Epistles to the great . ondefcendTh inferior Muses to attend,Immortalize this humble Scene : Shake-4 C 47 ] Shakespears and Draytons fairy Crews In midnight Revels gambol round, And Popes light Sylphids fprinkle Dews Refrefhing on the magic Ground. Nor fdains the Dryad Train of Yore, And green-haird Naiads of the Flood, To join with Fancys younger Brood, Which Brood the fweet Inchantrefs bore To British Bards in After-times, Whofe Fame fhall bloom in deathlefs Rhymes, When Greece and Britain are no more. Whilst fuch the Feafts of Fancy give,Carelefs of what dull Sages know,Amidft their Banquet

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Epistles to the great . ondefcendTh inferior Muses to attend,Immortalize this humble Scene : Shake-4 C 47 ] Shakespears and Draytons fairy Crews In midnight Revels gambol round, And Popes light Sylphids fprinkle Dews Refrefhing on the magic Ground. Nor fdains the Dryad Train of Yore, And green-haird Naiads of the Flood, To join with Fancys younger Brood, Which Brood the fweet Inchantrefs bore To British Bards in After-times, Whofe Fame fhall bloom in deathlefs Rhymes, When Greece and Britain are no more. Whilst fuch the Feafts of Fancy give,Carelefs of what dull Sages know,Amidft their Banquets I will live,And, pitying, look on Powr ft ill the Cynic Cenfor fays,That Aristippus ufclefs DaysPafs in melodious Foolery, To C 48 ] To make my lad Apology - Unanfvverably, I reply, Whatever has the Povvr to blefs, By living having learnt to prize, Since Wifdom will afford me lefs Than what from harmlefs Follies rife, I cannot fpare from. Happinefs A Jingle Moment to be wife. The End of the Third E?istle, ?. f

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