And dar'd amidst the trembling Ghofts to fing,
And stood before th' inexorable King.

Th' iufernal Mansions nodding feem to dance:
The gaping, three-mouth'd Dog forgets to fuarl,
The Furies hearken, and their Snakes uncurl :
Ixion feems no more his Pains to feel,

But leans attentive on his standing Wheel. Dryd Virg

MUTABILITY.

Such is the weakness of all mortall hope; So fickle is the State of earthly things,

That ere they come unto their aimed scope,
They fall fo short of our fraile reckonings,
And bring us bale and bitter forrowings,

Inftead of comfort which we fhould embrace :
This is the State of Cæfars and of Kings,
Let none therefore that is in meaner Place,
Too greatly grieve at any his unlucky cafe.

MYRRH A.

Spen.

Mean-while the mif-begotten Infant grows, And ripe for Birth, diftends with deadly Throes The fwelling Rind, with unavailing Strife, To leave the wooden Womb, and pushes into Life. The Mother-Tree, as if opprefs'd with Pain, Writhes here and there, to break the Bark, in vain; And, like a lab'ring Woman, would have pray'd, But wants a Voice to call Lucina's Aid.

(Wood,

The bending Bole fends out a hollow Sound,
And trickling Tears fall thick upon the Ground.
The mild Lucina came uncall'd, and ftood
Befide the struggling Boughs, and heard the groaning
Then reach'd her Midwife-hand to fpeed the Throes,
And spoke the pow'rful Spells that Babes to Birth dif-
The Bark divides, the living Load to free, (clofe.
And fafe delivers the convulfive Tree.
Dryd. Ovid.

NA

NATURE.

See how Sublime th' unlifted Mountains rife, And with their pointed Heads invade the Skies; How the high Cliffs their craggy Arms extend, Diftinguish States, and fever'd Realms defend; How ambient Shores confine the restless Deep, And in their ancient Rounds the Billows keep; The hollow Vales their smiling Pride unfold; What rich Abundance do their Bofoms hold? Regard their lovely Verdure, ravish'd, view The party-colour'd Flow'rs of various Hue; Not Eaftern Monarchs, on their Nuptial Day, In dazling Gold and Purple, fhine fo gay, As the bright Natives of th' unlabour'd Field, Unvers'd in Spinning, and in Looms unskill'd : See, how the rip'ning Fruits the Gardens crown, Imbibe the Sun, and make his Light their own: See the fweet Brook in filver Mazes creep, Enrich the Meadows, and fupply the Deep; While from their weeping Urns the Fountains flow, And vital Moisture, where they pafs, bestow: Admire the narrow Stream, and fpreading Lake, The proud afpiring Grove, and humble Brake? How do the Forefts and the Woods delight? How the sweet Glades and Openings charm the Sight? Obferve the sweet Lawn, and the airy Plaine, The fertile Furrows rich with various Grain ; How Ufeful all? how all confpire to grace The extended Earth, and beautify her Face? Blac.Creat. Nature deprav'd, Abundance does perfue,

Her first and pure Demands are cheap and few : What Health promotes, and gives, unenvy'd Peace, Is all Expenceless, and procur'd with Eafe.

NECROMANCER.

Him have I feen (on Ifter's Banks he stood, Where last we Winter'd) bind the headlong Flood

In fudden Ice; and where most swift it flows,
In crystal Nets the wandring Fishes clofe;

Then, with a Moment's Thaw, the Stream enlarge,
And from the Mesh the twinkling Guests difcharge:
In a deep Vale, or near fome ruin'd Wall,
He would the Ghofts of flaughter'd Soldiers call;
Who flow to wounded Bodies did repair,
And loth to enter, shiver'd in the Air;
Thefe his dread Wand did to short Life compel,
And forc'd the Fates of Battles to foretel.
In a lone Tent, all hung with black, I faw
Where in a Square he did a Gircle draw :
Four Angles, made by that Circumference,
Bore holy Words infcrib'd of mystick Senfe;
When first a hollow Wind began to blow;
The Sky grew black, and belly'd down more low.
Around the Field did nimble Lightning play,
Which offer'd us by fits and fnatch'd the Day.
'Midft this was heard the frill and tender Cry
Of well-pleas'd Ghofts, which in the Storm did fly.
Danc'd to and fro, and skim'd along the Ground,
'Till to the magick Circle they were bound.

(Dryd. Tyr. Love.
By my rough Magick I have oft bedimm'd
The Noon-tide Sun, call'd forth the mutinous Winds;
And 'twixt the green Sea, and the azur'd Vault
Set roaring War: to the dread rattling Thunder
Have I giv'n Fire; and rifted Jove's ftout Oak
With his own Bolt. Graves at my Command
Have wak'd their Sleepers, op'd and let them forth,
fo potent Art.
Shak. Temp.

By my

NEGRO E S.

While in the Regions of the burning Zone, No Vifage but the footy Black is known; Short woolly Locks their horrid Fronts embrace, Thick Lips grin fearful, with a Fiend-like Grace, And Night,the Beldam,broods on each Barbarian Face.

(Rowe's Call

NEP

NEPTUNE.

Next unto him was Neptune pictured,
In his divine refemblance, wondrous like,
His face was rugged, and his hoary head
Dropped with brakish dew; his three forkt Pyke
He fearnly fhooke, and therewith fierce did frike
The raging billowés that on every fide

They trembling ftood, and made a long broad dyke,
That his fwift charot might have passage wide,
Which foure great Hippodames did draw in teme-wife

(ride.

His Sea-horfes did feen to fuort amaine,
And from their noftrilles throw the briny streame,

That made the sparkling waves to smoake againe,
And flame with Gold; but the white foamy creame
Did shine with filver, and fhoot forth his beame;
The God himself did penfive feem, and fad,
And hong adowne his head, as he did dreame :
For privy Love his breaft empearced had

Ne ought, but dear Bifaltis, ay could make him glad.

First came great Neptune, with three-forkt mace, That rules the Sea, and makes them rife or fall; His dewy locks did drop with brine a pace, Under his Diadem imperial.

Spen.

His finny Train Saturnian Neptune joyns.Then adds the foamy Bridles to their Jaws, And to the loofen'd Reins permits the Laws. High on the Waves his azure Car he guides, Its Axles thunder, and the Sea fubfides, And the smooth Ocean rolls her filent Tides. The Tempefts fly before their Father's Face, Trains of inferiour Gods his Triumph grace; And Monster-Whales before their Master play, And Quires of Tritons crowd the watry Way. The marshal'd Pow'rs in equal Troops divide, To Right and Left; the Gods his better Side (ride. Inclofe, and on the worse the Nymphs and Nereids

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When

When thus the Father of the Flood appears, And o'er the Seas his Sov'reign Trident rears, Their Fury falls; he fkims the liquid Plains, High on his Chariot, and with loofen'd Reins Majestick moves along, and awful Peace maintains (Dryd. Virg.

NEREUS.

Of all which, Nereus, the eldest and the beft, Did first proceed, than which none more upright, Ne more fincere in word and deed profeft; Most void of guile, moft free from foule defpight, Dooing himself, and teaching others to do right.

Thereto he was expert in prophecies, And could the ledden of the Gods unfold,

Through which,Paris hath brought his famous prife, The faire Tindarid lafs, he him fortold,

That her all Greece, with many a champion bold,
Should fetch againe, and finally destroy
Proud Priam's town, fo wife Nereus of old,

And fo well skil'd; nath'less he takes great joy
Oft-times amongst the wanton Nymphs to fport and
(toy. Spen

NIGHT.

Where griefly Night, with vifage deadly fad,
That Phebus chearfull face durft never view,
And in a foul black pitchy mantle clad,
She finds forth comeing from her darkfome mew,
Where the all day did hide her hated hew.
Before the dore her iron charot stood,
Already harnessed for Jorney new;

And cole-black Steeds yborne of hellish brood,
That on their rufty bits did champ, as they were

(wood. By this, eternall lamps, where with high Jove Doth light the world, were half yfpent,

And the moist Daughters of huge Atlas fhove
Into the Ocean deep to drive their wearie drove.