The eulogiums on Cromwell and Charles then praised. Of the last it is said,
For this alone he did deserve the prize,
As Ranelagh, for her victorious eyes.
Cleopatra and St Catharine are mentioned; then
——Dorax and Sebastian both contend
To shew the generous enemy and friend.
Urania, the Divine Muse, by the Honourable the Lady Peirce. This lady, after much tragic dole, is wonderfully comforted by recollecting that Garth survives, though Dryden is dead:
More I’ll not urge, but know, our wishes can
No higher soar, since Garth’s the glorious man;
Him let us constitute in Dryden’s stead,
Let laurels ever flourish on his head.
Urania, after mentioning Virgil, exclaims,
O give us Homer yet, thou glorious bard!
Erato, the Amorous Muse, by Mrs S. Field. She claims the merit of Dryden’s love poems, on the following grounds:
Oft I for ink did radiant nectar bring,
And gave him quills from infant Cupid’s wing.