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By THOMAS GILBERT, Ejq; 
late Fellow of Peter- Houſe, in W 


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LONDON: 
Printed for CHARLES BATHURST, at the Croſs-Keys; 


over-againſt St. Dunſtan's Church, Fleetftreet, 
MDCCXLYII; 


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| Joun HALL-STEVENSON, Eſq; 


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Skelton Caſtle, in Cleaveland. 


8 the Cuſtom of the World has a 
it neceſſary for every Author to ad- 
dreſs his Works to ſome Patron; it was 
more ſuitable to my Diſpoſition to chu an 
intimate Friend, whoſe Character was a- 
bove Flattery, hes to fall into the ſervile 
Vice of thoſe Writers, who firſt find out a 
Perſon Dedication- proof, then rack their 
Invention to compliment him with all the 
Virtues he is an utter Stranger to. There- 
fore I ſhall not give the World a Catalogue 
| of the good Qualities or Abilities you poſ- 
ſeſs; but take this Opportunity of ſaying 
| what I think proper to the Public, to —_ 
me the Trouble of writing a Preface. 


As you had no Suſpicion of my having a 
Deſign of this Nature, if this E Epiſtle ſhould 
not prove agreeable to you, it will be very 
A . fair 


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fair to plead in Excuſe, that you could not 
help the Impertinence of a Friend. Nei- 


ther will I deſire you, - contrary to your O- 


pinion, to defend the following Poems, 
or impoſe the. Authority of your Tudg- 
ment in Recommendation of them; but let 
every one exert that Prerogative of being ab- 
ſolute Judges in Poetry, which is aſſerted 
by all Mankind, however ignorant of thoſe 
Arts which are neceſſary to form a Taſte 
equal to ſo nice a "Taſk. But, if any modeſt 
Perſon ſhould be diffident of his Abilities 
in Affairs of this Nature, he may ſafely 
pronounce, 9229 periculo, that this Book is 


better than any of this Kind, that has been 
publiſhed ſince Mr. Pope's Death (the Plea- 


ſures of Imagination being printed before, 
it I am not miſtaken), For why ſhould a 


Poet, Who is, generally ſpeaking, the vaineſt 


Creature in the Creation, except a cele- 
brated Beauty, be the only Perſon that is 
expected not to commend his own Works? 
Pliny 1s of Opinion that it is neceflary even 
for People of Merit to have ſome Men of 
Taſte to recommend them to the Public, in 


Order. to procure Succeſs, and I think it 


wall 


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will hold good in Poetry, as well as the 


Law :--- Neque cuiquam tam ftatim clarum 


/ ingenium eft ut poſit emergere, nift illi ma- 


zeria, occaſio, fautor etiam, commendatorque 
contingat.--- Elſe they may be neglected by 
the general Prejudice of the Town, and 
condemned by the bad Opinion it enter- 
tains of the greateſt Part of their Contem- 


poraries, as Perſons in the ſame low Claſs; 


without ever having been read by thus 


Who bring in their Verdict againſt them. 


I am very * from being inſenſible of 


| the Pleafure ariſing from a juſt and honeſt 


Fame; but, when J recolle& that Men of 
the Grſt Taſte i in polite Literature differ ſo 


much in their Sentiments of the moſt cele- 


brated Poets, I think it too weak a Foun- 
dation for a Man to build his Happineſs up- 
on, and that he ſhould be Maſter of more 
Philoſophy, than to ſuffer a Diſappointment 
of this Nature to make him uneaſy. As 


to my Concern for theſe Poems — 


Whether they ſwim along the Stream of Time, 
Or, bury'd underneath the whelming Wave, 
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= HRADICATION 

Are ſunk in deep Oblivion's rapid Gulph, 

Imports not me; who think this changing World, 
Its fleeting Pleaſures, and its laſting Cares, 


Not worth one anxious Thought. 


| THEREFORE, if they are condemned by the 
Public, I ſhall not diſpute their Authority. 
As ſome are very ſevere in their Criti- 
ciſm on Rhimes, it will not be improper to 
lay. ſomething on that Subject. In my O- 
pinion where Words have ſo very near a 
ſimilar Sound that a nice Ear can hardly 
diſtinguiſh the Difference, it is very allow- 
able to make Uſe of them. The moſt 
| corre of our Engliſh Poets have taken 
great Liberties in that Particular, which, if 
too frequently repeated, ought certainly to | 
| be reputed Blemiſhes in a Poem. If I have- | 
trangreſſed the Rules of Criticiſm in this Ar- 


ticle, I confeſs it to be a willing Error, as =” 
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* In Mr. Pope, the 3 Words occur to me at preſent, ; we 
Owls— Fools, appear*'d— Reward, cries— Noiſe, Care—Spbhere. ter, 


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in the following Words, — Begin — String, 
Dawn—Morn, Defign—Kind, Wiſh—Bliſs, 
and perhaps ſome few others, which TI 
think may very fairly be admitted to come 
together as Rhimes ; otherwiſe there would 


have been no great Difficulty in ſubſtitu- 


ting others in their Place.— 


HERE, according to the uſual Cuſtom of 
Authors, I ſhould enumerate the Favours 
received from you. But I beg Leave to de- 
viate from ſuch a Practice; as Friendſhip 
annihilates all Obligations in the Memory 
of the Perſon who beſtows them, and en- 
craves a laſting Remembrance and ſincere 
Gratitude in the Heart of the Receiver: 
But keep your Temper; and I will fay no 
more on ſo delicate a Subject. ige; 


You will perceive that, in ſeveral Places 


of this Book, I have freely declared my Sen- 


timents of ſome great Men, whoſe Meaſures 
were in my Opinion deſtructive to the In- 
tereſt of the Kingdom, without any Fear 
of incurring the Diſpleaſure of Numbers 
who are attached to their Intereſt, or pre- 


1 ä — judiced 


wi DEDICATION. 

 - Judiced i in their Favour ; who pay ſuch 4 
| high Compliment to their political Patrons, 
as to imagine it little leſs than Rebellion to 
| write or ſpeakin Oppoſition to a Court, and 
| are always inſinuating that ſuch Perſons are 
| Enemies to the preſent Royal Family, for 
| whom 1 ſhall retain the greateſt Reverence 
| and Loyalty, as long as they continue to go- 
vern without any Violation of the Liberties 
of the People, who placed a Juſt Confidence 
in them to rule over this Nation according 
| to the Laws of the Land, and preſerve our 
| Country from the wild Attempts of arbitra- 
ry Power. 


Tur n Poems are publilhed in = 
the Order of their Creation, though ſome 
| Additions will make the Reader think others 
| wiſe. So, wiſhing you and your F amily all 
| Health and Happineſs, ! remain 


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CLORINES 


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| J Unveil'd Clorinda to the raviſh? d fight ! 
1 at her birth the Gods conſpir d above 
To form a rival to the Queen of love; x 
Then the fair charmer from the cryſtal ſkies 


Was ſent to make this lower world her prize. 


EE When 


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When firſt 1 felt the rapture of the nine, | 3 9 
My 115 was offer d incenſe at your ſhrine ; N L q "A 
Before the fickle world that homage paid, 

Or you a Goddeſs by their worſhip made ; 


And now maturer reaſon muſt approve 


The pleaſing object of my former love. 3 
Bleſs'd in enjoyment may you ever live 


Of all that you can wiſh, or Heaven can give! 


May each revolving ſeaſon glide along : WM XxX 
Replete with riches of the poet's fong ! . ' ( 


May no fierce paſſions in your boſom move, 


And every. gay defire refine to love : 


But when your ſandy glaſs of time is run, 


ll And you muſt fall, like thoſe you have undone ; 


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May conſcious virtue ſhine with equal pow'r 


To brave the tyrant in your lateſt hour: 


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And after death (for faireſt nymphs muſt die) 


Waft the bright ſpirit to your kindred ſky. 


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V andring Thoughts on the State of 
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B EGIN, my muſe, and in a nobler ſtrain * 
y Try to unravel the decrees of fate; 

3 And ſearch into the real cauſe of things! 

| 4 Unfetter'd from the chains of rhime now ſoar 
(Vain boaſt) beyond the regions of the ſky, 

As far as tow'ring fancy's flight can reach. 

How dark and intricate are all the ways 

3 Of fate ! yet proud ambitious man preſumes 


Aſſiſted by his reaſon to explore 


Things infinite, beyond the ken of thought. 


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Why from the peaceful boſom of the earth 


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Something there is within this ſtrange machine, 


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Which elevates my mind, and makes me dive 
Too deep in fate. How came I to exiſt ? 


Whence am I? Tell me, ye immortal pow'rs ; 


Rais'd into being in a world of ills, 
To run the chance of an immortal ſtate = C 
In dark perdition, or the realms of bliſs ? 
Except the great benevolence of God 

Foreſaw, that this exertion of his power 5 1 1 Z 8! 
Would terminate in good to all mankind. 18 
How is that noble ſpirit of the, ſoul Ss V 
Infus d into the body? whence proceeds 


This fatal curioſity in man? 1 | 


And could this beauteous fabric of the world 0 


From nothing be produced? or whence derives 
"ID That 


That bright Exiſtence, that eternal Pow'r, 


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Sole governor of all, his glorious being ? 


Stupendous truths ! here human wiſdom fails, 


Loſt in a labyrinth of endleſs thought. 


Sure we exiſted in ſome other ſtate 


Before this world was form'd, and for our ſins 


| Conftrain'd to bear ſo great an ill as life 


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How vain the pleaſing thought, that happineſs 
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Should &er be found by man within whoſe breaſt 


So many paſſions rage, ſuch fierce deſires 


Which by enjoyment aggravate our woes. 


Here bold ambition with a tyrant's pride 


| Lays waſte whole kingdoms; and with lawleſs might 


Uſurps 


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Uſurps dominion over vanquiſh'd flaves ; 


Our eager eyes indulge in wanton gaze, 


And ſtains his ſword with guiltleſs nations blood. 


There fell revenge, that poiſon to our reſt, 
Exerts her baleful pow'r ; and for a deed, 
Or traſh unthinking word, to death purſues 


Oer diftant realms the object of her hate. 


"Here fate in ambuſh lies in beauty's ſmiles: 


Warm wiſhes, tender hopes, and ſoft deſires ; 


Till luſt extinguiſhes bright reaſon's flame, Av 
Unnerves the ſoul, and prompts us to enjoy, 

In ſpite of conſequence, the charming fair In 
Againſt the laws of honour, virtue, fame; In 
And, for a moment's bliſs, entails an age of woe. No 


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That bubble happineſs deludes our hopes, 
Even when we ſeem to graſp the bleſſing ſure, 


And think our Joys beyond the reach of fate: 


Like a gay dream, where haughty beauty courts - 


Her lover long enamour'd of her charms ; 


But, when ſtrong fancy winds the paſſion up 
To thrilling raptures exquiſite to ſenſe, 


He finds the fair one cheat his promis d hopes, 
And claſps a cloud within his fond embrace. 


Man therefore of di is wretched : 

And who that's wretched would deſire to la 3 

Avaunt ſuch gloomy thoughts kong Shall blooming 
outh, 

In melancholy mood, like drooping age 


In contemplation pine of future ills ? 


No; — let the gay remembrance of delight 


Inſpire 


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re a grateful thought for plcafre paſt! 
Recall the fleeting hours, when Lydia fair BY 


With her enchanting converſe rais'd the lv 
To more than mortal bliſs ! when jovial N — 


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With wit and humour made the longeſt ni bt 2 
Seem ſhorter than a tranſitory dream. 

Nor mourn my preſent lot, in Aukland grove, 
— from all the gallant ſcenes of youth; 


Which bleſs'd my better days : in calm retreat 


Curs'd with no mean avant ſtill above 
The ſmiles or frowns of fortune : gay content 


Can form a purer happineſs within, : 
Ran the yain-pomp and pageantey of life, . 


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Lucan's Pharſalia tranſlated by Mr. 
Row. 


O BSE RV E, 155 Lucan in aſpiring flights 


Of ancient Rome, o'ercome by Romans, writes: 


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How Czſar fond of popular applauſe 

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Courts the mean vulgar to ſupport his cauſe; 
Encompaſs d round with conquer'd nations ſtood, 
4 And ſtain d his ouilty (word with Roman blood, 
q What noble principles inſpir'd their ſouls, 


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Z Whoſe fame ſucceſſively thro ages rolls 


True Patriots, and ſteady to the cauſe 


Of Rome, who periſh'd to preſerve her laws! 


But Cato's ſentiments were truly great, 


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Who ſcorn'd' to breathe in a corrupted ſtate ; 
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Who proffer'd life with juſt contempt deny'd, 
And perſevering in his virtue dy'd. 


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What conflicts, Brutus, in thy boſom roſe, 
To follow Cæſar's fortune, or oppoſe? 


Who tender nature's ſtrongeſt ties withſtood, 


And gave up friendſhip to che public good. 


But ſure the Gods immutable decree 


For a brave juſt revenge had deſtin d thee, 
To ſtop the rapid victor in his courſe, 
And ſave the vanquiſh'd world from Czfar's force. 


What paſſions in great Pompey's boſom move; 
When fate reſoly'd his utmoſt ſtrength to prove? 
To drag the hero from Cornelia's arm, 


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With what a tender ſenſe of love inſpir d 


The warrior from the weeping fair retir ddl 


In moving ſtrains ſhe mourn'd her wretched ſtate, 


As conſcious of her lord's impending fate. 


| Degenerate. Ptolemy Egyptian guile 
Shall brand with infamy the ſons of Nile; 
To late poſterity their crimes be known, 


Who made the guilt of civil war their own. 185 


Then let us by theſe great examples taught 


Improve our minds, and elevate each thought 


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Purſue the ſhining path thoſe heroes trod, 
Nor bend like loves before an earthly God ! 
That liberty long baniſh'd other climes 
By ſycophants, - who flatter tyrants crimes, _ | 


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| And fix her empire on the Britiſb ſhore. 

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1 N Jr youth Clorinda's chains I wore, 
And till unchang'd the lovely fair adore : 
1 No other female charms have pow'r to pleaſe, 


| And make me languiſh in : inglorious eaſe ; 


i No alher nymph in country, tern, or court, 


Where gentle belles, and . beaux reſort, 
1 Tho' practis'd in the ſoft inveigling art, 
Can boaſt a conqueſt o'er my faithful heart. 


Have pow'r to make no other ſlave her prize! 


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May no conceited fop her favour baalt; 

But think ſhe ſcarce: deſerves to be a: — 
Bleſs'd with the preſence of this loyely maid, > 
Td 8 the world, and ſeek TO lonely ſhade; 
Her charms would caſt a round refulgent light, x 
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In her ſweet converſe ages I could paſs, 2 
Nor with old time to ſhake his ſandy glaſs, 
When falſe to Rs dear idol, of my ſoul, + + 


The needle ſhall not tremble to the polo. 


'Tho' Venus erown'd with her immortal charms 


Should condeſcend to court me to her arms, 


Her art divine would ineffectual prove, a 


Nor could her beauty make me change my love. 


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No longer then hoard up your charms, 


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U Rs E on the ſordid miſer's luſt of gold, 


By whom his country's intereſt is ſold, 
Auletes cries ! and with a patriot's voicſse 


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But when a ſtateſman whiſpers in his ear, 
Your vote ſhall gain a thouſand pound a year; 
With an obſequious bow, he thanks his grace, 
And wonders how he could miſtake the caſe. 


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A View of the Town, à Satire, Corrected 
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The Preface. 


As there are fome of my aell-wiſhers, who may, in 
all probability, put a bad conſtruction on ſome paſ- 
ſages in the_ following poem, I muſt beg the reader's 
A for troubling ow 701 70 a ſhort preface 


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Euery one muſt be ſenſible that there art a great nan 
flagrant vices committed by the corrupt part of the 
clergy; I hope no airing man will be offended at 
my plucking off their external veil of ſanctity, and 

= fowing them naked to the world, If none are guil- 

1 4 ty of the crimes mentioned in the following pages ; 

2 Who is injured ? If they are, they deſerve cenſure. 
T would not have any one miſtake my expoſing their 
vices, for ridiculing that ſacred order : For in my 

nion a miniſter, who acts up to the glorious cha- 
rater be profeſſes, deſerves the higheſt commendation 
whoſe chief felicity conſiſts in doing good to mankind ; 

who refigns all the finful pleaſures of hife, as an 

_ earneſt for bis future happineſs ; who boldly takes 

= up the croſs, reſolved to bear it with indefatigable 
= zeal through all oppofition and danger, to forward 

the ba of bus. fellou creatures. What a tran- 
quillity 


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quillity of mind muſt ſuch a man enjoy, whoſe great- 


- +. eft_pleaſure confiſts in that benevolent diſpoſition of 
making other people happy © But if there are @ ſet 


of men, who only make uſe of religion as a veil, and, 


_ while they are lifting up their eyes to God with 
' the moſt apparent ardour” of devotion, are ſefving 


the devil in their hearts : Why ſhould their devia- 


ting, by the vile practice of their lives, from the 


precepts of that religion I profeſs, ſerve them as 
a ſhield for their iniquity? As there is no parti- 
cular aimed at, no one can be juſily offended that 1s 
not guilty—— Though, perhaps, I may have fome 


reaſon to think perſonal injuries a ſufficient excuſe 


for drawing particular characters, yet, as the af- 
Fair only relates to myſelf, I ſhall decline it: Though 
fome people lately have muſtered up all the narrow 
abilities they are maſters of, to provoke me to drag 
them from obſcurity to contempt: But, as their cha- 
raters are too low even for ſatire, I ſhall be con- 
tent with only drawing one, which" will ſerve well 
enough as a ſpecimen of the whole, and let the 


reſt fleep on undiſturbed in their original flupidity. 


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O you, who love to range the ſylvan ene, 


And taſte che pleaſure of a mind ſerene, 
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To ſhow what Ane 8 reign, 


Fortune has thee to happier ſcenes convey'd "4 
By nature fit for contemplation made, 
There live content ; explore her ſecret laws, 


And neither meet with cenſure. or applauſe, _ _ 


When no rough ſtorms the ruffled ocean ſweep, 
But Halcyon coking ſit brooding o'er the deep, 
The: ſhipwreck'd merchant's wealth ſecurely lies, 
Except the vent rous diver ſeize the prize: 


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Aſtoniſh'd at the bold degenerate age 


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But, when loud whirlwinds rage and billows roar, 


The ſeas diſcharge their ſpoils upon the ſhoar : / 


Thus adverſe fortune will your merit prove, 


And ſhow the virtues of the man I love: + 


As when fell * Thomſon was to juſtice brought 


To ſuffer vengeance for each flagrant fault, 
The filent court ſuſpended ſtood, nor knew 


Which of his crimes was of the blackeſt hue £ 


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So here ſuch various follies ruſh to light. 


That ſeek in vain the covert of the night, 


I doubt which vices firſt deſerve my rage. 


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For men. of merit once the gay reſort. 


When virtue was in faſhion een at c 
But now the magic of its circle, dras 
Such worthleſs ſlaves, as tremble at the laws, 
And fear on earth their perſecuting rod | 

More than. the wrath of an ani God. 
Each vice ſtill finds ſome patron for a friend. 


And begs in vain admittance at the gates. 


Since prelates claim preheminence of place, | 


Firſt let me brand thoſe zealots with dilgrace, 


Prieſts that are arm'd with virtue need not fear, 
Whoſe actions can the teſt of conſcience bear; 
Secure in native innocence they ſit. 


Unwounded by the ſatires that are writ. 


Tho 


While injur d merit like a ſuppliant waits, 


22 Poems on ſeveral Octafions. 
Tho' laws: ſevert to puniſh guilt are made, 
What honeſt man is of thoſe laws afraid? 
All felons againſt judges will exclaim, 
As harlots ſtartle at a Gonſon's name. 


In former times, e're virtue was a fault, 
When bluſhing merit for preferment ſought, 
Men who profeſs d religion were eſteem'd 
As meſſengers of God, and ſacred deem'd : 
At length, diſſolv d in luxury and eaſe, 


Proud to command, and negligent to pleaſe, 
They gave weak 5 ſuch rigid rules 
That, if obſerv'd, had made them paſſive fools; 
Chalk d out the path that leads to perfect bliſs, FT 
Which none, whoſe gifts were large, could ever mis. 


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Thus did their wily arts the world deceive, --- 


And none could go to heaven without their leave, 


But modern ſpintexts daily grow refin'd, 
And with each modiſh vice adorn the mind. 
Religion they profeſs, I grant it true, 


But worldly here is the prize in view. 


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They only ſerve their God in maſquerade.” 

: Hypocriſy, that baſtard of their zeal, 5 

Serves as a veil baſe actions to conceal. 

Aſſiſted by this pious artifice 

They ſin, nor ite their characters the price. 

Now pamper'd prelates leave the toil of prayr 5 

To thoſe, who think ſalvation worth their care; 
Far other views their ſordid thoughts engage, LY „ 
Afraid to laſh the vices of the age. 


Preferment 


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Preferment is the aim of abje& tools, 
Who forfeit honeſty to flatter fools.” 
How can ſuch men, by holy cd bond 2143 1 
To tread n nine” but colfecrated ground, 
In ſable troops to ſplendid courts advance, eg 
To quaff rich wines, or throng the midnight dance? 
Or elſe attend the levees of the great, e 
Scorn d e' en by courtiers and the pnpe of ſtate, EX 
And, if their patron is a Deiſt thought, 
Abjure the miracles our Saviour wrought ? 
When uch are preachers of the goſpel made, 
How can religion fall to droop her head ? 
Tho' 'prieſts in pulpits thunder out aloud 
Damnation to the unbelieving croud 5» ty 
' Deſcribe the pleaſures which from virtue flow, 
And teach that vice wi terminate in woe : 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 25 


Shall the E libertine reform his life, 

Or ceaſe to languiſh for another's wife; 

If the whole week. beſide theſe zealous fools 
Conia by practice all their ſabbath rules? 

Tho' ſuch the baſe corrupted lives of thoſe, 

_ Whoſe bad examples are _religion's foes ; - 

And give advantage to the weaker ſort, 

To make the ſacred writ their midnight ſport 2 WO 
Tho' jefts are broke, and e libels writ 
With all the rage and virulence of wit; 

Men of uublemiſbed characters will thrive, - 

Fierce envy and detraction both ſurvive ; - 

43 Unſully'd truth ſhine forth with purer ray ; 

- | And learned infidels the church obey, 


N. — 


26 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Satire, like a true mirrour to the fair, 


Shows not what we affect, but what we are; 


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Plucks from the ſplendid courtier all diſguiſe, 


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And ſets the real man before our eyes: 


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It baſe deſigns are lurking in his heart, 


To point them out is ſure an honeſt part. 
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As paint adorns the fair, whom nature gave « 


Charms ſcarce ſufficient to make one their ſlave; f c 
So flatt'ry caſts a dazzling light on thoſe _ 
Whoſe deeds are dark, and a falſe fame beſtows. 


Let all, whoſe groveling ſouls can condeſcend 
To ſmile upon a foe, or curſe a friend, 
| Freque nt the court ! there they may chance to 4 
Fops, whom they never law, egen kind, 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 27 
To raiſe them to high places proffer aid. 
Till the fond ideots think their fortune made; 
Then ſhow what ſoothing ſpeech the great beguiles, 
And thus inftru&t them in the courtier's wiles: 
0 Religion, virtue, conſcience, and ſuch things 
Are not fit converſe for the ears of kings. 
Would you ſucceed, ſuch topics will not find 
The leaſt attention from your patron's mind; 
The court divines have baniſh'd them our iſle, 

5 Then learn to talk in a more pleaſing ſtyle. 
Conſider firſt the temper of his Grace, 

What darling vices celebrate his race. 

If a yet nobleman of ſprightly fire 
Determines to indulge each looſe deſire, 


On fornication panegyrics make, 


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And ſwear his lordſhip's the moſt finiſh'd rake 
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Wil That ever revelbd in the arms of * Co 


Pride of the Mall, and ſplendor of the box. 


© Let the foul rape of Lucrece be your theme: 


WG In rapture, — when you talk of Tarquin, ſeem; 


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Let him the founder of hot luſt be ſtil'd, 


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By whom the chaſteſt matron was defil d: 


Or elſe the wiſdom of the Romans praiſe, 


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And let the Sabine rape adorn your lays. 


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Such wanton tales as theſe with fire record, 


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Fit ſubjects to delight a courtly lorxd. 


But thoſe, whoſe mercenary ſouls adore 


The bright refulgence of the ſhining ore, 


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This pretty lady being very much chagrin'd, that her name ſhould 
rhime to pox, in the former edition; the author has condeſcended to 


alter it for the line here inſerted, which he preſumes will give her no 
offence, 


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Who think all happineſs conſiſts in wealth, 


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And ſeek it before honour, virtue, health; 


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And you mult ſeem as ſordid to prevail £24 


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For tis a frailty common to us all 
To prize in others, what our minds enthrall. 
As many vaſſals as theſe arts have won, 


So many helpleſs wretches are undone. 


Obſerve the characters of men: how few 
The path, which nature points them out, purſue 
Macrinus caſt in a fo tender mould 
With — ans longs to be enroll'd, 
With midnight revellers affects to join, 
And ces the jovial God of wine. 


Robuſto 


30 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Robuſto takes a contrary extreme: me un fem Su 
A belvy lumpiſh maſs made up of phlegm, © Bu 
Duller than mortals of Promethean clay 
Fer yet enlighten d with celeſtial ray; 8 
Genteel as birth-day beaux affects to move, Bu 
And thinks himſelf the quinteſſence of love. 80 
The fondeſt wiſh his tender heart can frame, Bu 
To be familiar with a city dame, | Lil 
Or elſe with ſome coquet beyond her prime, Flu 
Or e Careleſs, languiſh out his time; 
From pitter'd novels Meſſalina court; 4 
The fair's averſion, and the wiſe man's ſport. Th 
But, if unluckily his ſtars ordain A 
The wanton nymph indulgent to his pain, No. 
The fop ſtarts back, nor would his ſtrength employ, Suc 
Bet! 


Tho' fairer than the ſhining curſe of Troy: 4 


Such coxcombs love a theory intrigue, Fe 


But think the practice is too much fatigue.. - 


As ſpangled glow-worms glitter in the night, 
But vaniſh at.the roſy dawn of light : 

80 iy fops. are at a diſtance priz d, 

3 But, ſoon as known, the emptineſs deſpis'd ; 

b Like inſects baſking in a ſummer's ray ” e 


PFlutter a while, then unobſerv'd decay. 


Aſk gay Petronius, why that crazy mien, 
That down-caſt look as if devour'd with ſpleen? 
A wife defil'd ? a fon or brother drown'd ? 
No, — worſe than that he cries— Sir Robert frown'd. 
Such. min ambition, ſuch a ſervile part, 
Betrays as weak a head, as foul a heart. 


From 


32 Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 


From ſuch a line deſcend that tinſel race, 


Who never know their friends except in lace ; 


Brocaded ſuits their very ſouls can gain, 


But, if unluckily your cloaths are plain, 


They turn their empty heads another way, 


And would not meet you for the world that day. 


Such is their vanity, and ſuch their rules, 


Where lords and dukes preſerve you from the fools! 


As I was lately ſaunt'ring in the Park, 


I chanc'd to meet with ſuch a modiſh ſpark, 
Who thus accoſted me: my life! my foul ! 


By heaven I'm yours unto the fartheſt pole— 


Command me, fir ;— I have his lordſhip's ear, 


And can promote your -intereſt,— never fear! 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 33 

When luckily a gaudy fop paſs d by, 
Sudden the glaring inſect takes his eye, 
| He begs my pardon, trips away in haſte, 
In hopes of being in the Mall embrac'd, * 

Blanditius, endow'd with common ſenſe, 
To the whole 210 his favours will diſpenſe; 
The wiſe, the fool, the witling, and the knave 
From his impartial nigga like praiſes have : 
So the refulgtns ſource of light diſplays 
On all mankind his univerſal rays. 
If Pult ney's ſpeeches for his country's good 
Of foul corruption ſtem the rapid flood ; 
1 Inſtruct the ſenate with perſuaſive tongue, 


How to redreſs an injur'd nation's wrong ; 
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Nor let deluded millions fall a prey 

To ious rage, or arbitrary ſway : 

Or forne Sęjanus blaſt his good deſigns, 

And dig the nation's ore from Syllas mines: 
Aſk good Blanditius, which deſerves your blame, 
Who bears a patriot's, hc a Walpole's name ? 
He'll anſwer you, that both are worthy men, 
And neither of their characters condemn : 

So Stoics think all vices are the fame, 
And that they only differ in the name. 5 


Plague me, ye Gods, with all your ills in ſtore; 


Or leave me worſe than an abandon d whore 


Let every fool, and knave, and paraſite 


Deteſt me, loath me, curſe me, while I write! 


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Sooner than like a ſycophant to praiſe 
Such fops, as merit dich inſtead of bays. 
My ſoul abhors to ſooth exalted pride, 


To give thoſe parts, whom nature has deny'd ; 


To cringe before a miniſter of ſtate ; 


Pawn honour, conſcience, virtue, to be great 
In ſervile phraſe to flatter, 5 adore 

The meaneſt of mankind, becauſe in por 
Such terms as theſe each honeſt heart diſdains, 


Tho Sylla's plunder ſhould reward his pains. 


There are ill-natur'd critics on my life, 
Who love like friends to raiſe domeſtic ſtrife ; 
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Had not a tender parent's kind regard 


Baffled their malice, and beat down their guard 


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If Bingham, Byſſe, or Bathurſt ſhould applaud, 
The bounteous Withers, or the friendly Rod, 


Tho ſome may hate, I triumph in the quarrels 


With George's, Heaton's, Hudd'sford, and Ducarell's. 


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For ſuch a wretch, tis charity to pray : 
In dark oblivion let his actions lay, | 


Nor feel the vengeance of a judgment-day ! 


Like a mere brute be doom'd to periſh whole, 


And by annihilation fave his foul. 


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Nor gilds with flattery each glaring fault; 
Who dares chaſtiſe the vices of a court, 


Tho arbitrary laws their pow'r ſupport. 


Like * Talbot generous, whole actions grace 


The high deſcent of his illuſtrious race, 
Fond to oblige, unwilling to offend, 


To honour, virtue, and mankind a friend, 


The honourable George Talbot. 


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Tho' ſatire flows from my | —_— pen 
To brand with infamy the worſt of BEAR 
Where worth like F Clarke's appears, I love " praiſe; 
Such merit conſecrates the poet's lays. 
Tho bounteous, prudent, ſplendid, yet not proud; 
By worth, not wealth, a from the croud; 
No friends diſtreſs d in vain reveal their wants, 
Before the modeſt bluſh to — grants; 
By whom deſire of wealth is underſtood, 
But as a larger pow'r of doing good. 
Such noble qualities exalt the mind 


Above the ſordid race of human kind. 


Perhaps a deſpicable race of men 
Expect the female ſex ſhould feel my pen; 


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The charms of beauty all their faults excuſe, 
And claim protection from a youthful muſe, | + 


But there is one by nature form'd to pleaſe, -- 


Born to excel, and captivate with eaſe ; 


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Inſpire theſe lines with thy ſevereſt rage! 
Arm me with ſatire keen as Oldham wrote, 

Againſt the curs'd Divan with poignant thought, 
To laſh a crime, which filthy lechers uſe 

(Sworn foes to mother Haywood and the ſtews) 
Inverting nature to a foul deſign, 

They ſtop the propagation of their kind. 


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1 He to St. James s Park with rapture flies, 
1 And roams in ſearch of ſome fair ingle prize; 
Courts che foubpathic in the fair one's place, 
And with unnar ral luſt defiles his race. 


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And periſh in each other's foul embrace. 


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Where ſea-born Venus and the Graces ſmile; 

Where tender virgins in the bloom of youth 
Are fam'd for virtue, innocence, and truth, 


With all the charms that nature can provide 


2 For the gay miſtreſs, or the lovely bride. . - + . 


Can yet this ſavage race obdurate prove, 


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Ambition's wreck, the Nds of upſtart fools, 
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The death of Mr. John Bingham, ſtudent of Chrift-Charch in Oxford. 


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In whoſe ſtrong page ſo many beauties ſhine," * / 
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The n 0 f Valencia, 


'To the Render er. 


Tt is the common fate of great men to have their ac- 


tions extolled above their . intrinſic merit, or depre- 
ciated below their real deſert. The latter ſeems. to 
be the caſe of .the Earl of Peterborough ;. Who, 
after performing fuch a eries of glorious actions 
as were thought almoſt impoſſible to be accompliſhed, 
had the misfortune to find his conduct miſrepreſented 
in fo ſhameful a_ manner, that he met with cenſuxe 


from his pretended friends, and applauſe from his 


profeſſed enemies, who were more generous. than his 


countrymen in that particular. I. ſhall not empa- 


tiate here on his taking Barcelona with ſuch. an 
inferior force, and raiſing the ſiege afterwards 
with an inconſiderable number, when. ſurrounded 
by a French army of tiventy four thouſand men, 


well appointed . with all ſorts, gf artillery fon ſuch 


an undertaking : But proceed to acquaint the rea- 
der that the materials of the following poem are 
taken from Doctor Friend, aubo attended. him in 
all his expeditions. Nor was his lordſhip's conduct 
in this affair leſs ſurpriſing than in all his previous, 
adventures. His well laid ſtratagems confounded 
the devices of his enemies, and with a ſinall force 


' defeated all the grand efforts of their numerous 


armies without coming to a battle, which gained 
the point in view, the ſecuring of Valencia, But, 
men's characters, though ſupported. by the evidence 

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of falls, hike texts of Scripture, are frequently 
miſinterpreted by the prejudice, ignorance, or intereſt 
of the parties concerned; nor is the adamantine ar- 
un of innocence proof againſt the pointed darts 
of calumny ; as appears by the concluſion of Doftor 
Friend's account of the Earl of Peterborough's con- 
duct in Spain; to which I fhall refer the reader, 
ang conclude, with inſerting his preface to the Cam- 
paign od Valencia, which is as follows ; 3 


8 After T had finiſhed the foregoing relatfhn of the 
Earl of Peterboroygh's actions, which had been 

* moſt miſrepreſented, and from aobence all the 0b- 

. Jeftions againſt his 22 ps conduct have arifen : 
Having materials ready at hand, I was tempteas 

to give an account of ſome actions of his lordſhip, 
which have met with a different, but not much = 
better fate; and have been ſo entirely concealed il 
as ſcarce ever to be diſcourſed of in England. 
The campaign of Valencia 1s a ſubjeft ſo new, 
and ſo little known, that I hope upon that account · 
at leaſt it may give ſome entertainment to the i 
reader. The reduction of that kingdom was jo . 
remarkgble, and the methods by which it u. 


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* carried on ſo extraordinary, that, notwith and. 
* ing all the care I ſhall take to relate what poj- 
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kd with the utmoſt veracity and exatineſs, an 
© account of them will ſtill have more the air of 
romance than hiſtory. A courſe of ſuch happy | 
temerities ( make uſe of this term, ſince it 1s 
the faſhionable word to expreſs the actions of bis 


£ lerdſtup) will appear the effect of more thought i 
* and application, un the Huus 9 of war ſeems to i 


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e allow of : And a brief relation of them will ſet 
© the judicious conduct his lordſhip ufed in a true 


ſe light, notwithſtanding fo much ee 5 lence 8 


« ſuch induſtric ous malice,” 


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Who {till got all by thoſe poor wretches ruin: 
Like malefactors at the hands of juſtice. 
If thus receiy'd ! How paid our long arrears ? 
Why— as entruſted miſers 1 the rights 


Of helpleſs orphans, or the widow's tears. 


O ſoldier ! for to thee, to thee, I ſpeak it, 


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oo long conceal'd in thickeſt clouds of night. 
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And make their boſoms glow with horrid joy. 51 


Now ſwift-w -wing'd Fame, attended Report, I 3 | Ss 


Declar'd their ſchemes to the Berian court, | 4 4 
Struck with amazement at the fatal news, =_ ; 
Charles trembled at their vaſt unbounded views ö I | 
Revoly'd Aki, 155 mind the dire event. 3 | 
And to the camp diſclos'd their bold intent. ; 
Thro' all his realms a panic fear was ſpread 


And horror fmil'd to fee the nation's dread. 


Now Charles in ſolemn council held debate 


Againſt the pride of France to guard the ſtate. 


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Till thus he ſpoke, © Jan emulation ceaſe, 

i And reaſon each aſpiring thought appeale ! 
© You ſeem to thirſt for glory, not for blood, 
« Preferring honours to your country's good : 

© Have you forgotten Peterborough's care, 
His conduct in the Barcelona war? 

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Each Spaniard, conſcious of ſuperior worth, A 


Declin'd the leading of their army forth, | I A 
To Peterborough's care the taſk refign'd, 3 
To cruſh ambition by the Gods deſtgn'd; 


Their choice confirm'd, ambaſſadors were ſent 


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And with unweary'd diligence purſu'd, 
* Rally'd their ſcatter d forces in the flight, 


* And burn'd impatient for a ſecond fight,” 


Encamp'd before Mattheo's walls, the foe | 


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To vanquiſh'd ſlaves no quarter to afford, 


But give them up to the deſtructive ſword, 


Great Peterborough's ſoul was mov'd with grief, 


And vow'd with utmoſt ſpeed to bring relief; 


Already touch'd with pity ſeem'd to hear 


The orphan's cry, and mourn each widow's tear, 


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No thirſt of fond ambition to be great, 


To ſwell in pomp, and ſhine a wretch in ſtate, 


Rous'd him to arms, or drew him to the field ; 


But to make each invaſive tyrant yield; 


To fave the weak from the oppreſſor's force, 


And let impartial juſtice take her courſe. 


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Contending nations join in his applauſe, 


Whoſe glorious deeds ſupport the common cauſe, 


When dangers threaten, and impending fate 


Charg'd with deſtruction, hovers o'er a ſtate, 43 
Tis then the godlike qualities, that form I 1 
A hero, ſtruggle with the riſing iorm : AY 


In peace a = rides in Neptune's car, 3 


But Vernon guides the thunder of the war. 


Thus when rebellion rear'd her impious head, 


The ſport of France and Rome, the nation's dread, 7 f 


Our Generals abaſh'd, no longer ſtood 
Before theſe ſons of rapine bath'd in blood; | 
Till the brave genius of our iſle aroſe A 


To check the rapid progreſs of our foes ; | 3 


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Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 61 


To drive theſe upſtart warriors from the land, 
Who fled before the youth's victorious hand: 
But, when they breathe again their native air, 
Their drooping hopes revive from dark deſpair ; 
Their ſcatter'd forces, near the banks of Spey, 


Where mighty Cumberland, ordain'd by fate 
To ſcourge rebellion, and preſerve the ſtate, , 
Swift thro' their thickeſt ranks like lightning flew, 


And vanquiſh'd with his arms the rebel crew. 


Thus England, reſcu'd from the fouleſt ſhame 
That ever tainted her victorious name, 
With loud repeated ſhouts reſounds his praiſe, 


Whoſe valour could her ſinking glory raiſe ; 


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Applauding ſenates ſhow their juſt regard, 


* And with rich gifts his blooming worth reward. 


What anxious cares revolve within his breaſt N * 
To raiſe the weak, and Gratis the diſtreſs'd ? 3 c 
His firm aſſociates penſive round him wait 5 1 
To hold on liberty's dear cauſe debate. 3 62 
When thus great Peterborough filence broke, 3 428 
$ Beria ſhudders at the Gallic yoke, 3 oy 
Before Mattheo's walls aſpiring France 3 = 
With freſh recruited troops their arms advance ; 3 6-4 


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What then remains, but ſtratagems to try, 
And not upon our army's ſtrength rely ? 


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Aſſembled warriors his deſigns approve, 


And bleſs the counſel of the man they love. 


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With chearful hopes their fainting ſouls inſpire, Av 


Who ſpread among their troops a falſe report, } Th 


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Soon as the ſun, from his meridian height 


: : Declining, left his empire to the night, 


Our army marches. on with ſilent pace 
Thro' fable darkneſs to the deſtin'd place : 
Within Traguera's walls his forces lay, 


Big with expectance of approaching day. 


EX While bold invaders all the land infeſt; 
3 The dire event of war IIis mind employs, 
3 | Averſe to pleaſure and its fleeting joys. 


rde hardy ſoldiers, ſpent with rugged toil, 


In golden dreams enjoy the with'd-for ſpoil. 
Soon as the morn in purple dawn aroſe, 
Each warrior ſtarted from his ſoft repoſe ; 


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Their enſigns to the adverſe hoſt diſplay d. 


With horror ſtruck, They ſcarce believe their eyes, 


„ Unmanly fears in every breaſt ariſe ; 


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* How ſhall we ward this unexpected ſtroke ? 


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© Then let us fly from this impending blow, 

Nor glut with ſlaughter the devouring foe ! 
Confed'rate hoſts approve his fears, and fly 

Swift as Jove's lightning darting thro' the ſky ; 


Fear gave them wings : by cowardice betray'd, 


They ſeek in-diſtant regions further aid. 


Great Peterborough's ſoul diſdain'd to own 


An eaſy conqueſt abo ſlaughter won. 


His murm'ring ſoldiers curſe their daſtard hoſt, 
To have the glory of the battle loſt. 
Mattheo's walls with thund'ring cannons roar 3 


No ſad complaints their wretched ſtate deplore; 


Exulting joy ſits ſmiling in each face, 


Deſpair and meagre famine fly the place ; 


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And proſtrate fall before the hero's feet; | | A; 


Their eyes, o'erflowing with a generous tear, 


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While joyful acclamations rend the ſkies, 3 * 
And Spain on Peterborough's care relies, 9 5 t at 
Advice arrives, that other cities dread 3 Hy 
The common foe, and wiſh him at their head; 2 T! 
That Anjou's forces laid the country waſte, _ 4 T] 
Their churches raz'd, and images defac'd ; 1 
Whoſe oath decreed the Bourbon line ſhould reign, 2 Ar 
And Charles in exile mourn his conquer'd Spain; 3 
That a dark gloom of horror ſeizes all, 


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And trembled at the diſtant din of war. 


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The product of ſome foreign clime to gain, 
With riches franght, in ſight of harbour fails, 
Their canvas wings diſtent with happy gales ; 


The billows roar, and ſudden ſtorms ariſe , 


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; z Thick clouds of darkneſs ſpread before their eyes; 
; 3 They view, with longing hopes, the neighb'ring 
3 {trand, 


And fear a ſhipwreck in the ſight of land. 
3 | Great Peterborough's ſoul by danger try'd, 
Not on his numbers, but his cauſe rely'd ; 


Y Summon'd/ a council, and with ſteady thought, 


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Some in debate with earneſt zeal declare „ 


Valencia, for the bloody ſcene of war; 


While others Catalonia's fate deplore, 18 


Which conqueſt would increaſe their growing pow r. WM © ] 


Thus various ſentiments their hearts divide, 


But Peterborough's thoughts their actions guide : MF * 


La) 
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When thus the hero ſpoke, © Your monarch's life b 


© Demands our preſence, and concludes the ſtrife; WM ! 
N A WP 


If my reſolve determine the debate, Bm 


We ſhould affiſt the Catalonian ſtate : | 3 700 


Report confirms, that, by the cloſe of night, | $ "2 


* To Nules the vanquiſh'd urg'd their rapid flight, 3 d 
Which diſaffected town receives thoſe ſlaves, 


* 
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* And Gallic troops from Enghſh fury ſaves; 
g "DRY to be ſubject to your Auſtrian liege, . 4 


— © Well fortify'd to ſtand a vigorous ſiege : 


3 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 71 


. chould our ſtrong engines, like Fove's thunder, 
make 


Their turrets from their firm foundations ſhake, 


WT. s Numbers ſuperior to our troops remain 
o ſtand an open battle on the plain: 
e: Vet Nules we muſt with violence aſſail, 


s life 1 And lay their turrets equal with the vale. 


5 perhaps theſe ſons of war, with ſwift-wing'd flight 
f ] Who ſhunn'd the danger of a glorious fight, 


A 


Curs'd from their birth with an aſpiring mind, 
By nature flaves to tyranny deſign'd 


Who bear war's rugged diſcipline and toil, 


AR 


Not for the hopes of liberty,— but ſpoil ; 


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When they behold our troops in juſt array 


Againſt the walls intrepid urge their way, 


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72 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 

Life blaſted with — may ſooner chuſe, | 
< Than dare to proſecute ambition's views. 

Tho' ſome the raſhneſs of his counſel blame, 

Yet more with ſhouts their loud aſſent proclaim ; 


Nor did his bold conjectures prove in vain, 


Soon as his army glitter'd on the plain, 


Their daſtard forces left the trembling town, 


And all alliances with Nes diſown. 

But what did this avail ? Their ſtrengthen'd tow'rs 

Could ſtand ſecure againſt united pow'rs. 

What then remains ? With long fatigues o'ercome, 

His ſoldiers, wiſhing for their native home, 

In moving terms with earneſt zeal implore, 

To view with longing eyes the Britiſb e. 

Firm to his purpoſe, Herend thought, 

That conqueſt with his blood was cheaply bought ; 
Collected 


Col 


Sec 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 73 
Collected in himſelf, refoly'd alone 

By a bold ſtratagem to gain the town ; 

Then to their gates like war's intrepid God, 


Secure of fate, in martial pomp he rode. 


The foe, aſtoniſtrd at the bold deftgn; 
Shudder'd with fear, nor dard to paſs the line: 
When thus the godlike hero ſilence broke, 

5 And to their frighten'd hoſt in thunder ſpoke : 
© Inhabitants of this defenceleſs town, 
b Who build your ſafety on a falſe renown; 
Let not my troops for an ade wait: 
Within fix minutes ope the city gate! 
© Elke, at the dreadful period of that time, 


* DeſtruQtive vengeance ſhall o'ertake your crime.” 


Li: Selected 


74 Poems on ſeverdl Occaſions. 
Selected prieſts unfold the diſmal tale, 


And ſudden fears o'er reaſon's pow'r prevail; 


Alternate paſſions in their boſoms riſe, 


And floods of tears run guſhing from their eyes 10 


When thus their chief determin d, © Tis too late Bu 
To check his conqueſts, or ſupport our ſtate; Ar 
© Then ſwift as thought the tenfold barrier burſt, 
And let us to the victor's mercy truſt.” 
1 
Now all their gates expanded wide behold, Re 
As if their magiſtrates the city ſold. To 
In awful pomp their penſive forces Rand; By 
And beg him not to ſacrifice the land, 2 
Like vanquiſh'd ſenators of ancient Roe, TE 
When the proud victor ſpoke their fatal doom. Al 


Touch'd 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


75 


Touch'd with compaſſion at the moving fight, 


He rais'd the ſuppliant, did the orphan right; 


To brutal luft no virgin fell a prey, 


No foldiers plunder'd with a tyrant's ſway 


But all their hero's bright example take, 


And the ſad captives joyful ſubjects make, 


IIow with ſo weak an army to maintain 
The conqueſts, which his ſtratagems obtain, 
Requir'd cen Peterborough's utmoſt care 


To prove ſucceſsful in a future war. 


By his command ſuch falſe reports were ſpread, 


That thouſands were purſuing thoſe that fled : 
Thus by his conduct, and intrepid law, 


Almoſt alone he kept the world in awe. 


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But now reflecting in his anxious mind, 
How many various toils remain behind z 
His harraſs'd troops with labour worn away 
Without ſupplies, his cavalry's decay : 
Neceſſities like theſe demand relief, 
And break the ſlumbers of our anxious chief. 


Yet, by his happy conduct in a town, 
Which ſcarcely did the victor's triumph own, 
He form'd a cavalry, then march'd away, 

To meet ſome forces which at diſtance lay. 
His officers on Orepeſa's plain 
Had Jong expected his return in vain, 


When from afar their longing eyes behold 


Their much-loy'd hero clad in burniſh'd gold ; 


Reviving 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſionn. 77 
Reviving hopes their drooping ſpirits warm, 
And diſtant 3 have the power to charm : 
As he approach'd, they ran with eager pace 
To claſp their general in a cloſe embrace; 
With joy reciprocal their boſoms beat ; 


Fer abſence makes the pleaſure more compleat. 


But now ſeverer thoughts the chief engage 
To guard Valencia from their hoſtile rage: 
by Saguntun!'s walls his deſtin'd march oppoſe, 
The ſtrongeſt bulwark of his vanquiſh'd foes; 
Before its feet the foaming ſurges roar, 
And Neptune. with his trident guards the ſhore, 
With mountains on each fide encompaſs'd round, 


Which fortify the city like a mound : 


* Now called Molvi euro. 


78 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
Theſe muſt be paſs'd, and with inceſſant pain | G 
The ſoldiers ſtrive the ſteep aſcent to gain. | 4 


One ſtratagem remains to ſpeed his courſe, =» 3 


Which may ſupply the want of hoſtile force. 4 


M The ſwifteſt couriers by coma were ſent =_ * 
To ſeek Mahon: at his royal tent, ] #1 
To whiſper in his ear, the victor thought | , 
*f That peace might flouriſh without battles fought, E + ] 


If both ſhould on parole of honour meet, N © \ 


And of the public welfare fairly treat. iv « \ 


The terms accepted, at the place aſſign d. * I 
They meet, by ſacred laws of nations join d:. 1 


When thus great Peterborough ſpoke, No more 


© Let ſlaughter bathe her hands in human gore 


But 


Poems on ſeveral Ocea ſios. 79 


FgRut let us chuſe ſome gentler means to ſave 


Our hardy legions from the dreary grave! 


Me come not to plunge nations in deſpair, 


But, like a ſtorm, to purge infected air. 

Should you reſiſt, and in a bold deſign 

© Think your troops able to encounter mine, 

© No laws of friendſhip could preſerve the town; | 
! Your raſhneſs makes the bloody deed your own. 

Have you forgotten, when your army fought 

© With ſome ſucceſs, and conqueſt dearly bought ? 

With what a waſte of death they ſtrow'd the plain, 

While cruelty drove on with looſen'd rein: 


Then yield a paſſage ! leſt your ſoldiers feel 


* The bloody wounds of our avenging ſteel.” 


80 Poems on ſeveral Occaſtons. 
When thus Mahoni ſpoke, © Illuſtrious peer! 


"Tis not in menaces to make us fear: 


* 


La) 


We own thy great exploits, and, tho' our ſtars 


la) 


Have doom'd us not confed'rates in the wars, 


A 


Still, by a ſympathy of ſouls divine, = H 


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| My reaſon muſt applaud thy great deſign, ET 


| o ſtrive to make contending nations ceaſe, W 
© And fix mankind in honourable pence :” Jo 
But what would the malicious world report? 1 
ll | 

„ My name muſt ſtand the cenſure of a court, | Ee 


Where ſervile ſlaves in mean dependance wait (T 


© To blaſt the riſing merit of the great : | F Ga 


ll. ut let impartial juſtice hold the ſcale, 2 An 


* Should I reſiſt, your forces muſt prevail; 


[I When night has to her fable noon aroſe, 
WH > 


© Your pow'rs may paſs, nor ſhall my troops oppoſe. 


He 


1 | 
| | | | Thus 


Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 81 


© Thus prudence. bids me ſacrifice my fame, 


© And for my country's ſervice ſuffer ſhame.” 
Thus, by the nicer conduct of the brain, 
He gain'd a paſlage to Palencia's plain, | 
What ardent tranſports in their boſoms glow'd, | | 
When they beheld from far their guardian God? 
. Joyful as angels when by fiends diſmay d 

The great Meſſiah thunder'd to their aid, 

Een ſtern eccleſiaſticks laid aſide | 

(To welcome him) their ruling paſſion, pride; 
Gaz'd on his form, in admiration loſt, 


And ſtrove with zeal who ſhould applaud him moſt, 


Thus by his conduct, and inceſſant toil, 
. He r eap d the victory without the ſpoil: > 
. 1 NM 1 The 


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Till the aſtoniſh'd world beheld her fall. 


82 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 

The houſe of Auſtria ſeated on a * throne 

By conqueſts, which a Britiſh ſubject won. 
3 is his glory, greater England's ſhame, 

To blaſt with cenſure that illuſtrious name. 
While crouds revile (mean refuſe of a court) 
The guardian of their laws, their chief ſupport : 
When merit finds from princes no regard, 


"Tis then that virtue is its own reward. 


May ſome auſpicious bard ariſe to ſave 
Thoſe great exploits from time's eternal grave 


When Barcelona rung with loud alarms, 


And felt the force of his victorious arms; 


A + city deem'd impregnable by all 


2 
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* The kingdom of Valencia. 4. With ſo ſmall a force. 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 83 
But pining envy, fick to hear his praiſe, 
Strove by falſe tales to blaſt his digg bays. 
Still by mean arts each action was defam'd, 


His merit leſſen d, and his conduct blam d. 


But ſhould all poetry with Pope expire, 


And none preſume to touch the ſacred lyre, 


Theſe ſervile “ times no glorious deeds produce, 
Worthy the fame of an immortal muſe : 
Ambaſſadors are ſent, aa treating made, 

Arm'd ſquadrons fitted out, and penſions paid ; 
Pacific armies bluſter thro' the land, 


And admirals,— to keep the peace, — command; 


FY 


9 * 


* Theſe lines were writ ſome years ago, when the nation ſeverely 
ſelt the truth of them, notwithſtanding the poem appears to be of a later 
date by ſome paſſages ſince inſerted. 


M 2 Tho- 


84 Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 

Tho nations hale us Neptune of the ſea, 

Yet Spain like ¶olus uſurps the ſway. 

But ſuch the ſpirit of the laureat's odes, 

His glowing lines can make mere mortals Gods : 


Sound thro' the world Britannia's high renown, 


And make France tremble if our Cæſar frown. 


How hard a fate to ſacrifice thy blood, 
O Peterborough, for the public good! 
To bear the toils of war in foreign climes, 
And when return'd,— to ſtand the charge of crimes ! 


But, while old England's genius rears her head, 


Still ſhall you ſtrike in diſtant nations dread. 


Thoſe honours you deſerve, let others claim! 
Poſterity will bleſs your glorious name, 
J 


And future times reward your injur'd fame. 


On 


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Poems on ſeveral .Occafrons: 8 5 


0n the Death of the Reverend Mr. John 
= Student of Chriſt-Church in 
Oxtord. 


Erat homo ingenioſus, acutus, & acer, 
qui plurimum & ſalis haberet, & fellis, 


nec candoris minus. 0M $ Epiſtles. 


” H O' vain the tributary tears we ſhed = 2 


For friends in exile, or untimely dead; 


When men diſtinguiſh'd for their merit die, 
The muſes love to ſing their elegy ; 
In humble ftrains the mournful theme purſue, 


And give to friendſhip rigid virtue's due. 


What honeſt nature dictates void of art, 


With eyes o'erflowing and a bleeding heart, 


Free 


86 Poems on feveral Occaſions. 
Free from the labour'd ornament of verſe, 
Shall pay the tribute due to Bingham's hearſe. 
Oh could theſe lines (illuſtrious ſhade) reſtore 
Life to thoſe virtues, which are now no more 
E'en * C— — would bleſs the ſacred nine, 


And own their inſpiration was divine. 


In dawn of lite ſo ſtrong thy merit ſhone, 
Mankind could ſcarce expect a brighter noon : 
Sure Oxford univerſal ſorrow wears, 


And s ſtream increaſes with her tears; 


Such was her grief, when Milton's + fon expir'd, 


A rifing genius by the world admir'd, 


Ee ——_— 


* His metaphyſical head had a particular averſion to poetry, which 


he expreſſed on all occaſions. 
Shilling, &c, 


+ Philips, author of the Splendid 


'Too 


But 


20 


Without the help of flattery, was thine, 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 87 


Too partial fate will let the fool and knave 
Drag in contempt their beings to the grave; 
But like a tyrant labours to deſtroy 
All that excel in worth, or give us joy, 

Who ſhine like meteors glorious in their birth, 


But ſoon in blazing ruins ſink to earth. 


So good Marcellus periſh'd in his bloom, 
The riſing hope and ornament of Rome, 
With every ſhining quality adorn'd, 


Like thee, by men of worth and virtue mourn'd. 


What art can reach, or ſcience can define, 


Among philoſophers, or wits, to ſhine, 8 


Youth's 


88 Poms on ſeveral Occaſſont. 


Youth's giddy ſons, or age ſeverely wiſe, Th 
From thy ſweet converſe could inſtructed riſe, W 
Bleſs'd with a genius for each ſcience fit, | Th 
With ſtrength of judgment and a ready wits | Re 
Thy copious talents would our envy move, BE 
Had not thy ſweet behaviour won our love. Ad: 
Firm to his principles, 10 honour juſt, Suc 

Faithful as guardian angels to their truſt; Ane 

He gave his friends and acai their due, 
Above their praiſes and their cenſure _. 8 
Wh 

Severe in morals, honeſt without art, Wh 
An able head, and incorrupted heart; Or | 
Poſſeſo d of little, with a chearful mind His 
He reliſh'd life, and was in death reſign d : And 


The 


Poems 0n ſeveral Occaſions. 8 
The gay nge the heart- felt joy, 
Were his, which fortune never could deſtroy. 
The beſt companion, the ſincereſt friend, 


Rever'd in life, lamented in his end. 


How few like him in early youth approv'd, | 
Admir'd by enemies, by friends belov'd | 1 
Such is the merit of an honeſt fame, | 


And ſuch the character his virtues claim. 


Sometimes in converſe o'er the midnight bowl, 

When wine unfolds the ſecrets of the ſoul, | 

When abſent friends our grateful thoughts engage, 
Or beauties that adorn and charm this age, 


His ſacred image damps my rifing mirth, | 


And gives to ſad reflections hateful birth; | 


he bY N Imagination 


go. Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Imagination paints the pleaſure paſt, 


But ſo refin'd a bliſs could never laſt ; 


On every word each gueſt enraptur'd hung, 


And bleſs'd the genius that inſpir d his tongue. 


Now women, wine, nor mirth have pow'r to 
move, 
The friend that ſhares my ſoul, or fair I love ; 
His dear 1 ſtrikes my troubled mind, 
And caſts all other pleaſures far behind; 
Then let the penſive muſe reſign her pen, 


And weep no longer o'er the beſt of men. 


On 


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Poems os ſeveral Occaſions. 91 


On the Death of the Right H. onourable Lord 
Caſtlecomer in 1736. 


F Arewel thou blooming hope of Albion's iſle, 


Whoſe converſe could the cares of life beguile! 


| Enrich'd with lively wit, with arts adorn'd, 


In the firſt ſcene of youth, admir'd and mourn'd ; 
Whom Heaven repenting thought a gift too great, 
And early ſnatch'd thee to a better ſtate; 

Where ſouls like thine, of an exalted: kind, 

From every mean nd vulgar thought refin'd, 
Dwell in pure regions of immortal joy, 

Where nothing can the high-wrought bliſs deſtroy; 
Where injur'd innocence kind angle guard, 


And ſlighted virtue meets a ſure reward. 


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Lamented youth! What tears of ſorrow flow? 


How every penſive boſom heaves with woe ? 


2 
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While all whoſe breaſts the tuneful nine inſpire, 


In melancholy numbers void of art, 


Speak the ſad language of an aching heart. 


Since the frail ſiſters cut thy {lender thread, 
And you are rank'd among th' illuſtrious dead; 
Now eyery coxcomb's fond ambition ends, 
Whom vanity, or fortune, made your friends; 
When the mean tribe of ſlaves no longer wait 
To croud like paraſites your palace-gate ; 

The facred mule, to friendſhip ever dear, 


O'er thy cold aſhes ſheds a grateful tear: 


Tho' dumb with grief, yet touch the moving lyre; 


= 


At 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 93 


"Tis her's to pay the laſt ſad tribute due 


To celebrated worth in friends like you; a 


In humble ſtrains to make their merit known, 


Or mark their virtues on the ſculptur'd ſtone. 


Wandsford farewel! in whom kind nature join'd 
Whatever could inſtruct, or charm the mind; 
With learning candour, modeſty with truth, 


The ſage's wiſdom with the fire of youth ; 


Whoſe affability and winning air 


Could entertain a friend, or pleaſe the fair Jo 

Who made ſtern honour all his actions guide; 
Tho' 111 born, without one ſpark of pride; 
Whoſe glory on its own foundation ſtood, 5 


And claim'd no merit from deſcent of blood. 


When 


94 Poems on ſeveral Occaſious. 


When the gay ſcene of fleeting joy is oer, 


And the world's vanities delight no more, 


The parting ſoul reflecting on thy death 


Shall yield with greater joy her lateſt breath ; 
Without one ſtruggle bid the world adieu, 
And wing her flight to happineſs and you, 


—— 


The third Ode of the Second Book of Horace, 


addreſſed to my Friend Charles Beaumont. 


\ N Hatever fortune, Beaumont, is thy lot, 


This moral maxim never be forgot ! 


Whether 


DUAM memento rebus in arduts 


Servare mentem; non fects in bonts 


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Whether the fickle Goddeſs ſmile, or low'r, 
To riſe ſuperior to her boaſted pow'r, 
And ſpite of fate enjoy the preſent hour. 
But, if ſhe ſhift the variable . 
With the ſame calm preſerve the golden mean. 
Whether our days are ſpent in gloomy care, 


Or bleſs'd in revels with the wanton fair; 


Whether 


— 


Ab inſolenti temperatam 
Letitid, moriture Delli, 
Seu meftus omni tempore vixeris, 
Seu te in remoto gramine per dies 


Feſtos rechnatum bedris 


Interiore nota Falerni. 


96 Poems on ſeveral Occafrons. 


Whether we curb each ſally of the ſoul, 
Or feaſt our genius o'er the flowing bowl, 
Time meaſures out our lives with equal pace, 


Till every mortal runs his deſtin'd race. 


Where the tall pine and paper branch unite, 
And aut heat admit the friendly light; 
Where alrer ſtreams in clear meanders glide, 
And gently 8 as they roll their tide: 


There 


Dud pinus ingens albaque populus 
Umbram hoſpitalem conſociare amant 
Rams, & obliquo laborat 


Lympha fugax trepidare rivo; 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 97 


There let ſome Ganymede freſh chaplets brin g. 


The ſhort-liv'd glories of the blooming ſpring; 


| Th ere in gay converſe, while the fates permit, 


Indulge the joys of wine, and flights of wit: 
For ſoon you mult reſign the purchas'd grove, 


The ſtately fabric, and the nymph you love, 


Your cumulated riches prove the ſhare 4 


Of ſome deteſted wife, or ſpend- thrift heir. 


What — 


Huc vina & unguenta, & nimium brevis 
Flores amænos ferre jube roſe, 
Dum res, & Glas, & fororum 
Fila trium patiuntur atra. 
Cedes coemptis ſaltibus, & domo, 
Villdque, flavus ales Tiberts lavit 2 


O Cedes ; 


98 Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 


What !— tho we vainly ſhould derive our blood 


From diſtant chronicles beyond the flood ; 


Or with humility confeſs it run 


From ſome mean parent to his meaner ſon 


 Cedes z & extructis in altum 
Divitiis potietur bares. 
Diveſne, priſco & natus ab Tnacho, 
Nil intereſt, an pauper, & infimd 
De gente ſub dio moreris, 
Vicrina nil miſerantis orci. 
Ons eodem cogimus : onmun 
Verſatur urnd, ſerilis, ocius 
Sor's exitura, & nos in eri 1117 


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The ſame impartial fate o'erwhelms us all- 


Fools, knaves, and heroes, undiſtinguiſh'd fall. 


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Horace, addreſſed to a Gentleman at 
Cambridge. 


W HAT makes the haughty Spaniards riſe 


in arms, 


And France aſpiring kindle war's alarms: 

While hoſtile armies in dire conflict join, 

And ſlaughter bath'd in 'blood defies the Rhine? 
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Hirpine Quinti, cogitet, Adrid 
Divijus objecto, remittas 
Querere ; nec trepides in uſum 


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100 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
Aſk not, my friend! but with the ſprightly bowl 
Chear the ſad anguiſh of your drooping ſoul ; 
Nor let the proſpect of a future ill 


Reſtrain your pleaſure, or controul your will. 
The blooming beauty of your youth will fly, 

As ſudden ftorms o'ercaſt the cleareſt iky; 

N Cold hoary age ſucceeds with aching pains, 

. And chills the ſprightly blood within your veins: 
Then every wanton hope, and gay deſire, 

Will with declining youth too ſoon expire; 


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Pellente laſcivos anores 


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Een ſleep, that ſolace to a troubled breaſt, 

Flies from old age, nor lulls its cares to reſt. 
Fair Henry's blooming charms too ſoon will fade, 
And waining beauty bring Philander aid; 

Tho' wanton love now revels in her eye, 

And raſh admirers gaze, tho' ſure to die. 

Check not with thought the gay deſires of youth, 
In queſt of lucre, or in ſearch of truth ! 


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— Verns, neque uno luna rubens nitet 
Vultu.. Quid æternis minorem 
Conſiliis animum fatigas 2 
Cur non ſub altd vel platano, vel bac 


Pinu jacentes fic temere, & rosa NED 


Von Canos 


102 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


But in high ſpirits fill the ſparkling glaſs, 
And drink a bumper to ſome favrite laſs ! 


"Tis wine that diſſipates the cares of life, 


A perjur'd miſtreſs, or a ſcolding wife; 
A jealous friend, a mean inſulting foe, 
And every moving circumſtance of woe. 


What youth will temperate the heated wine, 


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Or beckon 1 another harlot's fan | 
Acroſs the Mall to gay laſcivious man? 
Nor let the wanton ſtay to curl her hair 
Decently lewd, and negligently fair; 
But let the ſyren bring her artful lyre, 
To raiſe our paſſions, and increaſe their fire. 
Thus pleaſure ſhall improve each fleeting Hour, | 


And fix our happineſs within our pow'r. 


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Maturet, incumptum Lacænæ 


More comam reli gata nodum. 


104 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 


An Epiſtle to the Honourable Henry Ba- 
thurſt, E/; Member of Parliament for 
Cirenceſter in Glouceſterſhire. 


O thee; dear Bathurſt, this epiſtle's ſent 
F Io tell you how my leiſure hours are ment ; 
To ſhow what paſſions in my boſom roll, 
Unfold my heart, and open all my ſoul. 


You know I held it always for a rule; 
To loath a villain; and deſpiſe a fool; 
Nor court the vulgar for their weak applauſe, 


To ſooth my vanity, or aid my cauſe. 


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Still the ſame courſe my ſteady ſoul purſues, 


Firm to my friend, my miſtreſs, and the muſe: 


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When the ſick groan beneath their racking pains, 


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Nor can o'er midnight lamps with thought grow pale, | 
To tell the world what wretched mortals all; 


What foul diſeaſe is working in their veins, 


Hrotutrath and Galen are not read, . 
But Horace, Ovid, Virgil, in their ſtead ; 
And Juvenal, whoſe manly ſpirit glows 
With ſharp-edg'd ſatyr againſt virtue's foes : 
Vice flies before him, while his honeſt page 


Paints in ſtrong colours a corrupted age; 


A Meſſalina, reeking from the ſtews, 
Improves the force of his ſatyric muſe ; 
In vain her actions ſeek the gloom of night, 


Drawn by his pen in an immortal light. 


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b Since human life's extent is ſcarce a ſpan, 
And few the tranſitory joys of man; 


How vain their toil, who ſpend their early days 


In painful ſtudy for immortal praiſe ? 

Who ſearch the Grecian, and the Roman ſtore, 

And the vaſt depth of ſciences explore ; 

Not that the mind ſhould be to virtue wrought, 
i To raiſe the ſoul, or elevate the thought 3 
To make mankind with equal ſcorn abhor 
if | The ridicule of want, and pride of pow'r ; 

8 But like mean wretches proſtitute their parts, 
bl | Io ſerve weak heads, or baſe corrupted hearts; 
1 | To ſooth ambition, or to flatter pride, 


And make the luſt of gold their actions guide ; 


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When once they deviate from virtue's rules, 


Each added beauty makes their guilt the more; 


Let your juſt principles remain the ſame 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 107 


When ſuch the motives, their ſuperior ſenſe 


As women to whom laviſh nature gave 


Charms that can make the coldeſt heart their ſlave, 
And ſacrifice their modeſty to fools, 
For {till the faireſt is the greateſt whore, 

While your bark fails life's navigable ſtream, 
Let ſtricteſt honour be your firm ſupport, 
And for a penſion ſcorn to cringe at court! 
Fearleſs of cenſure act a Roman part, 


And boldly ſpeak the dictates of your heart; 


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And prove your country's intereſt your own. 


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April 14, 1737. 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Long may you live to make your virtues known, 


I call the ſacred muſes to my aid, 

Where laviſh nature charms the raviſh'd ſight, 
To ſet her beauties in the faireſt light; 
Accept the tribute of a grateful heart, 

Who loaths the varniſh of the courtier's art ; 
But, were my genius equal to my will, 


Thy green retreat ſhould rival Cowper” - il. 


Paul's-Walden. A Poem addreſſed to my 
Uncle, Edward Gilbert, Eig. 


HILE ftretch'd at eaſe beneath thy ſylvan 


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Far from the noify tumult of the great, 


With books and exerciſe the time beguile, 


With ſocial aid each other to refine. 


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Curs'd with no mean dependance on the ſtate, 
You,— to your rural ſolitude retire, 


And ſhun the follies which the world admire 3 


And with a taſte improve the ſtubborn ſoil, 


Where nature and induſtrious art combine 


How vleafing i is TOM any ? Where 1 ſtood 


A defart s wild uncultivated wood, 
Where loathſome weeds and rugged brambles grew, 


A fair creation riſes to the view; 


So from old Chaos, wrap'd in gloomy night, 
A paradiſe was open'd to the ſight, 


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How vain the toil of rude magnificence, 
To level mountains at a vaſt expence; 
Except a taſte with equal luſtre ſhine 


Throughout, and animate the whole deſign b, 


Elfe ſtately temples riſe in dreary vales, 


And ſhips in verdant trees expand their fails ; 


Birds, tygers, elephants, — a motley crew, 


While heroes fight, and giants frown in yew ; 


Where art and nature fooliſhly contend 


To fruſtrate,— not promote each other's end. 


On a ſmall hill a decent fabric ſtands, 


Which gives a bounded proſpect o'er the lands; 


Where waving fields of golden corn appear, 
The ſmiling product of the fruitful year. . 


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From thence behold a level verdant plain, 
Smooth as the ſurface of a haleyen main: 
Then circling walks their leafy ſhades extend, 
Which ſcem to puzzled Rebtiehs without end; 
Till ſome new Webtes Attack the wond' ring eyes, 2 


And with a gay variety ſurprize. 


Swift o'er the plain tho rapid whirlwinds ſweep, 


Like ſudden tempeſts o'er the troubled deep; 


From the rough northern blaſt ſecure you walk, 


And ſcarce a murmur interrupts your talk. 


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Where (pleaſing fight) the ſun's refulgent beam 
Glides oer the ſurface of the filver ſtream. 


As you thro' various paths the walk purſue, 


A hermitage ariſes to the view ; 

Not built to vy with Carolina's taſte, 

Poliſh'd with art, with learned buſto's grac'd ; 
But unadorn'd, as ſuits a hermit's ſtate, 


Where he might live content, and bleſs his fate. 


While thro' the mazy labyrinth you rove, 


The path conducts you to an orange grove, 


Where golden-colour'd fruit ſuſpend the trees, 
And fragrant odours ſcent the wafting breeze, 


Not far beneath, a lucid fountain plays, 


Whoſe ſtream reflects the ſun's departing rays. 


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When the green hill your winding footſteps gain, 


And to the pleas'd ſpectator ſeem to live. 


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To change the ſcene, yet pleaſe with taſte polite, 
An amphitheatre's majeſtic height 


By flow degrees above the wood aſcends, 


And a clear proſpect all around extends. 
A temple overlooks the diſtant plain. 


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Within the dome is elegantly wrought 


The pictur'd labour of the artiſt's thought: 


Immortal bards from him new fame receive, 


Firſt Cowley's image riſes to the view, a 
Who charms with ſprightly wit for ever new; 
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Who weary with the follies of the great, Ay 


To {ſtudy nature ſought a calm retreat 5 | W 


And left the buſy world to knaves and fools, Im 


In ſearch of happineſs by wiſdom's rules. W 
Next Virgil's awful form, in whoſe ſtrong lines E 7 
The Roman genius in an e ſhines; | An 

| Whoſe flowing verſes woth'd Auguſtus ear, Da 
0 And made the fair A drop a tear, N WI 
When he bewail'd o'er young Marcellus tomb, = He 
His country's hope, v. ho periſh'd in his bloom. As 
Wl Great Dryden next, whole lofty genius role | Yet 
Above the party-malice of his foes ; 3 Gre 


1 Who, with a Juvenal's ſatirick rage, Hoy 


Laſh'd the bold vice of a licentious age; on 


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Immortal Shakeſpear next, whoſe boſom glow'd 


With the full inſpiration of the God, 


On every ſubject captivates the heart. 


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And made him in an Engliſb dreſs appear, 
Which Virgil living would not bluſh to wear. 


What nature taught, her faithful poet drew, 
And open'd all her treaſures to our view. 

Dan. Prior next, a merry bard, ſucceeds, 
hom ſcarce a critic without laughter reads, 
He tells a merry tale with ſo much cafe, 

As cannot fail the ſplenetic to pleaſe : 

Yet with what energy his lines rehearſe 

Great Churchills triumphs in his ſounding verſe ? 


How bleſs'd his talent! who, with various art, 


What numbers can poetic fancy chuſe 
To paint the vigour of a Milton's muſe ? 


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116 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Who ſcorns the bounds of carth, and tow'ring Pe 

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Above the ſtars, and diſtant worlds explores; | Bu 
To foreign climates of his fame 0 boaſt; Str 
And mourn the leſs that paradiſe was loſt. Sw 
Next Homer's image riſes to the ſight, W 


His eyes like Millon's veil'd in ſhades of night. 


Illuſtrious bard ! for ever in his prime, 


Age after age, who triumphs over time. 1 T 
When 6 read, the hero wept, Wd Ee 
(And laid him by his pillow when he ſlept) Cl, 
That no ſuch genius in all Greece aroſe | Ar 
To ſing of 8 o'er his proſtrate foes, In: 
And conſecrate in verſe his glorious name Bu 
To late poſterity, the boaſt of fame. Tc 


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Peculiar beauties to each bard belong, 
And Orpheus Gato the tuneful throng : 


But hark !— the ſolemn organ's ſwelling note 


Strikes onthe ſenſe, and ſooths each troubled thought. 


Swift o'er the keys Belinda's fingers move, 


While fair Cecilia liſtens from above. 


As ancient poets ſing, when Orpheus play'd, 
The ſavage beaſts forſook the rural ſhade ; 
Een the 4 tyger innocently ſtood 
Cloſe by the lamb, nor drank his vital blood ; 
And raviſh'd with the muſic of his ſong 


Inanimated foreſts danc'd along : 


But this fair nymph has the peculiar art 


To charm the liſt'ning ear, and touch the heart; 


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Not brutes, but men, attentive round her ſtand, 


And bleſs the genius that directs her * hand. 


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A terras walk extends for ever green, 
And opens to the fight a various ſcene. 
When the bright ſun withdraws his parting rays, 
And quenches in the ſea his fiery blaze, 

There you may walk uncover'd by the trees, 
O'er the ſmooth blade, and catch the cooling breeze. 
But, if the ſcorching dog-ſtar's ſultry heat 


With beams intenſe upon your temples beat, 


* I ſhall here inſert the objection an ingenious friend made to this 
paſſage, and leave the determination of it to the public, to wit, * This 
paſſage (if I am not miſtaken) ſeems to me to be an Antichimax ; 
you mentioned before the power of Orpheus's muſic over beaſts and 
© the inanimate creation; and afterwards, when you wculd commend 
a lady's execution on the organ, you ſay ſhe has not power to charm 
* brutes but men; which to me falls infinitely ſhort of the exeellency 
of Orpheus. — I think you are miſtaken, and that it is paying the 
lady a greater compliment to ſay, that ſhe is approved of by men of 
taſte, — than brutes. | 


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Thro' the wood's ſhady mazes you return, 


Secure from piercing rays, tho' Sirius burn. 


A palace for the buſy race of bees 
Ariſes next, with various art to pleaſe, 
Which, rugged like the fragment of a rock, 
Preſerves them from a ſudden tempeſt's ſhock. 
A female regent o'er the ſtate preſides, 


And with impartial ſway her kingdom guides. 


Unlike to other courts, here ſubjects thrive, 


Not by vain birth,— but merit in the hive; 


No private luſt of gain, or deadly hate, 


No rage of party- faction rends the ſtate: 


Each little inſect breathes a patriot ſoul, 
Not for himſelf he labours,— but the whole. 


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„ To terminate the view where viſta's end, 
Light ſtatues from their pedeſtals aſcend: 
Such the great artiſt's ſkill, their limbs appear 
In juſt proportion, and their features clear; 


The various paſſions in their viſage glow, 


And o'er each lively form a luſtre throw. 


But now the fates have chang'd the ſcene of bliſs: 
Belinda marry'd equal to Your wiſh, 
Of every noble quality poſſeſs d, 
To make a parent, or a huſband bleſs'd 
Whoſe merit will his happineſs improve, 
To find a fair ſo worthy of his love : 
Where Gib/ide pours her fragrant ſweets around, 


We ſeem to tread upon enchanted ground; 


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There pendant woods adorn the river's ſide, 


Whoſe purling ſtreams in gentle murmurs glide: 


In the bleak north, What blooming groves appear ? 


What harmony delights the raviſh'd ear? 


Where elegance and taſte with art unite, 


To form ſo fine a ſcene to charm the ſight, 


Long may you hve theſe pleaſures to enjoy, 


Which give true happineſs, yet never cloy. 


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liſhed in 1738, with ſome Additions. 


Fremant omnes licet, dicam quod ſentio. 
Cicero. 


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The reaſon of my troubling the reader with this Pre- 
face, is to obviate the objection which coffee-houſe 
critics generally make to poems of this nature. Ut 
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| ig the common cant of ſuch cavillers to ſay, that 
ik the ſatire is not general, and endeavour to point 
* out particular perſons for each character. But I 
6 would have them confider, that a particular fititious 


charadter is a general ſatire : Bond is but one, but 
Harpax 7s @ ſcore.— Every gentleman, that is con- 
verſant with the world, knows there are ſuch a ſort 
of men, as deſcribed in Gripus, Dromo, Papillus, 
Capellus, and other feigned names, though J am 
net acquainted with any perſon that bears the 
leaſt reſemblance of them. As to the real charac- 


0 tiers (except one which will be mentioned hereafter ) 
2 they knew ] have ſufficient reaſon on my own ac- 
1 ccunt, fer treating them in that manner. And I 
WH. wiſh every body would expoſe ſuch men, not only in 
5408 their writings, but in private companies; Who are 
1 fo fond of ſcandal, as to take pains to propagate 
Wl malicious lyes, injurious to the reputation of worthy 
198 men, who are wounded by their poiſonous arrows 
WE: in the dos k, without knowing the authors of their 
1 calamity; . = fuch ought to be branded as the peſts 
Wt of human fociety, without regarding the cenſure of 


the world. They are mean enough to injure any 
man with their tongues, and not generous enough to 
confeſs their errors, when better informed; but 
think it ſufficient if they can avnd public contempt, 
by aſking pardon of the perſon injured ; which 1s 4 


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ipſe ne quid tale poſthac, & cæteri ſint ad inju- 
riam tardiores. Cicero de Officirs, 


Perhaps it may not be amiſs' to declare in this place, 


that there is à great character mentioned in the 
following poem, and ſome other parts of this bbok, 
which the author has no private reaſon either to 
vi ndicate, or arraign. But it being bis opinion, 
that he purſued a ſeries of meaſures evidently de- 
ftruftive to the intereſt of his country, he could not 


help expreſſing his indignation againſt him, in ſucb 


a manner, as his conduct appeared to him to de- 


ſerve; which he thinks ſufficiently confirmed: fince 
by the teſlimony of a great man, in the 15th page 
Faction detected Jo this were added 
* fuch a ſeries of miſtakes, and ſuch unfortunate 
© events, as brought the intereſt of all our alles, 
and conſequently the intereſts of Britain, into the 
* utmoſt danger, the miniſter ſtill unavoidably 
* blundering on, not able to make a peace, nor to 
carry on a war; harraſſing the country by great 
and fruitleſs expences, to provide forces againſt 
events, <vbich were neither ſufficient to anſwer 
the end, and which he never had the reſolution to 
* employ towards the end. Bubbled by France, 
inſulted by Spain, hated by the public; thus the 
refentments of the nation roſe af laſt fo high, that 
they became incapable to confider any danger, or 
to ſuſpect any treachery, but from him. In this 


ſituation of affairs, it is eaſy to account why the 


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public that they did. — The Whigs in the oppo- 
© ſitton thought honeſily, and they thought truly, 


that the nation was imevitably ruined, , this 
miniſter continued to govern in our councils long- 
er. — The houſe of Auſtria, which is as much 
the barrier to the hberties of Britain, as the 


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tual means propefed, no means poſſible, during bis 


' continuance in power, to give it any aſſiſtance. 


In this condition they were compelled to uſe the 
aid of any fet of men whatever to procure the 
removal of this minifler ; and they thought they 
might depend ſafely upon the national experience 


of the paſt ede of the faction, upon the in- 


tegrity and well-meaning of the generality of the 
people, upon the real excellency and peculiar 


bleſſings of ths conſtitution, never in any event 


t0 "ol overborne by either a Jacobite, or Tory 


* facizon, In fine, they truſted to their own in- 
fluence, which then gover ir and directed the 


whole oppoſition without controul, to ſettle and 
conſolidate the principles of the nation, as foon 
as the miniſter was removed, and his meaſure 


red:fied.” 


L ci theſe confuderations and the ſucceeding pages 
of this able writer, it appears plainly to me, that, 
if he had been a penſrner of France and Spain, 

Ve could not have purſued meaſures, more effectually 
than he did, to promote their intereſt, at the ex- 
Vence of this noticn. What indignation muſt it 


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If you preſume to ridicule a beau, 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſ ons. 125 


raiſe in every honeſt breaſt? (except bis prejudices 
are as ſtrong as bigotry) to recollect to what à de- 
plorable condition this wicked miniſter had reduced 
his country; whoſe weak and daſtardly conduct for 
twenty years together had funk the glory, and ſo 
far deſtroyed the credit of the nation, as to ren- 


der its very being Pprecarious. Then why ſhould 


his infamy be buried with him in oblivion ? Not 
His character ought rather to be hung 
up in effigy (as his perſon often was in his I e- 
time) to deter others from purſuing the ſame perni- 


cious meaſures, in hopes of eſcaping the puntſhment 
due to their guilt, 


No 4 there are ſeveral other characters which 


will fart particulars unknown to the author, who 
hopes ſuch people will not think they ſet for their 
pictures, becauſe they happen to be like them. 


A Satire. 


OUR fpleen is vain, take counſel of a 


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And with ſuch rigour treat thoſe harmleſs things, 
As if they libell'd miniſters or kings. 


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Tho' fools and coxcombs every where abound, 


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And friends, or honeſt men, are ſeldom found; 


Tho' to an eunuch's voice ſuch charms belong, 


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That families are ruin'd for a ſong, 


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Gay Farinelli cuckolds half the nation: 


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To laſh a fav'rite vice, or hint a fault, 


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Tho' tender virgins of the Britiſh iſle 

* Mourn Farinelli's abſence from our foil : 
Perhaps our trade ſome benefit may boaſt, 

* To 1 the loſs of ſuch a toaſt; 

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; © For now the ſyren is the taſte; of Spain, 
No more will Spaniards plunder o'er the main; 


„But raviſh'd with his ſong enchanted lie, 


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such the great pow'r of kings his notes delight, 
He kneels an eunuch, rifes up a “* knight. 


© Then throw afide your pen, nor riſk your fame, 
For the fond hopes of an immortal name 
, Why ſhould you write, what favour can you hope, 
; F u to patrons, bookſellers, or Pope? 
But, if you are reſolv'd the world ſhall know it, 


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© Condemn'd for fins unknown in verſe to drudge, 
And ate mankind your arbitrary judge; 
© To great Auguſtus cradles tune your lyre, 
© The ſubject will heroic thoughts inſpire ; 
And, as his image dignifies the coin, 
His name will conſecrate each worthleſs line; 


And without genius make a poem ſhine. 


© Elſe would the court approve of Cibber's verſe, 


Did not his odes great Cæſar's praiſe. rehearſe : 
* Why then's your blotted page with fatire ſtain'd ? 
As if a Nero, or Domitian, reign'd?” 

How ſeldom poets meet at court reward, 


Except the laureat, and the thraſhing bard ? 


Yet Stephen Duck is tolerably poor, 


And Colly Cibber ſcarce can keep a whore : 


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The magic circle men of merit ſhun, 


Where ſervile fools are fond to be undone; 


T:billu; lives (his country's loſs) tetir'd, 
By all regretted, as by all admir'd ; 
A genius who deſerves a better fate, 
But droops beneath ill fortune's gauling weight: 
While * bards, that tread upon enchanted ground, 
Have all their works in Turky leather bound ; 
And, further to improve the minue ſcene, . 
Adorn the ſtudy of our learned Queen, 

Thus Heſletine, whoſe muſie charms mankind, 
To the dull ſcene of Durbam is confin'd ; 


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Where Dongworth, maſter of the Grecian page, 


Is doom'd to waſte the vigour of his age, 


To cultivate the genius of the north, 


And make the ſons exceed their fathers worth. 
Beades,— my talent ſuits not with their art, 
Who ſpeak a language foreign to the heart; 

Plain honeſt dealing never will offend 

One man, whom I could wiſh to be my friend; 
And as for ſharpers, paraſites, and beaux, 

Pimps, courtiers, knaves, I'd aac have than foes. 
None can like * Clarke-g'es all her virtues run, 
Who ſunk in ſplendor like the ſetting fun, 

To riſe more glorious * the womb of night, 


Array'd like angels in immortal light; 


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And WEED in number 8 O'er the royal herſe; 
Invoke the muſe to ling how Caroline 


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When the ſtrong blaſt of prejudice prevails, 


Or pining envy mourns that malice fails; 
8. Who dare againſt a herd of fools defend, 

in ſpite of calumny, an injur'd friend? 
Who ſcorn to truckle to be meanly great, 


And honour merit in a low eſtate ; 


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Nor proſtitute their parts, or wives at court, 


To gain a penſion's infamous ſupport ;- . 


Theſe are the men; whoſe friendſhip I deſire; 


Approve their converſe, and their worth admire. 


When -fools are lafh'd, by ſympathetic forco | 


All conſcious of their folly rail of courſe : 


As, when aſſaſſins on the wheel are broke, 


Each dark accomplice ſhudders at the ſtroke ; 


As Shepheard's death bath'd Newgate ſons in tears, 


And Ward made thouſands tremble for their ears; 


$o ſatire makes the ſecret villain ſmart, 


Tho' read with pleaſure by an honeſt heart. 


Let the dull penſion'd race of hiteling. bards. 


Deſcribe court virtues, as the court rewards; 


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My ven ſhall never varniſh o'er. diſgrace, 
To gain a great man's promiſe, or a place; 
Nor on immortal Cæſar's worth reſin-c 4 


Here draw a Brunſwic, there a Caroline, ,  v 


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And bribe the muſes to record their praiſe; 5 
Alike to me, the favour or the frown 
Of Hudd ford, or whom fortune gave a crown: 
Nor ranſack ancient hiſtory to find 
A ſtateſman fit to A with Walpole join d; 
Make him che bulwark of our liberty, 

With Cecil, or at leaſt Godolphin vy, 


Who has his country's intereſt at heart, 


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While Europe trembles at our cannons roar; 
Who forms, regardleſs of the nation's cries, 


Bonk contracts, or a general exciſe; 


Preſerves our commerce ſafe from ſhoar to ſhoar, 


And breaks his brain with thought to find a way, 


Without a ſinking fund, our debts to pay; 


So frugal of the public treaſure grown, 


Would make one almoſt think it were his own; 


Born for the nation's good he hoards no pelf, 


But loves his country better than himſelf. 


Vet, to what height his tow'ring fabrics riſe, 


With gilded turrets glitt ring to the ſkies z 


Splendid with gaudy furniture within, 


The wreck of merchants; and the ſpoil of ſin? 


When to his country's ſeat the knight repairs, 


Worn out with the fatigue of ſtate affairs, 


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His gates expanded yield a paſſage free, 
Een for afſertors 'of our liberty"; nh 
Each element is ranſack'd of its ltore, 
To feed with French repaſts the ſplendid poor: 


His ſparkling cups the richeſt wines afford, 


And loyal healths flow round the chearful board? 
His way of life refin'd to that degree, 
That prelates envy him his luxury. 

Say to what end ſuch jovial feaſts abound, 


To bribe with their own wealth the country round ? 


Now needy malecontents may ceaſe to rail, 
Their vote in parliament,— or elſe a jail ; 
His honour's friends, if right they play their cards. 


Are ſure to meet with ſuitable rewards ; 


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136 Poeins on ſeveral Occaſions. 


His open heart ſuch ample ſums beſtows, 


As cannot fail to influence his foes. 


Then whence theſe idle clamours of the croud*- : 


Againſt this man fo petulant and loud? 


ſt As if he baſely had 'betray'd his truſt, 


To gratify the ſordid miſer's luſt ; 
cor by extortion fwelbd his little ſtore, bl = ©: 
1 And kept to make them flaves the nation poor. Ane 
600 Thus calumny will riſing merit blame, No! 
And caſt a cloud upon the brighteſt fame. To 
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If fame ſay true, his own revenues, cler, To 1 
Amounted to four-hundred: pounds a year- And 
Then whence could ſuch a maſs of wealth ariſe? Tot 


The nation's ſpoil becomes the ſtateſman's prize: His 


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All able politicians mutt be paid 


For councils held, and foreign treaties made; 


Money for ſecret ſervices of ſtate,  _ 


To ſcreen him from an injur'd nation's hate: 


And ſure that guilty wretch, who dares to ſtand 


The ſcourge of hiſtory's eternal brand, 

Should in this world ſome recomperice receive, 
And taſte the fruit before he's damn'd like Eve. 
Nor are there wanting a mean race of men 

To proſtitute in his behalf their pen, 

To caſt o'er all his actions a diſguiſe, - 

To ſooth his pride, and flatter every vice z 

To throw a veil before the people's Goht, 

And blend in artful colours wrong with right; 
To make their patron Atlas of the crown, 

His will our good, his conduct our renown. 


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138 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 


To vindicate his fame, their only plea 


For all his guilt, he ne'er receiv'd a fee; 


No penſions from the courts of France and Spaix 
His morals blacken, or his virtues ſtain ; 

Why fhould they bribe him to promote their end, 
Who ſhew'd himſelf a voluntary friend? 


To fink the glory of the Britiſh name, 


Her credit leſſen, and her worth defame. 
Were theſe his failings ?— If it prove no worſe, 
His fond ambitioa was the nation's curſe ; 


Whoſe daſtard counſels had not equal weight, 


Nor Mill; to guide the chariot of the ſtate; 


Like Phaeton unwilling to remove, 
To fave the world, — till thunderſtruck by Joe. 
This fatal avatice of pow'r or gold, er 


By which e en patriots conſciences are ſold, 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 139 
The noble ſenſe of liberty controuls, 
That great prerogative of Engliſh ſouls, 
Which our illuſtrious predeceſſors thought; 
Tho' with their lives and fortunes, cheaply bought; 
And ſhall we their degenerate fons betray tf 
Our glorious birth-right for a hireling's pay? 
Firſt let our {words defend our country's laws, 
Or beni periſh in the generous cauſe; 
If we muſt fall, from heaven let vengeance come, 


And the loud thunder ſpeak our glorious doom. 


As the beſt things are, when corrupted, worſt, 
Mankind are often with their wiſhes curſt, *- 
Old Gripus ne er was known to be devout, 


Till Satan found his ruling paſſion out: 


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But now at daily pray'rs the dotard kneels, 
And the falſe rapture of devotion feels; H 


To build an hoſpital or college vows, 


And feed the ſtarving. beggar at his houſe : 
Baut, fince he has obtain'd the ſplendid evil, 1 


His wife and children wiſh him at the devil. El 


So Menedemus curs'd with ſtores of wealth, 
19 A torment to his neighbours and himſelf; T. 


Tho' twelve revolving moans his farms amount 


To ſums, arithmetic can ſcarcely count ; 
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Nor o'er the brute can nature's ties prevail, 


He fees his children periſh in a jalill. 


From ſuch examples theoriſts advance, 


That jarring atoms made the world by chance; 


Elſe could impartial providence impart 


So large a treaſure to ſo mean a heart ? 
Miſtaken tenets. Such a conduct ſhows, 


That riches muſapply'd are real woes. 


Aſl you why Simo to his ſon behaves, 
Like Chriſtian tyrants to their Negro ſlaves? ?; 
And ſcarcely will allow a competence 
Sufficient to indulge one ſingle fenſe ? 
It is not cruelty, but avarice, {N67 Baa 
Which comprehends the dregs of every vice. 


Nor 


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142 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 


Elſe would Chrinda, nature's darling pride, 


Whoſe gayeſt flights have virtue for their guide, 


Not taſte the rapture of a marriage ſtate, 


To pleaſe a father's avarice, or hate? 


How hard her Ration to a generous mind, 5 
To ſoft humanity and love inclin'd? 
Condemn'd by nature's bounty pain to give, 


Too ſure to wound, unable to relieve. 


Tho ſuch old Sims penury of ſoul, 


Where no ideas but of lucre roll; 2 


Frugal at home, at other folks expence, 


His taſte rich wines, and gay magnificence. 


If any friend invite him to a feaſt, 


The maſter thinks he's happy in his gueſt: 


Good- natur d, affable, and high in ſpirits, 


He rails at all thoſe vices he inherits; 


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He ſmiles with joy to {ce the ſparkling bowl. 4 

And with large draughts revives his thirſty ſoul; 
While the wine flows, his heart with rapture burns, 
| But, when the banquet's oer, his ſpleen returns; 

Then plagues at home his family and wife, 


And makes them curſe the time he gave them life. 


As from one virtue many bleſſings flow, 
From one mad vice variety of Woe: 
Thus upſtart gameſters by their betters thrive, 
And ride in coaches they were glad to drive; 
While noble heirs, to large revenues born, 


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That not our real wants, but vanities, | 


To ſtrive-to be no more than nature meant: 
Each has his proper ſphere of life aſſign d, 


Peculiar to the texture of his mind. 


Thus honeſt Dromo born to live with care, 
And heap up riches for a ſpendthrift heir, 
Purſues the rugged path his ſtars ordain, 


His table frugal, and his garment plain: 


But ſpare, cries one, your cenſure on the times, 


You quite miſtake,— for, rightly underſtood, ;, - | 


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Him every worthy citizen eſteems, 


Becauſe he is the very man he ſeems: 


But mad with riches, if he leave his trade 


And think to ſhine at court, or maſqueradee: 


That inſtant he becomes the ridicule. 


Of every well-dreſs'd faſhionable fool; 


So Bardus, were he not bewitch'd with power, 
Might drink rich wines at home, and keep his whore; 


In life's low vale from ſtate affairs exempt, 


Perhaps in ſolitude might ſhun contempt ; 
But, by his brother into buſineſs hurl'd 
To blunder round the habitable world, 
The public ſcorn of Europe is become, 
Abroad deluded, and deſpis d at home. 


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What but the thirſt of univerſal fame, 
Aſpiring Titus, can Cen critics blame? 
Bleſs'd with a genius, and with arts adorn'd, 
For which his proud ambition makes him ſcorn'd : 
And yet his merit might delerrs applauſe, 
Were he confent to act by nature's laws: 
But ſtart a ubjed: x — - Mark how he 1 
Why one's tranſpor ted, when another hangs; 
Alike on trifles, and important things, 
On plays, religion, opera's, or kings; 
Nor will he condeſcend to hold his tongue 
On ſubjects, which he never thought upon; 
His judgment teaches ſenates what is fit, 
To Pult ney politics, to Stanhope. wit; 
Eager he graſps at fame, but meets with none, 


Like gameſters by too bold a caſt undone, 


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None but the ſupple cringing paraſite, 
Who takes in fools encomiums a delight; 
Whoſe life is govern'd by one laviſh rule, 
To flatter every coxcomb, knave, and fool; 
Can entertain a hope, or wiſh, to be 
From the world's cenſure, or reproaches free: 
The wretch, who vainly thinks to make a friend 8 
Of all mankind, deſerves no better end... 
Than that deluded mean dependant race, 
Who ſtarve in expectation of a place. 
But if this vanity of heart betrays 
Your mind to catch at univerſal praiſe : 
Think there are men, whole virtues far exceed 
Thy merit, as immortal Thames the Tweed ! 
That Pope in poetry has ſuffer d ſcandal, 
In phyſic Nichols, and in muſic Handel ; 

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While Maurus in his gilded chariot rides, 
And by a lucky hit at court preſides: 

That Murray, riſing genius of the bar, 
Who ſhines the foremoſt in the verbal war, 


Is undermin'd, in character and fame, 


By reptiles of the law without a name. 


Thus envy dwells within ignoble minds, 


And at another's excellence repines. 


Fen brave Argyle true to his country's cauſe, 


Bold in defence of liberty and laws, 


To ſave from bondage a corrupted age: 


Fr om ſuch examples We may learn to bear \t; 


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Tis an old maxim, which experience taught, Lv 
Nothing ſuits worſe with vice than want of thouglit: 
This thouſand coxcombs prove to their undoing, 44 
What's one man's foible, is another's ruin 
That Gallus keeps A girl 18 paſt diſpute, o 1 4 
And by the world is held in good repute: 


Vet wretched Cornus knows it to his coſt, © 


For that, his character and fortune loſt, 

With luſt and avarice the harlot drains 

His ſinking income, and his ebbing veins : 

But, to do penance-for his former life, 

He damns the town, and takes her for his wife. 


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Capellus, in the winter of threeſcore, 


Sneaks out at midnight to his private whore; 


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Where all things are provided, in a trice, 
To pamper nature, and ſollicit vice: 
Behind her cully AAſalins ſtands, 
And ſhakes the Faſces in her ſervile hand 


Love's long extinguiſh'd fires revive again, 


And titillation thrills thro' every vein. 


When the warm tide of youthful blood prevails, 


When ftrong temptation courts, and virtue fails, 


When wanton beauties ſet the ſoul on fire, 
And kindle in the coldeſt breaſt deſire; 
Wt! If youth indulge their appetites at large, 

l | When vanquiſh'd reaſon has reſign'd her charge, 


The world confeſs it is a venial evil, 


„ But an old fumbling dotard is the devil. 


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Soon as one fop is branded with diſgrace, 


Another fool ſtarts up, and claims a place, 


See gay Papillus trip along the Parc, 


A pretty, trifling, flutt'ring, woman's ſparxk; 


In wit a bankrupt, yet in talking loud, 
Eager to catch the praiſes of the croud - 


In fortune indigent, but dawb'd with lace, 


In hopes to be miſtaken for his grace; 
Scarce ſenſe enough to know himſelf a fool, 


Proud of his perſon, vainer of his parts, 


He thinks to captivate all ladies hearts: 


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To boſom friends a ſtranger, if undreſt, 
But, if you ſhine in an embroider'd veſt; . 
An humble ſervant to the meaneſt foe, 


Provided that his enemy's a beau. | 


What, but defire to be a poet thought, _ 


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Tir'd with his ſtuff in vain ſpectators hiſs, 
„ It is their judgment, not his play's amiſs; 


Nor will he with that poor pretence be ſnamm'd, 


But once a year makes intereſt to be damn d. 


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Who blacken characters, in truth's diſguiſed | 


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The venom'd malice rankling in the heart 
Conceal'd in ſoothing words, the courtier's art; 
Who ſpread ill-natur'd ſcandal o'er the town, | 


Of injur'd characters to them unknown; 


Who ſeems your friend on purpoſe to betray ; 


Or villains that decypher lives away: 


Theſe are the men deſerve keen latire's rage ; 


And * Sutton ſtands the foremoſt in the page. 


Prompt me, great O/dham, with thy pointed wit, 


With curſes for the loweſt ſcoundrel fit! 


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Let thy keen genius thro! each ſentence ſhine, 
Improve my rage, and ſtab in every line! 

But not to blaſt an honeſt man's good name, 

Or injur'd merit in diſtreſs defame 

But make the villain feel, who breaks his word, 
A poet's pen is ſharper than his ſword. 
Let Hudd'sford fear | whoſe talent is to throw 
The ſecret dart on his unguarded foe; 

. for miſchief ſuch an appetite, _ ) 
He takes in others ruin a delight; . | 
For whoſe dear fake reſentment makes me write. | 
Nor ſhall the wretch's dark obſcurity 

Preſerve him from the brand of infamy ; 

The mule ſhall ſtigmatiſe his tainted name, 


And drag him forth the mark of public ſhame ; 


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By torture forc'd each ſecret is reveal, 
Worn out with dilatory miſery, 
He aſks the Coup-de-grace, and bege to die: 
80 fatire ſhall this hypocrite purſue, 


Till he has paid the debt to vengeance due ; 


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With all A/hwedr'/day's curſes on his head; | 

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To dare to injure none, becauſe he can. | 

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In former times ſo warm with party-rage, 


He was the champion of a patriot age; 


So very zealous in old England's cauſe, 


He thought all kings oppreſſors of the laws; 
But now ſo conſcience and the O agree, 
He votes againſt his country's liberty ; 
Ame is the proſtituted price, 

Which all his future conduct cheaply buys ; 


Secure in pow'r he fits elate with pride, 


Nor can hypocriſy his vices hide: 
A ſmiling Judas, who betrays his truſt, 


| Retain'd for life by Zycor's ſardid duſt, 


Here would the weary muſe her pen reſign, 


But rigid juſtice claims another line 


Is there a meagre-looking brazen fool, 


Profanely impudent, and. pertly dull ? 
A wit profeſs'd, without one grain of ſenſe, @ | | 
applauſe his ain, and phyſic his pretandes 
Religion's falſhood is his ſober theme, - | 
When drunk the caitif ventures to blaſpaeme: 
Some ſhallow fops his phraſes quaint admire, 


Who calls our Saviour the country ſquire: 


Religion, honour, virtue, are to him 
Meer notions, or a politician's whim ; > — 


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T O Reik of merit in impartial lays, 


And without flattery a friend to praiſe; 


For this the muſe ſhall ſtrike the vocal Iyre; 


And ſing in numbers which thy Works inſpire; 


Who feels your ſorrow with a ſigh ſincere, 


And ſpite of reſolution drops a tear. 


Tho' clouded, like the ſun, thy genius ſhines 


Thro' fortune's miſt in bright immortal lines; 


Like martyrs from affliction ſtronger grows, 


Nor drooping ſinks beneath a weight of woes. 


Not ſo could Ovid in his exile write; 
The heart-felt anguiſh check d his tow'ring flight ; 


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His theme no longer was the blooming fair; 


But ſung i in dying notes his own deſpair, 


When modern ling ſong panegyric bards, 


Whom Crbber praiſes, and the court rewards; 
In dark oblivion. ſhall forgotten lie; 

Except preſerv'd by chin beneath a pye ; 
With rapture ſhall poſterity rehearſe 


To their admiring, ſons thy laſting verſe: 


Since Horace flouriſh'd in Azguftus' court 
(For men of wit and taſte the gay reſort) 
None but the Britiſh bards with eaſe could ſing, 
Or touch with equal ſkill the Roman ſtring ; - 


From their rude hands the lyre dropp'd idly down, 


Becauſe they were not lineal to the throne. 


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Tho' Stepben's muſe in humble metre flows, 
And warbles numbers near ally d to proſe, 


Thy genius gives a luſtre to his rhimes, 


And ſuch a bard may live to future times. 


Had Fortune ſhone with an auſpicious ray, 
And gilded with her beams thy natal day, 
The world had loſt the lab6urs of thy brain, 
And Phwbius had inſpir'd thy breaſt in yain : 
But now what glory will reward your toil, 
If, when the Goddeſs frown, the Muſes ſmile f 
And ſure that proves the moſt diſtinguiſh'd fame, 


Which riſes from your own, not father's name, 


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„ Have by their bounty made his ſorrow leſs? And 


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Impartial reaſon will their actions guide, 


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Gay toaſts ſhall learn to flight embroider'd beaux, 
And chuſe a huſband for his ſenſe,.— not cloaths. 
In vain mad poets boaſt the ſacred nine, A 
Implore their aid-each ſentence to refine ; 

Except the fair their flowing verſe approve, 

And learn from ng ſtrains the art of love. 
Een Phæbus ſelf might wiſh his lyre unſtrung, 
Since Daphne would not liſten when he ſung : 
Your muſe has met a more auſpicious fate, 

To pleaſe, tho' ſinking under fortune's weight; 


For ſure that book muſt be ſecure of fame, 


Which bears a Portland's and a Daſhwood's name. 


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From Julius Cæſar down to Britain's king; 
Of gaſping heroes welt'ring in their blood, 

Who nobly periſh'd for their country's good; 
How Churchill tam'd the bold aſpiring Gaul, 
Whoſe very name made trembling armies fall; 
Of gallant deeds by ſea, by land, perform'd, 

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Mercemur, quis aquam temperet ignibus, 
Ryo præbente domum, & quotd 


Pelignis caream frigoribus, taces. 


166 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 
To raiſe the ſpirits, and revive the heart, | _ If 


And &rive the chilling cold from epery part. * 


Leave muſty books ! exhauſt the flowing bowl 5 @ 


To ſome fair virgin, idol of your ſoul: i ＋. 


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Fair Cowper's health, or- ſome deſerving friend: "= 


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Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 167 
If panting after fame your boſom glows 

With thoughts aſpiring above vulgar proſe, 

In equal numbers drink the ſacred nine, 

Till your rich face ſhall like your genius ſhine ! 
The jovial madneſs pleafes,— boys begin 


To ftrike with ſkilful touch the ſounding ftring ! 
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Rixarum metuens tangere Gratia, 
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Ceſſant flamina tibi? 
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Then ſtrow freſh roſes at your lord's command: 


I hate the niggard miſer's ſparing hand. 


Let Lycus burſt with envy at the noiſe, 
And lovely "PE fit for other joys, 
Than to lie bury'd in a huſband's arms, 
Whoſe frozen age doats on her blooming charms; 
Whatever nymph indulgent nature gave 
Beauty hafficient to make you her ſlave, 


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Parcentes ego dexteras 
Odi: fparge roſas. Audiat invidus 
Dementem ſtrepitum Lycus, 


Et vicina ſeni non habilis Tyco. 


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Poems on ſeveral Occafions, 169 
May ſhe this evening bleſs your raviſh'd acht, 
And make you with like Jove a longer night: 
In vain the ſex ſu perior merit boaſt, 
Fair Daſwood * gil 4 reigning | toaſt, 


992 te nitidum comd, 
Puro te fimilem, Telephe, veſpero, 
Tempeſtiva petit Rhode * 


Me lentus Glycere torret amor mea, 


Verſes writ on a Glaſs, under the I, ame of 


Mis Trotter of Durham. 


I all the charms of her celeſtial mind 
With outward ſplendor in her features ſhin'd, 


Our ſex would univerſal rivals prove, 
And the world fall a victim to her love. 


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i The firſt Book of Martial, Epigram. 58. 


Ualem, Flacce, velim quæris, nolimve puellam? 


Molo namis facilem, difficilemve nimis. 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 171 


On a Quack's Motto, 


Exemplo monſtrante viam, 


* - When impudence and ignorance prevail? 
This Maurus knows, nor feels the world's reproach, 


But bears the pointed ſatire on his coach. 


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Hæc docuit, nullo liveſcere fuco, 
Nunquam falſa loqui, nunquam promiſſa morari; 
Inviſos odiſſe palam, non virus in altum 
Condere, non lætam ſpeciem prætendere fraudi, 
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To the Reader. 


Though moſt authors think it neceſſary to R 
their works into the world, with a recommendatory 
preface, to point out Lig beauties. which might 
eaſily eſcape every one's 0 R but their own ; 
1 fould very readily e giuing myſelf, or the 
reader, that — 2 IP occaſion, were I not ſen. 
ſible that the critics would find fault 7th the title- 
page of the following poem (and wiſh it may prove 
the only thing liable to their cenſure) for it is not, 
ftriftly ſpeaking, an imitation of wal ge Satire of 
Juvenal; ſeveral lines being omitted, which were 

not appiicable to the preſent times, aud ſome inſert- 

ed, that glance at the reigning vices of. the age, 

without any authority from Juvenal; which I 2 

will be reckoned a pardenable liberty, and is, in ny 

opinion, what di Ainguiſbes an imitation from a 

tranſlation ;— But, I have extended this licence 

too far, I will give it up as an imitation without 
any reluctance, and ſubmit to @ jury of critics to 
bring it into the court of Parnaſſus, under what 
title they pleaſe, — Another objection has been made 
which is very difficult to anſwer :— That the per- 
ans mentioned by name are ſcarce known even at 
the place of their refidence, and are conſequently too 

- anfegnificant to engage the attention of the town": 

Notwithſtanding the validity of that objection, d 

a former acquaintance of mine was ſo kind as to 

take notice of me in à public manner, I think my- 

ſelf obliged in point of gratitude to return the fa- 
pour, by fligbehy pnentioning bim in @ ſmall paren- 


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thefis, where 1 ſhall take my leave of him, and dex 
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ſubjed 
London, February, I 6, 
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PS. T, ” ale Satire of J a 7s : inſerted; that the 
: FrARY =. Wen dhe libertie es 1 . talen. 


The fir ft Satire eof 8 2 
H ALL.everyr — d ſcribbler draw his pen, 
And gild with venal praiſe the worſt of men ? 


| | (Fen Dixon glean the ſcandal of 4 year | 
In one dull tripos, to be thought ſevere ?) RAGS 


Set ego. auditor tantum ? Munn reponam, 


= * exarus taties es rauci i Theſeide Codri? 


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Shall * Wilks his Golden Farmer fill rehearſe, a 


Then by mad fits with margin notes explain 


The myſtic labours of his muddy brain? 


Shall tragic Macer plague the ſacred nine, 
Nor fear the ſatire of one Dunciad line? 
Or barren Codrus ſtrain his baſtard wit, 


To be the jeſt of galleries and pit? 


Impune ergo mihi recitaverit ille tagatas? 
Hic elegos ? impune diem conſumpſerit ingens 
Telephus ? aut ſummi plena jam margine libri, 


Scriptus & in tergo, nondum finitus, Oreftes ? 


one of the ſenior fellows of Trinity-College in Oxford, who pub- 
liſhed an incomparable poem, called the Golden Farmer, which he 
writes marginal notes on every full moon. | = | 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 175 


Jo me ſcarce any place is better known, 
Where fops reſort, the triflers of the town, 

Than the large theatre, and vaulted hall, 

Where emulating hawkers pamphlets bawl. 
What ladies an Talian's favour boaſt, 

(For him the fair ſex innocently toaſt) | ; 
When the ſhrill eunuch warbles out his charms, 
What rapture, Gods ! to pant within his arms? 
„His thrilling notes their raviſh'd ſouls employ, 

\ WL Tho drudging huſbands ſcarce can give them joy. 
| Such 


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Nota magis null domus eſt ſua, quam mibi lucus . 

| Martis, & ÆHoliis vicinum rupibus antrum 
Vulcani | Quid agant venti, quas torqueat umbras 
Æacus? unde alius furtive devebat aurum 


Pelliculæ, 


176 Poems on ſeveral Occafian, 
Such themes our youthful poetaſters charm, 
Who fir d with thirſt of fame in numbers warm, 
With brazen lungs to bellow out their wit, 
Till the dome trembles, and the columns ſplit 2 
While wiſer bards from Merliu's prophecies 
To ſooth the great extra a thouſand lyes 1 
From whoſe dark record of eight- hundred years, 
That Cæroline ſhould bleſs this land, n 
Born with a taſte each ſcience to refine, 
To ſink a cave, or raiſe a hermit's ſhrine, - 

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Pelliculæ; quantas jaculetur Monychus ornos: 
Frontonis platani, convulſaque marmora clamant 
Semper, & aſſiduo ruptæ lectore columnæ. 
Expedtes eadem a funms , minimogue poet a. 
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To give good counſel even to my foes; 
ro warn corrupted ftateſmen of their fate, 


| And if no patent, fare to Hang in chains. 


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This privilege of verſe all authors claim; oo 


Who write for bread; br for irmmortal fame: © 


Such madneſs T abhotr'd ; and rather choſe 
And bid the knight withdraw before too late; 
Leſt * Cochrun's deſtiny reward his pains, 


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Dorniret 3 ſult of clementic, cum tot ubique 


Vatibus dteurras,” periture parcere charte, 


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* See his Life, printed in 1734, for 4; Dod. 


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178 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 


When ſuch a ſwarm of ſcribblers plague this age, 
Why ſhould the muſe reſtrain her pointed rage &T 
But hold, ſays one! is there no ſubject fit, 

But writing ſatire to employ your wit? 

Sir Robert's virtues claim a juſt applauſe ; 

J leave Sir Robert to his country's laws. | 

What !— no encomiums on the Britiſb fleet, 
When every year ſuch mighty ſquadrons meet: 


How would Theria tremble to behold 


Such naval forces, — were it not for gold. 


1 | 6 
To treat,— not fight,— was their pacific aim; 


[ And make a mighty monarch ſign * his name, 


Theſe are the triumphs happy counſels bring, 
| When ſuch wiſe miniſters yill ſerve their king. 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſum. 179 


But thanks to Fleury! whoſe refining art 


'Twixt jarring nations play'd fo nice a part; 
What ſenates labour'd, he perform 'd alone, 


And cancell'd treaties which we bluſh to own : 


Convention- tools their former votes diſdain, 
And claim unbounded empire o'er the main: 
But by your leave, good Sir, the reaſon's clear, 
Why fatires flouriſh each revolvin g year. 
When eunuchs by the ladies favour thrive, 
And in the ſun-ſhine of a palace live; 


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Per guem magnus equos Auruncæ flexit alumnus ': 
Si vacat, & placidi rationen admittitis, edam. _ 
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When fops proteſt, and younger brothers ſwear, - 
| The ſpawn of Rowe are ſtallions to the fair; 
| When tender virgins mount the fleetin 5 horſe, 
| And urge with full career the rapid courſe; 


Fir d with a thirſt of glory never reſt, 


| Till the beaſt's ſpoils adorn their manly breaſt 
| When upſtart politicians, venal knaves, 


Baſely conſpire to make their betters ſlaves ; 


Figat aprum, & nuda teneat venabula mamma: 
Patricios omnes opabus cum provocet Unus, 


Quo tondente gravis quveni mibi barba ſonabat; 


Cum f ars Niliace plebis, cum verna Canopi 


Criſp! uus, Veri as humero revegaute lacernas 


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Tho born to labour, delicately nice, 


Nor dare to laſh the vices of this reign? 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 168 


When vulgar wretches, by dependance great, 
Commence the neceſſary tools of tate ; 


To live like modern Conoiſſeurs in vice; | 


What honeſt ſpirit can his ſpleen contain, 


Matho, the curſe of chairmen for his weight, 


To every court of juſtice. rides in ſtate, 


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Ventilet aftivum digitis ſudantibus aurum, 

Nec ſufferre queat majoris pondera gemme 2 
Difficile eft ſatiram non ſcribere. Nam quis inique 
Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat ſe? 


Caufidici nova cum veniat lectiua Mathonis* 


Plena ipſo; & poſt hunc magni delator amici, 
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182 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 

With all his uſeful implements of law; 

Saints that can ſwear to what they never ſaw : 

Vile minions !— who with eaſe their fortunes earn 

And candidates without a vote return; 
Aſſiſted by theſe arts, great Mat bos cauſe 
Eludes ſtern juſtice, and defies the laws; 
While forfeited eſtates his zeal reward, 
Tho patriots ſcarce can move without 2 guard os 
To him all leſſer villains bow their heads, ON 


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Pans on ſeveral Occaſions 183 


To country principles a friend profeſs d. 
But now like, G——b thinks honour but a jeſt, 
Without one ſigh each virtue can reſign, . ___ | 
And prove in miniſters a right divine; 
Curs'd by his ſtars to bear the public ſcorn, -. - -., 
By nature form'd a ſlave, a villain born : 7 

Een female wits in ſtate intrigues too wiſe | 

Are baniſh'd, leſt their tongue betray their eyes, 
Tho! libertines; by being dupes to luſt, _ 

Supplant you; as more worthy of the truſt , 

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at Nba, in.calign ques evebit optima ſummi o e 


Nunc via proceſſus, vetulæ vejica. heatæ: 


Unciolam Proculeius habet, ſed Gillo deuncem : _ 


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With brawny vigour act the ſtallion's part: 


Such gallantry may gain the widows heart. 
Inſatiate Meſſalind's death will prove 
Him richeſt, who has beſt indulg' d her love. 


Poor Limberham expects in vain to ſhare 


One half, whoſe limbs ſuch labour could not bear; 


And ſure lord Vainlove can have no pretence 


To pleafe a blooming widow's craving ſenſe. 


But let ſuch miſcreants earn their gilded duſt, 
By being flaves to courts, or women's tuft ; 
Till rioting in vice has made them pale, 

As batter'd harlots, when their colours fait ; 


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Poems am ſeveral Occafians, 183 
As trembling orators that plead for life, 
Or gallants taken with a neighbour's wife. 
What other evils ſhall the muſe relate ? 
Of guardians, by their orphans ruin great; 
Of Condit that only can complain, 
(For V — s numbers make impeachments vain ;) 
Thoſe arts, by which he roſe, maintain his pow 'r; 
A ſtanding army and a royal aw . 


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Quid referam, quanta ficcum jecur ardeat ird, 


Cum populum gregibus comitum premit hic ſpaliater 


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And bleſſes the corruption of the age. 


But nobler ſentiments inſpir'd his youth, 
Who' boldly ſpoke in the defence of truth; 
Who ſtood the vengeance of perverted laws, 


Who ſuffer'd chains in freedom's glorious cauſe, 


And with a figh lamented Fleury's fate, 
Becauſe his country's thraldom made him great : 
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But tateſmen's principles will ſtrangely veer, 

In the ſhort courſe of one revolving year: 

The public ſpirit: of an honeſt heart 

Degenerate, to act a villain's part: 
The voice of liberty in ſenates loud 

Now rails at patriots,— a licentious croud, : 


And the free ſentiments which charm'd before, 


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But now this flaming meteor of the ſkies , - 


Whoſe conduct had eſtrang'd the people's love. 


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Againſt rebellion to defend the crown, 


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Guſtauus , pleading in his country's cauſe 


For liberty, the firſt of nature's laws, 


Whoſe ſtern decree makes public virtues — crimes. 


Let other poets haunt the purling ſtream, 
And ſpin out verſes ſofter than their theme: 


Such trifling ſubjects would defile my page, 
Whoſe pointed lines ſhould glow with manly. rage. 


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190 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 

When huſbands, that have blooming beauties, ſnore, 
To give their loving conſorts leave to whore ; 
When noble heirs eſteem it no diſgrace 85 10 
To ſpend their fortunes; and then beg a place; 


Thro' gaping crouds in gilded cars to ride, 


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And as their wills direct, the courſers guide. 


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Jus nullum uxori , dofFus ſpectare lacunar, 

Doctus & ad calicem vigilant ſtertere nafo. - 

Nui fas eſſe putet curam ſperare cohortis, 

Qui bona donavit preſepibus, & caret omni 
Majorum cenſu, dum pervolat axe citato 
Flaminiam, puer Automedon nam lora tenebat, 


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Affect to dreſs like fops with foreign air, F 

With veſts embroider'd, and their boſoms bare; 
Such flagrant follies would make Welſted write . 
| In Pope's, Mznerva's, and the Muſes ſpite. 


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Such dark artificers are ſkill'd in death, 


To ſtab, or poiſon your untainted breath. 


If wanton wives their wicked aid implore, 


Or ſpendthrift ſons with fathers were no more, 


Gold ſigns their paſſage to the Stygian ſhore. 


If you reſolve ſome vaſt eſtate to raiſe, 


Leave ſtarving honeſty to buwa praiſe | | 


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Exiguis tabulis, & gemmd fecerat udd? 
Occurrit matrona fotens, gue malle Calenum 
Porrectura vira miſcet ſitiente rubetam: 
Inſtituitque rudes melior Locigſta propinguas, 


Per faman & populum, nigros efferre narits. 


Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris & carcere dignum, 


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Act ſome unheard of fin, that hell may own 

Its maſter foila, and all his crimes undone, 

The ſplendid equipage, and ſtately dome, 
Magnificence, that rivals ancient Rome, 

a no more ſigns of merit, than a place, 

Stars, garters, titled,  emblems' of diſgrace; 

Tho' lands are mortgag'd, yet their crimes afford; 
To ſpread rich banquets on the coſtly board, 
When virgin brides their lawful huſbands flight, - 
And make them cuckolds on the wedding- night; 


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Rapes, riots, maſſacres, to ow their wit: 


” Fird with juſt wrath, his pen each * draws, 


And writes without a muſe i in kad cauſe, 


From the firſt period of revolving time, 

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Sy natura negat, facit indignatio verſum, 

Qualemcunque poteſt : quales ego, vel Cluvienus, 
Ex quo Deucalion nimbis tollenti bus œ¹ji8, 
Navigio montem aſcendit, ſorteſſue popoſeit, 
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Hos animos ? Neque enim loculis comitantibus itur 
Ad caſum tabulæ, Polita fed luditur arca. 


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l 196 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
Whoſe hopes, like viſionary chymiſts, fail, 
That waking find their golden dream a jail. 


Wuen did ſuch towing fabrics ever riſe, 
5 Or ſuch rich banquets feaſt our fathers eyes? 
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Perdere, et horrenti tunicam non reddere ſervo ? | Ami, 


Nuis totidem erexit villas? Quis fercula ſeptem MM Thſos 


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But firſt their patrons, in a ſurly tone, 


Aſk the mean tools what party- ſervice done? 


Then with fair promiſes their cauſe promote ; 


And livings in reverſion for a vote 
While ſlaves and nobles croud their levees door, 
And with a ſervile voice ſome boon-implore ; 


Pimps, peers, and courtiers eagerly contend, 


| Whoſe darkeſt deeds ſhall gain the greateſt friend. 


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Agnitus accipies: Fubet a pracone vocari 


Toſos Trojugenas. Nam vexant limen & i ft 


Nebiſcum : da pratori, da deinde tribuno. 
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Here a proud upſtart with his lordſhip vies The 
And ſpite of merit carries off the prize; Pen 
Tho' rich in virtue, if your fortune's leſs, Nov 
"Tis reckon'd arrogance to wiſh ſucceſs. - | How 
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Arguerint, licet ipſe negem : Sed quinque taberne. Maje 
Quadringenta parant : Quid confert purpura majus Nond 
Optandum, fi Laurenti cuſtodit in agro Ut co 
Conductas Corvinus opes ? Ego pofſideo plus | 

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Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 199 


Then, Plutus, let us ſacrifice to thee : 
E'en atheifin Will adore thy deity. 

Now ſordid patrons yearly reckon Oer, 
How much extortion: has increas'd their ſtore ; 
While needy clients mourn their wretched ſtate, 
| Whoſe plunder'd fortunes make oppreſſors great. 


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Majeſtas: Et fo. funeſta pecunia templo 

Nondum habitas, nullas nummorum ereximus aras, 

Ut colitur pax, atque fides, victoria, virtus, 

Rueque ſalutato crepitat concordia nido. 

Sed cum ſummus honor finito computet anno, 

Sportula quid referat, quantum rationibus addat + 

Wd facient comites, yuibus hinc toga, calceus hinc eft, 
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200 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
When the bright ſun firſt gilds the purple dawn, 
And fair Aurora uſhers in the morn, 
Dependant wretches on proud Sylla wait, 
And cringe obſequious at his palace-gate; 


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Et panis, fumuſque domi? Denfiſſima centum 
Juadrantes lectica petit, ſequiturque maritum 
Languida, vel pregnans, & circumducitur uxor. 
Hic petit abſenti, nota jam callidus arte, 

Oſtendens vacuam, & clauſam pro conjuge ſella. 
Galla mea eſt, inquit; citius dimitte, moraris? _ 
Profer Galla caput : Noli vexare, quieſcit. 

The dies pulchro diſtinguitur ordi ne rerum, 
Sportula, deinde forum, juriſque peri tus Apollo, 
Atque triumphales, inter quas auſus habere 


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Paents ot Several Occaſiant. 201 
In ſervile crouds before his chariot run, 
And ftrive, Iike fools, ho firſt ſhall be undone; 
Buoyd up .with promiſes of friends prefeſs d, 
To ſtarye in expectation of af feaſt. 
While ranſack d elements their ſtores reveal, 
To make a glutton happy for a meal: 

Whoſe lands are forfeited to gorge his maw, 


Tho' ſure to groan beneath the griping law. 


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Cajus ad effigiem non tantum mejer e fas oft, 
Vetibulis abeunt veteres, laſſique clientes, 

V, otaque. deponunt „ quanquam longifſima, cnc. 
Hes bomint,. caulis miſeris, atque ignis emendus. 
Optima Hlvarum interea pelagigue vorabit 


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With ſuch devouring rage, at ſheriffs treat. 


The banquet o'er, each bloated gueſt complains 


Ponit apros, animal propter convivia natum ? 


202 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


E'en hungry citizens would bluſh to eat, 


Of ſudden qualms, ſhort breath, and racking pains: 


Nature wants ſtrength to circulate the blood, 


Oppreſs'd with loads of indigeſted food. 
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Nam de tot pulchris, & latis orbibus, & tam 


Antiquis, und comedunt patrimonia mensd. — 


Nullus jam paraſitus erit. Sed quis ferat iſtas Hinc 


Luxurie ſordes? quanta eft gula, que ſibi totos 


Pena tamen praſens, cum tu deponis amictus 


Turgidus, & crudum pavonem in balnea portas. 


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Poems .on ſeveral Occaſions. 203 


Scarce have the wretches time to make a will, 


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Beyond Ward's drop, or epidemic pull ; + 
Whoſe diſappointed paraſites lament 

Their ſollden death without a teſtament. 
Poſterity will curſe. theſe hated times, 

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4 Each vice has reach'd its greateſt altitude, 

Spent all its rage, and deviates into good, 


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Hinc ſubitæ mortes, atque inteſtata ſenectus. 
It nova nec triſtis per cunctas fabula cnas: 
Ducitihn iratis plaudendum funus amicis. 

Ni erit ulteri us, quod noſtris moribus addat 


Pofteritas ; eadem cupient, facientque minores. 


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204 Poem on feorrat Otcaftons, 

But where's à genius, Whoſe fatirie qulll 

[ | Can make ſuch hardenꝰd Wretches blu at ill? 
Þ Where is that ancient Hberty 6F wit, 


Then fervile EIL might know his abject ſtate, 


Wluno feels the world's bleak fern without their hate 
Polite to pleaſe, to flatter; to deceive, 

Wily as Satan when he tempted Eve; 

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Totos pande fims © dicas hit forfiton unde 


Ingenium par materie? unde illa priorum 


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The mean ſervility, and humble pride, 
Which men of ſpirit with: contempt: dels... 


| Weary of life, yet ſhudders at the grave; 


Curs'd with five: ſenſes to endure his pain, 
With induſtry, to ſerk relief in vain; 
With parts and learning, which the world reſpect; 
With honeſty, that all mankind ſuſpect; 

With tyranny, which makes himſelf a flave, 


With principles, — by which ſome fools are ſnamm'd, 
And juft enough religion, to be damm d. 
Let 


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Seribendi quodcunque animo flagrante liberet 
Simplicitas, cujus non audeo dicere nomen? 
Quid refert dictis ignoſcat Mutius, an non? 


Pone Tigellinum, teda lucebis in illd 


206 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Let others fulſome panegyrics write, 


While I ſet villains in a proper light ; 


Or elſe deſcribe a fop in ſmoother ſtile, 


Correct my muſe, and make een ſatire ſmile. 
St. James's modiſh petit maitres own 

Philemon is the darling of the town: 

A mighty pretty book Philemon wrote, 
Without one glimmering of ſenſe -or thought : 


Exact 


Jud ſtantes ardent, qui fixo gutture fumant. 
Qui dedit ergo tribus patruis aconita, vehatur 
Penſilibus plumis, atque illinc deſpiciat nos, 

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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 207 
Exact in judging, as the fair agree, 
Of fans, and flks, perfumes, or Hyſon tee 
Endow'd by nature with a trifling mind, 


But fops, like him, that propagate abuſe, 
Are ſcarcely worth the cenſure of the muſe; 
Then let the coxcomb unmoleſted paſs, 
To that fool's e a looking-glaſs. 
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Accuſator erit, qui verbum dixerit, hic eft. 
Securus licet Æneam, Rutulumque ferocem 
Committas : nulli gravis eft percuſſus Achilles : 


Aut multum quæſitus Hylas, urnamque ſecutus, 


Enſe velut ſtricto quoties Lucilius ardens 


Infremutt, 


268 Doms on feveral Oecufious. 

When, arm' d for virtue, manly Pepe will write, 
What ſwarm-of:fools precipitate their fight? 
Each ſecret villain, ſtruek with conſcious awe, 
Dreads more his cenſure than the penal law ; 

E'en harden'd Peter bluſhes at his ſatire, 


And wiſhes honeſty was in his nature: 


Gay modern atheiſts kiſs the poet's rod, 
Reform their lives, and tremble at a God. — 
Tho” Walpole's virtues claim applauſe from peers; E Ont 


From courtiers, ſenates, biſhops, gazetteers ; 


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Infremuit, rubet anditor,- cui frigida mens eft 
Criminibus, tacit ſudont-precordia- culpd. 


Inge ire, & lacrymæ. Tecum prius ergo voluta 


Hac animo, unte tubas; guleutum ſero duelli 


Pærni tes 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 209 


The muſe ſecure may point each venom'd line, ** 
With Empſon, Dudley, or a Cataline ; 
Brand their foul names to each ſucceeding age, 


And make the living dread the future page. 


Pænitet. Experiar quid concedatur in illos, 
Vorum Flaminid tegitur cinis, atque Lati nd. 


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Tuns at Cambridge. 


S* ALL Bradgate's name adorn the poet's verſe, 


And not one muſe Lenora's praiſe rehearſe ? 
Whoſe melting looks reſiſtleſs force impart, 
To charm the fight, and captivate the heart; 


Whom nature form'd ſo virtuous, and ſo fair, 


| As kindles love, and yet creates deſpair ; 


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Tho warm as wanton Venus, when ſhe ſtrove 
On Ida's mount to win the prize of love. 
Forbear, rafh youth, to duſt your wand'ring eyes, 
Conceal'd in beauty's ſmiles perdition lies: 
Thus mortals gaze upon the lightning's blaſt, 


Tho! ſure to periſh in the flame at laſt. 


Fair Queen of Delos, tender thoughts inſpire, 
Which melt the yielding ſoul to ſoft defire ! 
Let all the Graces hover on the wing, 

And aid my "EN while her charms 1 ſing ! 
Who borrows blaſhes from Aurora's dawn, 
And breathes more fragrant than the roſy morn ; 
Like the firſt ſcene of opening paradiſe, 


E're nature's beauty was deform'd by vice : 


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Whoſe converſe e en philoſophers approve, 

And rigid Stoics Lnguidh into love : 

The wither'd ſages, and the blooming young 
Attentive liſten to the ſyren's ſong, 
Who knows with ſkill the mortal part to hit, 
And make each coxcomb wonder at her wit. 


Tho' courted, humble; tho' admir'd, not vain ; 


The boaſted pride of Granta's female train: 
But, ceaſe my muſe, nor into languid lays | 


Detract from merit, which you mean to praiſe. | : 


A Familiar Epiſtle to Dodror ben in 


London. 


P. RO M gallant ſcenes at park and play, 


From beaux and belles, for ever gay; 


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212 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


From Covent-Garden rakes and its, 
From crouds of money-loving cits, 
And near relations underſtood 
As deareſt friends by ties of blood ; 
Baniſh'd by Fortune, I retire 
(Nor court her ſmiles, nor dread her ire) 
To ſolemn fcenes, which hermits chuſe, 
To ſolitude, the friend of muſe ; 
Who never, like a tinſel crony, 
Forſakes you for the want of money ; 
But, thro' the various ſcenes of life, 
Waits on you like a faithful wite, 
To ſportive ſchemes of mirth and glee, 
Or mourns your fate at Tyburn tree, 
No fools I envy their eſtate, 


No titled villain's being great; 


But 


And 


Poems on ſeveral Occafions. 213 


But find that calm content can dwell 


Within an humble, rural cell. 


While you, by inclination hurl'd, | 
(Excuſe the phraſe, that rhimes to world ) 


Attend the buſy hum of men, 


And live by learned daſh of pen; 


Wait on the miſer for his wealth, 
And give him in exchange his health. 
But why ſuch ſtudy, care, and ſtrife, 

To play this idle farce of life ? +2 61208 | [ 

Since death ſo ſoon the ſcene muſt cloſe ; 


That period to all human woes, 


Could fleeting youth for ever day, | | 


And pleaſure crown ch ſmiling day ; 


Could 


214 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 


Could neither want, nor pale diſeaſe 


(But then indeed you'd loſe your fees) 
Caſt o'er the mind a diſmal gloom, 


{make vo iratbly with u band 
Or was there any certain ground, 
Where happineſs is to be Genn! ? 

The ſearch, methinks, were not amiſs, 
To live in ſettled ſtate of bliſs. 


But, ſince all ſublunary joys 


Prove vain, as giddy children's toys, 


. No longer let us blame our ſtars, 


Nor wage with Heaven impious wars: 
4 Nor like fond fools ourſelves deceive, 
Fl And want the means, or pow'r to live ; 


Since Pope has ſung in living lays, 


Teenjoy ; proclaims our Maker's praiſe. 


Then 


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T hen revel o'er the preſent hour; 
(The only bliſs within our pow'r) 
Be thankful for the pleaſure bea 
And neither wiſh, nor fear the laſt: 
Still bleſs'd, tho' fortune prove unkind, 


If all is right within the mind. 


Theſe fimple chinnes 1 did indite, | 
| While I, like miſerable Wight, 

Was riding on a jaded horſe, | 
On whom the ſpur had loſt its force : | 
So mounted Pegaſus a-ftride, 7 f 
(The poet's phantom of a guide) 
And leſt a melancholy fit 


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To paſs away the tedious time, 


This letter jingled into rhime. 


But here the muſe ſhall end her work, _ 
For now (thank God) I'm come to York. 


PS. 

Pray give my ſervices, by dozens, 
To all my uncles, aunts, and cozens; 
Remember me to my dear ſiſter, 
Your wife, I mean, ſince you have kiſs'd her: 
On Monday morning, every vaſſal 
Cries whip and ſpur for Skelton-Caftle, 
Where bounty, wit, and mirth appear, 


And pleaſure crowns each ſmiling year. 


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W ILE you, dear Paulus, ſacrifice your reſt, 


| To plead innoiſy courts for worth diſtreſs'd; 


Or, bold in ſenates for the public cauſe, 5 | 
Ras our 1njur'd country's dying laws; | 
Watch o'er the growth of pow'r with zealous eye, | 
And unexcis'd preſerve our liberty : ; 
From all the vanities of life retir'd 
To Cam's fair banks, where Spenſer lay inſpir'd, ; 
[ read with rapture Homer's ſacred page, | 
Whoſe ſtrong deſcription glows with martial rage. | 


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Whoſe nervous lines, with wiſdom fraught, impart 
Thoſe virtues, which adorn or mend the heart ; 
With greater force the moral rules explain, 

Than Whitfield's cant, or“ Clarke's pathetic ftrain, 
But, leſt you think this doctrine too ſevere, 

My reaſons, Paulus, if at leiſure, hear. 

Fair Helen's charms, that kindled fierce deſire 
In Paris breaſt, and ſet the world on fire, 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 219 


For ever bloom in his immortal {trains, 
Whoſe fable with ſach energy contains 
The zeal of fooliſh monarchs mad with pride, 


The mob's wild tumult, like a rapid tide: 


Antenor his dear country's fate deplor'd, 
And ſaid the fatal fair ſhould be reſtor'd ; 
But peeviſh Paris, obſtinately wrong, 
| Detain'd the blooming theme of Heiner's ſong. 


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220 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
The ſage of Pylos eloquently ſhow'd, 
What dire effects from civil diſcord flow'd, 


From love's ſoft paſſion equal evil ſprings, 


To the raſh violence of lawleſs kings, 


All the foul vices of an earthly God 
Prove to the meaneſt ſlave an iron rod, 
Scdition, dark deceit, and burning luſt, 
Corruption, violence, and breach of truſt, 
On courtier, citizen, and templar ſeize, 
And ſpread: o'er all the land the rank diſcaſe. 


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Hunc amor, ira quidem communiter urit utrumque. 
Quicquid delirant reges, Plectuntur Achi vi. 
Seditione, dolis, ſcelere, atque libidine, & ira, 


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Again Ulyſſes bright example tells, 
What good in wiſdom, and in virtue dwells 


Who left Troy's {moaking ruins to explore 


The men and manners of a diſtant ſhore ;_ ./ 
| Rough toil encounter'd with a ſteady ſoul, 
Which pleaſure could not melt, nor fear controul. 


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Rurſum quid virtus, & quid ſapientia poſſit, 
Utile propoſuit nobis exemplar Ulyſſen : 

Du chin tor Troj @, multorum providus urbes, 

Et MOres homi num inſpexit, latumque per &quor, 
Dum ſibi, dum ſociis reditum parat, aſpera multa 


Pertulit, adverſis rerum immer ſabilis undis. 


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You know the fable of the ſyren's ſtrain, 


And Circe's feaſt, that charm'd the thoughtleſs train j 


But, had her ſoothing arts allur d his ſoul 
To taſte the banquet, or partake the bowl, 
The ſage had dwindled to as low a thing, 


As G in ſenates, or ſome modern king; 


But we ſeem mortals of another race, 


The ſons of luxury, contempt, diſgrace ; 


Soft 


Sirenum voces, & Circæ pocula noſti: 
Que ſi cum ſociis ſtultus cupiduſque bibiſſet; 
Sub domind meretrice juiſſet turpis & excors 5 


Vixifſet canis immundus, vel amica luto ſus. 


Nos numerus ſumus, & fruges conſumere nati, 


Sponſi Penelope, nebulones, Alcinoique 


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Poems on ſeveral Occaſions: 223 
Soft as Pheacian * fops, who turn'd their care 


To mend a feature, or adjuft a hair: 


Mere pimps, and revellers of Comus court. 
Where beaux in muffs, fools, paraſites reſort; 

All the lewd tribe of prodigals undone, 

Who, ſteep'd in vice, ſleep down a fummer's ſun, 
And by ſoft muſic, languiſhingly ſlow, 


Detain the drowſy God from realms below. 


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Cui pulchrum fuit in medios dormire dies, & _ 
Ad ſtrepitum cithare ceſſantem ducere ſomnum. 


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wonder py are not held in more veneration by the curious. 


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224 Poems on ſeveral Occa ons. 
Shall dark aflaflins, for a golden prize, 
Amidſt the ſable gloom of night ariſe ? 


And will no danger break your calm repoſe, 


No friend's misfortune, or your country's woes? 
Nor een that high regard, which patriots feel 
For Vernon's ſafety, and the public weal ! 


When no malignant fever fires the brain, 


And health luxuriant revels in each vein, 


Tho' ſunk in ſloth, from all diſeaſes free, 
In dropfics, you will run to Reeve or Lee, 


Soon 


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Ut jugulent homines, ſurgunt de nocte latrones; 
Ut teipſum ſerves, non expergiſceris? atqui 
Si nolis ſanus, curres hydropicus: & ni 


Poſces ante diem librum cum lumine; fe non 


Fe Intendes 


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Soon as Aurora dawns, ſome book peruſe; 


—— — — — — — > CI Diane)n— nar 


That treats of ſubjects pleaſing, yet of ule ! 


To charm each wand'ring thought from envy's rage, 
Or love, that tyrant o'er our blooming age. 
Whate'er offends the ſight we ſhun with haſte, 
And ſhall the mind's diſeaſe for ever laſt 
Dare to begin, and half your work is done: 


Plain reaſon tells us what to ſeek, or ſhun, 


Whoe'er 


Intendes animum ſtudiis, & rebus honeſtis; 
Invidid vel amore vigil torquebere. Nam cur, 
Luck ledunt oculos, feſtinas 4 ,. quid 

Eft animum, differs curandi fempus in annum? 


Dimidium facti, qui cæpit, habet. Sapere aude: 


Incipe, Vivendi rea? qui prorogat boram, 


„t Ruſticus 


226 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


Whoe'er delays to live by reaſor's rule, 5 Why 
Waits on · the riverꝰs bank, like nature's fool; That 
With viſionary hope, like courtiers ted, Exce 
He thought the ſtream would leave its ouzy bed; On fl 
But ſtill the facred ſpring for ever guides Not 
Thro' flow'ry Meadows with revolving tides. | The | 
Wealth, beauty, children, are the joys of life, | »From 
That make each mortal happy in a wife : Or to 
Patient of cold we tame the ſtubborn plain, Still 
And pant beneath the noon-tide heat for gain. And 
Why 

Rufticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Ruod 
Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis æuum. Nen 
Quscritur argentum, fueriſque Beata creandis | Agro 
Uxer ; & incultæ Pirie womere ſylve. gh wi Non « 


Vd 


Poems on ſeveral Occafions, 227 


Why ſhould we-with for more? If fortune grants 


That competence, which modeſt nature wants: 


Except that Godlike pleaſure to beſtow 


On friends who ſink beneath a weight of woe. 
Not all the ſplendor, which the world admire, 


The pride of life, each object of deſire, 

From burning fevers can preſerve their lord, 
Or to the wounded ſpirit eaſe afford. 

Still Nees conſcience throbs beneath a ſtar, 


And ſhakes his fabric with inteſtine war 


Vod ſatis eft, cui contingit, nibil amplius optet. 
Non domus, & fundus, non @ris aceruus & auri, 


Agroto domini deduxit corpore febres. 


Non animo curas. Valeat poſſelſor oportet, 5 
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228 Poems on ſeveral Occaſoons. 


Our country's wrongs fit heavy on his breaſt, 


And, like | Macbeth, his guilt has murder d 100 * 
Exalted on the top of fortune's wheel, 

He wants that peace, Which men of virtue feel. 
Wealth is but vain, if gout, or. ſtone annoy; 
'Tis health alone that gives us to enjoy. 

Who live dependant ſlaves to hope or fear, 

To them life's greateſt bleſſings will appear 


As Kueller's pictures to a German race, 


Or Ward's ſpecific in a gouty caſe ! 


Si comportatis relus bene cogitat uti, 


Qui cupit aut metuit; juvat illum fic domus ae res, 


Us lippum pictæ Zabule, Jomenta podagram, BY: 


Auriculas cithar@ collecig ſorde dolentes. 


Sincerun 


To 
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Poems on ſeveral Occaſrons. 229 
To ſuch Behnda's melody of voice, 


With Handels muſic, ſeems a grating noiſe. 


| In vain philoſophers their rules define, 
Except their pupils breathe a ſoul divine. 

Youth's fleeting pleaſures leave a ſting behind; 
And want eternal racks the miſer's mind. 
With bold rebuke euch wild defire reſtrain, 
Nor let another's bliſs create your pain. 


No 


Sincerum eft niſi vas, quodcunque infundis, aceſcit. 
| Sperne voluptates: Nocet empta dolore voluptas. 
Semper avarus eget : rein vols pete finem. | 

Invi dus alterius macreſcit rebus opimis: | 

Vrvidid Siculi non invenere tyranni 


Majus 


230 Potins on ſeveral Occafions. = 

No tyrant can a greater plague mvent, 

Than reſtleſs envy, foe to calm content. 

Who lets each ſudden guſt of paſſion riſe, 

And, like a tempeſt, misgiet earth and ſkies; 
Thro various ſcenes, ſome raſh exploit will mourn, 
And trace repentant ſorrow to his urn. 

Rage is a ſhort-liv'd medneſt that requires 

The firmeſt curb to check its warm defires ; _ 


So ſtrong an impulſe. can no medium have, 


But reigns a tyrant, or becomes a ſlave. 


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Majus tormentum. | Qui non moderabitur ire, 
Infectum volet eſſe, dolor quod ſunſerit, ac mens, 
Dum pænas odio per vim feſtinat inulto. 

Ira furor brevis eft, Animum rege; qui niſi paret, 


W Vnperat; 


Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 432 
Who knows with {kill the fiery ſteed to rule, 6 85 
While young, will train his ſpirit in the ſchool; 
And tender hounds their infant voices try, l 
Before they join the chorus of the cry. 


Now, in the bloom of your untainted youth, 
Imbibe they precepts of unerring truth ! 
Such early principles will ever laſt, 
Like ſeaſon'd veſſels that preſerve the taſte 


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Imperat ; hunc frenis, hunc tu compeſce catend. 
Fingit equum tenerd docilem cervice magiſter 
Ire viam, quam monſtrat eques: venaticus, ex quo. 


Tempore cervinam pellem latravit in aul, 


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232 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 
Of their firſt tincture ; but if you remain 

Supinely ſlothful, and the prize diſdain, 

Or ruſh impetuous o'er the duſty plain ; 


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I will not emulate the glorious ſtrife, 


But fave my diſtance in the courſe of life. 


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Militat in ylvis catulus. Nunc adbibe puro 
Pectore verba, puer: nunc te melioribus Mer. 
Que ſemel eft imbuta recens, ſervabit odorem 


Teſta diu. Quod ſi ceſſas, aut ſtrenuus anteis; 


Nec tardum opperior, nec pracedentibus inſio. 


Verſes 


And virtue makes the flame expire, 


Poems on feveral Occaftoris, 233 


. 
mended the Durham Ladies. 


I. vain you talk of Mowbray's mien, 


A. Who moves in Dance the Cyprian queen; 


Of Dunning's charms, with pow'r to move 


The frozen heart of age to love; 


Of V illiamfen's enchanting air, 
Majeſtic form, divinely fair! 

Whoſe beauty ſets the world on fire, 
Yet her {ſweet converſe ſtrikes you more, 
Than all thoſe charms mankind adore 3 
Of Fanny * Hall, her ſex's pride, 

By merit made a blooming bride ; 


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* Since married to Walter Hawkfwerth, Eſq; in 174 5. 


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234 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


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Their mutual happineſs imparts; _ Wit 
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And ſpite of reſolution loves; To 
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Poems on ſeveral Occaſons. 235 
Who raiſes in your breaſt alarms, 
Without the help of beauty's charms, 
With virtues, which you ſeldom find 
To flouriſh in a female mind. 
« Bowes, Wharton, Rutter, claim your ſong, 
© (Their praiſe would make my verſe too long) 
And many a nymph on Durham plain, 


* Who captivates her dying ſwain. 


Here Venus bluſhing, in a rage, 
Condemn'd to flames my partial page : 
To beauty dedicate your lays, 
Vet N ilkinſon ape your praiſe! 
Poets ſhould have a better taſte, | 3 


Or elſe their works will never laſt. 


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236 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions, 
1 own'd the cenſure 400 ſevere, 

Let drop a penitential tear, 

Which moves the Goddeſs to forgive 
My crime, and let my verſes live, 
But, what are all their poaſted charms, 
Except you revel in their arms? 

No more than colours to the blind, 

Or lovers ſighing to the wind: 

Or inks Bacon's manly ſenſe, 


If filent, — with ſuch eloquence ; 


Whoſe modeſty conceals her worth, 
Like treaſure hid beneath the earth. 


But honour checks each looſe deſire, 


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Yet nature claims her tribute due 


To the frail part of me and you: 
"Tis not to gaze upon the foie 

Makes their creation worth 4 care; 
If travellers with drought are curſt, 


Will painted rivers quench their thirſt ? 


Then come, my Delia, to my bed, 


In ſpite of all the world has faid! * 
Let diſappointed coxcombs boaſt 


Of favours granted by my toaſt! 
While modeſt nymphs devoutly rail, 


To ſhow their nature is not frail ; 


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An Epiſtle zo Lucinda. 
F the ſoft language of a bleeding heart 


Can verſes worthy of your ear impart ; 
Deſcribe my paſſion with an ardent zeal, 
And paint in lively i what I feel ; 
Theſe tender lines could never fail to move 
Your ſoul to melt with {ympathetic love. 

How vain that hope ! What numbers can prevail? 
Een Jove, without a golden ſhow'r, would fail: 
Except ſome guardian God your mind directs 
To riſe above the trifles of your ſex, 

And, like Ithuriel's ſpear, with touch refine 
The ſordid paſſion from the flame divine. 
When dawning nature, in your n ſtate, 


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240 Poems on ſeveral Occaſions. 


My boſom kindled with a fecret flame, 


And my heart panted, when I heard your name: 


Still with increafing years my paſſion grew, Oft 
And glow'd with rapture at the fight of you. Bleſs 
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To cultivate each virtue of the mind, 

And prove the pattern of the female kind. 

Oft have I wander'd in the gloomy ſhade, 

Bleſs d with thy lively converſe,. charming maid: 
When my foul languiſh'd to reveal my love, 
(How vain my boaſted reſolutions prove !) 

Too ſoon the trembling hoon dy'd away, 
Nor would my fault'ring tongue my heart obey, 
What various paſſions in my boſom roll? 
Fear, hope, deſpair, by till invade my foul + 
My ſanguine wiſhes flatter each deſire, 

And little Capids fan the raging fire; 

But ſoon another ſcene my fancy draws 

Of noble youths, whoſe fortune pleads their cauſe ; 
The ſplendid equipage, the pomp of ſtate, 

And all the dazzling glories of the great, 


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Are objects which ſollicit every ſenſe : 


And female virtue is a weak defence. 


What can Lucinda in my perſon fee, 
To ſlight the faſhionable oils for me, 
Whoſe only merit is to love the fair, 
Whoſe virtues make me languiſh in deſpair ? | 


If all my fond fuſpicions idle prove, 


And your breaſt kindle with a mutual love; 


The ſtudy of my life ſhall be to pleaſe 


The charming fair, who gave me wealth and eaſe . 


Who ſcorn'd the ſervile praiſe of all mankind, 
For him, who deems the virtues of the mind 
Above the ſplendid gifts which fortune gave, 


Or beauty, to confirm the world your ſlave. 


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But if ſome happy rival's planet ſhine, 
Auſpicious to your wiſh, with rays divine ; 
Conceal this fatal ſecret in your breaſt, 

And with each other live, for ever bleſt! 

Still in your friendſhip let me bear a part, 


And give me your eſteem without your heart. 


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deavoured to perſuade her, that ſhe "would 


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With ſuperſtitious fears let fools be ſhamm'd ; 


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Why was the great Creator's art diiplay'd 


To form, like thee, ſome fair enchanting maid ; - 


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Delia, to a theſe candid lines are ſent, 
To ſpurn the fool, that can ſuch malice vent. 
Let him rail on, and triumph in his ſpleen!” 
His folly, not thy want of worth, is ſeen-. 
Without the common 8 place of wit, or ſenſe, 
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Is e'en below the world's contempt to ſink : 


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Each "IAN glowing in the bloom of youth, 


That captivates like innocence and truth: 


But when a pleaſing form, like yours, we find 
United to the virtues of the mind ; 
From ſuch prevailing charms to guard the will 


Exceeds the weaker pow'r of human ſkill. 


How hard is the condition of your fate, 


For loving form'd, yet taught mankind to hate ? 


If the ſoft paſſion in your boſom burns, 


Stern honour will admit no kind returns ; 


But like a rigid parent's hand denies 


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Why ſhould that tyrant cuftom fo prevail, 


As to indulge our ſex in being frail ? 


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Poems on ſeveral Occafiond. 447 
Yet, if weak woman chance to go aſtray, 

In paths of bliſs, where nature leads the way 
Eternal infamy ſhall blot her name,, 
From the bright regiſter of female fame. 


When my ſoul pants with rapture to enjoy 

_ Thoſe pleaſures, which in you would never _— 3 
Had 1 the language of; perſuaſive love, 

With ſympathetic force, your heart to move : 
Such ill preſaging thoughts of future harms 
Would a me, while I revell'd in your arms; 
Leſt any pregnant ſign of guilt appear, 

To cloud each feature with a falling tear; 

To caſt a veil of ſorrow o'er your eyes, 


And make your boſom heave with plaintive fighs. 


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248 Poems on ſeveral  Occafpons. 

How could I bear to ſee a lovely mad 

To the world's bleak contempt by me betray d, 'F 
Where female malice points the hand of ſcorn, © g « 
To brand with infamy. the. Gig forlorn? 


Such thoughts as theſe in eaſy numbers roll, 


When your dear image charms my raviſh'd ſoul: 
Each ſanguine hope, and every tender fear, 


As in my faithful heart, is painted here. 


What calm philoſophy can teach the mind 
In ſuch a doubtful ſtate to be reſign'd ? 
To bear the rapture of a burning kiſs, 

Yet ſhudder at the thought of greater bliſs; 
To gaze with tranſport on the blooming fair, 


[| Yet languiſh for her ſake in cold deſpair ? | 


1 If ſuch a conduct merit ſome regard, 


Let your kind wiſhes be my juſt reward ! 

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132 God! whoſe being all adore, 


Tho' none can trace thy ſelf- exiſtent power; 
Whoſe eye can pierce the ſeerets of the heart, 
When ſpecious villains act a patriot's part; 

Teach me to know the bounds of right and wrong, 
And make my life flow ſmoother than my ſong! 
Leet ſacred honour be my laſting guide, 

And moral virtue o'er each act preſide ! 

Nor ſtrictly rigid, nor profanely looſe, 

Indulge the joys of youth without abuſe ! 

Nor meanly think, that nature's bounteous Lord 
Spread the rich feaſt of life, yet gave the word, 
That none preſume to taſte the cup of joy, 


Leſt the Creator ſhould his works deſtroy, 


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Firm to this rule, that not one pleaſure flow 


To feaſt my raviſh'd ſenſe from others woe. 
Tho' ſuch a private ſtation can create 
But little good or evil to the tate ; 

Yet let each ſentiment and action prove 


My friendſhip to mankind, and country's love. 


| Riches I ſeek not, but a tranquil mind, 


In every character of life reſign'd: 

Without one pain to interrupt my eaſe, 

And make my being languiſh in diſeaſe. 

Such is the wide of a heart ſincere, 

Whoſe adoration flows from love, not * fear. 
Praiſe, honour, glory, be to God on high ! 
For all the happineſs mankind enjoy. 


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On the Rebellion in the Year 1746. 

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To dream in cells of conquelt o'er this iſle; 

Becauſe her ſons unite in freedom's cauſe, 

And watch, like guardians, O er their country's lavs; 

In earneſt zeal with miniſters debate, 

In ſenates, to preſerve our happy ſtate; 

To fix the pow'r of kings in proper bounds, 

Leſt arbitrary rule the realm con found: 

Such are the tenets of each Britiſh ſoul, 

| Whoſe arms the tyrants of the world controul. 

Let Fontenoy declare! whoſe troops beheld 

Our army reap the glory of the field, 

When all the flaves of France united fought, 

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And ſend a vain pretender to the crown, 


There more renown in war did England gain, 


Than all the trophies of a French campaign. | 


Let Gallia practiſe her deluſive arts, 


With ſpecious wiles to win the people's hearts! 


To rouze the ſpirit of each free-born ſon, 


Whoſe force ſhall ſhake her tyrant on his throne : 
Revenge this inſult on the nation's ſenſe, 
Who love their country, liberty, and prince, 
More than they fear the pow'rs of France and Spain, 
Combin'd againſt the maſters of the main. 
See Britain's youth *, unus'd to war's alarms, 
Forſake their downy reſt, and beauty's charms j 
All the ſoft fweets of luxury decline, 


With firm united hearts in battle join; 


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Who think their country's thanks 4 juſt reward. 

How vain a effort of an honeſt mind, 
Io purchaſe fame by glorious deeds inclin'd? 

If Sterling merit is the ſole pretence, 

That noble plea will prove a weak defence 


Againſt the foul reproach of calumny, 


Or gilded tale of N flattery, 

Which with a ſmooth inſinuating tongue, 
That character it fears, can meanly wrong: 
But merit, like the ſun eclips d, will ſhine 

With double ſplendor, as the ſhades decline, 
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254 Poems an ſeveral Occaſions, 


How ſwift the rebels ravage O er the land, P. 


To fly from Cumberland's avenging hand? Al 
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There brood o'er treaſon in that tainted air, | 
Curſe their vain hopes, and periſh in deſpair ? 


'Then let theſe raſh invaders learn from hence, 


(Who riſe in arms againſt the nation's ſenſe) 


To conquer George in vain their armies move, 


MY Whoſe throne is guarded by the people's love. 


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From envy, malice, hatred; ſtrife, 
And all the buſy cares of life; 
My days glide on in tranquil 4 
Where ſolitude has charms to pleaſe : 
Tho none, with more intenſe delight, 


Enjoy. the revels of the night, 


When ſocial mirth and wine 1 

To propagate each gay deſire: 

Wine, — which can latent wit explore, 
And ſet the table in a roar: 

For ſome will never ſhow they think, 

Except when over ſeas in drink. 

Yet contemplation has her time 


To- meditate on things ſublime ; 


To view, with a diſcerning eye, { 


. The wonders | of this earth and {ky 3 


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And every prejudice eraze, 

Which ſpite of reaſon, ſtill we ſee, 

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Sometimes, with retroſpective view, 

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Here let me ſprinkle on thy hearſe, 


Immortal ſhade, one plaintive verſe ! 
Let the fad truth in numbers flow, 
No bliſs is perfect here below! 


For, now thy ſocial ſpirit's fled; | 


Each jocund ſwain, and tender maid, 
With unfeign'd tears thy fate deplore, 
And the world fighs,=- thou art no more: 


Here free from luxury and ſtate, 
Thoſe ſplendid evils of the great, 


[ lead an independent life, 


Where Delia ſerves inſtead of wife, 
Who like 4 faithful friend behaves, 1 1 
With care my little fortune ſaves ; | 
And is, in ſhort, altho'-a woman, 
In worth inferior to no man: 


LI. A miracle; 


A miracle, ſo rarely ſeen, - 

Will ſtagger the belief of men; 
And muſt incur the ridicule 

Of each inſipid ſneering fool, 
Who takes it as a thing on truſt, 
No man is honeſt, woman juſt. 
My purſe tis far enough above 
To aim at matrimonial love; 


Without eſtate to make pretences, 


You might as well want all the ſenſes 


As wealth. What merit will obtain. 


A flatter'd idol, weak, and vain? . 


For women now, like lands, are ſold 


To the beſt purchaſer for gold 


Who worſe than proſtitutes expoſe. 


Their perſons to their greateſt foes ;.. 


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Without 


Wit 
To 
But 
No 
To 
III 
But 


it 


Which in theſe caſes often hips: one. 


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Without excuſe of poverty, 


To wretchedneſs and infamy 


But not to dwell upon a thing, 

No more concerns . you than the king 
To carry on this chat in rhime, 

III tell you how I ſpend my time. 


But tremble not !— no long deſcription, 


When firſt Aurora gilds che ſkies)» 1101 1 
I never hold it good to riſe; 

But ſlumber on till nature loaths 

Another nap of ſoft repoſe; + 

Then either read, or walk, pe write, 

Till darkneſs uſhers in the night; 

Or on the ocean's bank reclin d, 

When Zolus recalls the wind; 


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No longer ſtormy Neptune raves, 
But ſun- beams dance upon the Waves, 
Whoſe luſtre gilds the whiten d ſails 


Of ſhips, that wait for freſher-gales; _ 


In ſuch a calm delightfyl ſcene, 
What placid thoughts ariſe within? 
Which ſuch an equal tenour keep, 
Smooth as the ſurface of the deep 


The rudeſt paſſions grow refin d, 


And all is harmony of mind ; 
Ambliion's wild purſuits appear 

Like children's bubbles blown in air 1 0 
My ſoul the pomp of life diſowns, 
And pities kings upon their thrones, 


7 Not— that theſe ſentiments are meant 


Io make you think me quite content; 


Like 


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Like vulgar ſouls without 'a wiſh 
To . pv avi 
But eaſy in the preſent ſtate 
Of things, allotted 10 by ſute 
No politics diſturb my reſt, 


No party-zeal now fires my breaſt: 


Tho' once in oppoſition ſtrong, 


_ Becauſe I thought the meaſures wrong, 
And had a ſtrange miſtaken notion, 
That patriots had a warm devotion 
To labour for the public good, 
To ſerve their country with their blood ; 
To fave the nation from diſgrace, 
Without the proſpect of a place. 
But, ſince 1 find ſuch noble ſchemes 
Are nothing but romantie dreams, 


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It is not worth a K 5 


By whom our country s fold, or bought, 


Before 1 finiſh this relation BITE, 


About my preſent ſituation, # 


Perhaps it may not be amiſs 


To tell you of my greateſt bliſs. 


Not far from hence, there live two ſwains, 


The glory of che Clirveland plains," 

in whom good qualities Sohns, ö 

And every ſocial virtue's found. 

Yet the appearance -of a rake | 

Makes rigid fools their worth miſtake ; 
Their characters, tho” really good, 4 a 
By numbers are miſunderſtood : 

Becauſe devoid of ſuperſtition, 

Which zealous bigots call religion. 


With 


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With men * worth and ſenſe, like theſis en 


To join in | converſe, when you Pee 1 


And in ike Friendſhip. have a place 5 
You'll own a very happy calc 4, - 


Their names, — no matter what you call, 


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The world will think of More and Hall. 
But ſoon the winter's hollow - blaſt ” 


Will make this ſcene too bleak to laſt; | 1 
And then to York 1 ſhall i. „ mol 


But look in vain for Kingſland there. | 
For now. — ſo eue fate ordains, f 
Their preſence grace the n plains: | 

Whoſe ſprightly. converſe hagh the pow'r T4: 

To charm away the m n ring hour; „ 

Each ſocial pleaſure to refine,  .. 3 3 
And give a reliſh to the wine. | 


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In anſwer to this | chiming letter, 

I ſhall expet from you 4 better; 
Except this ſudden revolution, 

This wond'rous turn in conſtitution y 

This ſtrange apoſtaſy from wine, 

Which makes the dulleſt genius ſhine; 
Should damp the vigour of your fpirit, 
And leflen your poetic al 

However write at all events! 

80 with my hearty compliments 

To Clarke, and all his family, 

I'm yours, & catera,— J. G. 


Skinningrave, October 
3 O 5 I 74 6. 


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ADDENDA & CORRIGEND 4. 
AGE 7, Line 2, - Even, r. E'en. P. 8, 1. 12, for purory 


r. purer. P. 12, I. 1, for unbounden, r. n P. 1. 
14, for could, r. cou'd. P. 17, 1. 17 from the Bottom, before Every 
7. A. FP: 10, l. 6, for falhiona, r. faſhionable. P. 22, I. 12, for 
That, r. Which. P. „ 1-4 for Determines, . Determin'd. P. 
34, I. 2, for factions, r. faction's. P. 47, 1. 8, for Such friends, as he, 
have licence to do ill, . Fiends have like him 2 licence to do ill. P. 
51, 1, 24 from the Bottom, for Peterborough, v. - Feterborow P. 04, 
I. 1, for joy, r. life. P. 103, 1. 2, for man, . Man, and add for a 
Note, A woman's name. P. 128, 1. 13, for thraſhing, r. threſhing. 
P. 130, I 11; for None, v. Nor. P. 134, I. t, for ſhoar to ſhoar, r. 
ſhore to ſhore. P. 142, after I. 2, add theſe two Lines, 
Whom all mankind with glowing ardour crave, 
And deem it merit to be thought her ſlave. 
P. 211, I. 9, for into, r. in too. P. 224, I. 2, for Amidſt, 7. Amid. 


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