Admir'd Salopia! that with venial pride Her daughters lovely, and her ftriplings brave: IN. INSCRIPTION S. I. On a Tablet against a Root-House. HERE, in cool grot and moffy cell, We rural fays and faeries dwell; Though rarely feen by mortal eye, Darts through yon limes her quivering beams, Her beams, reflected from the wave, Would you then tafte our tranquil scene, Devoid of hate, devoid of ftrife, Devoid of all that poifons life : To graft the love of human race. And tread with awe these favour'd bowers, Nor wound the shrubs, nor bruise the flowers; So So may your path with sweets abound; GULIELMI SOMERVILE. And on the opposite side, G. S. POSVIT, Debitâ fpargens lacrymâ favillam Vatis amici. III. To Mr. DODSLEY. COME then, my friend, thy fylvan taste display,. Come hear thy Faunus tune his ruftic lay; Ah, rather come, and in thefe dells difown S IV. On the Back of a Gothic Seat. HEPHERD, would'st thou here obtain Joy that fuits the rural sphere? Learn to relish calm delight, ves that echo tinkling rille. If If thou canst no charm difclofe "Crimson leaves the rofe adorn, Think not fhe, whofe empty pride "Artlefs deed and fimple drefs "Senfe, that fhuns each confcious air, "Let “Let not lucre, let not pride, "Draw thee from such charms afide; "Have not those their proper sphere? "Gentler paffions triumph here. "See, to sweeten thy repose. "The bloffom buds, the fountain flows; “Seek no more—the rest is vain ; "Close thy wish, and seek no more.” V. On the Back of a Gothic Alcove. Ο You that bathe in courtly blyffe, Or toyle in fortune's giddy spheare; Do not too rafhly deem amyffe Of him that bydes contented here. Nor yet difdeigne the rufset stoale, Which o'er each careleffe lymbe he flyngs: Nor yet deryde the beechen bowle, In whyche he quaffs the lympid springs. Forgive him, if at eve or dawne, He waste his inoffenfive daye. So |