Though lovely in itself, your Face Deferves the Aid of every outward Grace. Judge by the coftly Robes we wear, How elegantly drest our Wives appear. D. 9 Horace had here in View a Paffage of the Iliad, where Homer fays, that Teucer was the most skilful Archer among the Greeks. 10 Troy was befieged three Times, firft by Hercules, then by the Amazons, and laftly by the Greeks. 11 Idomeneus, the Son of Deucalion, and the Grandfon of Minos, King of Crete, was one of the chief Heroes among the Greeks, at the Siege of Troy. Part of his Exploits may be seen in the 13th Book of the Iliad. 12 Sthenelufve.] See the 15th Ode of the ift Book. 13 — non ego te meis Chartis inornatum fileri patiar.] Here begins the third Part of this Ode: For fileri, Bentley reads filebo, which is adopted by Dacier. 14 Confulque non unius anni.] Lollius was Conful in the Year of Rome 732. That Office was only for a Year; but, according to the Stoics, the Wife and Virtuous ftand always possessed of the most eminent Posts, nor is it in the Power of the Crowd to degrade them. Horace takes Occafion from this Doctrine to compliment his Friend Lollius, by telling him he was not Conful merely for a Year; but would continue fo while he practised the Virtues worthy a Conful. 15 The Romans called a rich Man a happy Man; but the Stoics applied the Word happy only to those who were Masters of their Paffions, and enjoyed a full Tranquillity of Mind. Thus with us, and efpecially in the City, a good Man means a rich one. See the Notes on the ad Ode of the 2d Book. 16 To use the Gifts of Heaven wifely, is, in the Language of the Stoics, to acquiefce chearfully under all the Difpenfations of Providence. DACIER. 17 Duramque callet pauperiem pati.] Epicurus was as much a Stoic in regard to his Sentiments on Poverty, as Zeno or Chryfippus; for he declares, that a State of chearful Poverty is preferable to the most afluent Wealth. The The SAME ODE Imitated. By Mr. J. DUNCOMBE. To the Right Hon. JOHN Earl of CORKE. T HINK not, my Lord, these Strains fhall die, No-they fhall Time's rude Grafp defy, Protected by their Theme. Though foremoft in the Lifts of Fame We matchlefs Milton place, Yet long will Pope's diftinguifh'd Name Though Nature's own heart-melting Lyre Still deigns the Goddess to inspire Our Edwards and our Henries Praise And Britons fhall attune their Lays To Crefy and Poitiers; Yet fhall each Veteran Chief with Flowers And long to Fame fhall Blenheim's Towers Yet all, by Bards unfung, are loft In Marfton's Shades unseen, unknown, Oh! let them now, in Senate shown, Though every Mufe her Spirit breathes Adorns thy Brow with Olive Wreaths, Yet now the Converse of the Dead For Oh! the Living want each Head, Yet, when his Country's Voice requir'd, Then, like that Conful, lend thy Aid For Rome demands thee from the Shade, 1757. BLES ODE X. To LIGURINA. By Mr. J. M. EST as thou art with Beauty's Arms, And proudly wanton in Excess of Charms, What What though kind Venus decks thy Face And thy grey Locks forget their nut-brown Shade; Or why, fince now that Pride is o'er, • Will Youth with all its Charms return no more?' ODE XI. To PHYLLIS. Y Vault exults a Cafk to hold MY Of Alban Wine, full nine Years old: To weave a Chaplet for your Head, I And Ivy; in a Knot behind, The Treffes of my Fair to bind. My Altar, crown'd with vervain Bands, 2 With fhining Plate my Side-board's grac❜d; VOL. II. Run Run to and fro-From trembling Fires Ev'n than my own 3 almost more dear : Come then, the last whom I fhall love, The troubled Breaft, and lull our Woes. The 13th of April, Bellerophon. NOTES, |