HORATIUS,

IN LIBRO PRIMO EPISTOLARUM.

Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet. Sapere aude Incipe. Vivendi qui rectè prorogat horam, Rufticus expectat dum defluat amnis: at ille Labitur & labetur in omne volubilis ævum.

TO-M

TRANSLATE D.

O-MORROW cheats us all. Why doft thou
tay,

And leave undone what should be done to-day?
Begin the prefent minute 's in thy power;
But ftill t' adjourn, and wait a fitter hour,
Is like the clown, who at fome river's fide
Expecting ftands, in hopes the running tide
Will all ere long be paft-Fool! not to know,
It ftill has flow'd the fame, and will for ever flow.

O N

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HOU little favourite of the fair!
When thou these golden bands shall wear,
The hand that binds them softly kifs,
With confcious joy, and own thy blifs.
Proud of his chain, who would not be
A flave, to gain her fmiles, like thee?

THE

CHARACTER

O F THE

LADY HENRIETTA CAVENDISH

S

HOLLES*. 1712-13.

UCH early wisdom, fuch a lovely face, Such modeft greatness, fuch attractive grace; Wit, beauty, goodness, charity, and truth, The riper fenfe of age, the bloom of youth!

This Lady, alfo celebrated by Mr. Prior in a beautiful ode, called "Colin's Mistake,” was afterwards married to Edward Earl of Oxford, and was mother of the prefent Dutchefs Dowager of Portland.

Whence

Whence is it, that in one fair piece we find
Thefe various beauties of the female kind?
Sure but in one fuch different charms agree,
And Henrietta is that phoenix-fhe.

TRUTH, HONOUR, HONESTY,

THE

MOTTO CHOSEN BY THE RIGHT HON.

THE

LADY HENRIETTA CAVENDISH HOLLES.

N thee, bright maid, though all the virtues fhine,
With rival beams, and every grace is thine,

Yet three, diftinguifh'd by thy early voice,
Excite our praife, and well deferve thy choice.

Immortal Truth in Heaven itself displays
Her charms celestial born, and purest rays,
Which thence in ftreams, like golden funfhine, flow,
And fhed their light on minds like yours below.

Fair Honour, next in beauty and in grace,
Shines in her turn, and claims the second place:
She fills the well-born foul with noble fires,
And generous thoughts and godlike acts infpires.

Then

Then Honefty, with native air, fucceeds,
Plain is her look, unartful are her deeds;

And, just alike to friends and foes, the draws
The bounds of right and wrong, nor errs from equal
laws.

From Heaven this fcale of virtues thus defcends
By just degrees, and thy full choice defends..
So when, in vifionary trains, by night
Attending angels blefs'd good Jacob's fight,
The mystic ladder thus appear'd to rise,
Its foot on earth, its fummit in the skies..

HE

I.

1714.

EAR us, O God, this joyful day !'
Whole nations join their voice,

To Thee united thanks to pay,

And in thy ftrength rejoice..

II. For

II.

For led by thee, O King of Kings!
Our Sovereign George we fee;
Thy hand the Royal bleffing brings,
He comes, he reigns, by thee!

III.

Plenteous of grace, pour from above
Thy favours on his head;

Truth, Mercy, Righteousness, and Love,
As guards around him spread.

VI.

With length of days, and glory crown'd,
With wealth and fair increase,

Let him abroad be far renown'd,
Still bleft at home with peace.

A MO