Our monarch's praise let bright-eyed virgins sing:

Let Dryden with new rules our stage refine,

And his great models form by this design.

But where's a second Virgil, to rehearse

Our hero's glories in his epic verse?

What Orpheus sing his triumphs o'er the main,

And make the hills and forests move again;

Shew his bold fleet on the Batavian shore,

And Holland trembling as his cannons roar;

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