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Then, while the FANCY'D RAGE alarm'd her care, warm to deny, and zealous to difprove;

he bade his words the wONTED SOFTNESS wear, and feiz'd the minute of RETURNING LOVE.

Six envious moons matur'd her growing shame;

as yet to flaunt it in the face of day;

when scorn'd of virtue, ftigmatiz'd by fame,

low at his feet defponding JESSY lay.

HENRY," the faid, " by thy dear form fubdu'd, "fee the fad relics of a nymph undone ! "I find, I find this rifing fob renew'd, "I figh in fhades, and ficken at the fun.

"Amid

"Amid the dreary gloom of night, I cry,

"when will the morn's once pleasing scenes return? "Yet what can morn's returning ray fupply,

"but foes that triumph, or but friends that mourn ?

"Alas! no more that joyous morn appears
"that led the tranquil hours of spotless fame!
"for I have steep'd a father's couch in tears,
" and ting'd a mother's glowing cheek with shame.

"The vocal birds that raise their matin train, "the fportive lambs increase my penfive moan; "all feem to chase me from the cheerful plain, " and talk of mirth and innocence alone.

"If thro' the garden's flow'ry tribes I stray,
"where bloom the Jasmin that could once allure,
"hope not to find delight in us, they say,
"for we are fpotlefs, JESSY; we are pure.

-Now the grave old alarm the gentler young; " and all my name's abhorr'd contagion flee; "trembles each lip, and falters every tongue, "that bids the morn propitious smile on me.

"Thus, for your fake, I fhun each human eye;
"I bid the sweets of blooming youth adieu;

"to die I languish, but I dread to die,
"left my fad fate fhould nourish pangs for you.

"Raise me from earth; the pains of want remove,
"and let me filent feek fome friendly fhore;
"there only, banish'd from the form I love,

" my weeping virtue fhall relapse no more."

She

She fpoke, but he was born of favage race,
nor would his hands a niggard boon affign;
he left her-torn from every earthly friend;
oh! his hard bofom, which could bear to leave!

"Yes, I will go, where circling whirlwinds rise,
"where threat'ning clouds in fable grandeur lower;
"where the blafts yell, the liquid columns pour,
" and madd'ning billows combat with the skies!

"Oh! dreadful folace to the ftormy mind!

to me more pleafing than the valley's rest; ❝for in despair alone, the wretched find

"that unction fweet which lulls the bleeding breast 1"

Brief let me be; the fatal ftorm arose;
the billows raged; the pilot's art was vain;
from the tall rock, which circling furges close,
headlong the lept, and ended all her pain.

SECT.

SECT. LXXXIV.

RESTRAINT.

To the happiness of our first years, nothing more seems necessary than freedom from restraint. Every man muft remember, that when he was left to himself, and indulged in the difpofal of his own actions, he was content, without the addition of any other enjoyment than freedom. Liberated from the fhackles of difcipline, he looks abroad into the world with rapture; he fees an Elyfian region open before him, so variegated with beauty, and filled with good, that his heart overflows with delight. But the clock ftrikes; the schoolhour is come: what an alteration! In a moment his eyes lofe their fire, his cheerfulness is at an end: farewell to joy and play. A fevere and crabbed master takes him by the hand, and faying, gravely and sharply, Come, fir, forces him away. The chamber he is led into is furnished with books, and the poor lad fuffers himself to be dragged thither, cafting in filence an eye of regret on every object around him, the orbits fwimming in tears he dare not thed, and his heart fwelling

with fighs he dare not vent. We will fuppofe two of these scholars broke loose from fchool. They will, I am pofitive, do more mifchief in a country village than all the boys of the parish. Shut up one of thefe young gentlemen with the fon of a peafant of the fame age; and the first will have broken, or turned all the moveables in the room topsy turvy, before the latter has even ftirred from his chair.

It is obferved by Sir William HAMILTON, in his account of an irruption of Mount Vefuvius, that the boys and the nuns seemed to be the only perfons who felt happy among the fufferers from this dreadful calamity. The prancing of a horse, when first turned out into field, depends upon the fame general principle.

VOL. IV.

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