The
learned prelate goes on to enumerate the natural advantages of our
country. He continues--"They wanderynge and reioysinge at their good and
fortunate arrival, named this yle in Greeke _Olbion_, which in Englishe
signifieth happy."
_Foley Place._
AN ANTIQUARY.
[1] Holinshed.
[2] Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so
from a white sow found there by AEneas.--Vide Livy, lib. i
Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam
Litoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus,
Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit,
Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati:
Is locus urbis erit ei.
Virgil AEneid, lib. iii. v. 390.
When, in the shady shelter of a wood
And near the margin of a gentle flood,
Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground,
With thirty sucking young encompassed round;
The dam and offspring white as falling snow:
These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c.
DRYDEN.
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LINES.
(_For the Mirror._)
"Preach to the storm, or reason with despair,
But tell not misery's son that life is fair"
H.
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