Lo, Sylla, where our senators approach; Perhaps to 'gratulate thy good success.

Then, Ladies, gratulate this happie chaunce With some delightful tune and pleasaunt daunce, Meane-space upon his Harpe will Phoebus play; So both of them may boast another day And make report that, when their wedding chaunc'te, Phoebus gave musicke and the Muses daunc'te.

To gratulate his safe and wisht Arrival.

Gratulate her rest, Force an encomium on her huswifry For being up so early.

He gratulates therefore the first sin, and fig-leaves that were an occasion of [his] bravery.

Successful commonly in these undertakings, because he passes smoothly those rubs which others stumble at, as conscience and the like; and gratulates himself much in this advantage.

My favour to you all to gratulate. l. 7.

heere are a company to Gratulate these nuptials, have prepard a showI feare not worth the sightif you shall deeme to give them the beholding of it.

, grace the scene, And if with me united, Then gratulate the king and queen, Their troth thus newly plighted! PUCK Puck draws near and wheels about, In mazy circles dancing!

'Gratulate you, allmy heart.

"Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish'd presence.

"Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence.

The trumpet shout, the warlike tramp resound, And hymns of valour from the marching tribes Ascend to gratulate the risen morn.

When we consider the strong and even violent political tendency of that prefatory piece, we may readily suppose, that the opera was originally written in a strain very different from the present; and that much must have been softened, altered, and erased, ere a play, designed to gratulate the discovery of the Rye-house Plot, could, without hazard, be acted after the Revolution.

It must be remembered also, to Dryden's honour, that he was the first to hail the dawn of experimental philosophy in physics; to gratulate his country on possessing Bacon, Harvey, and Boyle; and to exult over the downfall of the Aristotelian tyranny.