[1] _Vide Edda Samundi--apud Sheringham, de Gentis Anglorum
Origine, pag._ 28, 29.
_Hiaelp beiter eitt eun thad thier hialpa mun
Vid Sikum og Sottum goiru allum,
Thad kenn eg aunad er thorfa Ita
Syner their ed vilia lakner lisfa._
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]
I know your only Help, the pow'rful Charm
That aids in ev'ery Grief and every Harm,
I know the Leaches Craft, and what they need
Who Doctors in that Noble Art proceed.
[2] the _Vide_ British Chronicle, _and_ Taliessin's _Prophecies_;
Prryff fard l'yffred in ydwyfi i Elphin
Am gwalad gynifio [indecipherable] Goribbin.
Ionas ddewn am golwis Merddin
Sebach Pob Brenmam geilw Taliesin.
Gwea a gasgle elud Tra feyna bud,
Gwererbin didd brawd in chospo i gnawd,
Gwae ni cheidw i geil ag if yufug eil,
Gwae in cheidw i ddefend chog bleiddna.
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]
Me _Elphin_ now his Bard may justly boast
Who long of old amid the Fire-wing'd Host:
Once _Merlin_ was I call'd, well known to Fame,
Whom future Kings shall _Taliessin_ name.
Wo to the Wretch who Wealth by Rapine gains,
And wo to him who Fasts and Pray'rs refrains;
Wo to the Shepherds who their Flocks betray,
And will not drive the _Ravish_ Wolves away.
[3] _Olli sedaro rescondit corde Latinus._ Virg.
[4] _Mr._ Dryden's _Riddle, in his Preface to_ Virgil.
[5] _This was observ'd before Mr._ Le Clerc _was born. Vide_ Song of the
Well, _Num._ 21. 17.
[Hebrew text]
_Vide_ Psal. 80, & 81. _Where some Verses have Treble, where Quadruple
Rhimes, four in one Verse._
[6] Ode 1. [Greek: indecipherable]
[7] _Vide_ Collier's _Reflexions on_ Moarning Bride, _and_ Garth's
_Dispensary_.
[8] _I know some have affirm'd that_ Moses's _Song in the_ 14_th of_
Exodus _was writ in Hexameters, but I can't perceive any such thing in
it, any more than in the_ 90_th_ Psalm, _or the Book of_ Job, _which seem
to be written about the same time with it. The Song of the_ Well, _in_
Numbers, _pag._ 15. _is clearly an_ Ode _of unequal Measures_.
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