Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . C A T O. TRAGEDY. As it is Afted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, B V HisMAjESTYs Servants, Ecce Speclaculum dignum, ad quod refpiciat, intentus operifuo, Deus ! Ecce par Deo dignum, <vir fortis cum malafortund compojitus ! Non video, inquam, quid habeat interris Jupiter pulchrius, fi convert ere animum we lit,quam ut fpedet Catonem, jam partibus non femelfrac-/is, nihilominus inter ruinas publicas ereclum. Sen. de Divin. V
Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . C A T O. TRAGEDY. As it is Afted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, B V HisMAjESTYs Servants, Ecce Speclaculum dignum, ad quod refpiciat, intentus operifuo, Deus ! Ecce par Deo dignum, <vir fortis cum malafortund compojitus ! Non video, inquam, quid habeat interris Jupiter pulchrius, fi convert ere animum we lit,quam ut fpedet Catonem, jam partibus non femelfrac-/is, nihilominus inter ruinas publicas ereclum. Sen. de Divin. VERSES TO THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY of CATO. WHILE you the farce divided Britons awe,And Cato with an equal virtue, draw,While Envy is it felf in Wonder loft,And Factions ftrive who ftiall applaud you mofl;Forgive the fond ambition of a friend,Who hopes himfclf not you, to recommend,And join th1 applaufe which all the Learnd be/lowOn one, to whom a perfect work they owe. Tc [ 212 ] To my * light Scenes I once infcrib* dyour impotent ly ft rove to borrow fame:Soon will that die, which adds thy name to mine ,Let me, then, live, joirid to a work thine. * Tender Husband, Be- pT^^ Q-rrrTT Seated to Mr. Adiifon. KlCHARD bTEELE, THO1 Cato jklnes in Virgil^ epickfong,Prefcribing laws among th1 Elyfian throng jTho Lucarw verfe, exalted by his name,Oer Gods them/elves has raised the Heros fame;The Roman flags did neer his image fee,Drawn at full length; a taflk refers d for the.£y thee we view the ftnijhd figure rife,And awful march before our raviftfd eyes;We hear his voice, effe
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