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National Library of Scotland - Crawford
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ON THE
Duke of MARLBOROUGH.
A
POEM.
By CHARLES DIVE, Gent.
--------- Extinctus amabitur Idem.

AS late I walk'd beside that Silver Spring,
Where oft I've heard the Sister Muses sing,
While all the Nymphs and Fairies mov'd their Feet
To the soft Measures of their Music Sweet;

So Woe be gone, the Mirthless Dames I found;
All Nature seem'd to sympathize around;
To Notes so Joyless each attun'd her Voice,
The Plaintive Stream roll'd down with Troublous Noise:

Such moving Sounds ne'er thrill'd a Mortal's Ears,
Since their own SPENCER sung their Hapless Tears.
As VENUS, sprung of no Terrestial Seed,
When she beheld her Lov'd ADONIS bleed,

The Purple Flood recalling to her Mind,
The Thousand Pleasures she no more must find,
With Ruthful Dole bewail'd her Lifeless Joy,
Then curs'd the Hated Boar, and hugg'd the Boy.

So mourn'd this Sacred Brood of Heav'nly JOVE,
Such was their Sorrow, and no less their Love:

MARL-

MARLBRO' the Lov'd ADONIS of the Throng,
Essence of Fame, and Ornament of Song,

Who erst their Panting Steed so oft employ'd,
Seizing the WOLF was by the BOAR destroy'd.
Hence springs their Grief, hence flows this baleful Stream,
Conquests no more shall be the Joyful Theme.

Empires redeem'd, and Tyrants brought to Shame,
No more shall burst the Golden Trump of Fame:
The Beardless God may break his useless Lyre,
Great Deeds no more shall Sounding Verse inspire;

And thou Majestic Pile! Preserve thy Spoils,
The Noblest Record of all Manly Toils;
For ISTER'S Wave no more shall Crimson flow,
Nor shall thy Walls another BLENHEIM show.


FINIS.
Just Publish'd, in Two Volumes, in Octavo,
THE whole WORKS of Monsieur BOILEAU. Made English from the
last Paris Edition, by several Hands. To which is prefix'd, His Life, written
to Joseph Addison, Esq; by Mr. Des Maizeaux; and some Account of this Tran-
slation by N. Rowe, Esq; Adorn'd with Cuts, and beautifully Printed upon Super-
fine Paper. Price Twelve Shillings Neatly Bound. Containing, 1. The Lutrin, a
Mock Heroic Poem, in 6 Canto's. 2. The Art of Poetry, in 4 Canto's. 3. Satires
Eleven. 4. Epistles Twelve. 5. Odes, Epigrams, and other Miscellanies.
6. Longinuss Treatise of the Sublime, with Critical Remarks, Reflections, and
Observations; by Mr. Dacier, Boivin, etc. 7. Letters to several Persons, viz.
Mr. Perrault, Mr. Arnaud, the Duke de Vivone, in Intimation of the Stile of Balzac
and Voiture. 8. A Burlesque Decree in Defence of Aristotle. 9. A Speech to
the Gentlemen of the Royal Academy. 10. Two Discourses upon Ode and Satire.
N.B. In this Translation of Mr. Boileaus Works is a Dialogue of the Dead, in
Ridicule of Romances; and a Letter to Mr. Maucroix, with his Answer, ne-
ver Printed in any French Edition.
Just Publish'd, in a Neat Pocket Volume, on an Elzevir Letter,
The SATIRE of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman Knight. With the Frag-
ments found at Belgrade Ann. 1688. Adorn'd with Ten Cuts, curiously Engraven
on Copper Plates, pleasantly representing the Lascivious Intrigues of Neros Court.
Price 2 s. Plain, 2 s. 6 d. Neatly Bound.
Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-
street. 1712. Where may be had an Epigram on the SPECTATOR, Price 1 d.

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