Or, if it does those Parts themselves restore,
Heal their own Wounds, and their own Breaches curc,
Hence the melodious Tenants of the Sky,
Which haunt inferior Seats, or soar on high,
With Ease throʻ all the fluid Region fray,
And throʻ the wide Expansion wing their way;
Whose open Mesheslet terreftial Streams
Pass thro', entic'd away by solar Beams :
And thus a Road reciprocal display,
To rifing Vapours, and descending Day.
Of Heat and Light, what ever during Stores;
Brought from the Sun's exhaustless golden Shores,
Thro' Gulphs immense of intervening Air,
Enrich the Earth, and every Loss repair !
The Land, its gainful Traffick to maintain,
Sends out crude Vapours, in Exchange for Rain.
The flow'ry Garden, and the verdant Mead,
Warm'd ly the Rays, their-Exhalations spread,
In Show'rs and balmy Dews to be re-paid :
The Streams, their Banks forsaken, upward move,
And low again in wand'ring Clouds above.
The Regions, Nature's Magazines, on high,
With all the Stores demanded, there fipply;
Their different Steams the Air's wide Bosom fills -
Moist from the Flood, dry from the barren Hill;
Materials into Meteors to be wrought,
Which back to these terrestrial Seats are brought,
By Nature (hap'd to various Figures; those
The fruitful Rain, and these the Hail compose,
The snowy Fleecegi and curious 'Frost-Work: These
Produce the Dew, and those the gentle Breeze :
Some from fierce Winds, which o'er' the Mountains
(pals, And beat, with
Srous Wings, the Valley's Face;
Oer the wide Lake and barren Desart Blow,
O'er Lybia's burning Sands, and Scythia's Snow ;
Shake the high Cedar, thro' the Forest sweep,
And with their furious Breath ferment the Deep.
This thin, this foft Contexture of the Air,
Shows the wife Author's Providential Care,
Who did the wond'rous Structure fo contrive,
That it might Life to breathing Creatures give;
Might re-infpire, and make the circling Mafs
Thro' all its winding Chanels fit to pass.
Had not the Maker wrought the fpringy Frame
Such as it is, to fan the vital Flame,
The Blood, defrauded of its nitrous Food,
Had cool'd, and languish'd in th'Arterial Road ; While the tir'd Heart had ftrove, with fruitlefs Pain, To push the lazy Tide along the Vein.
For Albion the Son of Neptune was;
Who, for the Proof of his great Puiffance,
Out of his Albion did on Dry-foot pafs
Into old Gaul, that now is cleeped France,
To fight with Hercules, that did advance
To vanquish all the World, with matchlefs Might:
And there his mortal Part, by great Mifchance,
Was flain; but that which is th' immortal Spright
Lives ftill, and to his Feast with Neptune's Seed was
(dight.
The Virgin Daughter of Eternal Night.
She ftill delights in War, and human Woes.
Ev'n Pluto hates his own mishapen Race.
Her Sifter Furies fly her hideous Face:
So frightful are the Forms the Monster takes,
So fierce the Hiflings of her speckled Snakes.
'Tis hers, to uin Realms, o'erturn a State;
Betwixt the dearest Friends to raise Debate,
And kindle Kindred Blood to mutual Hate.
Her Hand o'er Towns the fun'ral Torch difplays,
And forms a thoufand Ills, ten thoufand Ways.
She thakes from out her fruitful Breaft the Seeds
Of Envy, Difcord, and of cruel Deeds:
Confounds establish'd Peace, and does prepare
Their Souls to Hatred, and their Hands to War.
The Fates infernal Minister;
War, Death, Destruction, in her Hands the bears;
Her curling Snakes with Hiflings fill the Place,
And open all the Furies of her Face.
Her Chains she rattles, and her Whips she shakes,
Churning her bloody Foam..
So march'd the Thracian Amazons of old,
When Thermodon with bloody Billows roul'd;
Such Troops as these in shining Arms were feen,
When Thefeus met in Fight their Maiden Queen.
Such to the Field Penthefilea led,
From the fierce Virgin when the Grecians fled.
With fu.h return'd triumphant from the War,
Her Maids with Cries attend the lofty Gar;
They clash with manly Force their Moony Shields,
With female Shouts refound the Phrygian Fields.
[Dryd. Virg.
Refistless thro' the War Camilla rode,
In Danger unappall'd, and pleas'd with Blood.
One Side was bare for her exerted Breaft,'
One Shoulder with her painted Quiver prefs'd.
Now from afar her fatal Jav'lins play;
Now with her Ax's Edge the hews her Way,
Diana's Arms upon her Shoulders found,
And when too closely prefs'd, fhe quits the Ground,
From her bent Bow the fends a backward Wound.
Penthefilea there, with haughty Grace,
Leads to the Wars an Amazonian Race :
In their right Hands a pointed Dart they wield;
Their left, for Ward, fuftains the Lunar Shield.
Athwart her Breast a golden Belt fhe throws; Amidst the Prefs, alone, provokes a thousand Foes,
The little Amazon could hardly go,
He loads her with a Quiver and a Bow,
And that he might her ftagg'ring Steps command,
He with a flender Jav'lin fills her Hand:
Her flowing Hair no golden Fillets bound,
Nor fwept her trailing Robe the dufty Ground.
Instead of these a Tiger's Hide o'erfpread
Her back and Shoulders, faften'd to her Head.
The flying Dart the first attempts to fing,
And round her tender Temples tofs'd the Sling.
Then as her Strength with Years increas'd, began
To pierce aloft in Air the foaring Swan,
And from the Clouds to fetch the Heron and the Crane.
[Dryd. Virg
AMBITION.
A Rout of People there assembled were,
Of every Sort or Nation under Sky,
Which with great Uprore preaffed, to draw near To th' upper Part, where was advanced hie
A ftately Seat of foveraigne Majestie,
And thereon fate a Woman gorgeous gay,
And richly clad in Robes of Royaltie,
That never earthly Prince in fuch Array His Glory did enhaunce, and pompous Pride difplay.
Her Face right wond'rous faire did feem to be, That her broad Beauties Beam great Brightness threw Through the dim Shade, that all Men there might
Yet was not that fame her own native Hew,
But wrought by Art, and counterfeited Shew,
Thereby more Lovers unto her to call;
Nath'lefs, more heavenly faire in Deed and View
She by Creation was, till fhe did fall; (withall..
Thenceforth the fought for Helps to cloke her Crimes ›
There, as in gliftring Glory fhe did fit,
She held a great Gold-Chain ylinked well,
Whose upper End to highest Heaven was knit,
And lower Part did reach to lowest Hell';
And all that Preafe did round about her fwell,
To catchen hold of that long Chaine, thereby
To climb aloft, and others to excell;
That was Ambition, rafh Defire to ftie,
And ev'ry Link thereof a Step of Dignitie.
Some thought to raise themfelves to high Degree By Riches and unrighteous Reward ;
Some by clofe fhould'ring, fome by Flatteree;" Others through Friends, others for bafe Reward; And all, by wrong Ways, for themselves prepar'd. Those that were up themselves, kept others lowe ;Those that were lowe themselves, held others hard, Ne fuff'red them to rife, or greater growe; But every one did ftrive his Fellow down to throwe.
O facred Hunger of ambitious Mindes, And impotent Defire of Men to raigne !
Who neither Dread of God, that Devils bindes, Nor Laws of Men, that Common weals containe, Nor Bands of Nature, that wild Heafts reftraine, Can keep from Outrage, and from doeing Wrong, Where they may hope a Kingdom to obtáine.
No Faith fo firm, no Trust can be fo ftrong, No Love fo lafting then, that may enduren long.
Ambition is a Luft that's never quench'd, Grows more enЯlam'd and madder by Enjoyment. [Otw, Cai, Mar.
A goodly Profpect, tempting to the View:
The Height delights us, and the Mountain.Top
Looks beautiful,, becaufe 'tis nigh to Heav'n ;.
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