Lightening along his veins, and where he heard
The liveliest fire, and saw the fiercest flood
Of Friar Bacon's mild discovery, shared
By Turks and Christians equally, he could
No longer now resist the attraction of gunpowder
But flew to where the merry orchestra played louder.—[MS. erased.]
[429] Gunpowder is said to have been discovered by this friar. [N.B. Though Friar Bacon seems to have discovered gunpowder, he had the humanity not to record his discovery in intelligible language.]
[IE] {341}
—— whose short breath, and long faces
Kept always pushing onwards to the Glacis.—[MS. erased.]