But yet you see, the Stage he will command, And hold the Laurel in's polluted Hand. In slothful ease, a while I took delight, And thought all Poets mad that us'd to write. So long I kept from Verse, I thought I'd lost My Versing Vein, and of my Fortune boast: But having tryal made, I quickly found My store renew'd, in numbers strong and sound With ease my happy fancies come and go, As Rivulets do from _Parnassus_ flow. Then finding that in vain I long had try'd The _Poet_ from the _Tutchin_ to divide; I charming _Poesie_ make my delight, And propagate the humor still to Write. Our new Divines do alter not one jot, From what their Tribe in older times have wrot; Except, like _Parker_, to have something new, They broach new Doctrines, either false or true: _A Publick Conscience_, which for nought does pass, But proves the Writer is a publick Ass; Who the new Philosophick world have told, Have for a new but varnish'd o're the old. But all Poetick Phancy can't draw dry, Th' unfathom'd Wells of deepest Poesie. The _Bifront Hill_ is always stout and strong; The _Muses_ still are handsome, always young. The clearest streams of Chrystal _Helicon_ Do o're the Pebles in sweet Rhymings run. Why then should you, _Dear Sir_, (that have pretence To the extreamest bounds of Wit and Sense) Lay by your Quills and hold your Tune-ful Tongue, While all the witty want your pleasing Song? Once more renew those Lays that gave delight, That chear the Day, and glad the gloomy Night: May with your dying breath your Verses end; Thus prays your constant, and _Your truest Friend_, _J. T._ * * * * * THE EARTH-QUAKE OF JAMAICA, Describ'd in a Pindarick Poem. By Mr. TUTCHIN. _----namq; Diespiter Igni corusco nubila dividens Plerumq; per purum tonantes Egit Equos volucremq; currum, Quo bruta Tellus & vaga flumina, Quo Styx, & invisi horrida Tænari Sedes, Atlanteusq; finis Concutitur. Valet ima summis Mutare,----_ Horat. lib. I. Ode 34. _LONDON_, Printed, and are to be sold by _R. Baldwin_, near the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-lane_, 1692. THE Earthquake of Jamaica Describ'd in a POEM. I.