Accept the wreath which you deserve alone, 60 See what delights in fylvan scenes appear! Defcending Gods have found Elyfium here. In woods bright Venus with Adonis ftray'd, And chafte Diana haunts the foreft shade. Come, lovely nymph, and blefs the filent hours, When fwains from fheering feek their nightly bow'rs; When weary reapers quit the fultry field, 65 And crown'd with corn their thanks to Ceres yield. But 70 The mofly fountains, and the green retreats! Where'er you walk, cool gales fhall fan the glade, Trees, where you fit, fhall croud into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs fhall rife, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. Oh! how I long with you to pass my days, Invoke the Mufes, and refound your praise! IMITATIONS. VAR. 60. Defcending Gods have found Elyfium here.] Habitarunt Dî quoque fylvas Virg. Et formofus oves ad flumina pavit Adonis. Idem. Your praise the birds fhall chant in ev'ry grove, 80 But fee, the fhepherds thun the noon-day heat, The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat, 86 To closer fhades the panting flocks remove; Ye Gods! and is there no relief for Love? But foon the fun with milder rays defcends To the cool ocean, where his journey ends: On me love's fiercer flames for ever prey, By night he fcorches, as he burns by day. VER. 79 80. VARIATIONS. Your praise the tuneful birds to heav'n shall bear, 90 So the veríes were originally written. But the author, young as he was, foon found the abfurdity which Spenfer himself over-looked, of introducing wolves into England. VER. 91. Me love inflames, nor will his fires allay. IMITATIONS. VER. 80. And winds fhall waft, etc.] Partem aliquam, venti, divûm referatis ad aures! Virg. VER. 88. Ye Gods! etc.] Me tamen urit amor, quis enim modus adfit ameri? Idem. AUTUM N. THE THIRD PASTORAL, OR HYLAS and E GO N. B To Mr. WY CHERLEY. ENEATH the fhade a spreading Beech displays, This mourn'd a faithiefs, that an abfent Love, Ye Mantuan nymphs, your facred fuccour bring; 5 Thou, whom the Nine with Plautus' wit infpire, The art of Terence, and Menander's fire; NOTES. This Paftoral confifts of two parts, like the viiith of Virgil: The Scene, a Hill; the Time at Sun fet. VER. 7. Thou, whom the Nine,] Mr. Wycherley, a famous author of Comedies; of which the most celebrated were the Plain-Dealer and Country-Wife. He was a writer of infinite Whose sense instructs us, and whose humour charms, To Delia's ear the tender notes convey. And with deep murmurs fills the founding shores; Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs along! Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs away ! fpirit, fatire, and wit. that he had too much. NOTES. 15 21 25 30 The only objection made to him was way by Mr. Congreve; tho' with a little more correctness. Fade ev'ry bloffom, wither ev'ry tree, Die ev'ry flow'r, and perish all, but she. 35 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs along! The birds fhall cease to tune their ev'ning fong, 40 The winds to breathe, the waving woods to move, And ftreams to murmur, e'er I cease to love. Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain, Not balmy sleep to lab'rers faint with pain, Not show'rs to larks, or fun-fhine to the bee, Are half so charming as thy fight to me. Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs away! Come, Delia, come; ah, why this long delay? VARIATIONS. VER. 48. Originally thus in the MS. With him thro' Libya's burning plains I'll go, VER. 37. IMITATIONS. Aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus; narciffo floreat alnus, 45 Pinguia corticibus fudent electra myricæ. Virg. Ecl. viii, VER. 43. etc.] Quale fopor feffis in gramine, quale per æftum Dulcis aquæ faliente fitim reftinguere rivo. Ecl. v. |