1800.) 
: QUACKERY. 
Tue following preamble to an A&t of 
Henry the Eighth, in favour of regular 
phyficians and iurgeons, is not inapplica- 
ble to the prefent age of Quackery:— 
¢¢ For as much as the fcience and cunning 
of phyfic and furgery is daily (within this 
realm) exercifed by a great multitude of 
#gnorant perfons, of whom the greater 
part have no infight in the fame, nor in 
ny other kind of learning: fome alfo can 
Original Poetry. 
153 
(ken, know) no letters on the book, fo 
far forth that common artificers, as fmiths, 
weavers, and women, boldly and accuaf- 
tomably take upon them great eures, in 
which they partly ufe forcery and witch- 
craft, partly apply fuch medicines to the 
difeafe, as be very noxious, and nothing 
meet, to the high difpleafure of God, 
great infamy to the faculty, and the 
grievous damage and deftruétion of divers 
of the King’s people.” 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 

ODE, ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY. 
PURD by the foft and genial gale, 
That cools the brea& of {pring 
The balmy rofe and primrofe pale © 
Are fan’d by Zephyr’s wing. 
Yet oft the flumb’ring forms arife 
| From out their dark fojourn 
And rudely fweep in ireful guife 
The vale’s defenceleis bourn. 
| Beneath their fell tyrannic pow’ry 
The vernal rofes die; 
No more their fplendours of an hour, 
Shall meet the mufing eye *. 
So, foil’d by Death’s vidtorious hand, 
The youthful Laura fel. ; 
Unmov'd the met the ftera command, 
And fmild a long farewell. 
ad o’er the lonely bed of grief 
Her tender mother hung ; 
No foothing words afford relief, 
Though honied from the tongues 
She, like fome hero’s mimic form, 
In filent gloom remains : ‘ 
Thus bends the yew before the fiorm, 
That howls along the plains. . 
Around the couch where Laura lies 
The mournful virgins fand ; 
No more the founds of gladnefs rife 
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Amid the peerleis band. 
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Behold, ye fun-beams of the morn! 
Fow. fooa your glories fade ; 
Though orient bues the {ky adorn 
> 3 
Their fplendour’s foon decay’d. 

* The reader will probably difcover a - 
coincidence of thought betwixt thefe ftanzas, 
and a paifage which occurs in Ruftica’s addrefs 
€© To an early Snew-Drop,” pubdlithed in the 
Monthly Magazine of january. Although I 
fhould not have been afhamed to imitate the 
ftrains of this lady, I muft do myfelf the 
jutice to obferve, that the firft part of the 
above Ode was written long befére the pub- 
-Lication of her produdtion, 
r 
Say, on your cheek does beauty’s flower 
In virgin radiance bloom? 
Can youthful beauty’s magic power 
_ Elude the fatal tomb? 
ee 
By Eik’s poetic ftream no more 
-My guilelefs friend fhall ftray, 
Nor e’er with eager ftep explore, 
The Yarrow’s winding way. 
No more at early down we fcale 
Glenvoran’s lordly brow, 1, 
And-hail, with youthful rapture hail, 
The fairy fcenes below. ee 
Yet oft, at dewy ev’ning’s clofe, i 
My feet fhall haunt thy grave 3 | 
O’er which the balmy-fcented rofe 
And humble lily wave. 
Horace, Book the 3d. Ode the 25th. 
Subjc& —The Poet meditating the praifes of 
Auguftus, exults in the aid of Bacchus. — i 
The abrupt paufes of the Original, expieffive |.) 
of the ebrupt character of the Ode, are 
retained in the tranflation. 
Suppliant, Bacchus, at thy fhrine, 
Where am I borne ?—In extacy divine 
To what fequefter'd grove convey’d ?— 
Or to what grot?—Beneath what hallow’é pi 
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fhade, ra! 
Through glory’s paths by Czfar trod, tea 
Shall contemplation reach the future God? i 
In loftief notes, and new to fong, a) 
A theme yet unproph2n’d by mortal tongue, 
Pll proudly dare.—-O’er the white fteep 
So hangs entranc’d, when wak’d from flum= 
bers deep 
With barb’rous dance, thy myftic maid’ 
On Rhodope’s high top.— Oft in the glade, 
Or barren cliff, like vifions wild 
My lonely wanderings greet. —Hail, fov’reigs 
child, 
Hail thou, whofe march the Nymphs attend, 
To whom the Bacchanals obeifive bend, 
While high the rifted afh they bear. 
But, hark!—what.heaven-form’d warblings 
float in air! P tod 
The call delights—i’m wholly thine, 
Who bindft thy temples with the curling vine. 
PUTEOLANUS. 
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