Miscellaneous Poems. $9

The Duke of Devonshire's Allusion to theArchbishop of Cambray's Telemachus.

Written in the Tear 1707.

G Ambray, you set, when heav’nly Love you write.*The noblest Image in the clearest Light!

A Love, by no Self-Interest debas’d,

Eat on th’ Almighty’s high Perfection plae’d 1A Love, in which true piety consists,

That soars co Heav’n without the Help of Priests fLet partial Rome the great Attempt oppose,

Support the cheat from whence her Income stows.

Her Censures may condemn, but not confute,

If best your elevated Notions suit

With what to Reaton teems th’ Almighty’s Due.

They have, at least, an Air of being true.

And what can animated Clay produce,

Beyond a Guess, in Matters so abstruse ?

But when, descending from th’ Imperial Height,

You stoop of Sublunary Things to write,

Minerva seems the Moral to dispense :

How great the Subject, how sublime the Sense!

Not the Aonian Bard with such a FlameF.’er sung of Ruling Arts ; your lofty ThemeIn your Telemachus, his Hero’s Son,

We fee the great Original outdone.

There is in Virtue sure a hidden Charm,

To force Esteem, and Envy to disarm :

Else in a statt’ring Court you ne’er had been design’dT" instruct the future Troublers of Mankind.

Happy your native Soil, at least by Nature so jIn none her Treasures more profusely stow:

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