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Gone to salute the rising morn.^{[V 1]}
Fair laughs^{[V 2]} the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,^{[N 1]}
 While proudly riding o'er the azure realm^{[N 2]}
In gallant trim^{[N 3]} the gilded vessel goes;

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Variants

1. V. 70. Morn] Day, MS.

2. V. 71. Fair laughs, &c.]
   "Mirrors * of Saxon truth and loyalty
   Your helpless, old, expiring master view!
   They hear not scarce religion does supply
   Her mutter'd requiems, and her holy dew.
   Yet thou, proud boy, from Pomfret's walls shall send
   A sigh, and envy oft thy happy grandsire's end."
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   * "Mirror of ancient faith, in early youth
   Undaunted worth, inviolable truth."
   Dryd. S. vi. Rogers

Notes

In Peachum's 'Period of Mourning,' 1613, a similar epithet is given, but from a different reason:

"Appeared then in armes a goodly prince
Of swarthy hew, by whom there hung a launce
Of wondrous length, preserved ever since;
He overthrew, at Poitiers, John of Fraunce.
A dial his device, the stile at one—
And this, 'No night, and yet my day is done.'"

1. V. 71. Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froissard and other contemporary writers. Gray. See M. of Venice, act ii. s. 6. "How like a younker," &c. Spenser. Vision of the World's Vanity, "Looking far forth," &c. And Vision of Petrarch, c. ii. "After at sea a tall ship did appear," &c., which passages are too long for transcription.
2. V. 72. "Cœruleo pollens conjunx Neptunia regno."
   Virg. Cir. 483. Luke.
3. V. 73. So Pope, Donne. Sat. iv. 250, who has used the same words on the same subject: "Top-gallant he, and she in all her trim."
4. V. 69. So in Agrippina:

   "———around thee call
   The gilded swarm, that wantons in the sunshine
   Of thy full favour."