WORKS, IN VERSE and PROSE, Of the Late Right Honourable Fofeph Addifon, Efq; With fome Account of the LIFE and By Mr. T ICKEL L. VOLUME the THIRD. LONDON: Printed for J. and R. TONSON and S. DRAPER in the Strand. M DCC XLVI Advertisement. These Three Volumes, with the Tatlers, Spectators, Guardians, Freebolder, and Remarks on feveral Parts of Italy, compleat Mr. Addifon's Works in Twelves. UPON THE USEFULNESS OF ANCIENT MEdals. Especially in relation to the Latin and Greek Poets. quoniam hæc Ratio plerumque videtur Triftior effe, quibus non eft tractata, retroque Volgus abhorret ab hac: volui tibi fuaviloquenti Carmine Pierio rationem exponere noftram, Et quafi mufæo dulci contingere melle, Si tibi forte animum tali ratione tenerem. LUCRETIUS. Printed in the Year MDCCXLVI, VERSES Occafion'd by Mr. ADDISON's Treatife OF MEDALS. SE EE the wild wafte of all-devouring years! How Rome her own fad fepulchre appears: With nodding arches, broken temples Spread! The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead! Some felt the filent ftroke of mould'ring age; Some, hoftile fury; fome, religious rage: Barbarian blindness, Chriftian zeal confpire, And Papal piety, and Gothick fire. Perhaps by its own ruins fav'd from flame, Some bury'd marble half preferves à Name; That Name, the learn'd with fierce difputes purfu And give to Titus old Vefpafian's due. Ambition figh'd. She found it vain to truft The faithlefs Column, and the crumbling Bust; A 3 Huge |