THE following verses are on an engraving of Two Corinthian Columns, on the dexter of which is ILIAS, and on the sinister ODYSSEA. On a scroll connecting the columns are the words

MUSAR HERCUL: COLUM :

NE USQUE.

The whole surmounted by the Prince of Wales's Plume and Motto.

This plate was added on the death of the Prince, and is found in most copies of the Iliad and Odyssey united. The design being inelegant, it was not thought worth re-engraving for this edition.

TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE INCOMPARABLE
HEROE, HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES.

HY tomb, arms, statue, all things fit to fall
At foot of Death, and worship funeral,
Form hath bestow'd; for form is nought too dear
Thy solid virtues yet, eternized here,
My blood and wasted spirits have only found
Commanded cost, and broke so rich a ground,
Not to inter, but make thee ever spring,
As arms, tombs, statues, every earthy thing,
Shall fade and vanish into fume before.

What lasts thrives least; yet wealth of soul is poor,
And so 'tis kept. Not thy thrice sacred will,
Sign'd with thy death, moves any to fulfil
Thy just bequests to me. Thou dead, then I
Live dead, for giving thee eternity.

Ad Famam.

To all times future this time's mark extend,
Homer no patron found, nor Chapman friend.
Ignotus nimis omnibus,

Sat notus moritur sibi.

TO THE HIGH BORN PRINCE OF MEN,

HENRY, THRICE ROYAL INHERITOR TO THE UNITED
KINGDOMS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.

INCE perfect happiness, by Princes sought,
Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought,
Nor follows in great trains, nor is possest
With any outward state, but makes him blest

That governs inward, and beholdeth there
All his affections stand about him bare,

That by his power can send to Tower and death
All traitorous passions, marshalling beneath
His justice his mere will, and in his mind
Holds such a sceptre as can keep confined
His whole life's actions in the royal bounds
Of virtue and religion, and their grounds
Takes in to sow his honours, his delights,

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And complete empire; you should learn these rights,
Great Prince of men, by princely presidents,
Which here, in all kinds, my true zeal presents

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To furnish your youth's groundwork and first state,
And let you see one godlike man create

All sorts of worthiest men, to be contrived
In your worth only, giving him revived,
For whose life Alexander would have given
One of his kingdoms; who (as sent from heaven,
And thinking well that so divine a creature
Would never more enrich the race of nature)

Kept as his crown his works, and thought them still
His angels, in all power to rule his will;
And would affirm that Homer's poesy

Did more advance his Asian victory,

Than all his armies. O! 'tis wond'rous much,
Though nothing prized, that the right virtuous touch.
Of a well written soul to virtue moves;

Nor have we souls to purpose, if their loves

Of fitting objects be not so inflamed.

How much then were this kingdom's main soul maim'd,
To want this great inflamer of all powers

That move in human souls! All realms but yours
Are honour'd with him, and hold blest that state
That have his works to read and contemplate:
In which humanity to her height is raised,
Which all the world, yet none enough, hath praised;
Seas, earth, and heaven, he did in verse comprise,
Out-sung the Muses, and did equalize

Their king Apollo; being so far from cause

Of Princes' light thoughts, that their gravest laws

May find stuff to be fashioned by his lines.
Through all the pomp of kingdoms still he shines,
And graceth all his gracers. Then let lie
Your lutes and viols, and more loftily

Make the heroics of your Homer sung,

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To drums and trumpets set his angel's tongue,

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Coleridge styles the lines from this to 61 "sublime."