Ergò abfint querimoniæ :
Dum ftulti querimur, dies
Protrudit fubiens diem, et
Vita præcipitans volat.
Et meus Genius mihi

Nuper ad caput adftitit ;
Nec te, inquit, fenium gravat,
Nec dum triftis hyems adeft,
Etfi ver breve fervidis

Olim præteriit rotis ;

Sed, mortalibus haud licet

'Luci fidere craftinæ ;

Quare, farcinulas, age,

Collige, ut levis exeas,

Quum fignum dederit PATER.

XVIII.

REMARK AT THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

"The Bishop of Bangor [Dr. Z. Pearce ], and Mr. "Warburton, have been willing to appear as my "friends and my coadjutors in this work.” *

IBIT et hoc noftri per

fæcula fœdus amoris,

Doctorumque inter nomina nomen ero : Forfan et extinctum non fpernet Patria dulcis, Forfitan et dicet, "Tu quoque nofter eras." Talibus inferiis placabilis umbra quiefcet; Lenibunt Manes talia dona meos.

Intereà labor ipfe levat faftidia vitæ ;

Æterno rectum fub duce pergat iter!
Scriptores fancti, falvete, et cana Vetuftas ;
Salve, Mufa, nimis blanda tenaxque comes:
Tu puero
teneris penitus dilecta fub annis;

Tune etiam emerito cura futura viro?
Ne tamen æternum, moefta atque irata, recede,
Sed raro, fed vix fæpe rogata, veni.

Hæc, Fortuna, tuis non funt obnoxia regnis,

See the fecond edition of Remarks on Ecclefiaftical History, published 1767. Vol. I. page 249.

XIX.

EPITAPHIUM FELIS.*

FESSA annis, morboque gravi, mitiffima Felis,
Infernos tandem cogor adire lacus:

Et mihi fubridens Proferpina dixit," Habeto
Elyfios foles, Elyfiumque nemus.??

Sed, bene fi merui, facilis Regina Silentûm,
Da mihi faltem unâ nocte redire domum;
Nocte redire domum, dominoq; hæc dicere in aurem,
Te tua fida etiam trans Styga Felis amat."

Deceffit Felis Anno M DCC LVI. Vixit annos xiv, menses II. dies IV.

XX.

EPITAPHIUM STEPHANI HALESII.

CANDIDA fimplicitas, generofi pectoris index,
Et bene moratus relligionis amor;
Ingenium follers, cui publica commoda curæ ;
Auxilium miferis ferre parata manus;

Hæ tibi erant dotes; teftes, Plebs, Aula, fenatus,
Et quæ vox populi, vox fuit ipfa Dei.

See Mifcellaneous Obfervations, inferted in these volumes.

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XXI.

INSCRIPTION

FOR THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW BUILDING AT CAMBRIDGE;

Drawn up (but not prefented) by a perfon who had been a member of that university,

OBSCURITATI et utilitati facrum,
Quadratum hic faxum conditur,
Fundamentum ftabile ac fidele

Edificii, utinam! fempiterni,
Difcant hinc, probi et eruditi,
Quamvis inter infimos latitantes,
Sorte fuâ contenti vivere,
Deoque ac Patriæ conftanter infervire;
Et malle

PRODESSE QUAM CONSPICI.

Anno falutis, &c.

AN HYMN

Aufpiciis, &c. &c.

XXII.

TO HARMONY

IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER.

QUEEN of fweet numbers and refiftless found,
Which can the foul with pleasing force enthrall,
And hold the thoughts in deep attention bound,
And bid th' obedient paffions rife and fall;
All-pow'rful HARMONY! on thee I call:

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From dark oblivion I thy deeds would raise
O tune my lyre, and help my feeble lays!

As yet this world no being-place had found;
Wild chaos rul'd, and fable-vested night,
Whilft jarring atoms, through the vast profound
By chance and discord led to doubtful fight,
Strove with sumultuous rage and restless might;
Till Harmony and Love compos'd the fray,
And chas'd the fhades of ancient night away,

Love, whofe approach the darkness dares not bide,
Shot from his ftarry eyes ten thousand rays:
She to the chords her fofteft touch apply'd,
Then louder 'gan the fwelling notes to raise,
And fung fair Peace, and beauteous Order's praise.
Her voice fweet founded thro' the boundless deep,
And all was calm, and all did filence keep.

The lift'ning atoms ftraight forgot their hate,
And pleas'd, yet wond'ring at their change, they

ftood;

Strange force of founds, fuch fury to abate!
Then each with fond embrace the other woo'd,
And each eternal peace and union vow'd.

Love bound them, nothing loath, in lafting chains,
And o'er them all, his willing fubjects, reigns.

Then