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Gbiild by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time , And cast the kingdoms old Mid Mbiher tkoutd .
i 5 fhat field of all iae civil warL W ^ ere Kis were noj ; the deepest scars ? A ^ iid Hampton shows whai |> art He ilad bf i ^ rfeer art : Where ^ twining subtle feais # ith hdpe ^ He . wove a net of such a ^ cope , JFhat Gb ^ rles himself might chase To Carisbrook ' s narrow case ;
tit & b thence the royal actor BSrne The iragib Scaffold might adoffi , While roiirid ite armed ba"iids Jbid cfef ) their bloody hands . He nothing common did , of mean , Uppn ffiat jnemqrable scene , l $ ui wltk Jiis kSkner eye Tke aixtfs edge did try ;
Nor call d the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right , JBut bow'd his comely head Down , as upon a bed " The emphatic cadence of this coiiplfet ,
" _ Bow'd his conqtely Jtiead Down , as Upon a bed ,
is in the best taste of his frietid Milton , with greater simplicity than the latter usually evinced . Sir William Tempfe wrote irerses with a spirit t ^ e ^ bd the iown-fashion of his time , as nay be seen by some ? tettislaiiona from Virgil ill Niclxol ^' s
Cdllefctiori ^ firdilher , to our taste , tMn Dryden ^ . Halifax has got into the ' British Poets . ' Sonars jvas among the translators of garth ' s Ovid . ' Even tniserly Pultettey was a verseman ;— ^^ to say nothing of flighty HaiiMiiry Will ^ itas , and crawlihg Dodingtoii . Bolingbroke ,