^8o JAMAICA. 



Crede, [q"] meum non eft, vir Marti chare! [r] Minerva 



Denegat jEthiopi bella Ibnare ducutn. 

 Concilio, cancret te Buchananus et armis, 



Carn)ine Peleido" fcriberet il!e parem. 

 llle poeta, decus patriae, tua fafta referre 



Dignior, [j] altilbno vixque Mcirone minor. 

 [/] Flammiferos agitante fuos fub (oltjugaleslju] 



Vivimus; eloquiuin deficit omne focis. 

 Hoc demum accipias, multa fuligine fufum 



Ore fonaturo; non cute, corde valef. 

 Pollenti ftabilita manu, ([w] Deus almus, eandem 



Omnigenis animam, nil prohibente dedit) 

 Ipfa coloris egens virtus, prudentiaj honefto 



Nullus inert animo, nullus in arte color. 

 Cur tinieas, quamvis, dubitefve, nigerrima cellam 



Cccfciris cccidui, fcandere [x] Mufa domum ? 

 [j] Vade falutatum, nee fit tibi caula pudoris, 



[s] Ca?jdida quod nigra corpora pelle geris I 

 Integritas morum [rt] Maurtim magis ornat, et ardor 



Ingenii, cl do5fo\b']diilcis in ore decor; * 



{(]] Phoshus, volenteni pixlia me'loqui 

 Vidas et urbes, increpuit lyni 

 Ne. Hor. 



[r] luvita Minerva. Hor. de Art. Poet, 



[s] Maronis alt'i/hni carmina. Jwu. Sat, xi. ver. 178. 

 [/] Flammifcras rotas toto c:b1o agitat. 



\it\ I apprehend Mr. Williams raiftook this for Jiiiara, fun-beams, 

 [w] This is a fetltio prin€!pii, or begging the queftion, unlei's with Mr. Pope, 

 " All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, 

 " Whofe body nature is, and God the foul." 



But, 

 " Far as creation's ample range extends, 

 •' li\\ejlale of fenfual mental powers afcends." 



[.v] Mr. Williams has added a Hack Mufe to the Pierian choir; and, as he has not thought proper 

 fo beftow a name upon her, we may venture to announce her by the title of madam JEthioftJJa, 



[y] Vade falutatum fubito perarata parentein 



Litera. Ovid. 



[z] See his apophthegms before-mentioned, 

 [a] Maurus is not in claffic ftrictnefs proper Latin for a Kegroe, 

 [bl Mollis in ore daor. Inccrt, 



Hunc, 



