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This mean retreat did mighty Pan contain:
Be emulous of him, and pomp disdain,
And dare not to debase your soul to gain.
The silent stranger stood amaz'd to see
Contempt of wealth, and wilful poverty;
And, though ill habits are not soon control'd,
A while suspended her desire of gold:

But civilly drew in her sharpen'd paws,
Not violating hospitable laws,

And pacify'd her tail, and lick'd her frothy jaws.
The Hind did first her country cates provide,

Then couch'd herself securely by her side,

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PART III.'

MUCH malice mingled with a little wit,
Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ;
Because the Muse has peopled Caledon

[known, With panthers, bears, and wolves, and beasts unAs if we were not stock'd with monsters of our own. Let Æsop answer, who has set to view

Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew;
And Mother Hubbard, in her homely dress,

Has sharply blam'd a British lioness;

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Expos'd obscenely naked and asleep.

Led by those great examples, may not I
The wanted organs of their words supply?
If men transact like brutes, 'tis equal then
For brutes to claim the privilege of men.
Others our Hind of folly will indite,
To entertain a dang'rous guest by night:
Let those remember that she cannot die,
Till rolling time is lost in round eternity;
Nor need she fear the Panther, though untam'd,
Because the Lion's peace was now proclaim'd:
The wary savage would not give offence,,
To forfeit the protection of her prince;

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But watch'd the time her vengeance to complete,
When all her furry sons in frequent senate met.
Meanwhile she quench'd her fury at the flood,
And with a lenten sallad cool'd her blood.

Their commons, tho' but coarse, were nothing scant,
Nor did their minds an equal banquet want.

For now the Hind, whose noble nature strove
T'express her plain simplicity of love,
Did all the honours of her house so well,
No sharp debates disturb'd the friendly meal.
She turn'd the talk, avoiding that extreme,
To common dangers past, a sadly pleasing theme;
Rememb'ring every storm which toss'd the state,
When both weré objects of the public hate,
And dropt a tear betwixt for her own children's fate.
Nor fail'd she then a full review to make,
Of what the Panther suffer'd for her sake:
Her lost esteem, her truth, her loyal care,
Her faith unshaken to an exil'd heir,

Her strength t' endure, her courage to defy;
Her choice of honourable infamy.

On these, prolixly thankful, she enlarg'd,

Then with acknowledgment herself she charg❜d:
For friendship, of itself an holy tie,

Is made more sacred by adversity.

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Now should they part, malicious tongues would say They met like chance companions on the way,

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Whom mutual fear of robbers had possess'd;
While danger lasted, kindness was profess'd;
But that once o'er, the short liv'd union ends:
The road divides, and there divide the friends.
The Panther nodded when her speech was done,
And thank'd her coldly in a hollow tone:
But said her gratitude had gone too far
For common offices of Christian care.
If to the lawful heir she had been true,
She paid but Cæsar what was Cæsar's due.
I might, she added, with like praise describe
Your suff'ring sons, and so return your bribe:
But incense from my hands is poorly priz'd;
For gifts are scorn'd where givers are despis'd.
I serv'd a turn, and then was cast away;
You, like the gaudy fly, your wings display,

And sip the sweets, and bask in your great pa-
tron's day.

This heard, the Matron was not slow to find
What sort of malady had seiz'd her mind :
Disdain, with gnawing Envy, fell Despight,
And canker'd Malice, stood in open sight:
Ambition, Int'rest, Pride without control,
And Jealousy, the jaundice of the sou!;
Revenge, the bloody minister of ill,.
With all the lean tormentors of the will.
'Twa easy now to guess from whence arose
A new-made union with her ancient foes,

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Her forc'd civilities, her faint embrace,
Affected kindness, with an'alter'd face:
Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound,
As hoping still the nobler parts were sound;
But strove with anodynes t' assuage the smart,
And mildly thus her meďcine did impart.

Complaints of lovers help to ease their pain;
It shows a rest of kindness to complain;
A friendship loath to quit its former hold;
And conscious merit may be justly bold:
But much more just your jealousy would shew,
If others' good were injury to you:

Witness ye Heav'ns, how I rejoice to see
Rewarded worth and rising loyalty.
Your warior offspring that upheld the crown,
The scarlet honour of your peaceful gown,
Are the most pleasing objects I can find,
Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind:
When Virtue spumes before a prosp'rous gale,
My heaving wishes help to fill the sail;

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And if my pray'rs for all the brave were heard,
Cæsar should still have such, and such should still

reward.

The labour'd earth your pains have sow'd and till'd;
'Tis just you reap the product of the field:
Your's be the harvest, 'tis the begger's gain
To glean the fallings of the loaded wain.

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