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...star. Pope. To sing those honors you deserve to wear, And add new lustre to her silver star. Pope. When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war. Pope. Fame I foresee will make reprisals there, And the translator's palm to me transfer. Fenton. Submit...

...war, those legitimate subjects of the tragic muse, constitute its whole action, and the moral of it is evidently to expose the evil consequences of luxury, effeminacy, and supineness in a soverign, "When love was all an easy monarch's care — Seldom at council, never in a war." It is...