Millions of Graves cover the fpacious Field, There come in Crouds, doom'd to one common Grave, The Goddess is who fways this Realm of Night. DYING. D. of Buck. Thrice Dido try'd to raise her drooping Head, And fainting thrice, fell grov'ling on the Bed: Thrice op'd her heavy Eyes, and fought the Light, And having found it, ficken'd at the Sight; And clos'd her Lids at laft in endless Night. The ftruggling Soul was loos'd,and Life diffolv'd in Air. His fnowy Neck reclines upon his Breaft, Like a fair Flow'r by the keen Share opprefs'd : · Like a white Poppy finking on the Plain, Whofe heavy Head is over-charg'd with Rain. DE CEI T. (Dryd. Virg. Then bowing down her aged back, fhe kift The wicked Witch, faying, in that fair Face, Falfe refemblance of Deceit, I wift, E 6 Did clofely lurk; yet fo true-feeming grace welcome Child, whom I have long'd to see, And now have feen unwares. Lo now I go with (thee. Spen. DEFAMATIO N. Him in a narrow Place he overtook, And fierce aflailing, forc't him turn againe : A full good Peck within the utmost brim, And therein were a thousand Tongues empight, Of fundry kindes, and fundry quality; Some were of Dogs, that barked day and night, And fome of Cats, that wrawling still did cry : And fome of Bears, that groynd continually; And fome of Tygers that did feem to gren And fnar at all, that ever passed by : But most of them were Tongues of mortal Men, Ne Cefars fpared he a whit, nor Kings, Or bit them with his baneful Teeth of Injury. Spen. DE DEFORMITY. Why, Love renounc'd me in my Mother's Womb, And for I fhould not deal in her foft Laws, He did corrupt frail Nature with fome Bribe, To fhrink my Arm thus like a wither'd Shrub, To make an envious Mountain on my back, Where fits Deformity to mock my Body; To fhape my Legs of an unequal Size, To difproportion me in every Part, Like to a Chaos, or unlick'd Bear's Whelp, That carries no Impreffion like the Dam. Shak. Hen. 6. Nature herself start back when thou wert born, And cry'd the Work's not mine. The Midwife ftood agast; and when she saw Half minted with the royal Stamp of Man, And knew not, if to burn thee in the Flames DEGENERATE. Shak. Time fenfibly all Things impairs, With all the Pains we take, have Skill enough to be. DELAY.. On the other fate Delay, (Rofc. Hor. Behind the Gate, that none might her espy; And others quite excluded forth, did ly Long Long languishing there in unpittied paine, And seeking often entrance, afterwards in vaine. (Spen. DELUGE. Mean while the South-Wind rofe, and with black Wide-hov'ring, all the Clouds together drove (Wings, From under Heav'n: The Hills, to their Supply, Vapour and Exhalation dufk and moist : Sent up amain and now the thicken'd Sky, No more was feen: The floating Vessel swam Milt. Th' expanded Waters gather on the Plain, They float the Fields, and overtop the Grain : Then, rufhing onwards, with a fweepy Sway, Bear Flocks, and Folds, and labʼring Hinds away: Nor fafe their Dwellings were: for, fapp'd by Floods, Their Houses fell upon their Houshold Gods. The folid Piles, too ftrongly built to fall, High o'er their Heads, behold a watry Wall. Now Seas and Earth were in Confufion loft: A World of Waters, and without a Coast. One climbs a Cliff, one in his Boat is borne, And ploughs above, where late he fow'd his Corn. Others o'er Chimney-Tops, and Turrets row, And drop their Anchors on the Meads below: Or downward driven, bruife the tender Vine; Or toft aloft, are knock'd against a Pine. And where of late the Kids had cropt the Grafs, The Monsters of the Deep now take their Place. Infultin Infulting Nereids on the Cities ride, And wond'ring Dolphins o'er the Palace glide : DESIRE. Dryd, Ovid. And him befide marcht amorous Defire, And his embriodered Bonet fate awry; 'Twixt both his Hands Aew Sparkes he clofe did ftrain, Which ftill he blew, and kindled bufily, That foon they Life conceiv'd, and forth in Flames. (did fly. Spen. DESPAIR. That darkfome Cave they enter, where they find The curfed Man, low fitting on the Ground, Mufing full fadly in his fullen Mind; His greafy Locks long growen, and unbound, And hid his Face, thro' which his hollow eyn His raw-bone Cheeks thro' penury and pine, His garment, nought but many ragged clouts, With thornes together pind and patched was, The |