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 . between the behaviour of them both. Efte, precor me mores, qua Jit is ftirpe creati,Illiufque animos, qui multos perdidit urns, K 3 Sumiti ip6 NOTES. Sunite ferpentis : pro fontibus Me, lac u queInteriit, at <vos pro famd dedit Let bo fortes, vos pellile molles,£t patrium relocate Be ? FAB. VIII. The ftory of Acetus has abundance of nature in all theparts of it, as well in the defcription of his own parentageand emplo
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 . between the behaviour of them both. Efte, precor me mores, qua Jit is ftirpe creati,Illiufque animos, qui multos perdidit urns, K 3 Sumiti ip6 NOTES. Sunite ferpentis : pro fontibus Me, lac u queInteriit, at <vos pro famd dedit Let bo fortes, vos pellile molles,£t patrium relocate Be ? FAB. VIII. The ftory of Acetus has abundance of nature in all theparts of it, as well in the defcription of his own parentageand employment, as in that of the failors characters andmanners. But the fhort fpeeches fcattered up and downin it, which make the Latin very natural, cannot appearlb well in our language, which is much more ftubborn andunpliant, and therefore are but as fo many rubs in theftpry, that are ftill turning the narration out of its propercourfe. The transformation at the latter end is wonder-fully beautiful. FAB. IX. Ovid has two very goodSimilies on Pentkeus, where hecompares him to a River in a former ftory, and to a War-horfe in the PRO- [ 197 ] £% ## ** ** ** #* ** ** ** ** *$^ 3£ i** U5>i «-5*-- i «-^> «-^> ^tf* •? •*• «^> t*-> ^^ ^ **• yy. %£ ** ** t* ** *# ** *# ** ** »V €* »$»#»»»$»»»»»<&?»»»» • PROLOGUE TO Ph^dra aW Hippolitus. Spoken by Mr. WILKS. IO N G has a Race of Heroes filld the Stage,J That rant by Note, and through the Gamut rage;In Songs and Airs exprefs their martial Fire,Combat in Trills, and in a Fuge expire ;While luird by Sound, and undifturbd by Wit,Calm and Serene you indolently fit:And from the dull Fatigue of Thinking free,Here the facetious Fiddles Repartee :Our Home-fpun Authors mud forfake the Field,And S bake/pear to the foft Scar let ti yield. To your new Tafte the Poet of this Day,Was by a Friend advisd to form his Play;Had Valentini, mufically coy,Shund Ph&dras Arms, and icornd the profferd joy,
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