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 Hence on thy Head their impious Vengeance fell. But thou, O faithful to thy Fame, The Muse's Law did'st rightly know; That who would animate his Lays, And other Minds to Virtue raise, Must feel his own with all her Honours glow.

Are there, approv'd of later Times, Whose Verse adorn'd a Tyrant's Crimes? Who saw majestic Rome betray'd, And lent the imperial Ruffian Aid? Alas! not one polluted Bard, No, not the Strains that Mincius heard, Or Tibur's Hills reply'd, Dare