ti 



AND THE TURF. 2I5 



•* Hinc & aluntur equi, fuperant qui curfibus auras. 



*' I, pete planitiem, quam Ditis nomine di6la 



** Fq^ fecat : curtoque viret quacelpite campus! 



** Ecce daro figno Sonipes, jam carcere miffus, 



Cui ni.ide tunicatus eques, leve pondus, inhaeret ; 

 ♦' Devoret & campum, neque fummas aiterat herbas, 

 " Ocyor accipitris, vel hirundinis ocyor ala : 

 " Ut (tadio extremo, cum jam rivalibus inftat, 

 " Praecipitet fefe, virefque acquiiet eundo ! 

 " Turn neque pulmoni, neque nervo parcitur ulli ! 

 " Ventre putes modo raderehumum, modo labere aura. 

 " Permillus fudore cruor fluic undique coftis, 

 " Labra madent fpumis, &: gutture captat hiantc 

 " Flamina ; fingultim dum nai ibus exit anbelis 

 " Fumus, & inflatse turgent per corpora ven^. 

 " Turn magis atque magis, ferit ungula crebrior herbam ; 

 " Emicat accenlus palmse propioris amore ; 

 " Exultanfque animi, nunc hunc, nunc prjeterit ilium ; 

 " Ingeminat clamorque virum, clangorque plagorum; 

 ** Metaque viflorem tota cervice fatetur : 

 > '*, Nee mora, laetus herus mtoius regale reportat." 



Will neither Southey, Coleridge, or George 

 Dyer, befriend a brother philanthropift, un- 

 blefled by the mufe, on this occafion ? But will 

 they allow him to be a thorough philanthropift, 

 who is fo ftrenuous an advocate for the facred 

 and indefeafible right of property, as even to 

 write in favour of foreflallers, and who enter- 

 tains no fort of prejudice againlt rank and title 

 in a (late ? 



Now that I am upon the fubjeft, let me be 

 permitted to adduce an example or two from 

 antiquity, of that precious gift, or art, in poetical 



compofnion. 



