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And potent Rajahs, who themfelves prcfide 



O'er reahiis of wide extent ; but here fubmifs 



Their homage pay, alternate kings and flaves. 



Next thcfe, with prying eunuchs girt around. 



The fair Sultanas of his court ; a troop 



Of chofen beauties, but with care conceal'd 



From each intriifive eye ; one look Is death. 



Ah, cruel Eaflern law ! (had kings a pow'r 



But equal to their wild tyrannic will) 



To rob us of the fun's all-chearing ray 



Were lefs fevere. The vulgar clofe the march. 



Slaves and artificers ; and Dehli mourns 



Her empty and depopulated ftreets. 



Now at the camp arriv'd, with Item review. 



Thro' groves offpears, from file to file, he darts 



His fharp experienc'd eye ; their order marks. 



Each in his ftation rang'd, exaft and firm. 



Till in the boundlefs line his fight is loft. . 



Not greater multitudes in arms appear'd 



On thefe extended plains, when Amnion's fon 



With mighty Porus in dread battle join'd, 



The vafiTal world the prize. Nor was that hoft 



More numerous of old, which the great * King 



Pour'd out on Greece from all th' unpeopled Eaft ; 



That bridg'd the Hellefpont from fliore to fnore. 



And drank the rivers dry. Meanwhile in troops 



The bufy hunter-train mark out the ground, 



* Xcr;tes. 



A wide 



