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The shallow water doth her force infringe,
And renders vain her tail's impetuous swinge à
The fhining feel her tender fides receive,

And there, like bees, they all their weapons leave.
This fees the cub, and does himfelf oppose
Betwixt his cumber'd mother and her foes:
With defp'rate courage he receives her wounds,
And men and boats his active tail confounds.
Their forces join'd, the feas with billows fill,
And make a tempeft tho' the winds be still.

Now would the men with half their hoped prey
Be well content, and with this cub away:
Their wish they have : he (to direct his dam
Unto the gap thro' which they thither came)
Before her fwims, and quits the hostile lake,
A pris'ner there but for his mother's fake.
She by the rocks compell'd to stay behind,
Is by the vastness of her bulk confin’d.
They shout for joy! and now on her alone

Their fury falls, and all their darts are thrown.
Their lances spent, one, bolder than the rest,
With his broad fword provok'd the fluggish beaft ;
Her oily fide devours both blade and haft,
And there his feel the bold Bermudan left.
Courage the reft from his example take,
And now they change the colour of the lake:
Blood flows in rivers from her wounded fide,
As if they would prevent the tardy tide,

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And raise the flood to that propitious height,
As might convey her from this fatal ftreight.
She swims in blood, and blood does spouting throw
To heav'n, that Heav'n men's cruelties might know.
Their fixed jav'lins in her fide the wears,

And on her back a grove of pikes appears;

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You would have thought, had you the monster seen 55
Thus dreft, fhe had another island been.
Roaring the tears the air with such a noise,
As well resembled the conspiring voice
Of routed armies, when the field is won,
To reach the ears of her escaped fon
He, tho' a league removed from the foe,
Haftes to her aid: the pious Trojan * so,
Neglecting for Creufa's life his own,
Repeats the danger of the burning town.
The men, amazed, blush to see the feed
Of monsters human piety exceed.

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Well proves this kindness, what the Grecian sung,
That Love's bright mother from the Ocean fprung.
Their courage droops, and, hopeless now, they with
For compofition with th' unconquer'd fish;
So the their weapons would reftore again,
Thro' rocks they'd hew her paffage to the main.
But how inftructed in each other's mind?

Or what commerce can men with monsters find?

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* Æneas.

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Not daring to approach their wounded foe,
Whom her courageous fon prote&ed fo,
They charge their mufquets, and, with hot defire
Of fell revenge, renew the fight with fire;
Standing aloof, with lead they bruise the scales,
And tear the flesh of the incenfed whales.
But no fuccefs their fierce endeavours found,
Nor this way could they give one fatal wound.
Now to their fort they are about to fend
For the loud engines which their ifle defend;
But what those pieces, fram'd to batter walls,
Would have effected on thofe mighty whales,

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Great Neptune will not have us know, who fends A tide fo high that it relieves his friends.

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Preface tothe FirstEditionof Mr. Waller's Poems, after the refloration, printed in the year 1664, 4L Preface to the Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems, printed in the year 1690, Bedication to the Right Hon. Lady MargaretCavendish Harley,

MISCELLANIES.

1. Of the danger his Majefty (being Prince) escaped in the road at St. Andero,

II.Ofhis Majefty's receiving the news of the Duke of Buckingham's death,

III. On the taking of Salle,

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IV. Upon his Majefty's repairing of St. Paul's, 66 V. Of the Queen,

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VI. The apology of Sleep, for not approaching the lady who can do any thing but fleep when the pleaseth,

VII Puerperium,

VIII The Countess of Carlisle in mourning,

IX. In answer to one who writ a libel against the

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