And from her many-headed beast cast down Her three-crown'd mitre in the dust devolved, XII. O thou fair Island, with thy Sister Isle Dear pledges hast thou rendered and received O land profuse of genius and of worth, Largely hast thou received, and largely given! XIII. Green Island of the West, The example of unspotted Ormond's faith Boyle's venerable name : And that great Orator who first Unmask'd the harlot sorceress Anarchy What time, in Freedom's borrowed form profaned, She to the nations round Her draught of witchcraft gave: And him who in the field O'erthrew her giant offspring in his strength, And brake the iron rod. Proud of such debt, Rich to be thus indebted, these, Fair Island, Sister Queen Of Ocean, Ireland, these to thee we owe. XIV. Shall I then imprecate A curse on them that would divide Our union?.. Far be this from me, O Lord! Far be it! What is man, That he should scatter curses?.. King of Kings, Father of all, Almighty, Governor Of all things, unto Thee Humbly I offer up our holier prayer! I pray Thee, not in wrath But in thy mercy, to confound These men's devices! Lord, Lighten their darkness with thy Gospel light, And thus abate their pride, Assuage their malice thus ! NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. ...the infamy of his nature.-p. 2. I suspect that Sir Thomas Brown wrote infimy, a word which, though not regularly formed, would be more in his manner, and more in place. Anthony Wood speaks in his own Life (p. 190) of "a young heir who put his father's papers to infimous uses.” Question of apparitions.-p. 7. In contradiction to the view of this important question which I have taken, and in which there is the opinion of Johnson to support me, Dean Sherlock, who has brought forward with irrefragable force the Natural Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul and a Future State, has shown" of what dangerous consequence it is to want any other arguments, or to build our Faith upon any other arguments than the Gospel Revelation." And he alludes to the indiscrete stress which Glanville, and other writers of his stamp, laid upon supernatural stories. "For," says he, "in the first place, this is a spice of infidelity; it is an inclination towards it; and such men are disposed to be Infidels, or at least to be practised on by Infidels. For did we heartily believe the Gospel, we could want no other arguments of a future state, and should be satis |