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With Juftice to herself fevere,

And Pity, dropping foft the fadly-pleafing tear.

Oh! gently on thy Suppliant's head,

Dread Goddess, lay thy chaft'ning hand!

Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,

Nor circled with the vengeful Band

A's by the Impious thou art feen)

With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien,
With screaming Horror's funeral cry,

Depair, and fell Difeafe, and ghaftly Poverty.

Thy form benign, oh Goddefs, wear,

Thy milder influence impart,

Thy philofophic Train be there

To soften, not to wound my heart, The gen'rous fpark extinct revive, Teach me to love, and to forgive,

Exact my own defects to fcan,

What others are to feel, and know myself a man.

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EDUCATION.

A POE M:

IN TWO CANTO S.

Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of SPENSE R's FAIRY QUEEN.

Inscribed to Lady LANGHAM, Widow of Sir JOHN LANGHAM, Bart.

By GILBERT WEST, Efq;

Unum ftudium vere liberale eft, quod liberum facit. Hoc
Japientie ftudium eft, fublime, forte, magnanimum:
catera pufilla & puerilia funt.-Plus fcire velle quàm
fit fatis intemperantiæ genus eft. Quid, quòd ifta libera-
lium artium confectatio moleftos, verbofos, intempeftivos,
fibi placentes facit, & ideo non dicentes neceffaria, quia
Supervacua didicerunt.
SEN. Ep. 88.

Goodly DISCIPLINE! from heav'n y-fprong!
Parent of Science, queen of Arts refin'd!

To whom the Graces, and the Nine belong :
O! bid thofe Graces, in fair chorus join'd

With each bright Virtue that adorns the mind!
O bid the Muses, thine harmonious train,
Who by thy aid erst humaniz'd mankind,
Infpire, direct, and moralize the strain,

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That doth effay to teach thy treasures how to gain!

And THOU, whofe pious and maternal care,
The fubftitute of heavenly Providence,
With tendereft love my orphan life did rear,
And train me up to manly ftrength and sense;
With mildeft awe, and virtuous influence,
Directing my unpractis'd wayward feet

To the smooth walks of Truth and Innocence

Where Happiness heart-felt, Contentment fweet, Philofophy divine aye hold their blest retreat.

THOU, most belov'd, most honour'd, moft rever'd!
Accept this verfe, to thy large merit due!
And blame me not, if by each tye endear'd,
Of nature, gratitude, and friendship true,
The whiles this moral thefis I purfue,

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And trace the plan of goodly Nurture o'er,

I bring thy modeft virtues into view;

And proudly boaft that from thy precious store,

Which erft enrich'd my heart, I drew this facred lore.

Nurture, Education.

And

And thus, I ween, thus fhall I best repay
The valued gifts, thy careful love bestow'd;
If imitating THEE, well as I may,

I labour to diffuse th' important good,
'Till this great truth by all be understood;

"That all the pious duties which we owe,

"Our parents, friends, our country and our God; "The feeds of every virtue here below,

"From Difcipline alone, and early Culture grow.'

CANTO I.

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ARGUMENT.

b

The Knight, as to ' PÆDIA's house

He his young Son conveys,

Is ftaid by CUSTOM; with him fights,
And his vain pride difmays.

A

Gentle KNIGHT there was, whofe noble deeds

O'er Fairy Land by Fame were blazon'd round :

For warlike enterprize, and fage areeds
Emong the chief alike was he renown'd;

Pædîa is a Greek word, fignifying Education.
Areeds, counfels.

VOL. IV.

B

Whence

Whence with the marks of highest honours crown'd By GLORIANA, in domestic peace,

That port, to which the wife are ever bound,
He anchor'd was, and chang'd the toffing feas
Of bustling bufy life, for calm fequefter'd eafe.
II.

There in domestic virtue rich and great
As erft in public, 'mid his wide domain,
Long in primæval patriarchal state,

The lord, the judge, the father of the plain,
He dwelt; and with him, in the golden chain
Of wedded faith y-link'd, a matron sage
Aye dwelt ; fweet partner of his joy and pain,
Sweet charmer of his youth, friend of his age,
Skill'd to improve his bliss, his forrows to affuage.
III.

From this fair union, not of fordid gain,

But merit fimilar and mutual love,

True fource of lineal virtue, sprung a train

Of youths and virgins; like the beauteous grove, Which round the temple of Olympic Jove,

d

Begirt with youthful bloom the parent tree,

The facred olive; whence old Elis wove

Her

Parent tree, the facred olive.] This tree grew in the Altis, or facred grove of Olympic Jupiter at Olympia, having, as the Eleans

pretend ed,

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