"This heart that only beats for thee, "Is rent with many a wound; ," Cleft is my fhield, my glitt'ring fpear "Lies broken on the ground. "My bones the eagle hath conveyed "Then hie thee hence, ill fated maid, "Ere greater ills betide, "To where Tievi's filver freams' "Along the vallies glide. "There, where the modeft primrose Blooms, "Pale as thy lover's fhade, "His mangled relicts thou fhalt find "Beneath the green turf laid. "Then hie thee hence with holy bands, "Build up a facred shrine; "And, oh, chafte maid! thy faith to prove, Mingle thy duft with mine." The mother, who her babe beholds, The village maid, whom morrow's dawn So flood the hopeless frantic maid, Cold was her heart, her dove-like eyes "And art thou gone my gallant youth, "No "No more these fad and weeping eyes "Befide the tomb, the pilgrim's tear "The weary trav'ller, faint and fad "There, wet with many a holy tear, Thrice did he ope the lattice grate, And thrice he bid adieu; When, lo, to join the parting fhade, On the late unusual Storms being followed by the earliest Harveft within the Memory of Man. The winds with fury unremitting fweep, THE WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. For MONDAY, Auguft 18, 1783. OBSTINACY OVERCOME, and PATRIOTISM TRIUMPHANT: A TRUE HISTORY. HERE once reigned a king in the island of Candy, who fo much hated ingratitude, that he made an edit, whoever was found guilty of it, fhould be punished with death; and that the fentence once paffed by the court, there should be no appeal to any other power, nor remiffion, but from the com plainant himself.-I do not find there was any trial of this na ture during the life of this good king; but indeed he died in a fhort time after, and leaving his fon and fucceffor an infant, the fovereign power was, during his minority, invefted in the fe nate. The ftates of Candy (formerly called Crete) had for a long time been at war with the Venetians, and muft have been en tirely overcome by that powerful republic, had it not been for the extraordinary valour of their general. It would be too tedious to recount what is there related of this great man :-how, when oppreffed with numbers, his fingle arm redeemed the honour of the field :-how, when covered with blood, and his whole body feemed but one great wound, he fpurned the man who offered him a litter, and, grafping the neck of his horfe when he was no longer able to fit upright, purfued in that pofture the flying foe :-how, when any advantage offered, he was the foremost to plunge into the rapid ftream,-to mount the breach,-to leap the parapet:-how neither craggy rocks, nor VOL. II. 33. fenny Τ fenny marshes, could obftruct his paffage :-what wonders he performed would be incredible to the prefent times, nor are material to my purpofe: it fhall fuffice to fay, he was looked upon as the guardian-angel of Candy, and fo diftinguifhed by all degrees of people, more than by his poft, or the name derived to him from his ancestors. Long did he retain these honours unequalled and alone, 'till heaven raised him a competitor in his own fon: the youth whom he had trained to battle from his moft early years, became in time fo to excel in it, that there was no art of war, for which his father was famed, but he knew how to practife it with a like fuccefs his courage was not lefs, and his ftrength and activity of body fuperior-he had highly fignalized himself in two campaigns; but in the third, when the Venetians had affembled their whole forces, commanded by the doge's own fon in per fon, the young Candyan hero established a reputation never to be erafed. The troops of Candy were divided into two armies, the one led on by the old general, the other by his fon; the former of which was able only to keep the field, while the other entirely routed thofe they were engaged with; then marched to the relief of their former companions, and gained fo complete a victory, that the Venetian prifoners themselves confeffed muft entirely disappoint all hopes in the republic of making head again, at leaft for a long time, and be neceffitated to fue for peace, all the flower of their nobility being either flain or taken: fo great was the flaughter, that the living were scarce fufficient in number to bury the dead.. -To add to the triumph of the young general, he had the glory after a long combat, where they fought hand to hand, to make the doge's fon his captive, and after him an old and moft experienced captain, on whom the Venetians much relied, and on whofe good or bad fuccefs that of the whole in a great measure depended.. The joy and acclamations with which thefe warriors were received at their return to the capital, by the fenate as well as the populace, were conformable to the advantages they brought them but foon this fun of triumph was over-clouded by an unlooked-for ftorm, which was very near overwhelming them in ruin and deftruction. They had a law in Candy, which had fubfifted time immemorial, that whoever was generally allowed to have done moft honour to his country in the day of battle, fhould at his return be gratified with any demand he fhould think fit to make. On this arofe a contest between the two generals, in which no confiderations of blood, duty, or paternal affection, could pre vail on either to yield :-the father knew, and regarded the merit of his fon, yet thought the making a facrifice of his long worn honours would be a recompence too great; and the fon, who, on the least command of fo excellent a father, would have readily laid down his life, could not fubmit to relinquish his title to glory, even to the calls of duty. They both appeared before the fenate, and made their refpective claims: the father pleaded his antient fervices, the fon his late fuccefs, and the advantages gained by it to the nation, which was confirmed by ambaffadors that moment arriving, with orders to treat of peace, as well as by the unanimous voice of the whole army. The matter was foon decided, and the young general was pronounced deliverer of his country, and required to name the boon he asked on which, to atone, as he thought, for the umbrage he had given his father, he requested a ftatue of him might be erected, and all his glorious atchievements engraved on the pedeftal. The whole affembly rung with applaufes of his filial piety, who having it in his power to demand whatever he pleafed, defired no more than the perpetuation of his father's honours. But a quite contrary effect had this action on the mind of him it was intended to oblige :-the old general, peevish through age and infirmities, and before chagrined to think his glories were about to be eclipfed by a ftar, to which his example had at firit given light, was fo far from being pleafed at this proof of his fon's refpect, that he rather looked upon it as oftentation; and that he defired not this monument of his father's victories, but to fhew his own had furpaffed them; and that what grateful recompence was made, was made in confideration of his later and more meritorious fervices.-This imagination, however unjuft, funk fo deeply in his foul, that he retired to his countryfeat, full of the utmost difcontent against his fon, whom he forbad ever to fee him more, and renounced with the most bitter imprecations. The young general was beyond all measure afflicted at the difpleafure his father had conceived against him; and finding all the fubmiffion he could make ferved rather to encrease than diminish it, fell into a melancholy, which all the honours he received had not the power to difpel. In the mean time the princefs of Candy, fifter to the late king, and aunt to the prefent, fell defperately in love with him; infomuch, that she forgot her dignity, and made him an offer of her perfon and treasures: but he, infenfible of her charms, and wholly devoted to make peace with his father, would confent to marry her on no other conditions, than firft to fend a fum of |