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What bounds*the-Pirts, and whit unires the Whole: And rightly judge, in all thid wondrous Frame,

So ſhalt thou neter thy vain Affection place

On Hopes of what ſhall never come to paſs,

Man, wretehed' Man; thou Malt be taoght to know;

Who bears within himſelf the inborn Cauſe of Woe. Unhappy Rice! that never yer could tell, How near their Good and Happineſs they dwell, Depriv'd of Senſe, they neither bear nor'ſ6e;?

Fetter d ĩn Viee they ſeek not to be free;

Like pond ' rous Nollimg · ſtones, oppreſyd with Ill, The Weight that loads vm makes em roll on ſtill, Bereft of Choice and Freedom of the Will.

And ſeererly an ĩimpious War maintains: Proyoke not T'#t s; but let the Combat ceaſe, And ev'ry yielding Paſſion ſue for Peace. Wouldft thou, great Fave,” thou Father of Mankind, Reveal the Demon for that Task affigu' d

The wrerched Race an End of Woes would find. And yet be bold, O Man, Divine thou art,

Nor ſacred Nature is from thee conceard, | Bat to thy Race her my tick Rules reyeald.

Theſe if to know thou huppily attain, | Soon ſhalt thou perfect be in all that I ordain. Thy wounded Soul to Health thou ſhalt reſtore, And free from ev'ry Pain ſhe felt before. Abſtain, I warn, from Meats unclean-and foul, So keep thy Body pure, ſo free thy Soul; $0 rightly judge; thy Reaſon, ſo, maintain; Reaſon which Heay'n did for thy Guide ordain, Let that; beſt Reaſon ever hold the Rein. Then if this mortal Body thou forſake, And thy glad Flight to the pure Æther take, Among the Gods exalted ſhalt thou ſhine, Immortal, Incorruptible, Divine: The Tyrant Death ſecurely ſhalt thou brave. And ſcorn the dark Dominion of the Grave,

Flies with a News of Empires won nd lo, Relates whatCer her buſy Eyes beheld. And tells the Fortune of each bloody Field: While with officious Duty, Crowds attend; 2 To hail the Labours of thy God-like Friend,

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To make thy Numbers equal to thy Theme. 4

From Heav in derive thy Verſe; to Heav'n belong

The Counſels of the Wiſe, and Battles of the RED.

The Virtues which adorn and guail hrone;-

To bend the Stubborn, and repseſs the Bold;

Her pesceſol Adi, flercb Padhians Safes, |

To heal their Breaches, and to footh their Rage;

Tbente is that happy Prudence, which' preſides.

To truſt at home Go po THI R'= watchful Care,

Aud ferid viRtorious CNHUNOH Tt L forth to War, Ariſe ye Nations reſcu'd by Her Sword.

Freed from the Bondage of a Foteign Lotd,"

Behold She ſends to fave you from Diſtreſs;

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