Forgive me, if in envy I may speak,

That to indulge it has allow’d you fate

The tasteful curiosity! to view

With joy the land, so famed and fortunate,

Which erst a Tully and a Maro knew,

To which Æmilius, Marius service paid,

Which Regulus and the Scipios obey’d.

Long would it be and idle to recall

The triumphs, with their blazonries unfurl’d,

Matchless of her, that once of Europe all