Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . nclave dreft in Bonnets red, With three-crownd Tyrarrt at their Head-, „ Made it their Inquifition Court (a Bloody Crew^ Artful to fet the folemn Trap That lets no Heretick efcape)Owns it her Prefident and Founder too,.-, XI. Qft as the Church in Eafl or Weflern Lands. Rifing againft herfelf in Arms, In her own Blood imbrud her Hands, This Chief led on th unnatural War, Or did the hloody Standards bear,Or found the fierce Alarms ;Vi£lo
Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . nclave dreft in Bonnets red, With three-crownd Tyrarrt at their Head-, „ Made it their Inquifition Court (a Bloody Crew^ Artful to fet the folemn Trap That lets no Heretick efcape)Owns it her Prefident and Founder too,.-, XI. Qft as the Church in Eafl or Weflern Lands. Rifing againft herfelf in Arms, In her own Blood imbrud her Hands, This Chief led on th unnatural War, Or did the hloody Standards bear,Or found the fierce Alarms ;Vi£lorious ftill. (And what can more be faidOf all the living Warriors5 or the Heroes dead ?) XII. Britahty a Land well ftord with every Good3That Nature, Law, Religion gives;A Land where facred Freedom thrives \ Bleft Ifle.! If herown Wealfhe undeiftood ! 8 6 Mifcellaneous Thoughts, (Bona f tandem fua noverit) Omnium Fortunatijfima(Proh Dolor ! Proh Puhr / ) Intejlinui Dhifir & Helluo. xnr. I fuge Viator, MalignumHujufce Sepukbri Vaporem ! Latare, Fefiina^ o OraNe Sphingi adeo nefanda U/Ius in eevumRefurrettionis Concedatur Lccns^. in Vrose and Verse. %j HerSons immurd with guardian Oceans fleep, And Caftles floating on the Deep,Fencd from all foreign Foes-, O Shame ! O Sin !Her Sons had let this baleful Mifchief in ;This hellifh Fury, who with flattering Breath Did firft divide and then devour,And made wild Wafte where eer (he fpread her Power Behold fhe meets herfatal HourAnd lies enchaind in Death. at the Grave, O Traveller \Triumphant Joys that reach the SkiesAre here thejufteft Obfequies :Shout thrice $ therr flee afarThe poysnousSteams and Stenches of theScpukhre ; Go, turn thy Face to Heaven, and pray,That fuch a hateful Monfter never mayObtain a Refure&ion-Day,
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