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The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley

Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto

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See a new gracious Progeny descends
From the high Heavens! at whose appearance ends
This Iron Age, and a new golden Race,
With ev'ry Virtue crown'd, assumes its Place.
Oh chast Lucina! speed the glorious Birth,
For now thy own Apollo reigns on Earth.