FOR By the Same I. I. OR toils which patriots have endur'd, In every nation Time difplays The palm of honourable praife. Envy may rail; and faction fierce May ftrive but what, alas, can Thofe To faithful story and perfuafive verfe? I. 2. O I. 2. O nurfe of freedom, Albion, fay, To him the Teacher blefs'd Who fent religion, from the palmy field And lifted up the veil which heaven from earth conceal'd, "Go thou, and rescue my dishonour'd law "From hands rapacious and from tongues impure: "Let not my peaceful name be made a lure "The fnares of favage tyranny to aid: "Let not my words be impious chains to draw "The free-born foul, in more than brutal awe, "To faith without affent, allegiance unrepaid." II. 1. No cold nor unperforming hand Was arm'd by heaven with this command. To William's ear with welcome joy Did Did Locke among the bleft unfold Then drew the lawgivers around, II. 3. For not a conqueror's sword, Nor the strong powers to civil founders known, : And focial fenfe, like feed, in genial plenty sown. * Mr. Locke died in 1704, when Mr. Hoadly was begin. ning to diftinguish himself in the cause of civil and religious liberty: Lord Godolphin in 1712, when the doctrines of the Jacobite faction were chiefly favour'd by thofe in power: Lord Somers in 1716, amid the practices of the nonjuring clergy against the proteftant establishment; and lord Stanhope in 1721, during the controverfy with the lower house of con vocation. Wherever Wherever it took root, the foul (reftor'd III. I. But where shall recompence be found? Yet born to conquer is her power : We 'attend thy reverend length of days And hail Thee in our public ways Like fome great spirit fam'd in ages old. III. 3. While thus our vows prolong Thy steps on earth, and when by us refign'd Which Thou haft kept intire from force and factious guile. 215 215 215 215 25 INSCRIPTIONS. T By the Same. I. For a GROTTO. O me, whòn in their lays the fhepherds call Actæa, daughter of the neighbouring stream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward shoot, |