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To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, Lord
High Chancellor of Great Britain, etc. etc.


My Lord,
...

An Epilogue, through custom, is your right,
But ne'er perhaps was needful till this night:
To-night the virtuous falls, the guilty flies,
Guilt's dreadful close our narrow scene denies....

----Ad coelum ardentia lumina tollens,
Lumina; nam teneras arcebant vincula palmas.

VIRG.


From lofty themes, from thoughts that soar'd on high,
And open'd wondrous scenes above the sky,...

Hic pietatis honos? sic nos in sceptra reponis!

VIRG.


Her Guilford clasps her, beautiful in death,
And with a kiss recalls her fleeting breath,
To tapers thus, which by a blast expire,...

Ipse pater, media nimborum in nocte, corusca
Fulmina molitur dextra. Quo maxima motu
Terra tremit: fug're fer'! et mortalia corda
Per gentes humilis stravit pavor.

VIRG.

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Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, affore tempus,
Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia c'li
Ardeat; et mundi moles operosa laboret.

OVID. MET.


The book unfolding; the resplendent seat...