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«¢ To entertain the Court ;”’ thus none agreed, 
But doubts, and fears, and icofis, by turns 
facceed ; 
Though moft concluded, as the vulgar will 
Who treat on fubjects far beyond their fkill, 
wind find out meanings which were never 
meant, 
The horfe was fathion’d for no good intent. 
Some wonder’d at the mirror’s magic pow’r, 
Now plac’d with care within the topmoft 
tow’r, 
*T wa: ftrange, they cried( perhaps more ftrange 
” than true) - 
That men fuch objects ina glafs could view, 
While others anfwered fuch effeéts might rife, 
From natural caufes, which deceiv’d their eyes, . 
By fide refle&tion angles multiplied ; 
Then nam*d a dozen learned terms befide. 
Said, that at Rome one might it’s fellow view, 
And vouch’d an hundred wond’rous ftories 
true, : 
Told by old fages, who have long been dead, 
‘Whofe tedious works they -boafted to have. 
read. 
Another fett with equal fkill explor?d 
‘The matchleis temper-of the magic fword, 
And told how nearly Telephus was flain 
By the fame fpear that heal’d his wounds 
again ! 
Achilles? {pear—-which like the 
blade 
Could cure the mifchief that itfelf had made. 
Then argued of the various methods us’d 
In hardening metals ; and of drugs infus’d 
enchanted 
Into the mafs; which could pervade the feel, 
And give the point.or bladethe pow’r to heal. 
And now, the fubjeét changing, they confer’d 
About the wond’rous Ring; none ever heard 
Such virtues center’d in a ring before, 
Except in that which Mofes own’d of 
ore, 
And the fam’d Seal which Solomon once 
wore. a 
Thus faying they withdrew though as they 
went 
The vulgar feeking ftill new argument, 
“Wonder’d how glafs from afhes could be made, 
For glafs and afhes were unlike they faid, 
But yet they faw it, therefore thought-it true, 
Thus ideot wonder fill finds matter new: 
The caufe of miit, why Ocean ebbs and flows, 
And doubts and puzzles, tiJl it thinks it 
knows. 
But now the Sun’s meridian height was paft, — 
And his clear orb a milder radiance caft 
O’er all the fcene; the fplendid feaft is done, 
And great Cambufcan rifes from his throne: 
At once the minftrels fwell a folemn ftrain,g 
And through the hall proceeds the princely 
train, debe 
In itately march ; their Monarch they attend 
Through richly furnith’d rooms, and now 
afcend ah 
The facred chamber; ftill the minftrels’ notes 
In folemn concert thraugh the palace floats ; 
A thoufand inftruments their efforts join, 
Now pauie, then mingling in one ftrain com- 
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At length loud pealing fwell the choral fong, 
And pourthe deep full tide of harmony along ; 
To hear—the rage of frenzy migh: controul 
And liftto heaventhe yet embodied foul. 
Now drawn in trim array the youth advance, 
The fair to f{ummon to the fprightly dance ; 
The ftranger Knight prefer’d before them all) 
With beauteous Canace began the ball $ 
The matking to recite, and revels gay . 
Which wore in mirth the flecting hours away3 
The dances mazy figure to explain, 
The face of beauty ftriving oft? in vain 
To hide the withes of the beating heart, 
Which itill too plain her {peaking eyes imparts 
The conécious fmile, the figh but half con= 
ceal’d, Sa 
The tongue denying, what that-figh reveal’d = 
The trembling hand, the whifper foft and low, 
The blufh and every fymptom lovers know: 
Would afk a gallant, brifk and debonair, i 
_Vers’d in love’s wiles, devoted to the fair, 
And free and open as the paffing air; 
Like brave Sir Launcelot who liv’d of yore, 
He might have told you —{ thall fay nomorey ~ 
But leave amid their mirth the jocund train © 
Till fupper fummon’d to the feaft again. ; 
Still day-light fmil’d; the plenteous board © 
was crown’d 
With coftly fare, and pleafure hovering round. 
Smil’d in each face; their fupper at an end, 
The King and all his thronging court defcend ; 
And Lords and Ladies in a troop proceed, 
To gaze with wonder on the brazen fteed; 
Not e’en the famous Trojan horfe of yore, 
Drew greater crouds or won their praifes more. 
The Monarch now commands the ftrangeg 
Knight 
The virtues of his courfer to recite, 
And teach the fecret method how to gu'de; 
The Knight advancing to the Rein applied 
His fkilful hand, the fteed with active bound 
Began to {pring, and rear, and paw the ground ; 
When thus the Knight; ‘¢ whene’er you > 
«6 would afcend 
6¢ This wond’rous fteed, thefe fecret hints 
“6 attend ; os 
¢¢ Firft name whatever courfe you with to 
CORIECEL. oa 
‘© Then turn a pin conceal’d within his ear ; 
s* And when you mear approach the dettined 
«6 Jands ' 
¢¢ Bid him defcend, and with a skilful hand 
6¢ Screw round this ether pin-=hls rapid 
6 flight ; 
«6 At once. hell fflay—-and on the ground 
REG alight, 3 , 
‘© And there immoveable hell fill re-- 
oe mains 
© The ftrength of all the world would 
‘¢ ftrive in vain 
6¢ To draw him thenee, or lift him fom 
«¢ the plait: 
s¢ But fhouid you with him from his place 
S® tO'20, : 
‘¢ Turn this, hell vanifh; rione fliall ever 
6¢ know . aise 
sé The manner of his flight: again demand 
s§ Kis prefence, in a moment he’s at hand, 
: s¢ Taught 
