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With rattling Brass, and trampling Jiorse,

Should counterfoil th’ inimitable Force

Of Divine Thunder : Horrid Crime!

But Vengeance is the Child of Tune,

And will too surely be repay’dOn his prophane devoted Head,

Who durst affront the Pow’rs above.

And their eternal Flames disgrace,

Too fatal, brandith’d by the Rightful Jove,

Or Pallas, who supplies his Place.

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The British Pallas / who, as J Homer’s didFor her lov’d DtoMEDE,

Her Hero’s Mind with Wisdom fills,

And Hgav'nly Courage in his Heart inllills.

Hence thro’ the thickest Squadrons does he ride.

With Anna’s Angels by his Side.

With what uncommon SpeedHe spurs his foaming, fiery Steed !

And pushes on thro’ midmost Fires,

Where Frances Fortune with her Sons retires.

Now here, now these, the sweepy Ruin flies ;f As when the Pleiades arise,

The Southern Wind amicts the Skies.

F’ 2 ■ Then

+ Homer, in his Fifth Iliad, because his Hero is todo Wonders beyond the Pomer s/ Mah, premises, Jn theBeginning, that Pallas had peculiarly fitted him forthat Day's Exploits.

J- Indamttas prope quails tindasF.xercet Aufier, Pleiadum ChoroScindente Nubes, impigev HofiiumVexare Turmas, & frementemMittere Equum medios per Ignes.

Sic tauriformis 'val-vitur Aufidus,

Qui Regna Dauni prafiuit Appuli ,

Cum seems, horrendam quo cultisDihtvicm meditatur Agris.