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VERSES said to be fixed on the Gate of the LOUVRE at PARIS.

1751.

DEUX Henris immolés par nos braves ayeux,
L'un a la liberté, et Bourbon à nos Dieux,
Nous animent, Louis, aux mêmes enterprises.
Ils revivent en toi ces anciens tyrans —
Crains nôtre desespoir — la noblesse a ses Guises,
Paris des Ravillacs, le clergé des Clements.
ENGLISH.By the Same.
1 OUR fathers' victims the two Henries see,
2 This to religion, that to liberty.
3 Louis, in thee again the tyrants live;
4 Dread, lest our deep despair those scenes revive.
5 Paris nor yet a Ravilliac denies,
6 The church a Clement, nor the court a Guise.

LATIN.

By the Same.
CIVILI Henricûm cecidit par nobile ferro,
Hic libertati victima, et ille Deo:
Dum priscos renovas iterum, Ludovice, tyrannos,
Nos renovare iterum facta priora doces.
Nos timeas laesos — Guisos dabit aula recentes,
Claustraque Clementes, urbsque Rabilliacos.

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Title (in Source Edition): VERSES said to be fixed on the Gate of the LOUVRE at PARIS. 1751.
Author: John Hoadly
Themes: monarchy (heads of state); liberty; religion
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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 279. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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