Where---by th’ Historick pencil’s aid

Whose ages are at once display’d---

Some great event of Rome or Greece

Fills perhaps each high wrought piece---

There---some triumphal pomp proceeds---

There---th’ impetuous battle bleeds---

Mark! while they engage

40 What ardor what rage,

How shields are clash’d with shields---

And with what force up-rais’d in air,