Jeft and youthful Jollity, re Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, And love to live in dimple fleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his fides. On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, 35 The mountain nymph, fweet Liberty; To live with her, and live with thee, e; And at my window bid good-morrow, Or the twisted eglantine ; 45 Through the fweet-briar, or the vine, And to the ftack, or the barn- door, Stoutly ftruts his dames before: ༼ Oft liftening how the hounds and horn By hedge- -row elms, on hillocs green, Where the great fun begins his state, 60 65 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures 70% Ruffet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do ftray, Mountains on whofe barren breast 75 Bofom'd high in tufted trees, Are at their favory dinner fet Of herb Which the neat-handed Phillis dreffes; And then in hafte her bow'r the leaves, With Theltylis to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead 80. 85 To To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 90 When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 And young and old come forth to play Till the live-long day-light fail; Tells how the drudging Goblin fwet, 4 And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, 100 105 110 Basks at the fire his hairy itrength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds foon lull'd afleep. And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold 120 Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend, 125 In faffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feat, and revelry, Then to the well-trod ftage anon, And ever against eating cares, 130 135 XIV. IL PENSER OS O. ENCE, vain deluding joys, " HENCE, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy fhapes poffefs, As thick and nuinberlefsi As the gay motes that people the fun-beams, Or likelieft hovering of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddefs, fage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whofe faintly vifage is too bright To hit the fenfe of human fight, 10 And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black, ftaid wifdom's hue; Black, but fuch as in efteem Prince Memnon's fifter might befeem, Or that ftarr'd Ethiop queen that ftrove To fet her beauties' praife above 20 The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended: Yet thou art higher far, defcended, Thee bright-hair'd Vefta long of yore To folitary Saturn bore; His daughter fhe (in Saturn's reign, Such mixture was not held a ftain). He met her, and in fecret fhades 25 30 Come, |