214 ON RUNNING HORSES 



Jockey Club ; a fociety compofed of men-of 

 exalted rank, and high charafter, whofe deci- 

 fions have ever been honourably diftinguiflied 

 for their equity, and whofe fcrupulous regard 

 to their reputation, as a public body, has never 

 been queftioned. 



I fliall conclude a la mode with a copy of 

 verfes in chara6ler, for the exclufive benefit (at 

 prefent) of my Latin readers : I would have 

 prefented my Engiifli ones with a metrical 

 verfion, but — 



Certes I have thefe many days 

 Seat mine'poetic head to graze, 



and not prematurely neither, for to fpeak the 

 honeft truth of jnyfelf, they were, ignavum 

 pecus, a miferable and droniQi herd, as fome of 

 my fatyrical and laughing friends can bear me 

 witnefs. The following poetical defcription of 

 a race over Newmarket, I have borrowed from 

 the Britannia, in the fplendid folio of Lord 

 Hampden, printed and publiflied in Italy. In 

 this piece his lordfliip has attempted, in imita- 

 tion of the beft poets, to render his language 

 expreffive of, or an echo to the fenfe ; and if 

 my partiality for the fubjeft does not miflead 

 me, with confiderable fuccefs. I have however 

 by no means any predileftion for the crabbed, 

 unmufical, and uncouth latinity of the moderns 

 in general. 



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