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 On Œta's Top thus Hercules lay dead, With ruin'd Oaks and Pines about him pread. Nature herelf took Notice of his Death, And, ighing, well'd the Sea with uch a Breath, That to remotet Shores the Billows roul'd, Th'approaching Fate of his great Ruler told.

this Elogium that gave Occasion to the Reply (taken Notice of in Bayle's Dictionary,) which Waller made King Charles the Second. This King, to whom Waller had a little before, (as is uual with Bards and Monarchs) preented a Copy of Veres embroider'd with Praies; reproach'd the Poet for not writing with o much Energy and Fire as when he had applauded the Uurper (meaning Oliver;) Sir, reply'd Waller to the King, we Poets ucceed better in Fiction than in Truth. This Anwer

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