Yet what avail'd this fugitive Succefs? What Perth's diftinguifh'd Zeal, or Lovat's fage Addrefs? What fierce Balmerino's undaunted Air, Who with stern Smiles the Field of Death furvey'd ; What wife Pitfligo's Skill, or Elcho's Care, Or what ev'n Manchester's difloyal Aid ?* When Crawford, wafted from the Belgian Shore, Unfheath'd his dreaded Blade, diftain'd with Turkish Gore; When Guest and Blakeney, in Britannia's Cause Firm and unfhaken, check'd their rapidCourfe; And last, to rescue our endanger'd Laws, When youthful William, with refiftless Force, Eager purfued them o'er the Tweed and Spey, And dafh'd Rebellion's Hopes on fam'd Culloden's Day. So perish all whom Rome's enfnaring Arts, So all have perifh'd, who, beguil'd by Pride, Have figh'd for Slavery's Yoke, and righteous Power defy'd. *The Manchefer Regiment. C 6 What What but Ambition, what but Pride, impell'd Those faithlefs Spirits in the Realms above, Who once in Glory and in Bliss excell❜d, Obedient only to the Law of Love, To fill Heaven's peaceful Regions with Alarms, "And dare," with impious Rage, "th' Omnipotent to Arms ?" But foon, "hurl'd headlong from th' æthereal Sky," For ever exil'd from those bleft Domains, (As fings our matchlefs Bard*)" referv'd they lie "In penal Fire and adamantine Chains ;" And there, convinc'd from whence their Sufferings fpring, Too late they fee their Crime, and own th' Eternal King. 1764. NOTES. In a Meadow, called Running-mede, between Staines and Windfor, King John figned Magna Charta, and the Charter of Forefs, in the Year 1215. 2 The Battle of Culloden was fought near the Banks of the Spey. 3 On K. William's first alighting from his Horfe [after his Wound] a Deferter had gone over to the Enemy with the News, which was carried quickly into France, where it was taken for granted that he could not long outlive fuch a Wound: So it ran over that Kingdom that he was dead, and upon it there were more public Rejoicings than had been usual upon the greatest Victories. BURNET. 4 Namur is fituated on the Conflux of the Rivers Maefe and Sambre. * Par. Left, B. 1. WE ODE V. By Mr. J. DUNCOMBE. E own the fovereign Power of Jove, A present Deity we know, 2 While great Auguftus rules below; To flavish Terms, which he forefaw I faw, he cry'd, the Punic Foes • I faw I faw their Arms, a bloodless Prey, • From our base Soldiers torn away, And free-born Romans coward Hands Behind them ty'd in fervile Bands. As to the Fleece, in Tyrian Dye The Hind her Hunter's Lance fhall dare, And, in his Turn, the Battle gain, Who, fearing Death, could wear a Chain, While to the Ground, with Thought intent, 16 Which 15 Which He, He only, could have made : 17 From 18 Relatives, who prefs'd his Stay, NOTES. The Defign of Horace, in this Ode, is to praise Auguftus for having humbled the Parthians and the Britons by the fole Terror of his Arms; which he does with great Addrefs, flightly touching on the latter, and enhancing the Advantage gained by Auguftus over the Parthians, by comparing it with the Victory they had obtained over Crafus and the Romans. Horace was then about 47 Years old. DACIER. 1 Cælo tonantem credidimus Jovem Regnare.] This Comparison of Auguftus to Jupiter is elegant. The one convinces the World by his Thunder, that HE reigns in Heaven; the other fhows by his Victories, that he is a God on Earth. The following Lines in the 12th Ode of the first Book may ferve as a Comment on this Paffage: Te minor latum reget æquus orbem; Fulmina lucis. Subject to Thee only, He fhall govern the wide World with Equity: Thou shalt fhake Olympus with thy dreadful Chariot. Thou shalt launch thy vengeful Bolts against polluted Groves." |