IV. 3. O Hastings, not to all Can ruling Heaven the same endowments lend: That to one general weal their different powers they bend, Unenvious. Thus alone, though strains divine Though with new honours the patrician's line He best shall prove, Whose lays the soul with noblest passions move. Thee to severer toils thy fate requires: Or thy own Edward 7 teach his race, V. 1. From rich domains and subject farms, 7 Edward the Third; from whom descended Henry Has. tings, third Earl of Huntingdon, by the daughter of the Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward the Fourth. No private master fills: Where, long foretold, the People reigns: Where each a vassal's humble heart disdains; And judgeth what he sees; and, as he judgeth, wills. V. 2. Here be it thine to calm and guide That monster, which is daily found Expert and bold thy country's peace to wound; Yet dreads to handle arms, nor manly counsel knows. V. 3. "Tis highest Heaven's command, That guilty aims should sordid paths pursue; hand, And Virtue's worthless foes be false to glory too. Which now resound And shew to strangers passing down the vale, Where Candish, Booth, and Osborne sateR, Of papal snares and lawless arms, They plann'd for Freedom this her noblest reign. VI. 1. This reign, these laws, this public care, Which social good inspires; Where men, for this, assault a throne, Each adds the common welfare to his own; And each unconquer'd heart the strength of all acquires. VI. 2. Say, was it thus, when late we view'd When fortune crown'd the barbarous host, Did one of all that vaunting train, Durst one in counsels pledge his life? Stake his luxurious fortunes in the strife? [cheer? Or lend his boasted name his vagrant friends to 8 At Whittington, a village on the edge of Scarsdale in Derbyshire, the Earls of Devonshire and Danby, with the Lord Delamere, privately concerted the plan of the Revolution. The house in which they met is at present a farmhouse, and the country people distinguish the room where they sat, by the name of "the plotting parlour." VI. 3. Yet, Hastings, these are they Who challenge to themselves thy country's love; The true; the constant: who alone can weigh, What glory should demand, or liberty approve! But let their works declare them. Thy free powers, The generous powers of thy prevailing mind, Not for the tasks of their confederate hours, Lewd brawls and lurking slander, were design'd. Be thou thy own approver. Honest praise Oft nobly sways Ingenuous youth: But, sought from cowards and the lying mouth, ODES. BOOK II. THE REMONSTRANCE OF SHAKSPEARE: Supposed to have been spoken at the Theatre Royal, while the French Comedians were acting by Subscription. 1749. IF, yet regardful of your native land, Old Shakspeare's tongue you deign to understand, I come, the ancient founder of the stage, What, though, the footsteps of my devious Muse |