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, 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. EDU XXXXXXXXXXXXXX) XXX 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 Goodly DISCIPLINE! from heav'n y-fprong! To whom the Graces, and the Nine belong : With each bright Virtue that adorns the mind! ང་་ That doth effay to teach thy treasures how to gain! And THOU, whofe pious and maternal care, 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! 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 I labour to diffuse th' important good, "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. ARGUMENT. b The Knight, as to ' PÆDIA's house He his young Son conveys, Is ftaid by CUSTOM; with him fights, A Gentle KNIGHT there was, whofe noble deeds O'er Fairy Land by Fame were blazon'd round : For warlike enterprize, and fage areeds Pædîa is a Greek word, fignifying Education. 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, There in domestic virtue rich and great The lord, the judge, the father of the plain, 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, |