He ’bove the Conqueror’s name shall be renown’d,

Him Glory still shall follow, and around

Laurels unstain’d, unfading palms, shall spread,

Such as are now prepared for Grenville’s honour’d head.

[32] The iron crown of Italy.

[33] Johnson’s Prologue, spoken at the opening of Drury-Lane, 1747.

AD MUSAS.

Dulce sub Autumnum, venienti frigore, mane

Lacte novo relevare sitim; dulce oscula Nisæ