Excerpt: ...And pitied those who love with frailty show'd. Rude Indians, tort'ring all the royal race, Him with the throne and dear-bought sceptre grace That suffers best. What region could be found, 97 Where your heroic head had not been crown'd? The next experience of your mighty mind Is, how you combat Fortune, now she's kind. And this way, too, you are victorious found; She flatters with the same success she frown'd. While to yourself severe, to others kind, With pow'r unbounded, and a will confined, Of this vast empire ...
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Excerpt: ...And pitied those who love with frailty show'd. Rude Indians, tort'ring all the royal race, Him with the throne and dear-bought sceptre grace That suffers best. What region could be found, 97 Where your heroic head had not been crown'd? The next experience of your mighty mind Is, how you combat Fortune, now she's kind. And this way, too, you are victorious found; She flatters with the same success she frown'd. While to yourself severe, to others kind, With pow'r unbounded, and a will confined, Of this vast empire you possess the care, The softer parts fall to the people's share. Safety, and equal government, are things Which subjects make as happy as their kings. Faith, Law, and Piety, (that banished train!) Justice and Truth, with you return again. 110 The city's trade, and country's easy life, Once more shall flourish without fraud or strife. Your reign no less assures the ploughman's peace, Than the warm sun advances his increase; And does the shepherds as securely keep From all their fears, as they preserve their sheep. But, above all, the Muse-inspired train Triumph, and raise their drooping heads again! Kind Heaven at once has, in your person, sent Their sacred judge, their guard, and argument. 120 Nec magis expressi vultus per ahenea signa, Quam per vatis opus mores, animique, virorum Clarorum apparent.... HOR. 1 'Macedonian' Alexander. TO A LADY, FROM WHOM HE RECEIVED THE COPY OF THE POEM ENTITLED 'OF A TREE CUT IN PAPER, ' WHICH FOR MANY YEARS HAD BEEN LOST. Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes; All they subdue become their spies. Secrets, as choicest jewels, are Presented to oblige the fair; No wonder, then, that a lost thought Should there be found, where souls are caught. The picture of fair Venus (that For which men say the goddess sat) Was lost, till Lely from your book Again that glorious image took. If Virtue's self were lost, we might From your fair mind new copies write. All things but one you can restore; The heart...
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![Il Pastor Fido. the Faithfull Shepheard. [Translated from the Italian of Guarini.] with an Addition of Divers Other Poems, Concluding with a Short Discourse of the Long CIVILL Warres of Rome ... by Richard Fanshawe, Esq. with Portrait of Guarini.](https://www3.alibris-static.com/il-pastor-fido-the-faithfull-shepheard-translated-from-the-italian-of-guarini-with-an-addition-of-divers-other-poems-concluding-with-a-short-discourse-of-the-long-civill-warres-of-rome-by-richard-fanshawe-esq-with-portrait-of-guarini/isbn/9781241694104.gif)
