And in his garland as he stood, Ye might discern a cypress bud. Once had the early matrons run And now with fecond hope fhe goes, But whether by mifchance or blame 25 And with remorfelefs cruelty Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree; 3* The hapless babe before his birth Had burial, yet not laid in earth, And the languish'd mother's womb 35 So have I feen fome tender flip, The pride of her carnation train, 40 22.-a cyprefs bud] An emblem of a funeral: and it is called in Virgil feralis, En. VI. 216. and in But Horace funebris Epod. V. 18. and in Spenfer the cypress funeral. Faery Queen. B. 1. Cant. 1. St. 8. 28. Atropos. 28. Atropos for Lucina came;] One 49. After this thy travel fore] As of the Fates inftead of the Goddefs he died in child-bed. who brings the birth to light. 63. The Whilst thou, bright Saint, high sitst in glory, That fair Syrian shepherdess, The highly favor'd Jofeph bore To him that ferv'd for her before, And at her next birth much like thee, Far within the bosom bright Of blazing Majefty and Light: There with thee, new welcome Saint, Like fortunes may her foul acquaint, With thee there clad in radiant sheen, No Marchioness, but now a Queen. IX. * SONG. On MAY MORNING. 65 70 No OW the bright morning ftar, day's harbinger, 63. That fair Syrian Shepherdess, &c] Rachel, the daughter of Laban the Syrian, kept her father's fheep. Gen. XXIX. 9. and after her first fon, Jofeph, died in childbed of her fecond fon, Benjamin. XXXV. 18. *This beautiful little Song has within these few years been fet to mufic by Mr. Feftin, and performed at Ranelagh gardens. lap 3. who from her green throws &c] This image feems to be borrow'd from Shakespear. Richard II. A&t 5. Sc. 4. who are the violets now That The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws Mirth and youth and warm defire; WE X. + On SHAKESPEAR. 1630. 10 Hat needs my Shakespear for his honor'd bones Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Dear fon of memory, great heir of fame, What need'ft thou fuch weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Haft built thyself a live-long monument. That ftrow the green lap of the new-come spring? + This copy of verfes on Shakefpear being made in 1630, our poet was then in the 22d year of his age and it was printed with the poems of that author at London in 1640. 5 For 5. Dear Jon of memory,] He honors his favorite Shakespear with the fame relation as the Mufes themselves. For the Muses are called by the old poets the daughters of memory. See Hefiod Theog. ver. 53. 15. And For whilft to th' fhame of flow-endevoring art XI. 10 15 * On the University Carrier, who ficken'd in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reafon of the plague. ERE lies old Hobfon; Death hath broke his girt, And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt, 15. And fo fepulcher'd] We have the word with the fame accent in Fairfax Cant. 1. St. 25. As if his work fhould his fepúlcher be. Milton has pronounced it otherwife, as in Samson ver. 103. Myself, my fepulchre, a moving grave. Or * We have the following account of this extraordinary man in the Spectator N° 509. "Mr. To"bias Hobfon was a carrier, and "the firft man in this iland who "let out hackney horses. He " lived in Cambridge, and obferv"ing that the scholars rid hard, "his manner was to keep a large "ftable of horses, with boots, "bridles, and whips, to furnish "the |