THE HUE AND CRY. YES!-Hear, all ye beaux and wits, All, who in town or country dwell! Say, can you tale or tidings tell Why in new groves she takes delight, The cooing murmurer makes her moan? Now learn the marks, by which you may Some wit, more folly, and no care, Form'd both to charm you and displease you ; Modifh her drefs, her hoop full wide; Brown skin, her eyes of fable hue, Genteel her motion, when the walks, Sweetly the fings, and loudly talks ; Knows Knows all the world, and its affairs. Who goes to court, to plays, to prayers, What money match'd each youth or maid, By this description, if you meet her, } THE THE PATRIOT. TO. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM LORD COWPER, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN. H OW godlike is the man, how truly great, Who, midft contending factions of the ftate, In council cool, in refolution bold, Nor brib'd by hopes, nor by mean fears control'd, So Atlas, pois'd on his broad bafe, defies But where's the patriot, by these virtues known, Unfway'd by others paffions, or his own? Juft to his prince, and to the publick true, That shuns, in all events, each partial view? That ne'er forgets the whole of things to weigh, And fcorns the fhort-liv'd wisdom of a day? If there be one-hold Mufe, nor more reveal(Yet oh that numbers could his name conceal !). Thrice happy Britain, of fuch wealth possest ! On thy firm throne, great George, unfhaken rest, Safe in his judgment, on his faith rely, And prize the worth which kingdoms cannot buy ! Rich in itself, the genuine diamond shines, Oreftes had killed his mother Clytemneftra, in revenge of his father's death, who was murdered by her. This part of the story is the subject of the Electra of Sophocles, where, in the conclusion of the play, Clytemnestra is heard behind the scene crying out in vain for mercy, while her fon is executing his revenge. Perhaps this play was written firft; and Euripides took up the story where the other left off. The reflection on his guilt in putting his mother to death, though a criminal, with his own hands, filled Oreftes's mind with fo much horror as afterwards caufed his diftraction. In this condition he is reprefented in the following scene, lying on a couch, and his fifter Electra, with a chorus of Grecian women, waiting near him. I fhall |