It rains all night, the shows returns with day:
Thus Jove and Cæsar bear divided sway.
Plenty is Heav’n’s, and Peace our Monarch’s care,
Thus Jove and George divided Empire share.
But to this was objected, that we are not only indebted to heaven for plenty, but for peace too, tho’ like marriages said to be made there, it was not yet come down.
21. It is queried what war and peace the poet means here.
22. An emendation of this line is offer’d to make it clear,
We triumph most when MOST the farmer feeds.
and the Beef eaters at St. James’s, are appeal’d to for the justness of it.
23, 24. The elegance of these lines are literally defended, but the propriety and cadence of them are called in question.