If e'er, by rebel deities oppreft, • My aid reliev'd thee, grant this one request. Since to short life my hapless fon was born, Do thou with fame the fcanty space adorn. • Punish the king of men, whofe lawless sway Hath sham'd the youth, and feiz'd his destin'd prey. ← Awhile let Troy prevail, that Greece may grieve, • And doubled honours to my offspring give.' She faid. The god vouchfaf'd not to reply. (A deep fufpence fat in his thoughtful eye) : Once more around his knees the goddess clung, And to foft accents form'd her artful tongue : Oh! fpeak. Or grant me, or deny my prayer. • Fear not to speak, what I am doom'd to bear; That I may know, if thou my prayer deny,. ← The most despis'd of all the gods am I,' With a deep figh the Thundering Power replies: To what a height will Juno's anger rife! • Still doth her voice before the gods upbraid My partial hand, that gives the Trojans aid. I grant thy fuit. But, hence! depart unfeen, • And fhun the fight of heaven's fufpicious queen. Believe my nod, the great, the certain fign, • When Jove propitious hears the powers divine; The fign that ratifies my high command, That thus I will: and what I will fhall stand.' This faid, his kingly brow the fire inclin'd; The large black curls fell awful from behind, Thick fhadowing the ftern forehead of the god: Olympus trembled at th' almighty nod. The goddefs fmil'd: and, with a sudden leap,"- To him enthron'd (for whispering fhe had seen Big with invectives, Juno filence broke, • The Goddess of the large majestic eyes. Thy own dark thoughts at pleasure hide, or fhow; • Daughter Daughter of him, who low beneath the tides Thy nod affures me fhe was not deny'd: And Greece must perish for a madman's pride.' To whom the god, whose hand the tempest forms, Drives clouds on clouds,andblackens heaven with storms, Thus wrathful answer'd: Doft thou still complain ? • Perplex'd for ever, and perplex'd in vain! • Should't thou disclose the dark event to come, • How wilt thou stop th' irrevocable doom ! This ferves the more to sharpen my difdain; • Stir up debate among the powers divine, If things on earth disturb the blest abodes, • And mar th' ambrofial banquet of the gods! Then let my mother once be rul'd by me, 6 Though much more wife than I pretend to be: • And due submiffion to our father pay. • Nor Nor force again his gloomy rage to rise, : He faid and in his tottering hands up-bore A double goblet, fill'd, and foaming o'er. Sit down, dear mother, with a heart content, • Nor urge a more difgraceful punishment, Which if great Jove inflict, poor I, dismay'd,. Muft ftand aloof, nor dare to give thee aid. Great Jove shall reign for ever, uncontrol'd: Remember, when I took thy part of old, Caught by the heel he fwung me round on high, And headlong hurl'd me from th' ethereal sky : • From morn to noon I fell, from noon to night; Till pitch'd on Lemnos, a most piteous fight, The Sintians hardly could my breath recall, Giddy and gasping with the dreadful fall. : She finil'd and, fmiling, her white arm display'd To reach the bowl her aukward fon convey'd. From right to left the generous bowl he crown'd, The gods laugh'd out, unweary'd, as they spy'd Thus, feafting to the full, they pass'd away, Alternate Alternate warbling; while the golden lyre, TO THE EARL OF WARWICK, ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON. F, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd, Blame not her filence, Warwick, but bemoan, Slow comes the verfe that real woe inspires: What |