Should court his asterism, and cease to swim;

Abjure the Fatal Brothers' glow-worm fires,

And dart at him their languishing desires.

Had France intomb'd him (what our land forbids)

Nature had rear'd him stately pyramids

The lofty Alps, where it had been most meet

Their harmless snow should be his winding-sheet;

That alablaster-coverture might be

40An emblem of his native purity: