232 MEMOIRS OF 



The ufe of words entirely Latin has 

 been objected to this poem, as ens for life, 

 in the laft verfe of the above quotation. 

 Nieenefs of ear probably induced its tub- 

 ftitution, and that from the proximity of 

 the word light in the preceding line, which 

 would have been of too iimilar found to 

 life, had life been uied inftead cf it's Latin 

 iynonifm, ens. 



The Botanic Queen now proceeds to 

 appoint the nymphs of fire their taiks. 

 She bids them awaken the weft wind, chafe 

 his -wan cheeks, and wring the rain-drops 

 from his hair; bids them blaze around the 

 frofted rills, and ftagnant waters, and 

 charm the Naiad from her filent cave, 

 where me fits enfhrined in ice, clafping her 

 empty urns. She is compared to Niobe. 



Our Poet feems to have forgotten him- 

 felf in thus throwing the year back into 

 the fkirts of winter ; fince, in opening this 



Canto, 



