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of all its fond endearments Guard their breasts from vain alarms, l'hou, through tempests toils and d angers C::m'st restore them to fond arms. llul should thy unerring judgment Place them on a distant shore,
Give them peace in thy appointments Though they should re turn no more. Ever mindful of life's duties May they still repose as 'veil As when no'v in life's gay morning Waked by Royal Harry's Bell.
'' THE ADELPHI." l t is supposed that in the year 1674, the King's Scholars acted at C hristmas the play ul "The Adelphi." This custom of acting some Latin or Greek play was at one time , ncral throughout most schools in the kingdom ; but it has gradually died out, and 1
•notlcrn farces, &c., have taken its place. At Westminster only does this old custom ull survive. The following is the Epilogue spoken on the occasion before mentioned. Ripe for destruction tho' unripe in Age, U nskilful Youth assumes of life the stage. F ull of his own dear empty self he roves Still follows as unbounded fa ncy moves : And now no longer touching book or pen T he World must understand and study Men. Chameleon like no colours of his own, H e borrows from each object of the T own. With gamesters games, with drinkers is a sot, And 'vith Gallants some Cloli is his lot Pleased with his ruin, Cloti sooths the boy, And Circe like enchants but to destroy For knowledge purchas'd in ye dangerous way, Deluded youth I how dearly must you pa}. Such physick in the working fatal kills, A Medicine not unlike, 0 Ward, thy Pills.