With like embellishments of plants and flow'rs, Of statues, vases, spouting founts, that play'd Through shells of Tritons their ascending show'rs, And labyrinths involv'd and trelice-woven bow'rs. XVIII. There likewise mote be seen on every fide The yew obedient to the planter's will, And shapely box of all their branching pride Ungently fhorne, and with prepofterous skill To various beafts and birds of fundry quill Transform'd, and human shapes of monftrous fize; Huge as that giant-race, who, hill on hill High-heaping, fought with impious vain " emprize, Despite of thund'ring Jove, to scale the steepy skies. XIX. W Alfe other wonders of the sportive shears In living box by cunning artifts trac'd; And gallies trim, on no long voyage bound, But by their roots there ever anchor'd faft, * All were their bellying fails out-spread to every blast. Emprize, enterprize, attempt. All, ufed frequently by the old English poets for although. XX. O'er all appear'd the mountain's forked brows And all along arrang'd in order'd rows, They shrunk and languifh'd in a foreign mold, By changeful fummers starv'd, and pinch'd by winter's XXI. Amid this verdant grove with folemn state, On golden thrones of antique form reclin❜d, In features various, as unlike in mind: [cold. Alfe boasted they themselves of heav'nly kind, In antique garbs, for modern they difdain'd, Whilom, formerly. And And here and there ambitiously display'd A purple fhred of fome rich robe, prepared To deck great Tullius or the Mantuan Bard; Which o'er each motley veft with uncouth fplendor [glared. XXIII. And well their outward vefture did express The bent and habit of their inward mind, Thus ever backward cafting their furvey; Stretch'd out beneath the mountain, would they turn Each little fcrap, however foul or torn, In grave harangues they boldly would declare, This Ennius, Varro; This the Stagyrite did wear. XXV. Yet, XXV. Yet, under names of venerable found, While o'er the world they stretch'd their aweful rod; O'er every fource, protectress of the stream, Her proper flood, aye pour'd into the tide And difingenuous fcorn, and impotence of mind. Extending from the hill on every fide, 2 Drad, dreadful. By By various fluices from one common head; By that rude torrent, which with roaring found Came tumbling from the hill, and flow'd the level round. XXVIII. And every where this spacious valley o'er, 2 Of their fond mothers, and by faitours strong, By pow'r made infolent, and hard by pride, Were driv❜n with furious rage, and lash'd into the tide. On the rude bank with trembling feet they stood, While close behind, affuming the disguise Faitour, doer, from faire to do, and fait deed, commonly ufed by Spenfer in a bad fenfe. Of |