STUDY XIII. 165.; 



reprefentation of her tragedy referved for the peri- 

 lous fitnations in which the Stare might happen 

 to be involved, and ihtn exhibited to the people, 

 as they difplay, in fimilar cafes, to the people of, 

 Conflantinople, the fiandard oï Ala hornet ; and I 

 have no doubt that, at fight of her innocence, of 

 her fervices, of her misfortunes, of the cruelty of 

 her enemies, and of the horrors of Jicr execution, 

 our people, in a tranfport of fury, would exclaim : 

 ** War, war with the EngliQi* I" 



Aft me what queflion thou can ft poffible. 

 And I will anfwer unpremeditated : 

 My courage try by combat, if thou dar'ft, 

 And thou (liait find that I exceed my fex. 

 Refolve on this : Thou flialt be fortunate 

 If thou receive me for thv warlike mate. 



— Affign'd I am to be the E'lglifli fcnurge. 

 This night the fiege alTuredly I'll raife : 

 Expeft Saint Martin's Summer, hjiicyon days, 

 Since I have enterd thus into thefe wars. 

 Glory is like a circle in the water, 

 Which never ceafes to enlarge itfelf, 

 ^Till by broad fpreading it difperfe to nought. 

 With Hcyn-ys death, the Englifli circle ends; 

 Difperfed are the glories it included. 

 Now am I like that proud infulting fliip, 

 Which Co'/ar and his fortune bare at once. 



* Gou forbid T fhould mean to roufe a fpirit of animofity iix 

 our people againft the Englifli, now fo woi^hy of all our efteem. 

 But as their Writers, and even their Government, have, in more 



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