His thorns with streamers of continual praise?
We, too, are friends to loyalty. We love
The king who loves the law, refpects his bounds,
And reigns content within them: him we serve
Freely and with delight, who leaves us free:
But, recollecting still that he is man,

We truft him not too far. King though he be,
And king in England too, he may be weak,
And vain enough to be ambitious still;
May exercise amiss his proper pow'rs,
Or covet more than freemen choose to grant:"
Beyond that mark is treafon. He is our's
T'adminifter, to guard, t' adorn, the state,
But not to warp or change it. We are his
To serve him nobly in the common caufe,
True to the death, but not to be his flaves.
Mark now the diff'rence, ye that boast

your

Of kings, between your loyalty and our's.
We love the man; the paltry pageant you.
We the chief patron of the commonwealth;

love

You the regardless author of its woes.

We, for the fake of liberty, a king;

You chains and bondage, for a tyrant's fake.
Our love is principle, and has its root

In reason, is judicious, manly, free;

Your's, a blind instinct, crouches to the rod,
And licks the foot that treads it in the duft.
Were kingship as true treasure as it seems,
Sterling, and worthy of a wife man's wish,
I would not be a king to be belov❜d
Causeless, and daub'd with undiscerning praise,
Where love is mere attachment to the throne,
Not to the man who fills it as he ought.

Whose freedom is by fuff'rance, and at will Of a fuperior, he is never free.

Who lives, and is not weary of a life

Expos'd to manacles, deferves them well.

The state that strives for liberty, though foil'd,

And forc'd t' abandon what she bravely fought,

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Deferves at leaft applause for her attempt,

And pity for her lofs. But that's a cause
Not often unsuccessful: pow'r ufurp'd

Is weakness when oppos'd; confcious of wrong, 'Tis pufillanimous and prone to flight.

But flaves, that once conceive the glowing thought

Of freedom, in that hope itself poffefs

All that the conteft calls for; fpirit, ftrength,

The fcorn of danger, and united hearts;

The fureft prefage of the good they seek*.

Then fhame to manhood, and opprobrious more

To France than all her loffes and defeats,

Old or of later date, by fea or land,

The author hopes that he fhall not be cenfured for unneceffary warmth upon

so interesting a subject. He is aware that it is become almost fashionable to stigma

tize fuch sentiments as no better than empty declamation; but it is an ill fymptom, and peculiar to modern times.

Her house of bondage, worse than that of old Which God aveng'd on Pharaoh-the Bastille! Ye horrid tow'rs, th' abode of broken hearts; Ye dungeons and ye cages of defpair,

That monarchs have fupplied from age to age With mufic fuch as fuits their fov'reign earsThe fighs and groans of miferable men!

There's not an English heart that would not leap
To hear that ye were fall'n at laft; to know
That ev'n our enemies, fo oft employ'd

In forging chains for us, themselves were free,
For he who values liberty confines

His zeal for her predominance within

No narrow bounds; her cause engages him
Wherever pleaded. 'Tis the cause of man.

There dwell the most forlorn of human kind;
Immur'd though unaccus'd, condemn'd untried,
Cruelly fpar'd, and hopeless of escape!
There, like the visionary emblem seen

By him of Babylon, life ftands a stump,

And, filletted about with hoops of brass,

Still lives, though all its pleasant boughs are gone.

To count the hour-bell and expect no change;

And ever, as the fullen found is heard,

Still to reflect, that, though a joyless note
To him whofe moments all have one dull pace,

Ten thousand rovers in the world at large
Account it mufic; that it fummons fome

To theatre, or jocund feast or ball:
The wearied hireling finds it a release
From labour; and the lover, who has chid

Its long delay, feels ev'ry welcome stroke
Upon his heart-ftrings, trembling with delight—
To fly for refuge from diftracting thought
To fuch amusements as ingenious woe
Contrives, hard-fifting, and without her tools-
To read engraven on the mouldy walls,
In ftagg'ring types, his predeceffor's tale,
A fad memorial, and fubjoin his own-
To turn purveyor to an overgorg'd