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O may fam'd Brunfwick be the laft,
(Though heaven should with my wish agree,
And long preferve thy art in thee)

The laft, the happiest British King,

Whom thou shalt paint, or I shall sing!
Wife Phidias, thus his skill to prove,
Through many a God advance'd to Jove,
And taught the polisht rocks to shine
With airs and lineaments divine;

'Till Greece, amaz'd, and half-afraid,
Th'affembled deities furvey'd.

Great Pan, who wont to chase the fair, And lov'd the spreading oak, was there ; Old Saturn too, with up-caft eyes

Beheld his abdicated skies;

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And mighty Mars, for war renown'd,

In adamantine armour frown'd;

By him the childless goddess rofe,

Minerva, ftudious to compofe

Her twisted threads; the web fhe ftrung,
And o'er a loom of marble hung:
Thetis the troubled ocean's Queen,

Match'd with a mortal, next was feen,

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Reclining

Reclining on a funeral urn,

Her fhort-liv'd darling Son to mourn.
The last was he, whofe thunder flew ̧·
The Titan-race, a rebel crew,
That from a hundred hills ally'd
In impious leagues their King defy'd.
This wonder of the fculptor's hand
Produce'd, his art was at a stand:

For who would hope new fame to raise,
Or risk his well-establish'd praise,

That, his high genius to approve,

Had drawn a GEORGE, or carv'd a Jove?

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РОЕМАТА.

HONORATISSIMO VIRO

CAROLO MONTAGU

ARMIGERO,

SCACCHARII CANCELLARIO,

ÆRARII PREFECTO,

REGI à SECRETIORIBUS CONSILIIS, &c.

UM tanta auribus tuis obftrepat vatum nequiffimorum turba, nihil eft cur queraris aliquid inufitatum tibi contigiffe, ubi præclarum hoc argumentum meis etiam numeris violatum confpexeris. Quantum virtute bellica præftant Britanni, recens ex rebus geftis teftatur gloria; quam vero in humanioribus Pacis ftudiis non emineamus, indicio funt quos nuper in lucem

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