duced to magnify their Creator, to have dwelt on the two largest works of his hand, viz. the elephant and the whale. This is fo natural an expectation, that fome commentators have rendered Behemoth and Leviathan, the elephant and whale, though the defcriptions in our author will not admit of it: but Mofes being, as we may well fuppofe, under an immediate terror of the Hippotamus and crocodile, from their daily mischiefs and ravages around him; it is very accountable why he should permit them to take place. MISCEL MISCELLANIE S. On MICHAEL ANGELO's famous Piece of the CRUCIFIXION; Who is faid to have stabbed a Person that he might draw it more naturally *. HILST his Redeemer on his canvas dies, WHIL Stabb'd at his feet his brother weltering lies: The daring Artift, cruelly ferene, Views the pale check and the diftorted mien ; He ftudies torment, dives in mortal woe, * Though the report was propagated without the leaft truth, it may be fufficient ground to juftify a poetical fancy's enlarging on it. Το TO MR. ADDISON, ON THE TRAGEDY OF CAT O. HAT do we fee! is Cato then become WHA A greater name in Britain than in Rome? Does mankind now admire his virtues more, Though Lucan, Horace, Virgil, wrote before? How will pofterity this truth explain? "Cato begins to live in Anna's reign." The world's great chiefs, in council or in arms, Raife in your foul a pure All Souls Coll. Oxon. HISTORICAL EPILOGUE A TO THE BROTHERS, A TRAGEDY. N Epilogue, through cuftom, is your right, What ample vengeance gluts Demetrius' shade; Perfeus furviv'd, indeed, and fill'd the throne, When, rob'd in black, his children round him hung, And their rais'd arms in early forrow wrung; The younger fmil'd, unconscious of their woe; At which thy tears, O Rome! began to flow; So fad the scene! What then muft Perfeus feel, To fee Jove's race attend the victor's wheel: Το To fee the flaves of his worst foes increase, EPITAPH |