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Rh (If pious Acts, if Justice they regard) And your clear Conscience stands its own Reward. How blest this Age that has such Virtue seen? How blest the Parents of so great a Queen? While to the Sea the Rivers roll, and Shades With awful Pomp surround the Mountain Heads, While Æther shines, with golden Planets grac’d, So long your Honour, Name, and Praise shall last. Whatever Realm my Fortune has assign’d, Still will I bear your Image in my Mind.


 * having said, the pious Chief extends

His Hands around, and hails his joyful Friends: His Left, grasp’d with vast Delight, To great he gave the Right. ,, and the Trojan Train, All, in their Turns, embrac’d the Prince again.


 * with his Presence, gaz’d him o’er,

Admir’d his Fortune much, his Person more. What