So pure a flame, heaven's gracious Sire will own, And with paternal love indulgent crown.

Ceafe, then, frail nature, to lament in vain,
Reason forbids to wish her back again;
Rather congratulate her happier fate,
And new advancement to a better state.
This bleffing quick recall'd, can Heav'n beftow,
No more in pity to a father's woe?

Know the fame God, who gave, hath tak'n away,
He orders her to go, and thee to stay.
Tho' in this vale of mifery, alone,
Deserted, weary, thou fhould'ft travel on,
Still be refign'd, my foul! his will be done.

Escap'd from life, and all its train of ills,
Which, ah! too fure, the hoary pilgrim feels,
To shorter trial doom'd, and lighter toil,
Ere fin could tempt her, or the world defile.
She, favour'd innocent, retires to rest,
Taftes but the cup of forrow, and is bleft.

Such the mild Saviour to his arms receives, And the full bleffings of his kingdom gives. There angels wait, fubmiffive, round his throne, To praise his goodness in these infants fhewn. Amidft that gentle throng, how heav'nly bright Diftinguish'd Lucy fhines, fair ftar of light!

Short,

Short, yet how pleafing, was her vifit here,
She's now remov'd to grace a nobler sphere.
There, while thy much lov'd parents mourn below,
Thou, happy child! fhall not our forrows know.
Eternal joys be thine, full anthems raise,
And glad all heav'n with thy Creator's praise.

ANECDOTE

OF

Henry Plantagenet,

DUKE OF LANCASTER.

HE Battle of Tarifa had raised the reputation

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of Don Alonzo XI. to fuch a pitch through, out Christendom, that Henry Plantagenet, duke of Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, great grandfon to Henry the III. and Grandfather to Henry IV. commanding at this time, the English forces in Guienne, obtained leave from Edward III. to ferve a campaign under Don Alonzo, in the fiege of Algeziras; of his acts of Chivalry the chronicle makes particular mention. An Anecdote which reflects honour on the Englishin general, a nation famous for heroic virtue, and noble deeds of arms, and on the auguft defcend

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ants of this brave prince, whofe valour and martial fpirit brought him fo many leagues to ferve in the dangerous fiege of a Town, defended by 30,000 men, and covered by the whole power of Granada, in a camp fickly and wanting neceffaries.

On his arrival in Spain, being informed that a Battle was daily expected to be fought between the Chriftians and the united troops of the Benemarines and the King of Granada, he haftened his march, and made fuch diligence, that, when he arrived in Seville, only the Earl of Salisbury, and four of his knights, had been able to follow him. They were honourably received by the English factory, and lodged at their House.

Henry brought with him feveral companies of Horse, and was received by Don Alonzo XI. with all the marks of efteem due to his high Birth.-He foon fignalized his valour, in an action, wherein the impetuofity of his courage carried him beyond his followers, and in the midft of the barbarians; but on being fuccoured he drove them back to the town.-Two English knights out of excefs of valour, followed them within the gates, fhewing to the astonished barbarians, the undaunted Spirit of our forefathers, which, tranfmitted without a blot or blemish to their fons, has raised the British em

pire to its present pitch of greatness. The Moors fought (as the Chronicle tell us) to take them prifoners, and would not flay them, thereby evidencing a great fenfe of honour and courage in themselves, who could thus refpect it in an enemy.

The Duke of Lancaster, in one of thefe Combats, had two of his knights flain, and was wounded himself by an arrow in the face, which honourable fcar he carried with him to the grave. He was the Champion of the English cause in France, and learned the art of war under the invincible banners of his Coufin Edward the black prince: for his fuperior virtues he was ftiled the good duke, and his glorious career was fhortened by the plague in London, in 1361, five years before the birth of Henry IV. fon of his daughter Blanch, and John

of Gaunt.

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ANECDOTE.

'RANCESCO FRANCIA of Bologna, ftruck with the fame of Raphael, conceived a violent defire of feeing fome of the works of that celebrated artift. His great age prevented him from undertaking a journey to Rome, he refolved therefore, to write to Raphael, and to inform him how great an esteem he entertained for his talents, after

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the character which had been given of him. Reciprocal marks of friendship paffed between these artifts, and they carried on a regular correfpondence by letter. Raphael having about that time finished his famous painting of St. Cecilia, for the church of Bologna, fent it to his friend, begging him to put it in its proper place, and to correct whatever faults he might find in it. The artift of Bologna, tranfported with joy at seeing the work of Raphael, began to confider it with attention; when perceiving the great inferiority of his own talents to those of Raphael, melancholy took poffeffion of his heart." He fell into a deep defpondency, and died of grief, because he found that he had attained only to mediocrity in his art after all his labour."

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GALLANTRY.

HOUSANDS of women of the beft hearts and fineft parts have been ruined by men. who approach them under the fpecious name of friendship. But fuppofing a man to have the most undoubted honour, yet his friendship to woman is often fo near a-kin to love, that if fhe be very agreeable in her perfon, fhe will probably very

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