I. 2.

The fhallow fop, in antic veft,

Tir'd of the beaten road,

Proud to be fingularly dreft,

Changes, with ev'ry changing moon, the mode.

Say, shall not then the heaven-born Mufes too Variety purfue?

Shall not applauding critics hail the vogue?

Whether the Muse the style of Cambria's fons,

Or the rude gabble of the Huns,

Or the broader dialect

Of Caledonia fhe affect,

Or take, Hibernia, thy ftill ranker brogue ?

On

I. 3.

On this terrestrial ball,

The tyrant Fashion governs all.

She, fickle Goddefs, whom, in days of yore,
The Ideot Moria, on the banks of Seine,

Unto an antic fool, hight Andrew, bore,
Long the paid him with disdain,

And long his pangs in filence he conceal'd:

At length, in happy hour, his love-fick pain On thy bleft calends, April, he reveal'd.

From their embraces fprung,

Ever changing, ever ranging,

Fashion, Goddess ever young.

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Perch'd

II. I.

Perch'd on the dubious height, fhe loves to ride

Upon a weather-cock, aftride.

Each blast that blows, around fhe goes,

While nodding o'er her creft,

Emblem of her magic pow'r,

The light cameleon ftands confeft,

Changing its hues a thousand times an hour;

And in a veft is fhe array'd,

Of many a dancing moon-beam made,

Nor zoneless is her waist:

But fair and beautiful, I ween,

As the ceftos-cinctur'd Queen,

Is with the rainbow's fhadowy girdle brac'd.

She

II. 2.

She bids pursue the fav'rite road

Of lofty cloud-capt ode.
Meantime each Bard, with eager speed,

Vaults on the Pegasean steed :
Yet not that Pegafus of yore,

Which th' illuftrious Pindar bore,

But one of nobler breed:

High blood and youth his lufty veins infpire,
From Tottipontimoy he came,

Who knows not, Tottipontimoy, thy name?
The bloody-fhoulder'd Arab was his fire;

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His Whitenofe. He on fam'd Doncaftria's plains Refign'd his fated breath :

In vain for life the ftruggling courfer ftrains.

Ah who can run the race with Death?
The tyrant's speed, or man or fteed,
Strives all in vain to fly.

He leads the chace, he wins the race,

We ftumble, fall and die.

The author is either mistaken in this place, or has elfe indulged himfelf in a very unwarrantable poetical li cence. Whitenofe was not the fire, but the fon, of the Godolphin Arabian. See my Calendar. HEBER.

II. 3.

Third from Whitenofe fprings

Pegafus with eagle wings:

Light o'er the plain, as dancing cork,

With many a bound he beats the ground,

While all the Turf with acclamation rings.

He won Northampton, Lincoln, Oxford, York:

He too Newmarket won.

There Granta's Son

Seiz'd on the steed;

And thence him led (fo Fate decreed)

To where old Cam, renown'd in Poet's fong,

With his dark and inky waves

Either bank in filence laves,

Winding flow his fluggish ftreams along.

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