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 . s not in his countrys caufe ?Who fees him acl, but envies every deed?Who hears him groan, and does not wijh to bleed?Even vjhen proud Cxfar midjl triumphal cars,The fpoils of nations, and the pomp of wars,Ignobly vain, and impotently great,Showd Rome her Cato* figure drawn inflate-,As her dead father s reverend image pafl,The pomp was darker?d, and the day oercafl, The triumph ceasd tears guff dfrom every tyt, The worlds great viclor pa
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 . s not in his countrys caufe ?Who fees him acl, but envies every deed?Who hears him groan, and does not wijh to bleed?Even vjhen proud Cxfar midjl triumphal cars,The fpoils of nations, and the pomp of wars,Ignobly vain, and impotently great,Showd Rome her Cato* figure drawn inflate-,As her dead father s reverend image pafl,The pomp was darker?d, and the day oercafl, The triumph ceasd tears guff dfrom every tyt, The worlds great viclor pafsd unheeded by ,Her laji good ?nan dejecled Rome adord,And honour d CasfarV lefs than CatoV fwor4. Britonj attend: be worth like this approved,And (how you have the virtue to be honefl fcorn the fatnd Cato viewedRome learning arts from Greece, vohomjbe fcene precarioufy fubffis too longOn French tranflations, and Italian fong; Dart [ 223 1 Bare to have fenfe your /elves ; ajprt the fictgt>Be jujily ixjarrnd cwith your oivn native plays alone fhould plea/e a Britifh ear>As CatoV felf had not dijdairid to L5 Dramatis Dramatis Perfonze. M E N. C A T O; Mr. Bootbr Lucius, a Senator. Mr. Keen. Sempronius, a Senator. Mr. Mills. Juba, Prince of Numidia. Mr. Wilks. Syphax, General of the Numidians Mr. Cibber. Portius, 7 0 r 0 , My. Ponjuel. Marcus, J y Mr. £>*>/. Xtecius, Ambajfador from Caefar. Mr. Bowman*. Mutineers, Guards, &C, W O M E N. Marcia, Daughter to Cnto. Mrs. OUfield. .Lucia, Daughter to Lucius, Mrs. Porter. 3 C E N E, a large Hall in the GovernorsPalace of Utiau c a r o. C A T O ACT I. SCENE O R T I U S, M A R C U S. p o r r 1 u s. TH E dawn is over-call:, the morning lours,And heavily in clouds bring on the day,The great, th important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome Our Fathers Death Would fill up all the guilt of Civil war,And clofe thefcene of blood. Already CtcfarHas ravaged more than half the g
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