Unde nectuntur fuperis Deabus

Serta quotannis;

Et crocus fert auricomos honores,
Obftrepunt fontes vigilique lapfu,

Atque Cephifus rigat inde campos

Plenior amnis ;

Quin, ubì flumen, Jove non negante,

Volvitur, campi pariunt feraces,

Quos amant Mufæ, Venus atque ridens

Vifere geftit.

Afiæ nufquàm regione crescit,

Doricâ nufquàm Pelopis videtur,

Qualis hâc noftrâ viguit timenda

Hoftibus arbor:

Nemo tentavit, juvenis, fenexve,

Impio ferro ruere hanc olivam;

Afpicit lumen Jovis, et Minervæ

Provida cura.

Alteram

Alteram laudem memorare poffum;

Dona quæ Divi tribuêre nobis:

Cæteras præftat ratibusque, equisque

Terra Coloni.

Tu decus noftrum, maris O fupreme

Rector, in tantum ftudio tulisti :

Et ferox durum quadrupes recepit

Te duce, frenum :

Navitæ remi manibufque pulfi

Incito motu volitant per æquor,

Et, velut Nymphis comites marinis,

Cærula verrunt.

EX

EX

ANTIGONE.

OMNE, vel nummos, fuperas, Cupido;

Excubas vultu tenero puellæ ;

Alta perluftras marium, fovesque

Pafcua læta.

Nemo te vitet gelidâ carentûm

Morte; cui vita eft fpatium diei,

Nemo queîs fubdis ftimulos, domantur

Corda furore.

Tu trahis juftos ad iniqua facta,

Triste tu conflas odium propinquis ;

Sic movet mentes oculis decora

Nubila virgo.

Judices inter, folio potenti

Affidens, mifces veneranda jura :

Hunc enim ludum Venus infolentem

Ludere gaudet.

( 102
102)

A PROLOGUE,

SPOKEN BEFORE THE EXERCISES AT THE BREAKING UP OF CHESTER SCHOOL, 1785.

ΜΥ

mafter, who has whims (for who is clear?)

Calling me forth to crave your patient ear,

Terms this his court of feffion for the year.

Commiffion'd, then, I venture to proclaim it

· Oyez !—a gaol-deliv'ry, shall I name it? [ware: "No, youngster, no:" He frowns, and cries Be

But, fpite of frowns or tasks, for once I'll dare

To prove my allufion juft. Survey these walls;

Their joyless bound full many a wretch enthralls.
Here the long months, the little pris'ner fits,

Here, trembling, gnaws and cons his book by fits: