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The Works of the Late Aaron Hill

... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting

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Writ on a Blank Leaf of Alzira,

when given to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Go, Muse! nor vainly mourn Britannia stray'd,
In faction, roughning, or dissolv'd, in trade;
Tasteless of letters; yet, to Fame, inclin'd,
Busily viewless, and profoundly blind:
Go, to thy Country's Hope, invoke his care;
Watch, if he smiles, and, then, suspend despair;
Bless his protective hand, that calls out Arts,
And hail his Empire, o'er a people's hearts.