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¢¢ Within this polifh’d mirror you may fee 
<< Events yet viel’d in dark futurity; 
‘¢ When gathering evils threaten to o’er- 
ee whelm ; 
e¢ Your private peace, or difcord shake your 
6< realm 5 ; f 
<¢ Here undifguis’d by art, you may difcern 
s< Your friends and foes: or ladies fair. may 
<¢ Jearn, 
«- Tf #ill the favor’d Tover’s fuith be true, 
«¢ If falfe, his wiles, and fecrettreafon view, 
¢¢ Behoid to whom his flattering vows aré 
Er made 
ee By magic here in lively tints difplayd. 
ec This matchlefs mirror, with this gok den 
ede Sef 
A preiedt for the merry months of 
&¢ foring, 
é¢ To your fair daughter Canace I bring. 
@¢ Such. knowledge does this’ magic Ring 
es _COnVEe y. 
6¢ That ihe who owns it, whether fhe difplay 
«¢ Or bear it in her purfe, fhall read aright 
é¢ The voice of every bird that wings ic7s 
ae Hight 
é Benerth the exp2nie of Heav” n; his notes 
** explain, 
# And in his language anfwer him again. 
< Inftinively fhall learn the name and 
¢ Worthy 
Or every plant that clothes the peal 
eee earth 5 
«¢ And know to cull from Nat ure’s fecret 
&¢ itore 
‘¢ The cheicett herbs, whofe medicinal 
¢¢ power 
*¢ Can cure the deepeft wounds, at once 
‘¢ fabdue 
‘¢ ‘The force of fell difeafe, and Tife, and 
-¢ health renew; 
se This fword which eters at muhice 
¢¢ Such fecret virtue boatts, it can'divide . 
*¢ -The ffrongeft armour, with a fingle> 
66 firoke, 
és°Though forged far 
<a Routes oaky 
“¢ Wor ftrength, not fkill eters the dire- 
‘¢ ful fhock 3 
€¢ And thofe who chance it” 
‘< feel aN 
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mative 
Uae 
thicker than the 
s fatal edge to 
«¢ No drugs can eafe, no magic att.can heal, 
eo Ti 2 ’er the wound (though ne’er fo. deep 
« ve w tae } 
se ee at fmosth biade, 
4 oy nea ; 
€¢ You deign to draw; at once thro” every 
with foothing hand 
ee ve: in 
66 The blood hall fraunch ; and nota fear 
“€¢ remain.” 
When thus the itranger Knight his tale had 
: told 
Be turn’d his fteed that fhone like bumifed 
gold 
Brisht gliftening in the fun; his way re- 
trac’d 
Along the fplendid hall ; and came at laf 
Original Poetrye. «The Squire’s Tale. = 
Into a fpacious court ; there lighting down 
He lett his horfe,. immoveable as ftone. 
A courtly train receive him fromhis fteed, 
And to a richly furnith’d chamber lead ; : 
Rid of his cumbrous arms and’ ferve the 
fealt, - 
For {plender worthy of a princely gueft : 
Then the bright mirror, and enchanted {word 
Apart within alofty turret fror’d, 
Where lay the royal treafure :—next the ring” 
To* beautcous Canace im fate they bring 5 
They next effiy the brazen fteed to MOVEy_ 
But ‘far too weak their ftrongeft engines 
proxe 
To heave the pond’rous weight—they ftrive in 
; Vai IN, 
His glowine hoofs feem rooted to the plain ; ae 
Yety by the Knight untapght, the fecret 
power 
To guide at will, they gave their efforts 0 ery 
And wait his with’d arrival, to unfold 
What is the fequel of my tale is told. 
Now gathering ina throug the gazing croud. 
Surround the ho? ey inguifiti ive and loud. 
His mighty form they point by point explore, 
And count (to fhew ‘their skill) his beauties 
oer: 
praifed his height and tr engthy ae 
ares the feed 
Refembled much the ftately Lombard breed ; 3. 
While others in his fprightly eye cantrace, 
A likenefs of the fleet Appulianrace;- -—- 
Yet all agreed he pleafed them paffing well, _ 
Nor ha applet Nature could-fach art excél, « 
But much it puzzled the’ admiring throng 
To find how nie and motion could-belong 
To sluggith metal ; fome among them tho > 
That magic art the Prange effeethad wrought; 
Some 
. 
Some, one opinion, fome, another binds 5 
As many men, “tis foid, have many minds. 
Then like a farm of Bees they fill the air 
With bufy murmurs; fagely-fome declare, . . 
They'd heard the like in ancient ftory told; 
Relating then how Pegafus of old, a: 
Although a hore, with outiretch’d wings 
could fiy 
"Through the vait regions of the yanlted fy», ; 
Then {peaking of the mighty Trojan_horfe . 
Whofe dark and ‘hollow womb contain’ d the. 
force 
Which lurk’d perfidiou's, pletting | to deftrex, 
And level with the duff, the tow’rs of Troy. 
Quoth one ‘* My heart mifgives me; 
<€ much 7 fear 
«¢ Some fecret mifchief may inhabit here, 
«¢ Peshaps ‘this feed, an anaes force may 
cc bears 
ae Prepar'd -o iffue forth and burn the towns 
‘© ] think "twere fit its real ufe were 
«¢ Enown.”? 
Another, fmt ling, to his ae Cries, 
6 Wow oft fripicien makes: us @ream of lies, 
«¢ J deem this huge machine, by magie 
§* wrought 
‘© T'grace. this foleran feat; and hither 
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