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 . thrown down all distinction;Whoever is Brave and Virtuous, is a Roman. Im fick to death O when mail I get loofe From this vain world, th abode of guilt and forrow!And yet methinks a beam of light breaks inOn my departing foul. Alas, I fearIve been too hafty. O ye powers, that fearchThe heart of man, and weigh his inmoft thoughts, If I have done amifs, impute it not! The bell may err, but you are good, and oh ! [Dies. Luc. There fled the
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 . thrown down all distinction;Whoever is Brave and Virtuous, is a Roman. Im fick to death O when mail I get loofe From this vain world, th abode of guilt and forrow!And yet methinks a beam of light breaks inOn my departing foul. Alas, I fearIve been too hafty. O ye powers, that fearchThe heart of man, and weigh his inmoft thoughts, If I have done amifs, impute it not! The bell may err, but you are good, and oh ! [Dies. Luc. There fled the greateft foul that ever warmdA Roman bread ; O Cato / O my friend IThy will fhall be religioufly ^t let us bear this awful corps to C<efar,And lay it in his iight, that it may ftand A fence 286 C A T O. A fence betwixt us and the victors wrath; .Cato, tho dead, fhall ftill protect his friends. From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil difcord this that makes our country with alarms,And gives up Rome a prey to Roman arms,Produces fraud, and cruelty, and flrife,And robs the Guilty world of Catos e p I- gilippi^ fttlE EPILOGUE. By Dr. GARTH. Spoken by Mrs. PORTER. WH AT oddfantaftick things we women do fWoo would not lijlen when young lovers woo ?But die a maid, yet have the choice of two fLadies are often cruel to their cofl ;% give you pain, them/elves they punijh of virginity Jhould well be weighed;Too oft they re cancelled, tho? in convents made. Would you revenge fuch rajh refolves you may : Be fpiteful and believe the thing we fay, We hate you when you re eafily [aid nay. How needlefs j if you knew us, were your fears ? Let Love have eyes, and Beauty will have ears. Our hearts are formed as you your/elves would chufe, Too proud to ask, too humble to refufe : We give to merit, and to wealth we fell; Hefighs with mojl fuccefs that Jetties well. The woes of wedlock with the joys vje mix ;. Tis beft repentin
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