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From the hoarfe brazen found of war, enjoy
Our humid products, and with feemly draughts
Enkindle mirth and hospitable love!

Too oft alas! has mutual hatred drench'd
Our swords in native blood; too oft has pride,
And hellish difcord, and infatiate thirst
Of others' rights, our quiet difcompos'd.
Have we forgot, how fell destruction rag'd
Wide-fpreading, when by Eris' torch incens'd
Our fathers warr'd? What heroes, fignaliz'd

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This is from the following paffage in the Eleventh Book of the PARADISE LOST, xi. 714.

All now was turn'd to jollity and game,

To luxury and riot, feaft and dance,
Marrying or proftituting as befel,

Rape or adultery, where paffing fair

Allur'd them; thence FROM CUPS TO CIVIL BROILS

483. the boarfe brazen found of war.

THE BRAZEN THROAT OF WAR had ceas'd to roar.
Milton, P. L. xi. 713.

491.

Eris]

Eris, or Contention, is frequently perfonified as a Goddefs, by the Greek Poets. Hefiod, in his Theogonia, defcribes her as the daughter of Night. In his Shield of Hercules, he makes her a principal figure on the fhield.

Επι δε βλοσυροίο μετωπο

Δεινη ΕΡΙΣ πεποτητα, κορύσσεσα κλινον ανδρων.

Scutum Herculis, 147.

I do not recollect any other English Poet, befides our Author, having introduced the Goddefs Difcord, or Contention, by her Greek name. Spenfer has indeed thus perfonified Justice, Prudence, and Peace,

494.

Juft DICE, wife EU NOME, mild EIRENE.

FAERY QUEEN, B. v. C. ix. St. 31,

-Bertie-]

The family of Bertie originally came into England from Bertyland in Pruffia, when the Saxons first invaded this nation, and, by gift of one of our Saxon Kings, had a caftle and town called from them Bertieftad, or Bertie's Town, now Berfted, near Maidstone in Kent.- Thomas

Bertie,

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For loyalty and prowess, met their fate,
Untimely, undeferv'd? How Bertie fell,

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Bertie, of Berfted, was captain of Hurft Caftle in the Isle of Wight, at the latter end of the reign of Henry VII. His fon Richard, being eminently accomplished, married Catherine, the widow of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in her own right Baronefs Willoughby of Erefby. This lady, having much diftinguished herself by her zeal for the reformation in the reign of Edward VI, was, together with her husband, obliged to quit England during the reign of Queen Mary, and took refuge in Germany, where fhe was delivered of a fon, who from the circumftance of his being born in a foreign country, was named Peregrine, and fucceeded, in right of his mother, to the title of Lord Willoughby of Erefby. He was a man of a moft courageous fpirit, and, it is faid, offered to meet a perfon, who fent him a very impertinent challenge, when he had the gout in his hands and feet, with a piece of a rapier in his teeth.- He married the heirefs of Vere Earl of Oxford, by whom he had feveral fons, of whom Robert, the perfon who is here noticed as lofing his life in the Royal caufe, was his fucceffor. Queen Elizabeth called him the young General, and offered to stand godmother to him. The fon inherited the valiant fpirit of the father, and, during the Queen's reign, was at the fiege of Amiens, under Sir John Baskerville and Sir Arthur Savage, and at that of Cadiz, under the Earls of Effex and Nottingham; where he was knighted for his gallant behaviour. In the following pacific reign he ferved in the Low Countries, under Prince Maurrice; and foon after the acceffion of King Charles, was created Earl of Lindfey, and honored with the garter. Afterwards he was made Lord High Admiral. On the breaking out of the civil wars, in June 1642, he was appointed General of the King's forces, and, on the 23d of October following, loft his life at the battle of Edge-hill. When wounded, he was carried out of the field by the enemy to the next village; where the Earl of Effex fent Sir William Balfour and other officers to offer him affiftance. They found him on a little straw in a poor houfe, lying in his blood, which flowed in great abundance; yet great vivacity remained in his looks, and he told them, he was forry to fee fo many gentlemen, fome of whom were his old friends, engaged in fo foul a rebellion. He principally directed his difcourfe to Sir William Balfour, whom he reminded of his obligations to the King, and charged him to tell Lord Effex, that he ought to caft himself at the King's feet, and beg his pardon; which, if he did not speedily do, his memory would be odious to the nation. He died the fame night.- -The circumftances of his death are noticed in Edge Hill, a Poem by the Reverend Mr. Jago, the friend and correfpondent of Mr. Shenstone.

Yet may not be untold how LINDSEY fell;
How from the sheltering ftraw his dying lips
Ceas'd not to plead his Sovereign's flighted caufe
Amidst furrounding foes; nor but with life
Expir'd his loyalty.

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Compton, and Granville, dauntlefs fons of Mars,
Fit themes of endless grief, but that we view 496

Lord Clarendon defcribes him to have been a nobleman of great honor, courage and generofity; who had very many friends, few enemies, and died generally lamented. He was ancestor in a right line to the prefent Duke of Ancafter.

495. Compton

Spencer Compton, only fon of William, firft Earl of Northampton, by his wife Elizabeth, heirefs of Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London in the 36th of Queen Elizabeth, was born in May 1601, and fucceeded to his father's title and eftate, June 24, 1630.- He was made a Knight of the Bath, November 3, 1616, together with Charles I. then Prince of Wales; with whom he was a great favourite, and to whom he ever bore the most perfect attachment, hazarding his fortunes, and at laft lofing his life in his caufe.--After the battle of Edge Hill, he commanded the garrifon at Banbury, from whence he relieved the town of Stafford, when befieged by Sir John Gell, who retired at his approach, but being joined by Sir William Bruerton, moved back towards Stafford. Lord Northampton coming out to meet them, an engagement enfued at Hopton Heath, wherein the Parliament-forces under Gell and Bruerton were completely routed: but his Lordship in the fecond charge, being engaged among their foot, in which they had much fuperiority, had the misfortune to have his horfe killed under him, and, while his own cavalry were furiously pursuing the chace, was left encompaffed by his enemies. In this fituation he defended himself moft gallantly, and, when offered quarter, faid he fcorned to take it from fuch bafe rogues and rebels as "they were." He had always declared, that if he outlived the civil war, he was certain of never having fo noble a death. The enemy

carried off his body, and, when his fon applied for it, refused to part with it, unless all the prifoners, cannon and ammunition were given up as an equivalent. Lord Northampton dedicated all his family to the Royal caufe, having four fons officers under him, three of whom charged with him in the field the day he fell.

Granville.]

Sir Bevil Granville was grandfon of that famous Sir Richard Granville, or Greenville, Vice Admiral in Queen Elizabeth's reign, who maintained in his fingle ship the moft obftinate action ever recorded, against a whole Spanish fleet of fifty-three fail, from three o'clock in the afternoon, till break of day the next morning, and repulfed the enemy fifteen times, though they continually shifted their veffels and boarded him with fresh men. In this fituation he propofed to destroy the ship and themselves, rather than yield to the enemy, which defperate refolution was agreed to by the mafter, gunner, and many of the feamen; but, others oppofing it, he was obliged to yield himfelf prifoner. He died, a few days after, of his wounds; his last words being as memorable as his life had been gallant. Here I die, Richard Greenville, with a joyful

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ful and quiet mind, for I have ended my life as a true foldier ought do, fighting for his Country, Queen, Religion and Honor; my foul lingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame having behaved as every true foldier ought to do."

h an example could not fail to animate his defcendants; and, ac-
gly, Sir. Bevil Granville having attached himself to the cause of
es I. eminently diftinguished himself. He ferved under Lord Hop-
the weft, where he was one of the most useful and active persons
ing forces; and was engaged in all the actions, in which the Cornish
ifts gained feveral fucceffive victories over their Devonshire oppo-
In the battle of Stratton he had a principal command; and in
f Lanfdown, where he loft his life in the heat of the action.-
eath was lamented, in verfes published on that occafion, by the
rfity of Oxford. The following epigram, in that collection, by
artin Llewellin, which celebrates both Sir Richard and Sir Bevil,
curious not to be preserved, where any account is given of them.
engraved on the pillar, erected on Lanfdown, near Bath, to the
ry of Sir Bevil Granville.

Thus flain, thy valiant ancestor did lie,
When his one bark a navy did defy ;

When now encompass'd round, he victor stood,
And bath'd his pinnace with his conqu❜ring blood,
Till, all his purple current dry'd and spent,
He fell, and made the waves his monument.
Where shall the next fam'd Granville's ashes stand?
Thy grandfire's fill the fea, and thine the land.

Bevil Granville married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John St. by whom he left feveral children; of whom, John, the eldest, ed his father's example, in his attachment to King Charles and mily, and, having been highly inftrumental in the restoration, was

created

Of barbarous malice and infulting pride,

Abstain❜d not from imperial blood. O fact
Unparallel'd! O Charles! O best of Kings!

created by Charles II., three days before his coronation, Viscount Granville of Lanfdown, and Earl of Bath. Barnard, the third fon, was father of that accomplished nobleman, George Lord Lanfdown.

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Pope, on the fame fubject, fings in the fame ftrain.

508.

OH FACT ACCURS'D! &c.

WINDSOR FOREST, 321.

O Charles! O best of kings!]

It may not be improper, to contraft what is here faid by our Author, with Thompson's defcription of the reign of Charles I. in the 4th Book of his LIBERTY; where, having spoken of James I. as a king,

lawlefs fway

Who, with his flavish doctors, try'd to rear
On metaphyfic, on enchanted ground
And all the mazy quibbles of the schools,

thus proceeds;

But his unyielding fon thefe doctrines drank
With all a bigot's rage, who never damps
By reafoning his fires, and what they taught,
Warm and tenacious, into practice push'd.
Senates in vain their kind restraint apply'd;
The more they ftruggled to fupport the laws,
His juftice-dreading minifters the more

Drove him beyond their bounds. Tir'd with the check

Of faithful love, and with the flattery pleas'd

Of falfe defigning guilt, the fountain he

Of public wifdom, and of juftice fhut.

Wide mourn'd the land. Strait to the voted aid

Free, cordial, large, of never-failing fource,

Th' illegal impofition follow'd harth,

With execration given, or ruthless fqueez'd
From an infulted people, by a band
Of the worft ruffians, thofe of tyrant power.
Oppreffion walk'd at large, and pour'd abroad
Her unrelenting train; informers, fpies,
Blood-hounds that sturdy freedom to the
Purfue; projectors of aggrieving fchemes,
Commerce to load for unprotected feas,
To fell the ftarving many to the few,
And drain a thousand ways th' exhausted land.

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