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 MISCELLANEOUS POETRYi 
 
 I N 
 
 ENGLISH AND LATIN, 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 By THE Rev. JOSEPH REJ^VE. 
 
 Printed by R. TREWMAN and SON. 
 
 SOLD BY THEM AND J. ROBSON AND CO. NEW BONP- 
 STREET, LONDON. 
 
 1794-
 
 UGBROOKE PARK. 
 
 POEM, 
 
 ^i^a^^^
 
 
 T 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 CHARLES LORD CLIFFORD, 
 
 BARON OF CHUDLEIGH, &c. &c. 
 
 THIS POEM 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED 
 
 BY HIS LORDSHIFs 
 
 MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 A 5 
 
 764423
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 ;ThE noble family of the Cliffords of Chud- 
 leigh, by the male line, is defeended from Sir 
 Lewis Clifford, the third fon of Roger, Baron 
 de Clifford, whofe Grandfather v/as made a 
 Peer by King Edward I. in the year 1300. 
 The family has been fince honoured by the cre- 
 ation of a fecond Peerage in the perfon of Sir 
 Thomas Clifford, the ninth in defcent from Sir 
 Lewis. Sir Thomrs Clifford received this 
 honour from King Charles IL under the ftile 
 and title of Lord Clifford, Baron of Chudleigh, 
 by lettrfs patent dated April 22, 1672. In 
 November following he was made Lord High 
 Treafurer of England. This Nobleman's 
 Grandfather Thomas Clifford, D. D. was the 
 firft of the family, who fixed his refidence at" 
 Ugbrooke, having inherited it in right of his 
 
 mother,
 
 C v" 3 
 
 mother, the daughter and heirefs of Sir Pierce 
 Courtenay of Chudleigh, brother of Sir William 
 Gourtenay of Powderham. 
 
 Ugbrooke, for local merit,- ranks among the 
 principal places in the county of Devon. The 
 Father of the prefent Lord began and made great 
 improvements, which he did not live to finifh, 
 but yet fo far advanced, as to open a fpacious 
 field for the defcriptive Mufe to fport in. On 
 that ground the Poem of Ugbrooke Park was 
 written and publifhed under his Lordfhip's 
 patronage. 
 
 The Poem opens with a converfation, which 
 occafionally pafTed upon the fubjedl between 
 his Lordftiip and the Author. After a fhort 
 outline given of the country round, and men- 
 tion made of feveral chief feats in the county, 
 as worthy of a Poet's notice, the Author enters 
 more minutely upon the internal beauties of 
 Ugbrooke itfelf, and expatiates upon the various 
 objeds, that rife fucceflively i-n view, as he moves 
 
 round
 
 C ix. 3 
 
 round the Park. The circumftance of a Danifh 
 camp within the fence furnifhes him a fair op- 
 portunity of introducing, by way of Epifode, 
 the ravages once made in this country by that 
 barbarous people, and the overthrow they re- 
 ceived from Alfred the Great. A comparative 
 view of that inward fatisfa<5lion, which fprings 
 from the tranquil enjoyment of rural fcenes, and 
 a Iketch of fome particular improvements made 
 in the Park and Manfion bring on the conclu- 
 fion of the Poem with a compliment to the dif- 
 ferent branches of the Clifford family.
 
 To THE READER. 
 
 Page 5, before the two laft lines, fhould be inferted the following 
 verfes : 
 
 In vain fliall Lupton* boaft, in vain partake 
 Of kindred fcenes, that grace Genevans lake, 
 Bid rocks give way, bid verdure clothe the fteep. 
 And woods ftand nodding o'er the foaming deep ! 
 
 Page II. The river Teign is vffritten as it is always pronounced 
 Teing. 
 
 Page 13. Inftead of Stoford, read Stover. 
 
 * Seat of the Hon. Mr. Juftice Boiler.
 
 UGBROOKE PARK. 
 
 x\m1DST the charms Devonia's fhore difplays 
 To tempt the Bard, and decorate his lays. 
 Why filent fits the Mufe, unftrung her lyre. 
 Her laurels wither'd, and extinft her fire ? 
 On Avon's bank (he once was taught to fing. 
 And as fhe fung, the vale was heard to ring. 
 There at her eafe fhe tried the rural ftrain. 
 And drew the dancing fhepherds to the plain. 
 Does verfe no more, does fong no longer warm. 
 Or have the fylvan Graces ceafed to charm ? 
 
 The
 
 [ 2 ] 
 
 The hill, the lawn, the woodland, and the glade. 
 The rock, and fonoriferous cafcade 
 Enchantingly invite. See mountains rife 
 Advancing with their woods to meet the Ikies. 
 See winding vales in broken flopes defcend. 
 See, interfperfed witR trees, the plains extend. 
 And join the diftant hills. Here hand in hand, 
 DifFuiing gladnefs o'er a fertile land, 
 Pomona fmiles, with Ceres hy her fide. 
 The fwain's refrefhing folace, and his pride. 
 Can fcenes like thefe, fo lavifhly difplay'd. 
 Be only meant for Contemplation's aid ? 
 Thefe to the Mufe in vocal right belong ; 
 The Mufe moft triumphs in defcriptive fong. 
 To thefe the royal Bard attuned his lays. 
 And Sion\ mount proclaim'd their Maker's praife. 
 Th' attradlive grove immortal Plato fought ; 
 There Arijiotle ranged his depth of thought. 
 So in the ihade befide fome murm'ring fpring. 
 Arms and the man young Maro learn'd to fing ; 
 
 Pluck'd
 
 [ 3 ] 
 
 Pluck'd from each fpray, from each infpiring bough 
 The facred wreath. Hill blooming on his brow. 
 
 Shall Saltram*%* plains no fprightly thought infufe. 
 Nor into fong awake the flumb'ring Mufe ? 
 Does Fortefcue'% gay hill f no more invite, 
 Tho' GrenvilW^ charms with Clintonh tafte unite ? 
 Shall Edgcumbe^s mourW:,t with matchlefs glories hung. 
 Unnoticed ftand, neglefled and unfung ? 
 Thy caftle, Po<wderham,^ no attention claim ? 
 OlAPoiAjderham's glory, and SiCourtenay^s name 
 May to the verfe thus patronifed impart 
 A grace, a charm above the reach of art. 
 Shall Haldon\ monument, || that lifts its head 
 In grateful mem'ry to the warlike dead. 
 
 * Seat of Lord Borringdon. 
 
 f Caftle- Hill, the feat of Earl Fortefcue, plann'd by Lord 
 
 Clinton. 
 \ Seat of Earl Mount Edgcumbe. 
 Seat of Lord Vifcount Courtenay. 
 tl Erefted by Sir Robert Palk, Bart, to the memory of his friend 
 
 G eneral'tawrence. 
 
 B 2 O'er
 
 I 4 ] 
 
 O'er lands and feas its tow'ring height difplay. 
 Without the tribute of a fingle lay ? 
 In charms unrivall'd fhall bright Mamhead\\ fhine. 
 And yet not challenge one poetic line ? 
 Each fmiling objeft gilds the cheerful fcene. 
 Seas, villas, rocks, and lawns for ever green 
 Woods nodding on the lofty mountain's brow. 
 And I/ca winding thro* the vale below. 
 
 Shall J?r/;vZ'^?'s ftrand* glow in th' hiftoric page. 
 And brighter Torr no poet's pen engage ? 
 Tho' hallow'd mitres glitter there no more. 
 The friendly Abbey f ftill adorns the (hore. 
 There verdant meads, there hills and wood confpire 
 To charm the fight and fan the Mufe's fire. 
 Wide-ftretching rocks majeftically bold 
 Th' cmbofora'd bay within the land infold. 
 
 II The feat of the Earl of Lilburnc. 
 
 * The landing-place of King William. 
 
 t Ton:- Abbey, the featofGewgeCary, Efq. 
 
 There
 
 [ 5 } 
 
 There Britain's fleets fecure at anchor lie. 
 Hear tempefls howl, and all their rage defy. 
 There meek Religion's ancient Temple rofe. 
 How great, how fall'n, the mournful ruin fhows. 
 Of facrilege behold what heaps appear. 
 Nor blufli to drop the tributary tear. 
 Here flood the font; here on high columns raifed 
 The dome extended ; there the altar blazed. 
 The fhatter'd aifles, with cluft'ring ivy hung. 
 The yawning arch, in rude confufion flung, 
 Sad-ftriking remnants of a former age. 
 To pity now might melt the fpoiler's rage. 
 Lo ! funk to reft the wearied Vot'ry fl/seps. 
 While o'er his urn the gloomy cyprefs weeps. 
 Here filent paufe, here draw the penfive figh. 
 Here mufing learn to live, here learn to die. 
 
 But why thus linger on the fea-beat fliore, 
 And abfenc fcenes thro- diftant views explore ? 
 
 B 3 Why
 
 [ 6 3 
 
 Why fearch around for charms, when here alone 
 All charms in Ughrooke are comprifed in one ? 
 
 Oft has the Mufe, my Lord, as here fhe ftray'd. 
 With partial'eyes thefe charming fcenes furvey'd. 
 Oft has fhe fondly wifh'd thefe fcenes to fing. 
 And in fhort effays tried her tender wing. 
 To wake her voice to harmony, each grace. 
 Each glowing feature of th' enchanting place 
 Perfuafively unite. ColIe6led here 
 As in a point all natre*s charms appear. 
 Hilis ftrive with woods, with water woods agree. 
 Of Devon's fcenes the grand epitome. 
 Oft rambling in her dreams, for dreams by night 
 Retrace the objefts, that by day delight. 
 She feem'd to climb the high hill's length'ning way^ 
 Skim thro' the vale, and round the foreft play. 
 
 Then roufe, fondMufe : when Ughrooke thus infpires. 
 No vulgar flame thy gen'rous bofom fires. 
 
 Dare
 
 [ 7 3 
 
 Dare to be bold : thy arduous end to gain. 
 
 As nature prompts, let judgment guide the drain. 
 
 Suit to the tafk thy lofty-founding voice. 
 
 And by thy numbers vindicate thy choice. 
 
 Where teeming Nature fpreads fuch richnefs round. 
 
 And paints with fuch variety the ground. 
 
 Where namelefs beauties crowd upon the fight. 
 
 And charms unequal equally delight. 
 
 The ftrains alike in unifon fhould flow. 
 
 Not lliffly high or negligently low,. 
 
 But what thro' all invariably muft pleafe. 
 
 With unaffefted dignity and eafe ; 
 
 Should, like the place, bold Nature's art combine. 
 
 And art be nature ftill in ev'ry line. 
 
 Immortal thus Ihall royal Wind/or live, 
 
 PofTefs'd of all, that verfe and tafte can give. 
 
 Unfading honours Ihall her forell crown. 
 
 And pay the bard with what he gives, renown. ' 
 
 In local merit, kfs does Ugbrooke fhine. 
 
 Or claim lefs favour from the vocal Nine ? 
 
 B 4 Here
 
 C 8 3 
 
 Here once gtQzxDryden ftray'd : here crownM with bays 
 To lill'ning nymphs he fung his Mantuan lays. 
 
 Bold as he fung, he felt new raptures roll 
 In t\*xY vein, and fwell his glowing foul. 
 Of woods and rocks the blended light and Ihade, 
 The folemn grotto and romai^tic glade. 
 The chequer'd landfcape and furrounding fcenes 
 Of waving forefts, and immortal greens 
 Taught his bright mind with brighter fparks to glow. 
 And his bold verfe in bolder ftrains to flow. 
 At ev'ry Hep, where'er he turn'd his eyes, 
 Frefh charms he faw in quick fuccefllon rife ; 
 Hills mixt with hills, as if by magic found. 
 Start into form in fweet diforder round. 
 Save; where judicious Art held Nature's hand. 
 And fingle trees in fcatter'd beauty ftand. 
 Bold rifing woods ftill crowded on his view. 
 Clung to the rocks, and wonder'd how they grew. 
 
 Hence
 
 [ 9 ] 
 
 Hence thro' the whole a noble air is thrown. 
 And Ughrooke is for fylvan grandeur known. 
 
 Roufed at the thought, theMufe with ardour ran. 
 Caught up her chorded lyre, and thus began. 
 
 When Nature firft traced out the vaft deiign. 
 And with' her greater works bade Ughrooke fhine. 
 In ftile unufual was the plan fhe drew. 
 At once to pleafe and ftrike with fomething new. 
 Amid the Beautiful we here behold. 
 Each feature, as it rofe, is Arong and bold. 
 Not indigefted or confufedly hurl'd. 
 But fair-proportion'd, as th' harmonious world. 
 The foeial parts ifi one gre.at view appear. 
 That form a whole both wild and regular. 
 To thc^e, who judge by lludied rules of art. 
 And make the whole fubfervient to a p^rt, 
 Whofe tafte the neat parterre and formal linp 
 Of flow'ring Ihrubs and circling path confine, 
 
 B 5 N
 
 No feemly grace th' unpolifh'd draught may Ihow : 
 'Tis not for them the great Sublime to know. 
 
 Above the plain fee hills on hills arife. 
 New objefts vary ftill, and ftill furprife. 
 O'er cultured vales our eyes unbounded roam 
 , To wilds remote, and ftill confefs their home. 
 For no mark'd bounds the fev'ral parts control. 
 Hills, woods, and rocks, form one united Whole, 
 Steep Haldon here his fable ridge extends. 
 There 2)tfr/'s high Torr in cloud-capt pomp afcends. 
 Around th' horifon, broken and uneven. 
 Dark mountains fpread, and hide the bending heav'n. 
 Quick as we move, they feemingly advance 
 To meet our fteps, and mingle in the dance ; 
 Now fideways join, now back difFufedly Aide 
 In rugged groups, and o'er the vale divide^ 
 The lovely vale, diverfified with fields. 
 Amid the wafte a pleafing contraft yields. 
 
 There
 
 [ II J 
 
 There devious ftreams their rapid tribute bring 
 T* enrich the current of majeftic Teing. 
 The Teing;, colledled in his vvat'ry force. 
 Between the mountains works his various courfe : 
 Now clad with greens conceals his filent flood. 
 Now fkirts the mead, and dives within the wood : 
 Then murmurs on, and burfting into day. 
 O'er rocky fragments rolls his waves away : 
 But rolls not far, before he winds again,. 
 As loath to leave the fafcinating plain. 
 When nobly flowing with a wider fweep. 
 He joins the tide, and ruflies to the deep. 
 
 Sleek lowing herds along his borders: feed, 
 Amidft his flocks the fhepherd tunes his reed. 
 Heart-cheering gladnefs breathes in ev'iy gale. 
 And induftry with plenty flrows the vale. 
 No democratic cry, no lawlefe roar 
 Of raving Anarchy afTails the fhore 
 
 B 6 No
 
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 No Gallic leveller's detefted plan. 
 
 No rude invader of the laws of man"* 
 
 Here whets the Heel, or lifts the murd'rous hand 
 
 Of life or wealth to rob the peaceful land. 
 
 But loyal ihouts from ev'ry hamlet round. 
 
 From ev*ry cot, and ev*ry tongue refound : 
 
 -With hand and heart fupport the royal throne. 
 
 And in their ^ov* reign" & rights congratulate their own. 
 
 Teingtcn and Kerfwell firft in order rife. 
 Their chalky turrets gleaming thro' the Ikies, 
 Kings there, *tis fung, once ftrove for martial fame ; 
 Each village ftill retains the kingly name.* _ ' 
 
 Next lofty Hennock crowns the mountain's height. 
 Here Illfington and Bo^ey greet our fight. 
 There Denhury f unfolds his camp, his wood. 
 His hills and rocks, diflain'd with Danifh blood. 
 
 Kingfte'ington and KIngflcerfwdl. 
 t Seat of Thomas Taylor, Efq. 
 
 Here
 
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 Here Highnveek's tow'r, the failor's landmark Hands, 
 There Crejiow^s rock the boflcjr vale commands. 
 The heath e'en Ihines, and with expenfive toil 
 Improving Stoford* clothes th' ungrateful foil. 
 Here ^/&/V^w^f peeps, there pleafant/^i</oJ fmiles. 
 While Brent's dim Torr our wand'ririg eye beguiles. 
 Here fcreen'd from ftorms and blafts of wintry flcies. 
 In the deep fhade fequefter'd Ideford lies : 
 And here our Heps inviting ChudUigh leads 
 Thro' flow'ry fields and ever-blooming meads. 
 
 Here Z^wf/-woods with Ughrooke hills unite. 
 How rich, how fuU,. how prominent and bright ! 
 Soft purling ftreams in wild meanders flow. 
 And fhelt'ring groves forbid the ftorm to blow* 
 In contraft with the fmiling Filla's grace, 
 A rock there ftands, the guardian of the place. 
 
 * Seat of James Templar, Efq. 
 
 )- Seat of Montagu Edmund Parker, Efcj. 
 
 X Scat of Charles Hale, EHj. 
 
 With
 
 [ 14 3 
 
 With frowning front he feems to threat the fky. 
 As from his fide the marble fragments fly. 
 His uncouth fhape, by age and tempefts torn, 
 Loofe-pendent fhrubs and fhaggy weeds adorn. 
 On his high cliiFs the browfing flocks appear 
 To fhrink within the clouds, and feed in air. 
 While prefllng thro' the mazes of his wood, 
 Clofe at his feet defcends the foaming flood. 
 Waked Echo hears the rulhing waters bound. 
 And from her cave returns the ruftiing found. 
 
 With bolder notes now raife the tuneful fongj 
 To bolder fcenes more tuneful notes belong,. 
 Not nodding Pelion with his fylvan hofl. 
 Nor Ida's felf a prouder fight can boaft. 
 Than what yon Mount,* with foreft honours crown'J,. 
 Exhibits to his kindred mountains round. 
 
 * Mount-Pleafent, wthia the Park. 
 
 There
 
 [ 15 ] 
 
 There thriving elms and afh tJifpute the prize 
 With fturdier oaks, that brave the ftormy flcies. 
 Their fpreading limbs with rich luxuriance bend. 
 Above the clouds their ftately heads afcend. 
 Sweet-fcenting limes a fofter hue difplay,. 
 And balmy firs perfume the dawn of day. 
 There, brought from Lebanon, the cedar fhines, 
 Tranfalpine poplars, chefnut, planes, and pines. 
 Broad-branching beech, and larch with fpiry pride. 
 O'er a vaft tribe of vulgar trees preiide. 
 Now bow'ring greens their woven fhades unite. 
 That fcarce admit the glimm'ring ftreaks of light. 
 Now op'ning glades difclofe the puzzled way.. 
 And cheer the profpefl with a blaze of day. 
 Thro' Ihapelefs boughs we catch th' expanding view. 
 Thro' ev'ry change the varying fcene purfue ; 
 Each growing charm with eager look explore. 
 And fcan with frelh delight each feature o'er. 
 
 Not
 
 [ i6 ] 
 
 ' ' ' . _^ 
 
 " Not fo in ancient days appear'd the land. 
 When Danijh rovers rufh'd on Teingmout//% ftrand. 
 Then on thefe hilJs wer6 new encampments* feen. 
 And threat'ning lances gleam'd along. the green. 
 The rampart here ftill undemolifh'd Hands, 
 The platform there the valley ftill commands. 
 The mould 'ring outwork ftill its crefcent fhows^ 
 Here funk the ditch, and there the caftle rofe. 
 WhereDanes once flaked their thirft,here weeps the rill 
 In gentle murmurs ftealing down the hill. 
 Then were Britannia^ brighter days o'ercaft. 
 Her towns a ruin, and her fields a wafte. 
 Her plunder'd fwains, untrain'd to war's alarms. 
 Nor taught the feats and exercife of arms. 
 To lonely deferts from their hamlets fled. 
 Or with their flaughter'd teems defencelefs bled* 
 
 At length immortal Alfred raifed his hand 
 Tp fnatch. from bondage freedom's native land. 
 
 * Daoiih camp In the park. 
 
 Aloft
 
 [ 17 ] 
 
 Aloft in air the royal banner flew. 
 And round their Prince a hoft of heroes drew. 
 Arm'd for their country's good, along they prefs'd j 
 With thirfl of glory panted ev'ry breall. 
 Swift as the bird of cloud-compelling Jove, 
 Upon the foe refiftlefs Alfred drove. 
 And bade the battle bleed. Keen flafties fly 
 From his broad Heel j in heaps the vanquilh'd die- 
 On Haldon hill by his avenging fword, 
 Himfelf a hoft, fell Denmark' % fwarthy Lord. 
 Fierce as he fell, he rued the fatal wound, 
 Grinn'd in the pangs of death, and bit the ground. 
 From him the Down* derives its vulgar name. 
 The lifting monument of Denmark'^ Ihame. 
 To face the fight then Danes prefumed no more. 
 But fled the field, and fought the Baltic fliore. 
 
 Thus when the winds rufti'd from folia's plain 
 To wreck ^Eneas in the ftormy main, 
 
 * HalUdown commonlycalled Haidon;;
 
 [ i8 ] 
 
 Pale Trojans faw the gath'ring tempefts fweep 
 
 Acrufs the ^, and fettle on the deep. 
 
 The clouds now burft, now from the kindling pole 
 
 Red lightnings flafli, and angry thunders roll. 
 
 Indignant Neptune heard the furges roar, 
 
 And in huge mountains break upon the fhore. 
 
 Then calmly rifing from the ruffled flood, 
 
 As round his car the fea-born Tritons flood. 
 
 With ftern rebuke he bade the tumult ceafe. 
 
 Fly, winds, he cried ;. they fled, and all was peace. 
 
 So fell the war. Britannia fmiled to fee 
 
 Her King triumphant, and her people free : 
 
 Herfelf revered by all the nations round. 
 
 Alike for commerce as in arms renown'd. 
 
 But hark ! what pealing Ihouts the foreft cheer ? 
 The fancied found ftill vibrates on the ear. 
 Lo ! where the Danes had raifed the hoftile mound, 
 Vidorious Britons, now with laurel crown'd. 
 
 Their
 
 [ ^9 3 
 
 Their joyous paeans in loud chorus fing y 
 The woods, the rocks, and hollow mountains ring. 
 Borne on the winds exulting pasans rife. 
 And float in fwelling triumph to the fkies. 
 With confcious warmth each hero's bofom glows. 
 And down his cheek the filent tranfport flows. 
 In tranfport loft each foldier had by chance- 
 Around th* intrenchment fix'd his pointed lance : 
 The lance with mufic animated grew, 
 Ofi^ from its fpear the polifti'd metal flew. 
 Now ftrange to tell,, quick ftrikes the fibrous root. 
 While high in air the fpreading branches flioot. 
 The fmooth round trunk enclofing bark confines. 
 And in full bloom the burfting foliage fliines. 
 Thus, where a hoft of martial lances flood. 
 In oval fliape now ftands the marfliali'd wood. 
 
 Hail, facred fliades, the Mufe's foft retreat. 
 The haunt of Wifdom, and the Graces feat. 
 
 Your
 
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 Your gueft for life a friendly Bard receive ; 
 'Tis all he afks ; O grant, if not, forgive. 
 Here let him fmg his unambitious lays, 
 Here Ileal thro* life, here clofe his peaceful days. 
 So ihall no flaught'ring ax, with ftroke profane, . 
 Aflault the honours of your fylvan reign. 
 The trees, by lucklefs fate condemn'd to fall. 
 From other hills let guilty gamefters call ; 
 Of yours not one the rueful die fhall mourn, , 
 Nor from its ftation be ignobly borne. 
 
 The great, the gay, now wild and thoughtlefs grow^i . 
 May whirl thro' all the follies of the town. 
 From plays to routs, from routs to mafquerades. 
 Turn night to day, and day to midnight fliades. 
 But there life's pureft joys they ne'.er will know. 
 Such as thefe flow'ry fylvan fcenes bellow. 
 Unenvied let the Virtuofi prize 
 Their birds, their infers, grubs and butterflies ; 
 
 Bid
 
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 Bid lifelefs forms in dainty order He, 
 
 And with ftufF'd mummies feed the taftelefs eye. 
 
 Here life itfelf more fprightly decks the day. 
 
 When on the lawn the hare and pheafant play. 
 
 Or when ihe deer, exulting with a bound. 
 
 Darts thro' the glade, and fprings along the ground. 
 
 O'er mouldy bufts let Antiquaries pore. 
 Of urns and coins thefacred ruft adore ; 
 Change fcores of Georges for one Otbo*s face, 
 Artd learnedly enjoy the precious brafs. 
 Of ancient honours here, of long-lived fame 
 More modern marks our better homage claim. 
 Thefe rev'rend hills, with ag^d forefts crown'd, 
 Thefe groves, this fylvan majefty around. 
 Of fage progenitors to fons unborn 
 Shall mark the feat, and Hill the feat adorn. 
 
 This
 
 [ 22 3 ___^ 
 
 This is the feat famed Clifford* once admired, 
 Twas here, too wife for ftate, he once retired. 
 Clifford, unawed by intereft or fear, 
 Hypocrify's falfe garb difdain'd to wear. 
 No flave to party or the fickle crowd. 
 The fchemes he plann'd, he publicly avow'd. 
 Friend to his King, by principle was juft. 
 Inflexible and fieady toJiis truft. 
 But when to private pique, and each vile end 
 The public weal was bafely made to bend. 
 When Honefty no more approach'd the throne. 
 Nor Loyalty her fentiments could own. 
 When to be great, men were no longer good. 
 And carelefs Charles went headlong with the flood. 
 Then the much-injured Treafurer withdrew, 
 Aftrea-like, nor courts nor courtiers knew. 
 
 * LordHighTreafurer Clifford. See his charadter in Macpherron. 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Let
 
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 ae . ..^... . . ,.,,,. . ^ 
 
 Let ipeculacive Sages range the f'phere 
 
 Of heav'nly orbs, and trace the changing year 
 
 Fix motion's laws, explain attraftlon's force. 
 
 The caufe of thunder and the lightning's courfc ; 
 
 Say, round the lazy poles if oceans flow. 
 
 Or lands lie buried in eternal fnow } 
 
 Tell, why the tides refpedl their fandy bound. 
 
 And fear to trefpafs on forbidden ground. 
 
 *Tis yours, ray Lord, to form the rural feat. 
 
 And add new luftre to your o\Vn retreat. 
 
 To model with the Genius of the place 
 
 Each leading feature, each Spontaneous grace. 
 
 To Ihade the hill, to fcoop or fwell the green, 
 
 And break with wild diverfities the fcene. 
 
 For as yoa plan, die Genius ftill prefides, 
 
 Dii*e6ls each ftroke, anil each improvement guides 
 
 Hence thro* the whole, irregularly great. 
 
 Nature and Art the wondrous work complete ; 
 
 In all fo true, fo unperceived the fkill, 
 
 i That nature modified is nature ilill. 
 
 Obfequious
 
 r ^4 3 
 
 - Obfequious rUls unite their liquid ftore. 
 And fiflies fport, where vipers lurk'd before. 
 Diftinguifh'd from the reft a fountain flows. 
 That has no equal, and no rival knows. 
 A marble rock its copious ftream fupplies. 
 Thence fprings its fource, and there its treafure lies, 
 A concave form the Shelving fides betray, 
 And crowding trees exclude the folar ray. 
 Hence let ArSurus drench the hills with rain. 
 Or fiery Cancer parch with drought the pl^n. 
 The limpid well an even current pours. 
 By funs not heated, nor diftain'd by Ihow'rs. 
 
 Along the vale, adorn'd with lawn and wood. 
 Now winds the deep, the wide-extended flood. 
 Clear as the wave of Torr's tranfparent bay. 
 When dazzling funbeams on its furface play. 
 The foiooth expanfe reflefts a floating gleam 
 Of verdant flopes, that paint the lucid ftream. 
 
 Where
 
 C 25 3 
 
 Where once they grazed, the wond'ring deer deicry 
 Inverted tow'rs, that meet the downward flcy 5 
 Then trembling ftart with wild furprife to hear 
 New founds of water rufliing on their ear. 
 Spent in the windings of the flcirting grove. 
 The ling'ring current fcarcely feems to move. 
 When lo ! abruptly from the rocky fteep 
 Headlong it falls, and dafhes down the deep. 
 From crag to crag the tumbling waters bound. 
 And foam, and fret, and whirl their eddies round, 
 'Till by degrees in milder falls they play. 
 And in foft whifpers gently glide away. 
 Luxuriant oaks, by wanton nature bred. 
 Along the banks their waving honours fpread. 
 
 Now pleafed we turn, and fee the Manfion rife 
 Wiih battlements and tow'rs, that emulate the fkies ; 
 In ftile and plan fo fitted to the place. 
 That each on each refiefts a filler grace. 
 
 C Let
 
 [ 26 ] 
 
 Let loud Poinpofo pufF his villa's coft. 
 And brag the fums magnificently loft : 
 No pompous littlenefs thefe ftrudlures know, 
 Nor pile up vain extravagance for fliow. 
 Altho' no heaps of glittering expence 
 Our pride here flatter, or miflead our fenfe, 
 Altho' the wall no crowded paintings hial^ 
 And no Sirjojhua ftands by Lely's* fide ; '. 
 Altho' no colours on the canvafs glow, , 
 
 But what a Fan D}ke,-f or a Titian X fliow, 
 A Z,;W, a Rul>eas,\\ or a Quido'sM^ ftile. 
 Or Gentikfchi**, in the Virgin'' s fmile ; 
 Altho' no figures load the ceiling's weight. 
 Nor gorgeous columns prop its falling height. 
 
 A portrait of L rd Trcafurer ClifFoid by Sir Peter Lely. 
 
 -J- A pidlure of the Tiibute Money. 
 
 J The /.dultrefs Woman and 3 Magd->.len, 
 
 ^ A piflure of the LU tie Children by i etev Van Lint- 
 
 II A piclure o the Virgin a.. d Child. 
 
 ^ A .Via.d.lrr. 
 
 '>>* A picture ox the Holy Faooily. 
 
 Yet
 
 __^ [ 27 3 
 
 Yet ftill there is, what more our judgment charms. 
 'Tis tafte, *tis manly elegance, that warms 
 And dignifies the whole. Thus rofe the plan 
 Thus Adams modeli'd what you firfl began. 
 
 No more let Phrygia boaft her needle's grace. 
 Nor beds of ftate in Tyrian colours trace ; 
 But here her fkill and all her art forego. 
 Here gaze with envy or with rapture glow. 
 See,* on the filken ground how Flora pours 
 Her various dies and opulence of flow'rs ; 
 How, blended with the foliage of the rofe 
 And rich carnation, the ftreak'd tulip blows. 
 The downy peach and curling vine appear 
 With all the treafures of the purple year. 
 Poifed on her velvet plumes of vivid green. 
 The Paroquet enlivens here the fcene j 
 With half-expanded wing there iits the Dove 
 In rifing- attitude; intent above 
 
 * The ftate bed. 
 
 C 2 She
 
 [ ^8 3 
 
 She turns her eye, where on extended wings 
 Thro' fields of air iier lively confort fprings. 
 With yellow crefts the Cockatoos unfold 
 Their milky plumage, ftain'd with tints of gold. 
 Here frelh as life in all their glory dreft. 
 The bold Maccaws difplay the fcarlet breaft. 
 The painted neck of variegated hue. 
 And glofly wings of bright cerulean blue. 
 
 This graceful Norfolk's* fkill alone could teach. 
 This foch is fate, no other hand fliall reach. 
 This, the rich emblem of her noble mind. 
 For Norfolk's heir (he traced, at once defign'd 
 A monument of tafle. Alafs, how vain 
 Are oft our fcheroes. how mixt with feeds of pain 
 Are half our joys ! In life no fooner known. 
 But, as a lily cut untimely down, 
 Honuard\ was faatch'd away. With him expired 
 My hope, fhe faid, and all I once deiired. 
 
 Maria, Dutchefs of Norfolk. 
 
 f Edward Howard, Efq. fon of the Hon. Philip Howard l>y 
 his fccood wix'ey the filler of her Grace of Norfolk-
 
 i ^9 3 
 
 In him kind Heav'n had ev'ry gift combin'd. 
 That forms the heart, and trains the virtuous mind, 
 W(7wr</ a name ftill fad, yet ever dear 
 And at the name out gufh'd the big round tear : 
 O C/iforti, now my fecond hojpe, receive 
 This laft beft pledge Maria's hand can give. 
 So fhall I fmile, howe'er by fortune croft. 
 In you to find the work has not been loft. 
 
 She faid : and Ugbrooke to his fplendid ftore 
 Added this one unequall'd treafure more. 
 Th' affenting Genius fmiled, was glad to fee 
 Art ftill with nature vie, and ftill agree. 
 Alike in all thus Art and Nature grace 
 With neat, with rich iimplicity the place- 
 No ftifF formality, no noife or ftrife 
 Here cloud the day, or damp the joys of life. 
 Each cheerful morn, with eafe and plenty ftored. 
 Spreads for each welcome gueft the friendly board. 
 C^ ~ No
 
 ^30 J 
 
 No plaintive figh heaves from the forrow'd breaft. 
 But Pity feels and comforts the diftrefsM : . 
 Supports pale Sicknefs on her bed of grief. 
 Prepares the raed'cine and imparts relief: 
 To helplefs Age and Want divides the bread. 
 And bids Defpondence raife her drooping head. 
 Thanks to the hand, from whence fuch bounties flow. 
 With heart-felt joy the grateful Poor beftow. 
 Hence on the noble Pair in ihow'rs defcend 
 The pureft bleflings Heav'n itfelf can fend. 
 Domeftic virtues in fair order move. 
 Connubial faith, and harmony and love. 
 Hence of celeftial Pow'rs the fav'rite care. 
 May all their ciFspring all thofe bleflings fliare ! 
 May to their own their Parents virtues join. 
 And with new luftre fwell the Clifford line I 
 
 Blithe as the morn, and as Narciffus fair, 
 la bloom of youth behold the rifing Heir I 
 
 In
 
 In converle gay, in featiment refined. 
 
 In manners courteous, friend to all mankind. 
 
 That fprightly life, which fparkles in his eye. 
 
 That captivating air foooj foon muft die. 
 
 Befide his couch in vain his Cen/ort kneels. 
 
 Con oles his pains, and ev'ry forrow feels. 
 
 With many an anxious thought, and many a figh. 
 
 Thro' all the changes of a foreign fky. 
 
 By love, by friendftiip, and by duty led. 
 
 For him fhe had from ev'ry comfort fled. 
 
 For him had fought, what titles, honours, wealth 
 
 Could ne'er command, the firft of blcfllngs, health : 
 
 'Till worn and fpent, and lab'ring now for breath. 
 
 She fees him fainting in the arms of death. 
 
 No help, no friend, no confident is near 
 
 To footh her grief or catch the falling tear. 
 
 As a tall poppy, when o'ercharged with rain. 
 
 Bends drooping down, and finks upon the plain. 
 
 So funk the Peer in life to (hine no more, 
 
 Confign'd to duft on Munich's diftant fhore. 
 
 C 4 There
 
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 There while he fleeps, let hallow'd tapers burn# 
 And Angels watch around his fculptured urn. 
 
 From the ftill ihade of fwect domeftic life, 
 Unknown to envy and ambitious &nfe, 
 Now firft in rank Aepe forth the fecond Son 
 To finilh what his alive Sire begun. 
 With him a Nymph of PFardour*s princely dome 
 To fix the Graces in their ancient home 
 His pleafing Con/ort comes : their joy, their care 
 A blooming Offspring crowns the happy Pair, 
 Away our forrows at the profpeft fly. 
 And bright'ning tranfports beam in ev'ry eye. 
 Reviving Ugbrooke calls his broken plumes. 
 His former ilate and dignity refumes. 
 
 Tht daughter of Lord Arundell ofWardour. 
 
 CATO.
 
 C A T O. 
 
 A TRACED r. 
 By Mr. ADDISON. 
 
 DONE INTO Latin Verse 
 WITHOUT THE LOVE SCENES. 
 
 C 5 CATO.
 
 CAT 
 
 ^RAGEDT, 
 By Mr. ADDISON. 
 
 WITHOUT THE 
 
 LOVE SCENES. 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Sect fpeSlacttlum d'tgnum, ad quod refpiclatf intentus oper'tfuo, 
 
 Deui ! Ecce par Deo dignum, -vir forth cum mala fortuna 
 
 compojitus ! Non "video, inquam, quid haheat in terrh Jupiter 
 
 pukliriuSy ft converter e animum velit, quam utfpeHet Catoncnif 
 
 jam partibus non ftmcl fraffiSy tiihUtminui inter ruinas pub- 
 
 iicas trtSfumt 
 
 Sen. deDivin. Prov.
 
 A T 
 
 TRAGOEDU. 
 
 AUTOBE CLARISSIMO VIRO 
 
 JOSEPHO ADDISON, 
 
 Inter Angliae noftrae principes Poetas 
 
 JURE NUMERANDO 
 
 OMI3SIS AMATORIIS SCENIS, 
 LATINO CARMINE VERSA. 
 
 EDJTJO SECUNDA. 
 
 Ecce JpeEiacuIum dlgnum, ad quod refpiciat, intentus cperi fuo 
 
 Deus .' Ecce par Deo d'gnum, -vir forth cum mala fortund 
 
 ' compoftus ! Non -video, inquam, quid haheat in terrhjupxter 
 
 pulchr;u5,ft convertere animum velit, quam utfpeBet Catonenif 
 
 jam partihus non femel fraltisf nihilominus Inter ruinas pub- 
 
 iicas erefum. 
 
 Sek. d; Divin. Prov.
 
 To the READER. 
 VoLTAiRE7r la Tragedie Angloife. 
 
 M. Voltaire in his remarks on the EngliQi 
 Tragedy, thus (peaks of Mr. Addison's Cato. 
 
 <E Caton de Mr. Addison me paroit le 
 plus beau perfonnage, qui foit fur aucun Thea- 
 tre J mais les autres roles de la piece n'y repon- 
 dent pas ; & cet ouvrage fi bien ecrit eft defi- 
 gure par un intrigue froide d'amour, qui repand 
 fur la piece une langueur, qui la tue. 
 
 La coutume d'introduire de Tamour a tort 
 & a travers dans les ouvrages dramatiques, 
 pafla de Paris a Londres vers I'an 1660 avec 
 nos rubans & nos perruques. Les femmes 
 qui parent les fpeftacles, comme ici, ne veulent 
 plus foufFrir qu'on leur parle d'autre chofe que 
 d'amour. Le fage Addison eut la molle 
 complaifance de plier la feverite de fon caraclere 
 aux moeurs dc fon tems, & gata un chef d'oeuvre 
 pour avoir voulu plaire. 
 
 Mr.
 
 C 37 3 
 
 IVJLR. Addison's Cato Is, in my opinion, 
 the greateft charafter, that ever appeared on the 
 ftage ; but the inferior parts of the play are no 
 ways anfwerable to it. That excellent work is 
 disfigured by an infipid intrigue, which, by the 
 extreme fiatnefs of it, murders the whole piece. 
 
 The cuflom of introducing love, right or 
 wrong, upon the ftage, pafled from Paris to 
 London about the year 1660, with our ribands 
 and perukes. The ladies, who grace the pub- 
 lic appearance at theatrical exhibitions^ there, 
 as they do here, will hear nothing but love. 
 The grave Addison was fo weak, as to fub- 
 mit his auftere genius to the manners of the 
 age, and, out of a defire to pleafe, fpoiled a 
 mafterly performance. 
 
 JL HE intent of the Tranflator being to fet 
 forth the generous fentiments of the Roman 
 Patriot in a language he formerly fpoke, greater 
 care has been taken to preferve the dignity of 
 thought and exprelTion, than to giVe a verbal 
 tranflation. 
 
 - Nee
 
 r 38 ] 
 
 Nee verba verbum curabit reddere fidus 
 Interpres HoR. 
 
 The Love Scenes being entirely out, it has 
 been neceflary here and there to make fome 
 fmall change in the original expreflion, and 
 fometimes to borrow verfes from different 
 fcenes, to make the tranfition and connection 
 of the parts natural. 
 
 In the margin are marked the chief changes 
 and the places, where the verfes are to be "found, 
 which in this verfion are read in other fcenes. 
 
 DRAMATIS
 
 DRAMATIS PERSONS. 
 
 CATO,, 
 
 LUCIUS, Senator. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, Senator. 
 
 JUBA, NuMiDi^ Princeps. 
 
 SYPHAX, Dux NUMIDARUM. 
 
 PORCIUS, 1 
 
 vCatonis Filtt. 
 MARCUS, 5 
 
 DECIUS, Legatus a Cjesare. 
 
 Nunciusy Seditiqfi, Satellites, &c. 
 SCENA Utic^ iff Pratorie. 
 
 CATO.
 
 C A T O. 
 
 
 ACT 1. SCENE I. 
 
 PORCIUS, MARCUS. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 
 A. HE dawn is over-caft, the morning low'rs. 
 And heavily in clouds brings on the day. 
 The great, th' important day, big with the fate 
 Of Cato, and of Rome. Our father's death 
 Would fill up all the guilt of civil war. 
 And clofe the fcene of blood. Already Casfar 
 Has ravag'd more than half the globe, and fees 
 Mankind grown thin by his dellruftive fword. 
 
 Should
 
 ^- 
 
 CAT O. 
 
 Oj 
 
 ACTUS PRIMUS. SCENA PRIMA. 
 
 PORCIUS, MARCUS. 
 PORCIUS. 
 
 'BTECTA dubium nube fqualenti jabar 
 Aurora terris revehit exoriens diem 
 Inaufpicatum, lugubri fato gravem 
 Romse Sc Catonis. Patris efFufus cruor 
 Civilis omne penitus impleret nefas, 
 Clademquc belli. Parte plus media infolens 
 Orbis fubafta, Caefar humanum genus 
 Rarefcere videt marte deletum impio. 
 
 Si
 
 4 C ATO. 
 
 Should he go further, numberb would be wanting 
 To form new battles, and fupport his crimes. 
 Ye gods, what havock does ambition make 
 Among your works ! 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Thy fteady temper, Porcius, 
 Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caefer, 
 In the calm lights of mild philofophy. 
 I'm tortured, even to madnefs, when I think 
 On the proud vidlor. Ev'ry time he's nam'd, 
 Pharfalia rifes to my view. I fee 
 Th' infulting tyrant prancing o'er the field 
 Strow'd withRome's citizens, and drench'd in flaughte: 
 His horfe's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. 
 Oh Porcius, is there not fome chofen curfc. 
 Some hidden thunder in the ftorcs of heav'n. 
 
 Red
 
 C A T O. - 43 
 
 Si porrd prgat> terra, jam prope incoHs 
 Exhaulk, tantis criminum haud ultra queat 
 SufRcere monllris. Quanta, proh fuperi, mala 
 Invcxit orbi dira regnaadi fitis ! 
 
 M J Reus. 
 Virtute nixus Stoica has rerum vices, 
 Haec iaeva patria bafta tranquillo potes 
 Animo intueri. Mente ego itifara feror, 
 Quoties fuperbi imago vifloris fubit. 
 Quoties ad aures Caefaris nomen venit, 
 Theflalica toties arva Romano ebria 
 Cruore, toties csede bacchantem fera 
 Cernere tyrannum videor. InfultanS equo 
 Vehitur per aciem civibus ftratam fuis, 
 Humilique mixtos plebe patricios duces 
 Cruentus obterit ungula. O, fi quod polo eft 
 Fulmen repoftum, fulmen infueto rubens 
 Furore, Porci, nubibus ruptis micet, 
 Virique flamma vindice involvat caput.
 
 44 CATO. 
 
 Red with uncommon wrath, to blail the man> 
 "Who owes his greatnefs to his country's ruin ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Believe me^ Marcus, 'tis an impious greatnefs. 
 And mix'd with too much horror to be envied. 
 How does the luftre of our father's aflions, 
 Through the dark cloud of ills, that cover hicif 
 Break out, and burn with more triumphant brightnefs? 
 His fufF'rings fhine, and fpread a glory round him. 
 Greatly unfortunate, he fights the caufe 
 Of honour, virtue, liberty, and Rome. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Who knows not this ? But what can Cato do 
 Againft a world, a bafe degen'rate world. 
 That courts the yoke, and bows the neck to Cacfar ? 
 Pent up in Utica, he vainly forms 
 
 A
 
 CATO. 45 
 
 Qui per ruinas patriae flernit fibi 
 Iter ad honores ! 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 lUe, mihi crede, impio 
 Qui fcelere paritur, fplendide mendax honor 
 Haud invidendus fuerit. O quanto magis 
 Operofa patris inclyti virtus nitet ! 
 Spifsa malorum nube depreffus licet 
 Multa afpera tulit> major e dubiis tamen 
 Micuit procellis, luce confpicuus nova. 
 Multa quoque bello paflus, infelix facra 
 Duin jura libertatis & Romas a/Terit. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Nemo ifta nefcit. Quid tamen Cato poteft 
 Solus, ubi Roma degener & iners iibi 
 Servile patitur facilis imponi jugum ? 
 Inclufus Utica; mcenibus frufira iludet 
 
 Fulcire lapfum Romuli imperii decus. 
 Milite Numidio cindlus exiguam regit 
 
 Umbi'am
 
 46 C A T O. 
 
 A poor epitome of Roman greatnefs. 
 
 And, cover'd with Numidian guards, diredls 
 
 A feeble army and an empty fenate. 
 
 Remnants of mighty battles fought in vain. 
 
 By heav'ns, fuch virtues, join'd with fuch fuccefs, 
 
 Diftrad my very foul. Our father's fortune 
 
 Would almoll tempt us to renounce his precepts. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Remember, what our father oft has told us. 
 The ways of heav'n are dark and intricate. 
 Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors. 
 Our underftanding traces 'em in vain. 
 Loft and bewilder'd in the fruitlefs fearch ; 
 Nor fees with how much art the windings run. 
 Nor where the regular confufion ends. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Thefe are fuggeftions of a mind at eafe. 
 Oh Porcius, did'ft thou tafte but half the griefs. 
 
 That
 
 C A T O. 47 
 
 Umbram fenatus, fraiflaque virorura agtnina, 
 Tenues reliquias Caefaris, in aciem trahit. 
 Dii, tanta virtus dum malis tantis jacet 
 ^pprefla, lancinat intimum pe6lus delor. 
 Haec fi Catonis pretia virtutem manent, 
 Quis non Catonis pene dubitaret fequi 
 Praecepta, Porci? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Saepe nos docuit pater 
 Confilia fuperum mille macandros, finus 
 Habere mille, mille & errorum vias. 
 Unde inchoetur, vel ubi (efs ordo expllcet 
 Indeprehenfus, lafla mens nequit affequi. 
 Caliginofa node fed preffum latet, 
 Quicquid removit ab acie humana Deus. 
 
 A 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Tranquillioris fenfa mentis ifta funt. 
 Me milie curae, multiplex me angit dolor. 
 O chare Porci, tale fi quidguam modo 
 
 Paterere,
 
 48 CATO. 
 
 That wring my foul, thou could 'ft not talk thus coldly. 
 Such an unlook'd-for ftorm of ills falls upon me,* 
 It bgats down all my (Irength. I cannot bear it. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Now, Marcus, now thy virtue's on the proof. 
 Put forth thy utmolt ftrength, work ev'ry nerve, 
 And call up all thy father in thy foul. 
 To quell thy fears and guard thy drooping heart 
 On this weak fide, where moft our nature fails. 
 Would be a conqueft worthy Cato^s fon. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Pordos, the counfcl, which I cannot take, 
 Inftead of healing, but upbraids my weaknefs. 
 Bid me for honour plunge into a war 
 Of thickeft foes, and rufti on certain death. 
 Then Ihalt thou fee, that Marcus is not flow 
 To follow glory, and confeis his father. 
 
 Thefe two varies are taken out of the fccond fcene of the third 
 aft, where Porcius IpsaJcj. 
 
 But
 
 CATO. 49 
 
 Paterere, non fic mente comptofua anxia ' 
 Tempora loquendo falleres. Impar malis 
 Animus ferendis deficit, labat, cadit. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Dii fic virile peftus aerumnis probant. 
 Male ergo virtute nova, age omnes impiger 
 Intende nervos, & aninni vim omnem advoca, 
 Totumque patrem. Vincere imbelles metus, 
 Sortemque forti pedlore adverfam pati, 
 Magni Catonis filium & juvat & decet. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Confilia capere indocilis aegrefcit magis 
 Animus medendo. Ruere in hoftiles globos ' 
 Laurumque petere morte venalem jube ; 
 Haud unquam ab alta laude degenerem patris 
 Marcum videbis. Inultus afl: ubi mala 
 
 D Circum
 
 50 CATO. 
 
 But when I fee fuccefs ftill follows Casfar, 
 And ftill backs his crimes, when I fee fuch virtue 
 Afflidled by the weight of fuch misfortunes. 
 Life hangs upon me and becomes. a burden.* 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Behold young Juba, the Numidian prince ! 
 With how much care he forms himfelf to glory. 
 And breaks the fierce nefs of his native temper 
 To copy out our father's bright example. 
 What, fhall an African, Ihall Juba's heir 
 Reproach great Gate's fon, and fhew the world 
 A virtue wanting in a Roman foul ? 
 
 MJRCUS. 
 Porcius, no more. Your words leave ftings behind 'ert . 
 Whene'er did Juba, or did Porcius, fhew 
 A virtue, that has caft me at a diftance. 
 And thrown me out in the purfuits of honour f 
 
 * Vide the firft and fourth fcene of aft II. where Cato fpeaks ; 
 acid the firft fcene of aft III. where Marcus fpeaks. 
 
 PORCIUS.
 
 CATO. 5-1 
 
 Circum ingruentia cerno, ubi fata & deos 
 Cerno ufque placidos Caefari, iratos piis, 
 Mcerore feflum lucis aethereae piget. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Sufpice Numidiae principem : en quanto flagrans 
 Amore gloria; indolem feram domat, 
 Noftri parentis aemulus. Fato altior 
 Inter cadentes fortis adverfas minas 
 Veftigia patris paffibus anhelis legit. 
 Quid, an Catonis filius cedet Juba; ? 
 Romanus Afro ? 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Parce plura : acres fina 
 Stimulos fub alto figis. Ecquando Juba, 
 Ecquando Porcius ipfe me pigrum arguit 
 Honoris ? 
 
 D 2 PORCIUS.
 
 52 C ATO. , 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Marcus, I know thy gen'rous temper well. 
 Fling but th' appearance of difhonour on it. 
 It Araight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 A brother's fufF'rings claim a brother's pity. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Heav'n knows, I pity thee. Behold my eyes ; 
 Ev'n whilft I (peak .... do they not fwim in tears ? 
 Were but my heart as naked to thy view, 
 Marcus would fee it bleed in his behalf. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Why then doll treat me with rebukes, inftead 
 Of kind condoling cares, and friendly forrow ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 O Marcus, didI know the way to eafe 
 Thy troubled heart, and mitigate thy pains, 
 Marcus, believe me, I could die to do it. 
 
 MARCUS.
 
 CATC. ' 5j 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Eft generofa mlhi nota indoles. 
 Vel Ipfa tenuis umbra te totum excitat, 
 Dedecoris ipfum nomen in flammas rapit. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 A fratre lachrymas poftiilat fratris dolor. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Contellor aftra, Marce, me miferet tui. 
 Hsec cerne himina : nonne dum loquor, madent ' 
 Perfufa fletu ? O fi tibi nudum quoque ^ 
 
 Cor hoc pateret, cerneres totum tuo 
 Dolore faucium. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Ergo quid plagam afperas, 
 Et non arnica mitigas potius manu ? 
 
 I ' PORCIUS. ' 
 
 Ter chare frater, fare, ii quas te premunt, 
 
 Hac te levare mole curarum queam. 
 
 I' Equidem vel ipsa morte fraternos velim 
 
 Redimere iudus. 
 
 , D 3 MARCUS.
 
 54 CATO. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Thou beft of brothers, and thou beft of friends \ 
 Pardon a weak dillemper'd foul, that fwells 
 With fudd^n gufls, and finks as foon in cabns. 
 The fport of paffions. But Sempronius comes. 
 He mufl not find this foftnefs hanging on me. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 
 
 5$ 
 
 ' MARCUS. 
 O mihi frater fide 
 Jundle Pyladea, parce turbato malis 
 Animo, ac dolori facilis indulge meo. 
 Sempronius venit : animi hunc moUem decet 
 Celare luftum. 
 
 [Exit, 
 
 JD4 
 
 SCENA.
 
 56 CATO. 
 
 SCENE 11. 
 
 Enter SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 'ONSPIRACIES no fooifer fhould be form'd. 
 Than executed. What means Porcius here ? 
 I like not that cold youth. I mufi: difTemble, 
 And (peak a language foreign to my heart. 
 
 {J/tde. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, PORCIUS. 
 Good morrow Porcius ! Let us once embrace. 
 Once more embrace, whilft yet we both are free: 
 To-morrow fhould we thus exprefs oul* friendlhip. 
 Each might receive a Have into his arms. 
 This fun perhaps, this morning fun's the laft. 
 That e'er ihall rife on Roman liberty. 
 
 PORCIUS.
 
 OATO. 57 
 
 SCENA SECUNDA. 
 
 INTRAT SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 ^LJ JBI agitur aut vita aut falus, 
 Confilia nullum capta patiuntur moram.' 
 Verum quid iflhic Porcius ? Oportet, vafer 
 Arcana cordis fronte fimulata^tegam. 
 
 [Seor^m. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, PORCIUS. 
 Salveto, Porci ! Mutuo amplexu frui 
 Dum liberis licet, in tuum finum ruo. 
 Si eras eandem forte teftemur fidem, 
 Uterque fervum in brachia accipiat fua. 
 Hodierna forfan ultima haec venit dies, 
 Qa?s Romuli urbem cernat immunem jugo. 
 
 D s PORCIUS.
 
 58 CATO. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 My father has this morning call'd together 
 To this poor hall his little Roman fenate. 
 The leavings of Pharfalia, to confult 
 If yet he cam oppofe the mighty torrent. 
 That bears down Rome, and all her gods before it. 
 Or muft at length give up the world to Cxfar. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Not all the pomp and majefty of Rome 
 Can raife her fenate more than Catoh prefence. 
 His virtues render our aflembly awful. 
 They ftrike with fomething like religious fear. 
 And make ev'n Casfar tremble at the head 
 Of armies flufh'd with conqueft. O my Porcius ! 
 The world has all its eyes on Cato's fon. 
 Thy father's merit fets thee up to view. 
 And (hews thee in the faireft point of light. 
 To make thy virtues, or thy faults, confpicuous. 
 
 PORCJUS.
 
 C A T O. 5^ 
 
 *i . 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Parvum fenatum juffit hodierno pater 
 Mane hue coire, & quid Ilatu hoc rerum juvet, 
 Confulere fecum ; an qua arte pervinci queat 
 Fortuna^ fitae aliquando cedendum mails. 
 Quels funt refillendo impares Roma atque Dll. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Confilla prsfens noftra cum Cato regit, 
 Secura pofito Roma refplrat metu : 
 Viftorque vel dum bella per mundum vehit, 
 Tremit ipfe Caefar. Quin age & tu aude quoque 
 Virtute, Porcl, in fimile conniti decus. 
 Magni Catonis fama praccluiit tlbi 
 Latebras inertes. Judices in te omnium 
 Vertuntur oculi, nobili an dignum patre, 
 Laudifne degenerem, in tua fitum eft mana. ' 
 
 D 6 FORCIUS.
 
 6o C A T O. 
 
 FORCIUS. 
 Well doft thou feem to check my llng'ring here 
 On this important hour ..... I'll ftraight away. 
 And while the fathers of the fenate meet 
 In clofe debate to weigh th' events of war, 
 I'll animate the foldiers' drooping courage. 
 With love of freedom, and contempt of life. 
 I'll thunder in their ears their country's caufe. 
 And try to roufe up all that's Roman in 'em. 
 *Tis not in mortals to command fuccefs. 
 But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deferve it. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS Solus. 
 Curfe on the ftripling ! How he apes his fire ? 
 
 Ambitioufly fententious ! But I wonder 
 
 Old Syphax comes not. His Numidian genius 
 Is well difpofed to mifchief, were he prompt 
 And eager on it j but he mull be fpurr'd. 
 And ev'ry moment quicken 'd to the courfe: 
 Cato has ufea me ill. He has refufed 
 
 His
 
 CATO. at 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Bene monuifli : me pigrse quanquam morse 
 Ipfa nimis arguit hora. Militum oclus 
 Turmas adibo, dumque conveiiiunt patres, 
 Monendo quidquid potero, ad arma defides 
 Animos ciebo : gloria: accenfos fid 
 Hortabor acres tendere in beJla & neces 
 Patriae atque liber tatis ultores fuse. 
 Certos, amice, nemo fucceflus potefl: 
 Sibi arrogare ; at nos, quod eft honeftius, 
 Merebimur virtute. , 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS Solus, ] 
 Male pereat puer . 
 Sententiofus ! Ut animum afFedat patris 
 Tumidumque faftiim ! Sed ubi cundtatur Syphax ? 
 Vafer ille Numida fcelere foecundum gerit 
 Aptumque pedus, ni ufque ad inceptum foret 
 Stimulo incitandus. Me male accepit Cato, 
 
 Meritis
 
 62 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 His daughter Marcia to my ardent vows. 
 
 Befldes, his baffled arms and ruin'd caufe 
 
 Are bars to my ambition. Caefar's favour, 
 
 That (how'rs down greatnefs on his friends, will raife me 
 
 To Rome's firft honours. 
 
 [Syphax enters. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C A T O. 3 
 
 Meritis minorem retulit ingratus vicem. 
 Superbientis tanta faftidla viri 
 Non funt ferenda. Me fibi generum negat, 
 Dum Marte porro fraftus adverfo jacet, 
 Ambitio nullam elufa mercedem feret. 
 Sin Caefaris caftra fequor, ad primes patet 
 Aditus honores. 
 
 [^Ingrediiur Syphax, 
 
 SCENA
 
 64 CATO. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 SYPHAX, SEMPRONIUS. 
 SYPHAX. 
 ^EMPRONIUS, all is ready. 
 I've founded my Numidians, man by man. 
 And find them ripe for a revolt. They all 
 Complain aloud of Cato^s difcipline. 
 And wait but the command to change, their mafter. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Believe me, Syphax, there's no time to wafte. 
 Even vvhilft we fpeak our conqueror comes on. 
 And gathers ground upon us e^'ry moment. 
 Alas ! thou know'ft not Csefar's aftive foul. 
 With what a dreadful courfe he rufhe* on 
 From war to war ! la vain has nature form'd 
 Mountains and oceans to oppofe his paflage. 
 He bounds o'er all, vidorious in his march. 
 
 The
 
 C A T O. ^5 
 
 *m winwr 
 
 ' SCENA TERTIA. 
 
 SYPHAIC, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 V^UNGTA pro votis eunt, 
 Numidas viritim voce compellans meos. 
 Qua cuique mens fit, quaeve, tentavi, fides. 
 Duce fiib Catone gravia militiae palam 
 Munia queruntur, & alium extemplo fequi 
 Uno prope omnes ore depofcunt ducem. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Mihi crede, nullam tempus admittit morani. 
 Amice, vel dum loquimur, armorum ingruens 
 In nos procella propius hue vidor tonat. 
 Proh quantus ardor impetu vafto omnia 
 Late ruentem Caefarem in bellum rapit '.- 
 Natura fruftra montium objecit moras, 
 Frufira sefluantia pandit oceanus vada. 
 
 Per
 
 66 C A T O. 
 
 The Alps and Pyreneans fmk before him. 
 
 Thro* winds and waves, and ftorms he works his way. 
 
 Impatient for the battle. One day more 
 
 Will fet the vidlor thund'ring at our gates.. 
 
 But tell me, haft thou yet drawn o'er young Juba i 
 
 That ftill would recommend thee more to Casfar, 
 
 And challenge better terms. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Alas 1 he's loft. 
 He's loft, Sempronius. All his thoughts are full 
 Of Catoh virtues. But I'll try once more. 
 For ev^iy inftant I expeft him here. 
 If yet 1 can fubdue thofe ftubborn principles 
 Of faith, of honour, and I know not what. 
 That have corrupted his Numidian temper. 
 And ftruck th' infeftion into all his foul. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Be fure to prefs upon him tv^ry motive. 
 Juba's furrender, fmce his father's death. 
 
 Would
 
 CATO. 67 
 
 Per mare, per ignes, perque ventorum minas 
 Molitus iter in proelia impatiens ruit. 
 Alpefque Pyrenasque fubmlttunt juga, 
 Facilemque fternunt faxa properanti viam. 
 His forte muris vidor infultet j)rius, 
 Quam fol Tub undas craAinum condat diem. 
 Sed age, approbatne noftra confilia Juba ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Heu fpes inanes ! Pertinax juveni furor, 
 iEquum, fidefque, & nefcio Cuid animum abflulit, 
 Adeo in Catonem caecus & prseceps amor 
 Penit^s per omnes toxicum infudit fibras, 
 Reftumqae Numidam tetrica infecit lue. 
 Brevx afFuturum expefto : rigidum denud 
 Tentabo pedus, 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Omnia exploret Syphax. 
 Nollri attrahatur confili in partem Juba, 
 Viftoriifque adjefta veteribus Africa 
 
 Zona:
 
 68 C A T O. 
 
 Would give up Afric into Csfar's hatids. 
 And make him lord of half the burning zone. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 But is it true, Sempronius, that your fenale 
 Is call'd together ? Gods ! thou muft be cautious ! 
 Cato has piercing eyes, and will difcern 
 Our frauds, unlefs they're cover'd thick with art. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Let me alone, good Syphax. I'll conceal 
 My thoughts in paffion ; 'tis the fureft way. 
 I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country. 
 And mouth at Casfar, 'till I fhake the fenate. 
 Your cold hypocrify's a ftale device, 
 A worn-out trick. Would'ft thou be thought in earneft 
 Clothe thy feign'd zeal in rage, in fire, in fury. 
 
 srrHAX. 
 
 * In troth, thou'rt able to inflruft grey hairs. 
 And teach the wily African, deceit ! 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 C AT O. 6() 
 
 Zona? rubentls Cjefarem late dabit 
 Domlnum potentem. 
 
 STPHAX. 
 Sed hodie nunquid Cato 
 Cogit fenatum ? Di ! efle te cautum decet. 
 Oculo fagagi cundla perluftrans Cato 
 Confilia nollra perfpiciet, alta niii 
 Tegantur arte. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. , 
 Ne metue Syphax : mihi 
 
 Sat ifta curae. Mente limulata vafer 
 
 Amore patriae fenfa velabo mea. 
 
 In Cjefaremque mille jadlabo probra. 
 
 Donee labantes fando permoveam patres. 
 
 Se nempe ferio agere quis credi velit ? 
 
 Furore csecos igneo fenfus tegat, 
 
 Certamque fiftis afferet verbis fidem. 
 
 STPHAX. 
 
 Solertiam hercle mente verfuta potes 
 
 Vincere fenilem, & fraude fallacem nova 
 
 Afrum erudire. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 JO CATO. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 Once more be Aire, to try thy ikill on Juba, 
 Mean while I'll haften to my Roman foldiers. 
 Inflame the mutiny, and underhand 
 Blow up their difcontents, 'till they break out 
 Unlook'd for, and difcharge themfelves on Cato, 
 Remember, Syphax, we muft work in hafte. 
 O think, what anxious moments pafs between 
 The birth of plots, and their laft fatal periods. 
 Oh ! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, 
 Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death ! 
 D^Hrudion hangs on ev'ry word we fpeak. 
 On ev'ry thought, 'till the concluding ftroke 
 Determines all, and clofes our defign. 
 
 * [Exit. 
 
 srPHAX Solus. 
 
 I'll try if yet I can reduce to reafon 
 This headftrong youth, and make him fpurn at Cafo. 
 The time is fhort, Caefar comes rulhing on us ... . 
 But hold ! young Juba fees me, and approaches. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C A T O. 7 r 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Sed tu inexpertum nihil, 
 Tu nihil inaufum linque, & indidum nihil. 
 Ego ad maniplos interim pergam meos, 
 Animofque vulgi facibus accendam novis. 
 Donee inopino turbine Catonem obruant. 
 Qui iis, Syphax, memento : properato eft opus. 
 O quanta, nofti, cura follicitum tenet, 
 Dum pendet anceps facinus. Auftori fuo 
 Incepta, non perafta confilia nocent. 
 
 [Exit. 
 SYPHAX Solus. 
 Urgenda res eft, Csfar & bellum ingruit. 
 Male obftinatum fleftere in melius Jubam 
 Teiitabo rurfus, inque Romanum afperis 
 Incendere odiis. 
 
 SCENA
 
 72 CATO. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 J U B A, S Y P H A X. 
 yUBA. 
 
 OYPHAX, I joy to meet thee thus alone. 
 I have obferved of late thy looks are fall'n, 
 O'ercaft with gloomy cares and difcontent. 
 Then tell me, Syphax, T conjure thee tell me. 
 What are the thoughts, that knit thy brow in frowns. 
 And turn thine eye thus coldly on thy prince ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts. 
 Or carry fmiles and fun-fliine in my face. 
 When difcontent fits heavy at my heart. 
 I have not yet fo much the Roman in, me. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Why doll thou caft out fuch nngen'rous terms 
 Againft the lords and fov'reigns of the world ? 
 
 Do' ft
 
 CATO. 73 
 
 SCENA QUARTA. 
 
 JUBA, SYPHAX. 
 
 JUBA. 
 V^OMMODE' occurris, Syphax, 
 Mihi expetitus. Ecqua rugofam afperat 
 ^gra tibi frontem cura ? Cur folito magis 
 Moeftum intueris capite demiflb folum ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Fallace rifus ore fimulatos dare. 
 Cum triftis intus inlidet menti dolor. 
 Nee ingeni, nee artis eft opus meie. 
 Romanus adeo efle nequeo. 
 
 JUBA. 
 
 Ita rerum arbitros 
 Dominofciue qaorfum dente mordaci petis ? 
 
 E Roman a
 
 74 C A T O. 
 
 Doft thou not fee mankind fall down before them , 
 And own the force of their fuperior virtue ? 
 Is there a nation in the wilds of Afric, 
 Amidft our barren rocks, and burning fands. 
 That does not tremble at the Roman name ? 
 
 STPHAX. 
 Gods ! where's the worth that fets this people up 
 Above your own Numidia's tawny fons ? 
 Do they with tougher finews bend the bow. 
 Or flies the jav'lin fwifter to its mark, 
 Launch'd from the vigour of a Roman arm ? 
 Who like our aftive African inllrufts 
 The fiery fteed, and trains him to his hand ? 
 Or guides in troops th* embattled elephant, 
 Loaden with war ? Thefe, thefe are arts, my prince. 
 In which your Zama does not ftoop to Rome. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Thefe all are virtues of a meaner rank ; 
 Pcrfeftions, that are plac'd in bones and nerves. 
 
 A
 
 CATO. 75 
 
 Romana nunquid arma, virtutes, viros 
 Vidlus ftupefcit orbis & adorat decus ? 
 Qua; gens arenas Africae & fyrtes colit, 
 Qux non vel ipfum nomen Aufonium tremit I 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Virtute Numidis, quaefo, qua tandem tuia 
 Gens ilia praeftat ? Promptlor an hoftem ferit ? 
 Velociufne fagitta Romanis volat 
 Excuffa nervis ? Turbine an metam petit 
 Graviore jaculum Romula intortum manu ? 
 Quae comparare regio fe aufit Africas, 
 Seu bello onuHos in acie elephantas regat 
 Seu docili anhelos indole fonipedes domet, 
 Equitemque doceat pariter & fraenos pati ? 
 Hac arte, princeps, Roma non Zamam anteit. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Vis offium ilia eft atque nervorum : altius 
 Romanus aciem mentis intendit fuae. 
 Hunianitatis fcilicet ftudio feros 
 
 E 2 Formare
 
 76 CATO. 
 
 A Roman foul is bent on higher views ; 
 To civilize the rude unpolifh'd world. 
 To lay it under the reftraint of laws. 
 To make man mild, and fociable to man. 
 To cultivate the wild licentious favage 
 With wifdom, difcipline, and lib'ral arts, 
 Th' embellifhments of life. Virtues like thefe 
 Make hunxan nature fhine, reform the foul. 
 And break our fierce barbarians into men. 
 
 SYPHAX- 
 Patience, kind heav'ns ! Excufe an old man's'warmth. 
 What are thefe wond'rous civilizing arts. 
 This Roman polifh, and this fmooth behaviour. 
 That render man thus tradable and tame ? 
 Are they not only to difguife our paffions. 
 To fet our looks at variance with our thoughts. 
 To check the Harts and fallies of the foul. 
 And break off all its commerce with the tongue ? 
 
 JUBA.
 
 CATO. 77 
 
 Pormare cultus hominum, inhofpitos facrU 
 .Fraenare populos legibus, & idlo rudes 
 Sociare gentes foedere : haec virtus, Syphax, 
 Romana pulchris artibus vitam excolit, 
 Placidofque mores barbarum mundum docet. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Quae, quaefo, Romana ifta, quae tandem fuit 
 J aftata virtus i Quippe mendaci docet 
 Simulare vultu fenfa, fpeciofo oblita 
 Dare verba fuco, fimul alia premere finu, 
 Simul alia loqui, omnem abrogans lingua^ fidem 
 Quam fraudis inkia cordis humani dedit 
 Interpretem natura. 
 
 E 3 yUBA.
 
 78 C A T a 
 
 To ftrike thee dumb, turn up thy eyes to Cato . 
 There may'ft tbou fee to what a godlike height 
 The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. 
 While good, and juftj and anxious for his friends. 
 He's ftill feverely bent againft himfelf. 
 Renouncing fleep, and reft, and food, and eafe. 
 He drives with thirft and hunger, toil and heat ; 
 And when his fortune fets before him all 
 The pomps and pleafures, that his foul can wifh^ 
 His rigid virtue will accept of none. 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 Believe me, prince, there's not an African* 
 That traverfes our vaft Numidian deferts. 
 In quell of prey, and lives upon his bow. 
 But better praftifes thefe boafled virtues. 
 Coarfe are his meals, the fortune of the chafe ; 
 Amidft the running flream he Hakes his thirft. 
 Toils all the day, and at th' approach of night 
 
 On
 
 C AT a 79 
 
 yUBA. 
 Non imitabilem 
 Sufpice Catonem, quern extulit diis prope parem 
 Romana virtus. Sobrius, juftus, bonus, 
 Patiens laborum, frigoris, inediaci fitis, 
 Conftans amicis, fibi feverus, omnia 
 Oblata blandae dona fortunae abnuit. 
 
 STPHAX. ' 
 Deferta Libyae nemo noftratum, Juba, 
 ^ Venando luftrat, vitam & arcu fuftinet. 
 Qui non feverius hafce virtutes colit. 
 Curis folutus libero vallos pede 
 Saltus pererrat, callidus tantum feris 
 Struxifle fraudes. Rivus extinguit iitiin, 
 Fortuita fylvis praeda venanti dapes 
 Faciles miniftrat. Nox ubi diurno opprimit 
 Labore feffum, membra profternit folo ; 
 Recline dura rupe fuftentat caput, 
 Levefque fomnos sthere fub udo trahit. 
 
 E 4 Dei*
 
 8p CATO. 
 
 On the firft friendly bank he throws him down. 
 Or reih his head upon a rock 'till morn : 
 Then rifes frefh, purAies his wonted game. 
 And if the following day he chance to find 
 A new repaft, or an untafted fpring, 
 BlefTes his ilars, and thinks it luxury. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Thy prejudices, Syphax, won't difcern 
 What virtues grow from ignorance and choice. 
 Nor how the hero differs from the brute. 
 But grant, that others could with equal glory 
 Look down on pleafures, and the baits of fenfe ; 
 Where fhall we find the man that bears affliftion. 
 Great and majeftic in his griefs, like Cato f 
 Heav'ns ! with what ftrength, what fteadinefs of mind. 
 He triumphs in the midft of all his fufF'rings ! 
 How does he rife againft a load of woes. 
 And thank the gods, that throw their weight upon him ! 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 CATO. 81 
 
 Dein cum recenti fole fe recens levat, 
 Studia diurna fequitur, & fi venam aquae 
 Fors reperit illibatam & intadlas dapes, 
 Superos adorat, feque regifico frui 
 Luxu arbitratur, 
 
 yUBA. 
 JBarbaro abreptus, Syphax, 
 Furore nefcisj, vir quid interfit viro, 
 Vel quid humile fupra vulgus heroem levet, 
 Scd efto : molles alter illecebras pari 
 Virtute Ipernat; Mente quis adeo tamen 
 Animofus atque fortis adverfas ferat 
 Sortis ruinam ? Quippe quo premitur magis. 
 Hoc fortiore flat inter aerumnas gradu, 
 Malifque ab ipfis robur aflumit novum. 
 
 E 5 SYPHAX,
 
 82 CATO. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 * *Tis pride> rank pride, and haughtinefs of foul ; 
 I think the Romans call it floicim. 
 Had not your royal father thought fo highly 
 Of Roman virtue> and oiCato's caufe. 
 He had not fall'n by a flave's hand, inglorious : 
 Nor would his flaughter'd army now have lain 
 On Afric fands, disfigured with their wounds. 
 To gorge the wolves and vultures of Numidia. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Why didft thou call my forrows up afrefh ? 
 My father's name brings tears into my eyes, 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 Oh, that you'd profit by your father's ills ! 
 
 JUBA. 
 What wouldft thou have me do ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 Abandon Cato. 
 
 JUBA,
 
 C A T O. 85 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 r. Id infolentis arguit fallum viri : 
 Ni fallor, Itali Stoicum faftum vocant, 
 Romanx opinio tanta virtutis nifi 
 Fidum Catoni tuum ita junxiffet patrem, 
 Acerba non fie fata fervili manu 
 Inglorius obiiffet ; inhumata Libycis 
 Non tot virorum millia jacerent agris, 
 Paftura rabidos vulturum & lupum greges. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Renovare triftem quid, Syphax, luftum jubes ? 
 Cum reputo patrem aegro dolore cor tumet, 
 Lachrymifque manare humidae incifi^up^ S^ps?; 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 O fi paternis fapere didicifles malis ! 
 
 JUBA. 
 Age fare, quonam fapere me veils mode ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 Defere Catonem. 
 
 E 6 , JUBA.
 
 84 C A T O. 
 
 , 
 
 yUBA. 
 Syphax, I Ihould be more than twice an orphan 
 By fuch a lofs. 
 
 srPHAX. 
 Ay, there's the tie that binds you ! 
 You long to call him father. Marcia's charms 
 Work in your heart unfeen, and plead for Cato, 
 No wonder you are deaf to all I fay. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, your zeal becomes importunate. 
 I've hitherto permitted it to rave. 
 And talk at large ; but learn to keep it in. 
 Left it fhould take more freedom than I'll give it. 
 But Cato never at a time like this* 
 Would lay out his great foul in words, and wafte 
 Such precious moments. No ! his life's at ftake j 
 And warm with flaughter, our viftorious foe 
 Threat'ns aloud and calls me to the field. 
 
 Thefe five verfes are nearly taken out of the fifth fcene of 
 tbe fiift aA. 
 
 SYPHAX,
 
 CATO. 85 
 
 J ' 
 
 yuBj. 
 
 Sic patre bis orbus forem. 
 
 STPHAX. 
 Hoc nempe rebar vinculo obftringi Jubam. 
 Marcia Catonem blanda commendat patrem. 
 Nil rairor equidem fi aure tarn furda accipis 
 Monita, fi ita tibi dida vilefcunt mea. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax. caveto : liberas linguae haftenus 
 Permifi habenas : difce dehinc premere tamen, 
 Ne plus loquare, audire quam regcs decet. 
 Sed otiofa terere caufando pudet 
 Tempora, Catonis dubia dum pendet falus, 
 Dum marte flagrans Caifar in aciem vocat. 
 
 SrPHAX.
 
 86 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 srPHAX Solus. 
 Ten thoufand curfes light on thee and Cato ! 
 
 iND Of the first act. 
 
 
 ACT
 
 C A T O. 87 
 
 STPHAX Solus. 
 Nigrantis erebi milk dii perdant malts 
 Juham y Catonem ! .... Cajfus in vent urn haSlenus 
 Labor omnis iit. At car dine baud tanto decet 
 Cejfare rerutn. Sunt mihi modi, funt doli. 
 Sunt techme ff artes mille. 7'entabo omnia, 
 ^0 pernjicax frangatur ingenium jfuba. 
 
 FINIS ACTUS PRIMI. 
 
 ACTUS
 
 88 C A T O. 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, LUCIUS, PORCIUS, Senatores. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Jt^OME ftill furvives in this affembled fenate. 
 Let us remember, we are Cato^s friends. 
 And aft like men, who claim that glorious title. 
 
 LUCIUS. ' 
 Cato will foon be here and open to us 
 Th' occafion of our meeting. Hark 1 he comes. 
 
 \_ A found of trumpets. 
 May all the guardian gods of Rome dired him ! 
 
 Entbr
 
 C ATO. 
 
 ifedHtMMMHHIINH 
 
 ACTUS SECUNDUS. 
 
 SCENA PRIMA. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, LUCIUS, PORCIUS, Senators. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, 
 JljLoC in fenatu Roma nunc etiam viget. 
 Nos cum Catone retr6 ruentis imperi 
 Fortuna junxit. Noftra fibi conftet fides : 
 Sumamus animos grandibus cjeptis pares, 
 f Romaque dignos. 
 ? LUCIUS. 
 
 Ipfe mox aderit Cats, 
 Noftrique prajfens confili aperiet modum. 
 
 [Tuia canit, 
 ] Audin ? adeflc nunciat tubae canor. 
 ' J)ii forpitales, Roma qucis cura fuit, 
 Coeleftem amico numine afTcrvent virum ! 
 
 Intrat
 
 9 CATO. 
 
 Enter CATO. 
 CATO. 
 Fathers, we once agaia are met in council. 
 Cajfar's approach has fummon'd us together. 
 And Rome attends her fate from our refolves. 
 How (hall we treat this bold afpiring man ? 
 Succefs ftill follows him, and backs his crimes. 
 Pharfalia gave him Rome, Egypt has fince 
 Received his yoke, and the whole Nile is Caefar's. 
 Why Ihould I mention J uba's overthrow. 
 And Scipio's death ? Numidia's burning fands 
 Still fmoke with blood. 'Tis time we ihould decree. 
 What courfe to take. Our foe advances on us. 
 And envies us even Lybia's fultry deferts. 
 Fathers, pronounce your thoughts. Are they ftill fixt 
 To hold it out, and fight it to the laft ? 
 Or are your hearts fubduM at length, and wrought 
 By time, and ill fuccefs to a fubminion ? 
 Sempronius, fpeak. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 CATO. 91 
 
 Intrat CATO. 
 CATO. 
 Patrix labantis fata, libertas, falus * . 
 
 ConfiUa veftra petere me cogit, Patres. 
 Lachrymofa portans bella prop'iori impetu 
 Minatur hoftis. Infolens viri furor 
 Qua reprimetur ? Scelera perficere improbus 
 Pergit, nee ufquam fcelera fucceflu carent. 
 Pharfalica acies Caefari Romam dedit, 
 QuafTata deinceps corruit Memphis foIOf 
 Jugumque tota Nilus iEgypto fubit. 
 Quid Sciplonis fata, quid dadem Jubx 
 Memorem ? i^iluanti fanguine etiamnum calent 
 I^ybies arense. Rapidus hoftls ingruit, 
 t ipfa vel deferta nobis invidet 
 Arentis Africae. Agite nunc ergo, Patres, 
 Quid cuique fieri placeat, in medium date : 
 Malifne viftos cedere tyranno juvet. 
 An fortiter pro patria, Roma atque Diis 
 Ad ukimum certare. Seroproni, incipe. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 92 C A T O. 
 
 SEMPROmUS, 
 My voice is ftill for war, 
 Gods ! can a Roman fenate long debate, 
 Which of the two to choofe, flav'ry or death ? 
 No, let us rife at once, gird on our fwords. 
 And at the head of our remaining troops. 
 Attack the foe, break through the thick array 
 Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him. ' 
 Perhaps fome arm, more lucky than the reft. 
 May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage. 
 Rife, fathers, rife : 'tis Rome demands your help. 
 Rife, and revenge her flaughter'd citizens. 
 Or Ihare their fate. The corps of half her fenate 
 Manure the fields of Theflaly, while we 
 Sit here deliberating in cold debates. 
 If we fhould facrifice our lives to honour. 
 Or wear them out in fervitude and chains. 
 Roufe up for (hame ! Our brothers of Pharfalia 
 
 Point
 
 C ATO. 93 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Quifquamne claro genere Romanus poteft 
 P^ndere dubius, utrumne prseponat necem. 
 An fervitutem ? Bella, mavortia geri 
 Bella placet. Adeo protinus eamus, Patres, 
 Ferroque latera vindice accindli improbum 
 Petamus hoftem. Mille denfatis licet 
 ^Cuneis virorum robora tyrannum tegant, 
 Rumpemus aditus. Quis fcit, an reliquis magis 
 Profpera tot inter una tranfadigat virum 
 Hafta, patriamque liberet & orbem jugo ? 
 Quia furgite, Patres. Roma, libertas vocant. 
 Surgite jacentum civium ulturi neces, 
 Similive fate fimile merituri decus. 
 Sanguine patricio Theflali exundant agri, 
 Nofque dubitando trahimus hie lenti diem, 
 Pulchramne p'raeftet petere per mortem decus. 
 An ludluofum ferre fervitii probrum. 
 Torpentium animorum fitum excutiat pudor. 
 Pharfaiica Cccforum acie oberrant ducum 
 
 Manes
 
 94- CATO. 
 
 Point at their wounds, and cry aloud .... To battle 
 Great Pompey's fliade complains, that we are flow 
 And Scipio's ghoft walks unreveng'd amongft us. 
 
 CATO. 
 Let not a torrent of impetuous zeal 
 Tranfport thee thus beyond the bounds of reafon. 
 True fortitude is feen in great exploits. 
 That juftice warrants, and that wifdom guides. 
 All elfe is tow'ring frenzy and diftraftion. 
 Are not the lives of thofe, who draw the fword 
 In Rome's defence, intrulled to our care ? 
 Shduld we thus lead them to a field of flaughter. 
 Might not th' impartial world with reafon fay. 
 We lavifti'd at our deaths the blood of thoufands. 
 To grace our fall, and make our ruin glorious ? 
 Lucius, we next would know, what's your opinion. 
 
 LUCIUS.
 
 C A T O. 95 
 
 Manes inulti : vulnera oftentant fua, 
 
 Et nos ad arma voce lagubri vocant 
 
 Ad arma, Patres. Magnus en ! morae reo 
 
 Pompeius urget. Sibi parentandiim inferas 
 
 Clamat per umbras Scipio. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Mentem cave, 
 Ne forte rapiat nimius armorum furor. 
 Nifx ratione nixa ftet, virtus migrat 
 In temeritatem. Publica: quicquld rei 
 Fortuna reliqui fecit, eft noftrae, Patres, 
 Curae repoftum. Hiantia patriae decet 
 Curare vulnera, non novis Vetera malis 
 Exafperare. Prodigi vitae nimis 
 Merito arguemur, fi tot illullres viros, 
 Ut noftra decorent funera, in medias neces 
 Projicimus. At quae nunc tibi, Luci, fedet 
 Sententia, audire libet. 
 
 LUCIUS.
 
 g6 C A T O. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 My thoughts, I muft confefs, are turn'd on peace. 
 Already have our quarrels fill'd the world 
 With widows, and with orphans. Scythia mourns 
 Our guilty wars, and earth's remoteft regions 
 Lie half unpeopled by the feuds of Rome. 
 'Tis time to fheath the fword, and fpare mankind. 
 It is not Casfar, bijt the gods, my fathers. 
 The gods declare againft us, and repel 
 Our vain attempts. To urge the foe to battle. 
 Prompted by blind revenge and wild defpair. 
 Were to refufe th' awards of providence, 
 And' not to reft in heav'n's determination. 
 Already have we (hewn our love to Rome, 
 Now let us fhew fubmiffion to the gods. 
 We took up arms, not to revenge ourfelves. 
 But ftte^ the commonwealth. When this end fails. 
 Arms have no further ufe. Our country's caufe. 
 That drew our fwords, now wrefts 'em from our hands 
 And bids us not delight in Roman blood, 
 
 Unprofitably
 
 CATO. 97 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Eft fufum fatis 
 Superque fanguinis. Impio bello nimis 
 QualTatus orbis vix fuas clades capit. 
 Nulla regio ufquam eft, five qua Titan levat, 
 Seu qua remoto mergit oceano diem, 
 Quam non replerit fanguine Aufonium nefas. 
 Romana late bella deplorat viris 
 Viduata Scythia, & mundus oppofito procul 
 Sub axe, noftro marte populatus jacet. 
 Cruenta tempos tela vaginis tegi, 
 Generique tandem parcere humano jubet. 
 Non noftra Caefar aufa contundit, Patres, 
 Sed vis deorum. Numine adverfo irrita 
 Quid gerimus ultra bella ? Cedamus Jovi. 
 Ubi caufa belli ceflat, & ceflet furor. 
 Patrise atque libertatis amor arma ad pia 
 Nos excitavit. Quicquid in manu fuit, 
 Feciraus abunde. Glorias eft fadlum fatis. 
 Forte nimis irx, patrix certe parum. 
 
 F Si
 
 gS CATO. 
 
 Unprofitably ihed. What men could do. 
 
 Is done already. Heav'n and earth will witnefs. 
 
 If Rome muft fall, that we are innocent. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 This fmooth difcourfe, and mild behaviour oft 
 Conceal a traitor. Something whifpers me. 
 All is not right. Cato, beware of Lucius. 
 
 [J/ide to Cato. 
 CATO. 
 Let us appear nor rafh nor diffident, 
 Immod'rate valour fwells into a fault. 
 And fear, admitted into public councils. 
 Betrays like treafon. Let us fhun 'em both. 
 Fathers, I cannot fee, that our affairs 
 Are grown thus defperate. We have bulwarks round us. 
 Within our walls are troops inured to toil 
 In Afric's heats, and feafon'd to the fun. 
 Numidia's fpacious kingdom lies behind us. 
 Ready to rife at its young prince's call. 
 While tliere is hope, do not dillruft the gods : 
 
 But
 
 CATO. 99 
 
 Si Roma denique cadit, atteftor fidem 
 Hominum Deumque, fcelere non noftro cadit. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Se perduellis faepe quzsfito tegit 
 Colore : vereor aliquis ut lateat dolus. 
 Cato, Lucio ne crede. Seorjim Catoni. 
 
 CATO, 
 Degeneres timor 
 Animos coarguit, agit in praeceps furor. 
 Medium occupemus tramitem, Quidni bene 
 Sperare, Patres, rebus etiamnum licet ? 
 Dum noftra fortes latera tot cingunt viri, 
 Sueti labores martis & folem pati, 
 Quorfum probofo coUa fubdemus jugo ? 
 Numidia gentes aperit immenfas, Jubje 
 Facere paratas jufTa. Dum fpes eft fuper, - 
 Stat fidere Jovi. Ne ante prcefixum diem 
 Cadat alta Roma. Liberis donee licet, 
 
 F 2 Deum
 
 loo CATO. 
 
 But wait at leatl 'till Caefar's near approach 
 
 Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late 
 
 To fue for chains, and own a conqueror. 
 
 Why fhould Rome fall a jnoment ere her time ? 
 
 No, let us draw her term of freedom out 
 
 In its full length, and fpin it to the laft. 
 
 So fhall we gain ftill one day's liberty. 
 
 And let me perilh. But in Cafo's judgment, 
 
 A day, an hour of virtuous liberty. 
 
 Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
 
 Enter MARCUS. 
 MARCUS. 
 Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gate, 
 Lodg'd on my poft, a herald is arriv'd 
 From Caefar's camp, and with him comes old Decius, 
 The Roman knight. He carries in his looks 
 Impatience, and demands to fpeak with Caio, 
 
 CATO. 
 By permiffion, fathers, bid him enter. 
 
 [Exit Marcus.
 
 C AT O. 101 
 
 Deum fruamur munere : ubi fummum venit 
 JFatum, licebit vincla vidoris pati. 
 Hac luce mallet^ imo Sc hac hora Cato 
 Oppetere liber, quam jugo oppreffus dies 
 Ducere perennes, 
 
 Intrat MARCUS. 
 
 MARCUS. 
 Qua arva profpeftat, milu 
 Commifla porta, a Casfare advenit citus 
 Modo fecialis : veait & Decius eques 
 RomanGi. Aliquid ferre fe magni indicat, 
 Tuofque, genitor, illico aiFatus petit. 
 
 CATO. 
 Succedere jube. Decius hie olim mihi 
 
 [Exii Marcus, 
 
 F 3 Fuerat
 
 102 CAT O. 
 
 Decius was once my friend, but other profpefts 
 Have loos'd thofe ties, and bound him fall to Casfar. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATC. 
 
 103 
 
 Fuerat amicus. Alia tranfverfum dehinc 
 Studia abftulere, & Csefari focium impiis 
 Junxere in armis. 
 
 F4. 
 
 SCENA
 
 104 CAT O. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 
 DECIUS, CATO. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 C-^SAR fends health to Cato. 
 
 CATO, 
 
 Could he fend it 
 
 To Cato^s flaughter'd friends, it would be welcome. 
 
 Are not your orders to addrefs the fenate ? 
 
 DECIUS. 
 My bufmefs is with Cato. Csefar fees 
 The ftraits to which you're driven ; and, as he knows 
 Cfl/o's high worth, is anxious for your life. 
 
 c^rro.
 
 CATO. 105 
 
 SCENA SECUNDA. 
 
 DECIUS, CATO. 
 
 DECIUS. , 
 JtLURIMAM, Cato, tibi 
 Caefar falutem. 
 
 CATO. 
 Si mittere occifis modo 
 PolTet & amicis, grata mihi falus foret. 
 Edenda fi quae porro mandata afFeras, 
 Coram, en fenatus. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Res mihi tecum, Cqte. 
 Ad quas redigere ahgufdas, Csfar videt. 
 Et nota quoaiam merita permagni aeftimat, 
 Tuae falutis anxias curas fovet. 
 
 F 5 CJTO
 
 io6 CATO. 
 
 CAtO. 
 My life is grafted on the fate of Rome. 
 Would he fave Cato f Bid him fpare his country. 
 Tell your diflator this : and tell him, Cato 
 Difdains a life> which he has power to offer. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Rome and her fenators fubmit to Caefar. 
 Her generals and her confuls are no more> 
 Who check'd his conquefts, and deny'd his triumphs. 
 Why will not Cato be this Caefar's friend ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Thofe very reafons you have urged, forbid it, 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Cato, I've orders to expoftulate. 
 And reafon with you, as from friend to friend. 
 Think on the ftorm, that gathers o'er your head. 
 And threatens ev'ry hour to burft upon it. 
 Still may you ftand high in your country's honours. 
 Do but comply, and make your peace with Caefar. 
 
 Rome
 
 CATO. 107 
 
 CATO. 
 Romx falate nixa mea pendet falus. 
 Mihi parcere velit ? Patriae parcat fuae. 
 I, caftra repete, & principi hasc refer tuo : 
 Accipere vitam renuit indignans Cato, 
 Quam Caefar ofFert. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Caefari fubdit caput 
 Roma & fenatus. Confulum imperium fuit. 
 Quotquot triumphis Caefaris & armis duces 
 Contra obftitere, pulvere immixti jacent. 
 Age ergo, vidloris fequere tu quoque fidem. 
 
 CATO, 
 Ilia ipfa, quae mihi fala commemoras, vetant. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 ^ .. Per nomen ego te facrum amicitiae rogo, 
 Qualis procella vertici immineat, vide. 
 A Caefare fecundum orbis afpiciet fuum 
 Pronus Catonem, laude tergemina ad decs 
 
 . F 6 Roma
 
 io8 CATO. 
 
 Rome will rejoice, and caft its eyes on Cafo, 
 As on the Second of mankind. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 No more. 
 I mull not think of life on fuch conditions. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Caefar is well acquainted with your virtues. 
 And therefore fets this value on your life. 
 Let him but know the price oiCatoh friendfhip. 
 And name your terms. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Bid him difband his legions, 
 Reftore the commonwealth to liberty. 
 Submit his aftions to the public cenfure. 
 And ftanU tiie judgment of a Roman fenate. 
 Let him do this, and Cata is his friend. 
 
 DECJUC. 
 Cat Of the world talks loudly of your wifdom. . . . 
 
 Cjrro.
 
 C A T O. 109 
 
 Roma ipfa toilet, pace fi fadla modo 
 Agnofcere aequi jura viiSloris lubet. 
 
 CATO. 
 Ne plura : vitam hoc munere pacifci nefas. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 EfFare, qua tua tandem amicitia queat 
 Mercede redimi, renuet & Casfar nihil. 
 Quo tale palmis priftinis addat decus. 
 
 CAro. 
 
 Exercitumdimittat; exolvatjugo 
 Romara, Q^ritum iibero arbitrio & Patrum 
 Dijudicanda fafta permittat fua. 
 Hac poterit una lege fibi Casfar fidem 
 Catonis emere. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Fama non levis tuae eft 
 Sapientiae, Cato. 
 
 CAro.
 
 no CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 Nay more, tho' Cato's voice was ne'er employed 
 To clear the guilty, and to varnifh crimes, 
 Myfelf will mount the Roftrum in his favour. 
 And ftrive to gain his pardon from the people. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 A ftilc, like this, becomes a conqueror. 
 
 CATO. 
 Decius, a ftile, like this, becomes a Roman. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 What is a Roman, that is Caefar's foe ? ' 
 
 CATO. 
 Greater than Caefar : he's a friend to virtue. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Confider, Cato, you're in Utica, 
 And at the head of your own little fenate. 
 
 You
 
 C A T O, 1 1 f 
 
 CATO. 
 Imo vox quanquam mea 
 Veriata nunquam in publicis caufis fuit, 
 Neque fuevit excufare commiffum fcelus. 
 Orator ipfe roftra confcendam tamen, 
 Veniamque fupplex Caefari a populo petam. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 . Cato, hie ferocem fermo vidorem decet. 
 
 CATO. 
 Jufti tenacem hie fermo Romanum decet. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Romanus ille qualis aut quantus fuit, 
 Caefari inimicus ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Major ipfo Caefare : 
 Eft ille amicus nempe virtuti & Deo. 
 
 ^ DECIUS. 
 
 Quis fis, Cato, vel unde corapulfus, vide. 
 Non nunc frequentium inter applaufus Patrum 
 
 Celfa
 
 112 CATO. 
 
 You don't now thunder in the capitol. 
 With all the mouths of Rome to fecond you. 
 
 CATO. 
 Let him confider that, who drives us hither. 
 'Tis Caefar's fword has made Rome'^ fenate little. 
 And thinn'd its ranks. Alas, thy dazzled eye 
 Beholds this man in a falfe glaring light. 
 Which conqueft and fuccefs have thrown upon him. 
 Did'ft thou but view him right, thou'dft^fee him black 
 With murder, treafon, facrilege, and crimes. 
 That ftrike my foul with horror but to name 'em. 
 I know thou look'ft on me, as on a wretch 
 Befet with ills, and cover'd with misfortunes. 
 But, by the gods I fwear, millions of worlds 
 bhould never buy me to be like that Csefar. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Does Caio fend this anfwer back to Caefar, 
 For all his gen'rous cares, and proffcr'd friendfhip?
 
 CATO. 113 
 
 Celfa capitolia voce fulminea quatis. 
 Inclufus Utica fine fpe & auxilio jaces. 
 
 CATO. 
 Hoc ille potius cogitet, qui nos eo 
 Anguftiarum compulit. Tenuero, ut vides, 
 Roma; fenatum Caefaris fecit fcelus. 
 Mihi erode, falfum eft lumen & inanis rei 
 Splendentis umbra, qua ille vir adeo tibi 
 Fulgere videtur. Spiffa fi ab oculis foret 
 Remota nubes, fanguine, rapinis, dole 
 Totum inquinatum cerneres. Miferum, fcio. 
 Me fpernis, a^rumnofum & affliftum malis. 
 Sed per Tonantem juro, prius omnis mihi 
 Oblatus orbis cum omnibus regnis ruat, 
 Quam Casfar effe, forte mutata, velim. 
 
 ^ \ DECIUS. 
 
 Haeccine referri Caefari Cato jubet 
 Refponfa ? Studiis hanccine rependit vicem ? 
 
 qAro.
 
 114 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 His cares for me are infolent and vain. 
 Prefumptuous man !^ The gods take care of Cato. 
 Would Caefar fhew the greatnefs of his foul ? 
 Bid him employ his care for thefe my friends. 
 And make good ufe of his ill-gotten pow'r. 
 By flielt'ring men much better than himfelf. 
 
 DECIUS, 
 Your high unconquer'd heart makes you forget 
 You are a man. You rulh on your deftrudlion. 
 But I have done. When I relate hereafter 
 The tale of this unhappy embafly. 
 All Rome will be in tears. 
 
 [Exit Dec/us. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 115 
 
 CATO. 
 Sunt Caefaris vana iludia. Indignor viri 
 Curam infolentem. Eft fcilicet penes deos 
 Salus Catonil. Si tamen Caefar cupit 
 Clemens videri, opibus male paratis meos 
 Juvet hos amicos : fi fuae mentis cupit 
 Excelfitatem oftendere, hos fervet viros 
 Se juftiores. 
 
 DECIUS. 
 Ifla vis animi, Cato, 
 Kimis infolens te toUit oblitum tui. 
 Prudens fcienfque certum in exitium ruis. 
 Legatione fed ego fum fundus mea. 
 Notus ubi fuerit exitus, totam dolor 
 Invadet urbem. 
 
 [Exit Decius, 
 
 SCENA
 
 ii6 CATO. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 % 
 SEMPRONIUS, LUCIUS, CATO, Senators. - 
 
 SEMPROmuS. 
 
 V>'ATO, we thank thee. 
 The mighty genius of immortal Rome 
 Speaks in thy voice ; thy foul breathes.libcrty. 
 Caefar will ftirink to hear the words thou utter'ft. 
 And fliudder in the midft of all his conquell*. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 The fenate owns its gratitude to CatOt 
 Who with fo great a Ibul confults its fafety. 
 And guards our lives, while he neglefts his own. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Sempronius gives no thanks on this account. 
 Lucius feems fond of life. When liberty is gone. 
 Life grows infipid, and has loft its relifh, 
 
 O could
 
 CATO. 117 
 
 SCENA TERTIA. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, LUCIUS, CATO, Senatores. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 jSl ERRE quas grates parem ? 
 Te, Caio, loquente, eft vifa libertas loqui 
 Geniufque Romse. Scelera meditantem nova 
 Vox ifta reprimet C^farem, aut fternet metu. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Uno fenatos omnis affenfu refert ' 
 Grates Catoni, publicae dum fie vigil 
 Cavet faluti, providus parum fuae. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Amor tuendae Lucium vitje tenet. 
 Sed vita quid juvat, ubi libertas perit ? 
 Me potius adigat fulmine fub umbras Pater, - 
 Pallentis umbras tartar! & noftis chaos, 
 
 Quam
 
 Ii8 CATO. 
 
 O could my dying hand but lodge a fvvord 
 In Caefar's bofonij and revenge my country. 
 By heav'ns I could enjoy the pangs of death. 
 And fmile in agony. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 
 Others, perhaps, ' - 
 
 May ferve their country with as warm a zeal, 
 Tho' 'tis not kindled into fo much rage, 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 This fober condudl is a mighty virtue 
 In lukewarm patriots. But what is life ? 
 'Tis not to ftalk about, and draw frefh air 
 From time to time, or gaze upon the fun ; 
 'Tis to be free. 
 
 CAro. 
 Come, no more, Sempronius. 
 All here are friends to Rome, and to each other. 
 Let us not weaken ftill the weaker fide 
 By our divifions, 
 
 SEMFRONIUS.
 
 ^ CATO. 119 
 
 Quam videam iniquo fubditos cives jugo. 
 Stet, me cadente, falva libertas modo, 
 Mortes per omnes placidus banc animam daba. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 P , Forte hand minori pedlus hoc ftudio flagrat 
 Defendere patriam, aeftuat quanquam minus 
 Furore turbidum. , 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 I Ifta moderatio virum, 
 
 Cui vivere eft duke, juvet. At vivere quid eft ? 
 Non hue Sc hue curfare, non auras novas 
 Subinde trahere, aut folis afpiccre jubar ; 
 Eft efle liberum. 
 
 CATO.. 
 Ira ne difcors agat 
 Frivata in odia, Roma quos fibi mutuo 
 Amore junxit. Pace concordi vigent 
 Res parvae, eadem maximae abrupta ruunt. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 120 CATO. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Caio, my refentments 
 Are facrificed to Rome. I ftand reprov'd* 
 
 CATO. 
 Fathers, 'tis time you come to a refolve. 
 
 , LUCIUS. 
 
 Cato, we all go into your opinion. 
 Cacfar's behaviour has convinced the fenate. 
 We ought to hold it out, 'till terms arrive. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 We ought to hold it out till death. But Cato, 
 My private voice is drown'd amid the fenate's. 
 
 CATO. 
 Then let us rife, my friends, and drive to fill 
 This little interval, this paufe of life. 
 While yet our liberty and fates are doubtful. 
 With refolution, friendfliip, Roman bravery. 
 And all tlic virtues we can crowd into it. 
 
 That
 
 CATO. iti 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 n me paratum quicquid aut facere aut pad, 
 Ubi Cfl/o jufferic. 
 
 CATO. 
 Hora confiliis moram 
 Prajcidere monet. 
 
 LUCIUS, 
 Ipfe quod ceafet Catt, 
 Id cenfct & fenatus. Ufque dum bonis 
 
 Pax legibus conveniat, audendum reor. 
 
 - 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Eft dimlcandum, quamdiu vita eft fuper. 
 
 CATO. 
 Surgamus ergo, dumque libertas, falus, 
 Et fata nutant dubia, juftitia, fide, 
 OiEcio & omni genere virtutum brevi 
 Certemus aevi, tandem ut invidia deum 
 Si fit cadendum, morte generofa inclytos. 
 
 G Nos 
 
 I
 
 122 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 That heav'n may fay, it ought to be prolong'd. 
 
 [Exeunt fenators. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C ATO. 
 
 I2J 
 
 Nos longiorem grata pofteritas canat 
 Meruifle vitam. 
 
 {Exeunt /enaf ores* 
 
 G 4 
 
 SCENA
 
 124 CATO. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CATO, JUBA. 
 
 CATO. 
 f3 UB A, the Roman fenate has refolv'd, 
 'Till time give better profpefts, ftill to keep 
 The fvvord uniheath'd, and turn its edge on Casfar. 
 
 JUBA. 
 The refolution fits a Roman fenate. 
 But CatOt lend me for a while thy patience. 
 And condefcend to hear a young man fpeak. 
 My father, when fome days before his death 
 He order'd me to march for Utica, 
 Alas, I thought not then his death fo near. 
 Wept o'er me, preft me in his aged arms. 
 And, as his griefs gave way, my fon, faid he. 
 Whatever fortune fhall befal thy father, 
 
 B
 
 CATO. 1*5 
 
 SCENA QUARTA* 
 CATO, JUBA. 
 
 ir ATRIBUS eft ratum, Juba, 
 Forti repellere Caefarem & bellum manu. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Sententia patres ifta Romanos decet. 
 Bignare tu quoque pauca memorantem Jubam 
 Audire. Paucos genitor ante obitum Jies, 
 Haud rebar equidem mortem ita propinquam viro 
 Tunc imminere, quando me jufEt Uticam 
 Tendere, trementes fuftulit in ulnas fenex 
 Blande ofculatus, multa collachrymans. Dolor 
 Ut primus abiit, quicquid eveniat mihi, 
 Nate, inquit, efto Catoni amicus. Aufpice 
 
 G 3 Surg'cs
 
 12$ - C ATO. 
 
 ^e Cato's friend. He'll train thee up to great 
 And virtuous deeds. Do but obferve him well, 
 Thou'lt fhun misfortunes, or thou 'It learn to bear 'em. 
 
 CATO. 
 Juba, thy father was a worthy prince. 
 And merited, alas, a better fate. 
 But heav'n thought otherwise. 
 
 yUBJ. 
 
 My father's fate 
 Jn fpite of all the fortitude, that fhines 
 Before my face in Caio's great example. 
 Subdues n^ foul, and fills my eyes with tears. 
 
 CATO. 
 It is an honeft forrow, and becomes thee. 
 
 yUBA. 
 My father drew refpedl from foreign climes. 
 The kings of Afric fought him for their friend ; 
 Kings far remote, that rale, as fame reports. 
 Behind the hidden fourccs of the Nile, 
 
 la
 
 C AT O. 127 
 
 Surges Catone ad omne virtutum decus. 
 Illo duce, fugies mala aut difces pati. 
 
 CATO. 
 Tuus ille fumma laude cumulatus pater 
 Meliora fuerat fata commeritus, Juba. 
 
 Diis aliter eft vifum. 
 
 r 
 
 JUBA. 
 Ub^ptris imago fubit, 
 Lachrymis madefcunt me vel invito genae. 
 Omnis animo virtus abit, fuperat dolor. 
 
 , CATO. 
 
 Honeftus eft ille dolor, & dignus Juba. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Gentes remotas fama complevit patris. 
 Hunc pace belloque Africae reges fibi 
 Socium ambiebant, Maurus & vultum niger 
 Getulus ^thiopfque, quique ultra jacent 
 Nili recefTus, quique, ut eft fama, incolunt 
 
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 128 CATO. 
 
 In dillant worlds, on t'other fxde the fun. 
 Oft have their black ambafladors appeared 
 Loaden with gifts, and fill'd the courts of Zama. 
 
 CATO. 
 I am no ftranger to thy father's greatnefs. 
 
 yUBA. 
 I would not boafl: the greatnefs of my father, 
 fiut point ont new alliances to Cato. 
 Had we not better leave this Utica, 
 To arm Numidia in our caufe, and court 
 Th' affiftance of my father's pow'rful friends ? 
 Did they know Caio, our remoteft kings 
 Would pour embattled multitudes about him. 
 Their fwarthy holls would darken all our plains. 
 Doubling the native horror of the war. 
 And making death more grim. 
 
 C^O.
 
 I 
 
 CATO. 129 
 
 Alio calentes fole trans Gangem plagas, 
 Donis onufti petere amicitiam & opem 
 Venere Zamam. 
 
 CATO. 
 Gloria mihi haud eil tui 
 Ignota patris. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Patris amicitias tibi 
 Dum commemoro, non patrium jadlo decus j 
 Jungenda foedera tibi nova monftro, nova 
 Subfidia belli. Nunquid hanc praeftat Uticam 
 Deferere, & omni Namibia armata, fimul 
 In focietatem foederis'amicos patris " 
 Excire reges ? Cognitum fi orbi foret, 
 Virtute & armis quantus incedas, Cato, 
 Totam videres Africam e gremio nigros 
 Populos vomentem ad figna confluere tua> 
 Sociafque bello late inhorrenfes novo 
 Fervefcere acies, 
 
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 30 CATO. 
 
 CA'TO. 
 
 And can'ft thou think 
 Cato will fly before the fword of Csfar, 
 Reduced like Hannibal to feek relief 
 From court to court, and wander up and down 
 A vagabond in Afric ? 
 
 JUBA: 
 ' Cato, perhaps, 
 
 I'm too officious j but my forward cares 
 Would fain preferve a life of fo much value. 
 My heart is wounded, when I fee fuch virtue 
 Afflidted by the weight of fuch misfortunes. 
 
 CAro. 
 Thy noblenefs of foul obliges me. 
 But know, young prince, that valour foars above 
 "What the world calls misfortune and affliftion. 
 Thefe are not ills ; elfe would they never fall 
 On heav'n's firft fav'rites, and the beft of men. 
 The gods, in bounty, work up ftorms about us,' 
 That giv? mankind occafion to exert 
 
 Their
 
 CATO. 131 
 
 CATO. 
 Caefari an timidum putas 
 Cedere Catonem velle ? Me, ut vagus Hannibal, 
 Libycas per urbes fupplicem & regum hofpitera 
 Auxilia petere ? 
 
 yUBA. 
 Forfan officio tibi ' 
 Peccare nimio videor, anxius tuae 
 Dum ftudeo vitae, & fuggero aaxilium malis. 
 
 CATO. 
 Eft tua mihi accepta pietas. Noris tamen, 
 Juba ; quas imperitum vulgus appellat mala, 
 Adverfa fortuna, dolor, terumnae, mala 
 Cenfenda non funt, forte cum aequali accidunt 
 Bonis malifque. His altior coelum petit 
 Generofus animus. Afperis fatis pics 
 Exercet aliquando deus, ut clara emicet ' 
 Magis inde virtus, quae nifi rerum arduo 
 
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 132 CATO. 
 
 Their hidden ftrength, and throw out into pradlice 
 Virtues, which fhun the day, and lie concealed 
 In the fmooth feafons and the calms of life. 
 
 JUBA. 
 I'm charm'd whene'er thou talk'ft. I pant for virtue. 
 And all my foul endeavours at perfection. 
 
 CATO. ^ 
 Doft thou love watchings, abftinence, and toif. 
 Laborious virtues all ? Learn them from Cato. 
 Succefs and fortune muft thou learn from Csfar. 
 
 JUBA. 
 The beft good fortune, that can fall on Juba, 
 The whole fuccefs, at which my heart afpires. 
 
 Depends on Cato. 
 
 CATO. 
 What does Juba fay ? 
 Thy words confound me.. 
 
 JUBA. 
 I would fain retradl them. 
 Give 'em me back again. They aim'd at nothing.
 
 C ATO. 
 
 *33 
 
 I Splendefcat ufu, tefta velut umbra diem 
 Lucemque fugit. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Ita dum loquere, totus, Cato, 
 I Virtutem anhelus fpiro. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Vigilias amas, 
 /Eftum, laborem, frigus, & famem & fitim ? 
 Hajc ab Catone difce, fortunam ab aliis. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Felicitas, fortuna, & omnis fpes Jubae 
 Te pendet uno. 
 
 CAro. 
 Verba quid volunt ? 
 
 - JUBA, 
 
 Nihil : 
 Revocare liceat. 
 
 CATO.
 
 134 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 Tell me thy wilh, young prince ; make not my car 
 A ftranger to thy thoughts. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Ob, they're extravagant. 
 Still let me hide them. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 What can Juba aflc. 
 That Cato will refufe ? 
 
 rJK 
 
 yUBA. 
 
 I fear to name it. 
 Marcia inherits all her father's virtues. 
 
 CATO, 
 What wou'dft thou fay ? 
 
 yUBA. 
 Cato, thou hall a daughter. 
 
 CJTO.
 
 CATC, 135 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Quod tua interfit, nihil 
 Cela Catonem. 
 
 yuBA. 
 
 Quas modum excedunt, decet 
 Celare vota. 
 
 CAroi 
 Petere quid poteft Juba, 
 Quod Cato recufet ? 
 
 yUBA. 
 Eloqqi vetat timor. 
 
 CATO. 
 Eloquere. 
 
 JUBA: 
 Dotes Marcia paternas habet. 
 
 CATO. 
 Qu6 verba fpeftant ? 
 
 JUBA. 
 E,ft tibi, Cato, filia. 
 
 CATO.
 
 136 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Adieu, young prince. I would not hear a word 
 Should leflen thee in my efteem. Remember 
 The hand of fate is over us, and heav'n 
 Exafts feverity from all our thoughts. 
 It is not now a time to talk of aught 
 But chains, or conqueft, liberty or death. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 
 
 37 
 
 CAtO, 
 Princeps valeto. Quicquid imminuat tuam 
 Mihi, Juba famam, audire nolim. Dum premunt 
 Inimica fata, nos decet nihil, niii 
 Vitam & triumpho3, vincala aat mortem loqui. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SCENA
 
 13d CATO. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 SYPHAX, JUBA. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 JljLoW's this, my prince ! What, cover'd with 
 
 confufion ? 
 You look as if yon flern philofopher 
 Had juft now chid you. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, I'm undone ! 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 I know it well. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Cato thinks meanly of me, 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 And fo will all mankind. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 CATO. ^39 
 
 SCENA QUINTA. 
 
 SYPHAX, JUBA. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 |UIS ille, Juba, quis ora fufFundit pudor ? 
 Qu3D caufa luftus ? 
 
 yUBA. 
 Heu, Syphax, peril mifer ! 
 
 SYPHAX. ^ 
 Hoc ante noram. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Me Cato vili seftimat. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Haud pluris orbis faciet. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 140 CATO. 
 
 yUBA. 
 I've opened to him 
 The weaknefs of my foul, my love for Marcia. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Cato*s a proper perfbn to entruft 
 A love-tale with. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Oh I could pierce my heart. 
 My foolifh heart ! Was ever wretch like J aba f 
 Cato's difpleasM, and Marcia loft for ever. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Young prince, I yet could give you good advice : 
 Marcia might ftill be your's, 
 
 yUBA. 
 What fay'ft thou, Syphax? 
 By heav'ns thou turn'ft me ail into attention. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Marcia might ftiU be your's. 
 
 yUBA.
 
 C ATO. 141 
 
 I JUBA. 
 
 Aperui meos 
 . Catoni amores. 
 
 I srPHAX. 
 
 ' Aptus eft Cato, cui 
 
 Credas amores. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Solis astherei jubar 
 Taedet tueri. Corde transfixo juvat 
 Occumbere umbris. Stulta quo miferum abftulit 
 Animi libido ? Graviter heu ! Cato mihi 
 Infenfus eft ; mihi Marcia seternum perit. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Si quid monenti credis, etiamnum poteft 
 Tua efie Marcia. 
 
 . ^, JUBA. 
 
 Quid loqaere, Syphax ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 Poteft 
 
 Tua qSq Marcia. 
 
 JUBA,
 
 142 C AT O. 
 
 JUBA. 
 
 As how, dear Syphax ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Juba commands Numidia's hardy troops. 
 Mounted on Heeds, unufed to the reftraint 
 Of curbs or bits, and fleeter than the winds. 
 Give but the word, we'll fnatch this damfel up. 
 And bear her off. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Can fuch difhoneft thoughts 
 Rife up in man ? Wouldfl thou feduce my youth 
 To do an adl, that would deftroy my honour ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Gods, I could tear my beard to hear you talk ! 
 Honour's a fine imaginary notion. 
 That draws iiv-raw and unexperienc'd'men 
 To real mifchiefs, while they hunt a Ihadow. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 CATO. 143 
 
 JUBA. 
 Arte qua poflit, doce. 
 
 SYPHAX. ^ 
 Numidas feroces ducit a.d bellum J uba, 
 Quos fraena ferre nefcii alipedes vehunt, 
 Praevertere Euros concita affueti fuga. 
 Tu modo jubeto, virginemque hinc ociiis 
 Raptam avehemus. , 
 
 JUBA. 
 Ore num potuit nefas 
 Excidere, probra quod nomini noftro allinat 
 Sterna. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Probra nomini ! Nomen quid eft ? 
 Inane fulgur ncmpe, fpeciofum nihil, 
 Aut fax cerebri fatua, quae incautos trahit 
 Ssepe in malorum abrupta, dum errores vagse 
 Seftantur umbrae, 
 
 JUBA.
 
 144 CATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Wouldil thou degrade thy prince into a ruffian ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 The boafted anceftors of thefe great men, 
 Whofe virtues you admire, were all fuch ruffians. 
 This dread of nations, this almighty Rome, 
 That comprehends in her wide empire's bounds 
 All under heav'n, was founded on a rape. 
 Your Scipios, Casfars, Pompeys, and your Catos, 
 Thefe gods on earth, are all the fpurious brood 
 ' Of violated maids, of ravifh'd Sabines. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, I fear that hoary head of thine 
 Abounds too much in our Numidian wiles. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Indeed, my prince, you want to know the world. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 CATO. ^ 145 
 
 JUBA. 
 Quid, tuo an fuades Jubae 
 Agere latronem ? 
 
 srPHAX^ 
 Quippe Romani patres, * 
 
 Quos tu merere laudibus coelum putas. 
 Tales fuere. lUe orbis edomiti pavor, 
 Superba Roma, Roma, quse imperium mari 
 Terminal & aftris, virginum ijuondam fuit 
 Fundata raptu. Scipio, C^far, CaiOj 
 Pompeius, & quos Roma mortales deos 
 Dixit, Sabinis matribus referunt genus. 
 Spuria propago, 
 
 yUBA. 
 Vereor, ut, Syphax, tibi 
 Cerebrum Numldicis fit nimis foetum dolis. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Mihi crede, mores tibi hominum noti parum. 
 
 H ' JUBA.
 
 146 CAT O. 
 
 If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious. 
 May Juba ever live in ignorance ! 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 Go* go, you're young. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Gods, muft I tamely bear 
 This arrogance unanfwer'd ? Thou'rt a traitor, 
 A falfe old traitor. 
 
 SYFHAX, 
 I have gone too far. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Cato fhall know the bafenefs of thy foul. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Young prince, behold thefe locks, that are grown 
 white 
 Beneath a helmet in your father's battles; 
 
 yvBA.
 
 CATO. 147 
 
 JURA. 
 Notitia at ifla periidos ti homines facit, 
 O ufque vitam ducat ignarus Juba. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Mlhl apage fenfa ifla, puer : setate indiges. 
 
 yusA. 
 
 Dii ! ficcine arrogantiam hanc lentus feram ? 
 Falfe veterator, proditor patriae es tuas. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Me longius animi ardor incautum tulit. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Perfide latro, haec tua Cato confilia fciet. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Viden' hos caplUos ? Galea ut incinfti albidum 
 Traxere honorem, duftor & miles tui 
 Dam bella pugnabam patris ! 
 
 H * JUS A.
 
 148 CATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Thofe locks fhall ne'er proted thy infolencc. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Muft one rafli word, th' infirmity of age. 
 Throw down the merit of my better years ? 
 This the reward of a whole life of fervice ! 
 
 [Exit Juba, 
 .... Curfe on the boy ! how fteadily he hears me. 
 I muft appeafe this ftorm, or perifli in it. 
 
 \Exit Sypbax, 
 
 ZND OF THE SECOND ACT. 
 
 ACT
 
 CATO. 149 
 
 JUBA, 
 I Mihi ifte honor 
 
 Nufquam infolentiam teget. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 t Num ergo mihi 
 
 Vox una, vitium garrulae aetatis leve, 
 Priftina laborum merita geflorum auferet ? 
 
 [Exit Juba. 
 Styx mille peftes in caput pueri evomat ! 
 Sed has oportet illico procellae minas 
 Placare, vel nos turbine efFufo obruent. 
 
 [Exit Syphax* 
 
 FINIS ACTUS SECUNDI. 
 
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 H 3 ACTUS
 
 150 CAT O. 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 S Y P H A X, J U B A. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 .LAS, my prince, how are you chang'd of late ?* 
 I've known young Juba rife before the fun. 
 To beat the thicket where the tiger flept. 
 Or feek the lion in his dreadful haunts. 
 How did the colour mount into your cheeks. 
 When firft you rous'd him to the chace ? I've feen you 
 Ev'n in the Libyan dog-days hunt him down. 
 
 Thefe verfes as far at lofe its fweetneft, an taken from feette 
 V. aii II. 
 
 Then
 
 CATO. 151 
 
 ACTUS TERTIUS. 
 
 SCENA PRIMA. 
 SYPHAX, JUBA. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 AJLEU quails es quantumque mutatus, Juba ! 
 Heu quantum ab illo degener pridem Juba 
 Qui flrata folitus linquere ante ortum diem* 
 Vel quando Sirius arva torrebat vapor, 
 Venando faltus atque fylvarum horrida 
 Dumeta obivit, fire qua rabida tigrls, 
 Seu fulvus inter nemora dormivit leo ? 
 Ardore quanto lumina micabas, ubi 
 Dejela opacis praeda decurrlt jugis ? 
 Clamore anhelo quantus urgebas fugam ? 
 
 H4. Te
 
 iSi 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Then charge him clots, provoke him to the rage 
 Of fangs and claws, and ftooping from your horfe 
 Rivet the panting favage to the ground. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Pr'ythee no more ! 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 How would the old king fmile 
 To fee you weigh the paws, when tipp'd with gold. 
 And throw the ihaggy fpoils about your fhoulders. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Syphax, this old man's talk, tho' honey flow'd 
 From cv'ry word, would now lofe all its fweetncfs. 
 
 SYFBAX,
 
 CATO. 153 
 
 Te faepe vidi cominus laceflere 
 
 Leonis iras, unguium horribiles minas ' 
 
 Ultro afperare, fpiculo obtento truces 
 
 Excire morfus, moxque pronum ab equo arduos 
 
 Pendere in idus, & reluftantem feram 
 
 Affigere folo. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Mene puerilis animi 
 Adeo efle rere, ut hifce condonem tua 
 Opprobria nugis ? 
 
 I SYPHAX. 
 
 Quanta longaevi finum 
 Regis replebant gaudia, ubi te auro graves 
 Attollere ungues vidit, & fpolia humeros 
 
 - Induere villas horrida ! 
 
 JUBA. 
 
 Etiamfi fiuant 
 Tibi verba melle, mihi modo invifa accident. 
 
 H 5^ srPHJX.
 
 154 CATO. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Sir, your great father never us'd me thus.* 
 Alas, he's dead ! But can you e'er forget 
 The tender forrows and the pangs of nature* 
 The fond embraces and repeated bleffings. 
 Which you drew from him in your laft farewel ? 
 Still muft I cherifh the dear, fad remembrance. 
 At once to torture and to pleafe my foul. 
 The good old king at parting wrung my hand. 
 His eyes brim-full of tears, then fighing, cry'd, 
 Pr'ythee, be careful of my fon. His grief 
 Swell'd up fo high, he could not utter more, 
 
 JUBA. 
 . Alas, the flory melts away my foul. 
 That beft of fathers ! How fhall I difcharge 
 The gratitude and duty, which I owe him } 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 By laying up his counfels in your heart. 
 
 Thefe verfes, from the imrds, Sir, your great fatlier, &(. 
 at far a:, rather fay your love, are taken fromjcene IV. 
 
 aai. 
 
 JUBji.
 
 CATO. 155 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Non me loquentem iic tuus fprevit pater. 
 Heu vixit ! At chara illius an unquam poteft 
 Excidere imago, ubi collo inhserefcens tuo, 
 Mille inter ofcula, mille & amplexus, fui 
 Vix compos, inquit ultimum abituro vale ? 
 Mihi quanto oboritur gaudio immixtus dolor. 
 Cum dulcc triftem peftore revel vo diem ! 
 Simui ille dextram dexterae inieruit meae, 
 Altumque ab imo corde fufpirans, vide, 
 Inquit, Taluti filii invigiles : fimul 
 Lachrymje rigabant ora, nee fari dolor 
 Eft plura paiTus. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Patris 6 blandum nimis 
 Sacrumque nomen ! Fare, qui poffira, Syphax, 
 Prseftanda genitori optimo officia exequi. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Juffa faciendo. 
 
 H 6 JUSji.
 
 156 CATO. 
 
 yUBA. 
 His counfels bade me yield to thy direflions. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Alas, my prince, I'd guide you to your fafety. 
 
 yUBA. 
 I do believe, thou wouldft ; but tell me how ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Fly from the fate, that follows Caefar's foes. 
 
 JUBA. 
 My father fcorn'd to do it. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 And therefore dy'd. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Setter to die ten thoufand thoufand deaths. 
 Than wound my honour; 
 
 SYPHAX,
 
 I 
 
 CATO. 157 
 
 JUBA. 
 Me tuisjuffit pater 
 Parere monitis. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Sola mihi, princeps, tuae 
 Cura eft falutis. 
 
 * JUBA, 
 
 Cognitum eft ftudium fatls. 
 Quid me inc-es ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Quae Caefari inimicos premunt, 
 Ut fata fugias. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Fugere noluit pater. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Adeoque periit. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Mille pugnando neces 
 Subire praeftat, damna quam famae pati. 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 158 CATO. 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 Rather fay your love. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Is it, becaufe the throne of my forefathers 
 Still Hands unfill'd, and that Numidia's crown 
 Hangs doubtful yet, whofe head it /hall enclofe. 
 That thou prefum'ft to treat thy prince with fcorn ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Why will you rive my heart with fuch expreffions ?* 
 Does not old Syphax follow you to war ? 
 What are his aims ? Why does he load with darts 
 His trembling hand, and crufh beneath a cafque 
 His wrinkled brows ? What is it he afpires to ? 
 Is it not this ? To Ihed the flow remains. 
 His laft poor ebb of blood in your defence ? 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, no more ! 1 would not hear you talk. 
 
 T/iefe -verfeifrom thefe loorels. Is it becaufe, &c. as far at 
 Csfar I'm wholly thine, are taken from fcene V. a8 II. 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 CATO. I5f 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Mage die, amorls. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Fraena verbofae, Syphiix 
 Injice licentlas. An ideo illudere Jubse 
 Te pofle credls, quod patris folium vacat. 
 Quod adhuc Numidici nutat imperii decus^ 
 Et me vibrandis imparem fceptris putas ? 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Cur fie acutis transfodis didis finum ? 
 Quid, nonne teeum gradior ad bellum comes. 
 Fords fubire & martis & lethi vices ? 
 Cur lancea dextram onero, cur galea caput, 
 Nifi ut reliquias fanguinis, queis hoftica 
 Manus pepercit, patriae jmpendam & tibi ? , 
 
 JUBA, 
 Audire plura non libet : Syphax, tace. 
 
 SYPHJX.
 
 i6o CATO. 
 
 STPHAX. 
 Not hear me talk ! What, when my faith to J uba. 
 My royal mailer's (on, is call'd in queflion ? 
 My prince may flrike me dead, and I'll be dumb. 
 But whilft I live, I muft not hold my tongue, . 
 And languifh out old age in his difpleafure. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Thou know'ft the way too well into my heart. 
 I do believe thee loyal to thy prince. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 What greater inftance can I give ? I've offer'd 
 To do an adlion, which my foul abhors. 
 And gain you, whom you love, at any price. 
 
 JUBA.. 
 Was this thy motive ? 1 have been toa hafty. 
 
 SYPHAX,
 
 CATO. i6i 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Jubes Tacere ? Taceat ut Syphax, fides 
 Cum data Jubae in dubium vocatur ? Me Juba 
 Interimat, & tacebo. Verum dum traho 
 Auras fuperAes, luce dum xtherea fruor, 
 Nequeo tacere, & principi invifam meo 
 Ducere feneftam, 
 
 JUBA. 
 Corda placandl modum 
 Artemque nofti. Te mihi fidum reor. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Conftare melius nempe qui poterat fides ? 
 Hanc ut probarem, facinus audendi tibi. 
 Quod abhorret animus, me fore fpopondi ducem ; 
 Propriam ut haberes Marciam, expedii modum, 
 
 yUBA. 
 An hoc volebas ? Ah nimis prseceps fui. 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 i6i CATO. 
 
 SrPHAX. 
 
 , And 'tis for this, my prince has call'd me traitor. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Sure thou miflak'ih I did not call thee fo. 
 
 srPHAX. 
 You did indeed, my prince, you call'd me traitor. 
 Nay, further, threaten'd you*d complain to Cato. 
 Of what, my prince, would you complain to CatoT 
 That Syphax loves you, and would facrifice 
 His life, nay more, his honour in your fervice ^ 
 
 yUBA. 
 Syphax, I know thou loveft me. But indeed. 
 Thy zeal for Juba carry 'd thee too far. 
 Honour's a facred tie, the law of kings. 
 The noble mind's diflingulfhing perfeftion. 
 That aids, and ftrengthens virtue, where it meets her. 
 And imitates her adions, where fhe is not. 
 It ought not to be fported with. 
 
 SrPHAX,
 
 CATO. 163 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 Ide6que falfum proditorem patriae 
 Me nuncupabas. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Num ore quid tale excidit ? 
 Ancipite peccas forte deceptus fono. 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 Confilia porrd velle te aiebas mea 
 Pandere Catoni. Quaefo, quid tandem Juba 
 Pandet Catoni ? Me tibi addidum nimis ? 
 Me tibi paratum fanguinem & famam quoque 
 Impendere ? 
 
 JUBA. 
 Tuo te Jubcc addidlum fcio. 
 Sed amore pcccafti nimio. Honefti, Syphax, 
 Hinc difce leges regibus habendas facras. 
 I Artibus honeftum perpolit mentem fuis, 
 Virtutis aemulatur abfentis decus, 
 Prjefenti honores afflat imitando novos. 
 
 , , SYPHAX.
 
 i64 CATO. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 
 By heav'ns, 
 I'm ravifh'd, when you talk thus, tho' you chide me. 
 Alas, I have hitherto been ufed to think 
 A blind officious zeal to ferve my king 
 The ruling principle, that ought to burn. 
 And quench all others in a fubj eft's heart. 
 Happy the people, who preferve their honour 
 By the fame duties, that oblige their prince I 
 
 yUBA. 
 Syphax, thou now begin'ft lo fpeak thyfelf, 
 Numidia's grown a fcorn among the nations 
 For breach of public vows. Our Punic faith 
 Is infamous, and branded to a proverb, 
 byphax, we'll join our cares to purge away 
 Our country's crimes, and clear her reputation. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 ' Believe me, prince, you make old Syphax weep 
 To hear you talk but *tis with tears of joy. 
 
 If
 
 CATO. 165 
 
 srPHAX. 
 Per aftra, pene me mihi rapis, Juba, 
 Sic quando loqueris. Id mihi a prima fuit 
 iEtate fuafum, fubdito unum hoc elle opus, 
 Unum hunc laborem ; nempe fe fidum fuo 
 Regi approbare. Beatus is dcmum fuit. 
 Qui fic honeftum fimul & officii fidem 
 Sociare novit. 
 
 JUBA. ' ' 
 Syphacis, hie nofco Indolem. 
 Senfa ifta Syphacem pariter & Jubam decent. 
 Infamis orbi eft Punica, ut nofti, fides. 
 Ne eadem Numidico nomini infideat nota, 
 Noftrum eft cavere. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Ut loqueris, ut places, Juba I 
 liac madte, princeps, indole. I, patrio caput 
 
 Diademate
 
 i66 'CATO. 
 
 If e'er your father's crown adorn your brows, 
 Numidia will be blefs'd with Catoh ledures. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, thy hand ! We'll mutually forget 
 The warmth of youth, and frowardnefs of age. 
 Thy prince efteems thy worth, and loves thy perfon. 
 If e'er the fceptre comes into my hand, 
 Syphax ihall fland the fecond in my kingdom. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Why will you overwhelm my age with kindnefs ? 
 My joy grows burdenfome, I fhan't fupport it. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Syphax, farewel. I'll hence and try to find 
 Some bleft occafion, that may fet me right 
 In Cato*s thoughts. I'd rather have that man 
 Approve my deeds, than worlds for my admirers. 
 
 {Exit. 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 CATO. 167 
 
 Diademate revinci. Africae, I, felix tuac 
 Virtutibus Catonis imperium rege. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Amice, dextram junge. Didorum damus 
 Veniam viciffim, mutuam acclpimus fidem. 
 Quando Numidiae fceptra fumpfero, Syphax 
 Mihi erit fecundus, proxiraum regi caput. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Nimis ampla amoris pignora accumulas tui. 
 Vicem referre debitam haud noftrae eft opis. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Syphax, valeto. Concito hinc greffu feror 
 Reda ad Catonem, fi qua fe forte ofFerat 
 Occafio, viro fafta purgandi mea. 
 Nil euro relicjua, fit modo placidus CaiOn 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SYPHAX.
 
 i68 CATO. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Young men foon give and foon forget afFronts. 
 Old age is flow in both. A falfe old traitor ! 
 Thofe words, ralh boy, may chance to coft thee dear. 
 My heart had ftill fome foolifti fondnefs for thee. 
 But hence, 'tis gone. I give it to the winds. 
 Casfar, I'm wholly thine. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C ATO* 
 
 169 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Colligit ut iram leviter, ita levlter premit 
 Juvenilis aetas : tardus in utroque eil fenex. 
 Ego veterator, proditor, latro ? Haec tibi 
 Fortaffe magno verba conftiterint, puer. 
 Amoris antehac nonnihil habebas mei. 
 Sed hinc faceffat j trado rapiendum notis. 
 Et mente & animo Casfarem totus requor. 
 
 SCENA
 
 170 CATO. 
 
 SCENE II.* 
 
 SYPHAX, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 W ELL, Catoh fenate is refolv'd to wait 
 The fury of a fiege, before it yields. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Syphax, we both were on the verge of fate. 
 Lucius, declar'd for peace, and terms were offer'd 
 To Cato by a meffenger from Caefar. 
 Should they fubmit, e'er our defigns are ripe. 
 We both muft perifti in the common wreck 
 Loft in the gen'ral undiftinguifh'd ruin. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 But how ftands Cato ? 
 
 * This fccne is taken from kiK VI. aft 11. 
 
 SEMPRONJUS.
 
 CATO. l7^ 
 
 SCENA SECUNDA. 
 
 SYPHAX, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 JT IXUM fenatui ergo, Semproni, fedet 
 Bello experiri malle fortunam prius, 
 Quam dedita imperium urbe vidoris pati ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Quam pene fati limina attigimuSj Syphax ? 
 Auftor ineundae Lucius pads fuit, ^ 
 
 Pacem Catoni a Caefare peclus obtulit. 
 Dii ! fifenatus fcedus accipiat prius, 
 Quam fortlantur noftra confilia exitum, 
 Aftam efti peri vim us. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 At quid iaterea Ctj/o? 
 
 I i SEMPRONIUS.
 
 172 CATO. 
 
 r ',' '. ' ', ," , -, < ..... . :,!>-. . :'..' .' 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Thou haft feen mount Atlas, 
 While ftorms and tempefts thunder on its brows. 
 And oceans break their billows at its feet. 
 It ftands unmoved, and glories in its height. 
 Such is that haughty man. His tow'ring foul 
 'lylidft all the (hocks and injuries of fortune 
 Rifes fuperior, and looks down on Casfar. 
 
 srPHAX. 
 But what's this meffenger ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 I've praftifed with him. 
 And found the means to let the viftor know. 
 That Syphax and Sempronius are his friends. 
 But let me now examine in my turn. 
 Is Juba fixt ? * * 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Yes but it is to Cato. 
 I've try'd the force of ev'ry reafon on him. 
 
 Sooth'd
 
 C A T O. 173 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Vidifti Atlanta. Vertice fuperbo in poli 
 Minatus aftra inter procellofos notos 
 Coellque fulmina arduum attoUIt caput, 
 Dum fraftus infra marraore efFufo pedem 
 Tundit furentum vaftus undarum globus. 
 Sic ille durus, rigidus, intraftabilis 
 Inter ruinas fortis adverfae altior 
 Infurgit, elatoque tumidus Caefarem 
 Defpedlat oculo. 
 
 SYPHAX, 
 At ille quid porrd Decius ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 lUi clam aperui confili noftri modum ; 
 Aperiet ille Caefari. Sed quid mihi 
 Tu jam viciffim de Juba refers, 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Manet 
 Fixus Catoni. Cunfta verfavi, inftiti^ 
 
 I 3 . Suafi
 
 174 CATO. 
 
 Sooth'd and carefs'd, been angry, footh'd again. 
 Laid fafety, life and int'reft in his fight. 
 But all are vain j he fcorns them all for Cato. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Come, 'tis no matter. We fliall do without him. 
 He'll make a pretty figure in a triumph, 
 And ferve to trip before the vigor's chariot. 
 
 srPHAX. 
 But are thy troops prepar'd for a revolt ? 
 
 Does the fedition catch from man to man 
 And run among their ranks i 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, 
 
 All, all is ready. 
 The famous leaders are our friends, that fpread 
 Murmurs and difcontents among the foldiers. 
 They coant their toilfome marches, long fatigues, 
 
 Unufual
 
 CATO. 17? 
 
 Suafi, increpavi, voce adulanti preccs 
 
 Immifcui ira, rurfus oravi, nihil 
 
 Non denique egi, flexus ut tandem puer ^ 
 
 Meliora faperet. Perftat iifimotus tamen 
 
 Animis eifdem : opes, falutem & omnia 
 
 Uni Catoni devovet. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Parvi intereft. 
 Sic quando libuit, ante viftoris rotas 
 Ductus catenis, nobile trlumpho deCUS," 
 Alta Capitolia regius fcandat puer. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 An inter agraina glifcit interea virum. 
 Seditio i 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Caeptis exequendis omnia 
 Parata : voces, murmura, querelae undiqu 
 Palam audiuntur. Fadioforum duces 
 Fremitibus iras militum accendunt fuis, 
 
 I 4 , Noftrifque
 
 176 CATO. 
 
 ' ' ' 
 
 ' Unufual faftings, and will bear no more 
 Tiu8 medley of philofophy and war. 
 
 [JjhoMt is beard. 
 SYPHAX, 
 What means that fhout, big with the founds of war ? 
 What new alarm ? 
 
 . * SEMPROmUS. 
 
 A fecond louder yet 
 Swells in the winds^ and comes more full upon us. 
 Within an hour they'll ftorm the fenate-houft. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Make Cato fure, and give up Utica. 
 Mean time I'll draw up my Numidian troops 
 , Within the fquare to exercife their arms. 
 And as I fee occafion, favour thee. 
 1 laugh to think how your unfhaken Catt 
 
 thft thrtt 'oerftti as far at tie words, more full upon me, 
 tre taktnfrtmjitnt llh a8 III. 
 
 Will
 
 C A T O. 177 
 
 Noftrifque fpondent firenuam inceptis opem. 
 Parere rigido Stoici imperio ducis 
 Ultra recufant. 
 
 IClamor tollitur, 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Ille quid fonus refert 
 Frcmens tumultu ? Audin' ut eliils prope 
 Clarefcit auris \ 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Curiam banc ipfam parant 
 Irrumpere. ' 
 
 SYPHAX^ 
 Catonem arta conftringant, vidt, 
 Vincia, & propinqui prodita accipiat jugum 
 Viftoris Utica. Ego interim in foro inftruam 
 Turmas equeftres, promptus, ut fuerit opus, ' 
 Succurrere, Hominem quantus invadet ftupor, 
 
 I S Cum
 
 178 CATO. 
 
 Will look aghaft, while unforefcen deftruflion 
 Fours in npon him thus from every iidct 
 
 [Exeuxf. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C ATO. 
 
 179 
 
 Cum fie ab omoi parte glomeratam fciet 
 In fe ruinam. 
 
 [Exeunt, 
 
 IS 
 
 SCENA
 
 iSo CATO. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, with the LEADERS of the MUTINY. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 -OlT length the winds are ralfcd, the florm blows high. 
 Be it your care, my friends, to keep it up 
 In its full fury, and dire(^ it right. 
 Till it has fpent itfelf on Cato's head. 
 Mean while I'll herd among his friends, and Teem 
 One of the number, that whate'er arrive. 
 My friends, and fellow-foldiers may be fafe. 
 
 [Exif, 
 
 FIRST LEADER. 
 We all are fafe. Sempronius is our friend. 
 Sempronius is as brave a man as Cafo. 
 Sut hark ! he enters. Bear up boldly to him. 
 
 Be
 
 CATO. i8i 
 
 SCENA TERTIA. 
 
 t 
 SEMPRONIUS, CoNjURATr. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 A. URBO jam tandem gravis 
 
 Oritur, amici. Vefter hue tendat labor. 
 
 Nee ponat animis detumentibus prius, 
 
 Quam totus efFufo impetu in caput irraat 
 
 Catonis. Ego vultum interea amicum induens 
 
 Tanquam fidelis lateri adhrerebo comes, 
 
 Ut quicquid accidat, Integra meorum falus 
 
 Commilitonum maneat. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 CONJ. PRIMUS. 
 
 , latutofumus. 
 
 Sempronio aufpice & duce, timendum nihil; 
 
 Sempronias par eft Catoni. Audin, fubit. 
 
 Fortiter eundem eft. Denfi in invifum caput 
 
 Geminentur
 
 i8z 
 
 G ATO. 
 
 Be fure you beat him down, and bind him faft. 
 This day will end our toils, and give us refl. 
 
 ALL 1HE LEADERS. 
 Fear nothing, Sempronius is our friend. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 183 
 
 Geminentur idlus, vincula afHiflum folo 
 Ligent ; dies hie ponet serumnis modum. 
 
 OMNES. 
 Sempronio aufpice & duce> timcndum nihiU 
 
 SCENA
 
 i84 OATO. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 CATO, SEMPRONIUS LUCIUS, PORCIU^, 
 and MARCUS. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 W HERE are thefe bold intrepid fons of war* 
 That greatly turn their backs upon the foe. 
 And to their general fend a brave defiance t 
 
 ' SRMPRONIUS. 
 Curfe on their daftard fouls, they ftand aftoni/h'd ! 
 
 CATO, 
 Perfidious men ! And will you thus difiionour 
 ' Your pafl exploits, and fully all your wars i 
 Do you confefs, 'twas not a zeal for Rome, 
 Nor love of liberty, nor thirft of honour. 
 Drew you thus fir, but hopes to (hare the fpoil 
 Of conquer'd towns, and plundered provinces, 
 
 Fir'd
 
 CATO. its 
 
 SCENA QUARTA. 
 
 CATO, SEMPRONIUS, LUCIUS, PORCIUS, 
 MARCUS, &c. 
 
 CATO. 
 BI prodltores, acre mavortis genus, 
 Ignobili adeb terga qui vertunt fugae, 
 t tm virili pe5lore laceuunt ducem ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Styx male paventcs vorel I Ut attoniti ftupent ! 
 
 CATO. 
 Sic parta bello decora, fic Romam probro 
 Tanto allinetis, perfidum, ignavum genus ? 
 Num vos honoris uUa, nam quis fit pudor 
 Verum fatcri ? num ulla vos laudis fitis, 
 Am6rve libertatis bac mecum tenus
 
 i86 CATO. 
 
 Fir'd with fuch motives you do well to join 
 With Caters fees, and follow Casfar's banners. 
 Why did I 'fcape th' envenom'd afpic's rage. 
 And all the fiery monfters of the defert. 
 To fee this day ? Why could not Cato fall 
 Without your guilt ? Beheld, ungrateful men. 
 Behold my bofom naked to your fwords. 
 And let the man, that's injured, ftrike the blow.' 
 Which of you all fufpefts, that he is wrong'd, 
 ^; ^^Z^Zt t? buffers greater ills than Cafe f 
 Am I diftinguifh'd from you but by toils, 
 Superior toils, and heavier weight of cares i 
 Painful pre-eminence I 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 By hcav'ns they droop I 
 Confufion to the villains ! All is loft ! 
 
 CATO. 
 Have you forgotten Lybia's burning wafte. 
 Its barren rocks, parch'd earth, and hills of fand. 
 
 Its
 
 CATO.. 187 
 
 In arma traxit ? Nonne vos auri fames, 
 Provinciarum fpolia, captarum urbium 
 Conveda praeda roartis in opus impulit ? 
 Quin ite, ftudiis hifce flammatos decet 
 Linquere Catonem & figna Casfarea fequi. 
 Cur belluofae monllra vitavi Africae ? 
 Cur tot periclic: cur tot ereptus malis 
 Ad hoc refervor ? An ut fcel^re veftro cadam, , 
 Ccmmilitones? Licuit at cur non prius 
 Scelere aliens -^^.^ ^ sin lixam eft, virl, 
 Haurite ferro pedtora : in vulnus patent. 
 Et, fi quis a me fe laceiHtam putet. 
 Prior ille feriat. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 Per Jovem, exanimes trerauht ! 
 
 Feriere cunAa : vile fucorum genus ! 
 
 [Seor/tm. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Num tot Uborum, quos per immenfos maris 
 Terrseque tralus veftra me fefTum falus 
 
 Impulit
 
 i88 CATO. 
 
 Its tainted air, and all its broods of poifon? 
 Who was the firft to try th* untrodden path. 
 When life was hazarded in ev'ry ftep ? 
 Or, fainting in the long laborious march. 
 When on the banks of an unlook'd-for ftrcam 
 You funk the river with repeated draughts. 
 Who was the laft in all your hoft, that thirfted ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 If fojnc penurious fource by chance appear'd. 
 Scanty of waters, when you fcoop'd it ir^t 
 And offer'd the full helmet up to Cato, 
 Did he not ckfh th* untajded moiAure from him ? 
 
 Did
 
 CATO. 189 
 
 Impulit adire, peflora oblivio tenet ? 
 En Lybia, rapidi folis exufta ignibus 
 Nimium propinquis, teftis ante oculos patet j 
 Telles arenje vafto & inculto folo 
 Late jacentes, montium abruptas minae, 
 Putrique pafiim omnis venenorura lue 
 Infedla regio teftis eft recens meis 
 Calcata plantls. ' Quis, ubi per loca invia 
 Cscofque calles iter erat tentandum, ubi 
 GrefTum inter omnem dubia nutabat falus, 
 Quis lubricam, inquam, primus invafit viam ? 
 Aut cum labore aeftuque confetti aridam 
 Extingueretis amne fortuito fitim, 
 Crebrifque decrefcentis alvei hauftibus 
 Raperetis undas, ecquis e tanto virum 
 Numero fitivit ultimus ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. ' 
 Siafperajuga 
 Inter et arenas devio curfu latex 
 
 Siticulofae
 
 19 CATO. 
 
 I . I .., < ,. 
 
 Did he not lead you through the mid- day fun. 
 And clouds of duft ? Did not his temples glow 
 In the fame fultry winds, and fcorching heats ? 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Hence, worthlefs men ! Hence, and complain to Caefar^ 
 You could not undergo the toils of war. 
 Nor bear the hardfliips, that your leader bore. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 See, Caio, fee th' unhappy men 1 They weep ! 
 
 Fear,
 
 CATO. 191 
 
 Siticulofae dulce folamen viae, 
 Scaturiebat, miles optatos ubi 
 Certatim in hauftus cadeiet, atque avidus cavis 
 Palmifque galeifque ima ficcaret vada, 
 Patiens ut hie ille Cato dux vefter ftetit, 
 Plenaque lympham caffide bibendam arido 
 Rejecit ore ! Nonne vobifcum comes 
 Subter flagrantes folis asftivi faces, 
 Flatibus eifdem torridi incaluit noti ? 
 Cur aefluofum pulverem & campum tulit, 
 Nifi ut labore veftra libertas fuo 
 Firmata Haret ? Cedite, ingratum pecus. 
 
 CATO. 
 Ignaya belle turba, mavortis probrum, 
 Ite & querelas Caefari hinc ferte ocius, 
 Laboriofo nempe vos bello impares 
 Non poffe jam ferre mala, quae Cato tulif. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 2n ut per ora confcius inerrat pudor ! 
 
 En
 
 192 CATO. 
 
 Fear, and remorfe, and forrow for their crime. 
 Appear in ev'ry look, and plead ibr mercy. 
 
 CATO. 
 Learn to be honeft men, give up your leaders. 
 And pardon (hall defcend on all the reft. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Cato, commit thefe wretches to my care. 
 Firft let 'em each be broken on the rack. 
 Then, with what life remains, impaled and left 
 To writhe at leifure round the bloody ftake. 
 There let 'em hang, and taint the fouthern wind. 
 The partners of their cn'mo will learn obedience. 
 When they look up and fee their fellow-traitors 
 Stuck on a fork, and black'ning in the fun* 
 
 LUCIUS, 
 Sempronius, why, why wilt thou urge the fate 
 Of wretched men ? , 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 C ATO. 
 
 En lachryms, quas fceleris excuffit dolor, 
 Veniam repofcunt. 
 
 CAtO. 
 Colere juftitiam dehinc 
 Difcite, facinoris prodite rebelles duces, 
 Ultroque facilem caeteris veniam damus. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Pleftenda curae trade mancipia meae. 
 Luxata primum membra rumpantur rota, 
 Sufpenfi ad auftros deinde putrefcant trabe, 
 Sociis daturi trifle documentum fuis. 
 
 ' LUCIUS. 
 Cur tam feverus fata miferorum gravas ? 
 
 193 
 
 K. SEMPRONIUS.
 
 194 CATO. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 How ! Wouldft thou clear rebellion ? 
 Lucius, good man, pities the poor oiFenders, 
 That would imbrue their hands in Cato's blood, 
 
 CATO. 
 Forbear, Sempronius ! See they fufFer death. 
 But in their deaths remember, they are men. 
 Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. 
 Lucius, the bafe degen'rate age requires 
 Severity, and joftice in its rigour. 
 This awes an impious, bold, offending world. 
 Commands obedience, and gives force to laws. 
 When by juft vengeance guilty mortals perifli. 
 The gods behold their punifhment with pleafure. 
 And lay th' up-lifted thunder-bolt afide. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Cato, I execute thy will with pleafure.
 
 CATO. 195 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 Quid ? Perduelles crimine abfolvl ? Vicerh 
 Sicariorum quippe vir bonus dolet. 
 Quels tingere manus fanguine Catonis lubet. - 
 
 CATO. 
 Saevire nimium nee placet, nee nos decet. 
 Poena irrogetur. Dum tamen poenam irrogas, 
 Humanitatis efto, Semproni, mcmor, 
 Ne fata graviora fubeant, quam lex finit. 
 Scelerata, Luei, tempora haee fummam exigunt 
 Severitatem. Hie ille juftitiae rigor 
 Reprimit fuperbos, impios terret metu, 
 Frangit rebelles, legibus vim addit novam. 
 Vindida quando debita nocentes premit, 
 Supplicia fuperi luminibus jequis vident, 
 Promptaque redufta fulmina reponunt manu. 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 Imperia laetus exequar. 
 
 K a CATO.
 
 196 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 Mean-while we'll facrifice to liberty. 
 Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights. 
 The gen'rous plan of power deliver'd down. 
 From age to age, by your rendwn'd forefathers. 
 So dearly bought, the price of fo much blood. 
 O let it never perifti in your hands. 
 But pioufly tranfmit it to your children. 
 Do thou, great Liberty, infpire our fouls. 
 And make our lives in thy poffeffion happy. 
 Or our deaths glorious in thy juft defence. 
 
 [Etitunt Cato, tsff. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 197 
 
 CATO, 
 
 Nos interim 
 Thure precibdfqHe in vota pofcemus deos. 
 Queis legibusi quibufve fundatum artibus 
 Studiifque quondam hoc fuerit imperii decus, 
 Eftotc memores. Inclytum hunc rerum ordinem, 
 Tanto labore conditum, 6 nunquam, precor, 
 Sinite perire veftrum in opprobrium, viri. 
 Verum quod accepiftis annofo patrum 
 Tranfmiflum ab aevo pofteris veftris quoque 
 Tradite fruendum. Audite, Coelicolx, banc precem. 
 Adedque to nos^ magna Libertas, tui 
 Accende amore ; munere beatos tuo 
 Exige^re liccat liberls vitse dies, 
 Vel te tuendo fortiter in acie mori. 
 
 [Exeunt Cato,. fe'r. 
 
 K 3 SCENA
 
 198 CATO. 
 
 I . . K '" ,',!, 
 
 SCENE V. 
 SEMPRONIUS, with the LEADERS of the MUTINY. 
 
 FIRST LEADER. 
 
 s 
 
 EMPRONIUS, you have afted like yourfelf. 
 One would have thought, you had been half in earneft. 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 Villain, ftand off. Bafe, grov'ling, worAlefs wretches. 
 Mongrels in fadion, poor faint-hearted traitors ! 
 
 SECOND LEADER. 
 Nay, now you carry it too far, Sempronius. 
 Throw off the maflc, there are none here but friends. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Know, villains, when fuch paltry flaves prefume 
 To mix in treafon, if the plot fucceeds. 
 They're thrown negleded by. But if it fails. 
 They're fure to die like dogs, as you (hall do. 
 
 Here,
 
 CATO. 199 
 
 SCENA QUINTA. 
 SEMPRONIUS, CoNjURATi. 
 
 CONJ. PRIMUS, 
 EMPRONI, es idem femper & fimilis tui. 
 Te ferio equidem pene credebam loqui^ 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Scelus, hinc facefTe : vile, defpedlura caput. 
 Servile pecus, imbelle fucorum genus ! 
 
 CONJ. SECUNDUS. 
 Simulare plura deiine : haud ultra his jocis 
 Eft opus ; amicos, qootquot hie adftant, vides. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Quin fie, fcelefti, accipite ; ubi iftius modi 
 Mancipia motae confcias addunt manus 
 Rebeliioni, ii aufa fucceffus habent. 
 Sine praemio, fine honore neglefti jacent. 
 
 K4 Sin
 
 200 C A T O. 
 
 Hercj take thefe fafUous monHers, drag 'em forth 
 To fudden death. 
 
 [EnUf Guanas, 
 
 FIRST LEADER. 
 Nay, fince it comes to this .... 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Difpatch'em quick ; but firft pluck out their tongues, 
 Left with their dying breath they fow fcdition. 
 
 [ExfUHt Guards with thi Leadtrs. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C ATO, 
 
 20I 
 
 Sin ccepta cedant irrita, nocentes manent 
 Supplicia certa, miferrimum lethi genus. 
 Adelto, miles : ad necem haec monftra ocius 
 Abripito. 
 
 [Iftirant Satellites. 
 
 CONJ. PRIMUS. 
 Quando res eo deducitur .... 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Mandata, lidor, protinus faceffito. 
 Sed forcipe prius prendito linguas reis 
 Atque refecato, ne agmina inter confcia 
 Noyos tumultus voce moribunda excitent. * 
 
 lExeunt. 
 
 Ks 
 
 SCENA
 
 20Z CATO. 
 
 SCENE VI. 
 
 SYPHAX, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 srPHAX. 
 VxlIR firft defign, my friend, has prov'd abortive. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Sy Cato's flern rebuke diiarnxM at once. 
 The daflards flood amazed and terrified. 
 
 - SYPHAX. 
 Still there remains an after-game to play. 
 My troops are mounted j their Numidian fleeds 
 SnufF up the wind, and long to fcour the defert. 
 Let but Sempronius head us in our flight. 
 
 We'll
 
 C A T O. 303 
 
 SCENA SEXTA. 
 
 SYPHAX, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 RIM A ergo, amice, coepta cecidere irrita. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Subita Catonis voce & afpeflu, fui 
 Oblita turba mente perculfa iletit 
 Attonita, inermis. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 At novas artes adhuc. 
 Nova meditor confilia. Frasnatis mihi 
 In equis relucet, quidlibet prompta aggredi 
 Numidica pubes. Refonat hinnitu piocul 
 Pulfatus aether; ungula impatiens morae 
 Imprefla perdit mille veftigia iblo, 
 Corripere dum campum ardet. Age porro fugae 
 K 6 Tu
 
 204 CATO. 
 
 We'll force the gate, where Marcus keeps his guard. 
 And hew down all that wou'd oppofe our paflage. 
 A day will bring us into Caefar's camp. 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 Thus, Syphax, fhould I fail of half my purpofe. 
 I'm unreveng'd, if Cato's left behind. 
 Think not Sempronius can be baffled thus 
 In his ambition or purfuit of grcatnefs. 
 Syphax, 'tis fixt. I long to bind in chains 
 That haughty man, ^nd bear him off to Caefar. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Well faid ! That's fpoken like thyfelf, Sempronius. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 But how to gain admiffion ? For accefs 
 Is given to none but J aba and the brothers. 
 
 STPHAX.
 
 CATO. 205 
 
 Tu dudlor efto, quaque ftationes obit 
 Marcus, ruemus urbe. Pugnando viam 
 Facilem per obvia quxque fternemus raanu. 
 In Cajfaris caftra feret hodiernus dies. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Suadefne trepidam moliar inultus fugam ? 
 Fallere, Syphax, Sempronium fi fic putas 
 Abfiftere aufis velle. Vis ingens rapit. 
 Odium perenne, iramenfus irarum dolor. 
 Cum perpetrari facinus aliena nequit, 
 Manu hac fuperbum ftringere catenis virum. 
 Ad Caefaremque trahere vindida impotcns, 
 Et mens rcpulfae fordidse impatiens jubet. 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Virtute tanta mafte. Semproni, inclytum 
 Meditaris hercle facinus & dignum tui. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, 
 Ecqua arte rumpemus aditam ? Praeter Jubam 
 Geminofque fratres nemini ingreflus patet. 
 
 srPHjx.
 
 2o6 CAT O. 
 
 STPHAX. 
 Thou fhalt have Juba's drefs, and Juba's guards. 
 The doors will open, when Numidia's prince 
 Seems to appear before the flaves, that watch them. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Heav'ns, what a thought is there ! The day's our own. 
 How will my bofom fwell with anxious joy, 
 'When I behold him ftruggling in his chains, 
 With fhame and grief alternately oppreft. 
 His heart high fwol'n, andlab'ring in his breaft \ 
 
 END OF THE THIRD ACT. 
 
 ACT
 
 CATO. 2G7 
 
 SYPHAX. 
 Ollro rubenti, qua folet Juba indui, 
 Chlamyde indueris ; regia incedes caput 
 Cidari revinftus : Numidicus cinget latus 
 Satelles. Illico mancipia pandent fores^ 
 Ubi adeffe regius videbitur puer. 
 
 SEMPROmUS. 
 Bene eft, beamur. Fata jam vindex mana 
 Teneo Catonis. Quanta mihi pafcent finum 
 Gaudia tumentem, ubi turbidus & ira & probro 
 Se cernet ille vinculis captum mels 
 Excutere fruftra velle viftoris.jugum ! 
 
 FINIS ACTUS TERTH. 
 
 ACTUS
 
 2o8 CATO. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 SCENE 1. 
 EMPRONIUS, dreffed like Juba, with Numidian Guards. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 JL HE deer is iodg'd, I have track'd her to her covert. 
 Be fure you mind the word, and when I give it, 
 Rufh in at once, and feize upon your prey. 
 Let neither fear, or threats have force to move you. 
 
 But hark, what noife ! Death to my hopes ! 
 
 'Tis he, 
 *Tis Juba's felf ! There is but one way left. 
 Ht niuft be murder'd, and a paffage cut 
 Thro' thofe his guards. Hah, daftards, do you tremble ! 
 Or aft like men, or by yoa azure heav'n .... 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 209 
 
 ACTU-S QUARTUS. 
 
 SCENA PRIMA. 
 SEMPRONIUS, vefte Numidlca iadutus, duo mUite. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS, 
 Satellites adelle. Difpofitls fera 
 Laqueis tenctur. Sede qua lateat, vigil 
 Oculis notavi, Signa ctm dedero, ftmul 
 Irruite, rapite, avciiitc praedam. Nee minse 
 Nee torvitas fuperei]! injiciant mctas. 
 Ingcnte ccepto digna vos mcrces manet. 
 Quid hoc } Propinquos audio pulfus pedum. 
 Dll, fallite omen ! Corda fpe dubia micantt 
 Ipfe eft : Juba ipfe gradum admovet. Rerum hoc ftatu 
 Confulere non eft integrum. Hdc dextrd cadet : 
 Rumpenda ferro deinde per medios via. 
 Audetc fortes. Quid, pigro an ircmitis metu ? 
 Animos rcfumite, vel per aftrorum faces .... 
 
 SCENA
 
 210 CATO. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 JUBA, SEMPRONIUS. 
 
 yuBA. 
 
 HAT do I fee ? Who's this, that dares ufurp 
 The guards and habit of Numidia's prince ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 One, that was born to fcourge thy arrogance, 
 Prefumptuous youth. 
 
 JUBA. 
 What can this mean ? Sempronius ! 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 My fword fhall anfwer thee. Have at thy heart. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Nay, then beware thy one, proud barbarous man. 
 [ Sem^ . falls . His guards furrender. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 ^ 
 
 CATO. 211 
 
 . 1 - iiiii __j i . i j_r_M.j..i_j i I l l ' --.' 
 
 SCENA SECUNDA. 
 
 JUBA, SEMPR0NIU3. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Acquis ille tarn audax, tam iniblens fatellite 
 Cinftus Numidico infignia ufurpat mea ? 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Vane Afcr, animSmque patrio datum gerens 
 Faftii, haud ita efFugies. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Quid hoc ? Sempronius ! 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Hinc fuge, faluti fi efle confultum velis. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Quid ? me-ne fugere ? Aflerere famam, cum tibi 
 -Jta libet infanire, flat potius manu. 
 
 [Educuntur utrinque gladii, fugnatur, cadit Semp. 
 
 SEMPRONIUS.
 
 2ia CATO. 
 
 SEMPROmUS, 
 Curfe on my ftars ! Am I then doom'd to fall 
 By a boy'a hand, disfigur'd in a vile 
 
 Numidlan drefs ? 
 
 Gods, I'm diftrafted I This my clofe of life ! 
 O for a peal of thunder, that would make 
 Earth, fea, and air, and heav'n, and Cato tremble ! 
 
 [Diei, 
 
 yUBA, 
 With what a fpring his furious foul broke loofe. 
 And left the limbs Aill quivering on the ground ! 
 Hence let us carry off thofe flaves to Cato, 
 That we may there at length unravel all 
 This dark dcfign, this myftery of fate, 
 
 [Exeunt, 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 213 
 
 SEMPRONIUS. 
 Horror Acherontius aftra confundat ftyge. 
 Sic-ne puerili deftinor viftus manu 
 EfFundere animam ? Barbaro tedlus quoque 
 Humeros amiftu ? Struere quis furor impulit 
 Vincula Catoni ? Rumpite infernas domos ^ . 
 Stygiae forores, nodleque immerfum infima 
 Caput Hoc averno condite aeternum fpecu. 
 Sic pudet ad umbras ire* Convulfo ruat 
 Ab axe fulmen, quo penitus aether^ mare 
 Et terra, quo Cato ipfe perculfus tremat. 
 
 [Mtritur. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Quanto Tub umbras impetu indignans viri 
 Prorupit animus, membraque etiamnum folo 
 Liquit trementia ! Miles, hos age fiftito 
 Servos Catoni, fceleris ut quicquid latet 
 Dehinc patefcat, confili & caufa & modus. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 SCENA
 
 214 CATO. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 PORCIUS, JUBA. 
 
 FORCIUS. 
 OURE 'twas tlie clafh of fwords. My troubled heart 
 Is Co call down, and funk amidft its forroWs, 
 It throbs with fear, and akes at every found. 
 See, fee ! here's blood ! O fee ! here's blood and murder! 
 Hah ! a Numidian ! Heav'ns preferve the prince I 
 The face lies muffled up within the garment. 
 But hah ! death to my fight ! A diadem. 
 And purple robes ! O gods ! 'tis he, 'tis he ! 
 Juba, the lovelieft youth, that e'er deferv'd 
 A Roman's care, Juba lies dead before me ! 
 Stabb'd at his heart, and all befmear'd with blood.* 
 O he was all made up of charms and virtue. 
 Whatever maid could wilTi, or man admire. 
 
 * This verfe Is taken iVom ad III. fcene II. 
 
 Delight
 
 CATO. 215 
 
 SCENA TERTIA. 
 
 P O R C I U S, J U B A. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 [UlS pepulit aures enfium fliftu fonus 
 Ncfcxo quis artus turbat infolitus pavor, 
 Gravibufque curis anxium pulfat finum. 
 Quis ille pronus corpore exangui jacet ? 
 Ah ! Numidam amidlus indicat. Gelidus colt 
 Sanguis per artus. Principi timeo. Latent 
 Ora involuta vefte. Proh fuperi ! quid hoc ? 
 En regia chlamys, regium en frontis decus ! 
 O fcelus ! 6 horror ! nuUus eft dubio locus. 
 Eft ipfe Juba. Juba principum fplendor, decus 
 Juvenum, voluptas noftra, deliciae & amor, 
 Juba indecoro vulnere ante oculos jacet. 
 Crudelia nimis fata, crudeles decs ! 
 Jacet cruore membra concrete rigens, 
 Cujus ubi vultus enituit, ibat dies 
 
 Gratior,
 
 2i6 CATO. 
 
 Delight of ev'ry eye ! When he appear'd, 
 A fecret pleafure gladen'd all, that faw him. 
 But when he talk'd, the proudeft Roman blufh'd 
 To hear his virtues, and old age grew wife. 
 Why do I think on what he was ? He's dead ! 
 He's dead, and never knew, how much I lov'd him. 
 
 JUBA. 
 
 \RuJhing hajiily in. 
 See, Porcius, fee. 
 
 The happy Juba lives 1 He lives to catch 
 
 Thy dear embrace, and to return it too. 
 
 FOKCim. 
 With pleafure apd amaze, I ftand tranfported. 
 Sure 'tis a dream ! Dead and alive at once 1 
 If thott art Juba, who lies there ? 
 
 rUBA.
 
 CATO. 217 
 
 Gratior, & orbis luce fplendebat nova. 
 Heu vana fpes mortalium ! Ut Stygius color 
 Infecit artus ! Capitis ambrofii decor 
 Cecidit, nigranti vividum oculorum jubar 
 Nox texit umbra : frigore asterno algida 
 Silet ilia lingua, cujus eloquium Cato 
 Saepe ipfe ftupuit. Sed quid ego fruftra pio 
 Colore fluxas repeto virtutes Jubae ? 
 Juba Pyladea me fide amplexus fuit, 
 Juba Pyladea me fide amplexus perit. 
 
 JUBA. 
 \_Derepente in t heat rum erumpens. 
 Define queri : coram ecce quern defies, adeft. 
 Et incolumis & vivos en adeft Juba, 
 Accipere amicum laetus amplexum & dare. 
 
 Inter /e comphQuntur. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Superi ! Quid hoc eil ? Vivis ? An fallax lubit 
 Imago ? Si vivit Juba, quis ibi jiacet ? 
 
 h JUBA.
 
 ii8 CATO. 
 
 JVBA. 
 
 A wretch, 
 Difguis'd like Juba on a curs'd defign. 
 
 PORCIUS: 
 My joy, by beft beloved, and only wifh. 
 This, this is life, indeed ! Life worth preferving. 
 
 JUBA. 
 How fhall I fpeak the tranfport of my foul ! 
 I'm loft in ecftafy ! O my dear Porcius ! 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Believe me, prince, before I thought thee dead, 
 I did not know myfelf, how much 1 lov'd thee. 
 
 yUBA. 
 O fortunate miftake ! O happy Juba ! 
 Fortune, thou now haft made amends for all 
 Thy paft unkindnefs. I abfolve my ftars. 
 
 paRClus.
 
 CATO. 2ig 
 
 JUBA. 
 Scelerum magifter, regio aflumpto Jubam 
 Mentitus habitu, dum impla oppreffo parat 
 Vincula Catoni, audaciae poenas luit. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Bene eft, revixi. O dulce dimidium mei, 
 
 Ut voce, ut ore, ut me tuo afpedlu beas ! 
 
 JUBA. * 
 Dilede Porci, ut tua mihi placet fides ! 
 Vix credidiflem facrym adeo tecum mihi 
 Interfuifle vinclum amicitias, nifi 
 Ludlus fuiflem teftis oculatus tui. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Neque ipfe noram, quam penitus animo, Juba, 
 Meo infideres, antequam afflixit tuse 
 Me mortis error. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Error is felix fuit. 
 FortuHa ludum ludere levem pertinax 
 
 Jam Vetera verfa damna compenfat vice. 
 
 L 2 PORCIUS.
 
 220 CATO. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Quick, let us hence. Who knows If Marcus' life 
 
 [Trumpet founds. 
 Stand fure ? O Juba, I am wann'd ; my heart 
 Leaps at the trumpet's voice, and burns for glory.* 
 
 [Exeunt, 
 
 * Almoft all this fcene, changing the names and (bnoe few 
 things, is ;.i fcene III. adl IV. The three laft verfes are fpoken 
 by Porcius b fcene III. ad III. with this alteration, Marcus' 
 life, ioftead of Cato's life- 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 
 
 m 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 No8 hinc ad arma buccinac clangor vocat. 
 
 \Tuba canit, 
 Nimis eft morarum : forte jam Marco imminet 
 Inimicus enils. Roma, libertas. Talus 
 Nos vocat ad arma. O facra Libertas, manu 
 Hac te tueri liceat ! Adverfo aethere 
 Sin iila voveo, fortiter in armis mori. 
 
 {Exeunt. 
 
 L 3 
 
 SCENA
 
 X2t CAT O. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 LUCIUS, CATO. 
 LUCIUS. 
 STAND aftonifhed ! What, the bold Sempronius,, 
 That ftill broke fbremoft thro* the crowd of patriots. 
 As with a hvirricane of zeal tranfported. 
 And virtuous ev'n to madnefs ! 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Truft me, Lucius, 
 
 Our civil difcords have produced fuch crimes. 
 
 Such monftrous crimes, I am furpris'd at nothing. 
 
 Oh Lucius, I am fick of this bad world ! 
 
 The day-light and the fun grow painful to me. 
 
 ENTER A MESSENGER.* 
 But fee, where Balbus comes ! What means this hafte ? 
 Why are thy looks thus chang'd ? 
 
 Porcius being a principal perfon in the drama, tlie tranflator 
 thought it mor. becoming the dignity of the ftage to introduce 
 Balbus as a meffenger, than let Porcius bring and carry meflages. 
 
 MESSENGER.
 
 C A T O. 2*3 
 
 SCENA QUART A. 
 
 LUCIUS, CATO. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 .TTONITUS haereo. Quid ? Hoc Sempronius : 
 Hoc accr ille patriae aflertor fuse ? 
 Hue omnis ille in Caefarem effluxit furor ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Haud miror equidem. Sceleris eft adeo nihil. 
 Quod civium armis noftra non astas tulit. 
 O Luci, acerbis animus aegrefcit malis. 
 Mihi vita gravis eft, lucis aethereae piget. 
 
 INTRAT NUNCIUS. 
 Quid, Balbe, trepidas ? Summa quo res eft loco ? 
 
 L 4 BALBVS.
 
 124 CATO. 
 
 MESSENGER, 
 
 My heart U griev'd. 
 I bring fuch new8> as will afHiiA thee, Gate, 
 
 CATO, 
 
 " Has Ciefftr fhed more Roman blood i 
 
 MESSENGEJi. 
 
 Not fo. 
 The traitor Syphax, as within the fqaare 
 He exercifed his troops, the fignal given 
 Flew off at once with his Numidian horfe 
 To the fouth gate, where Marcus holds the watch. 
 J aba faw, and call'd, bot in vain, to flop him. 
 He tofs'd his arm aloft, and proudly anfwer'd. 
 He would not ftay and perilh like Sempronius. 
 
 CjfTO.
 
 CATD. 225 
 
 BALBUS. ' 
 
 Ne nuncio aures, vereor, affliftas, Catot 
 Graviore vulnerem. 
 
 CAtO. 
 Eloquere : num plus adhuc 
 Caefar Latini fanguinis fudit ? 
 
 BALBUS. 
 
 Novum 
 Majufque, fi quod eft^ malum ingruit. S}fpl}ax 
 Veteranus ille prasdo, ubi Numidas fuos 
 Medio ordinarat ludicra exercens foro 
 Simulacra belli, protinus figno dato. 
 Cam equitibus abilt transfuga, qua ad auilros patet 
 Coramiffa Marco porta. Juba forte obvius 
 Vidit abeuntem, & nomine inclamans virum 
 Revocare fruftra voluit. llle alte vibrat 
 Jaftatum in auras brachium, atque atrox refert 
 Semproniano nolle fe fa to morl. 
 
 L 5 CJTO.
 
 226 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 Perfidious men ! But Balbus Hafte, and fee 
 That my fon Marcus afts a Roman's part. 
 
 \Exit mejfenger. 
 Lucius, the torrent bears too hard upon me. 
 Juftice gives way to force. The conquer'd world 
 Is Ccefar's. Cato has no bufinefs in it. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 While pride, oppreffion, and injuftice reign. 
 The world will IHII demand her Cato's prefence. 
 In pity to mankind, fubmit to Czefar, 
 And reconcile thy mighty foul to life. 
 
 CATO. 
 Would Lucius have me live to fwell the number 
 Of Caefar's flaves, or by a bafe fubmiffion 
 Give up the caufe of Rome, and own a tyrant ? 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 The vitor never will impofe on Cato 
 Ungen'rous terms. His enemies confefs 
 
 The virtues of humanity aie Casfar's. 
 
 CJTO.
 
 CATO. 227 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Perfida propago ! Sed age tu, Balbe, advola, 
 Patriacque in armis gloris natos mone. *''**i?t 
 
 [Exit nuncius. 
 Luci, malorum immenfa me moles premit. 
 Vi vifla cedit juftitia, regnat nefas. 
 Orbis fubaftus Casfari fervit. Nihil 
 Opus eft Catone. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Quamdiu & fraus & fcelus, 
 Et amor habendi regnat, erit opus fuo 
 Orbi Catone. Potius, 6 potius diu 
 Vive, neque pigeat Csefaris dono frui. 
 
 CATO. 
 Quid ? Me-ne vivere patrix oblitum meae ? 
 Vivere tyranni vile mancipium jubes ? 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Viftor Catonem trifle nil coget pati. 
 Eft comis, eft humana ^Caefaris indoles. 
 
 L 6 CAro.
 
 228 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Curfe on his virtues : they've undone his country. 
 Such popular humanity is treafon. 
 
 CENE
 
 C ATO. 
 
 229 
 
 CATO. 
 Humana proh viri indoles ! Iftud nimis 
 Populare iludium patris exitio fuit. 
 
 SCENA
 
 230 CATO. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 CATO, LUCIUS, PORCIUS. 
 
 ORCIUS. 
 JWllS FORTUNE on misfortune ! Grief on grief! 
 My brother Marcus .... 
 
 CATO. 
 Hah, what has he done ? 
 Has he forfook his poft ? Has he given way ? 
 Did he look tamely on, and let 'em pafs ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Long, at the head of his few faithful friends, 
 He flood the (hock of a whole holl of foes, 
 'Till obftinately brave, and bent on death, 
 Oppreft with multitudes he greatly fell. 
 
 cjro.
 
 C ATO. 231 
 
 SCENA QUINTA. 
 CATO, LUCIUS, PORCIUS. 
 
 PORCJUS. 
 NAUSPICATA filii 6 fruftra pater 
 Virtute felix, majus ex alio aliud 
 Malum ingravefcit, alius exurgit dolor. 
 Heu Marcus .... 
 
 CATO. 
 Ecquid egit ? An ceffit loco i 
 An fraudulento impune permifit duci 
 Abire ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Cinftus fida amicorum manu 
 Totum ingruentis impetum belli tulit. 
 Par unus omnibus. Animo obnixus diu 
 Stetit obftinato, donee excuflb obrutus 
 Imbre jaculorum nobili letho occidit.
 
 232 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 I'm fatisfy'd. 
 
 POB.CIUS. 
 Nor did he fall before* 
 His fword had pierc'd thro* the falfe heart of Syphax. 
 Yonder he lies. I faw the hoary traitor 
 Grin in the pangs of death, and bite the ground. 
 
 CATO. 
 Thanks to the gods ! My boy has done his duty. 
 Porcius, when I am dead, be fare thou place 
 His urn near mine. 
 
 * The tranflator, with a view to fet off Porchis's charaftcr 
 with greater luftre, gives him the honour of revenging his brother 
 Marcus's death by killing Syphax. This notice will fufEce for 
 the reader, who noight otherwiie be furprifed at the difagreement 
 between theVerfion and the Original, which it was thought need- 
 kCs to change. 
 
 POROUS.
 
 CATO. 233 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Nil plura qusro. 
 
 PORCIUS, 
 Turn mihi animo ardent faces. 
 Turn furor & ira perfidum ulcifci fcelus, 
 Poenafque fratre fumere perempto fubit. 
 Per media praeceps agmina Syphacem peto, 
 Uno in Syphace laboro, fulmineum rotans 
 Hinc inde ferrum, donee adverfo in fmu 
 Numidse furentis condidi. Labentem equo 
 Frendere media in morte confpexi virum, 
 t dente pronum mandere cruento folum. 
 
 CAtO. 
 Grates tonanti atque reliquis fuperis ago. 
 Meus eft uterque fundus officio puer. 
 Sibi morte nomen peperit scternum fua 
 Marcds. Ubi fummam parca fatalem mihi, 
 Porci, replerit, illius juxta meam, 
 Vide, locetur urna. 
 
 PORCIUS.
 
 234 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 PORCIUS., 
 Long may they keep afunder ! 
 
 SCENA
 
 C ATO. 
 
 *35 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Ab altera altera 
 Dlvifa long^m maneat 
 
 SCENE
 
 ii6 CATO. 
 
 SCENE VI. 
 ' CATO, JUBA, LUCIUS, PORCIUS. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 -Out fee young Juba I The good youth appears. 
 Full of the guilt of his perfidious fubjefts. 
 
 FORCIUS. 
 Alas, poor prince, his fate defe.rves compajQIon. 
 
 yUBJ. 
 I blufh and am confounded to appear 
 Before thy prefence, Caio. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 What's thy crime ? 
 
 JUBA. 
 Vm a Numidian. 
 
 CATO.
 
 I CATO. 237 
 
 SCENA SEXTA. 
 
 p CATO, JUBA, LUCIUS, PORCIUS. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 JUiN vultum probro 
 Triftem a fuorum fcelere fufFufus fubit 
 Juba. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Meruit profefto fortuna frui 
 
 ' Mgjiore. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Mihi pudor ora, te vifo, Cato, 
 Rubore tinglt. 
 CATO. 
 
 Ecquod admifTum nefas ? 
 
 'yUBA. 
 Sum Numida. 
 
 cjro.
 
 238 CAT a. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 And a brave one too. 
 Thou haft a Roman foul. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Haft thou not heard 
 Of my falfe countrymen ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Alas, young prince, 
 Falfhood and fraud flioot up in ev'ry foil. 
 The produft of all climes. Rome has its Cxfars. 
 
 JUBA, 
 'Tis gen'rous thus to comfort the diftrefs'd. 
 
 CATO. 
 *Tis juft to give applaufe, where 'tis deferv'd. 
 Thy virtue, prince, has ftood the teft of fortune. 
 Like pureft gold, that tortur'd in the furnace. 
 Comes out more bright, and brings ftrth all its weight. 
 
 yUBA.
 
 CATO. 239 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Et illuftris quoque. Eft animus tibi 
 Romanus. 
 
 JUBA. 
 An Syphacis tibi notum fcelus ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Mala fraus ubique & fcelera nafcuntur, Juba. 
 Hasc omnis aetas, omnis hasc regio tulit 
 Quin ipfa Roma Caefares habet fuos. 
 
 JUBA. -'- 
 
 Eft Indolis generofas ita afflifto dare 
 Solamen. 
 
 CATO. 
 Ubi meretur, eft aequum dare 
 Virtuti honorem. Dura te exercet nimis "^ 
 
 Fortuna, Juba. Tua clarior virtus tamen 
 Nitet, & ab ipfis major elucet malis. 
 Fornace tortum fie ab ardenti evenit 
 Auri metallum, decore fplendefcens novo. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 24^ C A T O. 
 
 yuBA. 
 
 ,What fhall I anfwer thee ? My ravilh'd heart 
 O'erflows with fenret joy. I'd rather gain 
 Thy praife, O Cato, than Numidia's empire.* 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Now, Cato, arm thy foul with all its patience, 
 See, where the corpfe of thy dead fon approaches ! 
 The citizens and fenators alarm'd 
 Have gather'd round it, and attend it weeping. 
 
 * The verfes from But fee young Juba,. &c. as far ai 
 Numidia's empire, are taken from fcene IV. aEl IV. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 241 
 
 JUBA. 
 His quid reponam ? Tacitus exundat finus 
 Fervetque gaudio. Tuas malim, Cato, 
 Laudes mereri, quam Africae late potens ' 
 Rex imperare. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Jam omne premuni, CatOt 
 Virtute peftus. Mortui en coram tui 
 Nati cadaver, trifte fpeftaclum fubit. 
 
 M SCENA
 
 24a CAT O. 
 
 SCENE VII. 
 
 CATO, JUBA, PORCIUS, LUCIUS, MARCUS' 
 Corpse, &c. 
 
 CATO. 
 W ELCOME, my fon! Here lay him down, 
 
 my friends. 
 Full in my fight, that I may view at leifure 
 The bloody corfe, and count thofe glorious wounds. 
 How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue ! 
 Who would not be that youth ? What pity is it, 
 That we can die but once to ferve our country ! 
 Why fits this fadnefs on your brows, my friends ? 
 I fliould have blufh'd, if Cato's houfe had flood 
 Secure, and flourifh'd in a civil war. 
 Porcius, behold thy brother, and remember. 
 Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.
 
 C A T O. 243 
 
 SCENA SEPTIMA. 
 
 CATO, JUBA, PORCIIJS, LUCIUS, MARCI 
 Cadaver, &c. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Vj)ALVETO, nate Hie onus, amid, ponit( 
 
 Numerare coram vulnera illuflria juvat, 
 Corpufque cernere fanguine decoro illitum. 
 Quam pulchra mors virtute parta, quam placet ! ' 
 Ille invidenda eft forte defundlus puer. 
 Heu quam pigendum eft, quod femel tantum licet 
 Impendere animam civium & patriae bono ! 
 Quis ora, amici, moefta contriftat dolor ? 
 Merito puderet, fi inter & bufta & faces 
 Patris, Catonis ftaret incolumis domus. 
 Porci, ecce fratrem. Illius ab exemplo tuam 
 Memento vitam, Roma ciim pofcit, tibi 
 Non efTe prop ri am. 
 
 M a JUBA.
 
 44 CATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Was ever man like this ? 
 
 CATO. 
 Alas, my friends. 
 Why mourn you thus ? Let not a private lofs 
 Afflia your hearts. 'Tis Rome requires our tears. 
 The miftrefs of the world, the feat of empire. 
 The nurfe of heroes, the delight of gods. 
 That humbled the proud tyrants of the earth. 
 And fet the nations free, Rome is no more. 
 O liberty ! O virtue ! O my country ! 
 
 JUBA. 
 
 Behold that upright man !' Rome fills his eyes 
 
 With tears, that flow'd not o'er his own dead fon. 
 
 cjro.
 
 C A T 0, 245 
 
 JUBA. 
 Quern virum unquam orbis tulit 
 
 Similem Catoni, heroa quern vidit parem ? 
 
 {^Seorfim, 
 CATO. 
 Heu, quianam, amici, lachrymis ocuU madent ? 
 Privata lachrymis damna deflentur male, 
 Quas Roma pofcit. Roma terrarum decus, 
 Roma dominatrix orbis, imperii caput, 
 Superum voluptas, inclyta heroum parens. 
 Quae humili tyrannos mundi adsequavit folo, 
 Gentefque vidlrix barbaro exemit jugo, 
 Heu ! Roma fuit. Heu chara libertas fuit ! 
 Heu prifca virtus, patria heu fruftra meis 
 Defleta lachrymis ! 
 
 yUBA. 
 Magna proh virtus viri ! 
 En Roma lachrymas elicit, quas non fui 
 Elicere potuit filii exanimis dolor. 
 
 [Seorjim, 
 M 3 CAT$:
 
 iA6 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Whatever the Roman virtue has rubdued> 
 The fun's whole courfe, the day and year are Cacfar's, 
 For him the felf-de voted Decii dy*d. 
 The Fabii fell, and the great Scipios congtier'd. 
 Ev'n Pompey fought for Casfar. Oh my friends ! 
 How is the toil of fate, the work of ages. 
 The Roman empire fall'n ! O curft ambition ! 
 Fall'n into Caefar's hands ! Our great forefathers 
 Had left him nought to conquer but his country. 
 
 JUBA. 
 While Cato lives, Caefar will blufh to fee 
 Mankind enflaved, and be aiham'd of empire. 
 
 CATO. 
 Caefar aiham'd ! Has he not feen Fharfalia ! 
 
 LUCIUS.
 
 C ATO. 247 
 
 CATO. 
 Romana quicquid fubdidit virtus, polo 
 Sub utroque quicquid, quicquid oce^num fupra 
 Infraque luftrat lucida occiduus rota 
 Orienfve Titan, Casfaris prenfat manus. 
 Sic Caefari occidere Fabii, fie caput 
 Vovere Decii, & uterque vicit Scipio. 
 Imo arma Caefari ipfe Pompeius tulit. 
 O dolor, amici I Ut plurium annoram labor, 
 Fatorum opus, Romanum ut imperium occidit ! 
 Dominante Caefare, 6 facra ambitio ! occidit. 
 Quod fubjugaret, nempe majores nihil 
 Nili patriam liquere. 
 
 Dum vivit Cafo, -^ 
 
 Mundum erubefcet Cxfar opprimere jugo. 
 
 CATO. 
 Quid ? Ut erubefcat Caefar ? An non Theffalas 
 Confpexit acies. 
 
 M 4 ' LUCIUS.
 
 248 CATO. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Cate, 'tis time, thou fave thyfelf and us. 
 
 CATO, 
 Lofe not a thought on me j I'm out of danger. 
 Heav'n will not leave me in the vidlor's hand. 
 Caefar ftiall never fay, I conquer'd Cato. 
 But oh ! my friends, your fafety fills my heart 
 With anxious thoughts. A thoufand fecret terrors 
 Rife in my foul. How Ihall I fave my friends ? 
 'Tis now, O Cajfar, I begin to fear thee. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Caefar has mercy, if we aflc it of him, 
 
 cat:o. 
 
 Then aik it, I conjure you I Let him know 
 Whatever was done againft him, Cato did it. 
 Add, if you pleafe, that I requeft it of him. 
 
 That
 
 CATO. 249 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Hora jam monet CalOy 
 Ut tibi & amicis confulas. 
 
 - cAro. 
 
 Ne vo? mei 
 Cura ulla tangat. Sum omne difcrimen fupra 
 Vicefque fortis, Caefar haud unquam inquiet, 
 Vici Catonem. Veftra me movet falus. 
 Vos, vos, amici, reddere incolumes velim ! 
 Haec fola pedus cura follicltum premit. 
 Qui vos, amici, reddere incolumes queara. 
 Coepi hinc timere Casfarem^ 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 
 Facilis dabit 
 Veniam petenti. 
 
 CATO. . 
 Petite quin ergo, precor, 
 Et Cxfar, in fe quidquid eft fadlum, fciat. 
 Me auftore faftum. Adjicite, li porro placet, 
 
 M s Mc
 
 250 CATO. 
 
 That I myfelf, with tears, requeft it of him. 
 The virtue of my friends may pafs unpunilh'd. 
 Juba, my heart is troubled for thy fake. 
 Should I advife thee to regain Numidia, 
 Or feek the conqueror ? 
 
 , yUBA. 
 If I forfake thee, 
 Whilfl I have life, may heav'n abandon Juba ! 
 
 CATO. 
 Thy virtues, prince, if I forefee aright. 
 Will one day make thee great. At Rome hereafter, 
 'Twill be no crime to have been Catoh friend. 
 Porcius, draw near ! My fon, thou oft haft k^n 
 Thy fire engaged in a corrupted ftate, 
 Wreftling with vice and faftion. Now thou fee'il me 
 Spent, overpower'd, defpairing of fuccefs. 
 Let me advife thee to retreat betimes 
 To thy paternal feat, the Sabine field. 
 Where the great Cenfor toil'd with his own hands. 
 
 And
 
 CATO. 251 
 
 Me fupplicis ritu peterp, ne quid meos 
 Peccet in amicos. Juba, mihi pro te anxius 
 Laborat animus. Te-ne vidoris fequi 
 Hortabor arma fupplicem, an avitum magls 
 Repetere regnum Numidiae ? 
 
 JUBA, 
 
 Si unquam, Caio, 
 Te deferuero, deferant fuperi Jubam. 
 
 CATO. 
 Tua ifta, princeps, rara vlrtutum indoles 
 Tibi decus ingens, nomen & famam afFeret. 
 Ni fallor, illucefcet aliquando dies, 
 Quum jufta nullum Roma cenfebit nefas 
 Tenuifle cum Catone amicitiam & fidem. 
 Accede, Porci. Saspe vidifti tuum 
 Cum faftione & fcelere luftantem patrem : 
 Nunc fpe labanti feflum & exanimem vides. 
 O nate, ne te pudeat accipcre patris 
 Confilia. Dum potes, eripe periclis caput, 
 
 M 6 Et
 
 252 CATO. 
 
 And all our frugal anceftors were blefs'd 
 
 In humble virtues, and a rural life. 
 
 There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome. 
 
 Content thyfelf to be obfcurely good. 
 
 When vice prevails, and impious men bear fway. 
 
 The poll of honour is a private ftation. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 I hope, my father does not recommend 
 A life to Porcius, that he fcorns himfelf. 
 
 CATO. 
 Farewel, my friends ! If there be 5ny of you. 
 Who dare not truft the viftor's clemency. 
 Know there are (hips prepar'd by my command. 
 Their fails already op'ning to the winds. 
 That fhall convey you to the wi(h'd-for port. 
 Is there aught elfe, my friends, 1 can do for you ? 
 The conqueror draws near. Once more farewel I 
 If e'er we meet hereafter, we fhall meet 
 In happier climes, and on a fafer ihore, 
 
 , Where
 
 CATO. 253 
 
 Et agrum Sabinum, rura majorum, pete, 
 
 Ubi magnus olim Cenfor, atque omnes avi ' 
 
 Exigua manibus arva fubigebant fuis, 
 
 Virtute munda & inope felices lare. 
 
 Ibi dultia inter rura fecretus tua, 
 
 Virtute te involve, patriae optatam bonus 
 
 Pacem precare. Ubi impii imperium obtinent, 
 
 Totoque graffatum orbe dominatur fcelus, 
 
 Privata melius inter obfcuros lares 
 
 Sedes honori eft. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Num ergo crediderit pater 
 Me velle vita, quam ipfe faftidit, frui ? 
 
 ' CATO. 
 
 Valete, amici. Si quibus tutum minus 
 Videtur expeftare vidtoris fidem> 
 Scitote in ipfo flarc jam portu rates 
 A me paratas. PafTa vela aullros vocanf. 
 In quas'velitis cunque deduci plagas. 
 
 Quid
 
 254 CATO. 
 
 Where Cjcfar never fhall approach us more. 
 
 \_PoiKting to his dead fo;i. 
 There the brave youth, with love of virtue fired. 
 Who greatly in his country's caufe expired. 
 Shall know he conquer'd'. The firm patriot there. 
 Who made the welfare of mankind his care, 
 Tho' flill, by faftion, vice, and fortune croft. 
 Shall find the gen'rous labour was not loft. 
 
 END OF THE FOURTH ACT. 
 
 ACT
 
 CATO. 255 
 
 Quid reftat ultra, quo Cato vobis queat 
 Prodefle, amici ? Vilor hue propere advolat. 
 Iterum valete. Veftra fi pofthac milii 
 Videre detur ora, meliori in folo 
 . Feliciore fub axe dabitur, ubi metus 
 Nulios creabit Caefar. Ibi fortis puer. 
 Qui laetus animam patriae impendit fuje, 
 Lauro perenni tempora revindtus fclet 
 Se fplendide vicifle. Ibi heroum genus. 
 Pro civibus amicifque non timidum mori, 
 Virtute digna praemia accipiet fua, 
 
 FINIS ACTUS (^ARTI. 
 
 ACTUS
 
 256 CATO. 
 
 A C T V. 
 
 SCENE I. 
 CATO Solus. 
 
 Sitting in a thoughtful pojfure. In Bis hand Platans 
 hook on the Immortality of the Sou/. A dranun 
 fiuord on the table by him, 
 
 AT muft be fo Pkto, thou reafon'ft well 
 
 Elfe whence this pleafing hope, this fond defire, 
 
 ThiB longing after immortality ? 
 
 Or whence this fecret dread, and inward horror 
 
 Of falling into nought ? Why fhrinks the foul 
 
 Back on herfelf, and ftartles at dellrudlion ? 
 
 'Tis the Divinity, that ftirs within us. 
 
 'Tis heav'n itfelf, that points out an Herekfter, 
 
 And intimates Eternity to man. 
 
 Eternity ! thou pleafing, dreadful, thought ! 
 
 Through
 
 C ATO. 257 
 
 ACTUS QUINTUS. 
 
 SCENA PRIMA. 
 
 C AT O Solus. 
 
 Sedet tneditanti Jimilis, pra manibus habet librum 
 Platonis de Immortalitate Anima. In nunfd con- 
 fpiciiur enjls 'vagina, 'vacuus. 
 
 IC efle conftat. Tu quidem refte, Plato. 
 Haec nempe quorfum blanda fpes menti infidet, 
 Hsec avida defideria & exardens amor 
 jEternitatis ? Hie unde fecretus timor 
 Horrorque mortis ? Quid animus fubito pavet, 
 Refugitque trepidus, dum oliih in antiquum nihil 
 Metuit relabi ? Numen eft, quod nos movet. 
 Divina Mens intus agit. Eft Deus, Deus, 
 Totos per artus fufus, ipfi animo indicans 
 iEternitatem. ^Eternitas ! .(Eternitas ! 
 
 O dulcis.
 
 258 CATO. 
 
 Through what variety of untry'd being, 
 
 Through what new fcenes and changes mull we pafs ? 
 
 The wide, th' unbounded profpeft lies before me ; 
 
 But fhadows, clouds, and darknefs, reft upon it. 
 
 Here will I hold. If there's a Pow'r above us. 
 
 And that there is all nature cries aloud 
 
 Through all her works. He muft delight in virtue ; 
 
 And that which he delights in, muft be happy. 
 
 But when ? or where ? This world was made for Casfar. 
 
 I'm weary of conjeftures. This muft end 'em. 
 
 [Laying his hand on his /-word. 
 Thus am I doubly arm'd. My death and life. 
 My bane and antidote are both before me. 
 This in a moment brings me to an end ; 
 But this informs me, I ihall never die. 
 
 The
 
 CATO. ^ 259 
 
 O dulcis 16 tremenda I quamterres places ! 
 Per quot meatus> quot per ancipltes vias 
 Novafque ibrmas rerum inexpertum rapis ? 
 Longc intaenti traftus ille ocuUs patet 
 Immenfus, ingens. Atra fed nox incubat, 
 SpiiTaeque nubes lumen ambigaum premunt. 
 Hie ergo fiftam. Si Deus mundum regit. 
 At regere pulcher ordo naturae dpcet, 
 Virtate deleflatur : & quicquid Deum 
 Deleftat, efle non nequit bonum. Aft ubi, 
 Quando fruendum ? Totus hie, quantus patet, 
 Succumbit orbis Cscfari. Dubiis labat 
 Mens fefla curis. Terminum ponet chalybs. 
 
 [En/t manum admomtt. 
 Mors atque vita flc mihi eft pofita in mana. 
 Ad utramlibet paratus utramqoe intuor. 
 Hie vitam adada morte momento raplt, 
 
 \Primo enfeftif 
 Mihi fempiternos ille promittlt dies. 
 
 [^deinde lihrum indicat. 
 Animus
 
 26o CATO. 
 
 The foul, fecur'd in her exiftence> fmiles 
 At the drawn dagger, and defies it point. 
 The ftars fhall fade away, the fun himfelf 
 Grow dim with age, and nature fink in years. 
 But thou Ihalt flourifh in immortal youth. 
 Unhurt amidft the war of elements. 
 The wrecks of matter, and the cru(h of worlds. 
 
 What means this heavinefs, that hangs upon me ? 
 This lethargy, that creeps through all my fenfes ? 
 Nature opprefs'd, and harrafs'd out with care. 
 Sinks down to reft. This once I'll favour her. 
 That my awaken'd foul may take her flight, 
 Renew'd in all her ftrength, and frefh with life. 
 An oiF'ring fit for heav'n. Let guilt or fear 
 Difturb man's reft. Cafo knows neither of Vm, 
 IndifF'i'ent in his choice to fleep or die. 
 
 SCENE
 
 CATO. 261 
 
 Animus faae immortalitatis confcius 
 
 Mucronis aciem ridet & temnit minaj. 
 
 Tenue5 vetuftas fiderum extinguet faces, 
 
 iEtate fol ipfe gravis imminuet diem, 
 
 Natura tota denique annofam induct 
 
 Ultima fenedam. At animus jeterna nitens 
 
 VivetjuventL Vivet, & difcors ubi 
 
 Elementa bellum fosdere abrupto gerent, 
 
 Et frafta mundi machina fupremiim gemet, 
 
 Illasfus, integer, capite fe alto efFeret 
 
 Inter ruinas orbiumque.fragmina. 
 
 Sed ecquis artus languor irrepens gravat ? 
 
 Natura curis lafla fuccumbit fuis, 
 
 Requiemque pofcit. ^qua pofcenti obfequar. 
 
 Cedam fopori, quo magis animus vigil 
 
 Inde renovate robore & vita Integra 
 
 Sublime carpat iter ad azthereas domos, 
 
 Diis digna fuperis vidllma. Aut timor aut fcelus 
 
 Aliis quietem rumpat : ignorat Cato 
 
 Utrumque, mortem placidus an fcmnum eljgat. 
 
 SCENA
 
 262 CATO. 
 
 SCENE II. 
 CATO, P OR CI US. 
 
 B, 
 
 CATO. 
 >UT hah ! how's this, my fon ? Why this intruYion 
 Were not my orders, that I would be private ? 
 Why am I difobey'd ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Alas, my father. 
 What means this fword, this inftrament of death ? 
 Let me convey it hence ! 
 
 CAro. 
 
 Ralh youth, forbear. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 O let the pray'rs, th' intreaties of your friends. 
 Their tears, their common danger wreft it from you.
 
 CATO. 263 
 
 SCENA SECUNDA. 
 
 CATO, PORCIUS. 
 
 CATO. 
 JL ORCI, quid hoc ? Quorfum haec, vel unde audacia? 
 Non imperaram, ne quis hue ferret pedem ? 
 Cur nate, cur fie jufla violantur mea ? 
 
 \ PORCIUS. 
 
 t Dilefle genitor, ifte quid gladius minax, 
 Striftus, neci paratus ? O precor, fine, 
 
 .. Sine hinc removeam ! 
 
 I - ' 
 
 I , CATO. 
 
 Define imprudens puer. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Tibi hunc tuorum lachryraae, & vota & preces, 
 i Communeque periclum omnium e manibus, pater, 
 Extorqueant, oro.
 
 264 CATO. 
 
 CATO. 
 Would'ft thou betray me ? Would'ft thou give me up 
 A flave, a captive, into Caefar's hands ? 
 Retire, and learn obedience to a father. 
 Or know, young man ! .... 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Look not thus fternly on me. 
 You know, I'd rather die, than difobey you. 
 
 CA'TO. 
 'Tis well ! Again Fm matter of myfelf. 
 Now, Caefar, let thy troops befet our gates. 
 And bar each avenue, thy gath'ring fleets 
 O'erfpread the fea, and flop up ev'ry port : 
 Cato fhall open to himfelf a paflage. 
 And mock thy hopes. 
 
 PORCIUS.
 
 C A T O. 265 
 
 CATO. 
 Quid ? An hofti prodere ? 
 An fervituti, an Caefari, an vinclis dare 
 Me vis inermum ? Hinc illico facefle, & patri 
 Obteraperare difce, vel noris, puer . . . 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Ah quid ita me torvum afpicis ? Vukuaij precor, 
 Exue minacem. Levius eft mortem pati, 
 Quam patris iram. Nulla me cernet dies 
 Inobfequentem. 
 
 CATO. 
 Sanguinem agnofco meum. 
 Jam denuo eft mihi liberum arbitrium meas 
 Vita; necis-ve. Cinge jam, Ca;far, viris 
 Hanc undique urbem, milite frequenti exitus 
 Portufque claude, & claflibus totum tuis 
 Infterne pontum, liberam Caio viam 
 Sibi ipfe aperiet, fpefque deludet tuas". 
 
 N PORCIUS.
 
 266 CAT O. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 O Sir, forgive your fon, 
 Whofe grief hangs heavy on him ? O my father ! 
 How am I fure it is not the laft time 
 I e'er Ihall call you fo ? Be not difpleafed, 
 O be not angry with me, whilfl I weep. 
 And, in the anguifh of my heart, befeech you 
 To quit the dreadful purpofe of your foul I 
 
 CATO. 
 Thou haft been ever good and dutiful. 
 
 [Embracing him. 
 Weep not, my fon ; all will be well again. 
 The righteous gods, whom I have fought to pleafe. 
 Will fuccour Cato, and preferve his children. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Your words give comfort to my drooping heart. 
 
 CATO. 
 Porcius, thou may'ft rely upon my condul. 
 Thy father will not aft what milbecomes him. 
 
 But
 
 C A T O. 267 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 O parce nato, genitor. Incumbens dolor 
 Gravis intus anxium fmum opprimit. . O pater, 
 Te nunc fupremum forfan appello patrem. 
 His parce lachrymis, neve fuccenfe ; & locus 
 Si quis datur adhuc precibus, hanc mentem. exue. 
 
 cAro. 
 
 Bonus fulfti femper & patri obfequens. 
 Abilerge lachrymas : cumfla reftituet dies. 
 Quos demerere, nate, mihi femper mea 
 Pietate ftudui, Dii patrem & nates tegent. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Mihi peftus aegrum difta folantur tua. 
 
 CATO. 
 Porci, timores mitte : fe indignum Cats . 
 Nil perpetrabit. Vade jam nate, & vide. 
 Nihil ut amicis defit : afcendant rates. 
 
 N 2 Si
 
 268 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 But go, my fon, and fee if aught be wanting 
 Among thy father's friends. See them embark'd; 
 And tell me if the winds and feas befriend them. 
 My foul is quite weigh'd down with care, and afks 
 The foft refrefhment of a moment's fleep. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C ATO. 
 
 i6g 
 
 Si placida maria dent foluturis noti 
 
 Mihi deinde refer. Exbaufta mens curis labat, 
 
 Brevifque fomni lene folamen petit. 
 
 [Exif. 
 
 Ns 
 
 SCENA
 
 2?o CATO. 
 
 SCENE III. 
 
 PORCIUS, JUBA. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Y thoughts are more at eafe, my heart revives. 
 I feel a dawa of hope break In upon me. 
 "My father will not caft away a lifcj 
 So needfal to us all, and to his country. 
 
 Enter JUBA. 
 yUBA. 
 Where is your father, Porcias, where is Caie ? 
 
 PORCIUS, 
 J aba, (peak low, he is retired to refl. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 CATO, iyt 
 
 aaii w" I >| I I I a. 
 
 SCENA TERTIA. 
 
 PORCIUS, JUBA. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 .NIMO parumper pulfus eft trifli dolor, 
 Spefque orta rebus melior afiiiftis venit, 
 Auguria niii vana capio, haud unquam manu 
 Sua ipfe vitae tempora abrumpet pater, 
 Cujus aded opus habet orbis, & Roma, et fui. 
 
 Intrat JUBA. 
 JUBA. 
 Tuus ubi, Porci, genitor ? Ubi Cato ? 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 
 Cave, 
 Submifla leni verba rcferantur fono, 
 Somnum recUnis ledlulo invitat levem. 
 
 N 4. JUBA.
 
 274 CATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 AIas> I tremble when I think on Cate, 
 In every view, in every thought I tremble ! 
 Cato is flern, and awful as a God. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Though ftern and awful to the foes of Rome, 
 He is all goodnefs, Juba, always mild, 
 CompafHonate and gentle to his friends, 
 Fill'd with domeftic tendernefs, the beft. 
 The kindefs father. I have ever found him 
 Eafy, and good, and bounteous to my wifhes. 
 
 yUBjf,
 
 CATO. 273 
 
 
 
 JUBA. 
 Horrore quodam mens mihi facro tremit, 
 Quoties Catonem cogito. Tanquam Deus 
 Aliquis ab alto lapfus, auguftus, gravis, 
 Rigidus, feverus, & tremendus eft Cato. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Gravis & tremendus hoftibus Romae licet. 
 Eft bonus amicis, placidus & mitis fuis. 
 Primis ab annis Porcio talis fuit, 
 Amans, benignus, fiacilis> indulgens pater. 
 
 yUBA. 
 Neque Porcio uni : pariter eft Temper fina 
 Jubam paterno, ut fanguinem amplexus fuum. 
 Hinc & viciffim ego filii officio ut patrem 
 Et amore colui, magna virtutum fequi 
 Veftigia avidus. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Inde par decus enitet 
 Jubae & Catonis. 
 
 N s yUBJ.
 
 274 C ATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 'Tis his confent alone can make me blefs*d. 
 Could I but call that wcnd'rous man my father,* 
 I jnight be blefs'd. But who knows Cato's thoughts? 
 
 POROUS. 
 He is retired to reft, and feems to cheriih 
 Thoughts full of peace. He has dilpatch'd me hence 
 With orders, that befpeak a mind compofed. 
 And ftudious for the fafety of his friends ^ 
 Juba, take care that none difturb his flumbers. 
 
 * Taken from at I. fcene II. and fpoken by Sempronius in the 
 original, 
 
 SCENE
 
 C AT O. 275 
 
 yVBA. 
 Ille me folus poteH 
 Facere beatam. Fas mihi 6 utinam foret 
 Socerum vocare ! At ecqua turbato gerat 
 Coniilia tacitus pe^ore^ incertum lacet. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Confilia pacis mollia videtur foi 
 Secures agere. Sola amicorum falus 
 Facit inquietum. Hinc ire me ad portum jubet, 
 Ubi pafla ventos carbafa morantes vocant. 
 Ne quis reclinem turbet, interea vide. 
 
 ^\^V^>^ 
 
 SCENA
 
 27^ 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 SCENE IV. 
 
 JUBA Solus. 
 YE immortal Powers, that guard the jufl. 
 Watch round his couch and foften his repofe. 
 Banifh his forrows, and becalm his foul 
 With eafy dreams : remember all his virtues. 
 And Ihew mankind, that goodnefs is your care. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C A T O. 277 
 
 SCENA QUARTA. 
 
 JUBA Solus. 
 'II fofpitales, quotquot humanum genus 
 Terrafque regitis, fi qua refpeftant pios 
 Numina, Catonem cernite. Vigiii torum 
 Cingite corona, & pellite infomnes metus. 
 Placido fopore vlflus abfiftat dolor, 
 Levibufque mentem fomniis pafcat quies 
 Dulcis & arnica. Meruit hoc virtus viri. 
 Hinc quotquot orbem vaftum & immenfum incolunt, 
 Studiaque virtutefque juftorum fciant 
 Diis efTe curse. 
 
 SCENA
 
 278 CATO. 
 
 SCENE V. 
 
 LUCIUS, JUBA. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 lu) WEET are the flumbers of the virtuous man. 
 
 Juba, I have feen the godlike Cato. 
 Some power invifibie fupports his foul. 
 And bears it up in all its wonted greatnefa, 
 A kind refrefhing fleep is fall'n upon him. 
 
 1 faw him ftretch'd at eafe, his fancy loft 
 
 In pleafing dreams. As I drew near his couch. 
 
 He fmiled, and cry'd, Caefar, thou can'ft not hurt me. 
 
 JVBjS.
 
 C A T O. 
 SCENA QUINTA. 
 
 LUCIUS, JUBA. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 JVIeMBRA divinus C/o 
 Leni fopore laxat. Ipfe alto toro 
 Vidi jacentem, proh virum qualem, Jubal 
 Diis vix minorem. Priftino innixum fuae 
 Vigore mentis tela fortunaj fupra 
 AHquis potenti fiiblevat manu Deus. 
 Toro fupinum blanda dum mulcet qyies, 
 Tranquillus animo varia, quae finxit fopor. 
 Simulacra rerum deviam mentem abftrahunt, 
 Placidifque ludunt fomniis. Tacito pede 
 Propius ut acceffi, ore fubridens, levi 
 Voce inquiebat ; jam mihi, Cajfar, nequis 
 Nocere : tutus arma tua temnit Cato. 
 
 279 
 
 JUBA.
 
 28> CATO. 
 
 JUBA. 
 His mind ftill labours with fome dreadful thought. 
 My blood runs cold* ; my frighted thoughts fly back. 
 And flartle into madnefs 
 
 ' - LUCIUS. 
 
 Away ! you're too fufpicioos. All is fafef , 
 While Cato lives. His prefence will proteft us. 
 Cxfar is flill difpofed, to give us terms. 
 And waits at diftance, till he hears from Cato. 
 
 * Taken from aft III. fcone II. f Ibid, fcene III. 
 
 JUBA,
 
 CATO. 281 
 
 JUBA. 
 Nefcio, quid animo turbidus cacco parat 
 Ingens, tremendum. Gelidus in venis cruor 
 Formidine colt, horror invadit finum, 
 Peliberata forte mors tutum facit. 
 
 LUCIUS, 
 Nimios timores pone : qui vigilem folet, 
 Vel fcmniantem fuftinet animi vigor. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Novi Catonem. Vincula indocilis pati, 
 Nunquam probrofo coUa fubmittet jugo. 
 Jam quoque propinquus hoflis infeAis metum 
 Adauget armis. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Dum fuis Cato interefl, 
 Metus omnis abfit. Ipfe nos teget, hoftibus 
 Vel nunc tremendus. Pronus ad veniam, moras 
 Innetit ultru Caefar, ut tandem Cato 
 Remittat animum, oblatam & accipiat fidem. 
 
 JUB^.
 
 282 CATO. 
 
 JUBA, 
 
 No, no J the horfemen are return'd from viewing 
 The number, ilrength, and pofture of our foes. 
 Who now encamp within a fhort hour's march. 
 On the high point of yon bright weftern tower 
 We ken them from afar, the fetting fun 
 Plays on their fhining arms and burning helmets. 
 And covers all the field with gleams of fire. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Juba, 'tis time we fhould awaken Cat9. 
 
 8CENB
 
 CATO. 283 
 
 7UBA. 
 Vana ominaris. Miflus hoUiles eques 
 Luftrare numeros nunciat in urbem redux 
 Prope imminere Caefarem. Ipfa ad moenia 
 Brevis hora fiftet. Turre ab excelfa, obvioa 
 Quae fpeftat auftros, agmine inftrufto licet 
 Profpicere turmas. Sol ut oceanum fubit 
 Adverfa in arma lucidos ignes vibrat ; 
 Galeaeque clypeique aere rutilanti vomunt 
 Ferale fulgur, arvaque accendunt novis 
 Radiata ilammis. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Illico e fomnis Cato 
 EA excitandus. Commodum a porta redux 
 En Porcius adeft. 
 
 SCENA
 
 id4 CAT'O. 
 
 SCENE VI. 
 JUBA, PORCIUS, LUCIUS. 
 
 yUBA. 
 
 p. 
 
 ORCIUS, thy looks fpeak fomething of impor- 
 tance. 
 What tidings doft thou bring ? Methinks I fee 
 Unufual gladnefs fparkling in thy eyes. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 As I was hailing to the port, where now 
 My father's friends, impatient for a paflage, 
 Accufe the ling'ring winds, a fail arrived 
 From Pompey's fon, who, through the realms of Spain 
 Galls out for vengeance on his father's death. 
 And roufes the whole nation up to arms. 
 Were Cato at their head, once more might Rome 
 AfTert her rights, and claim her liberty. 
 
 But
 
 C A T O. 285 
 
 SCENA SEXTA. 
 
 JUBA, PORCIUS, LUCIUS. 
 
 JUBA. 
 JI? ARE quid, Porci, refers. ' 
 Infolita in oculis figna lastitiae micant. 
 
 PORCltrs, 
 Modo ut petebam concito portum gradu, 
 Miflus ab Ibera lembus advenit plaga, 
 Pompeius ubi junior, magni patris 
 Juratus ultor, bella molitur nova, 
 Totafque ad arma in Caefarem gentes ciet. 
 His fe duccm praebere fi vellet Cato, 
 Populus Quirini denuo poffet fua 
 Afferere jura, & lapfa libertas polo 
 
 Revifcre
 
 286 C A T O. 
 
 But hark ! What means that groan ? 
 
 \^^ groan is /tear if. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Cato, amidft his flumbers thinks on Rome, 
 And in the wild diforder of his foul 
 
 [Another groan. 
 Mourns o'er his country. Hah ! a fecond groan . . , 
 Keav'n guard us all. 
 
 [Exit Lucius, 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Alas, 'tis not the voice 
 Of one who fleeps ! 'Tis agonizing pain, 
 'Tis death is in that found. O ! fhould my father . . 
 I die away with horror at the thought.* 
 
 Aft IV, fcenc III. 
 
 yUBA.
 
 CATO. 287 
 
 Revifere orbem numine ereftum fuo. 
 
 [ Auditur gemitus. 
 Ah ! ecquid audio ? unde lamentabilis 
 Venit ifte gemitus ? 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 
 I Somno ut indulget Ca;a, 
 
 Alto repoftam cogitat Roniam finu j 
 
 Dumque vagus animum turbidum fopor rapit, 
 
 Lugubre fatum patriae & cafum ingemit. 
 
 [ Alter gemitus. 
 
 Ah rurfus ingemit ! Malum, 6 faperi, precor, 
 
 Avertite omen. 
 
 Exit Lucius. 
 
 ' PORCIUS. 
 Somnus haud tales foJet 
 Ciere gemitus. Morte vox gravis fonat : 
 Eit ille fupremus animam efflantis labor. 
 Ah, Juba, timeo ! Mihi corda lethalis pavor 
 Micantia haurit. Nefcio, quod ingens malum 
 Prjefagit animus. 
 i 'JUBA.
 
 288 CATO. 
 
 O Porcius, hope and fear rife up at once.f 
 And with variety of pain diftraft me. 
 
 Re-enter LUCIUS. 
 LUCIUS. 
 O fight of woe ! 
 
 What we fear'd, O Porcius, is come to pafs ! 
 Cato is fall'n upon his fword. I've raifed him up. 
 And placed him in his chair, where pale and faint 
 He gafps for breath. 
 
 JUBA. 
 .' No more, no more, O Lucius ! 
 
 Hide all the horrors of thy mournful tale. 
 And let us guefs the reft. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 
 O Juba, Juba, 
 Have 1 not caufe to rave and beat my breaft. 
 To rend my heart with grief, and run drftradled ? J 
 
 t Aa III. fcene I. J Aft IV. fcene III. 
 
 JUBj4.
 
 CATO. 2 
 
 i - 
 
 JUBA. 
 Non minor/ me cura habet, 
 Dum fpes metufque hinc inde dubitantem rapit. 
 
 f LUCIUS REDIT. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Crudele fatum ! Verus heu nimium timor ! 
 Mori obftinatus incubuit enfi Cato. 
 t Suo volutum fanguine erexi folo. 
 
 Cathedra repoftus, pallidas, languens trahit 
 ^gros aphelitus. Sinu ingens plaga hiat. 
 
 \ 
 
 JUBA. 
 O parce, LucI, parce lachrymabili 
 Aures ferire nuncio. Mente liceat 
 Conjicere reliqua. 
 
 POROUS. 
 Luftus 6 quantus meo 
 Incumbit animo. 
 
 JUBA.
 
 290 CATO. 
 
 JUBA, 
 Now, Porcius, now call up to thy affiftance 
 Thy wonted ftrength and conftancy of mind : 
 Thou can'fl not put it to a greater trial. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 
 O Juba, I'mdiftrefs'd, I ftand aftonifn'd* 
 Like one juft blafted by a ftroke from heav'n. 
 Who pants for breath, and ftiffens, yet alive 
 In dreadful looks, a monument of wrath ! 
 
 Now tell me, Juba, tell me from thy foul,f 
 If thou believeft, 'tis poffible for man 
 To fufFer greater ills, than Porcius fufFers ? 
 
 JUBA. 
 O Porcius, Porcius ! might my big fwoll'n heart 
 Vent, all its griefs and give a loofe to forrow, 
 Juba could anfwer thee in fighs, keep pace 
 With all thy woes, and count out tear for tear. 
 
 * A&. III. fcenc II. f Aft IV. fcene I. ' 
 
 PORCIUS.
 
 CATO. 2gi 
 
 JUBA. 
 ' Prome nunc omnem tui 
 Conftantiam animi, & pedus obfirtna mails. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Totus perhorrefco, velut inopino Jovis 
 Qui ta^us igai palpitat, anhelat, pavet, 
 Vitseque pene nefcius vivit fuae. 
 Siccine mihi, pater optime, ereptas peris ? 
 Siccine pericula inter &^ belli minas 
 Deferis amicos ? O mi Oreftaea fide * 
 
 Primis ab annis cognite, 6 animo meo 
 Chariffime Juba, fare, num' tandem putas 
 Majora pofle perpeti quenquam mala, 
 Quam Porcius perpetitur ? 
 
 yUBA. 
 
 O Porci, meum 
 
 Si cor dolori liberum frasnum daret, 
 
 Juba tibi, Porci, paribus affliftus malis 
 
 Lachrymam rependet lachryma, gemitum pari 
 
 Gemitu rependet. 
 
 O % PORCIUS.
 
 292 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Hence let me fly into my father's prefence, * 
 And pay the lail fad duties. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 
 His weeping fervants, 
 Obfequious to his orders, bear him hither. 
 Full of compaflion, as his life flows from him. 
 He Inftantly demands to fee his friends, f 
 
 * Aft V. fcene IV. f Aft V. fccne IV. 
 
 SCENE
 
 C A T O. 293 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 Sinite, in obfequia patris 
 Ultima, priurquam fpiritum exhalet, ruam. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Verns obrequentes hue ferunt. Senfim fugit 
 Dum vita labris, ultimum afFari Aios 
 Natum atque amicos voce^ mdribundd rogat. 
 
 O 3 SCENA
 
 294 CATO. 
 
 SCENE vn. 
 
 CATO brought in a chair, JUBA, PORCIUS, 
 LUCIUS, Senators, &c. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 O HEAV'N, affill me in this dreadful hour ! 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Now is Rome fall'n indeed ! 
 
 yUBJ. 
 Thefe are thy triumph*. 
 Thy exploits, O Caefar ! 
 
 CATO. 
 
 Here fet me down. 
 Porcius, come near me. Are my friends embark'd? 
 Can any thing be thought of for their fervice ? 
 
 Whilft
 
 C A T O. 295 
 
 SCENA SEPTIMA. 
 
 CATO cathedra fubveaus, JUBA> PORCIUS, 
 LUCIUS, Senatores, &c. 
 
 PORCIUS. 
 ^Ll, luftuofa Porcio hac hora, precor, 
 Succurrite, & bene ferre fortunam date. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 Jam Roma ab alto culmine everia occldit. 
 
 yUBA. 
 En, en faclnora, 6 Caefar, eh laurus tuae. 
 Tux en triumphi ! 
 
 CATO. 
 Me, viri, hie deponite. 
 Accede, Porci. Vela nam ventis mei 
 Dedere amici ? Num quid eft adhuc fuper, 
 Suos juvare quo amplius poflit Cato. 
 
 O 4 Dum
 
 296 ^ C A T O. 
 
 Whilft I yet live, let me not live in vain. 
 O Lucius, art thou here ? Thou art too good. 
 Let this our friendfhip live between our children. 
 Make Porcius happy in thy daughter Lucia. 
 Alas, poor man, he weeps ! Marcia, my daughter, 
 O bend me forward ! Juba loves thee, Marcia. 
 A fenator of Rome, while Rome furvived. 
 Would not have match'd his daughter with a king. 
 But Casfar's arms have thrown down all diftinftion. 
 "Whoe'er is brave and virtuous, is a Roman. 
 I'm fick to death. O when fliall I get loofe 
 From this vain world, th* abode of guilt,and forrow ! 
 And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in 
 On my departing foul. Alas, I fear 
 I've been too hally. O ye Pow'rs, that fearch 
 The heart of man, and weigh his inmoft thoughts. 
 
 If
 
 C A T O. 297 
 
 I ' r 
 
 Dum vivo, ne fruftra, precor, vivam. Ut caret 
 Anteafta labe vita, liceat ad ultimum 
 Dixifle, Vixi. Te-ne, mi Luci, intuor ? 
 Eft grata pietas. Quae mihi tecum fuit, 
 Ufque facra noftris vivat in natis fides, 
 Juba 6 relapfum paululum inclina Juba, 
 Pietas tua eft mihi nota, notus eft amor. 
 Dum falva ftabat Roma, Romanus foret 
 Senator indignatus externum fibi 
 E regia ftirpe generum. At rerum omnia 
 Difcrimina enfe fuftulit Casfar fuo. 
 Quicunque pulchra laude virtutis nitet, 
 Romanus audit. ^^Egra mors trifti caput 
 Involvit umbra. O quando corporeo anima 
 Carcere foluta fordidam efFugiet humum, ' 
 Sedem hanc malorum & fceleris odiofam domum ? 
 Tamen fupremum dum fugax iter parat, 
 Videtur illi lucis a:thereae jubar 
 lllabi ab alto. Ah ! vereor, ut prsceps nimis 
 Facinus patrarit dextera ! O Superi, O deum 
 
 O 5 Hominumque
 
 298 CAT O. 
 
 If I have done amifs, impute it not ! 
 
 The befl may err, but you are good, and oh ! 
 
 [Dies. 
 LUCIUS. 
 There fled the greateft foul, that ever warm'd 
 A Roman breaft. O Cato ! O my friend ! 
 Thy will fhall be religioufly obferv'd, 
 
 ^UBA. 
 But let us bear this awful corpfe to Caefar, 
 And lay it in his fight, that it may iland 
 ;A fence betwixt us and the vidtor's wrath. 
 Cat9, the* dead, fhall Aill prote^ his friends* 
 
 LUCIUS.
 
 CATO. 299 
 
 Hominumque recjlor, cunda qui juflo aeftimas 
 Momenta rerum, & mentis humanse intimos 
 Luftras recefliis, fi quid erravi, precor, 
 Ne verte crimini. Hominis eft crrare. At, oh ! . 
 
 Moriiur. 
 LUCIUS. 
 En civis ille funere indigno perit. 
 Quo juftiorem Roma non unquam parens 
 Sinu educavit. O mihi fruftra Cato 
 Biledle, terris quando te polus invidet, 
 Habebo Temper hunc honoratum diem. 
 Semper & acerbum. 
 
 JUBA. 
 Funebri pompa interim 
 Corpus feramus Caefari. Motu licet 
 Et luce caffus proteget amipos Cato. 
 Ubi Catonis cernet exuvias fuo 
 Sanguine decoras viftor; oblitus feras 
 Manfuefcet irae. 
 
 O 6 - LUCIUS.
 
 300 
 
 C ATO. 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 From hence, let fierce contending nations know. 
 What dire efFefts from civil difcords flow. 
 'Tis this, that Ihakes our country with alarms. 
 And gives up Rome a prey to Roman arms ; 
 Produces fraud, and cruelty, and ftrife. 
 And robs the guilty world of Catoh life. 
 
 [Exeunt omnes.
 
 C ATO. 
 
 301 
 
 LUCIUS. 
 HInc concitae gentes gravi 
 Difcant duello, quanta procudit mala 
 Difcbrdium armis civium accenfus furor. 
 Concufla ab alto vertice hinc patria ruit, 
 Telifque Roma frafta Romanis jacet. 
 Hinc fraus & omnis criminum emerfit cohors, 
 Raptufque nobis vixit heu ! fruftra Cato. \ , 
 
 [Exeunt omnes.
 
 ALEXANDER'S FEAST; 
 
 OR THE 
 
 POWER oj* MUSIC. 
 
 ODE ON St. CECILIA'S DAY. 
 
 By Mr. DRYDEN. 
 k.^^O ^ Q>^ 
 
 DONE INTO LATIN VERSE. 
 
 I
 
 304 ALEXANDER'S FEAST, 
 
 ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 AN onE, 
 
 JL WAS at the royal feaft, for Perfia won 
 By Philip's warlike fon. 
 Aloft in awful flate 
 The god -like hero fat 
 On his imperial throne. 
 
 The lovely Thais by his fide 
 Sat like a blooming eailern bri^e, 
 "In flow'r of youth and beauty's pride. 
 Happy, happy, happy pair. 
 None but the brave, 
 Nrfne but the brave 
 None but the brave deferves the fair. 
 
 His
 
 ALEXANDRI CONVIVIUM. 305 
 
 AJ.EXANDRI CONVIVIUM. 
 
 CARMEN. 
 
 -EGIFICO quondam, devl<5^a Perfide, luxu 
 Cam flrueret menfas proles generofa Philippi, 
 Ipfe, genus divum, folio fublimis ab alto 
 Sefe compofuit csenae, mediumque locavit. 
 Suave rubens Thais, Tithoni conjugis inftar, 
 AfTedit lateri, viridi formofa juventa. 
 Felices ambo : tanto quippe ilia marito 
 Digna fuit, tali dignus fait hie quoque fponfl, 
 
 Belligeri
 
 3o6 ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 His valiant peers were placed around. 
 Their brows with rofes and with myrtle bound. 
 So /hoald defert in arms be crown'd. 
 Timotheus placed on high 
 Amid the tuneful quire. 
 With flying fingers touch'd the lyre : 
 The trembling notes afcend the fky. 
 
 And heav'nly joys infpire. 
 The fong began from Jove, 
 Who left his blifsful feats above. 
 A dragon's fiery form belied the God ; 
 Sublime on radiant fpheres he rode, 
 - When he to fair Olympia prefs'd 
 To court the beauties of her fnowy breaft. 
 
 The
 
 ALEXANDRI CONVIVIUM, 307 
 
 Beliigeri proceres, focii comitefque laborum, 
 Myrtis atqiie rofis redimiti tempora circum 
 Lxti adfunt, flratoque Aiper Uifcumbicar oilro. 
 Tantus honos armis, tantae efl vidloria laudis. 
 Timotheus confefTum inter turbamque canentuna 
 Traftat agens citharam, digitifque micantibus omnes 
 Explorans numeros, vario modulamine chordas 
 Protinus impellit, rapidoque repercutit i6lu.- 
 Laetitia plaufuque fremunt, iludiifque calentes 
 Exultant convivx, aDimofque ad fidera tollunt. 
 
 A Jove principium : Jovis omnia plena canebat. 
 Ille fupercilio celfi moderator olympi 
 Cunda movet, cselorum orbs ponturaque profundum. 
 -Ille corufcanti nimborum in nofte, tonanti 
 
 Turbine
 
 3o8 ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 The lift'ning crowd admire the lofty found. 
 A prefent Deity they ihout around, 
 A prefent Deity the vaulted roofs rebound. 
 With ravifh'd ears- 
 The monarch hears, 
 AfTumes the god, 
 Affefts to nod. 
 And feems to (hake the fpheres. 
 
 The praife of Bacchus then the fweet mufician fung. 
 Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young. 
 The jolly god in triumph comes, 
 Sound the trumpets, beat the drums, 
 Flulh'd v/ith a purple grace - 
 He ftiows his honeft face. 
 Now give the hautboys breath, he comes, he comei 
 Bacchus ever fair and young. 
 Drinking joys did firil ordain. 
 I 
 
 Bacchus*
 
 ALEXANDRI CONVIVIUM. 309 
 
 Turbine contorquet fulmen, quo percita tellus. 
 Quo mortale genus trepidant et numen adorant.* 
 Talibus arredx mentes agitataque corda 
 Grajugenura. Deus, ecce deus vox omnibas una, 
 Et deus, ecce deus laquearia pulfa reclamant. 
 Attonitus rex ipfe audit : fimul enthea mentem 
 Vis fublime rapit, mediifque interferit aftris. 
 Jamque nihil mortale petens fuper aethera viftor 
 Fertur ovans, nutuque quatit deus alter olympum. 
 
 Plurimus in Bacchi laudes formamque decoram 
 Deinde canit vates inconfumptamque juventam. 
 Evoe l^etitiae Bacchus dator advenit, alto 
 Edomitas Nifae fledlens de vertice tigrfesi 
 Argutos adeo fundat cava tibia cantus, 
 Majori clangore fonent lituique tubaeque, 
 Et fremebunda ftrepant repetito tympana pulfu. 
 Purpureum oftentans fuffufo lumine vultum 
 Bacchus adeft, rofeufque aulam fubit hofpes apertim. 
 Bacchus honoratas leges fervare bibendi 
 
 * The reader will here undoubtedly notice, and, we trufi, 
 approve a fliort deviation from the loofe original.
 
 3IO ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure. 
 Drinking is the foldier's pleafure. 
 
 Rich the treafure. 
 
 Sweet the pleafure. 
 Sweet is pleafure after pain. 
 
 Soothed with the found, the king grew vain. 
 Fought all his battles o'er again. 
 And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he flew 
 the flain. 
 The matter faw the madnefs rife. 
 His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes. 
 And while he heav'n and earth defied. 
 Changed his hand, and check'd his pride. 
 He chofe a moarnful mufe 
 Soft pity to infufe. 
 He fung Darius great and good. 
 By too fevere a fate 
 
 Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n from his high eftate 
 And welt'ring in his blood. 
 
 Deferted
 
 ALEXANDRl CONVIVIUM. ^311 
 
 Inftituit primus, Concordes inter amicos 
 Inllaurare dapes, et pocula ponere menfis. 
 Quis poft vina gravem martem durofque labores 
 Conqueritur ? Poft martis opus durofque bbores 
 , Infanire juvat, dulcemque haurire furorem. 
 
 f Talia dutn memorat, faftu turgefcere inani 
 
 Rex acer, fasvoque iterum contendere bello. 
 
 Ter ftravit ftratos, et fufa ter agmina fudit. 
 
 Jam tumido trepidare finu, torvoque tueri 
 
 Lumine, jam martem vultu fignare cruento. 
 Dumque ardens ade6 terns minitatur et aftris, 
 \. Atque ipfos demens vocat in certamina divos, 
 . Flebilis in qnerulam, converfo peftine, mufam 
 
 Barbiton infleflit vates; ea fraena farenti 
 I Subjicit, et ftimulos fub pedlore vertit araaros. 
 
 Darium illuftrem, quo non pacatior alter 
 j Extiterat terris, regali a culminelapfum, 
 
 Afflidumque folo, proh triftia fata, canebat.. 
 
 Verniles
 
 31* ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 Deferted at his utmoft need 
 By thofe his former bounty fed. 
 On the bare earth expofed he lies. 
 With not a friend to clofe his eyes. 
 With down-caft look the joylefs viftor fat. 
 Revolving in his alter'd foul 
 
 The various turns of fate below. 
 And now and then a iigh he Hole, 
 
 And tears began to flow. 
 
 The mighty mailer fmiled to fee. 
 That love was in the next degree. 
 'Twas but a kindred found to move. 
 For pity melts the mind to love. 
 J Softly fweet in Lydian meafures 
 
 Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafures. 
 War, he fung, is toil and trouble. 
 Honour but an empty bubble. 
 
 Never
 
 ALEXANDRT CONVIVIUM. 313 
 
 Verniles animae, proceres jam in morte relinquunt 
 Exanguem, nee adeft, qui languida lumina claudat. 
 Trifle fedec vidlor, mutata mente revolvens 
 Fataque, fortunafque virum, variofque labores. 
 Mox gemitus masfto de corde dat interruptos 
 Sufpirans, lachrymifque humelat grandibus ora. 
 Jpfe fibi plaudit vates ; jamque acer eodera 
 Pedine, quo ftravit, geftit relevare jacentem. . 
 Lydorum dodlus numeros dulcemque Camsenani, 
 Lenius attreftat citharam, placidoque canore 
 Senfim abolet curas, blandumque infpirat amorem. 
 Inftruftas nequicquam acies, iterataquc magnis 
 Pr^lia commemorat coeptis, Mavortis acuti 
 Sanguineos ludos, vacuos et honore triumphos. 
 
 P O quern
 
 .^H ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 Never ending, ftill beginning. 
 Fighting ftill, and ftill deftroying; 
 
 If the world be worth thy winning. 
 Think, O think it worth enjoying. 
 Lovely Thais fits befide thee. 
 Take the good the gods provide thee. 
 The many rend the Ikies with loud applaufe ; 
 So love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. 
 The prince, unable to conceal his pain. 
 Gazed. on the fair. 
 Who caufed his care ; 
 And figh'd and look'd, 
 Sigh'd and look'd, - 
 Sigh'd and look'd, and figh'd again. 
 At length with love and wine at once opprefs'd. 
 The vanquifli'd vidor funk upon her breaft. 
 
 Now ftrike the golden lyre again. 
 
 And louder yet, and yet a louder ftrain. 
 
 Break his bands of fleep afunder. 
 
 And roufe him up like a rattling peal of thunder.
 
 ALEXANDRI CONVIVIUM. 315. 
 
 O quern facra fames, et inexfaturabilis ardor 
 Per tot inexhauftjs cafus triilefque ruinas 
 Abripit ariTioruca, quem per tot beila ruentem 
 Gloriae adhuc urget, laudifque i,nfana cupido, 
 Qua<a ta.idem ftatues mecam, rex magae, laborum ? 
 Si fuerat tanti vidtoria digna laboris. 
 Eft propria mercede labor quoque dignus, et ipfos 
 Vidores fua dona inanent. Age, carpe diei 
 Gaudia, quaeque tenes, prserentibus utere donis. 
 Sic regi placitum : Unguis plaufuque favenlikin 
 Atria Icnga fonant : ferit aurea iidera clamor. 
 Talia laurigero virtus ornata triumpho 
 Praimia habet, vidrix retulit fed mulica palmam. 
 I Jundus Amor Baccho media jam regnat i>i au. a, 
 'Cui vix attollens nutantia lumina princeps 
 Pugnat adhuc, tumido poffit fi peftore Divum 
 Excutere, infufo donee jam numine vidlus, 
 Succumbit fomno pariter vinoque gravatus. 
 
 P 2 Nunc
 
 3i6 ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 Hark, hark, the horrid found 
 Has raifed up his head. 
 As awaked from the dead. 
 And amazed he flares around. 
 Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries. 
 See the furies arife. 
 
 See the fnakes, that they rear. 
 How they hifs in their hair. 
 And the fparkles, that flafh from their eyes ! 
 See a ghaftly band. 
 Each a torch in his hand ! 
 Thefe are Grecian ghofts, that in battle were flain. 
 And unburied remain. 
 Inglorious on the plain. 
 Give the vegeaice due 
 To the valiant crew. 
 Behold, how they tofs their torches on high. 
 How they point to the Perfian abodes 
 And gliit'ring temples of their hoftile gods ! 
 
 The
 
 ALEXANDRl CONVIVIUM. 317 
 
 Nunc age, nunc cithar&m rurfus convelle fonantem, 
 Acriter increpitans : nunc ceu ruat axe tonanti 
 Terrificum fulmen, rauco cava buccina cantu 
 Cornuaque et litui, geminataque tympana rumpant 
 Vincla fopora viro. Tali dum murmure circum 
 Cunfla ftrepunt, nigris velut experreftus ab umbris. 
 Rex levat actotiitus caput, et perftridla repenti 
 Corda pavore tremens vaga lumiua circumfleftit. 
 Jam mora nulla tenet, poenas vindidla repofcit, 
 Timotheus clamat : video, ut de nodle profunda 
 Difcurruht furiae ! Viden, ut fub crinibus angues 
 Scintillant oculos, horrendaque fibila toilunt ! 
 En taedis armata cohors, en agmina bello - 
 Adverfo proftrata graves de Perfidc pcenas 
 Solicitant. Haec omnis inops inhumataque turba 
 Graiorum eft : pcenas cunfti fimul ore repofcunt. 
 Surge adeo et vindex ulcifcere fata tuorum. 
 Afpicis, ut rutilos intentant hoftibus ignes, 
 Attolluntque faces irati, et templa deorum 
 Perfarum exitio fignant devota future. 
 
 P 3 Protinus
 
 3x8 ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 
 
 The. princes applaud with a furious joy. 
 And the king feized a flambeau with zeal to deAroy. 
 Thais led the way 
 To light him to his prey. 
 And like another Helen fired another Troy. 
 
 Thu; long ago. 
 Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow. 
 While organs yet were mute, 
 Timotheus to his breathing flute 
 Aii^ founding lyre. 
 
 Could fwell the foul to rage, or kindle foft defire. 
 At laft divine Cecilia came, 
 Inventrefs of the vocal frame. 
 The fweet enthufiaft from her facred ftore 
 Enlarged the former narrow bounds. 
 And added length to folemn founds. 
 With nature's mother wit and arts unknown before. 
 Let old Timotheus yield the prize. 
 
 Or both divide the crown. 
 He raifc'd a mortal to the (kies. 
 She drew an angel down. '
 
 ALEXANDRI CONVIVIUM. 319 
 
 Pfotinurs arreptam fpirans immane corufcat 
 Rex pinum, pofcitque amens incendia viftor. 
 Confpirant plaufu proceres, cunAique fequuntur. 
 Ipfa inter medios, tasda flagrante, tumultus 
 Prima micat Thais, Ctcci dux femina fadi. 
 Alteram et incendit ceu Tyndaris altera Trojara. 
 
 Sic cithara quondam fretus fidibufque, priufquam 
 Organa adhuc norant animata turaefcere flatu, 
 Timotheus varies acuit fub peftore motus, 
 Indomitamque iram, placidumque accendit anwrem. 
 Caecilis at tandem patriis defcendit ab aftris 
 Doda modos fuperura. Divino numine plena. 
 Ilia novos juffit numeros clarefeere terris, 
 Ignotoque prius grandefcere carmina cantu. 
 Timotheus adeo palmam concedat ovanti 
 Caeciliae, aut meritam capiant iiraul ambo coronam. 
 lUe potens numeris mortalem ad fidera vexit, 
 Hasc csli indigenam deduxit ab zethere divum. 
 
 P 4 IN
 
 ^lo ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 ODE FOR MUSIC, 
 
 N 
 
 S. CECILIA'S DAY. 
 By Mr. POPE. 
 
 'ESCEND, ye nine, defcend and fing j 
 The breathing inftruments infpire. 
 Wake into voice each filent ftring 
 And fweep the founding lyre I 
 In a fadly-pleafing flraia 
 Let the warbling lute complain ; 
 Let tlie loud trumpet found, 
 *Till the roofs all around. 
 The ihrill echoes rebound : 
 
 While
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 321 
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES 
 
 DIE S. CJECILIJE SACRO. 
 
 CARMEN. 
 
 -cAONIIS dcfcende jugis, age funde canoros, 
 Turba novena, modos : fpiranti carmina buxo 
 Suffice, & in numeros citharam nioderata tacentem, 
 Protinus impulfo quate fila fonantia pledro. 
 
 Flebilis in molles longum vibrata querelas 
 Duke gemat teftudo, ftrepant lituique tubaeque, 
 Et pulfata volet circum laquearia clangor. 
 Plenius interea lento folemnia ilata 
 
 P 5 Organa
 
 322 ODE FOR 'music. 
 
 While in more lengthen**! notes and flow. 
 The deep, majeftic, folemn organ* blow. 
 
 Hark ! the numbers foft and clear. 
 
 Gently fteal upon the ear ; 
 
 Now louder, and yet louder rife. 
 
 And fill with fpreading founds the ikies ;. " 
 Exulting, in triumph, now fwell the bold notes. 
 In broken air, trembling, the wild mufic floats ; 
 
 *Till, by degrees, remote and fmall. 
 The ftrains decay. 
 And melt away. 
 
 In a dying, dying faif. 
 
 By mufic minds an equal temper know. 
 
 Nor fwell too high, nor fink too low. 
 If in the breaft tumultuous joys arife. 
 Mafic her foft, afluafive voice applies : 
 Or when the foul is prefs'd with cares. 
 Exalts her ia enlivening airs. 
 
 Warriors
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 323 
 
 Organa clarefcant, exultantique canore 
 Vcntofis reddant modulatam foIJibus auram. 
 Audin ! lene melos blande fubrepit in aures. 
 Jam magis atque magis late fe fundit, Sc ipfis 
 Acceptum foperis emittk ad aftra fonorem. 
 Et tumet, & tremit, & plaudit, geminatque, trium- 
 
 phatque, 
 Elifumque modis trepidantibn aera complet. 
 Mox caefim extenuat fefe, nuinerofque minutim 
 Expirat moriens, & deficit expirando. 
 
 Dirigit arte fua moderatrix mufica mentem. 
 Nee torpere iinit nimiumve tumefcere ; pedlus 
 Gaudia fi mixto turbent exorta tumidtu. 
 Ilia regit numeris motus, & peftora placat. 
 Sin animus jaceat curarura pondere preflus, 
 Ipfa fubit, curafque levat, recreatque jacentem. 
 
 P 6 Bellatorum
 
 324 ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 Warriors fhe-fires with animated founds j 
 Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds. 
 Melancholy lifts her head, 
 Morpheus rouzes from his bed. 
 Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes, 
 Lift'ning Envy drops her fnakes : 
 Inteftine war no more our Paffions wage. 
 And giddy Faftions bear away their rage. 
 
 But when our country's caufe provokes to arms. 
 How martial mufic ev'ry bofom warms ! 
 So when the firft bold veffel dared the feas. 
 High on the ftern the Thracian raifed his ftrain. 
 While Argo faw her kindred trees 
 Defcend from Felion to the main. 
 
 Tranfported
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSJCES. 325 
 
 Bellatorum animis virtutem accendit, & aegro 
 SufHcit occuite medicans lenitnen amanti. 
 Ipfius ad numeros curas jubet ire folutas 
 Mceftitia j e ftratis excitus corripit artus 
 Morpheus ; Pigrities torpentes excutit ulnas, 
 Protinus evigilans ; fopitis anguibus adftat 
 Invidia, & modulos avida bibit aure fonoros.- 
 Inteftina filent animorum bella ; quiefcit 
 Seditio, pofitas nee jam reminifcitur iras. 
 
 At cum bella vocant, armorumque ingruit horror, 
 Martius ut lituum fonitus clangorque tubarum 
 Exacuit mentem, patriasque accendit amore ! 
 Sic ubi prima ratis, curfus tentare minaces 
 Audax, ignotis pelagi fe credidit undis, 
 Threicius vates puppi fublimis ab aha 
 Increpuit citharam ; cognatas, nee mora, pinas 
 Peliacis vidit defcendere montibus Argo. 
 
 Laetitia
 
 326 ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 Tranfported demi-gods flood round. 
 And men grew heroes at the found, 
 Enflam'd with glory's charms : 
 Each chief his fev'nfold ftiield difplay'd 
 And half unfheath'd the fliining blade ; 
 And feas, and rocks, and fkies rebound 
 To arms, to arms, to arms. 
 
 But when thro' all th' Infernal bounds. 
 Which flaming Phlegethon furrounds. 
 
 Sad Orpheus fought his confort loft, 
 Th' inexorable gates were barr'd ; 
 And nought was feen, and nought was heard. 
 
 Around the dreary coafl. 
 
 But dreadful gleams, 
 
 Difmal fcreams. 
 
 Fires that glow. 
 
 Shrieks of woe 
 
 Sullen moans. 
 
 Hollow groins. 
 
 And cries of tortar'd ghods.
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 327 
 
 Laetitia circum, plaufuque animifque frementes, 
 Semidei exultant reges, luartemque laceflunt. 
 Ufquc adeo pulchrse flagrantia corda fatigat 
 Laudis amor. Clypei textos feptemplicis orbes 
 Heros quifque rotat ; vagina; damnat inertes 
 Exiliens jam mucro moras : vox omnibus arma. 
 Rapes arma^ fretumque polufque arma^ arma remittunt. ' 
 
 Sed raptam Eurydicem ciam per lachrymabile Ditis 
 Inferni regnum, rapidus flagrantibus undis 
 Quod Phlegeton ambit, gemebundus quaereretOrpheus, 
 Objice crudeles non exorabile limen 
 Prajclufere fores. Hie caligantia circum 
 Littora terrificae voces, lamenta, gravefque 
 Mifceri gemitus, & lugubres ululatus. 
 Continuo nigra; torrenti vortice peftes 
 Flammartim erumpunt, & late lurida jaiElant 
 Fulgura ; tum ftridor ferri, tortoque flagello 
 Verbera, & umbrarum planttus refonare nocentum. 
 
 FaUor!
 
 328 ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 Bat hark ! he ftrikes the golden lyre j 
 And fee ! the tortur'd gholls refpire. 
 
 See, fhady forms advance ! 
 Thy ftone, O Sifyphus, flands ftill ; 
 Ixion refts upon his wheel. 
 And the pale fpedtres dance. 
 The Furies fink upon their iron beds 
 And fnakes uncurl'd hang lift'ning round their heads. 
 
 By the ftreams that ever flow. 
 By the fragrant winds that blow 
 
 O'erth' Elyfiaii fiow'rsi 
 By thofe happy fouls, who dwell 
 In yellow meads of Afphodel, 
 
 Or Amaranthine bow'rs : 
 By the heroes armed fhades, 
 Glitt'ring thro' the gloomy glades. 
 
 By
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 329 
 
 Fallor ! Threi'cio crepuit chelys aurea pledro ? 
 LaetiB refpirant poenis ceflantibus umbrae. 
 Exangues plaudunt choreas ad carmina Manes : 
 Turba levis propiore movet veftigia paflu. 
 Non jam Ixionei circum rota vertitur orbis. 
 Nee faxum ^oliden revolubile Sifyphon urget, 
 Oblitae irarum, Furlae fe in ftrata reclinant 
 Ferrea, & intend pendent de crinibus angues. 
 
 Per Stygis aeternd labentia flumina, dixit. 
 Per Zephyrum, qui lene volans per amoena vireta 
 Elyfios Acres fragranti recreat aura ; 
 Per fortunatas animas, manefque piorum, 
 Alphodelo qui prata tenent flaventia, vel quos 
 Frondibus intextis reddens Amaranthus inumbrat j 
 Perque heroam umbras, ferroque auroque micantes. 
 Quae tremulam vibrant nemora inter nubila lucem ; 
 
 Per
 
 330 ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 By the youths that died for love, 
 Wand'ring in the m> rtle grove, 
 Reftore, reftore Eurydice to life : 
 Oh take the huiband, or return the wife. 
 He fung, and hell confented 
 To hear the Poet's pray'r: 
 Stern Proferpine relented. 
 And gave him back the fair. 
 Thus fong could prevail 
 O'er death, and o'er hell, 
 A conqueft how hard, and how glorious ? 
 Tho' fate had. fall bound her 
 With Styx nine times round her. 
 Yet mufic and love were vidorious. 
 
 Bat foon, too foon, the lover turns his eyes ; 
 Again (he falls, again (he dies, ihe dies I 
 How wilt thou now the fatal fifters move ? 
 No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. 
 
 Now
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 331 
 
 Per, quos fasvus amor crudcli tabe peredit, 
 Secretique tegunt calles & myrtea fylva j 
 O precor, Eurydices properata retexite fata j 
 O date, mecam iterum lapera at convexa revifat ! 
 
 f Id fi Parca vetat, letho gaudete duorum. 
 
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 I Talibus orabat : nigri facraria Ditis, 
 
 I Haud mora, confenfere ; ratafque Proferpina juffit 
 
 r 
 
 I Efle preces. Quid non adeo Lethoque Erebuque 
 
 I 
 
 ' Mufica devidis fperet fuperare cancndf ? 
 
 i 
 
 t Obftabant fera fata licet, reditumque nigranti 
 
 [ Claudebat novles Styx circumfula palade, 
 
 I Vicit amor, cithara pollens' lidibufque canoris. 
 
 I Aft incautus amans nimium cito refpicit ; ilia 
 
 Heu ! retro ad Stygias collapfa revolvitur umbras. 
 Qua prece, quo fletu Manes jam flexeris, Orpheu? 
 
 I Crimen abeft, ni fone nimis fit crimen amafle. 
 
 Nunc
 
 Sii ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 Now under hanging mountains, 
 Befide the falls of fountainsi 
 Or where Hebrus wanders. 
 Rolling m Masanders, 
 
 All alone. 
 
 Unheard, unknown. 
 
 He makes his moan. 
 
 And calls her gholl. 
 For ever, ever, ever loft ! 
 Now with Furies furrounded, 
 Defpairing, confounded. 
 He trembles, he glows, 
 Amidft Rhodope's fnows. 
 See, wild as the winds, o'er the defert he flies ; 
 Hark ! Hsmus refounds with the Bacchanals cries- 
 
 Ah fee, he dies ! 
 Yet ev'n in death F.urydice he fung, 
 Eurydice flill trembled on his tongue, 
 
 Eurydice the woods, 
 
 Eurydice the floods, 
 Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung.
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 533 
 
 m 
 
 Nunc qua defeflus variis erroribus undas 
 Hebrus agit, five abrupt! fub fragmine montis 
 Surda fedeas inter pronarum murmura aquarum, 
 Nulli exauditus, lachrymans, ignotus, acerbum 
 Ingemit, Sc queftu monies fylvafque fatigat, 
 Eurydicem ingeminans & non revocabile fatum. 
 Nunc ftupet attonitus, furiis agitatus, & expes ; 
 Dum Rhodopeu luftrat glacie nivibufqae regentem, 
 Ardet, & ardentem tremor occupat. Ilicet ameas 
 Per loca vafta fugit properantibus ocyor Euris. 
 Thyrfigeris audin' bacchantibus infonat Hasmus 
 Heu! mifer occidit! At miferam tamen algida lingua. 
 Ah miferam Eurydicem, vita fugiente, ciebat. 
 Eurydicen fylva;, Eurydicen aranefque lacufque, 
 Eurydicen montes, & concava faxa fonabant. 
 
 Mufa
 
 33+ ODE FOR MUSIC. 
 
 Mulic the fiercell griefs can charm. 
 And fate's fevereil rage difarm : 
 Mufic can foften pain to eafe, 
 'And make defpair and madnefs pleafe: 
 Our joys below it can improve. 
 And antedate the blifs above. 
 This the divine Cecilia found. 
 And to her Maker's praife confin'd the found. 
 When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, 
 Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear j 
 Borne on the fwelling notes our fouls afpire, 
 ^hile fblemn airs improve the facred fire. 
 And Angels lean from heav'n to hear. 
 Of Orpheus now no more let Poets tell. 
 To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is giv'n ; 
 His numbers raifed a fhade from hell. 
 Hers lift the foul to heav'n.
 
 IN LAUDEM MUSICES. 335 
 
 i : 
 
 Mufa regit luftufque feros, legemque feveram 
 Fatorum : infufa duram dulcedinc mutat 
 Pcenarum rabiem, & blando folamine mulcet 
 Lymphatos animos defperantefque falutis. 
 Lsetitias majore replet mortalia fenfa 
 Pedora, datque alti prxfcifcere gaudia ccaelL 
 
 Hoc, afflata Dei propiori numine, fenflt 
 Cascilis, & modules cceIo facravit & aris. 
 Cum conjunfta xhoris pleno modulamine plaadunt 
 Organa, concentum cupidis gens iHCoIa coeli 
 Auribus accipiunt. Sacro fimul igne calentes, 
 Nos quoque in aethereos animis fublimibus orbes 
 Abripimur, coelumqae ipfum penetramus ovantes. 
 
 Threjcium ceffent adeo jam dicere vates 
 Orphea ; Caecilize major conceffa poteftas. 
 Conjugis hie manes Stygiis revocavit ab umbris. 
 Ilia canens fublime levat iupcr sthera mentem. 
 
 Qaatuor
 
 [ 337 1 
 
 Quatuor vertentis anni Tempeflates.* 
 
 CJRMEN. 
 
 .REA lata jacet multo nitidifTima culta 
 Herbarum florumque toris, quam quatuor albo 
 Mamiore Nympharum vivos referentia vultus 
 Diftinguunt fimulachra, loci ornamenta fuperbi. 
 Hinc via porrigitur raris interfita lucis. 
 Quantum acie pofTunt oculi luftrare tuentum. 
 Ordine direfto furgunt aequalibus inter 
 Se fpatiis ulmi, cajlo capita alta ferentes. 
 Parte ex adverfa, nigra nemus imminet umbra, 
 Luxurie foliorum horrens : hie aurea mala, 
 
 * Anglice The Seafons. Vid Spedlator, Vol. 6, N. 425. 
 Q^ Laurique
 
 33* QUATUOR VERTENTIS 
 
 Laarique et falices et amantes littora myrti. 
 Amnis utrumque latus vitrea pellucidus unda 
 AUuit, et terrain viridanti gramine vellit. 
 Tradlus amore loci greflum hue, ut faepe, ferebam. 
 
 Jam pronus Titan immerferat aequore currum, 
 Et vefpertinos accenderat Hefperus ignes. 
 Cynthia jam puro furgens efFulget olympo, 
 Et tremulos philomela modos merulaeque canorae 
 Certatim exorfje replent concentibus auras. 
 Unda repercuffae radians ab imagine lunae, 
 Et lencs .zephyrorum animas, mollefque fufurri 
 Infolita mentena recreant dulcedine, et omnes 
 Curas ire jubent. O terque quaterque beati, 
 Queis fani, aiebam, tanta inter gaudia ruris 
 Contigit innocuae traducere tempora vitas ! 
 His ego deliciis pigram excufljfTe feneflam 
 Optarim, lapfaeque annos renovare juventas. 
 Turn vatio expendi labentia tempora motu, 
 Volventifque anni tempellatumque per orbem 
 Continuos reditus : ut nox vaga fidera promit, 
 
 Et
 
 ANNI TEMPESTATES. 339 
 
 Et peritura diem nafcentem aurora reducit : 
 Quid facit infeftas hyemes, quo fidere findit 
 Sol arflivus agros, primo quot vere co!ores 
 Florea terra parit, quantas auturanus opimo 
 Fundit opes gremio, donee jam bruma recurrens 
 Excutit arboribus, quos ver renovarat honores. 
 
 Talia volventi placuit pendente fub ulmo 
 Sternere corpus humi : nee longum ita forte jacenti, 
 Incertum florumne aura fludiove diurno, 
 Paulatira obrepens fufos fopor occupat artus. 
 In fomnis ecce ante oculos placidiffimus horti 
 Viius adeffe mihi Genius, quern pone fequuntur 
 Horaeque et Menfes, anni vertentis imago. 
 
 Emicat ante alios viridi fpedabilis xvo, 
 Egregius forma Juvenis.* Decor a:mulus aflris 
 Fronte iedet ; ,crines divlnum vertice odorem 
 
 * Ver. . 
 
 Q^z Exhalant
 
 340 QUATUOR VERTENTIS 
 
 Exhalant, veftifque pedes defcendit ad imos 
 Serica, textoruni vernans fubtemitie orum. 
 JEu% prima licet nondum fortita virile 
 Robur erat, florente tamen jullaque figura 
 Membrorum incedit, qualem decet efle juventse. 
 Dextram ornat croceo narciflus junftus acantho, 
 Purpureifque rofae circumdant tempora fertis. 
 Hujus in adventu fefe natura fragrantes 
 Induit in flores. Molli de cefpite furgunt 
 Sub pedibus violas, panditque decora tenellum 
 Primula per campos folium, primaeva Favoni 
 Et Chloris foboles, Novus hinc Vertumnus amiSn 
 Verficolore nicet, virid^'s incinda capillos 
 Flora rofis illinc greflum comitatur euatis. 
 
 Haec perluflranti mihi dum miranda videntur, 
 Ecce repercuflbs lunae fplendentis ab orbe 
 Flarama, illapfa oculis, radios ad nubila jadlat. 
 Talibus attonitus vifis, hue protinus ambas 
 Flefto acies, habitumque viri greflumque tremifco. 
 
 Per
 
 ANNI TEMPESTATES. . 341 
 
 Per campum inc4It rutulis circamd.itus armis 
 Pugnator, ftriftoque nemus praefulgurat enfe. 
 Peftus et ampli humeri nitida pro vefte teguntur 
 Lorica conferta hamis : frontem premit asrea caffis. 
 Fare, ifthaec quae forma viri, vifuque tremendum 
 Os bellatoris ? Quae tanta licentia ferri ? 
 Cui Genius : quern tu, trepidus formidine, campo 
 Profpicis adverfo gradientem et torva tuentem, 
 Bellipotens Mars eft, qui quanquam fanguine gaudet, 
 Non tamen ufque furit ; clypeique oblitus et haftze, 
 Interdum properat verms fe jungere Nymphis. 
 
 Nunc placito juxta Charitum chorus agmine prodit, 
 Implicitis pariter manibus zonifque folutis. 
 Ad citharje cantum per prata virentia feftas 
 Exercent choreas : ventis dant colia comafque, 
 Alternifquc folum pulfant ex ordine plantis, 
 Innumeris ftipata Jocis Venus aurea lucet 
 In medio, blandoque omnes fupereminet ore. 
 Inclufum vitro folem Titaniaque aflra 
 
 0^3 Circumfert
 
 342 QUATUOR VERTENTfS 
 
 Circumfert laeva, fccptrum regale coruicat 
 
 Dextra, fceptrum auro geramifque micantibus aptum, 
 
 Inde retro verni fuccedunt ordlne Menfes, 
 Martium ut adverfum vidi per amsna vireta 
 Ferre pedem, vifus primum mihi vultus et ora 
 Nubibus obduci, et fulcari tempora rugis. 
 Aft ubi jam cjepit propiore accedere paflu, 
 Turbida paulatim nigrse rarefcere frontis 
 Nubila, et aethereas fefe pargare fub auras. 
 Jam fades tam blanda nitet, jam tanta relucet 
 Gratia, jam rifu tam temperat ora lereno, 
 Ut cognofcendi ftudio juvet ufque morari, 
 Et conferre gradum, mentemque explere tuendo, 
 Ordo fed interea rapitur revolubilis anni, 
 Ncc fine triftitiae fenfu difcedere vidf, 
 Florigero quamvis aditum patefecit Aprili. 
 
 Ille ubi jam propiiis per arnica filentia lunae 
 Acceifit, formam egregiam vultumque lalubrem 
 
 XiUHravi
 
 ANNI TEMPESTATES. 343 
 
 Luftravi admirans : adeo illi dulcis inerrat 
 Tempcries, Icni tantus color infidct ore I 
 Qua graditur, vernum fequitur decus : omnis in hcrbam 
 Turgida furgit humus, zephyrifque tepentibus halant 
 Purpurei floras. Terris tamen aurea condit 
 Lumlna nonnunquam, et dubia: caligine fronds 
 Squalentem glomerans nubem fe folvit in imbres 
 Irriguos : primam rurfus mox coUigit ore 
 Temperiem, nubefqae fugat folemque reducit. 
 
 lUius admiffo Maius veftigia curfu 
 Urget anhelanti fimilis. Conjenta parato 
 Tela tenens arcu gradientem paffibus aequat 
 Natus Acidalias Veneris : jam jamque fagittam 
 EmifTurus erat, quando ut tranHbat, amantdm 
 Continue audid fletus, lamenta, querela:que, 
 Et fradlae gemitu voces. Sed leniter aures 
 Vix feriunt, ubi jam ftridend turbine venti 
 Omnia confundunt et nubibus irrita donant. 
 
 0^4 Talia
 
 J44 QUATUOR VERTENTIS 
 
 Talia miranti, magna comitante caterva> 
 Apparet nova forma Viri ; graditurque per hortum 
 Jam medium, et profugi veftigia vcris anhelo 
 Paffu urget, viridefgue umbras fontefque requirit 
 Impatiens aeflus. Humeris projeeerat akis 
 Cirratas errare comas et ludere vento. 
 OIH roriferas fupra caput explicat alas 
 Crinibus alludens Zephyrus, folifque calentes 
 Defendit radios, et flamine mulcet amico. 
 Huic bini comites ftipant latus ; Hcfperus albo 
 Veftus equo, et croceis rutilans Aurora capillis. 
 Pan et flava Ceres, manibus per mutua junlis^, 
 Ambo state pares, fpicts nutantibus ambo 
 Tempora pra:cinli fubeunt : hos deinde quaterni 
 Raflica turba premunt meiTores. Ilia fonantem 
 Fert dextra citharam, terramque ad carmina pulfat. 
 Hi dominam agnofcunt Iseti, luilrantque choreis, 
 
 iEftw. 
 
 ^ftivi
 
 AN\^I TRMPESTATES. 345 
 
 ^flivi veniunt terno poft ordine Menfes. 
 Junius irapabem veris fervare juventam 
 Vifus adhuc ; iicco confperfi pulvere crines, 
 Julius Auguftufque jeftu tardante fequuntur. 
 Tardior Auguftus : qaatit afper anhelitus artus. 
 Jam languens, jam lapfurus fimilifqae cadenti 
 JEgro inceflU haeret. Sudor lavit improbus ora, 
 Dum furit adverfo malefana CanicuJa cselo. 
 
 Vir* fubit a tergo, mature floridus aevo. 
 Purpurea falgens zona fulvoque capillo. 
 Olli dependet promifla in pedore barba : 
 In nodum colledo humeros toga veftit amiflu, 
 Flavis tinfta notis, fro.ides imitata cadacas, 
 Quas primum autumi decuflit ab arbore frigus; 
 Qaacunque incedit, dextra generofus aperta 
 Spargit opes, laterique haerens telluris opimas 
 Multiplici fruges eiFundit Copia corno. 
 
 CL5 Sed 
 
 * Auliunnus.
 
 J46 QUATUOR VERTENTIS 
 
 Sed neque fie vilus praerepti munera veris 
 Compenfare tamen. Dextra Pomona madenti 
 Spumantem craters tenens comitatur euntem. 
 Uvida pampineis evinftus tempora ramis 
 Liber adeft, curruque tigres lublimis ab alto 
 Fleclit agenib Evaeque Evae canit orgia Bacchis* 
 Turn variae comitum facies, innoxia ruris 
 Namina, Sileni, quos tota armenta fequuntur 
 Faunique, Satyrique et monticolae Sylvani. 
 
 Proximus incedit cultu September amoeno. 
 Dives opum, verifque novi promiffor honorum. 
 lUi Phoebeo fades fplendore relucet, 
 Aat fubitd fi quae contriflant nubila vultum, 
 Mox placido abfterget rifu, caelumque ferenat. 
 Talis erat, talem fefe September agebat. 
 Protinus Oftober, calcatis fordidus uvis, 
 Ingreditur pluviaque caput madefa^tus et auflro. 
 
 Tertius
 
 ANNI TEMPESTATES. 347 
 
 Tertius his voluit quanquam comes ire November, 
 Siilit fsepS gradum, atque hyemem cervice reflexa 
 Refpicit inftantem tergo, et propiora tenentem. 
 
 [ OUi* forma fenis vergentis ad ultima vitae 
 
 I' . .... 
 
 Tempora j Sithoniae capiti mvis aemula lucet 
 
 Canities j baculus veftigia languida firmat. 
 
 Barba riget glacie concretis pendula cruftis ; '^ 
 
 Frons rugofa, oculi fuffufi fanguine et igni. 
 
 Peftoribus tenus hafdinis in pellibus horret, 
 
 Hirfuta impexus feta ; de crinibus urii 
 
 I Tegmen habet capiti. Sed vis adeo afpera caeli 
 Frigore torpentes artus penetrarat et ofla, 
 Ut, vifu miferum, penitus lunatus in arcum 
 Haud ufquam valeat caeli convexa tueri. 
 Ter conatus erat fe relo attollere trunco, 
 
 ! Ter genuum junftura fenem fruftrata labafcit, 
 
 E Officiuraque negat, Pede jam titubante minatur 
 
 ^ 
 
 * Hyems. 
 
 0,6 Succiduus
 
 348 QUATUOR VERTENTFS 
 
 Succiduus lapfutn, tantis algoribus inipar. 
 Si non continuo focios ea cura fubiret 
 Suilentare manu, et grefTus fulcire trementes. 
 
 Hinc graditur Comus, dapibus qui praefidct, IHiac 
 Fati annofa Parens,, magna quje voce per umbras, ' 
 Ufque monet, quotquot fub iniqua forte laborant, 
 .q.ia ut mente ferant, duri quodcunque ferendum eft. 
 Totus in afpeftu Comi defixus inhxfi. 
 Parte fub adverla chlamydis, quam fulglda rubro 
 Purpura diftinguit limbo, fine labe renidet 
 PiAus acu Phrygia et ferrugine tindlus Ibera. 
 Innumeros in fronte Sales tranfverfa tnentcs, 
 Et Rifus, hilarefque Jocos, feftofque Lepores 
 Fecerat intexens varib fubtemine Pallas. 
 Aft averfus ubi fefe fubducere caepit, 
 Heu ! qualis> quantum et mutata abeuntis imago ! 
 Calvaries fqualente caput cute turpat, et artus 
 Conficit informis macies. Tum pifta per oras 
 Extremas tunicae, paffis de more capillis 
 
 Confpicitur
 
 ANNI TEMPEST ATES. 349 
 
 ( Confpicitnr Caedes, ftrifto mucrone cruenta. 
 Sanguineo fuccinfla pepio juxca accubat Ira, 
 Lividaque in denfum diftorquens lumina vulgus 
 Sufpicio. In medio Clamores, ebria bella 
 Cernere erat^ Madidos infano marte videres 
 Fervere convivas, vinoque rubefcere menfas. 
 HincLapithae ftabant, genus hinc deforme, bimembres 
 Praelia Centauri mifcent. Jam frafta per auras 
 
 . Pocola craterefque vplant. Furor arma miniflrat, 
 Immixto tellus vinoque et fanguine manat. 
 
 I Tarn foedum afpeflu fcelus averfatus. et arma 
 
 [ Impia, converfo Saturnum lumine cerno. 
 ? Ule e confpedu lenfim fubrepere pergit 
 \ Furcivo taciturnus pafTu : armatur adunca 
 [ Dextrara falce manum ; de lasva clepfydra pendet. 
 Proxima Saturno fpatio dein Vefta reliflo 
 Advent, ae .v.m iervans penet-aiibus ig .cm. 
 Dextra ardet lamj'as, duici quam femper olivo 
 Flammaperennis alit. Turn turbidus imbre D cember, 
 
 Januique
 
 350 QUATUOR VENTENTIS, &c. 
 
 Janulqoe et Februus veftiti pellibus omnes 
 OrJine fuccedunt. Fades non omnibus una. 
 Nee diverfa tamen, nifi quo propiore fequentis 
 Quifque fibi fpatio fentit veftigia veris, 
 Aut levat aut denial contraftae nubila fronds. 
 
 THE
 
 T E 
 
 PASTORALS 
 
 O F 
 
 Mr. pope. 
 
 BONE INTO LATIN VERSE,
 
 352 SPRING. 
 
 SPRING; OR, DAMON. 
 
 The FIRST PASTORAL. 
 To SIR WILLIAM TRUMBAL. 
 
 Jr IRST in thefe fields I try the fylvan ftralns. 
 Nor blufh to fport on Windfor's blifsfu! plains. 
 Fair Thames, flow gently from thy facred fpring. 
 While on thy banks Sicilian Mufes fing. 
 Let vernal airs thro' trembling ofiers play. 
 And Albion's cliffs refound the rural lay. 
 
 You, that too wife for pride, too good for pow'r,. 
 Enjoy the glory to be great no more ; 
 And carrying with you all the world can boaft. 
 To all the world illuflrioully are loft ! 
 
 Olet
 
 V E R. 35J 
 
 VER, sivE DAMON. 
 
 ECLOGA PRIMA. 
 
 AC primuin agrefti tentavit arundlne carmen, 
 Noftra nee erubuit campos celebrare Camcjena 
 Windforios : leni, Thamefis Pater, agmine fludlus 
 Volve, tuo Siculae cantant in Httore Mnfae. 
 Per alices ludat tremulo verna aura fufurro, 
 Albentefq^ue ferant rupcs ad fidera cantus. 
 
 O qui Regum apice, & popularibus altior auris, 
 Oblatas Ipernis pompas, fafcefque fuperbos 
 Ruris amans, aulaeque & opes, ftrepitumque relinquls 
 Transfuga noa humilisj teaui mea caiinen avena 
 
 Mufa
 
 354 SPRING. 
 
 O let mf Mufe her flender reed infpire, 
 Till in your native Ihades you tunc the lyre. 
 So when the Nightingale to reft removes. 
 The Thrufli may chaunt to the forfaken groves. 
 But charm'd to filence, liftens while flie fmgs. 
 And all th' aerial audience clap their wings. 
 
 Soon as the flocks {hook off the nightly dews. 
 Two fwains, whom Love kept wakeful and the Mufe^ 
 Po ir'd o'er the whit'ning vale their fleecy care, 
 Frelh as the morn, and as the feafon fair. 
 The dawn now blufliing on the mountain's fide. 
 Thus Daphnis fpoke, and Strephon thus replied. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Hear, how the biids, on ev'ry bloomy fpray. 
 With joyous muiic wake the dawning day ! 
 
 Why
 
 ' Mufa canat, patrio donee tu lentus in arvo> 
 Majori moveas refonantiA pedine fila. 
 Sic, obi fub ramo capiat philomela quietem, 
 Sylveftri merulac nemora inter fola canoros 
 Fas tentare modos : fin ilia filentia rumpit, 
 Haec tacet : arredlis audit fimul auribus omnis 
 
 I Alituum chorus, et pennis plaudentibus adftat, 
 
 I Ut pecus excnfTo nolurnum a vellere roreni ' 
 
 Difpulerat, curis animum vigilantibus adli, 
 Lanigeros duxere greges ad pafcua Daphnis 
 Atque bonus Strephon ; Mufa afpirante canendo 
 Ambo pares, formofi annis florentibus ambo. 
 Jamque Aurord novo ftringebat luxnine montes ; 
 Haec Daphnis, cui fic refpondit in ordine Strephon. 
 
 I DAPHNIS. 
 
 I Audin' ut modulis refon irit arbufta fonoris, 
 
 Nafccntemque diem genus evocat omne volucrum ! 
 
 \ Cur
 
 3^6 SPRING. 
 
 ... , - . ^ " . -- ^-si rii rt 
 
 Why ftand we mute, when early linnets fmg. 
 When warbling Philomel falutes the fpring ? 
 Why ftand we fad, when Phofphor fhines fo clear. 
 And lavifh Nature paints the purple year ? 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Sing then, and Damon fhall attend the ftrain. 
 While yon' flow oxen turn the furrow'd plain. 
 Here the bright crocus and blue vi'let glow. 
 Here wellern winds on breathing rofes blow. 
 I'll ftake yon' lainb, that near the fountain plays. 
 And from the brink his dancing fliade furveys. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 And I this bowl, where wanton Ivy twines. 
 And fwelling clufters bend the curling vines. 
 Four figures rifing from the work appear, 
 1 he various feafons of the rolling year : 
 And what is that, which binds the radiant iky, 
 Wiiere twelve lair iigns in beauteous order lie ? 
 
 DAMON.
 
 V E R. 
 
 J " ' - 
 
 Cur taciti llatnus ? Jam matutina canoros 
 Fundit alauda modos, jam ver Philomela falutat. 
 Cur mcElli ftamas ? Claro jam fulget Olympo 
 Phofphorus,, & rofeum natura redintegrat annum. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 -Incipe ; tu Damon, certaminis arbiter efto, 
 Dum lend exercent tauri fub vomere campum. 
 Hie crocus, & cafiae moUes, vJolaeque reniderxt, 
 Purpureaeque rofae Zephyris fpirantibus halant. 
 Ilium ego ponam agnum, fontis qui ludic ad undas, 
 Lucientifque fuam de margine profpicit umbram. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Poculum & hoc ego, cui torno fuperaddita vitis 
 Panditur, effafos hedera cingente racemos ; 
 Anni vertentis quatuor ccelata iiguris 
 Tempora convexis furgunt : & quid fuit illud. 
 Quod paribus cingit coeleilem panibus orbem. 
 Qua duodena xquo volvuntur tramiie figna ? 
 
 DAMON.
 
 3^8 . SPRING. 
 
 DaMON. 
 Then fmg by turns, by turns the Mafes fing. 
 Now hawthorns blolTom, now the daifies fpring. 
 Now leaves the trees, and flow'rs adorn the ground. 
 Begin ; the vales fhall ev'ry note rebound. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Infpire me, Phcebus, in my Delia's praife. 
 With Waller's ftrains, or Granville's moving lays! 
 A milk-white bull fhall at your altar ftand. 
 That threats a fight, and fpurns the rifing fand. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Pan, let my numbers equal Strephon's lays, 
 Of Parian ftone thy ftatue will 1 raife ; 
 But if I conquer and augment my fold. 
 Thy Parian ftatue fhall be changed to gold. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Me gentle Delia beckons froiD the plain. 
 Then hid in fhades, eludes her eager fvvain : 
 
 But
 
 VER. 359 
 
 DAMON. 
 Alternis canite, obledlant akerria Camoenas. 
 Nunc pratum omne nitet, nunc omnis parturit arbor ; 
 Frondibus & fylvae vernant, & floribus agri, 
 Dicite ; vocales referenc ad fidera vallcs. 
 
 I STREPHON. 
 
 [' Delia mi canitur ; tu fuffice, Phcebe, canenti 
 Carmina Wallerii, aut Granvilli digna Camjeais. 
 Tergore candenti taurus tibi ftabit ad aras. 
 Qui cornu feriat, pedibafque laceflat arenam, 
 
 % DAPHNIS. 
 
 Pan, mihi fi dones Strephona aequare canendo, 
 Jpfe tibi fignum Pario de marmore ponam. 
 Sin viacara, numeroque audum mihi crefc.it ovile, 
 Marmort pro Pario ftabis confpeftus in auro. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Me mea blanda vocat pellaci Delia nutu ; 
 Nee mora, prorumpeas uenfam fe condit in umbram. 
 
 Acer
 
 3<^o SPRING. 
 
 Sue feigns a laugh to fee me fearch around. 
 And by that laugh the willing fair is found. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 ' The fprlghtly Sylvia trips along the green ; 
 She runs, but hopes (he does not run unfeen. 
 While a kind glance at her purfuer flies. 
 How much at variance are her feet and eyes 1 
 
 ^rREPHON. 
 O'er golden fands let rich Paftolus flow. 
 And trees weep amber oa the banks of Po, 
 Bleft Thames's fliores the brighteft beauties yield. 
 Feed here my-lambs, I'll feek no diftant field. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Celellial Venus haunts Idalia's groves ; 
 Diana Cynthus, Ceres Hybla loves ; 
 If Windfor-fbades delight the matchlefs maid, 
 Cynthus and Hybla yield to Windfor.fliade. 
 
 STREP HON.
 
 VER. 361 
 
 Acer amore fequor : ludit primum ilia fequentem 
 Improba, mox fiflo gaudet fe prodere rifu. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Sylvia gramineum celeri pede corripit arvum : 
 Jamque fugit, fefeque cupit fugitiva videri. 
 Ipfa fibi difcors fequiturque fugitque fequentem, 
 Dum vifu repetit, quern curfu vitat amantem, 
 
 StREPHON. 
 Auriferas jaftet dives PaloIus arenas, 
 Eridani in ripis fudent eleftra myric ; 
 Blandius arrident Thamifino in littore campi^ 
 Parcite, oves, procedere ; veftra hajc pafcua funto. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Diligit Idalix facros Venus aurea lucos ; 
 Hybla fragrans Cereri, Dianae Cynthus amatur. 
 Windforios habitet tantum mea Sylvia campos, 
 Windforiis cedent campis & Cynthus & Hybla. 
 
 R STREP HON.
 
 3tSji SPRING. 
 
 STREP HON. 
 All nature jnourns, the fkies relent in fhow'rs, 
 Hufti'd are the birds, and clofed the drooping flow'rs. 
 If Delia fmile, the flow'rs begin to fpring. 
 The fkies to brighten, and the birds to ling. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 All nature laughs, the groves are frefli and fair. 
 The Sun's mild luftre warms the vital air ; 
 If Sylvia fmiles, new glories gild the fhore. 
 And vanquiili'd nature feems to charm no more. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 In fpring the fields, in autumn hills I love. 
 At morn the plains, at noon the fliady grove. 
 But Delia always; abfent from her fight. 
 Nor plains at morn, nor groves at noon delight. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Sylvia's like autumn ripe, yet mild as May, 
 More bright than noon, yet freih as early day. 
 
 Ev'n
 
 VER. 363 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Omnia nunc fqualent ; contriftant asthera nimbi. 
 Trifle filent volucres^i languet flos omnis in agro ; 
 Delia fi ridet, fugiunt vaga nubila ccelo. 
 Flora redit, gaudentque chores renovare volucres. 
 
 DAPHNIS, 
 Omnia nunc florent, nunc formofiffima late 
 Sylva viret ; placidis mitefcunt folibus aurse : 
 Sylvia fi ridet, decorat lux altera campos, 
 Et natura novo fuperata lubefcit honore. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Vere novo valles, autumno tempore montes. 
 Mane juvant agri, mediis fub Iblibus umbra:, 
 Delia me Temper ; fin ilia abfcelferit, agri 
 Nee me mane juvantj mediis nee folibus umbrx. 
 
 DAPHNJS. 
 Veris $c autumni fibi Sylvia jungit honoreS ; 
 Pulchrior autumno efc, & verna fuavior aura. 
 
 R 2 Montibus
 
 3^4 SPRING. 
 
 Ev'n fpring difpleafes, when fhe fhines not here. 
 But bleft with her, 'tis fpring throughout the year. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Say, Daphnis, fay, in what glad foil appears 
 A wond'rous tree, that facred Monarchs bears : 
 Tell me but this, and I'll difclaim the prize. 
 And give the conquell to thy Sylvia's eyes. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Nay tell me firft, in what more happy fields 
 The Thiftle fprings, to which the Lily yields : 
 And then a nobler prize I will refign ; 
 For Sylvia, charming Sylvia flaall be thine. 
 
 DAMON. 
 Ceafe to contend j for, Daphnis, I decree. 
 The bowl to Strephon, and the lamb to thee. 
 Bleft fwains, whofe Nymphs in ev'ry grace excel, 
 Bleft Nymphs, whofe fwains thofe graces fing fo well \ 
 
 Now
 
 V E R. 365 
 
 Montibus his noftris abeatj ver difplicet ; ipfa 
 PraBfenti, felix toto ver regnat in anno. 
 
 STREPHON. 
 Die, qulbus in terris ramis felicibus arbor 
 Sacratos geftat Reges j turn, lite repofla, 
 Haud fane abnuero pateram tibi vilusj 8c agnum 
 Tradere : parto ibit tua Sylvia laeta triumpho. 
 
 DAPHNIS. 
 Dic> quibus ipfe prior melioribus exit in agris 
 Carduus afTurgens, cui ladlea lilia ccdunt : 
 Turn tu nobilius referes, me danteji trophaeum : 
 Sylvia ducetur tibi Candida fponfa marito, 
 
 DAMON. 
 Siftite, jam pueri j tibi finum adjudico, Strephon, 
 Et tibi, Daphni, agnum. Vos an magis arte canendi 
 Felices, pueri, an pulchro vos corpore, Nymphae ? 
 Felices, pueri ; felices vos quoque, Nymphas. 
 
 R 3 Surgitc
 
 366 
 
 SPRING. 
 
 Now rife, and hafte to yonder woodbine bow'rs, 
 A foft retreat from fadden vernal fliow'rs ; 
 The turf with rural dainties fhall be crown'd. 
 While op'ning blooms difFufe their fweets around. 
 For fee, the gath'ring flocks to fhelter tend. 
 And from the Pleiads fruitful fhow'rs defcend. 
 
 SUMMER ;
 
 V E R. 367 
 
 Surgite nunc ade6> quodqae hie prope frondet, ad 
 
 antrum 
 Tendite, fecurum verno tutamen ab imbre. 
 Gramineae luxu menfas fternentur agrefti, 
 Florifer unique nemus fuaves diffundet odores. 
 Namque videtis, uti pecudes ad ovilia tendunt, 
 Fcecundoque graves defcendunt Pleiades imbre. 
 
 R 4 ^STAS;
 
 368 HVMMEIBL. 
 
 SUMMER; OR, ALEXIS. 
 
 THE SECOND PASTORAL. 
 To Dr. GARTH. 
 
 SHEPHERD'S Boy, he feeks no better name. 
 
 Led forth his flocks along the filver Thame, 
 Where dancing funbeams on the waters play'd. 
 And verdant alders fbrm'd a quiv'ring (hade. 
 Soft as he mourn'd, the flrcams forgot to flow. 
 The flocks around a dumb compafljon ftnow. 
 The Naids wept in ev'ry wat'ry bow'r. 
 And Jove confented in a filent fliow'r. 
 
 Accept
 
 ^STAS. 369 
 
 2E S TA S, sivE ALEXIS. 
 
 ECLOGA IK 
 
 ASTORIS famulus, nee enim libi majus Alexis 
 Nomen avetj foecunda greges ad pafcua juflit 
 Tendere, qua placido Thamifis fecat arva fluento. 
 Mite repercuffi folis jubar errat in undis, 
 t tremulam faciant alni pafloribus umbram. 
 Dum duke hie queritur, dum carmina fundit ad auras, 
 Stant moeft^pecudes eircum, & fufpenfa quiefcunt 
 Flumina : Naiades liquidis flevere fub antris, 
 Flevit & irrigoo defcendens Jupiter imbre. 
 
 R 5 Accipe
 
 370 SUMMER. 
 
 Accept, O Garth, the Mufe's early lays. 
 That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays ; 
 Hear what from love unpradlifed hearts endure. 
 From love, the fole difeafe thou can'fl not cure. 
 
 Ye fhady beeches, and ye cooling ftreams. 
 Defence from Phoebus', not from Cupid's beams. 
 To you I mourn ; nor to the deaf I fing ; 
 The woods Ihall anfwer, and their echo ring. 
 The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay. 
 Why art thou prouder, and more hard than they ? 
 The bleating flieep with my complaints agree ? 
 They parch'd with heat, and I inflamed by thee. 
 The fultry Sirius burns the thirfty plains. 
 While in thy heart eternal winter reigns. 
 
 Where ftray, ye Mufes, in what lawn or grove. 
 While your Alexis pines in hopelefs love ? 
 
 In
 
 JEST AS. 371 
 
 Accipe, Garth A, novo deduftum peftine carmen, 
 Accipcj quamque ferunt mufas, ^ne tempora circura 
 Inter Apollineas hederam tibi ferpere lauros. 
 En, quid amor, tibi amor folum infanabile, cogit 
 Ferre, quibufque premit juvenilia peftora curis. 
 
 Vos, gelidi fontes, fagi, vos teftor, opacaf. 
 Quae radios Phcebi, non ignem arcetis Amoris, 
 Quas dolor effundit, juftas audite querelas. 
 Non canimus furdis ; refpondent flebile fylvae, 
 Flebile clivofi montes, & faxa reclamant. 
 Durior heu quianam faxis, Amarylli, canentem 
 Refpuis, & nullas voces traflabilis audis ? 
 Flebile balantes refpondent quajftibus agni ; 
 Illos ficca dies, tu me, meus ignis, aduris. 
 ^ftifer accendit fitientes Sirius agros. 
 At libi perpetua frigent prxcordia bruma. 
 
 Quas nemora, aut qui vos faltus habuere, Cnmoen.T?, 
 Veller Alexis ubi ftudio labebat inani r 
 
 R 6 An
 
 372 SUMMER. 
 
 In thofe fair fields, where facred Ifis glides. 
 Or elfe where Cam his winding vales divides ? 
 As in the cryftal fpring I view my face, 
 Frelh rifiug blufhes paint the wat'ry glafs. 
 Bat fince thofe graces pleafe thy eyes no more, 
 I fhun the fountains, which I fought before. 
 Once I was fkill'd in cv'ry herb that grew, 
 And ev'ry plant, that drinks the morning dew. 
 Ah wretched fhepherd, what avails thy art. 
 To cure thy lambs, but not to heal thy heart ! 
 
 Let other fwains attend the rural care. 
 Feed fairer flocks, or richer fleeces flieer. 
 But nigh yon' mountain let me tune my lays. 
 Embrace my Love, and bind my brows with bays. 
 That flute is mine, which Colin's tuneful breath 
 Infpir'd when living, and bequeath'd in death. 
 He faid ; Alexis, take this pipe, the fame 
 That taught the groves my Rofalinda's name : 
 
 But
 
 >ESTAS. 37 
 
 An qua pulcher Ifis leni rigat agmine campos. 
 An qua per valles finuat fua fiumina Camus ? 
 Nuper ego luccntis aquae me in margine vidi ; 
 Suave rubefcentem mihi rettullt unda figuram. 
 Sed cum noflrae adeo formae tibi fordet imago, 
 Ipfe ego jam fontes, modo qui placuere, relinquo. 
 Quie procul in fylvis plants nafcuntur, & omnes 
 Virtutes herbarum noram, ufumque medendi. 
 Hei mihi ! quid prodeft plantas novifle, vel herbas. 
 Si crudelis amor nulla eil jnedicabilis arte 
 Nee mihi, quae gregibus, medicantia gramina proAint ! 
 
 Formofos alii per mollia pafcua ducant 
 Aufpicio meliore greges, & vellera mutent ; 
 Me javat umbrofo tecum hoc fub monte jacentem 
 Et canere, & viridi prscingere tempora lauro. 
 Eft mihi, quam Corydon modulans inflare folebat, 
 Fiftula ; fupremum hoc, inquit, morientis, Alexi, 
 Munos habe ; hzc nomen Rofalindae rura doctbat. 
 
 Sic
 
 374 S U M M E R. 
 
 But noiv the reeds (hall bang on yonder tree. 
 For ever filentj fiace defpifed by thee. 
 
 And yet my numbers pleafe the rural throng. 
 Rough Satyrs dance, and Pan applauds the fong. 
 The Nymphs, forfaking ev'ry cave and fpring. 
 Their early fruit, and milk-white turtles bring. 
 Each am'rous Nymph prefers her gifts in vain. 
 On you their gifts are all beftow'd again. 
 For you the fwains the faireft flovv'rs defign; 
 And in one garland all their beauties join. 
 Accept the wreath, which you deferve alone. 
 In whom all beauties are comprifed in one^ 
 
 See, what delights in fylvan fcenes appear ! 
 Defce'nding Gods have found Elyfium here. 
 In woods bright Venus with Adonis ftray'd. 
 And chafte Diana haftnts the foreft fhade. 
 Come, fprightly nymph, and blefs the filent hours. 
 When fwains from flicering feek their nightly bow'rs j 
 
 When
 
 -ffiSTAS. 375 
 
 Sic Corydon ; fed jam pendebit ab arbore buxus 
 Ufque filens, cum noftra adeo tibi carmina fordent. 
 
 Saepe tamen plaufus mihi ruftica tul-ba canenti, 
 Panque Deus, Satyrique leves, Faunique dedere. 
 Ipfae etiara Nymphae fylvis venere reli6lis. 
 Primitias ultro frugum, niveafque palumbes 
 Quas tibi fel"vo, ferunt. Studiis certantibus omnes 
 Paftores tibi ferta parant : tibi Flora renidens 
 Purpureos neftit ruris redolentis honores. 
 Quin ergo, quam fola meres, Amarylli, coronam 
 Accipe : nam campis, nam tu decus omne colonis. 
 
 Afpice, quanta tenet fylveftrla rura voluptas ? 
 ^there delapfi coluerunt Dii qaoqae fylvas. 
 Pulchra Venus fylvis cum pulchro errabat Adoni, 
 Atque Diana frequens virides amat incola faltus. 
 Nympha, veni : praefente volat te gratior hora. 
 Cum tonfis redeunt ovibus fub nodle coloni. 
 
 Cum
 
 376 SUMMER. 
 
 ' ^ II - ^ . I -I 
 
 When weary reapers quit the fultry field. 
 And crown'd with corn their thanks to Ceres yield. 
 This harmlefs grove no lurking viper hides. 
 Bat in my breaft the ferpent Love abides. 
 Here bees from blofloms fip the rofy dew. 
 But your Alexis knows no fweets but yoa. 
 Oh ! deign to vifit our forfaken feats. 
 The mofTy fountains and the green retreats ! 
 Where'er you walk, cool gales fhall fan the glade. 
 Trees, where you fit, fiiall croud into a (hade : 
 Where'er yon tread, the blufiiing flow'rs fliall rife. 
 And all things flourifh, where you turn your eyes. 
 Oh ! how I long with you to pafs nay days. 
 Invoke the Mufes, and refound your praife ! 
 Your praife the birds (hall chant in ev'ry grove. 
 And winds (hall waft it to the pow'rs above. 
 fiat would you fing, and rival Orpheus' Arain, 
 The wond'ring forefts foon (hould dance again. 
 The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call. 
 And headlong ftreams hang lift'ning in their fall. 
 
 But
 
 ^STAS. 377 
 
 Cum vinAi ex agro meflbres tempera fpicis 
 
 Adfuot, & Cererem fefto clamore lalutant. 
 
 Squameus hie tacita nullus latet anguis in herba> 
 
 Sed mihi amor latitans nutrit Tub corde venenum. 
 
 Hk rofeos populantur apes, fua gaudia, flores j 
 
 Nulla abfeate tuus te gaudia novit Alexis. 
 
 O ! precor, 6 ! noftras dignare invifere fedes, 
 
 t virides mufco fontes, nemorumque recelTus. 
 
 Quacumque incedas, fpirante favonius aura 
 
 Apricos recreabit agros : ubicumque fedentem 
 
 Sylva fequax denfa ramorum proteget umbra. 
 
 Sub pedibus mollem Aernet tibi Flora tapetem, 
 
 Quaque feras oculos, rerum nova gloria furget, 
 
 O dulces liceat tecum mihi ducere foles, 
 
 Aonioque tuas percurrere pefline laudes ! 
 
 Te volucrum per rura chori, te campus, & omnis 
 
 Sylva canet, nomenque ferent ad fidera venti. 
 
 Sin certare voles, Orpheumque aequare canend(y 
 
 In numerum rurfus fylvafque umbrafque videbis 
 
 Ludere, & excelfos motare cacumina monies, 
 
 Auritofque trahi fufpenfis lapftbus amnes. 
 
 Scd
 
 378 SUMMER. 
 
 But fee, the fhepherds (hun the noon-day heat. 
 The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat, . 
 To clofer fhades the panting flocks remove. 
 Ye Gods, and is there no relief for Love ? 
 
 Sut foon the fun with milder rays defcends 
 To the cool ocean, where his journey ends : 
 On me Love's fiercer flames for ever prey. 
 By night he fcorches, as Jie bums by day. 
 
 AUTUMN ;
 
 ^ S T A S. 379 
 
 Sed viden ! e medio fol igneus ardet Olympo, 
 Et feflse pecudes frigus feftantar opacum. 
 Cum grege paflores umbras & flumina quaerunt : 
 Hei mihi, qu6d duro nullum eft folamen amori 1 
 
 Mox cclum emenfus, fol aequore tinget anhelos 
 Pronus equos, ponetque viae finemque labori: 
 Me tamen ufque novis violentior aeftibus urit 
 Ignis, & ardentem nodefque diefque fatigat. 
 
 AUTUMNUS,
 
 38o A U T U M N. 
 
 AUTUMN ; OR, HYLAS and iEGON.' 
 
 THE THIRD PASTORAJL 
 
 To Mr. WYCHERLET. 
 
 >ENEATH the fhade a fpreading beech difplays, 
 Hylas and Mgon fung their rural lays. 
 This mourn'd a faithlefs, that an abfent Lov(, 
 And Delia's name and Doris' fill'd the grove. 
 
 Ye Mantuan Nymphs, your facred fuccour bring ; 
 Hylas and igon's rural lays 1 fing. 
 
 Thou, whom the Nine with Plautus' wit infpire. 
 The art of Terence, and Menander's fire ; 
 
 Wbofe
 
 AUTUMNUS. 381 
 
 AUTUMNUS, sivE HYLAS et JEGON. - 
 
 ECLOGA III. 
 
 Jr ORTE' fub umbrofo frondentis tegmlne fagi 
 Pulcher Hylas, pulcherque una confederat iEgon. 
 Hie infidum, ille abfentem deflebat amorem, 
 Deliaque & Doris nemorofa per arva fonabant. 
 
 ' Andinas Mufae, facros recludite fontesj 
 Sollicitos iEgonis Hylaeque canemus amores. 
 
 O, cui Pierides numeros, artemque Terenti, 
 
 J Plautinofque dedere fales, ignefque Menandri j 
 
 r 
 
 ? O tu.
 
 382 AUTUMN. 
 
 Whofe fenfe inftrufts us, and whofe humour charms, 
 Whofe judgment fways us, and whofe fpirit warms j 
 Oh, fkill'd in nature, fee the hearts of fwains. 
 Their artieL pafEons, and their tender pains. 
 
 Now fetting Phoebus flione fe eiely bright. 
 And fleecy clouds were ftreak'd wiih purple light, 
 Whea tudefui Hylas with melodious moan. 
 Taught rocks to weep, and made the mountains groan. 
 
 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs away ! 
 To Doris' ear the tender notes convey. 
 As fome fad turtle his loft Love deplores. 
 And with deep murmurs fills the."ounding fhores ; 
 Thus, far from Doris, to the winds I mourn. 
 Alike, unheard, unpity'd, and forlorn. 
 
 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs along ! 
 For her the feather'd quires negleft their fong ; 
 
 For
 
 AUTUMNUS. 383 
 
 O tu, qui mores hominum formare monendo 
 Ceiifor amas, vitaeque doces praecepta beatas ; 
 A<pice nos, noftramque, licet fit ruftica, Mufam, 
 Paftorumque bonus molles ne fperne querelas. 
 
 Jam rofeis Sol pronus equis vergebat in scquor, 
 Sparfaque punicea radiabant nubila luce ; 
 Arguta cum triflis Hylas fic ccepit avena, 
 Montefque & fcopulos Dorin refonare docebat. 
 
 Ferte meas,- venti, hinc ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 Scilicet ut mcerens, amifsa conjuge, turtur 
 Rauca gemens gravibus late loca quaeftibus implet ; 
 Sic mea dum Doris procul his fejungitur arvis. 
 Solus, inops, expes fingultibus aftra laceflb. 
 
 f Ferte meas, venti, hinc ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 Ilia abfsnte, chores moeftas abrupere volucres ; 
 
 ^ ma
 
 SH AUTUMN. 
 
 For her the limes their pleafing (hades deny ; 
 For her the lilies hang their heads and die. 
 Ye flow'rs, that droop, forfaken by the fpring. 
 Ye birds that, left by fummer, ceafe to fing. 
 Ye trees, that fade, when autumn heats remove. 
 Say, is not abfence death to thofe who love ? 
 
 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs away ? 
 Curfed be the fields, that caufe my Doris' Hay. 
 Fade ev'ry bloflbm, wither ev'ry tree. 
 Die ev'ry flow'r, and perifh all but (he. 
 What have 1 faid ? Where'er my Doris flies. 
 Let fpring attend, and fudden flow'rs arife ; 
 Let op'ning rofes knotted oaks adorn. 
 And liquid amber drop from ev'ry thorn. 
 
 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs along ! 
 The birds (hall ceafe to tune their ev'ning fong. 
 
 The
 
 A U T U M N U S. 385 
 
 Ilia abfente, fuam feffo negat arbutus umbram, 
 Marcentefque comas morientia lilia ponunt. 
 Lilia, quae verno fpoliata jacetis honore, 
 Vos, canere oblitac, fugiente seftate, volucres, 
 Vos fylvaj, autumno contaftas frigore, teftor, 
 Longa mori jG non abfentia cogat amantem. 
 
 Ferte meas, venti, hinc ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 Deteftata mihi, procul hoc quas rure morantem 
 Dorin terra tenet. Modo te milii fofpite, Dori, 
 Pratorum fpolietur hones, elangueat omnis 
 Arbor, & in medio marcefcat flofculus arvo. 
 Qua: demens quxftulta loquor? Quofcumque pererrat 
 Ilia locos, per prata recens comitetur euntem 
 Veris honos, furgant viola;, decoretur odoris 
 Dura rofis ilex, manentque eleftra vepretis. 
 
 Fert meas, venti, hinc ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 Ante loquax iterare modos ceflabit Aedon, 
 
 S Ante
 
 386 AUTUMN. 
 
 The woods to move, the vagrant winds to blow. 
 And ftreams to murmur, e'er my tears to flow. 
 Not bubbling fountains to the thirfty fwain. 
 Not balmy fleep to lab'rers faint with pain. 
 Not Ihow'rs to larks, or ihun-ftiine to the bee. 
 Are half fo charming, as thy fight to-me. 
 
 r 
 
 Go, gentle gales, and bear my fighs away I 
 Come, Doris, come : ah, why this long delay ? 
 Thro' rocks and caves the name of Doris founds, 
 Doris each cave and echoing rock rebounds. 
 Ye pow'rs, what pleafing frenzy fooths my mind ? 
 Do lovers dream, or is my Doris kind ? 
 She comes, my Doris comes ! Now ceafe, my lay. 
 And ceafe, ye gales, to bear my fighs away ! 
 
 Next iEgon fung, while Windfor groves admired; 
 Rehearf?, ye Mufes, what yourfelves infpired. 
 
 Refound,
 
 AUTUMNUS. 387 
 
 Ante fufurrantes motare cacumina fylv, 
 Aut fpirare noti, aut dulci cum murmure rlvi 
 Serpere, quam trifles mea lumina fundere fletiis, 
 Non fitientem adeo fontan<e copia lymphae 
 Juverit agricolam, non feflum fomnus in herba ; 
 Non tarn dulce apibus folis jubar, imber alaudis, 
 Quam tua grata mifai veniat praefentia, Dori. 
 
 Ferte meas, venti, hinc ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 Hue, 6 Dori, veni j quag te tam lenta moratur 
 Segnities ? Te faxa vocant, collefque fupini, 
 -Te refonac valles, te noftrae, Dori, rayrica:. 
 Quae, fuperi, quae me jucunda infania ludit ? 
 An venit ? An fingunt ipfi fibi fomnia amantes ? 
 Doris adeft, mea Doris adeft. Jam fiftite, venti, 
 Siilite, nee noflras ad Dorida ferte querelas ! 
 
 Vos, quae rettulerit, fylvis mirantibus, ^Egon, 
 Dicite, Pierides j nam vos docuiftis & ilia. 
 
 S 2 ' Reddite
 
 388 AUTUMN. 
 
 Refoand, ye hills, refound my mournful ftrain ! 
 Of perjured Delia dying I <:orapIain. 
 Here, where the mountains, lefs'ning as they rife, 
 Lofe the low vales, and fl^al iro the flcies ; 
 While lab'ring oxen, fpent with toil and heat. 
 In their loofe traces from the field retreat. 
 While curling fmokes from village tops are feen. 
 And the fleet (hades glide o'er the dufky green. 
 
 Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful lay ! 
 Beneath yon' poplar oft' we pafs'd the day : 
 Oft' on the rind I carved our mutual vows. 
 While fhe with garlands hung the bending boughs. 
 The garlands fade, the rind is worn away ; 
 So die her vows, and fo my hopes decay. 
 
 Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful Araia ! 
 Now bright Arfturus glads the teeming grain. 
 Now ^. zn fruits on loaded branches (hine. 
 And grate ^ dufters fwell with floods of wine. 
 
 Now
 
 AUTUMN us. 38f> 
 
 Rcddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus! 
 Hie, qua demiffis (eCe fubducere fen/im 
 Vallibas incipiunt, abeuntque in nublla montes, 
 Delia, te moriens, te, perfida Delia, teilor. 
 Jam collo ex arvis redeunt languente juvenci, 
 Inverfique domum referunt grave pondus aratri ; 
 Jam procul undantem villarum culmina ad auras 
 Exhalant fumum, vallefque.ambrantur opacae. 
 
 Reddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus. 
 Scpe diem longo tecum fermone fub umbra 
 Populea fregi, viridique in cortice vota 
 lacidi, dam ta curvatis pendula ramis 
 Serta dabas : fed jam pofuerunt marcida fiuxum 
 Serta decus, fiflb pereunt in cortice vota. 
 Sic fugicivus amor, fie me fpes lufit araantem ! 
 
 Reddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus ! 
 Jam faciunt laetas Arfturi fidera fruges : 
 Jam gravidos onerant rarnos poma aurea, & uvas 
 Purpureo paflim per colles nedare turgent ;
 
 390 AUTUMN. 
 
 Now bluftiing berries paint the yellow grove. 
 
 Juft Gods ! Ihall all things yield returns, but love ? 
 
 Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful lay ! 
 The fhepherds cry, *' Thy flocks are left a prey." 
 Ah ! what avails it me, the flocks to keep. 
 Who loft my heart, while I preferved my flieep ? 
 Pan came, and afk'd, what magic caufed my fmart. 
 Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? 
 What eyes but her's, alas ! have pow'r to move ? 
 Or is there magic, but what dwells in love .> 
 
 Refound, ye hills, refound'my mournful ftrains ! 
 I'll fly from fliepherds, flocks, and flow'ry plains. 
 From ftiepherds, flocks and plains, 1 may remove, 
 Forfake mankind and all the world but love \ 
 I know thee. Love ; on foreign mountains bred. 
 Wolves gave thee fuck, and favage tigers fed. 
 Thou wert from ^Etna's burning entrails torn. 
 Got by fierce whirlwinds, and in thunder born. 
 
 Refound
 
 AUTUMNUS^. 391 
 
 Ditia flaventes pingunt aviaria bacca;. 
 Tanquam h^ec deccpti mihi fint folamen amoris ! 
 
 Reddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus I 
 Paftores clamant, " Tibi oves abiguntur & haedi." 
 Hei mihi ! quid prodeft vel oves fervafle vel haedos. 
 Si dum fervo gregem, pereo mifer ipfe ? Lycxi 
 Arcadii venit Deus ; ecqua venefica, dixit, 
 Te vidit, fanofque a.vertit peftore fenfus ? 
 Sola mihi fanos avertit Delia fenfus. 
 Unus amor mifero mentem mihi fafcinat omnem. 
 
 Reddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus ! 
 Ibo, & paftores, pecudefque, & amcena vireta 
 Linquam : at paftores, pecudefque & amoena vireta 
 Linquere quid juvat, infano nifi linquar amore ? 
 Nunc fcio, quid fit Amor : duris in montibus ortum 
 Nutrivere lupae, & tigres pavere rapaces. 
 Ilium e vifceribus vulfum flagrantibus ^Etna; 
 Turbo nigras fudit, coelo indignante, fub aurast 
 
 84 Reddite
 
 392 AUTUMN. 
 
 Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful lay 1 
 Farewel, ye woods, adieu the light of day ! 
 One leap from yonder cliff Ihall end my pains. 
 No more, ye hills, no more refound my drains ! 
 
 Thus fung the fhepherds, till th' approach of night. 
 The flcies yet blulhing with departing light j 
 When falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade. 
 And the low fun had lejsgthen'd ew'ry fhade. 
 
 WINTER ;
 
 A U T U M N U S. 39-5 
 
 Reddite lugubres, cava culmina, reddite cantus ! 
 Sylva vale dilefta, vale, lux alma diei ! 
 Iftius aerio prxceps de vertice rupis 
 Deferar ; ille modus fuerit finifque dolori. 
 Reddere lugubres, cava culmina, parclte cantus ! 
 
 Talla jadlabant, cum jam procedere vefper 
 Cceperat, & rofeum fufFundere lumen Olympo. 
 Humida jam vitreis rorabant gramina guttis, 
 Solque cadens rerum crefcentes auxerat umbras. 
 
 S-s HYEMS,
 
 394 WINTER. 
 
 WINTER; OR, DAPHNE. 
 
 THE FOURTH PASTORAL. 
 To the MEMOR Y of Mrs. TEMPEST, 
 
 LYCIDAS. 
 JL HYRSIS, the mufic of that murm'ring fpring 
 Js not fo mournfulj as the firains you fing. 
 Nor rivers winding thro' the vales below. 
 So fweetly warble, or fo fmoothly flow. 
 Now fleeping flocks on their foft fleeces lie. 
 The moon, ferene in glory, mounts the fty. 
 While filent birds forget their tuneful lays. 
 Oh fing of Daphne's fate, and Daphne's praife \ 
 
 THYRSIS. 
 Behold the groves, that fhine with filver froft. 
 Their beauty wither'd, and their verdure loft. 
 
 Here
 
 H Y E M S. 395 
 
 HYEMS, sivE DAPHNE. 
 
 ECLOGA IV. 
 
 LYCIDAS. 
 JL^ ON tarn trifle fonat trepidans per gramina rivus, 
 Quam mihi, Thyrfi, tua modulatum carmen avena : 
 Nee riguas inter labentia flumina valles 
 Tam blandum, tarn duke fluunt. Jam vellere moUi 
 SufFuIts pecudes placidas dant membra quieti. 
 Candida confcendit ccelum face luna ferena, 
 Et modules oblita filet gens alma volucrum. x 
 Incipe ; crudeli praereptam funere Daphnen 
 Dicamus j dicenda neget quis carmina Daphnse ? 
 
 THTRSIS. 
 Afpice, ut excufTo capitis frondentis Honore 
 Marcet iners, gelidifque albet nemus onine pruinis. 
 S 6. Hie
 
 396 WINTER. , 
 
 Here fhall I try the fvveet Alexis' ftrain. 
 That call'd the lift'ning Dryads to the plain ? 
 Thames heard the numbers, as he flow'd along. 
 And bade his willows learn the moving fong. 
 
 LYCIDAS. 
 So may kind rains their vital moifture yield. 
 And fwell the future harveft of the field ! 
 Begin ; this charge the dying Daphne gave. 
 And faid, " Ye fhepherds, fmg around my grave !** 
 Sing, while befide the fhaded tomb 1 mourn. 
 And with frefh bays her rural Ihrine adorn. 
 
 1HYRSIS. 
 Ye gentle Mufes, leave your chryftal fpring. 
 Let Nymphs and Sylvans cyprefs garlands bring. 
 Ye weeping Loves, the ftream with myrtles hide. 
 And break your bows, as when Adonis died : 
 And with your golden darts, now ufelefs grown, 
 Infcribe a verfe on this relenting ilone : 
 
 *' Let
 
 HYEMS. 397 
 
 Hie ego, quae dulci teftudine lufit Alexis, 
 Carmina tentarim, Dryadas queis ille fequentes 
 Montibus elicuit ? Stratis jequaliter undis 
 Audiit haec Thamifis, falicefque edifcere juflit 
 
 LTCIDAS. 
 Sic pluviis fecundus aquis fata nutriat humor, 
 t laetos faciat Venturis meifibus audhis ! 
 Incipe ; fie Daphne moriens mandavit, &inquit,* 
 *' Carminihus tiunulum memores luftrate, coloni ! 
 Incipe, ego trifti dum munere fundus, agreftent 
 Arbuteis tumulum virgis & vimine texo 
 
 tHYRSIS. 
 Vos, 6 Caftalides, facratos linquite fontes, 
 Et Satyri, & Nymphae, ferali texta cupreflb 
 Serta date. O, lachrymis quis enim modus adiit i 
 
 Amores 
 Idalii, mceila fontes obducite myrto ; 
 Frangite nunc arcus, nam fie fleviftis Adonin. 
 Nunc nudas deponite, inania tela, fagittas> 
 Cufpide vel verfa tumulo hoc infcribite carmen :
 
 398 WINTER. 
 
 *' Let nature change, let heav'n and earth deplore, 
 ** Pair Daphne 's dead, and love is now no more 1** 
 
 *Tis done, and nature^s various charms decay : 
 See, gloomy clouds obfcure the chearful day ! 
 Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear. 
 Their faded honours fcatter'd on her bier. 
 See, where on earth the flow'ry glories lie. 
 With her they flourifh'd, and with her they die. 
 Ah ! what avail the beauties nature wore ? 
 Fair Daphne 's dead, and beauty is no more ! 
 
 For her the flocks refufe their verdant food. 
 The thirfty heifers fhun the gliding flood. 
 The filver fwans her haplefs fate bemoan. 
 In notes more fad, than when they fing their own.- 
 In hollow caves fweet Echo filent lies. 
 Silent, or only to her name replies : 
 Her name with pleafure once (he taught the fliore. 
 Now Daphne 's dead, and pleafure is no more ! 
 
 No
 
 H Y E M S. 399 
 
 *' Se mutet natura, folumque & fidera plorent, 
 
 ** Pulchra perit Daphne, perit omnis gratia amorum ! 
 
 Sic placitum ; natura anni languentls honores 
 Mutat, 8c obfcurum contriftant nubila coelurti. 
 Illachrymat mceftum guttis ftillantibus arbor, 
 Avuliifque comis fpargit lugubre feretrum.. 
 Heu ! lapfus periit. Daphne pereunte, virentis 
 Ruris honor : nituifle javat quid floribus arva ? 
 Pulchra perit Daphne, perit omnis gratia florum ! 
 
 Vifta dolore pecus viridantitus abftinet herbisjt 
 Nee meminit quadrupes attingere fluminis undam ; 
 Albentes cycni Daphnen flevere, nee unquam 
 Tam dulei extremam lingua cecinere querelam. 
 Cum fua fata voeant : moeftum eaput abdita fylvis 
 Aut filet, aut Daphnen plangentibus aflbnat Echo. 
 Ilia fuam nuper Daphnen, ea fola voluptas, 
 Littoris ineurvi feopulos refonare doeebat ; 
 Nunc omnis periit. Daphne pereunte, voluptas !, 
 
 Non
 
 40O WINTER. 
 
 No grateful dews defcend from ev'ning fkies. 
 No morning odours from the flow'rs arife ; 
 No rich perfumes refrefh the fruitful field. 
 Nor fragrant herbs their native incenfe yield. 
 The balmy Zephyrs, filent fince her death. 
 Lament the ceafing of a fvveeter breath ; 
 Th' induftrious bees neglefl their golden (lore. 
 Fair Daphne 's dead, and fweetnefs is no more ! 
 
 No more the mounting larks, while Daphne fings. 
 Shall lift'ning in mid air fufpend their wings. 
 No more the birds ftiall imitate her lays. 
 Or huftx'd with wonder, hearken from the fprays ; 
 No more the ftreams their murmurs ftiall forbear,. 
 A fweeter mufic than their own to hear. 
 But tell the reeds, and tell the vocal ftiore. 
 Fair Daphne's dead, and mufic is no more ! 
 
 Her fate is whifper'd by the gentle breeze. 
 And told in fighs to all the trembling trees ; 
 
 The
 
 H Y E M S. 401 
 
 Non jam noSarni defcendunt aethere rores, 
 Noa Zephyro flores fpirant, non floribus agri. 
 Nee foHti campis herbarum afflantur odores. 
 Trifle filens Zephyrus, Daphne, tua funera deflet, 
 , Dulcior heu Zephyris Daphne, dum vita manebat ! 
 Oblitas jam ruris, apes fe in tefta recondunt. 
 Nee liquido curant diftendere nedare cellas. 
 Pulchra perit Daphne, perit omnis gloria mellis ! 
 
 ,, Non ultra attonitae. Daphne dum cantat, alaudae 
 In medio eeleres fufpendent acre pennas. 
 Non numeros mirata dehinc Philomela canentis 
 Audiet, aut fimiles imitahj^jj- ~ni'j!2 C^P.t'J?. 
 Non aurita prement lapfus jam fiumina. Daphnes 
 Auditura modos & non imitabile carmen. 
 Flebile fed junci, fed flebile ripa fonabunt. 
 Pulchra perit Daphne, perit omnis gratia cantds ! 
 
 Heu fatum crudele ! gravi nemus omne fufurro 
 Ingeminatj Daphnes fatum fub valiibus imis 
 
 Sylva
 
 4C2 WINTER. 
 
 
 
 The trembling trees, in ev'ry plain and wood. 
 Her fate remurmur to the filver flood ; 
 The filver flood, fo lately calm, appears 
 Swell'd with new paffion, and o'erflows with tears. 
 The winds, and trees and floods her death deplore. 
 Daphne, our grief, our glory now no more I 
 
 But fee ! where Daphne woad'rlng mounts on high 
 Above the clouds, above the ftarry fky ! 
 Eternal beauties grace the fliining fcene. 
 Fields ever freih, and groves for ever green. 
 There, while you reft in Amaranthine bow'rs. 
 Or from thofe meads feleft unfading flow'rs. 
 Behold us kindly, who your name implore. 
 Daphne, our Goddefs, and our grief no more ! 
 
 LTCIDAS. 
 How all things liften, while thy Mufe complains ! 
 Such filence waits on Philomela's drains, 
 
 la
 
 H Y E M S. 403 
 
 Sylva gemit, gemitufque ferunt ad flumina valles. 
 Flumina, quae nuper leni .labentia rivo 
 Stringebant ripas> magno nunc turbida mota 
 Volvuntur, Ilernuntque fretis undantibus arva. 
 Te, fylvse, te auftri, te. Daphne, flumina plorant ; 
 Heu fuperas. Daphne, nunquam reditura fub auras ! 
 
 Sed viden ! sthereos Daphne fuperevolat orbes, 
 Miraturque infra ftellafque & nubila volvi. 
 Hie ccelefte folum, hie facies laitiffima reruni 
 Semper, & aeterno viridantes gramine campi. 
 Scu tu prata tenes Amarantho umbrata recenti, 
 Seu legis ufque novos formofo pollice flores, 
 Afpice nos, rebufque veni non afpera noftris, 
 Tu Dea, tu Daphne, votis jam aflTueta vocai:!. 
 Nee lachrymis ultra mceftifve urgenda querelis. 
 
 LYCIDAS. 
 
 Ut tranquilla filent loca cunfta, ftupentque canentem! 
 Sic, labente die, Philomela filentia mulcet, 
 
 Dum
 
 404 WINTER. 
 
 In fome Ilill ev'ning, when the whifp'ring breeze 
 
 Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. 
 
 To thee, bright Goddefs, oft' a lamb fhall bleed. 
 
 If teeming ewes increafe my fleecy breed. 
 
 While plants their Ihade, or flow'rs their odours give 
 
 Thy name, thy honour, and thy praife fhall live ! 
 
 THYRSIS. 
 But fee, Orion fheds unwholefome dews. 
 Arife, the pines a noxious ftiade difFufe. 
 Sharp Boreas blows, and Nature feels decay. 
 Time conquers all, and we muft time obey. 
 Adieu, ye vales, ye mountains, ftrcaras and groves. 
 Adieu, ye fhepherds, rural lays and loves ; 
 Adieu, my flocks j farewel, ye fylvan crew ; 
 Daphne, farewel ; and all the world adieu ! 
 
 THE
 
 H Y E M S. 40c 
 
 Dam placido Zephyrus per fylvam fibilat ore 
 
 Leniter afpirans, & ventilat acre frondes* 
 
 O Dea, faspe tibi tenerara maflabimus agnam. 
 
 Si foetura gregem pleno fuppleverit anno. 
 
 Sic umbras dum fylva dabit, dum Chloris odores, 
 
 Noilra eris, aeternuni noftris celebrabere fallis. 
 
 THrRSIS. 
 Sed jam lethiferos rores difFundit Orion. 
 Surgamus ; pini gravis eft cantantibus umbra. 
 Saevit atrox boreas, fentit natura feneftam. 
 Omnia fert aetas, breve & infuperabile tempus 
 Omnibus eft vita;. Felices vivite campi, 
 Vivite flumlnes valles, montefque fupini : 
 Vivite, paftores, paftorum vivite lufus. 
 Tu, Daphne, & quicquid vafto compleftitur orbe 
 Terra, vale ; aeternum fylvaeque urbefque valete. 
 
 MESSIAS.
 
 4o6 T H E M E S S I A H. 
 
 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 A SACRED ECLOGUE. 
 
 JL E Nymphs of Solyma, begin the fong ; 
 To heav'nly themes fublimer ftralns belong. 
 The mofly fountains, and the fylvan fhades. 
 The dreams of Pindus and th' Aonian maids 
 Delight no more. O thou. my voice infpire. 
 Who touch'd Ifaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! 
 
 Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : 
 A Virgin fhall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son. 
 From Jeffe's root behold a branch arife, 
 Whofe facred flow'r with fragrance fills th fkies. 
 
 Th'
 
 M E S S I A S, 407 
 
 M E S S I A S. 
 
 pECLOGA SACRA. 
 
 lETHLEMIDES Nymphx, .ccelefte indicite 
 carmen. 
 Si canimus Numen, carmen fit Numine dignum. 
 Nam neque mufcofi fontes, neque fomnia Pindi, 
 Nam neque Pierides, fylvifque umbrata profanis 
 Rura juvant. O, qui Ifaiae facra ignibus ora 
 Luftrafti, Tu -vocem infpira animamque canenti. 
 
 Haec retulit vates venturi praefcius sevi. 
 Concipiet Virgo, pariet Virgo Integra prolem 
 Stirpe e Jeffaea nafcetur virga, perenni 
 Flore nitens j auris redolet fragantibus asther. 
 
 Olli
 
 468 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 Th' ctherial Spirit o'er its leaves fhall move. 
 And on its top defcends the myflic Dove. 
 The fick and weak the healing plant fhall aid. 
 From ftorms a fhelter, and from heat a fhade. 
 Ye Heav'ns, from high the dewy neftar pour. 
 And in foft filence fhed the kindly fhow'r. 
 All crimes fhall ceafe, and ancient Fraud fhall fail ; 
 Returning Juftice lift aloft her fcale ; 
 Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend. 
 And white-robed innocence from heav'n defcend. 
 
 Swift fly the years, and rife th' expedled morn ! 
 O fpring to light, aufpicious Babe, be born ! 
 See', nature hafles her earliefl wreaths to bring 
 With all the incenfe of the breathing fpring. 
 See lofty Lebanon his head advance. 
 See nodding foreils on the mountains dance. 
 See fpicy clouds from lowly Saron rife. 
 And Carmel's flow'ry top perfumes the fkies. 
 
 Hurk,
 
 M E S S r A S. 409 
 
 Olli divinus per frondes lene feretur 
 Spiritus, inque apicem defcendet myfticus ales. 
 Infirmis aegrifque mali contagia cjeli 
 Defendet, gravidofque notos seftufque nocentes. 
 Defuper, 6 cceli, rorantem inducite nubem> 
 Et Isetum tacid? demittite lapfibus imbrem. 
 Crimina jam fugient ; terras Aftraea revifet. 
 Fraus antiqua cadet, placidaque Infignis oliva 
 Pax, et cana Fides almo remeabit olympo. 
 
 Perglte felllnis procedere menfibus, antii, 
 Et jubar optatum terris, Aurora, reclude. 
 Nafcere, Dive Puer ; jam nunc tibi germine la;to 
 Terra tumet, funditque novis munufcula cunis. 
 Te nemus omne vocat, te mons, te vallis, et altis 
 Excita fylva jugis : tibi celfa cacumina motat 
 Exultans Libanus. Sacro jam fidera fumo 
 Lambit odoratus Saron, jam florea pandit 
 Munera Carmelus, fertiique virentibus halat. 
 
 T Audin
 
 4IO THE MESSIAH. 
 
 Hark, a glad voice the lonely defert chears ; 
 Prepare the way ; a God, a God appears. 
 A God, a God, the vocal hills reply. 
 The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. 
 Lo, earth receives him from the bending (kies ! 
 Sink down, ye mountains, and ye vallies, rife. 
 With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay ; 
 Be fmooth, ye rocks ; ye rapid floods, give way. 
 The Saviour comes, by ancient bards foretold : 
 Hear him, ye deaf, and, all ye blind, behold. 
 He from thick fibus (hall purge the vifual ray. 
 And on the fightlefs eye-ball pour the day. 
 'Tis he th' obftruaed paths of found Ihall clear. 
 And bid new mufic charm th' unfolding ear. 
 The dumb fhall fing, the lame his crutch forego. 
 And leap exulting, like the bounding roe. 
 No figh, no murmur the wide world fhall hear. 
 From ev'ry face he wipes off ev'ry tear. 
 
 In
 
 M E S SI AS. 4U 
 
 Audin, per faltum refonat vox laeta, propinquo 
 Sternlte iter Domino : coram quem qtiasritis, adftat 
 Ecce Deus. Deus, ille Deus cava culmina circumr 
 Auritasque fonant rupes, fylvaeque loquaces. 
 Afpice, devexo labentem ex aethere tellus 
 Excipk in gremium : prono fubfidite, monies. 
 Vertices Numen adeft, humiles aflurgite valles. 
 Afpera jam piano venienti tramile mollem 
 Pandite, faxa, viam ; frondes jam fpargite, fylvse, 
 Blandaque pacatis decurrite, flumina, ripis. 
 Hue, fuidi, hue aures, oculos hue vertite, caeci : 
 Hie Vir hie eft, vobis patrum promifTus aS sevo. 
 Hie omnem ex oculis, infufo lumine, nodem 
 Eripiet, folemque dabit cselumque tueri. 
 Hie aurem obftruftam fupera virtute reeludet, 
 Mulcebitque novo cantu, numerifque fonoris. 
 Dulce canet mutus, pernlceque jam pede elaudus 
 Exultim kdet, ecu faltans per juga cervus. 
 Jam dolor, et lachrymae, et mosilo'queremonia vultu 
 Abfiftent terris : jam centum vinda catenis 
 
 T 2 Mors
 
 412 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 In adamantine chains fliall death be bound. 
 And hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. 
 
 As the good (hepherd tends his fleecy care. 
 Seeks freflieft pafture and the pureft air. 
 Explores the loft, the wand'ring ftieep direds. 
 By day o'erfees them, and by night protects. 
 The tender lambs he raifes in his arms. 
 Feeds from his hand, and in his bofom warms : 
 Thus (ball mankind his guardian care engage^ 
 The promifed Father of the future age. 
 No more fliall nation againft nation rife. 
 Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes. 
 Nor fields with gleaming fteel be cover'd o'er. 
 The brazen trumpet kindle rage no more. 
 Eut ufelefs lances into fcythes ihall bend. 
 And the broad faulchipn in a ploughfliare end. 
 Then palaces (hall' rife : the joyful fon 
 Shall finilh what his ihort- lived fire begun. 
 
 Their
 
 MESli*A.S'. 41, 
 
 Mors inferna tuet J Capiti jam vulhui adaftum 
 Sentietttternl Stygiusfub note tytanBUs. 
 
 Ac veluti paftor, cui dulcia ovilia curae, 
 Pafcua laeta gregi explorat zephyrofque falubres. 
 Nobles atque dies animis vigilantibus inftat, 
 Seu regit errantem, feu forte per avia lapfam 
 QiJaerit ovem ; cafus omnes a matribus arcet ; 
 Ipfe levans ulnis tencros compledtitur agnos, 
 Ipfe manu pafcit, fotofque in peftore mulcet : 
 Talis erit, tali pdpolos pietate regendos 
 Sufcipiet faecli cuftofque paterque futuri. 
 Turn placidi gentes coalefcent pace, nee ultra 
 In pugnas ftragemque ruent : rutilantia ferro 
 Agmiaa nee fternent adeo formidine terras. 
 Nee tuba terrifico martem ciet xrea cantu. 
 Sed prius apta neci in falcem conflabitur hafta, 
 Inque ufum gravidi curvabitur enlis aratri. 
 Regia inarmoreis furgent turn tefta columnis, 
 Exultanfque hasres rapti molimina patris 
 * T 3 Ardua
 
 414 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 Their vines a fhadow to their race ftiall yield. 
 And the fame hand that fow'd, fhall reap the 'field : 
 The fvvain in barren dcferts with furprife 
 See lilies fpring, and fudden verdure rife. 
 And flart amidft the tliirily wilds to hear 
 New falls of water murm'ring in his ear. 
 Oa rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes. 
 The green reed trembles, and the buJrufh nods. 
 Wafte, fandy vallies, once, perplex'd with thorn. 
 The fpiry fir and fhapely box adorn. 
 To leaflefs ftirubs the flow'ry palms fucceed. 
 And od'rous myrtle to the noifome weed. 
 The lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead. 
 And boys in flow'ry bands the tiger lead. 
 The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet. 
 And harmlefs ferpents lick the pilgrim's feet. 
 The fmiling infant in his hand fhall take i 
 
 The crefled bafilifk and fpeckled fnake, 
 Pleafed the green luflre of the fcales furvey. 
 And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play. 
 
 Rife,
 
 M E S S I A S. 4-5 
 
 Ardua perficiet ; fibi quos confeverit agrosj 
 Ipfe metet j facient vineta nepotibus umbram. 
 Surgere turn cernet vafta inter rura colonus 
 Liliaque et Ixtos inopino gramine campos : 
 Audiet et trepidas fitientes inter arenas 
 Infolitum erumpens murmur fludufque cadentes. 
 In fcopulo, nuper qua confedere dracones, ^-i-* ^O 
 Jam virides junci formofaque nutat arundo. T" 
 Qua deferta prius vallis ftetit horrida diimis, 
 Confurgent abies crifpoque cacumine buxus : 
 Qua frutices nudi et fpinis paliurus amaris, 
 Floriferae palmae et myrti nafcentur odorae, 
 Florea vincla puer tigri fubnedet inermi, 
 Permixtique lupis pafcent in montibus agnf;? t?-* 
 Cum tauro in ftabulis placidus leo ftabit apertis, 
 Ruricolaeque pedes innoxia vipera lambet. 
 Criftatum bafilifcum infans viridemque colubrum 
 Excipiet plaudetque manu : fulgentia fquamis 
 Tergora luftrabit rifu, ludenfque trifulcae '^ 
 
 Spicula nee linguse metuet nee inane venenum* 
 
 T4 Regia
 
 4i6 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife. 
 Exalt thy tow'ry head, and lift thy eyes. 
 See a long race thy fpaclous courts adorn. 
 See future fons, and daughters yet unborn. 
 In crowding ranks on ev'ry fide they rife. 
 Demanding life, impatient for the flcies. 
 See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend. 
 Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend. 
 See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings. 
 And heap'd with produfts of Sabean fprings. 
 For thee Idume's fpicy forcfts blow. 
 And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. 
 
 See heav'n Its fparkling portals wide difplay. 
 And break upon thee in a flood of day. 
 No more the rifing fun (hall gild the morn. 
 Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn : 
 But loft, diffolved in thy fuperior rays, 
 One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze 
 
 O'crfiow
 
 ME SSI AS. 417 
 
 Regia furge Salem : radiis redimita corufcis 
 Surge, et turritum celfo caput infere ccelo. 
 Afjpice, quanta tibi fpatiofa per atria lucet 
 Progenies : fuperas ardent evadere in auras 
 Et nati natseque, et qui nafcentur ab illis. 
 En tibi, fplendentis coeli nova figna fecutas, 
 Barbarica; agglomerant gentes : en ad tua laeti 
 Limina contendunt gazis orientis onufti 
 Suppliciter reges, et natum Numen adora'nt. 
 Suavibus in fylvis tibi balfama gignit Idume, 
 Scrvat Ophir fulvis nutritum in montibus aurum. ; 
 
 Sed viden, interior late tibi panditur aula 
 Coelicolum, totufque oculis illucet olympus. 
 Non jam mane novo Sol proferet anriplius orbem. 
 Nee vefpertinum replebit Cynthia cornu : 
 Sed radiis immeifa tuis fua fldus utrumque 
 Lumina fubducet. Nofturna^ nefcius umbras 
 Atria inextindlis tua veftiet ignibus xther. 
 
 Ts" Lucis
 
 4i8 
 
 THE MESSIAH. 
 
 O'erflovv thy courts. The Light himfelf fliall fhine 
 Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine. 
 The feas fhall vvalle, the ikies in fraoke decay. 
 Rocks fall to dull, and mountains melt away j 
 But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains. 
 Thy realm for ever lafts, thy own Messiah reigns.
 
 M E S S I A S. 419 
 
 Lucis origo, tuas penitus diflufa per arces, 
 iEternum Deus ipfe fuo te numine complet. 
 ^quora inarefcent, rupes cum montibus altis 
 Flamma feret, fugient cceli ceu fumus in auras : 
 Aft hominum flat fixa falus, flat foedere paAo 
 Lex, fummojurata Deo : tibi regna, tuoque 
 Semper honos Christo, fceptrumque decufque 
 manebunt. 
 
 T 6 S. CATHARINA
 
 420 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 S. CATHARINA deMorteTriumphans. 
 
 E C L O G A. 
 
 r H r R S I S, DAMON. 
 
 k^^O ^ O^^ 
 
 ^HRISTIAD^ flebant Catharin crudella paiTam 
 Funera j vos, coryli, tefles & littora Nili. 
 Quae latebras, aut qui vos faltus tenuere, puellae 
 Niliades, faeva Catharis cum morte periret ? 
 Nam neque Pyramidum facra culmina, nam neque 
 
 pinguis 
 Ulla moram vobis faciebant nira Canopi. 
 
 O, cui Belgarum Regina Augufla per urbes 
 Credidit Auftriacas rerum traftanda fuarum 
 
 * Thefe two Eclogues in the firft edition were dedicated to the 
 late Count Cobenzl, Imperial Mbiller at the Court of Bruflels. 
 
 Pondera,
 
 S. CATHARINA. 421 
 
 Pondera, fi qua tibi, curis aliquando remiffis, 
 Hora vacat, nee te totum fibi publica pofcunt 
 Mania, nos noftramque, sua eft, ClarifTime, Mufam. 
 Afpice, quamque fuo defert ftudiofa Patrono, 
 Hanc inter meritas hederam fine ferpere palnias. 
 
 Jam furgens Aurora polo dimoverat umbras, 
 Sol que pruinofos infufo lumine montes 
 Sparferat ; extempio curis vigilantibus adi, 
 E feptis mifere greges ad pafcua Thyrfis, 
 Atque boaus Damon ; extinftse Virginis ambo ,, , 
 ^gri ludu, ambo calamos inflare periti. 
 Dum fparfim tondent fims virgulta capells, 
 Dum querulis agni ripam balatibus implent. 
 Hi procul a gregibus, neque enim confiftere mentem- 
 Moefta finit pietas, {ylv2s populantur honores, 
 Pallentes hederas & funereas cyparifibs, 
 Extrcmum turaulo munus. Poflqaam ardua montis 
 Et fandum tctigeie jugum, procumbit uterque 
 Pronus humi, nudoque gemens fcrt ofcula bufto. 
 
 Thyrfis
 
 422 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 Thyrfis inexpletum lacrymans, folatia luftus 
 Nulla capit. Via jam voci ut laxata dolore eft, 
 Haec fecum gemitu Sc ftudio jaftabat inani. 
 
 Funde graves mecum, mea tibia, funde querelas, 
 Occidit heu ! Catharis, Pharii lux maxima ruris 
 Occidit, immiti Catharis data vidima letho. 
 Tejuga, te valles, te noftra mapalia, Virgo, 
 Ingemuere : ipfi, nam te fenfere cadentem, 
 Balantes flevere greges, luQufque dedere. 
 Te quoque Pyramides, te regia tCiSla, columnae, 
 Et Pharos, 8c moeili fleverunt faxa Canopi. 
 
 Funde graves mecum, mea tibia, funde querelas. 
 Cum Catharis iludiis coeleilibus incita coUes 
 Per noftros calamo Divos cantaret agrefti, 
 Pulfatae numeros retulere ad fidera valles, 
 Auiit^-que cavis faliere in montibus orni. 
 Jam vidui montes, vallefque filentia fervant, 
 I^i lugubre gemens per littora murrauret Aufler. 
 
 Funde
 
 S. CATHARINA. 423 
 
 Funde graves inecum, mea tibia, funde querelas. 
 Ilia rudes animos cuitu formavit agreftum, 
 Accenditque facro vits venientis amore. 
 Ilia, nihil mortale canens, arguta Sophoriim 
 Arma domat, vidlrixque ferocia fubdere cogit 
 Colla Deo : fed noa ideo crudelia fata 
 Fledere, vel farias potuit mollire tyranni. 
 
 Funde graves mecum, mea tibia, funde querelas. 
 Hei mihi ! quid, Virgo, jam poft tua funera fperem ? 
 Certum eft in tenebris inter deferta locorum 
 Condere velle caput, dulcefque relinquere ccetus 
 Paftorum, & moeftis confumere fletibus aevum. 
 Ibo, & quae memori fub pedlore fixa refervo, 
 Carmina per monies fylvis meditabor & auris. 
 Hiec tanquam infani mihi lint medicina doloris ! 
 Jam neque feceflus nemorum^ neque carmina nobis 
 Ipfa placent : rurfum virides concedite fylva:. 
 Protinus, infandi quando folatia cafus 
 Reftaut nulla fuper, fasvo ferienda tyranno 
 
 Colla
 
 424 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 Colla dabo. Tecum pariter fie rumpere lucem, 
 Virgo, juvat, pulchramcjue pati per vulnera mortem. 
 
 Sifte graves mecum, mea tibia, fifte querelas. 
 Ha;c Thyrfis, cui fie refpondit in ordine Damon, 
 Niliacas Nymphae, quis turn vos fenlbs habebat. 
 Cum Catharis flammas inter dentefque rotarum 
 Pendebat diflrifta, & non muliebriter audens 
 Colledlas tortorum iras, omnefque minantis 
 Una laceflebat gladios ignefque tyraiini ? 
 
 Tollite humo Catharim, fuper a;thera tollite, Divi. 
 Cum deprenfa manus inter jam Itaret, & ultro 
 Vitam, jufTa mori, lidloris fubderet enfi, 
 Sanguineum facinus mucro horruit, atque pudicam 
 Vulnere cervicent timuit fignare crucnto. 
 Qua nivcis avulfum humeris caput excidit, albo 
 Laftea prorumpit falienti flumine lympha. 
 
 Tollite
 
 S. CATHARINA. 425 
 
 ToUite humo Catharira, fuper sethera tollite, Divi 
 Quale nitent inter laftentia lilia mixtas 
 Purpureo fplendore rofas ; fublime per aur^is 
 Qualis aquam juxta myrtus fe toliit, & omnem 
 Ambroiio fpiraos fylvam perfundit odore ; 
 Aut Libani qualis flat celfo in vertice cedrus. 
 Sic Pharias inter Catharis pulcherrima Nymphas. 
 
 Tollite humo Catharim, fuper asthera tollite^ Divi 
 India diffufo fpatiantem flumine Gangem 
 Sufpicit, Euphratcm Babylon, Sc Parthia Tigrim t 
 Dum. Catharis formofa fuum tenet incola Niluna^, 
 Parthiaque, & Babylon concedet, & India Nilo, 
 
 Tollite humo Catharim, fuper sethera tollite, Divi., 
 Cum diverfa mens feptena per oftia Nilus 
 Divite foecundat vicinos gurgite campos, 
 Vernat ager, vernant naeffes, annique labores 
 Sic ubi dodrinae Catharis miracula promit 
 Et liquidas recludit opes, fontefque falubres 
 
 Eloquii
 
 426 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 Eloquii, Iseto virtus, fe germine fundit, 
 Et felices ccelo animas plaudente reponit. 
 
 TollitehumoCatharira, fupera^thera tollite, Divi. 
 Attonitas audin' clangor quis perculit aures } 
 Ccelicolum pennata phalanx per nubila veftat 
 Virginis exuvias, famulifque exercitus alls 
 Plaudit ovans, notoque infert facra olTa fepulchro. 
 
 Tollite humo Catharim, fuper asthera tollite, Divi, 
 Salve fande Sinai, mens 6 gratiffime ccelo,' 
 Ante alios falve tanto dignate trophaeo : 
 Tu face nimbofa & prsefentis numinis olim 
 Fulmine terrificus, prone nunc culmine mitis 
 Extinftos cineres, dutStamque ex ordine pompam 
 Excipis, & gremio depoftam amplefteris urnaiti. 
 
 Tollite humo Catharim, fuper aethera tollite, Divi. 
 Sed viden' ajthereos Catharis fuperevolat oibes ; 
 S'.'pra Euri Zephyrique domos, ftellafque micantes 
 
 Surgit,
 
 S. CATHARJNA. 427 
 
 Surgit, & sternum, jam cceli afcripta beads 
 Diva choris, vidla ducit de morte triumphum. 
 
 Parcite, jam Catharis tenet zethera, parcite Divi. 
 
 S. CATHARINA.
 
 428 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 S. CATHARINA de Philofophis Triumphans. 
 E C L O G A. 
 
 JLJ'ICITE, Niliades, nam vos meminilTe poteflis, 
 Dicite, quae Cathari quondam memorante, beata 
 Audiit ^gygtus, populofque edifcere juflit. 
 
 Saepius ilia feros fpe palmz lufexat holies, 
 Exueratque dolos caecos, artefque tyranni. 
 Ille adeo indignans, innefti vincula captae 
 In caveamque trahi mandat, circumque Lycx'u 
 Convenere, quibus facundae copia lingua, 
 Aut mens acris erat. Veniunt arguta dicacis 
 Agmina Ariftotelis ; tumidis Academica buccis 
 Turba venit ; venit & dabiis gens nata ferendis 
 
 Sceptica ;
 
 S. CATHARINA. 429 
 
 Sceptica ; turn fufis rugofa per ora capillis 
 Horrentes Cynici, atque Epicuri exercitus omnis. 
 
 Jamque dies praecUda aderat, jam dofta theairum 
 Agmina compleratit, queis fe Maxentius infert 
 Speftator pugms. Jam curva fedilia circum 
 Infufum excipiunt populum, turbamque fonantem. 
 Stat fola in medio Catharis, velut alma rapaces 
 Agna lupos inter, tam forti pedlore conftans, 
 Quam rofeis formofa genis : ilmul omnibus infit. 
 Turn vero arredlos narrantis ab ore videres 
 Socraticos pendere greges, turn nefcia flefti 
 Antehac, paulatim mollefcere corda tyrannum.- 
 Non fie mirata eft Mofen Carmeiia rupes, 
 Non fie Jeffiaden Solymaj ftupuere'canentem. 
 
 Namque canebat, uti vaflum per inane coaflus 
 Numinis iraperio, primum concreveiit orbis 
 Ex nihilo, hie pulcher rerum, quern cernimus, ordo. 
 Vis seterna Dei, molem difFufa per omnem, 
 
 Numine
 
 430 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 Numine cunfta movet : prajfens terramque polumque 
 Ille replet, totumque unus regit arbiter orbem. 
 Hinc ventis agitata tument, hinc ftrata quiefcunt 
 j^quora, iidereis hinc pafcitur ignibus aether. 
 Hinc fylvis autumnus opes, hinc gramina tellus 
 Verna parit, fegetefque novis cum frudibus aeftas, 
 
 Inde genus mortale refert, Edenaque Tempo 
 Fatiferique efum pomi, poenafque Parentum. 
 Ipfa ut deinde Dei, numen de nomine, proles 
 Par Patri asterno, mortales fumpferit artus 
 Faflus homo. Ut, poftquam decreti temporls orbem 
 Vivendo explerat, ligno moribundus ab alto, 
 Innocuo fontem repararit fanguine mundum. 
 Ilium expirantem, fufpiriaque aegra trahentem 
 TIeverunt elementa ; gravi conterrita motu 
 Terra tremit, mceftam templo cortina ruinam 
 FifTa trahit, lacrymant arje, tumullque dehifcunt. 
 Ipfum etiam, obduflo nigra ferrugine vultu. 
 Officii puduit, patienti Numine, folem, 
 
 Confciaque
 
 S. CATHARINA. 431 
 
 Confciaque asternam pavit gens impia nodem. 
 At Chriftum, edomiti fpoliis Acherontis ovantem, 
 Tertia lux fuperas redivivum eduxit in auras, 
 Immortale, ingens, & non violabile numen. 
 Inde quater decies cum fol reparaverat ortus, 
 Atque diem toties prona nox clauferat umbra, 
 Ille triumphal! viftor jam lajtus honore, 
 Patris in amplexus fublime per aera magnum 
 Ibat ovans, rerumque tenet per fxcula habenas, 
 Non magno Genitore minor; cui maxima mundi 
 Sidera torquenti manet inconcuffa poteftas. 
 
 His adjungit, uti noftrae memor ufque falutis. 
 Bis fenos, genus indoftum, fed vivida ccelo 
 Peftora, fandlorum comitum felegerit omni 
 Ex numero heroas, fua qui praecepta fecuti 
 Informes hominum mores, atque afpera cultu 
 Ingenia excolerent, legefque & facra docerent 
 Chrifticolum. At fi vera cano, fi magna rependo, 
 
 Vos
 
 432 
 
 S. CATHARINA. 
 
 Vos quoque ne pudeat fubmittcre dura vocanti 
 Corda Deo, tenebrifque oculos aperire fugatis. 
 
 Talia perftabat memorans & fixa manebat. 
 
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 Attonitis flat turba animis fufpenfa, nee audet 
 
 Hifcere quid contra j donee jam numinis ipfo 
 
 Impulfu trepidi rabiem fenfufque profanes 
 
 Excutiunt, unumque Deum una voce fatentur 
 
 Artificem mundi, coelique erebique potentem. 
 
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