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ON THE

YOUNG STATESMEN.

CLARENDON had law and sense,
Clifford was fierce and brave;

Bennet's

grave look was a pretence, And Danby's matchlefs impudence Help'd to fupport the knave.

But Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory,
These will appear fuch chits in ftory,
'Twill turn all politics to jefts,
To be repeated like John Dory,

When fidlers fing at feasts.

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Ver. 6. But Sunderland,] This nobleman had certainly great and various abilities, with a complete verfatility of genius, and a most infinuating addrefs; but he was totally void of all principles, moral or religious, and a much more abandoned character than Shaftesbury, whom it is fo common to calumniate. He certainly urged James II. to purfue arbitrary and illegal meafures, that he intended fhould be his ruin, and betrayed him to the Prince of Orange. The Abbé de Longuerue relates, that Dr. Maffey, of Christ Church, affured him, he once received an order from King James to expel twenty-four ftudents of that college in Oxford, if they did not embrace popery. Maffey, aftonished at the order, was advised by a friend to go to London, and fhew it to the king; who affured him he had never given fuch an order, and commended Maffey for not having obeyed it; yet ftill this infatuated monarch continued to truft Sunderland. Dr. J. WARTON.

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Protect us, mighty Providence,

What would these madmen have? First, they would bribe us without Deceive us without common fenfe,

And without power enflave.

pence,

Shall free-born men, in humble awe,
Submit to fervile fhame;

Who from confent and custom draw
The fame right to be rul'd by law,

Which kings pretend to reign?

The duke fhall wield his conquering sword,
The chancellor make a fpeech,

The king fhall pass his honeft word,
The pawn'd revenue fums afford,
And then, come kifs my breech.

So have I feen a king on chefs

(His rooks and knights withdrawn, His queen and bishops in distress) Shifting about, grow lefs and lefs,

With here and there a pawn.

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SONG

FOR

ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1687.

I.

FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony
This univerfal frame began:
When nature underneath a heap
Of jarring atoms lay,

And cou'd not heave her head,

The tuneful voice was heard from high,
Arife, ye more than dead.

Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,
In order to their stations leap,

And Mufic's power obey.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony
This univerfal frame began:

From harmony to harmony

Through all the compafs of the notes it ran,
The diapafon closing full in Man.

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Ver. 1. From harmony,] The picture of Jubal in the second ftanza is finely imagined; but this Ode is loft in the luftre of the fubfequent one upon this fubject. Dr. J. WARTON.

II.

What paffion cannot Music raise and quell?
When Jubal ftruck the corded shell,
His liftening brethren ftood around,
And, wondering, on their faces fell
To worship that celestial found.

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Lefs than a God they thought there could not dwell

Within the hollow of that fhell,

That spoke fo fweetly and fo well.

What paffion cannot Music raise and quell?

III.

The trumpet's loud clangor

Excites us to arms,

With fhrill notes of anger,

And mortal alarms.

The double double double beat

Of the thundering drum

Cries, hark! the foes come;

Charge, Charge, 'tis too late to retreat.

IV.

The foft complaining flute

In dying notes difcovers

The woes of hopeless lovers,

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Whofe dirge is whifper'd by the warbling lute.

V.

Sharp violins proclaim

Their jealous pangs, and defperation,
Fury, frantic indignation,

Depth of pains, and height of paffion,

For the fair, difdainful, dame.

VI.

But oh! what art can teach,

What human voice can reach,

The facred organ's praife?

Notes infpiring holy love,

Notes that wing their heavenly ways

To mend the choirs above.

VII.

Orpheus could lead the favage race;
And trees uprooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre:

But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given,
An angel heard, and ftraight appear'd
Miftaking earth for heaven.

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Ver. 37. Sharp violins] It is a judicious remark of Mr. Mafon, that Dryden with propriety gives this epithet to the inftrument; because, in the poet's time, they could not have arrived at that delicacy of tone, even in the hands of the best masters, which they now have in thofe of an inferior kind. See Effays on English Church Mufick, by the Rev. W. Mafon, M. A. Precentor of York, 12mo. 1795, p. 218.

TODD.

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