and hard, too hard for human wight,