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Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,

That the Theban Eagle bear

Sailing with fupreme dominion

Thro' the azure deep of air:

Yet oft before his infant eyes would run

Such forms, as glitter in the Mufe's ray

With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun:

Yet fhall he mount, and keep his distant way

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,

Beneath the Good how far-but far above the Great.

· Διὸς πρὸς ὄρνιχα θεῖον. Olymp. 2ο

Pindar compares himself to that bird, and his enemies to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while it pursues its flight, regardless of their noise.

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The following Ode is founded on a Tradition current

in Wales, that EDWARD THE FIRST, when

he compleated the conquest of that country, order

ed all the Bards, that fell into his hands, to be put

to death.

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Such were the founds, that o'er the crefted pride

Of the firft Edward fcatter'd wild difmay,

As down the fteep of 1 Snowdon's fhaggy fide

He wound with toilfome march his long array.

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f The Hauberk was a texture of fteel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail, that fate clofe to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.

8 -The crefted adder's pride.

Dryden's Indian Queen..

h Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract, which the Welch themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included

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