48 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790., 
By the Rev. Fr. Buackpurne, M. A. late Archdeacon of CLEVELAND: ; 
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Lycipas to PRUDENTIA. | 
DESCEND, fair Stoic, from thy flights ; 
From Nature learn to know 
- ~ Our pafions are the needful weights, 
_ That make our virtues go. 
ae PrupenmTia to Lycipas. 
rue, Lycidas; but think not fo 
Another truth to fhun; 
Our paffions make our virtues go, 
But make our vices run. 
Extrads from Antuwr, a Poetical Romance, in feven books ; 
By Rrcwarp Hote. : 
)R ATSE be the warrior’s meed, who feeks to rife 
By virtuous aéts, by deeds of bold emprize, f 
O’er dark oblivion; and in time’s defpight, 
Beneath whole wafteful courfe, in endlefs night, 
Succeflive ages fink, and pafs unknown, 
Afpires to make futurity his own. 
Such Arthur was: the fong preferv’d his fame;_ 
And oft our fathers kindled at the name: 
When wand’ring minitrels to the feeling heart 
_ The ftrains of nature, undeprav’d by art, 
Addreft ; and crouded halls were taught to ring 
With the bold aéts of Britain’s matchiefs king. 
Thofe days are pait: the vocal ftrain no more 
Is heard, that charm’d our fathers’ hearts of yore, 
Now, fole memorial of their echoing halls, 
Clafp’d by rade ivy, nod the mould’ring walls : 
In cumb’rous heaps are ftretch’d the ftately towers, 
While noxious weeds ufurp the rofeate bow’rs; 
And, long enfolded in death’s cold embrace, 
Silent have flept the minftrels’ gentle race. 
Yet fill his name furvives; nor deem it vain, 
‘That one, the meaneft of the tuneful train, 
Caught by the lofty theme, with feebler lays 
Prefumes t’ unfold a tale of other days. 
Such, as of old to Fancy’s ear addreft, 
Perchance had ftruck the fympathifing breaft ; 
When lovely were our maids, and brave our youth, 
When virtue valour crown’d, and beauty truth. = 
The day’s bright ruler, from his airy fleep ~ 
Defcending, plung’d beneath the weftern deep ; 
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