Again on Mira’s srnging,
If she but reach him with her Voice, he dies.
In such noble Company, I magin Mr. Addison will not be ashamed to appear, thus peaking of Mr Cowley;
He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less.
And of Mr. Waller,
And of Mr. Dryden's Muse,
She forms her Voice, she moves our Smiles or Tears.
And to his Friend Dr. Sacheverell,
The last poor Present that my Muse can give.
And so at once, dear Friend and Muse, fare well.
To these let me add the Testemony of that Darling of the Muses, Mr. Prior, with whom all the Poets of ancient and modern Times of other Nations, or our own, might seem to have-intrusted the chief Secrets, and greatest Treasures. of their Art. I shall speak only concerning our own Isand, where his Imitation of Chaucer, of Spencer, and of the old Scotch Poem, insciribed the Nut-Brown Maid, shew how great Masfer he is, and how much every thing is to be valued which bears the Stamp of his Approbation. And we shall certainly find a great deal to countenance the use of Monosyllables in his Writings. Take these Examples;
