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Show . [ 2-2 .o Thm far £he Sage. When viewing all around Their wearied Eyes in fleep's foft fetters bound, · Stretch'd on the fand, he leaves the flumb'ring c.i:ew, Himfelf indignant 'to his tent withdrew. Rous'd with the dawn, the good Albertus bent His careful footfteps to the Sage's tent. Earneft he feem'd, with meditated art, ., r Some deep importaflt counfel to impart. 27 5 When thus:This night when fieephadclos'd mine eyes, I faw a band 0f glorious forms arife: The great Albertu', Author of my Line, And all that boaft affinity to thine : The princely Scaligers; -illuftrious name! 280 Scribonius, and profound Bombaflus, came ; When L. 2 79· 'fhc princely Scaligers.] Julius C-efar Scaligtr, was a n:oft famous Critic, Poet, Phyfician and Philofopher, who was much adm1r'd m the SIXteenth Century : He was born in Italy, brought up in Germany, and afterwards lived in France till his Death. He defcended from the Princes De Ia Scala, who were Lords of Verona, and of divers other Places in Italy. L. z8o. Scribonius.] Corm/ius Scribonius call'd alfo Grapheus, but his Nan;e in the Language of his Country, was Schryver, was born at Aloft, in Flanders, m 1482. He made an Abridgment of the Hiftory of Olaus Magnus, of the Northern Nations. He was remarkable for his Knowledge in Antiquities. L. 280. Paraeelfiu Bombaftus. [ 23 l When thus thy Sire: 0 fore~ofl: to attend The glorious labors of thy qating .fr!cnd; Be thine the, talk tr:.' unwelcome news to bear: Fricndihip can fmoot~ the front of rude defpair. Y ct ever mufl: my Son defpair ,to fee. . Yon City, buried by the Go<;l's detree ·: 1 Mountains of fand her loftiefl; turrets hide ' And f'Ydl the loadeq plain op1~v'ty fid~ ; As vain thy fearch ~or Heraclea's ·gra!/e, 290 Or Sodom funk ben~ath th~AjplJaltic wave. He faid. 1 ·lifl:en'd farther yet to hear, When waTlike S~unds alarm' d my fl:artled ear. I faw impetuous Scaliger advance : The reft around him form'd the Pyrrhic Dance, 29 5 They claih their Javelins, ring their clanging Shields, Till Sleep unwilling to the Tumult yields. Thus he, diffembling. The fond Chief replies (While filial raptures in his foul arife.) Wdl L. 289. As vain thy Search for Heraclea's Grave.] The late Difcovery of Heraclea here laid down as impoflible, and the ineftimable Treafures daily brought from thence, muft doubtlefs animate the Curious, and teach them this ufcful and important Ldfon : That nothing is to be de!paired of by a True Vertuofo. |