[*  Dryden  was  before  hfm.  bat  Roaoommon  wu  tta
first  to  write  in  iniitatioa  of  MQton's  manner.}


WENTWORTH  DILLON,  EARL  OF  ROSCOMMON.
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es  he  understands  a  text,
ition  leaves  it  unperplex'd.
>  faithfully  on  names  insist,
e  than  dissipate  the  mist ;
just  by  being  over  nice,
itious  virtue  turns  to  vice.)
ghost  and  Labienus  tell

I  Parthian  plains  their  legions  fell.
hath  been  so  jealous  of  her  £ame,
•w  Pacorus*  or  Monseses*  name.
>nc  language  elegantly  used,

n  another  be  excused  ;

%t  Rome  admired  in  Csesar's  time,

suit  our  genius  nor  our  clime.
sense,  intelligibly  told,

slator  both  discreet  and  bold.
i  are  incxpiably  bad  ;

h  safer  to  leave  out  than  add.
.  mystic  thought  you  must  express

care,  but  seeming  easiness  ;

ines  brightest  through  the  plainest

^luse,  when  she  appears  in  state,
ve's  thunder  on  her  verses  wait ;
tmetimes  as  soft  and  moving  things
.^aks,  or  Philomela  sings,
always  will  the  best  advise,
falls,  and  when  he  rises,  rise,
e  is  the  most  wretched  thing,
!mpt  can  empty  scribblei-s  bring,
.ccents,  regularly  placed,
iblcs  (and  still  the  last)
)  innumerable  faults  abound,
insense,  never  fail  of  sound,
eant  of  even  verse  alone,
)t  harmonious  and  most  known  :

II  unequal  mmibers  try,

s  on  odd  syllables  must  lie.
.ter  of  the  learned  Nine
suit  a  willing  ear  incline,
tccess,  deserve  a  lasting  name,
a  grateful  and  a  constant  flame.
1  uncertainty  prevail,
ir  veering  heart  with  every  gale,
fruit  of  all  your  former  care,
prospect  of  a  just  despair.
Loo  scandalously  mean  to  name)
-midwifery,  got  wealth  and  fame  ;
liad  forgot  her  trade,
g  wife  invokes  his  surer  aid.
