Cerne NTHIL, cerni dices NIHIL abfque colore. Surdum audit loquiturque NIHIL fine voce,

volátque

Abfque ope pennarum, & graditur fine cruribus

ullis.

Abfque loco motuque NIHIL per inane vagatur. Humano generi utilius NTL arte medendi.

Ne rhombos igitur, "neu Thessala murmurá ten

tet

Idalia vacuum trajectus arundine pectus,

Neu legat Ideo Dictum in vertice gramen.
Vulneribus fævi NIHIL auxiliatur amoris.

Vexerit & quemvis trans meeftas portitor undas,
Ad fuperos imo NIHIL hunc revocabit ab orco.
Inferni NIHIL inflectit præcordia regis,
Parcarúmque colos, & inexorabile penfum.
Obruta Phlegræis campis Titania pubes
Fulmineo fenfit NIHIL effe potentius ictu:
Porrigitur magni NIHIL extra monia mundi :

Diíque NIHIL metuunt. Quid longo carmine

plura

Commemorem? virtute NIHIL præftantius ipfa,

Splendidius NIHIL eft; NIHIL eft Jove denique

majus.

Sed tempus finem argutis imponere nugis:

T

Ne tibi fi multa laudem mea carmina charta,
De NIHILO NIHILI pariant faftidia versus.

TH

HOMAS YALDEN, the fixth fon of Mr. John Yalden of Suffex, was born in the city of Exeter in 1671. Having been educated in the grammarschool belonging to Magdalen College in Oxford, he was in 1690, at the age of nineteen, admitted commoner of Magdalen Hall, under the tuition of Joseph Pullen, a man whofe name is still remembered in the univerfity. He became next year one of the scholars of

Magdalen College, where he was diftinguifhed by a lucky accident.

It was his turn, one day, to pronounce a declamation; and Dr. Hough, the prefident, happening to attend, thought the compofition too good to be the fpeaker's. Some time after, the doctor, finding him a little irregularly bufy in the library, fet him an exercise for punishment; and, that he might not be deceived by any artifice, locked the door. Yalden, as it happened, had been lately reading on the fubject given, and produced with little difficulty a compofition which fo pleafed the prefident, that he told him his former fufpicions, and promised to favour him.

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Among

Among his contemporaries in the college wére Addifon and Sacheverell, men who were in those times friends, and who both adopted Yalden to their intimacy. Yalden continued, throughout his life, to think as probably he thought at first, yet did not lofe the friendship of Addifon.

When Namur was taken by king. William, Yalden made an ode. There was never any reign more celebrated by the poets than that of William, who had very little regard for fong himself, but happened to employ minifters who pleafed themfelves with the praife of patronage.

Of this ode mention is made in an humorous poem of that time, called