But never comes within the Palace Gate.

Farewel then Cities, Camps and Courts farewel
Welcome ye Groves, here let me ever dwell,
From Care, from Business, and mankind remove›
All but the Muses, and infpiring Love.
How sweet the Morn! How quiet is the Night!
How Calm the Evening! And the Day how
bright?

From hence, As from a Hill, I view below The crowded World, which like fome Wood

does show,

Where feveral Wanderers travel day and night
By: feveral ways, And none are in the right.

THE

PROGRESSs of BEAUTY.

T

By the fame Author.

HE god of Day, defcending from Above,
Mixt with the Sea, and got the Queen of

Love,

Beauty that fires the World, 'twas fit fhould rife' From him alone, who lights the Stars and Skies.

In Cyprus long, by Men and gods obey'd, The Lovers toil, fhe gratefully repai'd, Promiscuous bleffings to her Slaves affign'd, And taught the World, that Beauty should be

kind.

Learn

Learn by this Pattern, all ye Fair, to Charm,

Bright be your Beams, but without fcorching Warm.

Hellen was next: From Greece to Phrygia brought,

With much expence of Blood and Empire fought,

Beauty and Love, the noblest Cause afford,

That can try Valour, or employ the Sword.
Not Men alone, incited by her Charms,

But Heaven's concern'd, and all the gods take

Arms.

The glorious Trojan, happily possest,
Enjoys, and bids defpairing Fools contest;
Secure faid he, of that for which they Fight,
Theirs be the Toil, and Mine be the Delight.
Your Dull Reflections, Moralifts forbear,
His Title's best, who beft can please the Fair.

Ten

Ten Years, a Glorious fpace! he kept his ho Nor loft, till Beauty was decay'd and Old, And Love, by long poffeffion, pall'd and C

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And now, The gods in pity to the Cares

The fierce Defires, Divifions, and Despairs

Of tortur'd Men, while Beauty was confin

Refolv'd to multiply the Charming Kind. Greece was the Land, where this bright begun,

And faw a thousand Rivals to the Sun; Hence follow'd Arts, Each studying with C Some new Production to delight the Fair. To bright Egeria, Socrates retir'd:

His Wifdom grew, but as his Love infpir'd: Those Rocks and Oaks, that fuch emot

felt,

Were cruel Maids, whom Orpheus taught

melt.

Mu

Mufick and Songs, and every way to move
The ravish❜t Heart, were owing all to Love.

The gods entic'd by fo divine a Birth, Descend from Heaven, to this New Heaven on Earth,

Thy Wit, O Mercury's no defence from Love, Nor Mars thy Armour, nor thy Thunder Jove. The mad Immortals in a thound Shapes Range the wide Globe: fome yield, fome fuffer Rapes,

Invaded, or deceiv'd, not One efcapes.

The Wife,tho' a bright Goddess, thus gives place
To mortal Miftreffes, of fresh Embrace;
By fuch Examples were we taught to fee

The Life and Soul of Love's Variety.

In those first Times, e're charming Woman

kind

Reform'd their Pleasures, Polishing the Mind

Rude