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To practice, always honest Nature shock.
Not even the mask remov'd, and the fierce front
Of Tyranny difclos'd, nor trampled laws,

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Nor feiz'd each badge of Freedom * thro' the land,
Nor Sidney bleeding for th' unpublish'd page, 1096
Nor on the bench avow'd Corruption plac'd,
And murderous Rage itself, in Jefferies' form,
Nor endless acts of arbitrary power,
Cruel, and falfe, could raife the public arm.
Diftrustful, scattered, of combining chiefs
Devoid, and dreading blind rapacious War,
The patient Public turns not, till impell'd
To the near verge of ruin. Hence I rous'd
The bigot king †, and hurry'd fated on
His measures immature. But chief his zeal,
Outflaming Rome herself, portentous scar'd
The troubled nation: Mary's horrid days
To fancy bleeding rofe, and the dire glare
Of Smithfield lightened in its eyes anew.
Yet filence reign'd. Each on another fcowl'd
Rueful amazement, preffing down his rage:
As, mustering vengeance, the deep thunder frowns,
Awfully ftill, waiting the high command

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To fpring. Straight from his country Europe fav'd,
To fave Britannia, lo! my darling fon,

Than hero more! the patriot of mankind!
Immortal Naffau came. I hufh'd the deep,

*The charters of corporations.

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+ James II,

By demons rous'd, and bade the lifted winds*,
Still shifting as behov'd, with various breath, 1120
Waft the Deliverer to the longing fhore.

See! wide alive, the foaming Channel + bright
With fwelling fails, and all the pride of War,
Delightful view! when Juftice draws the fword:
And mark! diffusing ardent foul around,

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And sweet contempt of death, My streaming flag ‡.
Even adverse navies || blefs'd the binding gale,
Kept down the glad acclaim, and filent joy'd.
Arriv'd, the pomp, and not the wafte of arms,
His progress mark'd. The faint oppofing hoft +
For once, in yielding their best victory found, 1131
And by desertion prov'd exalted faith;

While his, the bloodlefs conquest of the heart, Shouts without groan, and triumph without war. Then dawn'd the period deftin'd to confine 1135 The furge of wild Prerogative, to raise

The Prince of Orange, in his paffage to England, tho' his fleet had been at firft difperfed by a ftorm, was afterwards extremely favoured by feveral changes of wind.

Rapin, in his hiftory of England. The third of November the fleet entered the Channel, and lay by between Calais and Dover, to stay for the fhips that were behind. Here the Prince called a council of war.-It is eafy to imagine what a glorious fhow the fleet made. Five or fix hundred fhips in fo narrow a channel, and both the English and French fhores covered with numberlefs fpectators, are no common fight. For my part, who was then on board the fleet, I own it flruck me extremely.

The Prince placed himself in the main body, carrying a flag with English colours, and their Highneffes' arms furrounded with this motto, The Protefiant Religion and the Liberties of England, and underneath the motto of the house of Nalau. Je maintiendrai, I will maintain. Rupin.

The English fleet.
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The King's army.
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A mound reftraining its imperious rage,
And bid the raving deep no farther flow.

Nor where, without that fence, the swallow'd faté
Better than Belgian plains without their dykes, 1146
Sustaining weighty feas. This, often fav'd

By more than human hand, the Public faw,
And seiz❜d the white-wing'd moment. Pleas'd to
Destructive power, a wife heroic prince + [yield⭑
Even lent his aid.-Thrice happy! did they know
Their happiness, Britannia's bounded kings. 1146
What tho' not theirs the boaft, in dungeon-grooms
To plunge bold Freedom? or to cheerlefs wilds
To drive him from the cordial face of friend ?
Or fierce to strike him at the midnight hour, 1150
By mandate blind, not Jufticè, that delights

To dare the keenest eye of open day?

What tho' no glory to control the laws,
And make injurious will their only rule,

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They deem it? What tho', tools of wanton power,
Peftiferous armies fwarm not at their call?

What tho' they give not a relentless crew
Of Civil Furies proud Oppreffion's fangs ?
To tear at pleasure the dejected land,

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With ftarving Labour pampering idle Wafte! 1160
To clothe the naked, feed the hungry, wipe
The guiltless tear from lone Affliction's eye!
To raife hid Merit, fet the alluring light

By the Bill of Rights, and the Act of Succeffion,
+ William III,

Of Virtue high to view; to nourish arts,
Direct the thunder of an injur'd state,

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Make a whole glorious people fing for joy,
Bless human kind, and thro' the downward depth
Of future times to spread that better fun

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Which lights up British foul: for deeds like thefe
The dazzling fair career unbounded lies;
While (ftill fuperior blefs!) the dark abrupt
Is kindly barr'd, the precipice of ill.
Oh! luxury divine! Oh! poor to this,
Ye giddy glories of defpotic Thrones!
By this, by this indeed, is imag'd Heaven,
By boundless good, without the power of ill.
And now, behold! exalted as the cope
That swells immenfe o'er many-peopled earth,
And like it free, My fabric ftands complete,
The Palace of the Laws. To the four heavens 1180
Four gates impartial thrown, unceasing crowds,
With kings them felves the hearty peasant mix'd,
Pour urgent in; and tho' to different ranks
Refponfive place belongs, yet equal spreads
The fhelt'ring roof o'er all; while Plenty flows, 1185
And glad Contentment echoes round the whole.
Ye Floods! defcend; ye Winds! confirming, blow;
Nor outward tempeft nor corrofive time,
Nought but the felon undermining hand
Of dark Corruption, can its frame diffolve,
And lay the toil of ages in the dust.

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THE PROSPECT.

LIBERTY.
PART V.

The Contents.

AUTHOR addreffes the Goddess of Liberty, marking the happiness and grandeur of Great-Britain, as arifing from her influence, to ver. 88. She refumes her difcourfe, and points out the chief virtues which are neceffary to maintain her establishment there, to ver. 374. Recommends, as its last ornaments and finishing, Sciences, fine Arts, and public Works. The encouragement of these urged from the example of France, though under a defpotic government, to ver. 549. The whole concludes with a prospect of future times, given by the Goddess of Liberty: this defcribed by the Author, as it paffes in Vision before him.

HERE interpofing, as the Goddess paus'd,—

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"Oh! bleft Britannia! in thy presence bleft, "Thou guardian of mankind! whence fpring, alone, "All human grandeur, happiness, and fame: "For Toil, by thee protected, feels no pain; "The poor man's lot with milk and honey flows; "And, gilded with thy rays, even death looks gay. "Let other lands the potent bleffings boast "Of more exalting funs: let Afia's woods, "Untended, yield the vegetable fleece;. "And let the little infect-artist form, "On higher life intent, its filken tomb :

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"Let wondering rocks, in radiant birth, disclofe

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