1804.] 
Yet fhall he live from vengeful Afric free, 
And live for ever, for he lives in thee, 
O West, where’er we own thy wond’rous 
mind, 
Yt breathes a facred leffon to mankind ; 
Yet once thy pencil pains me while I gaze; 
But, no+my France has reach’d her prouder 
days. 
Unaw’'d ee Hocve’s tormented wave, 
Whete two great nations found a mighty 
grave. 
Children of War! your naval tow'rs behold, 
And billows redd’ning with the mangled 
bold 5 ; 
See their vaft fides, that vomit through the 
fight 
Death’s thoufand thunders and horrific light, 
Lo, from the waves the crafhing timbers rife, 
And {pread their blazing ruins to the fkies ! 
Hark, the wild fhock that fhakes th’ affright- 
ed deep ! 
it whelms the warriors in eternal fleep. 
Thefe fcenes, O Wesvr, with grief fhould 
they behold, 
Bring to their wilder’d eyes thine ge of Gold; 
Gay, * Thefe are they, the days unwafh’d with 
tears, 
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833 
When human hearts mov’d fweetly as the 
fpheres, 
When Peace and Genius fprung from Virtue’s 
birth, 
And man was bleft, for Heav’n had ftray’d to 
earth.” ¢ 
For ever thus may Virtue charm our eyes, 
And fmiling Art be Wifdom in difguife. 
Thy forehead, West, with wreaths may 
Britain crown, 
Pluck’d from the nobleft laurels of renown! 
Milton of Painting, France thy name reveres, 
That theds its mighty ray through diftant 
years 4 
Unfading Time, to Genius ever true, 
Shall biefs the hand, its proudeft deeds that 
drew 5 
England and France, divided then no more, 
Shall fpread th’ exulting praife from thore to 
fhore ; 
Then too, if Art furvive the wrecks-of age, 
And fees thy works a world’s applaufe en- 
gage 5 
Her joy thal! hail thee ’midft a thoufand 
names, 
The firft of thoufands and the Vien of 
‘Thames, 
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EES 
WEATHERCOCK. 
of ee a weathercock and a lady's 
fan fhould be at all conneéted in the 
etymology of their names may to many 
appear itrange ; yet the Saxon fava, or 
vane, anfwers both purpofes of expreffion. 
Hence a fanne, with which the corn is 
winnowed, which, by the way, is nothing 
more than fannowed. 
THEOPHILUS VIAUD. 
Viaud, a French writer, of the feven- 
teenth century, being preffed by a lady to 
compare her in his poetry to the fun, 
snade this impromptu :; 
Que me veut donc importune ? 
Que je la compare au foleil ; 
, dl eft commun, elle ef commune ; 
Voila ce qu’ils ont de pareil, 
BENSERADE. 
While Cardinal Richelieu lived, he al- 
lowed Ifaac de Benferade, the French 
poet, a penfion of fix hundred livres. On 
his death, Benferade wrote this epitaph : 
Cy git, ouicy git par la morbleu, 
Le Cardinal de Richelieu ; 
Et ce qui caufe mon ennui, 
Ma penfion avecque lui. 
OLIVER CROMWELL. 
After he was fettled in the Protector- 
fhip, he gave orders for feveral pieces of 
ordnance to be immediately caft: it was 
defred to know his plealure what arms 
fhould be upon them? To which he an- 
{wered, the Arms of the Commonwealth 
of England: and after a little paufe, Let, 
fays his Highnefs, the Motto be. ‘‘ Open 
thou our lips, and our mouths [ball foew 
forth thy praifes”’ Many of thefe pieces 
were extant at the Reitoration, but were 
foon after broken up. 
WORSTEDS. 
Wortted ftuffs are faid to have derived 
their name from the town of Worftede, 
in Norfolk, the place where they were firft 
manufactured. They are mentioned in 
the public infiruments of the time of Ed. 
waid III, in whofe fecond year, 1328, the 
weavers and workers of themwere enjoin- 
ed by Parliament to work them up to 
a better affize than they had done; and 
an enquiry was ordered to be made after 
the behaviour of Robert the Alnager of 
them. In the 37th of Edward III, 1364, 
the merchants were in the habit of coming 
into England to purchafe them; and a 
few years after, 1377, confiderable privi- 
leges were granted to the workers. 
PRIOR’S CHLOE, 
Prior’s Chloe has been ufuaily fuppofed 
an imaginary perfon; but the Jate Sir. 
Uuz Willan 
