BOOK III. CHAP. IV. 4f?i 



Hunc, mage cor fapiens, patrice virtutis amorque, 



[c] Eximit e fociis, confpicuumque faclt. 

 \d\ Infula me genuit, celebres aluere Britanniy 



Infula, te falvo non dolitura [^] patre ! 

 Hoc precor ; o [/] nuUo videant te fine, regentem 

 Florentes populos, terra, Dcique locus ! 



FRANCISCUS WILLIAMS. 



The fame, tranjlatcd. 



To 



That moft upright and valiant Man, 



GEORGE H A L D A N E, Efq; 



Governor of the Ifland of Jamaica ; 



Upon whom 



All military and moral Endowments are accumulated. 



An ODE. 

 AT length revolving fates th' expefted year 

 Advance, and joy the live-long day (hall cheer, 

 Beneath the foft'ring law's aufpicious dawn 

 New harvefts rife to glad th' enliven'd [^] lawn. 

 With the bright profpeft bleft, the fwains repair 

 In focial bands, and give a loofe to care. 

 Rafh councils now, with each malignant plan. 

 Each fadion, that in evil hour began. 

 At your approach are in confulion fled. 

 Nor, while you rule, fliall rear their daftard head. 

 Alike the mafter and the flave fhall fee 

 Their neck reliev'd, the yoke unbound by thee. 

 Ere now our guiltlefs ifle, her wretched fate 

 Had wept, and groan'd beneath th'oppreflive weight 



[c] Me doBarum eder^ prjeroia frontium 



Seceniunt prpulo. Hor. Lib, I. Od, I. 



[r/] Mantua me genuit, Calabrs rapucie. flrg. 

 [f] Hie ames dici/tfiVratiiue princeps. Hor. 



[ /"] Serus in cccluin reJeas, diuqus 



Lretus inteijls populo, Hor. 



[jj] Lawn is ufed here in the fenfe given it by Johnfoii, viz. " an o^e,! /pace kkvcex -.t'ooJ.' ;" 

 which has a peculiar propriety applied to the cane-fielJs in Jamaica. 



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