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_Arms and_ the Man I sing, who _forc'd_ by _Fate_
And _haughty_ Juno's unrelenting _Hate_,
_Expell'd_ and _Exil'd_, left the _Trojan_ Shore:
_Long Labours_, both by Sea and _Land_ he bore.

Mr. _Pope_ begins his Poems with this Delicacy.

"_First_ in these _Fields_ I try the _Sylvan Strains_,
Nor _blush_ to sport on _Windsor's blissful_ Plains.
_Fair_ Thames _flow_ gently _from_ thy _Sacred Spring_,
While on thy Banks _Sicilian_ Muses _Sing_;
Let Vernal Airs _thro' tre_mbling Osiers play,
And _Albion_'s Cliffs _resound_ the _rural_ Lay.
You, that too wise for _Pride_, too good for _Pow'r_
Enjoy the _Glory_ to be _great_ no more.

Mr. _Pitt_ has the following Lines in his 2d _AEneid_.

"So when an _aged Ash_, whose Honours rise
From some _steep_ Mountain tow'ring to the _Skies_,
With many _an Axe_ by _shouting Swains_ is ply'd,
_Fierce_ they repeat the _Strokes from_ every _Side_;
_The tall Tree trembling_, as the Blows go round,
Bows the _high Head_, and nods to every Wound.

Sir _Philip Sidney_, who was very unhappy in Versification, seems to
have despised this Beauty in Verse, and even to have thought it an
Excellence to fix the Pause always in one Place, namely at the End of
the second Foot: So that he must have had no more Ear for Poetry than
Mr. _Cowley_. Not but that I am apt to think some Writers in Sir
_Philip Sidney_'s time carried this matter to a ridiculous Extreme.
Others thought this Beauty a Deformity, and concluded it so from two
or three silly _Latin_ Lines of _Ennius_ and _Tully,_ such as,

_O Tite, Tute, Tati_, &c.

And,

_O Fortunatam, natam_, &c.

without ever attending to _Virgil_ in the least.

_Spencer_ every where abounds in all his Works with _Alliterations_; I
will produce but one, which is exceeding beautiful.

"The _Lilly, Lady_ of the _Flow'ry Field_.

Here is a double initial Alliteration, and a continual mix'd
Alliteration of the liquid _L_, which makes the Verse so very musical
that there are few such Lines in our, or any other Language.

_Fairfax_, who was one of the first curious Versifyers amongst us,
embellishes his Lines continually with this Ornament.

In his Description of a Troop of fighting Monks, in his first Book of
his Translation of _Tasso_, are these Lines.

"Their jolly Notes, they _Chanted_ loud and _Clear_:
And _horrid Helms high_ on their _Heads_ they bear.

Than which Verses noth