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Hcec Jiudia adokfcentiam alunt^ feneSiutem obleBant\ fecundas res ornant^ adverjis perfugium &* folatium prcebent \ deleBant domif ncn impediunt forts \ permEiant nobijcumy peregrinan- tur, rufticantur. L N^^^p N : Printed by J. Wright, for Law ton GiLtiytK SLlJJomef*$ Head in Fketjireet-, Mdccxxxv. t^^iii///t?. Inftanced in /?/C/6^j, 176. Ho- nours^ 184. Birth ^ 203. Great nefs^ 213. Fame^ 233. Supe- rior iale2iiiSy 257. withPi6lures of human Infehcityin men pofleft of them all, 275, (^c. That Virtue only conftitutes a Happinefs, whofe Objed: is Univer/al^ and whofe Profpedl Eternal^ 304, &c. That the Perfedion of Virtue and Happinels confifts in a Confor- mity to the Order of Providence here, and a Rejignation to it, here and hereafter, 326, ^c. ' urn, I o '&& ll l^J 1^1 |-^L^|jgJ,[^l |-^M[rTJJ.iMlr^liJ]^Ii^ EPISTLE I. I wake! my St. John! leave all meaner things To low Ambition and the Pride of Kings. Let Us (fince Life can little more fuppljr Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free, o'er all this Scene of Man, ^ A mighty Masie ! but not without a Plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuousfliooc, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit B lo EPISTLES. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; lo The latent trails, the giddy heights explore, Of all who bUndly creep, or fightlefs foar ; Eye Nature's walks, Ihoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rife ; Laugh where we mujl, be candid where we can, fs But vindicate the Ways of God to Man. Say firft, of God above, or Man below, What can we reajon, but from what we know? Of Man, what fee we but his Station here. From w^hich to reafon, or to which refer? 20 Thro' Worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known> ^Tis ours to trace him, only in our own. , He who thro' vaft Immenfity can pierce. See worlds on worlds compofe one Univerfe^ Obferve how Syftem into Syftem runs, 25 What other Planets, and what other Suns? What vary'd Being peoples ev'ry Star? May telJ, why Heav'n has made us as we are. EPISTLES, n But of this frame the bearings, and the Ties, The ftrong connections, nice dependencies, 30 Gradations juft, has thy pervading foul Look'd thro' ? or can a Part contain the Whole ? Is the great Chain that draws all to agree. And drawn fupports, upheld by God, or thee ? Prefumptuous Man ! the Reafon would'ft thou find Why form'd fo weak, fo little, and fo blind ? 36 Firft, if thou can'ft, the harder reafon guefs Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no lefs ? Ask of thy mother Earth, why oaks are made Taller or ftronger than the weeds they fliade ? 4° Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's Satellites are lefs than Jove ? Of Syftems poflible, if 'tis confeft That Wifdom infinite muft form the beft, Where all muft full, or not coherent be, 45 And all that rifes, rife in due degree ; Then, in the fcale of life and lenfe, 'tis plain There muft be, fome where, fuch a rank as Man ; B 2 12 EPISTLES. And all the queftion (wrangle 'ere fo long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? 50 Refpecling Man whatever wrong we call, May, muft be right, as relative to All. In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thoufand movements fcarce one purpofe gain ; In God's, one fingle can its End produce, 55 Yet ferves to fecond too fome other Ufe. So Man, who here feems principal alone, Perhaps a6ls fecond to a Sphere unknown^ Touches fome wheel, or verges to fome gole ; 'Tis but a part we fee, and not a whole. 60 When the proud Steed fliall know,why Man reftrains His fiery courfe, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull Ox, why now he breaks the clod, Now wears a garland, an Egyptian God ; The 1 fliall Man's pride and dulnefs comprehend 65 His anion's, pafiion's, being's, ufe and end; Why doing, fuff'ring, check'd, impell'd, and why This hour a Slave, the next a Deity ? EPISTLES, 13 Then fay not Man's imperfedl, Heav'n in fault ? Say rather, Man's as perfe6l as he ought ; 70 His being meafur'd to his ftate, and place, His time a moment, and a point his fpace. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate, From Brutes what Men, from Men what Spirits know Or who could fufter Being here below ? 7^ The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day^ . Had he thy Reafon, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to ihed his blood.- do Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the Circle mark'd by Heav'n^ Who fees with equal eye, as God of All, A Hero perifli, or a Sparrow fall, Atoms, or Syftems, into ruin hurl'd, g.- And now a Bubble burft, and now a World ! Hope humbly then • with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore ! 1+ EPISTLES. What future blifs, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now. 90 Hope fprings eternal in the human breaft; Man never is, but always to be bleft ; The foul uneafy, and confin'd at home, Refts, and expatiates, in a hfe to come. Lo ! the poor Indian, whofe untutor'd mind 95 Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His foul, proud Science never taught to ftray Far as the Solar walk, or Milky way ; Yet fimple Nature to his Hope has giv'n Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n, 100 Some fafer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier Ifland in the watry wafte, Where Slaves once more their native land behold, No Fiends torment, no Chriftians thirfl for Gold. To be, contents his natural defire, 105 He asks no Angel's wing, nor Seraph's fire, But thinks, admitted to that equal Sky, His faithful Do^' fliall bear him company. E T I S T L E S, 15 Go, wifer thou ! and in thy fcale of fenfe Weigh thy Opinion againfl; Providence: no Call Imperfection what thou fancy'ft fuch ; Say, here he gives too Httle, there too much : Deftroy all Creatures for thy fport or guft, Yet cry, if Man's unhappy, God's unjufi:, If Man, alone, engrofs not Heav'ns high care, ^^5 Alone, made perfw6l here, immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the Balance and the Rod, Re-judge his Juftice, Be the God of God I In reas'ning Pride (my Friend) our error lies ; All quit their fphere, and rulhinto the Skies. 120 Pride ftill is aiming at the bleft abodes, Meii would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Afpiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Afpinng to be Angels, Men rebell : A.nd who but wilhes to invert the Laws 1 2 - / Of Order, finsagainft th' Eternal Caufe. Ask for what end the heav'nly Bodies Ihine ? Earth for whofc ufe ; Pride anfwers, ^'Tis for mine ; i6 EPISTLES. *' For me, kind Nature wakes her genial pow'r, " Suckles each herb, and fpreads out ev'ry flow'r ; i3<^ *' Annual for me, the grape, the rofe renew "The juice nedlareous, and the balmy dew; " For me the mine a thoufand treafures brings, *' For me health gulhes from a thoufand fprings; "Seas roll to waft me, funs to light me rife, ^35 "My footftool earth, my canopy the skies. But errs not Nature from this gracious end, • From burning funs when livid deaths defcend. When earthquakes fwallow, or when tempefts fvveep Towns to one grave, or Nations to the deep ? 1 40 No ('tis reply 'd) the firft Almighty Caufe " Ad:s not by partial, but by general Laws ;- " Th' Exceptions few ; fome Change fince all began ; " And what created, perfed ?" — Why then Man ? If the great End be human happinefs, 145 Then Nature deviates, and can Man do lefs ? As much that End a conftant courfe requires Of ihow'rs and funlhine, as of Man's defires, EPISTLES. 17 As much eternal fprings and cloudlefs skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wife. 15® If Plagues or Earthquakes break not heav'ns delign, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline? From Pride, from Pride, our very reas'ning fprinps ; Account for moral, as for nat'ral things: Why charge we heav'n in thofe, in thefe acquit ; t^ss In both, to reafon right, is to fubmit. Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, Were there all harmony, all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never pallion difcompos'd the mind: 160 But JU fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And Paflions are the Elements of life. The gen'ral Order , iince the whole began, Is kept in Nature, and is kept in Man. What would this Man ? now upward will he foar, And little lefs than Angel, would be more; 166 Now looking downward, juft as griev'd appears To want the ftrength of Bulls^ the fur of Bears, C i8 EPISTLES. Made for his ufe all Creatures if he call, Say what their ufe, had he the povv'rs of all? 17° Nature to thefe without profufion kind, The proper organs, proper pow'rs allign'dj Each feeming want compenfated of courfe, Here, with degrees of Swiftnefs, there, of Force ; All in exa^l proportion to the ftate, 175 Nothing to add, and nothing to abate. Each Beaft, each Infed, happy in its own, Is Heav n unkind to Man and Man alone ? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not blefs'd with all ? 1 80 The blifs of Man (could Pride that bleding find) Is, not to a61;, or think, beyond Mankind ;' No pow'rs of Body or of Soul to lliare, But what his Nature and his State can bear. Why has not Man a microfcopic eye? 185 For this plain reafon, Man is not a Fly. Ver. 174. HerevoUh degrees of Swiftnefs, there of Force. '\ It is a certain Axiom m ihe Anatomy of Creatures, that in proportion as they are formM for Strent^th thtir Swiftnefs is leffen'd ; or as they are form'd for Swiknefe, cheir Strongth is abated. E P T S T L E S. 19 Say what the ufe, were finer opticks giv'n, T' infpedl a Mite, not comprehend the Heav'n ^ Or Touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart, and agonize at ev'ry pore ? 190 Or keen Effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a Rofe, in aromatic pain ? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And ilunn'd him Avith the mufic of the Spheres, How would he willi that Heav n had left him ftill 195 The whifp'ring Zephyr, and the purhng rill ? Who finds not Providence ali-good and wife. Alike in what it gives, and what denies ? Far as Creation's ample range extends. The Scale of fenfual, mental pow'rs afcends ; 200 Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race. From the green myriads in the peopled grafs ! What modes of light, betwixt each wide extreme^ The Mole's dim curtain, and the Lynx's beam : C 2 20 E P I S T L E S. Of fmell, the headlong Lionefs between, 205 And hound, fagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the Life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood: The fpider's touch, how exquifitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : 210 In the nice bee, what fenfe fo fubtly true From pois'nous herbs extradls the healing dew. How Inftintfl varies 1 in the groveling fwine, Compared, half-reas'ning Elephant ! with thine ; ''Twixt that, and Reafon, what a nice barrier, 2 r 5 For ever fep'rate, yet for ever near : Remembrance, and Refledtion, how ally'd ; What thin partitions Senfe from Thought divide : And middle Natures, how they long to join. Yet never pafs th' infu per able line ! 220 Without this juft Gradation, could they be Subjected thefe to thofe, or all to thee ? Ver. 205. — the headlong Lionefs — ] The manner ofche Lions hunting their Frey in the Deferts of Africa is this-, at their firft going out in the night-time they fet up a loud Roar, and then liften to the Noifemade by the Beafts in their Flight, purfuing them by the Ear, and not by the Noftril. It is probable, the ftory of the Jackali's hunting for the Lion was occafion'd by oblerving the Defect of Scent in that terrible Animal. EPISTLES, 21 The powers of all fubdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy Reafon all thofe pow'rs in one ? See, thro' this ah-, this ocean, and this earth, 22- All Matter quick, and burfting into birth. Above, how high progreflive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Yail Chain of Being ! which from God began, Natures Ethereal, human. Angel, Man, 23a Beaft, bird, filli, infecl; what no Eye can fee, No Glafs can reach: from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing ! — On fuperior pow'rs AYere we to prefs, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full Creation leave a Void, 235 Where, one ftep broken, the great Scale's deftroy'd: From Nature's Chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth or ten thou fandth, breaks the Chain alike. And if each Syftem in gradation roll, Alike elFential to th' amazing Whole ; . 240 The leaft confufion but in one, not all That Syftem only, but the whole muft fall. 22 EPISTLES, Let Earth unbalanc'd from her Orbit fly, Planets and Suns rulli lawlefs thro' the sky, Let ruling- Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, 245 Being on Being wreck'd, and World on World, Heav'ns whole foundations to their Centre nod, And Nature tremble, to the Throne of God. All this dread Order break — For whom ? for thee, Vile Worm 1 — OMadnefs! Pride! Impiety! 250 What if the foot ordain'd the dufl co tread. Or hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head ? What if the head, the eye or ear, repin d To ferve mere engines to the ruling Mind ^ Juft as abfurd, for any Part to claim -j^ To be Another, in this gen'ral Frame : fuft as abfurd, to mourn the tasks, or pains, The great direding Mind of Jll ordains. All are but parts of one ftupendous Whole, Whofe Body Nature is, and God the Soul; 260 That, chang d thro' all, and yet in all the fame, Great in the Earth as in th' ^Ethereal frame. EPISTLES, 23 Warms in the Sun, refreflies in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and bloffoms in the Trees, Lives thro' all Life, extends thro^ all Extent, 265 Spreads undivided, operates unfpent, Breathes in our foul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair, as heart, As full, as perfea, in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns ; 270 To Him no high, no low, no great, no fmall ; He fills, he bounds, conneds, and equals all Ceafe then, nor Order Imperfeclion name : Our proper blifs depends on w^hat we blame. Know thy own Toint: This kind, this due degree 275 Of bhndnefs, weaknefs, Heav n beftows on thee. Submit — in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blefl: as thou canft bear ; Safe in the hand of one difpofmg Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal Hour. 280 All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee ; All Chance, Direction which thou canft not fee ; 24 EPISTLES. All Difcord, Harmony not underftood ; All partial Evil, univerfal Good : And fpight of Pride, in erring Reafon's fpight, 285 One truth is clear; " Whatever Is, is Right." EPISTLE II. m^^Now then thy-felf, prefume not God to i^^^i^ jj^g proper Study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this Ifthmus of a middle ftate, A Being darkly wife, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the Sceptic fide 5 With too much weaknefs for a Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to ad: or reft, In doubt to deem himfelf a God, or Beaft, In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err, 10 Alike in ignorance, his Reafon fuch. Whether he thinks too little, or too much : D i6 EPISTLES. Chaos of Thought and Paflion, all confiis'd ,- Still by himfelf abus'd, or dif-abus'd ; Created half to rife, and half to fall; j^ Great Lord of all things, yet a Prey to all ; Sole Judge of Truth, in endkfs Error hurl'd ; The Glory, Jeft, and Riddle of the World ! GojWondVous Creature ImountwhcreScience guides. Go meafure Earth, weigh Air, and ftate the Tydes, 2 o Shew by what Laws the wand 'ring Planets ftray, Corred: old Time, and teach the Sun his way. Go, foar with Plato to th' Empyreal fphere, To the firft Good, firft Perfed, and firft Fair ; Or tread the ma:z.y round his Follow'rs trod, 2S And quitting Senfe call LTiitating God, As Eaftern Priefts in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the Sua Go, teach Eternal Wifdom how to rule — Then drop into thy-felf, and be a Fool ! 3^ Superior Beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, EPISTLES. 27 Admir'd fuch Wifdom in an earthly Ihape, And Ihow'd a Newton, as we Ihow an j^pe. Could He whofe Rules the whirling Comet bind, 3 5 Defcribe, or fix, one movement of his mind ? Who faw the Stars here rife, and there defcend Explain, or his Beginning, or his End ? Alas what wonder! Man's fuperior part Unchecked may rife, and climb from Art to Art ; 40 But when his own great work is but begun, What Reafon weaves, by Paflion is undone. Two Principles in human Nature reign ; Self-Love, to urge; and Reafon, to reftrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, 45 Each works its end, to move, or govern all : And to their proper operation ftill Afcribe all Good ; to their improper, HI. oii.j?i Self Love, the Spring of motion, ads the foul; Reafon's comparing Balance rules the whole ; 50 Man, but for that, no J^ ion could attend, - And but for this, were adive to no Ent^f, -^ioM D 2 28 EPISTLES, Fix'd like a Plant, on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or Meteor-like, flame lawlefs through the void, 55 Deftroying others, by himfelf deftroy'd. Moft ftrength the moving Principle requires, Active its task, it prompts, impels, infpires: Sedate and quiet the comparing lies, Form'd but to check, deliberate, and advife. 60 Self-Love yet ftronger, as its objects nigh ; Reafon's at diftance and in profpeift lye; That fees immediate Good, by prefent fenfe, Reafon the future, and the confequence; Thicker than Arguments, Temptations throng, 65 At bell: more watchful this, but that more ftron^. The ad:ion of the ftronger to fufpend, Reafon ftill ufe, to Reafon ftill attend: Attention, Habit and Experience gains. Each ftrength ens Reafon, and Self-love reftrains. 70 Let fubtile Schoolmen teach thefe Friends to fi£rht More ftudious to divide, than to unite, EPISTLES. 29 And Grace and Virtue, Senfe and Reafon fplit, With all the rafli dexterity of Wit. Wits, juft like fools, at war about a Name, 75 Have full as oft, no meaning*, or the fame. Self-love and Reafon to one end afpire. Pain their averfion, Pleafure rheir defire ; But greedy that its obje6l would devour, This tafte the honey, and not wound the flower. 8b Pleafure, or wrong or rightly underftood, Our greateft Evil, or our greateft Good. Modes of Self-love the P a s s i o n s we may call • . 'Tis real Good, or feeming, moves them all: But fince not ev'ry Good we can divide, 8^5 And Reafon bids us for our own provide, Paflions tho^ felfifii, if their Means be fair, Lill under Reafon, and deferve her care: Thofe that, imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take fome Virtues name. 9^ In IrLy ylpathy let Stoics boaft Their Virtue fix'dj 'tis fix'd as in a Erofl, "30 EPISTLES, Contra^Sed all, retiring to the Breaft ; But Strength of Mind is Exercife, not Reft: The rifing Tempeft puts in adl the foul, 95 Parts it my ravage, but preferves the whole: On Life's vaft Ocean diverfely we fail, Reafon the Card, but Paflion is the Gale : Nor God alone in the ftill Calm we find, He mounts the Storm, and walks upon the Wind. 1 00 Paflions, like Elements, tho' born to fight, Yet mix'd and foften'd, in his work unite : Thefe, 'tis enough to temper and employ ; But what compofes Man, can Man deftroy ? Suffice that Reafon keep to Nature's road, 105 Subie61:, compound them, follow her, and God. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair Pleafure's fmiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the Family of Pain ; Thefe mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd. Make, and maintain, the bal ance of the mind : no The Lights and Shades, whofe well-accorded ftrife Gives all the Strength and Colour of our life. EPISTLES. 31 Pleafures are ever in our hands, or eyes, And when in A61 they ceafe, in Profped rife ; Prefenc to grafp, and future ftill to find, 115 The whole employ of Body and of Mind : All fpread their charms, but charm not all alikcj On different Senfes different Objeds ftrike ; Hence different Paflions more or lefs inflame, As ftrong or weak the Organs of the Frame ; 1 20 And hence one Mafter Paffion in the breafb, Like Aaron's Serpent, fwallows up the reft. As Man perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking- Principle of death. The young Difeafe that muft fubdue at length, 1 25- Grows with his growth, and ftrengthens with his So, caft and mingled with his very frame, [ftrength : The Mind's difeafe, its ruling TaJJion came. Each vital humour which fliould feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in foul. 130 Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head, As the mind opens, and its fundlions fpread^ 32 EPISTLES. Imagination plies her dang'rous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part. Nature its Mother, Habit is its Nurfe ; i35 Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worfe ; Reafon itfelf but gives it edge and pow'r. As Heav'ns bleft beam turns Vinegar more fow'r. The ruling Paffion, be it what it wili. The ruling Paffion conquers Reafon ftill. 140 We, wretched fubje6ts tho' to lawful fway. In this weak Queen, fome Fav'rite ftiil obey. Ah ! if ihe lend not Arms as well as Rules, What can fhe more, than tell us we are Fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature, not to mend, ^45 A lliarp Accufer, but a helplefs Friend 1 Or from a Judge turn Pleader, to perfuade The choice we make, or juftify it made ? Proud of imagin'd Conquefts all alon^-, She but removes weak Paffions for the ftrong ; 1 50 So when fmall Humours gather to a Gout, The Dodor fancies he has driv'n them out. EPISTLES. 33 Yes, Natures Road muft ever be prefer 'd ; Reafon is here no Guide, but ftill a Guard ; 'Tishers to redify, not overthrow, 155 And treat this Paffion more as friend than foe : A Mightier Pow'r the ftrong Diredion fends, And fev'ral Men impells to fev'ral Ends: Like varying Winds, by other Pallions toft, This drives them conftant to a certain coaft. 160 Let Pow'r or Knowledge, Gold or Glory pleafe, Or (oft more ftrong than all) the Love of eafe, Thro' life 'tis folio w'd, ev'n at hfe's expence ; The Merchant's toil, the Sage's indolence, The Monk's humiUty, the Hero's pride, 165 All, all aUke, find Reafon on their fide. Th' Eternal Art, educing Good from III, Grafts on this Paffion our beft Principle : 'Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd. Strong grows the Virtue with his Nature mix'd, 170 The Drofs cements what elfe were too refin'd, And in one int'reft Body acts with Mind, E 34 EPISTLES. As Fruits ungrateful to the Planter's care On favage flocks inferted, learn to bear ; The fureft Vh'tues thus from Paflions llioot, 175 Wild Nature's vigour working at the root. What crops of Wit and Honefty appear, From Spleen, from Obftinacy, Hate, or Fear I See Anger, Zeal and Fortitude fupply ; Ev'n Av'rice Prudence; Sloth Philofophy ; 180 Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a flave, Is Emulation in the Learn'd and Brave : Luft, thro' fome certain ftrainers well refin'd, Is gentle Love, and charms all Womankind : Nor Virtue, male or female, can we name, 185 But what will grow on Pride, or grow on Shame. Thus Nature gives us (let it check our Pride) The Virtue neareft to our Vice ally'd ; Reafon the byas turns to Good from 111, And Nero reigns a Titus, if he will. X90 The fiery foul abhorr'd in Catiline In Decius charms, in Curtius is divine. EPISTLES, 35 The fame Ambition can deftroy, or fave, And makes a Patriot, as it makes a Knave. This Light and Darknefs, in our Chaos join'd, 19s What ihall divide? The God within the Mind. Extremes in Nature equal ends produce, In Man, they join to fome myfterious ufe ; Tho' oft fo mix'd, the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the Virtue, or begins the Vice, Now this, now that, the other's bound invades. As in fome well-wrought Pi^lure, lights and lliades. Fools I who from hence fnto the notion fall, That Vice or Virtue there is none at all. If white and black, blend, foften, and unite 205 A thoufand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own Heart, and nothing is fo plain ; 'Tis to mijiake them, cofts the time and pain. Vice is a monfter of fo frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be feen ; 210 Yet feen too oft, familiar with her face, We firft endure, then pity, then embrace, E 2 36 EPISTLES, But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed ; Ask, Where's the North ? at York 'tis on the Tweed, In Scotland at the Orcades, and there 215 At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it, in the firft degree, But thinks his Neighbour farther gone than he. Ev'n thofe who dwell beneath its very Zone, Or never feel the rage, or never own ; 220 What happier natures Ihrink at with affright, The hard Inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man muft be, Few in th' Extreme, but all in the Degree : The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wife, 225 And ev'n the beft by fits what they defpife, 'Tis but by Parts we follow Good or III, For, Vice or Virtue, Self directs it ilill ; Each Individual feeks a fev'ral goal : But He av'n's great view is One, and that the Whole : That counter-works each Folly and Caprice- 231 That difappoints th' Effed: of ev'ry Vice : EPISTLES, 37 That happy Frailties to all ranks apply'd, Shame to the Virgin, to the Matron Pride, Fear to the Statcfman, Rallmefs to the Chief, 235 To Kings Pref-imption, and to Crowds BeUef : That Virtue's Ends from Vanity can raife, Which feeks no int'reft, no reward but Praife ; And builds on Wants, and on Defeds of mind, The Joy, the Peace, the Glory, of Mankind. 240 Heav'n, forming each on other to depend, A Mafter, or a Servant, or a Friend, Bids each on other for affiftance call, 'Till one man's weaknefs grows the ftrength of all,. Wants, Frailties, Paflions, clofer ftill allye 245- The common int'reft, or endear the tye : To thefe we owe true Friendiliip, Love fincere, Each home-felt joy that Life inherits here : Yet from the fame we learn, in its decline, Thofe joys, thofc loves, thofe int'refts to refign; Taught half by Reafon, half by mere Decay^ To welcome Death, and calmly pafs away.. 2 ta 38 EPISTLES. Whate'er the Paflion, Knowledge, Fame, or Pelf, Not one will change his Neighbour with himfelf. The learn'd is happy, Nature to explore ; 255 The fool is happy, that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n ; The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind Beggar dance, the Cripple fing, The Sot a Hero, Lunatic a King, 260 The ftarving Chymift in his golden views Supreamly bleft, the Poet in his Mufe. See ! fome ftrange Comfort ev'ry State attend, And Pride beftow'd on all, a common friend ; See I fome fit Paflion ev'ry Jlge fupply, 265 H^pe travels thro', nor quits us when we die. 'Till then, Opinion gilds with varying rays Thofe painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of Happinefs by Hope fupply'd, And each vacuity of Senfe by Pride : 270 Thefc build as fail as Knowledge can deftroy, In Folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble, Joy, EPISTLES. 39 One Profped: loft, another ftill we gain, And not a Vanity is giv'n in vain : Ev'n mean Self-Love becomes, by force divine, 275 The Scale to meafure others wants by thine. See 1 and confefs, one comfort ftill muft rife, 'Tisthis, tho' Man s Si Foolf yet God is wise. f^ '*"^o-Kfc>'r\ ynT^cci yn7\fO'^i yn'KfG'^ yn:i T II E CONTENTS OF T H R SECOND BOOK, EPISTLE I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men, To Sir Richard Temple, L^. Vifc'* Cobham. TH AT it is not fufficient for this Knowledge to confider Man in the AhJiroSi : Books will not ferve the Purpofe, nor yet our own Objervatmi , fingly, Ver. i. General Maxims, unlefs they be form'd upon hoth^ will be but notional, lo. Some Pe- culiarity in every Man, characfleriftic to himfelf, yet varying from himfelf, 15 ; the further difficulty of feparating and fixing this, ari- fing from our own PalTions, Fancies, Faculties, &'c, 2 3. The fhort- nefs of life, to obferve in, and the uncertainty of \\\^Pri7iciples of A~ Slion in Men, to obferve by, 2g. Our oivn Principle of Adion often hid from ourfelves, 41. No judging of ^\q. Motives from the A- (^ions ; the fame Adions proceeding from contrary Motives, and the fame Motives influencing contrary Adions, 51/0 70. Yet to form CharaBers^ we can only take \.\\Q.J}ro7igLiftA8lio/ts of a man's lite, and try to make them agree : The utter Uncertainty of this, from Nature itfelf, and from Policy^ 71. Charatlers ,giwtn ac- cording to the Ra7ik of Men in the World, andfome Reafon for it, A The CONTENTS. 87. Education alters the Nature^ or at leafl: CharaSier of many, 101. Some {^\\ Chara6lers plain, but in general confounded, dif- fembled, or inconfijRient, 122. The fame Man utterly different in difterent places and feafons, 130. Unimaginable Weakneffes in the Greateft, 140. Nothing conftant and certain but God and Nature. Of Man we cannot judge, by his Nature^ his ASlmis^^ his PaJfwnSj his Opinions^ his Mafifiers^ Humours^ or Prhiciples^ all fubjedl to change, 160, &'c. It only remains to find (if we can) his Ruling Passion: That will certainly influence all the reft, and only can reconcile the feeming or real Inconfiftency of all his Adlions, 176. Inftanced in the extraordinary Charadler of Clodio, 181. A Caution againft miftakingy^<:oW Qualities for firj}., which will deftroy all pofTibility of the Knowledge of Man- kind, 212. Examples of the Strength of the Ri{li7ig PaffioHf and its Continuation to the laft breath, 224, &^c. EPISTLE II. Of the Characters of Women. To a Lady. OF the Charafters cf Women only, as contradiftinguifhed from the other Sex. That thefe are yet more inconfiftent and incomprehenfible than thofe of Men, of which Inftances are given even from fuch Charaders as are plaineft, and moft ftrong- ly mark'd ; as in the AffeBedj Ve r. 7 /(? 2 i . The Sofi naturd^ 29 to 37. the Cumting^ 45. the JVhimfical, ^t^. the TFits and Refiners^ 69. the Stupid and Silly^ 83. How Contrarieties run thro' them all. But tho' the Particular CharaBers of this Sex are more various than thofe of Men, the General CharaSieriJlick^ as to the Ruling Pajfton, is more uniform and confin'd. In what That lies, and whence it proceeds, 109, ^c. Men are bed The CONTENTS. known in Publick Life, Women in private, loi. "What are the y^iws, and the Fate of the Sex, both as to Power and Plea- ufref 121, 133, &'c. Advice for tlieir true Interefl, 151. The Pi6ture of an efteemable "Woman, made up of the beft Kind of Contrarieties, 171, &'c. EPISTLE in. Of the Use of Riches, To AllExM Lord B A T H u R s T. THE true Ufe of Riches known to i^w^ moft faUing into one of the Extremes, Avarice or Profufion, Ver. i, ^c. The Point difcufs'd whether the Invention of Money was more commodious or pernicious to Mankind, 2\ to 28. Riches can fcarce afford Neceffaries either to the Avaritious or Prodigal, much lefs any happinefs, 81, ^c. It is never for their own Fa- mihes, or for the Poor, that Mifers covet Wealth, but a dired: Phrenfy without an End or Purpofe, 100. Conjedures about the Motives of avaricious Men, to 152. That it can only be ac- counted for by the Order of Providence, which works Ge- neral Good out of Extremes^ and brings all to its Great End by perpetual Revolutions, 153 /i? 178. A Pifture of a Mijer adl- ing upon Principles which appear to him reafonable, 179. An- other of a Prodigal ading on the contrary Principles wliich feem to him equally right, 199. The due Mediiwi and true Ufe of Riches, 219 to 24 S. The Charader and Praifes of the Man of Rojs^ 250. The Fate of the Covetous, and of the Pro- fufe, \x\ Two Examples J 298, «W 315. That both are mifera- ble, in Life and in Death. The Tale of Sir Balaam, the Degrees of Corruption by Riches, and the Confequences, 339, &^c. The CONTENTS. EPISTLE IV. Of the fame, To the Earl of Burlington. THE Extremes of Avarice ^ndi Profujtonhtmg treated of in the foregoing Epiftle, this takes up one particular Branch of the latter ; the Vanity of Expence in People of Wealth and Quality. The Abufe of the word 7^^, Ver. 13. that the Firfl: Principle and Foundation, in this as in ev^ery thing elfe, is Good Se?ife, 40. The chief Proof of it is to follow Nature^ even in Works of meer Luxury and Elegance. Inftanced in AixhiteSiure and Gardenijig^ where all muft be adapted to the Geyjiiis and Ufe of the Placcy and tl^ Beauties not forced into it, but refuking from it, 15 o. How Men are difappointed in their moft expen- five Undertakings for want of this true Foundation, v/ithout which nothing can pleafe lo7igy if at all 'j and the bc(\: Exawples and Rules will but be. perverted into fomething burdejifofne or ridiadousy 65, &^c, to 90. A Defcription of the Falfe Tajle of Ma(rnifce?ice ; the firft grand Error of which is to imagine that Great nefs confifts in the Size and Dime7ifio?2, inftead of the Pro- portion and Harmo?iy^ of the Whole^ 93. and thefecond, either in joining together Parts Licoherent^ or too ni}?iutely Refemblmg^ or in the Repetitio?t of xhz fame too frequently, 103, &^c. A word or two of Falfe Tafte in Books, in Mufick, in Paintijig, even in Preachiiig and Prayer, and laftly in Entertaittments, 125, &'c. Yet Providence is jiiftified in giving Wealth to be fquan- dered in this manner, fince it is difperfed to the Poor and Laborious part of Mankind, 161. recurring to what is laid down in the Inrft book, Epift. 2. and in the Eplflle preceding this, 165. What are the/);-(7/>6V 0/^y(?(5?^of Magniiicence, and a proper Field for the Expence oi Great Men, 169, &c. and finally the Great and Publick Works which become a Prince, 187 to the End. ''^^'^J %• EPISTLE I. Sir T O RICHARD TEMPLE Lord Vijcount Cob ham. E s, you defpife the Man to books confined. Who from his Study rails at human kind ; Tho' what he learns he fpeaks,and may ad- Some gen'ral Maxims, or be right by Chance, [vance The coxcomb Bird, fo talkative and grave, That from his Cage cries Cuckold, Whore, and Knave Tho' many a Paflenger he rightly call, You hold him no Philofopher at all 4» E T I S T L E S. And yet the fate of all Extremes are fuch, Men may be read, as well as Books too much. To Obfervations which our felves we make, We grow more partial for th' Obferver's fake ; To written Wifdom, as another's, lefs : Maxims are drawn from Notions, thofe from Guefsv There's feme Peculiar in each Leaf and Grain-. Some unmark'd Fibre, or fome varying Vein : Siall only Man h^ taken in the grofs ? Grant but as many forts of Mind, as *Mofs.. That eacli from other MBkrSy iirfl: confefs ;. Next, that he varies from himfelf no lefs : Add Nature's, Cuftom's, Reafon's, Pailion's ftrife,. And all Opinion's Colours call: on Life. Yet more ; the difFrence is as great between The Optics feeing, as the Objeds feen. AH Manners take a tindure from our own, Or conie difcolour'd thro' our Faflions ihown, Or Fancy's beam rnlarges, multiplies, Contrads, inverts, and gives ten thoufand dyes. * There are above 300 Sorts of Mols obferved by Naturalifts. EPISTLES. 49 Our depths who fathoms, or our fliallows finds ? Quick whirls, and Ihifting eddies, of our minds ? z^ Life's Stream for obfervation will not ftay, It hurries all too fail to mark their wav. In vain fedate refle6tions we wou'd make, When half our knowledge we muft fnatch, not take. On human a61:ions reafon tho' you can, 35 It may be Reafon, but it is not Man : His Principle of action once explore, That inftant, 'tis his Principle no more ; Like follo'wing Life thro' Creatures you diire61:, You lofe it, in the moment you detedl. 40 Oft, in the Pafllons wild rotation toft, Our fpring of adion to our felves is loft : Tir'd, not determin'd, to the laft we yeild, And what comes then is maft^r of the field. As the laft Image of that troubled heap, 45 When Senfe fublides, and Fancy fports in Sleep, (Tho' paft the recollection of the thought) Becomes the ftuff of which our Dream is wrought : G 50 EPISTLES. Something, as dim to our internal view, Is thus perhaps the caufe of half we do. 50 In vain the Grave, with retrofpedive eye. Would from th*^ apparent What conclude the Why, Infer the Motive from the Deed, and lliew That what we chanc'd, was what we meant, to do. Behold! if Fortune or a Miftrefs frowns, 55 Some plunge in bus'nefs, others Ihave their crowns: To eafe the foul of one oppreflive weight, This quits an Empire, that imbroils a State : The fame aduft complexion has impell'd * Charles to the Convent, Philip to the Field. 60. Not always Aciions fliow the Man : we find. Who does a kindnefs is not therefore kind, Perhaps Profperity becalm'd his breaft,. Perhaps the wind juft fhifted from the Eaft: Not therefore humble he who feeks retreat, 65 Pride guides his fteps, and bids him jQiun the great : CHARLES V. and PHILIP II E P I S T LES. 51 Who combates bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meaneft Have: Who reafons wifely is not therefore wife, His pride in reas'ning, not in adiing lies. 70 But grant that A<3:ions beft difcover Man ; Take the moft ftrong, and fort them as you can. The few that glare, each Charad:er muft mark, You balance not the many in the dark. What will you do with fuch as difagree? 75 Supprefs them half, or call them Policy. Muft then at once (the Character to fave) The plain, rough Hero turn a crafty Knave ? Alas 1 in truth, the man but changed his mind. Perhaps was fick, in love, or had not din'd. 80 Ask how from Britain C^efar made retreat ? Ca:far perhaps had told you, he was beat. The mighty Czar what mov'd to wed a Punk ? The mighty Czar might anfwer, he was drunk. But, fage Hiftorians I 'tis your task to prove ^s One aclion, Conduct ; one, Heroic Love. G 2 52 E P IS T L E S. 'Tis from high life high Chara6lers are drawn ; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn ; A Judge is juft, a Chanc'lor jufter ftill ; AGownman, learn'd; aBifliop, what yon will; 90 Wife, if a Minifter ; but if a King, More wife, more learn'd, more juft, more ev'ry thin^. Court-virtues bear, like Gems, the higheft rate, Born where Heav'ns influence fcarce can penetrate ; In Life's low vale, the foil the Virtues like, 95 They pleafe as beauties, here as wonders ftrike, Tho' the fame Sun with all-diffufive rays Blulh in the Rofe, and in the Diamond bla:z:e, We prize the ftronger ^Wort of his pow'r, And juftly fet the Gem above the Flow'r. ^^^ 'Tis Education forms the common mind ; Juft as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd Boaftful and rough, your firit Son is a Squire ; The next a Tradefman, meek, and much a Lyer , Tom ftruts a Soldier, open, bold and brave; 10^ Will fneaks a Scriv'ner, an exceeding Knave : EPISTLES. 53 Is he a Churchman ? then he's fond of pow'r, 1 A Quaker ? fly ; a Presbyterian ? fow'r : > A fmart Free-thinker ? all things in an hour. j True, fome are open, and to all men known • no Others fo very clofe, they're hid from none; (So darknefs fills the eye no lefs than light) Thus gracious Chandos is belov'd at fight. And ev'ry child hates Shy lock, tho' his foul Still fits at fquat, and peeps not from its hole, ir^ At half mankind when gen'rous Manly raves, All know 'tis Virtue, for he thinks them Knaves : When univerfal homage Umbra pays, All fee 'tis Vice, and itch of vulgar praife. Who but detefts th' Endearments of Courtine, 1 20 While One there is, that charms us with his Spleen. But thefe plain Characters we rarely find; Tho' ftrong the Bent, yet quick the Turns of mind : Or puzhng Contraries confound the whole. Or AfFe«5tations quite reverfe the foul : ^^25 54- E 9 I S T L E S. Or Fallliood ferves the dull for Policy, Or in the cunning, Truth itfelPs a Lye ; Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wife ; The Fool lies hid in Inconfiftencies. See the fame man, in Vigour, in the Gout- ^S^ Alone, in company ; in place, or out • Early at bus'nefs, and at Hazard late , Mad at a Fox-chace, wife at a Debate ; Drunk at a Borough, civil at a Ball; Friendly at Adon, faithlefs at Whitehall. 135 Catius is ever moral, ever grave, Thinks, who endures a Knave is next a Knave, Save juft at dinner — then prefers, no doubt, A Rogue with Ven'fon to a Saint without. Who would not praife Patritio's high defert, 140 His hand unftairi'd, his uncorrupted heart. His comprehenfive head? all Infrefts weigh'd, All Europe fav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. He thanks you not ; his pride was in Picquette, Newmarket-Fame, and judgment at a Bett. 145 EPISTLES. 55 Triumphant Leaders at an Army's head, Hemm'd round with Glories, pilfer Cloth or Bread, As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now fave a People, and now fave a Groat. What made (fay Montagne or more fage Charron !) Otho a Warrior, Cromwell a Buffoon? 15* A perjur'd Prince a leaden Saint revere, A God-lefs Regent tremble at a Star? The Throne a Bigot keep, a Genius quit, Faithlefs thro' Piety, and dup'd thro' Wit? r6o Europe a Woman, Child, or Dotard rule. And juft her wifeft Monarch made a fool ? Know, God and Nature only are the fame : 111 Man, the judgment ilioots at flying game, A Bird of palTage! gone as foon as found, i6c Now in the Moon perhaps, now under ground Ask men's Opinians i Scoto now fhall tell Ht)v/ Trade increafes and the world goes well ] Strike off his Penlion by the fetting-fun, And Britain, if not Europe, is undone. ^To- 56 EPISTLES, Truft their Affeci'tons : foon AfFedions end ; '-'• In povv'r your Servant, out of pow'r your Friend." Manners with Fortunes, Humours change with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times, Judge we by Nature? Habit can efface, 170 Int'reft overcome, or PoHcy take place : By Actions ? thofe Uncertainty divides : By Pallions ? thefe Diffimulation hides : Opinions ? they ftill take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change? 175 'Tis in the ruling PaJJion : There, alone, The wild are conftant, and the cunning known, The fool confident, and the falfe fincere ; Priefts, Princes, Women, no dilTemblers here. This Clue once found unravels all the reft, 180 The Profped clears, and Clodio ftands confeft. Clodio, the fcorn and wonder of our days, Whofe ruling Paflion was the Luji of Praife ; Born with whatever could Avin it from the wife, Women and Fools muft like him, or he dies • 185 EPISTLES. 57 Tho' wond'ring Senates hung on all he fpoke, The Club mull: hail him Mafter of the Joke. Shall parts fo various aim at nothing new? He'll Ihine a Tully, and a Wilmot too : Then turns repentant, and his God adores 190 With the fame Spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the Punk applaud, and now the Fry'r. Thus, with each gift of Nature and of Art^ And wanting nothing but an honeft: heart ; i^^ Grown all to all, from no one Vice exempt, And moft contemptible to lliun Contempt ; His Paflion ftill to covet gen'ral praife. His Life, to forfeit it a thoufand ways ; His conftant Bounty no one friend has made; 200 His Angel Tongue no mortal can perfuade : A Fool with more of Wit than half mankind. Too quick for Thought, for Action too relin'd : A Tyrant to the Wife his heart approves; A Rebel to the very King he loves ; 205 H 58 EPISTLES, He dies, fad out-caft of each Church and State, And (harder ftill) flagitious, yet not great! Ask you why Clodio broke thro* every rule? 'Twas all for fear, the Knaves fliou'd call him Fool. Nature well known, no Miracles remain, 210 Comets are regTiiar, and Clodio plain. Yet, in the fearch, the wifeft may miftake, If fecond Qualities for firft they take. When Catiline by rapine fwelFd his ilore. When C^efar made a noble Dame a whore, 215 In this the Luft, in that the Avarice Were means, not ends; Ambition was the Vice. That very Cacfar, born in Scipio'j days. Had aim'd, like him, by Chaftity at praife. . LucuUus, when Frugality could charm, 220 Had roailed Turnips in the Sabin farm. In vain th' Obferver eyes the Builder's toil, But quite miftakes the ScapU for the Tile. In this one Paflion Man can ftrength enjoy, As Fits give vigour, juft when they deftroy. 225 EPISTLES. 59 Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand, Yet tames not this: it flicks to our laft fand. Confiftent in our follies, and our fins. Here honeft Nature ends as Ihe begins. Behold a rev'rend Sire, whom Want of Grace 230 Has made the Father of a namelefs Race, Crawl thro' the ftreet, fhov'd on, or rudely prefs'd By his own Sons, that pafs him by un-blefs'd : Still to his Wench he creeps on knocking knees, And envies ev'ry Sparrow that he fees. 235 A Salmon's Belly, Helluo, was thy Fate, The Doctor call'd declares all help too late. Mercy 1 cries Helluo, mercy on my Soul ! Is there no hope ? alas ! — then bring the Jowl. "Odious ! in Woollen 1 'twou'd a Saint provoke, 24.0 (Were the laft words that poor Narcifla fpoke) " No, let a charming- Chintz, and BruHels lace *• Wrap my cold limbs, and fhade my lifelefs face : '' One wou'd not, fure, be frightful when one's dead - " And — Betty — give this Cheek a little Red. 245 H 2 6o EPISTLES. Old Politicians chew on Wifdom paft, And blunder on in Bus'nefs to the laft ; As weak as earneft ; and as gravely out, As fober La — w, dancing in the Gout. The Courtier fmooth, who forty years had Ihin'd^s^ An humble Servant to all Human kind, Juft brought out this, when fcarce his tongue cou'd ftir, "If — where I'm going — I could ferve you, Sir?" " I give and I devife (old Euclio faid, And figh'd) " my Lands and Tenements to Ned." 255 Your Money Sir? " My Money Sir! what all? "Why-— if I muft — (then wept) I give it Paul." The Mannor, Sir ?-" The Mannor 1 hold, he cry'd, '' Not that — I cannot part with that " — and dy'd. And You ! brave Co bh a m, to the lateft breath 260 Shall feel your ruling Paflion ftrong in Death : Such in thofe moments, as in All the paft, " Oh fave my Country, Heav'n !" Ihall be your laft. EPISTLE II To a L A D r. 4 o T H I N G fo true as what you once let fall; " Mofl: Women have no Characters at all :' Matter too foft a lafting mark to bear, And beft diftinguifli'd by black, brown, or fair. How many Pictures of one Nymph we view, 5 All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia's Countefs here in ermin'd pride, There Paftorella by a Fountain fide: Here Fannia leering on her own good man, And there a naked Leda with a Swan, l^ 62 EPISTLES. Let then the Fair one beautifully cry In Magdalen's loofe hair and lifted eye, Or dreft in fmiles of fweet Cecilia Ihine, With fimp'ring Angels, palms, and harps divine ; Whether the Charmer fmner it, or faint it, 15 When Folly grows romantic, we muft paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air, Chufe a firm. Cloud before it falls, and in it Catch, e're llie change, the Cynthia of this minute. 20 Rufa, whofe eye quick-glancing o'er the Park, Attradls each light gay Meteor of a Spark, Agrees as ill with Rufa ftudying Locke, As Sappho's diamonds with her dirty fmock ; Or Sappho's felf in glue (her riling task) 25 And iffuing flagrant to an Evening Mask: So morning Infeds that in muck begun, Shine, buzz, and fly-blow, in the fetting-fun. Flow foft is Siiial fearful to offend. The frail one's Advocate, and weak one's Friend 130 EPISTLES. 63 To her, Califto prov'd her Conduct nice, And good Simplicius asks of her Advice. Sudden, flie ftorms ! fhe raves 1 You tip the wink^ But fpare your cenfure; Silia does not drink: All eyes may fee from what the change arofe, 25 All eyes may fee — a Pimple 0:1 her nofe. Papillia, wedded to her doating Spark, Sighs for the Shades — how charming is a Tark! A Park is purchas'd, but the Fair he fees All bath'd in tears — oh odious, odious Trees! 40 Ladies like variegated Tulips ihow, 'Tis to their changes that their charms they owe; Their happy fpots the nice admirer take, Fine by defedl, and delicately weak. ^Twas thus Calypfoonce our hearts alarm'd, 45 Aw'd without virtue, without beauty charm'd; Her Tongue bewitch'd as odly as her Eyes, Lefs Wit than Mimic, more a Wit than wife: Strange Graces ftill, and ft ranger Flights ilie had, Was juft not ugly, and was juil not mad ; 50 64 E 9 I S T L E S. Yet ne'er fo fure our paflion to create, As when flie touched the brink of all we hate. NarcifTa's nature, tolerably mild. To make a Wafli would hardly ftew a Child, Has ev'n been prov'd to grant a Lover's pray'r, ^^ And paid a Tradefman once to make him ftare, Gave alms at Eafter, in a chriftian trim, And made a Widow happy, for a whim. Why then declare, Good-nature is her fcorn. When 'tis by that alone Ihe can be born ? 60 Why pique all mortals, yet afFecSt a name ? A fool to pleafure, and a flave to fame ? Now deep in Taylor and the book of Martyrs, Now drinking- citron with his Grace and Chartres? Now Confcience chills her, and now Paflion burns, 65 And Atheifm and Religion take their turns ; A very Heathen in the carnal part, Yet ftill a fad, good Chriftian at her heart. Flavians a Wit, has too much fenfe to pray^ To toafi our wants and willies, is her way, 70 EPISTLES, 6s Nor asks of God but of her Stars to give The mighty blelling, " while we live, to live :" Then all for Death, that Opiate of the Soul ! Lucretia's Dagger, Rofamonda's Bowl. Say, what can caufe fuch impotence of mind? y^ A Spark too fickle, or a Spoufe too kind. Wife Wretch! with Pleafures too refin'd to pleafe, With too much Spirit to be e'er at Eafe! With too much Quicknefs ever to be taught I With too much Thinking to have common Thought! You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, 8i And die of nothing but a Rage to live. Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate : Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends 85 Becaufe flies honeft, and the bell: of Friends: Or her, whofe life the Church and Scandal fliare, For ever in a Paflion, or a PrayV: Or her who laughs at Hell, but (hke her Grace) Cries, oh how charming if there's no fuch place ! I 66 EPISTLES. Or who in fweet Viciffitude appears Of Mirth and Opium, Ratafie and Tears, 90 The daily Anodyne and nightly Draught To kill thofe Foes to Fair-ones, Time and Thought. Woman and Fool are two hard Things to hit. For true No-meaning puzzles more than Wit. Pictures like thefe, (dear Madam) to defign, 100 Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line ; Some wandring Touches, fome refle6ted Light, Some flying Stroke, alone can hit them right: For how fhould equal colours do the knack, Camelions who can paint in White and Black? 105 In publick Stations Men fometimes are ftiown, A Woman's feen in Private life alone : Our bolder Talents in full view difplay'd, Your Virtues open faireft in the Shade. Bred to difguife, in Publick 'tis you hide; no Where none diilinguilli 'twixt your Shame or Pride, Weaknefs or Delicacy ; all fo nice, Each is a fort of Virtue, and of Vice. EPISTLES. 67 In fev'ral Men we fev'ral Pafllons find, In Women, two alnioft divide the Kind, "5 Thofe only fix'd, they firft or laft obey ; The Love of Pleafiires, and the Love of Sway. That, Nature gives ; and where the LeiTon taught Is but to pleafe, can Pleafure feem a fault? 120 Experience, This ; by Man's Opprellion curft, They feek the fecond not to lofe the firft. Men, fome to Bufinefs, fome to Pleafure take, But every Woman is, at heart, a Rake; Men, fome to Quiet, fome to publick Strife, 125 But every Lady would be Queen for Life. Yet mark the fate of a whole Sex of Queens ! Pow'r all their end, but Beauty all the means. In Youth they conquer with fo wild a rage. As leaves them fcarce a Subjed; in their Age: 130 For foreign Glory, foreign Joy, they roam ; No thought of Peace, or Happinefs, at home. But Wifdom's Triumph is well-tim'd Retreat, As hard a Science to the Fair as Great I I 2 68 EPISTLES, Beauties like Tyrants, old and friendlefs grown, 1 35 Yet hate Repofe, and dread to be Alone; Worn out in publick, weary ev'ry eye, Nor leave one figh behind them when they die. Pleafures the Sex, as Children birds, purfue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view, ^40 Sure, if they catch, to fpoil the Toy at moft, To covet flying, and regret when loft. At laft, to Follies Youth could fcarce defend It grows their Age's prudence to pretend ; Afliam'd to own they gave delight before, 145 Reduc'd to feign- it, when they give no more. As Hags hold Sabbaths^ lefs for joy than fpight, So thefe their merry, miferable Night ; Still round and round the Ghofts of Beauty glide, And haunt the Places where their Honour dyU 150 See how the World its Veterans rewards ! A Youth of Frolicks, an old Age of Cards, Fair to no purpofe, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend, EPISTLES. 6^ A Fop their Paflion, but their Prize a Sot, ^55 Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot I Ah Friend ! to dazzle let the Vain defign, To raife the Thought, and touch the Heart, be thine ! That Charm fliallgrow, while what fatigues the Ring Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing. i6o So when the Sun's broad beam has tir'd the fight, All mild afcends the Moon's more fober light ; Serene in Virgin Modefty Ihe IhineSj And unobferv'd the glaring Orb declines^ Oh bleft with Temper ! whofe unclouded ray 1^5 Can make to morrow chearful as to day ; That pleas'd can fee a Younger charm, or hear Sighs for a Sifter with unwounded ear; That ne'er fhall anfwer till a Husband cool, Or, if you rule him, never fliow you rule, 17^ Pleafe by receiving, by fubmitting fway, Yet have your humour moft, when you obey ; Let Fops or Fortune fly which way they will ; Defpife all lofs of Tickets or Codille ; 70 EPISTLES. Spleen, Vapors, or Small-pox, above them all, 175 And Miftrefs of yourfelf, tho' China fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at beft a Contradidion ftill. Heav'n, when it ftrives to polilli all it can Its laft, beft work, but forms a foftcr Man ; 180 Picks from each Sex, to make the Fav'rite bleft, Your love of Pleafure, our defire of Reft, Blends, in exception to all gen'ral rules. Your Tafte of Follies, with our Scorn of Fools, Referve with Franknefs, Art with Truth ally'd, i ^5 Courage with Softnefs, Modefty with Pride, Fix'd Principles, with Fancy ever new; Shakes all together, and produces — You. . Ev'nfuch is Woman's Fame ; With this un-bleft, Toafts live a fcorn, and Queens may die a jeft. 19'^ This Phoebus promised (I forget the Year) When thofe blue eyes firft open'd on the Sphere ; Afcendant Phoebus watch'd that hour with care, Averted half your Parents fimple Pray'r, EPISTLES. 71 And gave you Beauty, but deny'd the Pelf 195 Which buys your Sex a Tyrant o'er itfelf. That gen'rous God, who Wit and Gold refines, And ripens Spirits as he ripens Mines, Kept Drofs for DutcheiTes, the world Ihall know it, To you gave Senfe, Good-humour, and a Poet 200 ^i^■:i:■:p■;1^■!^,:?:,:t■%i^■i?i■■^^^^^.■■■l■^.■J^i1^■:?^■;f■:::^ «• •*.- 'i- ■*• -t' -.t 'i -i.- -i.- ■t '*• ■ -i-'l' >' V 'i'' t->-'4- '4' -i' -i' -^ EPISTLE III. T O ALLEN Lord B AT HURST. mm ^M H O fliall decide, when Doctors dif-agree, And foundeft Cafuifts doubt, like you and me You hold the Word from Jove to Momus giv'n, That Man was made the ftanding Jeft of Heav'n And Gold but fent Xo keep the Fools in play, 5 For half to heap, and half to throw away. But I, who think more highly of our Kind, (And furely Heav'n and I are of a mind) K 2 8 EPISTLES. Opine^ that Nature, as in duty bound, Deep hid the iliining- Mifchief under ground: lo But when by Man's audacious Labour won, Flam'd forth this Rival to its Sire the Sun, Then, in plain profe, were made two forts of men, To fquander fome, and fome to hide agen. Like Dodtors thus, when much Difpute has pad, 15 We find our Tenets juft the fame at laft: Both fairly owning, Riches in efFed: No Grace of Heav'n, or Token of th' Elect ; Giv'n to the Fool, the Mad, the Vain, the Evil, To Ward, to Waters, Charters, and the Devil. 20 What Nature wants, commodious Gold beftows, Tis thus we eat the bread another fows : But how unequal it beftows, obferve, ""Tis thus we riot, while who fow it, ftarve. What Nature wants (a phrafe I much diftruil) 25 Extends to Luxury, extends to Luft; And if we count among the Needs of life Another's Toil, why not another's Wife ? UfefoJ ET I S T L E S, 9 Ufeful, we grant, it ferves what life requires, But dreadful too, the dark AiTaffiii hires : 3^ Trade it may help, Society extend ; But lures the Pyrate, and corrupts the Friend : It raifes Armies in a Nation's aid. But bribes a Senate, and the land's betray 'd. Oh! that fuch bulky bribes as all might fee 35 Still, as of old, encumber'd Villainy 1 In vain may Heroes fight, and Patriots rave, If fecret Gold faps on from knave to knave. Could France or Rome divert our brave defigns. With all their brandies, or with all their wines ? 40 What could they more than knights and fquires con- Or water all the Quorum ten miles round ? [found, A ftatefman's llumbers how this fpeech would fpoil, " Sir, Spain has fent a thoufand jars of oyl ; " Huge bales of Britifli cloth blockade the door ; 45 " A hundred Oxen at your levee roar. Poor Avarice one torment more would find. Nor could Profufion fquander all, in kind. B lo ETISTLES, Aftride his Cheefe Sir Morgan might we meet, And Worldly crying Coals from ftreet to ftreet, Whom with a wig fo wild, and mien fo maz'd, 51 Pity miftakes for fome poor Tradefman crazM. Had Colpeper's whole wealth been hops and hogs^ Could he himfelf have fent it to the dogs ? His Grace will game : to White's a Bull be led, 55 With fpurning heels and with a butting head ; To White's be carry 'd, as to ancient Games^ Fair Courfers, Vafes, and alluring Dames. Shall then Uxorio, if the ftakes he fweep, Bear home fix Whores, and make his Lady weep ? ^^ Or foft Adonis, fo perfum'd and line, Drive to St. James's a whole herd of Swine ^ Oh filthy check on all induftrious skill, To fpoil the Nation's laft great Trade, Quadrille I Once, we confefs, beneath the Patriot's cloak, ^5 From the crack'd bagg the dropping Guinea fpoke. And gingling down the back-ftairs, told the crew, " Old Cato is as great a Rogue as you." EPISTLES, II Blefl: Paper-credit ! that advanc'd fo high, Now lends Corruption lighter wings to fly ! 70 Gold, imp'd with this, can compafs hardeft things, Can pocket States, or fetch or carry Kings ; A fingle leaf can waft an Army o'er, Or iliip off Senates to fome diftant Ihore ; A leaf like Sybil's, fcatters to and fro 75 Our fates and fortunes, as the winds fliall blow ; Pregnant with thoufands flits the fcrap unfeen, And fllent fells a King, or buys a Queen. Well then, fince with the world we ftand or fall, Come take it as we find it. Gold and all. 80 What Riches give us, let us firfl: enquire : Meat, fire, and cloaths. what more ? meat, cloaths, and Is this too little ? wou'd you more than live ? [fire. Alas 'tis more than Turner finds they giYQ, Alas 'tis more than (all his Vifions paft.) 85 Unhappy Wharton waking found at laft ! What can they give ? to dying Hopkins, heirs ? To Chartres, vigour ? Japhet, nofe and ears ? B 2 12 E'PISTLES. Can they in gems bid pallid Hippia glow, In Fulvia's buckle eafe the throbs below, 9° Or heal, old Narfes, thy obfcener ail. With all th' embroid'ry plaifter'd at thy tail? They might, (were Harpax not too wife to fpend) Give Harpax felf the blefli ng of a Friend ; Or find fome Do6i:or that wou'd fave the life 95 Of wretched Shylock, fpite of Shylock's Wife. But thoufands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a College, or a Cat: To fome indeed heav'n grants the happier fate T'enrich a Baftard, or a Son they hate. 100 Perhaps you think the Poor might have their part ? Bond damns the poor, and hates them from his heart : The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule. That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love, (fays Blunt, with lifted eyes) 105 "- The wretch he ftarves" — and pioufly denies : But rev'rend S * * n with a fofter air. Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care. ET I S t E S. 15 Yet, to be juft to thefe poor men of pelf, Each does but hate his Neighbour as himfelf : loi Damn'd to the Mines, and equal fate betides The Slave that digs it, and the Slave that hides. Who fuffer thus, meer Charity fliould own Muft a61; on motives powerful tho' unknown : Some War, fome Plague, fome Famine they forefee, Some Revelation, hid from you and me. 116 Why Shylock wants a meal, the caufe is found, He thinks a Loaf will rife to fifty pound. What made Diredlors cheat in South-fea year? To live on VenTon when it fold fo dear. 120 Ask you why Phryne the whole Au6lion buys ? Phryne forefees a General Excife. Why file and Sappho raife that monftrous fum ? Alasl they fear a Man will cofi: a plum. Wife Peter fees the World's refped for Gold, i ^5 And therefore hopes this Nation may be fold : Glorious Ambition ! Peter, fwell thy (lore, And be what Rome's great Didius was before. i6 EPISTLES. The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, To juft three millions (tinted modeft G *. ^30 But nobler fcenes Maria's Dreams unfold, Hereditary Realms, and Worlds of Gold. Congenial Souls ! whofe life one Av'rice joins, And one fate buries in th' Afturian Mines. Much-injur'd Blunt 1 why bears he Britain's hate ? A Wizard told him in thcfe words our fate. 1 3^ "At length Corruption, like a gen'ral flood, " (So long by watchful Minifters withftood) " Shall deluge all, and Av'rice creeping on, " Spread like a low-born mift, and blot the Sun ; 140 " Statefman and Patriot ply alike the ftocks, " Peerefs and Butler fliare alike the Box, " The Judge Ihall job, the Bifliop bite the town, *' And mighty Dukes pack cards for half a crown. " See Britain funk in Lucre's fordid charms, 145 *'And France re veng'd of Anne's and Edward's Arms 1 " 'Twas no Court-badge, great Scriv'ner 1 fir d thy braio^ Nor Lordly Luxury, nor City Gain : EPISTLES, 15 But 'twas thy righteous end, alham'd to fee Senates degen'rate, Patriots difagree, ^5^ And nobly wilhing Party rage to ceafe, To buy both fides, and give thy Country peace. '' All this is madnefs, cries a fober Sage. But who, my friend, has reafon in his Rage ? '' The ruling Paflion, be it what it will, ^SS " The ruling Paflion conquers Reafon ftill Lefs mad the wildeft whimfey we can frame, Than ev'n that Paflion, if it has no Aim ; For tho' fuch motives folly you may call, The folly's greater to have none at all. ^^o Hear then the truth : 'Tis Heav'n each Paflion fends, And diff'rent men direds to different ends. " Extremes m Nature equal good produce, " Extremes in Man concur to general ufe. Ask we what makes one keep, and one bellow? i^S That Povv'r who bids the Ocean ebb and flow. Bids feed-time, harvefl:, equal courfe maintain, Thro' reconcil'd extremes of drought and rain, i6 EPISTLES. Builds Life on Death, on Change Duration founds, And gives th' eternal Wheels to know their rounds. Riches, like InfeiSls, when conceaFd they lie, 1 7 ' Wait but for wings, and in their feafon, fly. Who fees pale Mammon pine amidft his ftore. Sees but a backward Steward for the Poor ; This year a Refer voir, to keep and fpare, '75 The next, a Fountain fpouting thro' his Heir, In lavifli ftreams to quench a County's thirft, And Men and Dogs fliall drink him till they burfl. Old Cotta Iham'd his fortune, and his birth, Yet was not Cotta void of wit or worth: ^^^ What tho' (the ufe of barb'rous Ipits forgot) His Kitchen vy'd in coolnefs with his Grot ? His Court with nettles. Moat with crefles ffcor'd, With foups unbought, and fallads, bleft his board. If Cotta liv'd on pulfe, it was no more i^s Than Bramins, Saints, and Sages did before ; To cram the rich, was prodigal expence, And who would take the poor from Providence ? E T I S T L E S. 17 Like fome lone Chartreufe Hands the good old Hall, Silence without, and Fafts within the wall ; 190 No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor found, NoT noontide-bell invites the country round ; Tenants with lighs the fmoaklefs TowVs furvey, And turn th' unwilling Steeds another way: Benighted Wanderers, the forefh o'er, 195 Curfe the fav'd candle, and unopening door ; While the gaunt Maftiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the Begger whom he longs to eat. Not fo his Son, he mark'd this overfight, And then miftook reverfe of wrong for right : 200 For what to iliun will no great knowledge need. But what to follow, is a task indeed. What llaughter'd Hecatombs, what floods of wine. Fill the capacious Squire, and deep Divine! No felfilh motive this profufion draws, 205 His Oxen perifli in his Country's caufe : 'Tis George and Liberty that crowns the cup. And Zeal for that great Houfe which eats him up. C i8 E T IS TLB S The woods recede around the naked feat, 209 The Sylvans groan — no matter — " for the Fleet " Next goes his wool — " to clothe our valiant bands" Laft, for his Country's love, he fells his lands. To town he comes, compleats the nation's hope, And heads the bold Train-bands, and burns a Pope. And Ihall not Britain now reward his toils? 215 Britain, that pays her Patriots with her Spoils. Alas ! at Court he vainly pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her Laws. The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T'enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, 2-20 Not meanly, nor ambitioufly perfu'd. Not funk by floth, nor rais'd by fervitude ;. To balance Fortune by a jufl: expence, Join with Oeconomy, Magnificence, With Splendor, Charity, with Plenty, Health ; 225 Oh teach us, Bathurst yet uiifpoil'd by wealth ! That fecret rare, between th' extremes to move Of mad Good nature, and of mean Self-love. E T I S T L E S\ 19 To Want, or Worth, well-weigh'd, be bounty giv'n, And eafe, or emulate, the care of Heav'n. 230 Whofe meafure full o'erflows on human race, Mends Fortune's fault, and juftifies her grace. Wealth in the grofs is death, but life diffus'd, As Poyfon heals, in juft proportion us'd : In heaps, hke Ambergrife, a ftink it lies, 235 But well difpers'd, is Incenfe to the Skies. Who ftarves by Nobles, or with Nobles eats ? The Wretch that trufts them, and the Rogue that Is there a Lord, who knows a chearful noon [cheats. Without a Fidler, Flatterer, or Buffoon ? 240 Whofe Table, Wit, or modeft Merit lliare, Un-elbow'd by a Gameiler, Pimp, or Play'r? Who copies Yours or Oxford's better part, To eafe th' opprefs'd, and raife the finking heart ? Where-e'er he lliines, oh Fortune gild the fcene, And Angels guard him in the golden Mean 1 246 There EngUfh Bounty yet a while may (land, And Honour linger, e're it leaves the land, C 2 20 E P I S T L E S. But all our praifes why lliould Lords engrofs? Rife honeft Mufe ! and fing- the M a n of R oss : 250 Pleas'dVaga ecchoes thro' her winding bounds^ And rapid Severn hoarfe appkufe refounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's fultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in ufelefs columns toft, ^5.5: Or in proud falls magnificently loft^ But clear and artlefs, pouring thro' the plain; Health to the fick, and folace to the fwain. Whofe Caufe-way parts the vale with Ihady rows ? Whofe Seats the "weary Traveller repofe? 260 Who feeds yon Alms-houfe, neat, but void of ftate, Where Age and Want fit fmiling at the gate ?. Who taught that heav'n-dired:ed Spire to rife ? The Man of Ross, each lifping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erfpread ! 265 The Man of R o s s divides the weekly bread : Him portion'd maids, apprenticed orphans bleft. The young who labour, and the old who reft. EPISTLES. 21 fs any fick ? the Max of Ross relieves, Prefcribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives. Is there a variance? enter but his door, 271 Balk'd are the courts, and conteft is no more. Defpairing Quacks with curfes fled the place. And vile Attornies, now an ufelefs race. "Thrice happy man! enabled to perfue 275 " What all fo wilh, but want the pow'r to do. " Ob fay, what fums that gen'rous hand fupply ? *^ What mines to fwell that boundlefs charity? Of debts and taxes, wife and children clear, 279 This man polTeft — five hundred pounds a year. Blufli Grandeur, blufli ! proud Courts withdraw your Ye little Stars I hide your diminifh'd rays. [blaze. " And what ? no Monument, infcription, ftone ? "His race, his form, his name almoft unknown? Who builds a Church to God, and not to Fame, 285 Will never mark the marble with his name. Go fearch it there *, where to be born and die. Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory : * The PariflvRcgifter. 22 EPISTLES. Enough that Virtue fill'd the fpace between ; Prov'd^ by the Ends of Being, to have been. 290 When Hopkins dies, a thoufand hghts attend The wretch, who Uvingfav'd a candle's. end: Should'ring God's altar a vile Image ftands, Belies his features, nay extends his hands ; That live-long Wig which Gorgon's felf might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian ftone. 296 Behold ! what blefllngs Wealth to life can lend, , And fee, what comfort it affords our end I In the worft Inn's worft room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaifter, and the walls of dung, 3<^o On once a flockbed, but repair'd with ftraw. With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw. The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow llrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies-alas ! how chang'd from him, s^S That life of pleafure, and that foul of whym, Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove The bow'r of wanton Sh * * * y and Love ; E T I S T L E S. 23 Or juil as gay, at Council, in a ring Of mimick'd ftatefmen and the merry King. 3^0 No Wit to flatter, left of all his (lore ! No Fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, vidlor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of ufelefs thoufiinds ends. His Grace's fate fage Cutler could forefee, 315 And well (he thought) advis'dhim, " Live like me.'^ As well his Grace reply 'd, " Like you, Sir John ? " That I can do, when all I have is gone." Refolve me Reafon, which of thefe is worfe ? Want with a full, or with an empty purfe: 320 Thy life, more wretched. Cutler, was confefs'd, Arife and tell me, was thy death more blefs'd ? Cutler faw tenants break, and houfes fall, For very want ; he could not build a walk His only daughter in a ftranger's pow'r, 3-5 For very want ; he could not pay a dowV. A few grey hairs his rev'rend temples crown 'd, 'Twas very want that fold them for tv/o pound. 24- EPISTLE S\ What ev'n deny'd a cordial at his end, Banifli'd the do6lor, and expell'd the friend? 33° What but a want, which you perhaps think mad Yet numbers feel, the want of whut he had. Cutler and Brutus, dying both exclaim, '' Virtue ! and Wealth ! what are ye but a Name ? Say, for fuch worth are other worlds prepar'd ? Or are they both, in this, their own reward? 336 That knotty point, my Lord, fliall I difcufs, Or tell a Tale? — A Tale — it follows thus. Where "^ London's Column pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lyes : 34° There dwelt a Citizen of fober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name. Religious, punctual, frugal, and fo forth — His word would pafs for more than he was worth. One folid difli his week-day meal affords, 345 An added pudding folemniz'd the Lord's. * The Monument buil: in Memory of the Fire of London, with an Infcription importing that City to have been burn'd by the Papills. EPISTLES. 25 Conftant at Church, and Change ; his gains were fure, His givings rare, fave farthings to the poor. The Dev'l was piqu'd, fuch faintfliip to behold, And long'd to tempt him Hke good Job of old : 35^ But Satan now is wifer than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Rouz'd by the Prince of Air, the whirlwinds fweep The furge, and plunge his Father in the deep ; Then full againft his Cornilh lands they roar, 355- And two rich lliip-wrecks blefs the lucky lliore. Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks, He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes : " Live like your felf," was fbon my Lady's word ; And lo ! two puddings fmok'd upon the board. 360 Aileep and naked as an Indian lay. An honeft Fa6lor dole a Gem away r He pledg'd it to the Knight ; the Knight had wit, So kept the diamond, and the Rogue was bit : Some fcruple rofe, but thus he eas'd his thought, 3^5 '' ril now give Cx-pence where I gave a groat, D 26 E P I S T L E S. ^* "Where once I went to church, I'll now go twice, "And am fo clear too of all other Vice." The Tempter faw his time ; the work he ply 'd, Stocks and Subfcriptions pour on ev'ry fide, 370 And all the Dsemon makes his full defcent, In one abundant Show'r of Cent, per Cent ; Sinks deep within him, and poffeffes whole; Then dubs Director, and fecures his SouL Behold Sir Balaam now a man of fpirit, 375 Afcribes his gettings to his parts and merit, What late he call'd a Blefling, now was Wit, And God's good providence, a lucky Hit. Things change their titles as our manners turn, His Compting-houfe imploy 'd the Sunday-morn ; 3 80 Seldom at church, ('twas fuch a bufy life) But duly fent his Family and Wife. There (fo the Dev'l ordain'd) one Chriftmas-tide, My good old Lady catch'd a cold, and dy'd. A Nymph of Quality admires our Knight ; 385 He marries, bows at Court, and grows polite : ^ EPISTLES. 27 Leaves the dull Cits, and joins (to pleafe the fair) The well-bred Cuckolds in St. James's air : Firft, for his Son a gay commiflion buys; Who drinks, whores, fights, and in a duel dies. 39<' His Daughter flaunts a Vifcount's tawdry wife; She bears a Coronet and P*x for life. In Britain's Senate He a feat obtains, And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains. My Lady falls to Play : fo bad her chance, 395 He muft repair it ; takes a bribe from France ; The Houfe impeach him ; Co * * by harangues ; The Court forfakes him, and Sir Balaam hangs : Wife, fon, and daughter, Satan ! are thy own, His Wealth, yet dearer, forfeit to the Crown, 400 The Devil and the King divide the prize. And fad Sir Balaam curfes God and dies. EPISTLE IV. T O RICHARD Earl 0/ BURLIN GTON. ^ s ftrange, the Mifer fliould his Cares emploVp '^^ To gain thofe Riches he can ne'er enjoy : Is it lefs ftrange, the Prodigal lliould wafte His wealth, to purchafe what he ne'er can tafte ? Not for himfelf he fees, or hears, or eats ; S Artifts mud chufe his Pictures, Mufic, Meats : He buys for Topham, Drawings and Deligns, For Fountain Statues, and for Pembroke Coins, Rare Monkifli Manufcripts for Hearne alone, And Books for Mead, and Rarities for Sloan. lo Think we all thefe are for himfelf? no more Than his fine Wife, alas! or finer Whore. For what has Virro painted, built, and planted - Only to fliow, how many Taftes he wanted, # E 40 EPISTLES. What brought Sir Vifto's ill-got wealth to wafte ^ 15 Some D^mon whifper'd, " Vifto ! have a Tafte " Heav'n vifits with a Tafte the wealthy Fool, And needs no Rod but R-pl-y with a Rule. See! fportive Fate, to punilli aukward Pride, Bids Bubo build, and fends him fuch a Guide : 20 A Handing Sermon, at each year's expence, That never Coxcomb reach'd Magnificence ! ^ Yo u iliow us, Rome was glorious, not profufe, And pompous Buildings once were things of ufe. Yet fliall (my Lord) your juft, your noble Rules 25 Fill half the land with Imitating Fools : Who random drawings from your flieets lliall take, And of one beauty many blunders make ; Load fome vain Church with old Theatric State, Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate, 30 Reverfe your Ornaments, and hang them all On fome patch'd Dog-hole ek'd with ends of wall, Then clap four flices of Pilafter on't. And lac'd with bits of Ruftic, 'tis a Front. Shall * The Earl of Burlington had publifti'd the Defigns of Inigo Jones, and the Antiquities of Rome by Palladio. E T I S T L E S. 41 Shall call the Winds thro' long Arcades to roar, 35 Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door ; Confcious they a61: a true Palladian part, And if they ftarve, they ftarve by Rules of Art. Oft have you hinted t!o your Brother Peer, A certain Truth, which many buy too dear: 40 Something there is, more needful thanExpence, And fomething previous ev'n to Tafte — 'Tis Senfe : Good Senfe, which only is the Gift of Heav'n, And tho' no Science, fairly worth the feven : A Light, which in yourfelf you niuft perceive ; 45 Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend. To fwell the Terras, or to fink the Grot ; In all, let Nature never be forgot. 50 Confult the Genius of the Place in all ; That tells the Waters or to rife, or fall, Or helps th' ambitious Hill theheavns to fcale. Or fcoops in circling Theatres the Vale ; F 42 EPISTLES. Calls in the Country, catches opening Glades, 55 Joins willing Woods, and varies Shades from Shades, Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines ; Paints as you plant, and as you w^ork, defigns. Begin with Senfe, of ev'ry Art the Soul, Parts anfw'ring Parts fliall Hide into a Whole, 60 Spontaneous Beauties all around advance, Start ev'n from Difficulty, ftrike, from Chance ; Nature fhall join you ; Time fliall make it grow A Work to wonder at — perhaps a Stow. Without it, proud Verfailles ! thy Glory falls, 65 And Nero's Terraces defert their Walls : The vaft Parterres a thoufand hands fliall make, Lo 1 C o B H A M comes, and floats them with a Lake : Or cut wide View^s thro' Mountains to the Plain, You'll wifli your Hill or flielter'd Seat again. 70 B.4iold Villario's ten-years Toil compleat. His Quincunx darkens, his Efpaliers meet. The Wood fupports the Plain, the Parts unite. And flirength of fliade contends with fl:rength of light ; EPISTLES, 4.3 His bloomy Beds a waving Glow difplay, 75 Blufliing in bright Diverfities of Day, With filver-quiv'ring Rills mxander'd o'er — Enjoy them, you ! Villario can no more ; Tir'd of the fcene Parterres and Fountains yield, He finds at laft he better likes a Field. 80 Thro' his young woods,how pleas'd Sabinus ftray'd, Or fate delighted in the thick'ning Ihade, With annual joy the red'ning flioots to greet. And fee the ftretching branches long to meet. His Son's fine Tafte an op'ner Vifta loves, 85 Foe to the Dryads of his Father's Groves, One bound lefs Green, or flourifli'd Carpet views, With all the mournful Family of Yews ; The thriving Plants ignoble broomfticks made, Now fweep thofc Allies they were born to Ihade. 90 At Timon's Villa let us pafs a day, Where all cry out, " what Sums are thrown away 1 So proud, fo grand, of that ftupendous Air, Soft and Agreeable come never there. 44 E T I S T L E S. Greatnefs, with Timon, dwells in fuch a draught 95 As brings all Brobdignag before your thought : To compafs this, his Building is a Town, His Pond an Ocean, his Parterre a Down ; Who but muft laugh, the Mailer when he fees ? A puny Infe6l, lliiv'ring at a breeze. ioq Lo, what huge heaps of Littlenefs around I The whole, a labour 'd Quarry above ground ! Two Cupids fquirt before : a Lake behind Improves the keennefs of the Northern wind. His Gardens next your admiration call, On ev'ry fide you look, behold the Wall ! No pleafing Intricacies intervene, No artful Wildenefs to perplex the fcene ; Grove nods at Grove, each Ally has a brother, And half the Platform juft reflects the other, i The fuff'ring eye inverted Nature fees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as Trees, With here a Fountain, never to be play'd. And there a Summer-houfe, that knows no Ihade 10; EPISTLES. 45 Here Amphitrite fails thro' myrtle bowVs ; "5 There * Gladiators fight, or die, in flow'rs ; Uii-water'd fee the drooping Sea-horfe mourn, And Swallows rood in Nilus' dufty Urn. My Lord advances with majeflic mien, Smit with the mighty pleafure, to be feen : 1 20 But foft — by regular approach — not yet — Firfl: thro' the length of y 011 hot Terrace 1 weat. And when up ten fteep Hopes you've dragg'd your Juft at his Study-door he'll blefs your eyes, [thighs, His Study ? with what Authors is it ftor'd ? In Books, not Authors, curious is my Lord; To all their dated backs he turns you round, Thefe Aldus printed, thofe Du Sueil has bound ; Lo fome are Vellom, and the rell: as good For all his Lordlhip knows, but they are Wood. 1 3' For Lock or Milton 'tis in vain to look, Thefe Ihelves admit not any Modern book. And now the Chappel's filver bell you hear, That fummons you to all the Pride of Pray'r : * The two Statues, of the Gladiator piiLjnans, and GJadiacor inoricns. 12 - 46 EPISTLES. Light Quirks of Mufick, broken and uneven, 13s Make the foul dance upon a Jig- to heaven. On painted Cielings you devoutly ftare, Where fprawl the Saints of Verrio, or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expanlion lye, And bring all Paradife before your eye: 140 To Reft, the Cuiliion and fofc Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite. But hark ! the chiming clocks to Dinner call ; A hundred footfteps fcrape the marble Hall : The rich Buffet well-colour'd Serpents grace, 145 And gaping Tritons fpew to walli your fice. Is this a Dinner ? this a Genial room ? No, 'tis a Temple, and a Hecatomb, A folemn Sacrifice, perform'd in ftate; You drink by meafure, and to minutes eat. 15° So quick retires each flying Courfe, you'd fwear Sancho's dread Doctor and his Wand were there : Between each Ad the trembling falvers ring, From foup to fweet-wine and God hlejs the King. EPISTLES, 47 In plenty ilarving-, tantaliz'd in ftate, t^ss And complaifantly help'd to all I hate, Treated, carefs'd, and tir'd, I take my leave, Sick of his civil Pride, from morn to eve ; I curie fuch lavifli coft, and little skill, And fwear, no Day was ever pafs'd To ill. i6o Yet hence the Poor are cloath'd, the Plungry fed ; Health to himfelf, and to his Infants Bread The Lab'rer bears : What his hard Heart denies, His charitable Vanity fupplies. Another age fliall fee the golden Ear 165 Imbrown the Slope, and nod on the Parterre. Deep Harvefts bury all his Pride has plann'd. And laughing Ceres re-alTume the land. Who then Ihall grace, or who improve, the Soil ? Who plants hkeBAXHURST, or who builds like Boyle. 'Tis Uje alone that fan^lifies Expence, 17^ And Splendor borrows all her Rays from Senje. His Father's Acres who enjoys in peace. Or makes his Neighbours glad, if he encreafe • 48 EVISTLES. Whofe chearful tenants blefs their yearly toil, 175 Yet to their Lord owe more than to the foil ; Whofe wide Parterres are not alliam'd to feed The milky Heifer and deferving Steed ; Whofe rifing Forefts, not for pride or lliow, But future Buildings, future Natives, grow ; ibo Let His Plantations ftretch from Down to Down, Fir ft fliade a Country, and then raife a Town. You too proceed ! make falling Arts your care, Ere6l new Wonders, and the old repair, Jones and Palladio to themfelves reilore, 185 And be whatever Vitruvius was before : Till Kings call forth th' Idea's of your Mind, Proud to accomplilli what fuch hands deiign'd, Bid Harbors open, public If^ay extend, Bid Temples, w^errthier of the God, afcend, 190 Bid the broad .jlrch the dang'rous Flood contain, The Mole proje6l:ed break the roaring Main ; Back to his bounds their fubje^^ Sea command, And roll obedient Rivers thro' the Land : EPISTLES. 49 Thefe Honours Peace to happy Britain brings, Thefe are Imperial works, and worthy Kings. EPISTLE V. To Mr. A D D I S K [Occafion'd by his Dialogues on Medals.] E E the wild Wafle of all-devouring years ! How Rome her own fad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches,broken temples fpread ! The very Tombs now vanifli'd like their dead ! Imperial wonders rais'd on Nations fpoil'd, 5 Where mix'd with Slaves the groaning Martyr toil'd ; Huge Theatres, that now unpeopled Woods, Now drain d a diftant country of her Floods ; G 5o EPISTLES. Fanes, which admiring Gods with pride furvey. Statues of Men, fcarce lefs alive than they ; lo Some felt the filent ftroke of mouldVing age^ Some hoftile fury, feme rehgious rage ; Barbarian blindnefs, Chriftian zeal confpire. And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps, by its own ruins fav'd from flame, 15 Some bury'd marble half preferves a name ; That Name the learn'd with fierce difputes purfue, And give to Titus old Vefpaiian's due. Ambition figh'd : She found it vain to truil: The faithlefs Column and the crumbling Bufl: ; 20 Huge moles,whofefliadow ftretch'd from fhore to fliore Their ruins perifli'd, and their place no more I Convinc'd, fhe now contratSIs her vaft defign, And all her Triumphs fiirink into a Coin : A narrow orb each crouded conqueft keeps, 25 Beneath her Palm here fad Judara weeps, Now fcantier limits the proud Arch confine. And fcarce are feen the prollrate Nile or Rhine, EPISTLES, 51 A fmall Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little Eagles wave their wins:s in sold -^o The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Thro' climes and ages bears each form and name : In one iliort view fubje^led to our eye Gods, Emp'rors, Heroes, Sages, Beauties, lie. With fharpen'd fight pale Antiquaries pore, ^^ Th' infcription value, but the ruft adore ; 1 his the blue varnilli, that the green endears. The facred ruft of twice ten hundred years I To gain Pefcennius one employs his fchemes, One grafps a Cecrops in ecftatic dreams ; 40 Poor Vadius, long with learned fpleen devour 'd Can tafte no pleafure fince his Shield was fcour'd ; And Curio, reftlefs by the Fair-one's fide. Sighs for an Otho, and negle6ls his bride. Theirs is the Vanity, the Learning thine : 4 - Touch'd by thy hand, again Rome's glories fliinc, Her Gods, and god-like Heroes rife to view. And all her faded garlands bloom a-new, G 2 52 EPISTLES. Nor blufli, thefe ftudies thy regard engage ; Thefe pleas'd the Fathers of poetic rage ; 50 The verfe and fculpture bore an equal part, And Art reflected images to Art. Oh when fhall Britain, confcious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame ? In living medals fee her wars enroll'd, 55 And vanquifli'd realms fupply recording gold ? Here, riling bold, the Patriot's honeft face ; There Warriors frowning in hiftoric brafs : Then future ages with delight lliall fee How Plato's, Bacon's, Newton's looks agree ; 60 Or in fair feries laurell'd Bards be fhowii, A Virgil there, and here an Addifon. Then Ihall thy Crags (and let me call him mine) On the caft ore, another Pollio, iliine ; With afped open, lliall ere61: his head, 65 And round the orb in lafting notes be read, " Statefman, yet friend to Truth 1 of foul fmcere,, *' In adion faithful, and in honour clear , EPISTLES. ^3 *^ Who broke no promife, ferv'd no private end, " Who gain'd no title, and who loft no friend, " Ennobled by himfelf, by all approv'd, " And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Mufe he lov'd. ^^•^i%#.iil.i^«%£%^4iii£&fj^iMi;i4<§^^^^^^^iiiiiii^i^^y%^ ww'WwwwmwwwfwwWiWwwwwww^wwwwmwwwiwmw^'^ I jlj w E PTSTL E VL T O ROBERT Earl of Oxford, AND Earl Mortimer. With Dr. P A RNEL's POEMS. u c H were the Notes thy once-lov'd Poet fung-, 'Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue. Oh juft beheld, and loft ! admir'd & mourn'd ! With fofteft manners, gentleft arts adorn 'd ! Bleft in each fcience, bleft in ev'ry ftrain ! 5 Dear to the Mufe, to Harley dear — in vain! EVISTLES, 55 For him, thou oft' haft bid the World attend, Fond to forget the ftatefman in the friend ; For Swift and him, defpis'd the farce of ftate, The fober foUies of the wife and great ; ' lo Dextrous, the craving, fawning croud to quit, And pleas'd efcape from Flattery to Wit. Abfent or dead, ftill let a friend be dear, (A ligh the abfent claims, the dead a tear) Recall thofe nights that clos'd thy toilfome days, 1 5; Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays. Who carejefs now of int'reft, fame, or fate, Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or deeming meaneft what we greateft call, Beholds thee glorious only in thy Fall. 20 And fure if ought below the feats divine Can touch Immortals, 'tis a Soul like thine: A Soul fupreme, in each hard inftance try'd, Above all Pain, all Paflion, and all Pride, The rage of Pow'r, the blaft of publick breath, ^o The luft of Lucre, and the dread of Death. 56 EPISTLES. In vain to Defarts thy retreat is made ; The Mufe attends thee to the filent Ihade : 'Tis hers, the brave man's lateft fteps to trace, 35 Rejudge his ads, and dignify difgrace. When int'reft calls ofF all her fneaking train, When all th' Oblig'd defert, and all the Vain ; She waits, or to the fcafFold, or the cell. When the laft ling'ring friend has bid farewel. 40 Ev'n now, flie ihades thy ev'ning walk with bays, (No hireling llie, no proftitute to praife) Ev'n now, obfervant of the parting ray, Eyes the calm fun-fet of thy various day, Thro' Fortune's cloud one truly great can fee, 45 Nor fears to tell that Mortimer is he. EPISTLE VIL T O Dr. AR BUTHNOT. |HUT,lhut the door good '^ohn I fatigu'd I faid, Tye up the knocker, fay I'm fick, Fm dead. The Dogftar rages I nay 'tis pad a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaflus, is let out : Fire in their eye, and Papers in their hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what fliades can hide ? They pierce my thickets, thro' my Grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They flop the chariot, and they board the barge, i o H ^8 E9 I S T L E S. No place is facred, not the Church is free, Ev'n Sunday fhines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of Ryme, Happy ! to catch me, juft at dinner-time. Is there a Parfon m.uch be-mus'd in beer? 15 A maudUn Poetefs ? a ryming Peer ? A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's foul to crofs, Who pens a Stanza when he lliould engrofs? Is there, who lock'd from pen and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? 20 All fly to Twit'^nam, and in humble ftrain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whofe giddy Son negletSs the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the caufe : PoorCornus fees his frantic Wife elope, ' 25 And curfes Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend thro'my life,(which did'ft not thou prolong. The world had wanted many an idle fong) Dear Do6lor ! tell me, is not this a curfe ? Say, is their Anger, or their Friendfliip worfe? 30 EPISTLES. 59 A dire Dilemma ! either way I'm fped, My Foes will write, my Friends will read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! I can't be filent, and I will not lye, To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of Grace, 2 s And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of Face. I fit with fad Civility, I read With honed: anguilli, and an aking head ; And drop at laft, but in unwilling ears, Thisfaving counfel, « Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane 41 Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rymes e're he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obhg'd by hunger and Requeft of friends : *' The piece you think is incorrect ? why take it, 45 ** I'm all fubmiflion, what you'd have it, make it." Three things another's modeft wilhes bound ; My Friendlliip, and a Prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon greets me thus : " You know his Grace^ " I want a Patron — ask him for a Place." 5® H 2 6o EPISTLES, Pitholeon libeird me — " but here's a Letter *' Informs you Sir, 'twas when he knew no better. "Dare you refufe him? Curl invites to dine, "He'll write a Journal, or he'll turn Divine." Blefsmel a Packet! — "Tis a ftranger £ues, ^^^ *'A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Mufe." If I diflike it, " Furies, death and rage ! If I approve, " Commend it to the Stage." There (thank my ftars) my whole commillion ends, Cibber and I are, luckily, no friends. 60 Fir'd that the Houfe rejed; him, " 'Sdeath Til print it '' And lliame the Fools -your Int'reft Sir with Lintot." Lintot, dull rogue ! will think your price too much. *' Not Sir if you revife it, and retouch." All my demurrs but double his attacks, ' 6^ At lail he whifpers " Do, and we go fnacks." Glad of a quarrel, ftrait I clap the door, Sir, let me fee your works and you no more. 'Tis fung, when Midai Ears began to fpring, (Midas, a facred Perfon and a King) 7o epistles: 6i His very Minifiier who fpy'd them firft, (Some fay his * Queen) was forced to fpeak, or buril. And is not mine, my Friend, a forer cafe, When ev'ry Coxcomb perks them in my face ? " Good friend forbear 1 you deal in dang'rous thinq;s ! " Fd never name Queens, Minifters, or Kings ; " Keep clofe to Ears, and thofe let Aifes prick, " Tis nothing ' - Nothing, if they bite and kick ? 76 Out with it, Dmciadl let the fecret pafs, That Secret to each Fool, that he's an Afs: The truth once told (and wherefore fliou'd we lie ?) The Queen of Midas flept, and fo may I. ^o You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature fmarts fo little as a Fool. Let Peals of Laughter, Codrus I round thee break, Thou unconcern'd canft hear the mighty Crack ; Pit, Box and Gall'ry in convulfions hurl'd, g. Thou ftand'fl: unlliook amidft a burfting World. Scriblers like Spiders, break one cobweb thro'. Still fpin the flight, felf-pleafrng thread anew, » The Slory is told by fome of his Barber, by Chaucer cf his Qu?cr. See tlis W;fj of Bi-.i-Vi TaJc in DrydenhSdkhs. 62 EPISTLES. Throii'd in the centre of their thin defigns 1 Proud of a vaft extent of flimzy lines 1 90 Whom have I hurt ? has Poet yet, or Peer, Loft the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnaflian fneer ? And has not Colly ftill his Lord, and \^^hore ? His Butchers Henley, liis Free-mafons Moor? Does not one Table Arnall ftill admit ? 95 Still to one Bilhop Philips feem a Wit ? Still Sapho — «' Hold 1 nay fee you, you'll offend : *' Wit makes you foes, learn Prudence of a friend. " I too could write — and fure am twice as tall, " But all thefe foes 1 — One Flatt'rer's worfe than all ; A Wit quite angry is quite innocent; loi The only danger is, when they repent. One dedicates, in high Heroic profe, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes ; One from all Grubftreet will my fame defend, ^^S And, more abulive, calls himfelf my friend. For fong, for fdence, fome expedl a bribe, And others roar aloud, " Subfcribe, fubfcribe. EPISTLES, 63 Tiirre, Praife, or Money, is the leaft they crave^ Yet each declares the other, fool or knave. There are, who to my Perfon pay their court, I cough like Horace, and tho' lean, am fhort, no Amnion's great Son one flioulder had too high, Such Ovid's nofe, and " Sir ! you have an Eye — Go on, obliging creatures, make me fee All that difgrac'd my Betters, met in me : Say for my comfort, languifhing in bed, 1 1 s " Juft fo immortal Maro held his head ; And when I die, be fure you let me know, " Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did 1 write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in Ink? my Parent's, or my own ? 120 As yet a Child, nor yet a fool to Fame, I lifp'd in Numbers, for the numbers came, I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father dif-obey'd 64 EPISTLES. The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe fome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long Difeafe, my Life, 1 26 To fecond, Arbuthnot ! thy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preferv'd, to bear. But why then publifli? Granville the polite, And knowing Walili, would tell me I could write j ^ 3^ Well-natur'd Garth inflam'd with early praife, And Congreve lov'd, and Swift endur'd my Lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochefter would nod the head, And St. John's felf (great Dryden's friends before) ^35 With open arms receiv'd one Poet more. Happy my Studies, when by thefe approv'd 1 Happier their Author, when by thefe belov'd! From thefe the world will judge of Men and Books, Not from the ^ Burnets, Oldmixons, and Cooks. 1 40 Soft were my numbers, who could take offence While pure defcription held the place of fenfe ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowry Theme, A painted Miftrefs, or a purhng Stream. * Authors of fecret and fcandalous luftorv. EPISTLES. 6cs Yet then did Gil don draw his venal quill ; I wiih'd the man a dinner, and fate ft ill: ; Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; ;"/'i4S I never anfwer'd, I was not in debt : Hunger provok'd, or madnefs made them print , I wag'd no war with Bedlam or the Mint. Did fome more fober Critic come abroad? If wrong, I fmil'd ; if right, I kifs'd the rod. 150 Pains, reading, ftudy, are their juft pretence, And all they want is fpirit, tafte, and fenfe. Comma's and points they fet exadly right, And 'twere a fin to rob them of their Mite. Yet ne'r one fprig of Laurel grac'd thcfe ribalds, r 55 From daring Bentley down to pidling Tibalds. Each wight, who reads not, and but fcans and fpells, Each Word-catcher that lives on fyllables, Ev'n fuch fmall Critics fomc regard may claim, Preferv'd in Milton's or in Shakefpear's name. 1 ^'o Pretty! in Amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ; I 66 E P I ST L E S, Not that the things aafe either rich or rare, But all the wonder is, how they got there ? Were others angry ? I excus'd them too ; ^^5 AVell might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find, But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, That calling-weight Pride adds to emptinefs, This, who can gratify? for who can guefs? 170 The Bard whom pilf 'red Paftorals renown. Who turns a Perlian Tale for half a crown, ]uft writes to make his barrennefs appear, And flrains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year: He, who ftill wanting tho' he lives on theft, 175 Steals much, fpends little, yet has nothing left : .j And he, who now to fenfe, now nonfenfe leanings, - Means not, but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whofe Fuftian's fo fubhmely bad. It IS not Poetry, but Profe run mad: 180 All thefe my modefl: Satire bade tranflate, And own'd, that nine fuch Poets made a Tate^ EPISTLES. 67 How did they fume, and (lamp, and roar, and chafe ?/ And fwear, not Addifon himfelf was fafe. k Peace to all fuch 1 but were there One whofe fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame infpires, 186 Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe ; Shou'd fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, ^ 90 View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for Arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife, affent with civil leer, And without fneering, teach the reft to fneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to ftrike, 195 Juft hint a fault, and hefitate diflike ; Alike referv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a fufpicious friend, Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers belieg'd, 20c And fo obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, t And fit attentive to his own applaufe ; I 2 m E P T S T L E S. While Wits and Templers ev'ry fentence raife, And wonder with a foolifli face of praife. 205 Who but muft laugh;, if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he I What tho' my Name flood rubric on the walls ? Or plaifter'd pofts, with claps in capitals? Or fmoaking forth, a hundred hawkers load, ^10 On wings of winds came flying all abroad ? I fought no homage from the race that write ; 1 kept, like Afian Monarchs, from their fight; Poems I heeded (now be-rym'd fo long) No more than thou, great George I a Birth-day Song. I ne'r with Wits or Witlings paft my days, 216 To fprcad about the itch of Verfe and Praife ; '^ '- Nor like a puppy dagled through the town,- To fetch and carry Sing-fong up and down ; Nor at Rehearfals fweat, and mouth'd, and cry'd, 2 20 With handkerchief and orange at my fide ; But lick of Fops, and Poetry, and Prate, To Bufo left the whole Caftalian State, EPISTLES, 69 Proud, as Apollo on his forked hill, Sate full-blown Bufo, pufF'd by ev'ry quill; 225 Fed with foft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in fgng. His Library, (where Buds of Poets dead And a true Pindar flood without a head) Received of Wits an undiftinguilh'd race, 230 AVho firft his judgment ask'd, and then a Place : Much they extol'd his pi6lures, much his feat. And flattered ev'ry day, and fome days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He pay'd fome Bards w ith Port, and fome with Praife, To fome a dry Rehearfal was afllgn'd, 236 And others (harder ftill) he pay'd in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dry den alone efcap'd this judging eye : But flill the Great have kindnefs in referve, He help'd to bury him he help'd to ftarve. May fome choice Patron blefs each gray goofe quill! May ev'ry Bavius have his Bufo flill ! 7<5 EPISTLES. So, when a Stateftnan wants a Day's defence, 240 Or Envy holds a whole Week's war with fenfe, Or fimple Pride for flatt'ry makes demands, May dunce, by dunce be whiftled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for thofe they take away, And thofe they leave me 1 For they left me Gay ; Left me to fee negleded Genius bloom, Negleded die, and tell it on his Tomb: Of all thy blamelefs Life the fole return My Verfe ! and Q.ueensb'ry weeping o'er thy Urn I Oh let me live my own! and die fo too 1 (" To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a Poet's Dignity and Eafe, And fee what friends.and read what books I pleafe. 245 1 was not born for Courts or great Affairs, I pay my debts, believe, and fay my pray'rs, Can ileep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why will the Town imagine ftill I write ? 250 Why ask, when this or that fliall fee the light ^ ":)5 EPISTLES. 7 " I found him clofe with Swift — Indeed ? no doubt *' (Cries prating Baibus) fomething will come out.'' 'Tis all in vain, deny it as I will : *'No, fuch a Genius never can lye ftill," And then for mine obligingly miftakes The firft Lampoon Sir Will, or Bubo makes. Poor guiltlefs 1 1 and can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curft be the Verfe, how well foe'er it flow, 26® That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin ileal a tear! But he, who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace, Infults fal'n Worth, or Beauty in diftrefs, 265 Who loves a lye, lame flander helps about, Who writes a Libel, or who copies out : That Fop whofe pride affects a Patron's name. Yet abfent, wounds an Author's honeft fame; Who can your merit felfifhly approve, 270 And Ihow the Senfe of it without the Loi'e : '^^ EPISTLES. Who has the Vanity to call you friend, Yet wants the Honour injur'd to defend ; AYho to the ^ Dean and filver Bell can fwear, And fees at Cannons what was never there; 275 Who tells whate'er you think, whate'er you fay, And, if he lye not, mufl: at leaft betray ; Let never honeft Man my fa tire dread. But all fuch babling blockheads in his ftead. Let Sporus tremble -r- " What ? that thing of filk, «' Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? 281 *' Satire or fenfe alas ! he cannot feel, " Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel ?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings; W^hofe hWLl. the witty and the fair annoys,- 286 Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys, So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the Game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 290 As Ihallow ftre^ms run dimpling all the way, * See the Epiftle to the Earl cf Burlin£;toji. EPISTLES. 73 Whether in florid Impotence he fpeaks, And, as the Prompter breathes, the Puppet fqueaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, famihar Toad, Half froth, half venom, fpits himfelf abroad, 295 In Puns, or Politicks, or Tales, or Lyes, Or Spite, or Smut, or Rymes, or Blafphemies. His Wit all See-fa w between that and tlm, Now high, now low, now Mafter up, now Mifs, And he himfelf one vile Antithefis. Amphibious Thing 1 that ading either part. The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the Toilet, Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now ftruts a Lord. Eve's Tempter thus the Rabbins ha^ e expreft, A Cherub's face, a Reptile all the refl:, Beauty that fhocks you, Parts that none will trufl: Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the duft. : Oh keep me what I am 1 not Fortune's fool, Nor Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool : 74 EPISTLES. Not proud, nor fervile, be one Poet's praife That, if liepleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways, That Flatt'ry, ev'n to Kings, he held a lliamc, 33^ And thought a Lye in Verfe or Profe the fame. That not in Fancy's ma!ze he wander'd long. But ftoop'd to Truth, and morah^i'd his fong. That not for Fame, but A^irtue's better end, He flood the furious Foe, the timid Friend, 33J. The damning Critic, half-approving Wit,. The Coxcomb hit, or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of Friends he never had. The dull, the proud, the wicked, and the mad ^ The diftant Threats of Vengeance on his head, 34c The Blow unfelt, the Tear he never flied -, The Tale reviv.'d, the Lye fo oft o'erthrown, Th' im.puted Trafli, and Dulnefs not his own, The Morals blacken'd when the Writings fcape^ The libel'd Perfon, and the pictur'd Shape, 345 Th' Abufe on all he lov'd or lov'd him fpread, A Friend in Exile, or a Father, dead ; EPISTLES. 75 TheWhIfper, that to Greatnefs ftill too near, Perhaps, yet vibrates on his Sovereign's Ear — Welcome for thee, fair Virtue 1 all the paft : 350 For thee, fair Virtue 1 welcome ev'n the lajl I ** But why infult the Poor, affront the Great? ^' A Knave's a Knave, to me, in ev'ry State, Alike my fcorn if he fucceed or fail, Sporus at Court, or Japhetin a Jayl, 355 A hireling Scribler, or a hireling- Peer, Knight of the Poll corrupt, or of the Shire, If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. Yet foft by nature, more a Dupe than Wk^ 360 Sapho can tell you how this Man was bit: This dreaded Sat'rift Dennis will confefs Foe to his Pride, but Friend to his Diftrefs : So humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door. Has drank with Gibber, nay has rym'd for Moor : z^^s Full ten years flander'd, did he once reply ? Three thoufand Suns went down on Welfled's Lye : K 2 76 EPISTLES, To pleafe a Miftrefs, One afpers'd his life ; He lalh'd him not, but let her be his Wife : Let Budgel charge low Grubftreet on his quill, 3 7<^ And write whate'er he pleas'd, except his W^iU ; Let the two Curls of Town and Court, abufe His Father, Mother, Body, Soul, and Mufe. Yet why ? that Father held it for a rule It was a Sin to call our Neighbour Fool; 275- That harmlefs Mother thought no Wife a Whore, Hear this 1 and fpare bis Family, James M * , Unfpotted Names! and memorable long. If there be force in Virtue, or in Song. Of gentle Blood (part llied in Honour's caufe, z^o While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) EachParent fprung-" WhatFortune,pray ?-their own, And better got than Clodio's from the Throne. Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Difcord in a Noble Wife, 385 Stranger to Civil and Religious Rage, The good Man walk'd innoxious thro' his Age: EPISTLES. 77 No Courts he faw, no Suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an Oath, nor hazarded a Lye : Un-learn'd, he knew 'no fchoohiian's fubtle Art, 39° No Language, but the Language of the Heart. By Nature honeft, by Experience wife, Healthy by Temp'rance and by Exercife, His Life, tho' long, to llcknefs paft unknown. His Death was inftant, and without a groan. 39 - Oh grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings lliall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftick Bhfs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage 400 To rock the Cradle of repofing AgQ^ With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the Bed of Death, Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky ! 4^5 On cares like thefe if length of days attend. May Heav'n, to blefs thofe days^ preferve my Friend, 78 EPISTLES, Preferve him fecial, chearful, and ferene, And juftas rich as when he ferv'd a Que en. Whether that Blefling be deny'd, or giv'n, 410 Thus far was right, the reft belongs to Heav'n. SATIRES O F HORACE IMITATED. To which. are added, Satires of Dr. JOHN DONNE Verfify'd by the fame Hand. ADFERTISEMENT. THE Occajion of publijhlng thefe Imitations was the Clamour raifed on fome of my Epiftles. An Anfwer from Horace was both more full^ and of more Dignity^ tha?i any I coud have made in my own perfon ; aiid the Example offo much greater Free- dom info emine7it a Divine as Dr. Donne, feenid a proof with what Indignation and Contempt a Chriflian 7?iay treat Vice or Folly ^ in ever fo low i or ever fo high^ a Station. Both thefe Au- thors were acceptable to the Princes and Mi?tiflers under whom they lived : The Sat ires, of Dr. Donne / verfifyd at the Defire of the Earl of Oxford while he was Lordlreafurer, and of the Duke of Shrewsbury who had bee?t Secretary of States 7ieither of whom loolid upon a Satire on Vicious Courts as any RefleElion on thofe they fervd in. And indeed there is 7iot in the world a greater Error, than that which Fools a?'efo apt to fall into, and Knaves with good reafon to incourage, the mifiaking a Satyrift for a Libel- ler ; whereas to a true Satyrift nothing is fo odious as a Libeller, for thefafne reafon as to ci man truly Virtuous ?tothi7ig isfo hateful as a Hypocrite. THE FIRST SATIRE O F T H E SECOND BOOK O F HORACE IMITATED. SATIRA PRIMA HOR." Ho RATI us. TrEBATIUS. Unt quihus in Satyr a videar nimis (tcer, & ultra Legem tendere opus ; ' Jine nervis altera quicquid Compojui pars ejfe put at ^ fimilejque meorum MiUe die verfm deduci pojfe, ^ Trehati I ^id faciam? Praefcribe. '$■ % '*• ■*"<:•#■ '$■ •¥• -*■■ •♦ •* ■* ■*• '«• ■*■ -J- •* ■»•■•'♦ ■*• *■ ■♦' ■*• •«■ %-i%- -i- 4 'i' ■%■ •%■ >■ >• 4- 'i- ■*■ ■*.■ ^tLu SATIRE I. P. ^^K HERE are (I fcarce can think it, but am told) ' There are to whom my Satire feems too bold, Scarce to wife Peter complaifant enough, And fomething- faid of Chartres much too rough. ' The lines are weak, another's pleas'd to fay, 5 Lord Fanny fpins a thoufand fuch a day. Tim'rous by nature, of the Rich in awe, 3 1 come to Council learned in. the Law. You*ll give me, like a Friend both fage and free, Advice; and (as you ufe) without a Fee. 10 A 2 4 SATIRES Treb. ^§ltiiejcas. HoR. Ne faciam inquis, Omnino verjusf Treb. Jio. HoR. T ere am male Jl non Optimum erat : ^ verum nequeo dormire, Treb. ^ Ter uncl'i Tranjnanto Tihenm^ fomno qiiibus eji opus alto, Jrrtguumve mero Juh nociem corpus hahento. 7 Aut^ Ji tantus amor Jcribendi te rapit, aude C^saris inviSii res dicer e, ^ mult a labor um Prsemia laturus, Hor. Cupidum, pater optime ! vires Dejiciunt : ^ neque enim quivis horrentia pilis Agmina, nee fradla pereuntes cufpide Gallos, Aut labentis equo dejcribat vulnera Parthi, OF H O R AC K 5> F. "^rd write no more. P. Not Avrite? but then I think, And for my foul I cannot ileep a wink. I nod in Company, I wake at nig lit, Fools rufli into my head, and fo I write. 15 F. You could not do a worfe thing for your Hfe. Why, if the nights feem tedious — take a Wife: ^ Or rather truly, if your point be Reft, Lettuce and Cowflip wine : Trohatum eji. But talk with Celfus, Celfus may advife 20^ Hartfliorn, or fomething that iliall clofe your eyes. ^ Or if you needs mull write, write C ^ s a r's Praife : * You'll gain at leaft a Knighthood, or the Bays. P. What ? like Sir'^Richard,rumbling, rough & fierce. With Arms, and George, and Brunswick. crowd the verfe, 25 Rend with tremendous Sound our ears afunder, With Gun,Drum,Trumpet,Blunderbufs& Thunder ^ Or nobly wild, with Budgell's fire and force, Paint Angels trembhng round his falling Horfe-^ & SATIRES T R E B. '^jittamen &juflum pot eras &Jcr there fortem^ Scipiadam ut Japiens Lucilius. HoR. Haud mihi deero^ Cum res ipja feret. '' Nifi dextro tempore Vhcci Verla per attentam non ibmt defar^s aurem ; Cut male Ji palpere^ recalcitrat mdique tutm. T R E B. ' ' §t^anto re^im hoc, quam trijli loedere verju Tantolahum Jcurram, Nomentanumve nepotem ? '^ Cimjihi quifque timet, quanquam eft, int actus, & odit. H R. '* §^id faciam ? Saltat Milonius, ut femel i^o' Accejfit fervor capiti, mmerujque hcernis : OF H O R A C E. 7 jF,'^ Then all your Mufc's fofter art difplay, 3° Let Carolina fmooth the tuneful Lay, Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine, And fweetly flow through all the Royal Line. P. "Alas! few Verfes touch their nicer ear; They fcarce can hear their Laureate twice a year : 35 And juftly C^£sar fcorns the Poet's lays, It is to Hiftory he trufts for Praife. jF. "Better be Gibber, I'll maintain it ftill, Than ridicule all Tafte, blafpheme Quadrille, Abufe the City's beft good Men in metre, 40 And laugh at Peers that put their truft in Peter. "-Ev'n thofe you touch not, hate you. P. What fhould ail 'em ? F. A hundred fmart in Timon and in Balaam : The fewer ftill you name, you wound the more ; 4 - Bond is but one, but Harpax is a fcore. P/^Each mortal has his Pleafure : None deny Sc*le his Bottle, D*ty hisHam-Pye; Ridotta fips and dances, till Ihe fee The doubling Luftres dance as well as flie ; 5c 8 SATIRES '' Caftor gaudet equis ; ovo prognatus eodem Vugnis : quot capitnm vivunt, totidem jludiorum Mill i a \ '^ me pedihus dele Hat dander e verba, Lucili ritUj noftrum melioris utroque. llle^ velnt fidis arcana Jod all bus ^ olim Credehat lihris ; neque fi male gejferal:, ujquam Decurrens alio, neque Jt bene : quo fit M omnis Votiva pateat veluti dejcripta tabella Vitajenis. Seqmr hunc, ''' Luc anus an Appulus anceps [NaniVenufinvs arat finem fub utrumque colonuSy Mijjus ad hoc, Jmjjis (vetus ejl ut fama) Sabellis ; §^ n^ per vacuum Romano incurreret hojiis, Sive quod Jppula gens, feu quod Lucania, bellum Incuteret violenta.^ OF H O R A C E. p 'sF — loves the Senate, Hockly-hole his Brother, Like in all elfe, as one Egg to another. '^ I love to pour out all myfelf, as plain As downright Shippen, or as old Montagne. In them, as certain to be lov'd as feen, ^^ The Soul flood forth, nor kept a thought within ; In me what fpots (for fpots I have) appear, Will prove at leail: the Medium mud be clear. In this impartial Glafs, my Mufe intends Fair to expofe myfelf, my foes, my friends ; 60 Publifli the prefent age; but where my text Is Vice too high, referve it for the next : My foes fliall wilh my life a longer date, And ev'ry friend the lefs lament my fate. My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quiil, '7 Verfe-man or Profe-man, term me which you will, Papift or Proteftant, or both between, 67 Like good Erafmus in an honeft Mean, In Moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. 70 B 10 SATIRES '* Sed hk Jlylm haud petet ultro §l^enquam anmantem ; & me veJuti cujlodiet enjis Vagina te^us, quern cur dtjlringere coner, '^ Tutus ah infejiis latronihus? "° Pater & Rex Jupiter ! ut pereat pofitum ruhigine telum, Nee quifquam noceat " cupido mihi pacis ! at ille, §!^i me commorit (melhts non tangere clamo) " Flehit, & injtgnis tota contahitur urbe. '^ Cervius iratus leges minitatur & urnam ; Canidia Albutij quibus eft inimica^ venerium ; Grande malum Turius, ft quid Je judice certes-, ^^ Utj quo quijque valet, fufpecfus terreatj utque Jmperet hoc natura potens ; ftc colUge mecum, Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit ; unde, nift intus Monftratum ? OF H O R A C E. II '^ Satire's my weapon, but Fm too difcreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; '5 1 only wear it in a land of Hedlors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Diredlors. "Save but our Army I and let Jove incrufl: 75 SAVords, Pikes, and Guns, with everlafting ruft! " Peace is my dear delight — not Fleury's more : But touch me, and no Minifter fo fore. Who'er offends, at fome unlucky time " Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhyme, 80 Sacred to Ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry Song. '^ Slander or Poyfon dread from Delias rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be "^ From furious Sappho fcarce a milder fate, 85 P-x'd by her love, or libelPd by her hate. '"^ Its proper pow'r to hurt, each creature feel^, ' ' Bulls aim their horns, and Afles lift their heels, 'Tis a Bear's talent not to kick but hug, And no man wonders he's not ftung by Pug : 90 B 2 12 SATIRES '^' Sc(eva vivacem crede nepoti Matrem : nil faciet feeler is pia^extra (mirum ? Ut neque cake lupus quenquamy nec[ue dent e petit hos) Sed mala toilet anum vitiato melle cicuta. '^ Ne longum faciam ; feu me trancjuilla feneflus ExpeHat^ feu mors atris circumvolat alis ; *Dives, imps, Roma, feu fors ita jufferity exul, ^^ ^if^i^is erit vitte, fcribam, color, Treb. '^ puer, ut /u Vitalis, metuo ; & Majorum ne quis amicus Frigore teferiat, HoR. ^'^§^idf cum ejl Lucilius aufus OF H O R A C K 13 '^So drink with Waters or with Chartres eat, They'll never poyfon you, they'll only cheat. '^ Then learned Sir ! (to cut the nfiatter Ihort) Whate'er my fate, or well or ill at Court, Whether Old age, with faint, but chearful ray, 95 Attends to gild the Evening of my Day, Or Death's black wing already be difplay'd To wrap me in the Univerfal ihade; Whether the darkened room to mufe invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; 100 In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, '^Like Lee or Budgell, T will rhyme and print. F. "^ Alas young man ! your days can ne'er be long^ In flow'r of age you perifti for a fong ! Plums and Directors, Shy lock and his Wife, i<^5 Will club their Tefters, now, to take your life ! P. '9 What ? arm'd for Virtue when I point the pel?; Brand the bold front of Ihamelefs, guilty men, Dafli the proud Gamefter in his gilded Car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a Star ; i » c* 14 SATIRES Primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem^ '° Detrahere & pellem, nitidus qua quijque per ora 'Cederety introrfum turpis; num LasUus. ^__qui Du^it ah opprejja meritum Carthagine nomen^ Ingenio offenji? out lafo- Muere MeteUoy Famojifque Lupo cooperto verjibus f Atqm Primores populi arripuit^ populumque tributim ; Scilicet ^' Uni ^.quus virtuti atque ejus amicis. ^' §^in ubi fe a Vulgo & Scena, in Secreta remrant Virtus Scipiada:, <^ ;^iifij' Sapientia Ldi; Nugari cum illo, & dijcincii ludere, dmec JJecoqueretur olus, Johti. OF H O R A C E. 15 Can there be wanting, to defend her caufe, Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws? Could penfion*ct Boileau lafli in hbheft ftrain ^^^'^ Flatt rers and Bigots ev'o in Louis' reign ^ Could Laureate Dry den Pimp and Fry'r engage, i r 5 Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage? And I not ^° ftrip the gilding off a Knave, Un-plac d, unpenlion'd, no Man's heir, or flave ? I will, or perifli in the gen'rous caufe : Here this, and tremble I you, who 'fcape the Laws. 1 20 Know, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World in quiet to his grave. ^' To Virtue only and her friends, a friend, The World befide may murmur, or commend. Know, all the diftant din that world can keep 1 25. Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but fooths my fleep. ^' There, my retreat the bed companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statefmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feaft of Reafon and the Flow of Soul : ^^3 i6 SATIRES — §l^icquidfum egOy quamvis Infra Lucili cenjum, ingenmwiue, tamen me ^^Cum magnis vixilTe invita fatebitur ufque Jnvidia, & fragili queer ens illidere dentem, OfFendet folido ; — ^' — Niji quid tu, dode Trebati, Diffentis. Trebat. ^^ Equidem- nihil hinc diffindere pojjum. Sed tamen ut monitus caveaSj ne jorte negoti Incutiat tihi quid fanH arum injcitia legum. ^' "Si mala condiderit in quern quis carminajuseft Judiciumque." OF H O R A C R 17 And * H E, whofe lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines, Now forms my Quincunx, and now ranks my Vines, Or tames the Genius of the ftubborn Piain, AhTioil as quickly, as he conquer'd Spain. ^^ Envy mud own, I live among the Great, 135 No Pimp of Pleafure, and no Spy of State, With eyes that pry not, tongue that ne'er repeats, Fond to fpread Friendfliips, but to cover Heat^ To help who want, to forward who excel ; This, all who know me, know ; who love me, tell ; And who unknown defame me, let them be 141 Scriblers or Peers, ahke are Moh to me. This is my Plea, on this I reft my caufe — '' What faith my Council learned in the Laws ? F. '^ Your Plea is good ; but ftill I fay, beware I Laws are explained by Men — fo have a care. 146 It ftands on record, that in Richard's times A man was hang'd for very honeft rhymes. 5' Confult the Statute : §^art. I think it is, Edwardi Jext. or prim. & quint. Eliz. 150 * Charles Mord.iunt I'lrl of Peterborough, who in the Year 1705 took B.ircelon.i, nncj J^ the Winter following with only 280 Horfc and 900 Foot enterprizcd, and accomjilin^d the Conqueil of Valentia. i8 SATIRES HoR. EJIq^ fi0 N N E. 49 And brings all natural events to pafs, Hath made him an Attorney of an Afs. 5^ No young Divine, new-benefic'd, can be More pert, more proud, more pofitive than he. What further could I wiih the Fop to do, But turn a Wit, and fcribble verfes too ? Pierce the foft lab'rinth of a Lady's ear i; . With rhymes of this ^^r Cent, and th^t per Tear .j//ing hurt me. To fit my ful/ennefs^ He to another key his flyle doth drefs ; And asks, what news ; I tell him of new playes, He takes my hand, and as a Still which Jiayes A Semhrief, 'twixt each drop, he niggardly. As loath to inrich me, fa tells many a ly^ Dr. JOHN DONNE. 6^ " How elegant your Frenchman ? — Mine, d'ye mean ? I have but one, I hope the Fellow's clean. 1 1 1 " Oh ! Sir, politely well ! nay, let me dye, " Your only wearing is your Padua-foy." Not Sir my only, I have better ftill. And this you fee is but my Dilliabille — 1^5 A¥ild to get loofe, his patience I provoke, Miftake, confound, objed at all he fpoke. But as coarfe Iron, fharpen'd, mangles more, And Itch moft hurts when anger 'd to a fore ; So when you plague a fool, 'tis ftill the curfe 1 2o> You only make the matter worfe and worfe. He paft it o'er ; alFe^Jls an eafy fmile At all my peevilhnefs, and turns his ftyle. He asks, '' What News ? I tell him of new PlaySj New Eunuchs, Harlequins, and Operas. 125^,- He hears ; and as a Still, with fimples in k^ Between each drop it gives, ftays half a minute-: Loth to enrich me with too quick replies^ By little, and by little, drops his lies. 70 SAT IRES o F More than ten HoUenJl^eads, or Halls, or Stows, Of trivial houjhold trajh : He knows, he knows JVhen the Sltieenfrownd, orjmiVd, and he knonjos what A Jubtle States-man may gather of that ; He knows who loves whom ; and who hy poyfon Hafts to an Offices reverfion ; Pf^ho wafts in meat, in clothes, inhorfe, he notes, Who loveth whores, and who boys, and who goats. He knows who hath fold his land, and now doth heg A licenfe, old iron, hoots, fhoes, and egge- Shels to tranfport ; fhortly, hoyes fhall not play At f pan-counter, or blow-point, but fhall pay Toll to fome Courtier ; and wifer then all tis. He knows what jLady is not paiyited. Thus He with home meats cloyes me. I belch, fpue, fpit, Look pale, and fickly, like a Tatient^ yet Dr. JOHN DONNE. 71 Meer houlliold trafli ! of birth-nights, balls, and Ihows, More than ten Hollinglheads, or Halls, or Stows. When the Queen frown'd, or fmird, he knows ; & what A fubtle Minifter may make of that ? Who {ins with whom ? who got his penfion rug, Or quicken'd a reverlion by a drug? 135 Whofe Place is quartered out, three parts in four, And whether to a Bifhop, or a Whore ? Who, having loft his credit, pawn'd his rent. Is therefore fit to have a Government? Who in the fecret, deals in Stocks fecnre, 14.0 And cheats th'unknowing Widow, and the Poor ? Who makes a Truft, or Charity a Job, And gets an Acl of Parliament to rob ? Why Turnpikes rofe, and why no cit, nor clown Can gratis fee the country, or the town ? 145 Shortly no lad lliall chuck, or lady vole, But fome excifing Courtier will have toll. He tells what ftrumpet places fells for life, What Tquire his lands, what citizen his wife ? 70 SATIRES OF He thrujls on more^ and as he had undertook To Jay GaJlo-Belgicm 'without book, Speaks of all States and deeds that have heenjince The Spayiiards came, to tF lofs of Amyens. Like a big wife, at fight of loathed meat, Ready to travail: Jo I figh, and fvjeat To hear this Makaron talk : in vain, for yet, Either my humour, or his own to fit. He like a priviledg'djpie, whom nothing can Dijcredit, libels now 'gainji each great man. He names a price for every office paid; He faith, our wars thrive ill, becaufe delaid ; That Offices are intaiFd and that there are Perpetuities of them, lajling as far As the laft day ; and that great Officers Do with the Spaniards Jloare, and Dunkirkers. / more amazd than Circes prifoners, when They felt the mf elves turn beafi:s, felt my f elf then Becoming Traytor, and methought If aw One of our Giant Statutes ope his jaw, Dr. JOHN DONNE. 73 And laft (which proves him wifer ftill than all) 150 What Lady's face is not a whited wall ? As one of Woodward's patients, lick and fore, I puke, I naufeate, — yet he thrufts in more ; Trims Europe's balance, tops the ftatefman's part, And talks gazettes and poft-boys o'er by heart, ^5S Like a big wife, at fight of loathfome meat Ready to caft, I yawn, I figh, I fweat. Then, as a licens'd fpy, whom nothing can Sik'iice or hurt, he libels the great Man ; Swears every place entail'd for years to come, 160 In fure fucceffion to the day of doom : He names the price for ev'ry office paid. And fays our wars thrive ill, becaufe delay'd ; Nay hints, 'tis] by connivance of the Court, That Spain robs on, and Dunkirk's ftill a Port. 165 Not more amazement feiz'd on Circe's 2:uefts To fee themfelves fall endlong into beafts, Than mine, to find a fubjed ftay'd and wife Already half turn'd traytor by furprize. K 74 SATIRES of To fuck me in for hearing him : I found That as burnt venomous Teachers do grow found By giving others their fores, I might gr'ozv Guilty, and he free : Therefore I did fhow Allfignes of loathing ; hut fine e J am in, I muji pay mine, and my forefathers Jin To the laji farthing. Therefore to my power Toughly and Jiuhhornly I hear this crofs; hut the'hower Of mercy now was come: He tries to hring Me to pay a Fine to 'fcape his torturing. And fayes. Sir, can ^ou fpare me ? I faid : willingly ; Nay, Sir, Can you fpare me a Crown ? Thankfully I Gave it, as ranfom ; hut as Fidlers, jiiJl, Though they he paid to he gone, yet needs will Thruji one more jigg upon you: fo did he JVith his long complemental thanks vex me: But he is gone, thanks to his needy want, And the Prerogative of my Crown : Scant His thanks were ended, when I (which did fee All the Court fiird with more firange things than he) Ran from thence with fuch, or more hajie than one Who fears more aciions^ doth haft from prifon. Dr. JO HN DONNE. 75 I fear'd th' infedion Aide from him to me, 17^ As ill the pox, fome give it to get free ; And quick to fwallow me, methought I favv One of our Giant Statutes ope its jaw 1 In that nice moment, as another Lye Stood juft a-tilt, the Minifter came by. 175 To him he flies, and bows, and bows again — - Then clofe as Umbra, joins the dirty Train ; Not Fannius felf more impudently near, When half his nofe is in his Prince's ear. I quak'd at heart ; and ftill afraid to fee ^ 80 All the court fiU'd with ftranger things than he, Run out as faft, as one that pays his bail And dreads more adlions, hurries from a jail. Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the nurfe of fenfe: 185 There Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free foul looks down to pity Kings. There fober Thought purfu'd th' amuiing theme^ Till Fancy colour'd it, and form'd a Dream. I 2 76 SATIRES O F j4t home in whole fom JoUtarineJs M^ piteous Joul began the vjretchednejs Of juiters at court to mourn , and a Trance Like his J who dream' t he Jaw hell^ did advance It Jelf ore me : Such men as he Jaw there J Jaw at Court, and worje, and more. Low fear Becomes the guilty, not tlf accujer : Then, Shall 7, nonets Jlave, of high horn or rais'd men Fear frowns ; and mj mijirefs Truth, hetraj thee For tF huffing, braggart, puft Nohility ? No, no, Thou which Jince yejierday haft been j^lmojl about the whole world, haft thou Jeen, Sun, in aU thy journey, Vanity, Such as Jwells the bladder of our Court? I , Think he which made your ^ JVaxen garden, and Tranjported it, from Italy, to ftand * A Show of the Icalian Gardens in Waxwork, in the time of King Jamei the Firft. Dr. JOHN DONNE. 77 A Vifioii hermits can to Hell tranfport, 19° And force ev'n me to fee the damn'd at Court. Not Dante dreaming all th' infernal ftate, Beheld fuch fcenes of envy, fm, and hate. Bafe fear becomes the guilty, not the free ; Suits Tyrants, Plunderers, but fuits not me: 195 Shall I, the terror of this iinful town, Care, if a livery'd Lord or fmile or frown ? Who cannot flatter, and deteft who can, Tremble before a noble Serving-man? O my fair miftrefs, Truth! fliall I quit thee, 200 For huffing, braggart, puft Nobility ? Thou who fince yefterday haft roU'd o'er ail The bufy, idle blockheads of the ball,. Haft thou, O fun ! beheld an emptier fort, . Than fuch as fwell this bladder of a Court? 205 Now pox on thofe who fhew a =^ Court in wax ! It ought to bring all courtiers on their backs: * A famous Show of tlic Court of France in Waxwork 78 S A T I R E S o F W^ith m at London^ flouts our Courtiers ; for ^uji fuch gaj painted things^ which no Jap, nor Tafl have in them, ours are ; and natural Some of the Jlocks are, their fruits bajiard all, 'Tis ten a clock and pajl ; all whom the Mues, BalouUj or Tennis, Diet, or the flews Had all the morning held, now the fecond Time made ready, that day, in flocks are found In the Prefence, a7id I, (God pardon me) As freflo and Jweet their Apparels he, as he The fields they fold to buy them. For a King Thoje hoje are, cry the flatterers ; And bring Them next week to the Theatre to Jell. W^ants reach all ftates : Me Jeems they do as well At ftage, as Court ; All are players. (Vho e'r looks (For themjelves dare not go) o'er Cheapjide Books, Dr. J HN DONNE. 79 Such painted Puppets, fuch a varnifli'd race Of hollow Gewgaws, only Drefs and Face, Such waxen nofes, lliately ftaring things — 210 No wonder fome folks bow, and think them Kinp-s See 1 where the Britilli youth, engag'd no more At Fig's or White's, with felons, or a whore, Pay their lafl: duty to the Court ! and come All frelh and fragrant, to the Drawing-room: 215; In hues as gay, and odours as divine As the fair fields they fold to look fo fine. " That's velvet for a King 1" the flatt'rer fwears ; 'Tis true, for ten days hence 'twill be King Lear's, Our court may juftly to our ftage give rules, 220 That helps it both to Fools-coats and to Fools. And why not players ftrut in courtiers cloaths? For thefe are avSfers too, as well as thofe : Wants reach all ftates ; they beg but better dreft, And all is fplendid poverty at beft. 225; Painted for fight, and effenc'd for the fineJJ, Like frigates fraught with fpice and cochine'4 Bo SATIRES OF Shall find their wardrobes Inventory. Now The Ladies come. As Pirats, which do know That there came weak /hips fraught with Cutchanel, The men board them ; andpraije (as they think) well. Their beauties ; they the mens wits; both are bought. Tf^hy good wits ne'r wear Jcarlet gowns, I thought This cauje, Theje men, mens wits for fpeeches buy, And women buy all reds which fcarlets die. He call'd her beauty limetwigs, her hair net : She fears her drugs ill lafd, her hair loofe fet. Would not Heraclitus laugh to fee Macrine From hat to fhoo, Mmfelf at door refine, As if the Trefence were a Mofch : and lift His skirts and hofe, and call his clothes to fiortft, Making them confefs not only mortal Great fiains and holes in them, but venial Feathers and dufl, wherewith they fornicate : And then by DurerV rules furvey the Jiate Dr. JOHN DONNE. 8i Sail in the Ladies : How each Pyrate eyes So weak a vefTel, and fo rich a prize I Top-gallant he, and llie in all her trim, 230 He boarding her, fhe ftriking fail to him. " Dear Countes ! you have charms all hearts to hit ! And " fweet Sir Fopling ! you have fo much wit ! Such Wits and Beauties are not prais'd for nought, For both the Beauty and the Wit are bought. 235 'Twou'd burft ev'n Heraclitus with the fpleen, To fee thofe Anticks, Fopling and Courtin : The Prefence feems, with things fo richly odd. The Mofque of M abound, or fome queer Pa-god. See them furvey their limbs by Durer's rules, 240 Of all Beau-kind the beft proportion'd Fools ! Adjufl their cloaths, and to confellion draw Thofe venial fins, an atom, or a ftraw : What Terrors wou'd diftracl each confcious foul, Convidied of that mortal crime, a hole; 245 Or fliould one pound of powder lefs befpread Thofe Monkey-tails that wagd behind their head I L 82 S A T I R E S o F Of his each limb, and with firings the odds tries Of his neck to his leg, and wajle to thighs. So in immaculate clothes^ and Symmetry TerfeB as Circles y with fuch nicety j4s a young Treacher at his firfi time goes To preach, he enters, and a Lady vjhich owes Him not fo much as good will, he arrefls, And unto her protefis, protefis, protejis, So much as at Rome would ferve to have thrown Ten Cardinals into the Incjuijition ; And whifpers h) Jefu Jo oft, that a Vurfevant would have ravifiod him away For faying our Ladies Tfaltey\ But 'tis fit That they each other plague, they merit it. But here comes Glorias that will plague them bothy Who in the other extreme only doth Call a rough careleffnefs, good fafhion: JVhofe cloak his fpurs tear, or whom he fpits m, Dr, JO HN DO NN E. 83 Thus finifh'd, and corrected to a hair, They march, to prate their hour before the Fair, So firfl: to preach a white-glov'd Chaplain goes, 250 With Band of Lilly, and with Cheek of Rofe, Sweeter than Sharon, in immac'late trim, Neatnefs itfelf impertinent in him. Let but the Ladies fmile, and they are bleft ; Prodigious ! how the things proteji, protefl : Peace, Fools, or Gonfon will for Papifls feize you If once he catch you at your Jeju ! Jefu ! Nature made ev'ry Fop to plague his Brother, |uft as one Beauty mortifies another. 260 But here's the Captain that will plague them both, Whofe Air cries Arm I whofe very Look's an Oath : The Captain's honeft. Sirs, and that's enough, Tho' his Soul's Bullet, and his Body Buff He fpits fore-right ; his haughty cheft before 265 Like batt'ring rams, beats open ev'ry door ; L 2 84 SATIRES of He cares not, he. His ill words do no harm To him; he rujhes in, as if arm, arm, He meant to cry ; and though his face he as ill As theirs^ which in old hangings whip Chriji, Jiill He Jirives to Uok worfe ; he keeps all in awe \ 'Jejis like a licens'^d fool, commands like law. Tjr'd, now I leave this place, and hut pleas' d fo As men from gaols f execution go, Go through the great chamher (why is it hung With the f even deadly fins?) heing among Thofe Askaparts, men hig enough to throw Charing Crofs for a har, men that do know No token of worth, hut §lueens man, and fine Living ; harrels of heef flagons of wine. I fhook like a fpied Spie — Treacher s which are Seas of Wit and Arts, you can, then dare, Thrown the Jins of this place, for as for me . Winch am but a fcant brook, enough fhall be: Dr. JOHN "DONNE, 85 And with a face as red, and as awry, As Herod's hang-dogs in old Tapefbry, Scarecrow to boys, the breeding woman's curfc ; Has yet a ftrange ambition to look worfe ; 270 Confounds the civil, keeps the rude in awe, Jefts like a licensed Fool, commands like Law. Frighted I quit the room, but leave it fo As men from Jay Is to Execution go ; For hung with * deadly Sins I fee the wall, 275 And lin'd with Giants, deadlier than 'em all : Each man an | Afcapart, of ftrength to tofs For Quoits, both Temple-bar and Charing-crofs : Scar'd at the grizly forms, I fweat, I fly. And fhake all o'er, like adifcover'd Spy. 280 Courts are no match for wits fo weak as mine • Charge them with Heav'n's Artill'ry, bold Divine ! From fuch alone the Great rebukes endure, Whofe Satyr's facred, and whofe rage fecure : * The Room hung with Tapeftry, now very antienr, reprefenting the Sevea Deadly Sins. ■f A Giant famous in divers Romances; 8^ l/^AAT^IVR^-E^S ^'6: F To wajh the Jiains away : Although I yet (With Maccabees modejly) the known merit Of my work lejfen, yet fome wife men fhall, I hope, efieem my Writs Canonical Dr. JOHN DONNE. 87 Tis mine to walh a few flight fl:ains, but theirs 285 To deluge Sin, and drown a Court in tears. Howe'er what's now Apocrypha, my Wit^ In time to come, may pafs for Holy Writ. EPITAPHS B Y Mr. POPE. His fait em accumulem donis, & fungar inani Mmere I Vi r g. EPITAPHS. I. On Sir William Trumbal. One of the Principal Secretaries of State to King Wil- liam III who having rejigned his place, dyed in Us Retirement at Eafthamfted in Berkfhire, 1716. ^m^^m^ Pleafing form ; a firm., yet cau- tious mind, Sincere, tho' prudent, conftant, \ ^Ss ^ fWl yet refign'd ; Honour unchang'd, a principle profeft, Fix'd to one fide, but mod'rate to the reft : A 2 + EPITAPHS. An honeft Courtier, yet a Patriot too, Juft to his Prince, and to his Country true. Fiird with the Senfe of Age, the Fire of Youth ; A fcorn of wrangHng, yet a zeal for truth ; A gen'rous fiith, from fuperftition free ; A love to Peace, and hate of Tyranny; Such this man was ; who now from earth remov'd, At length enjoys that Liberty he lov'd. On Charles Earl of Dorset, In the Church of Knolle in Kent. DO R s E T, the Grace of Courts, the Mufes Pride, Patron of Arts, and Judge of Nature, dy'd ! The Scourge of Pride, tho' fandify'd or great, Of Fops in Learning, and of Knaves in State : E T I T A P H S, 5 Yet foft his Nature, tho' fevere his Lay, His Anger moral, and his Wifdom gay. Bleft Satyrift ! who touch'd the Mean fo true. As fliovv'd, Vice had his Hate and Pity too. Bleft Courtier 1 who could King- and Country pleafe, Yet facred keep his Friend fliips, and his Eafe. Bleft Peer ! his great Forefathers ev'ry Grace Reflecting, and reflected in his Race ; Where other Buckhurfts, other Dorfets ihine. And Patriots ftill, or Poets, deck the Line. EPITAPHS. III. On the Hoji^' Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt: at the Church of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordlhire, 1720. TO this fad Shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near. Here lies the Friend moft lov'd, the Son moft dear: Who ne'er knew Joy, but Friendiliip might divide, Or gave his Father Grief, but when he dy'd. How vain is Reafon, Eloquence how weak I If Pope muft: tell what Harcourt cannot fpeak. Oh let thy once-lov'd Friend infcribe thy Stone, And, with a Father's Sorrows, mix his own ! E T I T A V H S. IV. Intended for Mr. Rowe, In W^eftminjier - Abby. THY reliques, Row e, to this fair Ihrine we truft, And facred, place by Dryden's awful duft : Beneath a * rude and namelefs ftone he lies, To which thy tomb fhall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle iliade, and endlefs reft ! Bleft in thy Genius, in thy Love too bleft ! * The Tomb of Mr. Dryden was erefted upon this Hint by the Duke of Bucking- ham ; to which was originalJy intended this Epitaph. rhis Sheffield rms'd. The facred Duji below Was Dryden once : The refi uho does not knois: ? Which the Author fince chang'd into the plain Infcription now oa it, berng only the Name of that Great Poet, J. D R Y D E N. Nam Aug. 9, 1 63 1. Aloirtuus Maij i, 1701. Johannes Sheffield, Dux Buckinghamienfts, feciil ^f'^-^o 3fl [ 8 EPITAPH S. One grateful woman to thy fame fupplies What a whole thanklefs land to his denies. V. On Mrs. Corbet, Jf^ho dyed of xt Cancer in her Breaji. HERE refts a Woman, good without pretence, Bleft with plain Reafon and with fober Senfe ; No Conquefts llie, but o'er herfelf defir'd, jSTo Arts effay'd, but not to be admir'd. Paflion and Pride were to her foul unknown, Convinced, that Virtue only is our own. So unaffe61;ed, fo compos'd a mind, So firm yet foft, fo ftrong yet fo refin'd, Heav'n, as its pureft Gold, by Tortures try'd ; The Saint fuftain'd it, but the Woman dy'd. EPITAPHS, VI. On the Monument of the Hon^^' Robert Digby, and of his Sifter Mary, erecled hy their Father the Lord Dig by, in the Church of Sherborne in Dorfetihire, 1727. GO I fair Example of untainted Youth, Of modeft wifdom, and pacifick truth : Juft of thy word, in every tTiought fincere, Who knew no wifh but what the world might hear : Of fofteft manners, unafFedled mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Compos'd in fufF'rings, and in joy fedate. Good without noife, without pretenlion great. Go Hve ! for heav'ns Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine. And thou bleft Maid ! attendant on his doom, Penfive haft followed to the filent tomb, Steer'd the fame courfe to the fame quiet iliore. Not parted long, and now to part no more ! B 10 E T I T A T H S. Go then, where only blifs fincere is known, Go, where to love and to enjoy are one. Yet take thefe tears, Mortality's relief. And till we fliare your joys, forgive our grief; Thefe little rites, a Stone, a Verfe, receive, 'Tis all a Father, all a Friend can give ! . VII. On Sir Godfrey Kneller, InWeftminJler'jihhy, 1723. KNeller, by Heav'n and not a Mafter taught, Whofe Art was Nature, and whofe Figures thought ; Now for two ages having fnatch'd from fate "Whate'er was Beauteous, or whatever was Great, Refts crown'd with Princes Honours, Poets Lays, Due to his Merit, and brave Thirft of Praife. E P IT A P H S, II * Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herfelf may die. VI 1 1. On General Henry Withers, In PFeJiminJier ' Jbhy, 1729. HEre Withers reft I thou braveft, gentlcft mind, Thy Country's friend, but more of Human kind. Oh born to Arms ! O Worth m Youth approved ! O foft Humanity, in Age belov'd ! For thee the hardy Vet'ran drops a tear, And the gay Courtier feels the figh fincere. Withers adieu ! yet not with thee remove Thy Martial fpirit, or thy Social love I * Imitated from the famous Efitaph on Raphael. Raphael, timuit quo fofpite, vinci Rerum magna parens, & morieme, mori. B 2 12 EPITAPHS, Amidft corruption, luxury, and rage, Still leave fome ancient virtues to our age : Nor let us fay, (thofe Englifh glories gone) The laft true Briton lies beneath this ftone. IX. On Mr. Elijah Fenton, At Eafthamfted in Berks, 1730. THis modeft Stone what few vain Marbles can May truly fay, here lies an honeft Man. A Poet, bleft beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heav'n kept facred from the Proud and Great. Foe to loud Praife, and Friend to learned Eafe, Content with Science in the Vale of Peace. Calmly he look'd on either Life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear j EPITAPHS: ij From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd , Thank'd Heav'n that he had hv'd, and that he dy'd. X. On Mr. Gay, In Wejim'mjier ' Abbey, 1732, OEvere of Morals, but of Nature mild^ "^ In Wit, a Man ; Simplicity, a Child ; Above Temptation, in a low Eiilate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great; A fafe Companion, and an eafy Friend, Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy End. Thefe are Thy Honors I not that here thy Buft Is mix'd with Heroes, or with Kings thy Duft, But that the Worthy and the Good fhall fay, Striking their penfive bofoms — Here lies Gay. fi>MHnvf P H s. XI "^ Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, Jn WeJiminfier'Jhhey. J[Saacus Newtonius g^tt^;;/ Immortalem Teftantur Tempus, Natura, Ccelum:. Mortalem Hoc Marmor fatetur. Nature, and Natures Laws lay hid in Night. God faid, Let Newton he I and All was JJght, THE D U N C I A D, I N THREE BOOKS, Written in the Year 1727. WITH Notes Variorum, AND THE PROLEGOMENA of SCRIBLERUS. B LETTER to the PUBLISHER, Occafioned by the firft corrcdl Edition of the D U N C I A D. IT is with pleafure I hear that you have procu- red a corred: Copy of the D unci ad, which the many furreptitious ones have rendered fo ne- celTary , and it is yet with more, that I am inform- ed it will be attended with a Commentary: a work fo neceiTary, that I cannot think the Author himfelf would have omitted it, had he approved of the firfl: appearance of this Poem. Such Notes as have occurred to me I herewith fend you ; you will oblige me by inferting them 4. ^LETTER to the amongft thofe which are, or will be, tranfmitced to you by others : lince not only the Author's friends, but even ftrangers, appear ingag'd by humanity, to take fome care of an orphan of fo much genius and fpirit, which its Parent feems to have aban- doned from the very beginning, and fufFered to fhep into the world naked, unguarded, and unat- tended. It was upon reading fome of the abufive papers lately publiili'd, that my great regard to a Perfon whofe friendfliip I lliall ever efteem as one of the chief honours of my life, and a much greater re- fpe6t to Truth than to him or any man living, in- gag'd me in enquiries, of which the inclos'd Notes are the fruit. I perceiv'd, that moft of thefe authors had been (doubtlefs very wifely) the firfh Ag-greiibrs : they had try'd till they were weary, what was to begot by railing at each other ; no body was either con- c^rn'd, or furpriz'd, if this or that Scribler was prov'd a Dunce ; but every one was curious to read what could be faid to prove Mr. Pope one, and was ready to pay fomething for fuch a difcoveryr A ftratagem which wou'd they fairly own, might not only reconcile them to me, but fcreen them from the refentment of their lawful Superiors, whom they daily abufe, only (as I charitably hope) PUBLISHER of the DUNCIAD. 5 to get that by them, which they cannot get from them. I found this was not all : ill fuccefs in that had tranfported them to perfonal abufe, either of him- felf, or (what I think he could lefs forgive) of his friends. They had calfd men of virtue and ho- nour bad Men, long before he had leifurc or in- clination to call them bad Writers : and fome had been fuch old offenders, that he had quite forgot- ten their perfons, as well as their flanders, till they were pleas'd to revive them. Now what had Mr. Pope done before to incenfe them ? he had publilli'd thofe works which are in the hands of every body, in which not the leaft mention is made of any of them : And what has he done fince ? he has laugh'd and written the Dmciad. What has that faid of them ? a very ferious truth which the publick had faid before, that they were dull ; and what it had no fooner faid, but thev themfelves were at great pains to pro- cure or even purchafe room in the prints, to teftify under their hands to the truth of it. I fnould ftill have been iilcnt, if either I had feen any inclination in my friend to be ferious with fuch accufers, or if they had only attack'd his wri- tings : fince whoever publifhes, puts himfelf on his tryal by his country. But when his moral chara- 6 J LETTER to the 6ler was attack'd^and in a manner from which neither Truth nor virtue can fecure the moft innocent, in a manner which though it annihilates the credit of the accufation with the juft and impartial, yet ag- gravates \ery much the guilt of the accufer, (I mean by authors without names :) then I thought, iince the danger was common to all, the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an a61: of juftice to dete6]: the Authors not only on this account, but as many of them are the fame, who for feveral years paft have made free with the greatefl: Names in Church and State, expos'd to the world the private misfortunes of families, abus'd all even to Women, and whofe proftituted papers for one or other Party, in the unhappy divifions of their Country, have infulted the Fallen, the Friendlefs, the Exil'd, and the Dead. Belldes this, which I take to be a publick con- cern, I have already confefs'd I had a private one. I am one of that number who haye long lov'd and efteem'd Mr. Pope, and had often decla- red it was not only as a Writer (which we ever thought the leaft valuable part of his character) but as an honeft, open, and beneficent Man, that we efteem'd and lov'd him. Now if what thefe people fay were believ'd, I muft appear to all my friends either a fool or a knave, either impos'd PUBLISHER of the DUNCIAD. 7 on my felf, or impofing- on them : So that I am as much interefted in the confutation of thefe cakim- nies, as he is himfelf I am no Author, and confequently not to be fufpe6ted either of jealoufy or refentment againft any of the men, of whom fcarce one is known to me by fight, and as for their writings, I have fought them (on this one occalion) in vain, in the clofets and libraries of all my acquaintance. I had ftill been in the dark, if a Gentleman had not pro- cur'd me (I fuppofe from fome of themfelves, for they are generally much more dangerous friends than enemies) the paflages I fend you. I folemnly proteft I have added nothing to the malice or ab- surdity of them, which it behoves me to declare, fmce the vouchers themfelves will be fo foon and fo irrecoverably loft. You may in fome meafure prevent it, by preferving at leaft their ^ Titles, and difcovering (as far as you can depend on the truth of your information) the names of the con- cealed authors. The firft objedion I have heard made to the Poem is, that the perfons are too objcure for Sa- tyr. The perfons themfelves, rather than allow the objedion, would forgive the Satyr ; and if one could be tempted to afford it a ferious anfwer, were * Which we have done in a Lift in the Appendix. 8 y/ L E T T E R to the not all affaflinates, popular infuiTe61:ions,the infolence of the rabble without doors and of domefticks with- in, moft wrongfully chafliized, if the Meannefs of offenders indemnified them from puniiliment ? On the contrary, obfcurity renders them more dangerous, as lefs thought of : Law can pronounce judgment only on open fadts, Morality alone can pafs cen- fure on intentions of mifchief ; fo that for fecret calumny or the arrow flying in the dark, there is no pubiick punifliment left but what a good wri- ter infli(Surelign, that no fpev!:lator lliall be drown 'd G 2 ^4 The DUNCIAD. BookIL A fecond effort brought but new difgrace, The wild M;^ander walli'd the artift's face ; Thus the fmall jett which hafty hands unlock, Spirts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock, i?^ Not fo from iliamelefs Curl : impetuous fpread The ftream, and fmoaking flourilh'd o'er his head. So, (fam'd like thee for turbulence and horns,) Eridanus his humble fountain fcorns, Thro' half the heav'ns he pours th' exalted urn ; 175 His rapid waters in their paffage burn. Swift as it mounts, all follow with their eyes; Still happy Impudence obtains the prize. Thou triumph'ft, vi6lor of the high- wrought day, And the pleas'd dame, foft-fmiling, lead'fl: away. 1 8 o Chapman, thro' perfect modefty o'ercome, Crown'd with the Jordan, walks contented home. But now for Authors nobler palms remain : Room for my Lord ! three Jockeys in his train ; Six huntfmen with a lliout precede his chair ; i S5 He grins, and looks broad nonfenfe with a flare. Book II n^ D U N C I A D. 25 His hoiiour'd meaning, Dulnefs thus expreft ; " He wins this Patron who can tickle beft." He chinks his purfe, and takes his feat of ftate : With ready quills the Dedicators wait ; 19^ Now at his head the dextrous task commence, And mftant, fancy feels th' imputed fenfe ; Now gentle touches wanton o'er his face, He ftruts Adonis, and affedls grimace: Rolli the feather to his ear conveys, 195 Then his nice tafte diredls our Operas : B y his mouth with Claflic flatt'ry opes, And the pufF'd Orator burfts out in tropes. But Welfted moft, the Poet's healing balm. Strives to extradl from his foft, giving, palm ; 2c o Unlucky Welfted ! thy unfeeling mafter The more thou tickleft, gripes his fift the fafter. While thus each hand promotes the pleafmg pain, And quick fenfations skip from vein to vein, A youth unknown to Phoebus, in defpair, 205 Puts his kfc refuge all in Heav'n and Pray'r. 26 The D UNCI AD. Book II. What force have pious vows ? the Queen of Love His Sifter fends, her vot'refs, from above. As taught by Venus, Paris learnt the art To touch Achilles' only tender part ; 21c Secure, thro' her, the noble prize to carry, He marches off, his Grace's Secretary. Now turn to diff 'rent fports (the Goddefs cries) And learn, my fons, the wond'rous pow'r of Noife. To move, to raife, to ravifh ev'ry heart, 215 With Sliakefpear's nature, or with Johnfon's art, Let others aim : 'Tis yours to lliake the foul With thunder rumbling from the muftard-bowl, With horns and trumpets now to madnefs fwell, Now fink in forrows with a tolling bell. 220 Such happy arts attention can command, When fancy flags, and fenfe is at a ftand. Improve we thefe. Three cat-calls be the bribe Of him, whofe chatt'ring lliames the Monkey tribe ; And his this Drum, whofe hoarfe heroic bafe 225 Drowns the loud clarion of the braying Afs. Book II. The D U N CI A D. 27 Now thoufand tongues are heard in one loud din : The Monkey-mimicks rulh difcordant in. 'Twas chatt'ring, grinning, mouthing, jabb'ring all, And Noife, and Norton, Brangling, and Breval, 230 Dennis and Diffbnance ; and captious Art, And Snip-fnap fhort, and Interruption fmart. Hold (cry 'd the Queen) a Catcall each lliall win, Equal your merits ! equal is your din 1 But that this well-difputed game may end, 239 Sound forth, my Brayers, and the welkin rend. As when the long-ear'd milky mothers wait At fome lick mifer's triple-bolted gate, For their defrauded, abfent foals they make A moan fo loud, that all the Guild awake, 240 Sore iighs Sir G =^ * ftarting at the bray From dreams of millions, and three groats to pay ! So fwells each Windpipe \ Afs intones to Afs, Harmonic twang ! of leather, horn, and brafs : Such, as from lab'ring lungs th' Enthuliaft blows. High found, attempered to the vocal nofe. 246 28 The D U N C I A D. Book II. But far o'er all fonorous Blackmore's ftrain, Walls, fteeples, skies, bray back to-him again : In Tot'nam fields, the brethren with amaize Prick all their ears up, and forget to graze ; 250 Long Chanc'ry-lane retentive rolls the found, And courts to courts return it round and round : Thames wafts it thence to Rufus' roaring hall, And Hungerford re-ecchoes, bawl for bawl. All hail him vidor in both gifts of Song, 255 Who fings fo loudly, and who fings fo long. This labour paft, by Bridewell all defcend, (As morning-pray'r and flagellation end.) To where Fleet-ditch with difemboguing ftreams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, 260 The King of Dykes ! than whom no fluice of mud With deeper fable blots the filver flood. ^ Here flrip, my children 1 here at once leap in ! " Here prov-e who befl can dafli thro' thick and thin, " And who the moft in lo\ e of dirt excel, 265 ^' Or dark dexterity of groping well. Book II. The D U N C I A D. 2p " Who flings moft filth, and wide pollutes around "Theflream, be his the Weekly Journals, bound; " A pig of lead to him who dives the bell : " A peck of coals a-piece fliall glad the reft. 270 In naked majefty Oldmixon ftands, And, Milo-like, furveys his arms and hands, Then fighing, thus. " And am I now threefcore ? " Ah why, ye Gods I Ihould two and two make four? He faid, and climb'd a ftranded Lighter's height, Shot to the black abyfs, and plung'd down-right. 276 The Senior's judgment all the crowd admire, Who but to link the deeper, rofe the higher. Next Smed ley div'd ; flow circles dimpled o'er The qu aking mud, th at clos'd, and ope'd no more. 280 All look, all figh, and call on Smedley loft ; Smedley in vain refounds thro' all the coaft. Then P * * elTav'd : fcarce vaniili'd out of fiaht He buoys up inftant, and returns to light ; He bears no token of the fabler ftreams, ^^^5 And mounts far off, among the fwans of Thames. H 30 The D U N C I A D. Book II. True to the bottom, fee Concanen creep, A cold, long-winded, native of the deep. If Perfeverance gain the Diver's prize, Not everlafting Blackmore this denies. ^9^ No noife, no ftir, no motion can'ft thou make, Th' unconfcious flood fleeps o'er thee like a lake. Not fo bold Arnall : with a weight of fcull, Furious he finks, precipitately dull Whirlpools and ftorms his circUng arm inveft, 295 With all the might of gravitation bleft. No Crab more a^ive in the dirty dance. Downward to climb, or backward to advance. He brings up half the bottom on his head, . And boldly claims the Journals and the Lead. 3'='^ Sudden, a burft of thunder fliook the flood. Lo Smedley rofe, in majefty of mud ! Shaking the horrors of his ample brows. And each ferocious feature grim with ooze. Greater he looks, and more than mortal ftares ; Z^^ Then thus the wonders of the deep declares. Book 11. The DUN CI AD. 31 Fiift he relates, how finking to the chin, Smit with his mien, the Mud-£'virphs fuck'd him in: How young Lutetia, fofter than the down, Nigrina black, and Merdamante brown, 3i«> Vy'd for his love in jetty bow'rs below, As Hylas fair was ravifli'd long ago. Then fung, how fliown him by the nu thrown Maids, A branch of Styx here rifes from the Shades, That tindur'd as it runs with Lethe's ftreams, zis And wafting vapours from the Land of Dreams, (As under feas Alphaeus' facred fluice Bears Pifa's offerings to his Arethufe) Pours into Thames : Each city -bowl is full Of the mix'd wave, and all who drink, grow dull 320 How to the banks where bards departed doze, They led him foft ; how all the bards arofe ; Taylor, fweet Swan of Thames, majeftic bows. And Shadwell nods the poppy on his brows : While Milbourn there, deputed by the reft, 32? Gave him the caflbck, furcingle, and vefr : H 2 32 n^ D U N C I A D. Book II. And "take (hefaid) thefe robes which once were mine, " Dulnefs is facred in a found Divine. He ceas'd, and fhow'd the robe ; the crowd confefs The rev'rend Flamen in his lengthened drefs. 330 Slow moves the Goddefs from the fable flood, (Her Prieft preceding) thro' the gates of Lud. Her Critics there llie fummons, and proclames A gentler exercife to clofe the games. Hear you ! in whole grave heads^ as equal fcales, I weigh what author's heavinefs prevails, 336 Which moft conduce to footh the foul in llumbers, My H^wley's periods, or my Blackmore's numbers ? Attend the trial we propofe to make : If there be man who o'er fuch works can wake, 340 Sleep's all-fubduing charm who dares defy. And boafts UlylTes' ear with Argus' eye ; To him we grant our ample pow'rs to lit Judge of all prefent, paft, and future wit, To cavil, cenfure, dictate, right or wrong, 345 Full, and eternal privilege of tongue. Book II. The DUIS^ CI A D. 33 Three Cambridge Sophs and three pert Templers The fame their talents, and their taftes the fame, [came. Each prompt to query, anfwer, and debate, And fmit with love of Poefy, and Prate. 350 The ponderous books two gentle readers bring ; The heroes lit ; the vulgar form a rin^. The clam'rous crowd is hufh'd with mugs of Mum, 'Till all tun'd equal, fend a general hum. Then mount the clerks ; and in one la2:y tone 355 1 hro' the long, heavy, painful page, drawl on ; Soft, creeping words on words, the fenfe compofe, At evVy line, they ftretcl\ they yawn, they doze. As to foft gales top-heavy pines bow low Their heads, and lift them as they ceafe to blow ; 3^^ Thus oft they rear, and oft the head decline. As breathe, or paufe, by fits, the airs divine : And now to this fide, now to that, they nod^ As verfe, or profe^ infufe the drowzy God. Thrice Budgel aim'd to fpeak. but thrice foppreft 3^5 By potent Arthur, knock'd his chin and breaft. 34- T^'^ DUNCIAD. BookH. Toland and Tindal, prompt at Pndls to jeer, Yet filent bow'd to Chrill's No kingdom here. Who fate the neareft, by the words o'ercome Slept firft, the diftant nodded to the hum. 37° Then down are roU'd the books ; ftretch'd o'er^em lies Each gentle clerk, and mutt 'ring feals his eyes. As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle firft, and then a fecond makes ; What Dulnefs dropt among her fons, impreft 37S Like motion, from one circle to the reft ; So from the mid-moft the nutation fpreads. Round, and more round, o'er all the fea of heads. At laft Centlivre felt her voice to fail, Motteux himfelf unfiniih'd left his tale, 3^^ Boyer the State, and Law the Stage gave o'er. Nor Kelfey talk'd, nor Nafo whifper'd more ; Norton, from Daniel and Oftr^ea fprung, Bleft with his father's front, and mother's tongue, Ev'nArnall, hung the never-blufhing head; 385 And all was huili'd, as Folly's felf lav dead. Book IL The DUN CI AD, 35 Thus the foft gifts of Sleep conclude the day, And ftretch'd on bulks, as ufual, Poets lay. Why fhould I ling what bards the nightly Mufe Did flumb'ring vifit, and convey to Hews, 39© Who prouder march'd, with magiftrates in ftate To fome fam'd round-houfe, ever open gate ! How Laurus lay infpir'd befide a fink, And to mere mortals feem'd a Prieft in drink ? While others timely to the neighbouring Fleet 395 (Haunt of the Mufes) made their fafe retreat. 3/\t'Vi .. The North by myriads pours her mighty fons, Great nurfe of Goths, of Alans, and of Huns. See Alaric's fl:ern portl the martial frame Of Genferic, and Attila's dread name ! See, the bold Oflirogoths on Latium fall; 8^ See, the fierce A^iligoths on Spain and Gaul ! Book HI. The D U N C I A D. 41 See, where the Morning- gilds the pahiiy Ihore, fThe foil that arts and infant letters bore) His conqu'ring" tribes th' Arabian prophet draws, And faving Ignorance enthrones by Laws. ^ , ..99 See Chriftians, Jews, one heavy fabbath keep,;.- Her gray4iair'd Synods damning hooks unread, gS And Bacon trembUng for his bra2.en head- Padua with fighs beholds her Livy burn-j ,/i;j ^jri |" And ev'n th' Antipodes Vigilius mourn. See, the Cirque falls 1 th' unpillar'd Temple nods, Streets pav'd with Heroes, Tyber choak'd with Gods I Till Peter's keys fome chriften'd Jove adorn, ^^i And Pan to Mofes lends his pagan horn; See gracelefs Venus to a Virgin turn'd, Or Phidias broken, and Apelles burn'd. '-Behold yon' lile, by Palmers, Pilgrims trod, 105 Men bearded, bald, cowl'd, uncowl'd, fliod, unlliod, ^2 ne D U N C I A D. Book III. Peel'd, patch'd, and pyebald, linfey-woolfey brothers, Grave mummers 1 lleevelefs fome, and ihirtlefs others. That once was Britain — Happy ! had ftie feen No fiercer fons, had Eafter never been. no In peace, great Goddefs ! ever be ador'd ; How keen the war, if DuUiefs draw the fword ! Thus viiit not thy own 1 on this bleft age Oh fpread thy Influence, but reftrain thy Rage, And fee my fon, the hour is on its way ^ ^ 5 That lifts our Goddefs ro imperial fway : This fav'rite Ifle; long fever'd from her reign, Dove-like, Ihe gathers to her wings again. Now look thro' Fate I behold the fcene flie draws ! What aids, what armies, to aflert her caufe! 120 See all her progeny, illuftrious light! Behold, and count them, as they rife to light. As Berecynthia, while her offspring vye In homage to the Mother of the sky. Surveys around her in the bleft abode 125 A hundred fons, and ev'ry fon a God : Book III. The DV N CI AD. 43 Not with lefs glory mighty Dulnefs crowii'd Shall take thro' Grubftreet her triumphant round, And her Parnaflbs glancing o'er at once, Behold a hundred fons, and each a dunce. 13® Mark firft the youth who takes the foremoft place. And thrufts his perfon full into your face. With all thy Father's virtues bleft, be born 1 And a new Gibber fliall the ftage adorn. A fecond fee, by meeker manners known, 13^ And niodeft as the maid that lips alone : From the ftrong fete of drams if thou get free, Another Durfey, Ward ! Ihall fing in thee. For thee each Ale-houfe, thee each Gill-houfe mourn. And anfw ring Gin-lhops fowrer lighs return. 140 Lo next two ilip-lhod Mufes traipfe along, In lofty madncfs, meditating fong, With trefles ftaring from poetic dreams. And never wafh'd, but in Caftalia's ftreams: Haywood^ Centlivre, glories of their race I 145 I.o Homeck's fierce, and Roome's funereal face : 44- The D U N C I A D. Book III. Lo fneering Goode, half malice and half whim, A Fiend in glee, ridiculouily grim. Jacob, the fcourge of Grammar, mark with awe, Nor lefs revere him, blunderbufs of Law. i5<5 Lo Bond and Foxton, evVy namelefs name, AH crowd who foremoft lliall be damn'd to Fame. Some ftrain in rhyme, the Mufes on their racks Scream like the winding of ten thoufand jacks : Some, free from rhyme or reafon, rule or check, ^SS Break Prifcian's head, and Pegafiis's neck ; Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars and the Miltons of a Curl. Silence, ye Wolves 1 while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes Night hideous - Anfwer him, ye Owls ! 1 60 Senfe, fpeech, and meafure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read. Flow Welfted, flow 1 like thine infpirer. Beer, Tho' ftale, not I'ipe ; tho' thin, yet never clear ; So fweetly mawkilli, and fo fmoothly dull; i^5 Heady, not ftrong, and foaming tho' not full. Book III. n^ D U N C I A D. 45 Ah Dennis 1 Gilclon ah ! what ill-ftarr'd rage Divides a friendlliip long confirmed by age ? Blockheads with reafon wicked wits abhor, But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war. 170 Embrace, embrace my fons I be foes no more I Nor glad vile Poets with true Critic's gore. Behold yon Pair, in ftri6l embraces join'd ; How like in manners, and how like in mind ! Fam'd for good-nature, Burnet, and for truth ; 175 Ducket, for pious paflion to the youth. Equal in wit, and equally polite, Shall this a Pafquin, that a Grumbler write. Like are their merits, like rewards they fhare, That fliines a Conful, this Commiffioner. 180 " But who is he, in clofet clofe y-pent, " Of fober face, with learned dud befprent ? Right well mine eyes arede the myfter wight, On parchment fcraps y-fed, and Wormiiis hight. To future ages may thy dulnefs laft, i S5 As thou preferv'ft the dulnefs of the paft ! K 46 n^ D U N C I A D. Book III. There, dim in clouds, the poreing Scholiafts mark, Wits who hke Owls fee only in the dark, A Lumberhoufe of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read. 190 But, where each Science lifts its modern Type, Hift'ry her Pot, Divinity his Pipe, While proud Philofophy repines to fliow Diihoneft light 1 his breeches rent below ; Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo Henley Hands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. 19^ How fluent nonfenfe trickles from his tongue 1 How fweet the periods, neither faid nor fung ! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy ftrain. While Kennet, Hare, and Gibfon, preach in vaia 20c Oh great Reftorer of the good old Stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age ! Oh worthy thou of ^Egypt's wife abodes,. A decent Prieft, where Monkeys were the Gods! But fate with Butchers plac'd thy prieftly Stall, 205 Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and mawl ; Book II. The D U N CI A D. 47 And bade thee live, to crown Britannia's praife, In Toland's, Tindal's, and in Woolfton's days. Yet oh my fons 1 a father's words attend : (So may the fates preferve the ears ye lend) 210 'Tis yours, a Bacon or a Locke to blame, A Newton's Genius, or a Milton's flame : But oh ! with one, immortal One difpenfe. The fource of Newton^'s Light, of Bacon's Senfe : Content, each Emanation of his fires 215 That beams on earth, each Virtue he infpires, Each Art he prompts, each charm he can create, What-e'er he gives, are giv'n for You to hate. Perfift, by all divine in Man un-aw'd, But learn, ye Dunces 1 not to fcorn your God. 220 Thus he, for then a ray of Reafon ftole Half thro' the folid darknefs of his Ibul ; But foon the cloud return'd — and thus the Sire : See now what Dulnefs and her fons admii'e ! See what the charms, that fmite the fimple heart 225 Not touch'd by Nature, and not reach'd by Art K 2 48 n^ D U N C I A D. Book III Helook'd, and faw a fable Sorc'rer rife, Swift to whofe hand a winged volume flies: All fudden, Gorgons hifs, and Dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and Giants rulli to war: 230 Hell rifes, heav'n defcends, and dance on earth ; Gods, imps, and monfters ; mufick, rage, and mirth ; A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide Conflagration fvvallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown^ Breaks out refulgent, with a heav'n its own : 236 Another Cynthia her new journey runs^ And other planets circle other funs : The forefts dance, the rivers upward rife, Whales fport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; 240 And laft, to give the whole creation grace, Lo 1 one vaft Egg produces human race. Joy flfls his foul, joy innocent of thought : [wrought .? ''What pow'r, he cries, what pow'r thefe wonders Son 1 what thou feekTt is in thee. Look, and find 245 Each monfter meet his Jikenefs in thy mind.. Book IIL The D U N C I A D. 49 Yet would'il: thou more ? In yonder cloud, behold ! Whofe farcenet skirts are edg'd with flamy gold, A matchlefs Youth : His nod thefe worlds controlls, Wings the red hghtning, and the thunder rolls. : 250 Angel of Dulnefs, fent to fcatter round Her magic charms o'er all unclaflic ground : Yon ftars, yon funs, he rears- at pleafure higher, Illumes their light, and fets their flames on fire. Immortal Rich ! how calm he fits at eafe. 255 Mid fnows of paper, and fierce hail of peafe ;^ And proud his miflirefs' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the ftorm. But lo 1 to dark encounter in mid air New wizards rife : here Booth, and Gibber there 1260 Booth in his cloudy tabernacle flirin'd. On grinning dragons Gibber mounts the wind. Dire is tlie conflict, difmal is the din, Here fliouts all Drury, there all Lincoln's Inn ; Gontendmg Theatres our empire raife, 265 Alike their labours, and alike their praife. ^o n^ D U N C I A D. Book III, And are thefe wonders, Son, to thee unknown ? Unknown to thee? thefe wonders are thy own. For works hke thefe let death) efs Journals tell ''None but thy felf can be thy < parallel." 270 Thefe, Fate referv'd to grace thy reign divine, Forefeen by me, but ah! with-held from mine. In Lud's old walls tho' long I rul'd renown'd, Far as loud Bow's ftupendous bells refound ; Tho' my own Aldermen conferr'd my bays, 275 To me committing their eternal praife, Their full-fed Heroes, their pacific May'rs, Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars : , Tho' long my Party built on me ^ their hopes. For writing pamphlets, and for burning- Popes ; ^S^ (Diif 'rent our parties, but with equal grace The Goddefs fmiles on Whig- and Tory race, 'Tis the fame rope at feveral eJids they twift. To Dulnefs, Ridpath is as dear as Mift.) Yet lo 1 in me what authors have to brag on, 285 Reduc'd at laft to hifs in my own dragon. Book III. The D U N C I A D. 51 Avert it, heav'nl that thou or Gibber e'er Should wag two ferpent tails in Smithfield fair. Like the vile ftraw that's blown about the ftreets The needy Poet fticks to all he meets, 290 Coach'd, carted, trod upon, now loofe, now faft, And carry 'd ofF in fome Dog's tail at laft. Happier thy fortunes! like a rolling ftone,. Thy giddy dulnefs ftill may lumber on,. Too fafe in inborn heavinefs to ftray ; 295: And lick up every blockhead in the way. Thy dragons, Magiftrates and Peers Ihall tafte. And from each fliow rife duller than the laft. . 'Till rais'd from Booths, to Theatre, to Court,, Her feat imperial, Dulnefs fhall tranfport. 300 Already Opera prepares the way, The fure fore-runner of her gentle fway. To aid her caufe, if heav'n thou can'ft not bend, Hell thou Ihalt move, for Fauftus is thy friend; Pluto with Cato thou for her llialt join, Z^S And link the Mourning-Bride to Proferpine. 52 r/)f D U N C I A D. BoooklJI. Grubftreet 1 thy fall Ihould men and Gods confpire, Thy ftage fliall ftand, enfure it but from Pire. Another ^fchylus appears I prepare For new abortions, all ye pregnant Fair ! In flames, like Semeles, he brought to bed, 3ic While opening Hell fpouts wild-lire at your head. Now Bavius, take the poppy from thy brow, And place it here ! here all ye Heroes bow ! This, this is He, foretold by ancient rhymes, Th' Auguftus, born to bring Saturnian times : 3 15 Beneath his reign fhall Eufden wear the bays, Gibber prelide Lord-Chancellor of Plays, Benfon fole Judge of Architedure fit, And Namby Pamby be prefer'd for Wit. While naked mourns the Dormitory wall, 320 And Jones and Boyle's united labours fall ; While Wren with forrow to the grave defcends, Gay dies un-penfion'd with a hundred friends, Hibernian Politicks, O Swift, thy doom, 325 And Pope's^tranilating three whole years with Broome. Book III. The DUii CIA D. 55 Proceed great days ! till Learning fly the Ihore, Till Birch Ihall blufh with noble blood no more, Till Thames fee Eton's fons for ever play ; Till Weftminfter's whole year be holiday ; 330 Till Ifis' Elders reel, their Pupils fport ; And Alma Mater lye dilTolv'd in Port ! Signs following figns lead on the Mighty Year ; See ! the dull ftars roll round and re-appean She comes 1 the Cloud-compelling Pow'r, behold ! 335 With Night primaeval, and with Chaos old. Lo the great Anarch's ancient reign reftor'd ; Light dies before her uncreating word : As one by one, at dread Medina's ftrain, The fick'ning ftars fade off th' Ethereal plain ; 3^0 As Argus' eyes, by Hennes' wand oppreft, Clos'd one by one to everkfting reft ; Thus at her felt approach, and fecret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night. See fculking Truth in her old cavern lye, 345 Secur'd by mountains of heap'd Cafuiftry : L 54 nrDUNCIAD. Book III. Philofophy, that touch'd the Heav'ns before, Shrinks to her hidden caufe, and is no more : See Phyiic beg the Stagyrite's defence! See Metaphyfic call for aid on Sence 1 35© See Myftery to Mathematicks fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Thy hand, great Dulnefs ! lets the curtain fall, And univerfal Darknefs buries all. Enough I enough ! the raptur'd Monarch cries ; And thro' the Ivory Gate the Villon flies. 355 ^^ 55 * .1^ * .?■ .«• .*. S' -t •1- * * * * ■?■ *• -t- -i- •,*• -t' * * ■*• * A .f- .1>- .*. .?. .». -t. •■ ■>. .*, *. .$. .». .». .* .*. By the Author DECLARATION. I? ^ Cl or fhe founding variety of the numbers ? But when I " find all thefe meet, it puts me in mind of what the poet fays of " one of his heroes : That he alone rais'd and flung with eafe, a " weighty flone, that two common men could not lift from the " ground ; jufl: fo, one fingle perfon has performed in this tranf- " lation, what I once defpaired to have feen done by the force of " feveral maflerly hands." Indeed the fame gentleman appears to have chang'd his fentiment, in his EfTay on the Art of finking w 111 his Eflays, vol. I, printed for E. Curl. x Cenfor, vol. 2. N' jj. PROLEGOMENA. 73 in reputation, (printed in Mift's Journal, March 30, 1728.) where he fays thus : " In order to fink in reputation, let him take it into " his Iiead to defcend into Homer (let the world wonder, as it " will, how the devil he got there) and pretend to do him into " Englifh, fo his veriion denote his negled of the manner how." Strange Variation ! We are told in Mist's Journal, June 8^ " That this Translation of the Iliad, was not in all refpecSls con- *' formable to the fine tafte of his friend Mr. Addifon : Infomuch, " that he employ'd a younger mufe, in an undertaking of this " kind, which he fupervis'd himfelf." Whether Mr. Addifon did find it conformable to his tafte, or not^ beft appears from his own teftimony the year following its publication, in thefe words, Mr. Addison, Freeholder, N° 40. " When I confider my felf as a Britifh freeholder, I am in a " particular manner pleafed with the labours of thofe who have " improved our language, with the tranflation of old Greek and ** Latin authors : We have already moft of their Hiftorians in *' our own tongue, and what is more for the honour of our lan- " guage, it has been taught to exprefs with elegance the greateft " of their Poets in each nation. The illiterate among our own *' countrymen may learn to judge from Dryden s Virgil, of the *' moft perfect Epic performance. And thofe parts of Homer " which have been publifh'd already by Mr. Pope, give us reafon " to think that the Iliad will appear in Englifh with as little difad- " vantage to that immortal poem." As to the reft, there is a flight miftake, for this younger Mufe was elder : Nor was the gentleman (who is a friend of our author} employ'd by Mr. Addifon to tranflate it after him, fince he faitli himlelf that he did it before ^ Contrariwife, that Mr. Addifon 7. Vid. Pref. to Mr. Tickel's Tranr.ation of the firft Book of the Iliad, 410, 74 M. SCRIBLERUS his ingaged our author in this work, appeareth by declaration thereof in the preface to the IHad, printed fome years before his death, and by his own letters of Od. 26, and Nov. 2, 171 3, where he declares it is his opinion that no other perfon was equal to it. Next comes his Shakefpear on the ftage. Let him (quoth one whom I take to be Mr. Theobald) Mifl's Journal, March 30, 1728, " publilh fuch an author as he has leaft ftudied, and forget to dif- " charge even the dull duty of an editor. In this projedt let hira " lend the bookfeller his name (for a competent fum of money " tho') to promote the credit of an exorbitant fubfcription.'* Gentle reader, be pleas'd but to caft thine eye on the Propofal below quoted, and on what follows (fome months after the for- mer affertion) in the fame Journalift of June 8. " The book- " feller propos'd the book by fubfcription, and rais'd fome thou- " fands of pounds for the fame : I believe the gentleman did not " fhare in the profits of this extravagant Subfcription. " After the Iliad, he undertook (faith Mist's Journal, ibid.) " the fequel of that work, the Odyffey : and having fecurM the " fuccefs by a numerous fubfcription, he imployed fome'Under- " lings to perform what, according to his proposals, fhould come " from his own hands." To which heavy charge we can in truth oppofe nothing but the words of Mr. Pope's Proposal for the Odyssey, (printed by J. Watts, Jan. 10, 1724.) " I take this occasion to " declare that the Subfcription for Shakefpear belongs wholly to " Mr. Tonfon : And that the benefit of this Propofal is not folely " for my own ufe, but for that of Two of my friends, who have " afTifted me in this work." But thefe very gentlemen are ex- PROLEGOMENA. 75 tolled above our Poet himfelf, by another of Mift's Journals, March 30, 1728, faying, " That he would not advife Mr. Pope " to try the experiment again, of getting a great part of a book " done by AfTiftants, leaft thofe extraneous parts fhould unh'appi- *' ly afcend to the fublime, and retard the declenfion of the " whole." Behold ! thefe Underlings are become good writers ! If any fay, that before the faid propofals were printed, the Sub- fcription was begun without declaration of fuch Afliftance ; ve- rily thofe who fet it on foot, or (as their term is) fecur'd it, to wit the right Honourable the Lord Vifcount Harcourt, were he li- ving would teftify, and the right Honourable the Lord Bathurft now living doth teftify, the fame is a Falfhood. Sorry, 1 am, that perfons profeffing to be learned, or of what- ever rank of Authors, fhould either falfely tax, or be falfely tax- ed. Yet let us, who are only reporters, be impartial in our cita- tions and proceed. Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728. " Mr. Addifon rais'd this Author from obfcurity, obtained him " the acquaintance and friendfhip of the whole body of our no- *' bility, and transferr'd his powerful interefts with thofe great men " to this rifing Bard, who frequently levied by that means unu- " fual contributions on the publick." Which furely cannot be, if, as the author of Dunciad differed reporteth, " Mr. Wychcrley " had before introduced him into a familiar acquaintance with the " greateft Peers and brighteft Wits then living." " No fooner (faith the fame Journalift) was his body Hfelefs, but " this author, reviving his refcntment, libell'd the memory of his " departed friend, and what was ftill more heinous, made the " fcandal publick." Grievous the accui^ition ! unknown tiie ac- cufer ! the perfon accufed no witnefs in his own caufe, tiie per- fon in whofe regard accused, dead ! But if there be living any one nobleman whofe fricndfbip, yea any one gentleman whofe fub- 76 M. SCRIBLKRUS his fcrlptlon Mr. Addifon procur'd to our author ; let Jhim ftand forth that truth may appear ! " Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, fed ma- " gis arnica Veritas." In verity the whole ftory of the libel is a Lye "; Witnefs thofe perfons of integrity, who feveral years before Mr. Addifon's deceafe, did fee and approve of the faid verfes, in no wife a libel but a friendly rebuke, fent privately by our au- thor in his own hand to Mr. Addifon himfelf, and never made publick till after their own Journals, and Curl their own book- feller, had printed the fame. One name alone which I am au- thorized here to mention, will fufficiently evince this truth, that of the right Honourable the Earl of Burlington. Next is he taxed with a crime, (with fome authors I doubt, more heinous than any in morality] • to wit Plagiarifm, from the inventive and quaint-con<:eited James Moore Smith, Gent. J " Upon reading the third volume of Pope's Mifcellanies, I " found five lines which I thought excellent, and happening to " praife them, a gentleman produced a modern comedy (the Ri- " val Modes) publifhed laft year, where were the fame verfes to " a tittle. Thefe gentlemen are undoubtedly the firft plagiaries " that pretend to make a reputation by ftealing from a man's " works in his own life-time, and out of a publick priut." Let us join to this, what is written by the author of the Rival Modes the faid Mr. James Moore Smith in a letter to our author him- felf, (who had informed him, a month before that play was acled, Jan. 27. 1726-7. that thefe verfes which he had before given him leave to infert in it, would be known for his, fome copies being got abroad) " He defires neverthelefs, that fince the Lines *' had been read iia his Comedy to feveral, Mr. P. would not de- " prive it of them, &c." Surely if we add the teftirnonies of the Lord Bolingbroke, of the Lady to whom the faid verfes were a Daily Journal, March 18, 1728. P R O L E G G M E N A. 77 originally addreft, of Hugh Bethel, Efq; and others who knew them as our author's long before the faid gentleman compofed his play ; It is hoped, the ingenuous that afted not error, will rectify their opinion by the fuffrage of fo honourable perfo- nages. And yet followeth another charge, infinuating no lefs than his enmity both to church and ftate, which could come from no other Informer than the faid Mr. James Moore Smith. '' ** The Memoirs of a Parifh dark was a very dull and unjuft " abufe of a perfon who wrote in defence of our Religion and " and Conftitution, and who has been dead many years." Ve- rily this alfo feemeth moft untrue ; it being known to divers that thefe memoirs were written at the feat of the Lord Harcourt in Oxfordfhire before that excellent Perfon (Bifhop Burnet's) death, and many years before the appearance of that Hiftory of which they are pretended to be an abufe. Moft true it is, that Mr. Moore had fuch a defign, and was himfelf the man who preft Dr. Ar- buthnot and Mr. Pope to afTift him therein ; and that he bor- row'd thofe memoirs of our author when that hiftory came forth, with intent to turn them to fuch abufe. But being able to ob- tain from our author but one fingle hint, and either changing' his mind, or having more mind than ability, he contented himfelf to keep the faid memoirs and read them as his own to all his acquaintance. A noble Perfon there is, into whofc company Mr. Pope once chanced to introduce him, who well remembreth the converfation of Mr. Moore to have turned upon the " con- " tempt he had for tlie work of that reverend prelate, and how " full he was of a deftgn he declared himfelf to have, of expofing " it." This noble Perfon is the Earl of Peterborow. Here in truth fhould we crave pardon of all the forefaid right b Dailv lournal, April 3, i;;S. o 78 M. SCRIBLERUS his honourable and worthy perfonages, for having mention'd them in the fame page with fuch weekly riff-rafF railers and rhymers ; but that we had their own ever-honour'd commands for the fame, and that they are introduc'd not as witneffes in the controvcrfy, but as witneffes that cannot be controverted ; not to difpute, but to decide. Certain it is, that dividing our writers into two claffes, of fuch who were acquaintance, and of fuch who were ftrangers to our author ; the former are thofe who fpeak well, and the other thofe who fpeak evil of him. Of the firft clafs, the moft noble John Duke of Buckingham fums up his perfonal charadler in thefe lines, " And yet fo wond'rous, fo fublime a thing. As the great Iliad, fcarce fhould make me Ung, Unlefs I juftly could at once commend A good companion, and as firm a friend ; One moral, or a meer well-natur'd deed. Can all defert in fciences exceed. So alfo is he decypher'd by the honourable Simon Harcourt. ^ Say, wond'rous youth, what column wilt thou chufe? What laurel'd arch, for thy triumphant Mufe ? Tho' each great Ancient court thee to his fhrine, Tho' ev'ry laurel thro' the dome be thine. Go to the Good and Juft, an iwful train ! Thy foul's delight — Recorded in like manner for his virtuous difpofition, and gentle bearing, by the ingenious c Verfes to Mr P. on his tranflation of Homer. d Poem prefijt'd to his Works. PROLEGOMENA. 79 Mr. Walter Hart in this Apoftrophe. * O ! ever worthy, ever crown'd with praife ! Bleft in thy Hfe, and bleft in all thy lays. Add, that the Sifters every thought refine, And ev'n thy life be faultlefs as thy line. Yet envy ftill with fiercer rage purfues, Obfcures the virtue, and defames the Mufe : A foul like thine, in pain, in grief refign'd. Views with juft fcorn the malice of mankind. The witty and moral Satyrift Dr. Edward Young, wifhing fome check to the corruption and evil manners of the times, calleth out upon our poet, to undertake a task fo worthy of his virtue. f Why flumbers Pope, who leads the Mufes' train. Nor hears that Virtue, which he loves, complain ? Mr. Thomson in his moft elegant and philofophicai Poem of the Seafons, Altho' not fweeter his own Homer fings, Yet is his Life the more endearing Song. To the fame tune alfo fingeth that learned Clerk of Suffolk Mr. William Broome: 8 Thus, nobly rifing in fair virtue's caufe. From thy own life tranfcribe th' unerring laws. And divers more, with which we will not tire the reader. e In his Poems, printed for B, Lintot, f Univcrfal Piffion, Satyr i. g In his pocnu, »nd at the end of the Odyflcy. O 2 8o M. SCRtBLERUS his Let US rather recreate thee by turning to the other fide, and iliewing his charadter drawn by thofe with whom he never con- vers'd, and whofe countenances he could not know, tho' turned againft him : Firft again commencing with the high-voiced, and never-enough-quoted ■ John Dennis -, Who in his refledlions on the EfTay on Criticifm thus, defcribeth him. " A Httle afFefted hypocrite, who has nothing in his mouth " but candour, truth, friendfliip, good nature, humanity, and " magnanimity. He is fo great a lover of faiiliood, that when- *' ever he has a mind to calumniate his cotemporaries, he upbraids ** them with fome deleft which is juft contrary to fome good " quality, for which all their friends and their acquaintance com- " mend them. He feems to have a particular pique to People *' of Quality, and authors of that rank — He muft derive his re- " ligion from St. Omer's." — But in the charafter of Mr. P. and his writings, (printed by S. Popping 1 7 1 6) he faith, " tho' he is " a Profeflorof the worft religion, yet he laughs at it; but that, " neverthelefs, he is a virulent Papift ; and yet a Pillar for the " Church of England." Of both which opinions Mr. Theobald feems alfo to be ; declaring in Mift's Journal of June 22, 1728, " That if he is not fhrewdly abus'd, he hath made it his praftice " to cackle to both parties in their own fentiments." But, as to his Pique againft people of quality, the fame Journalift doth not agree, but faith (May 8,172 8.) " he had by fome means or other " the acquaintance and friendfliip of the whole body of our no- " bihty." However contradiftory this may appear, Mr. Dennis in the chara6ler laft cited, maketh it all plain, by afTuring us: "That "he is a creature that reconciles all contradidlions : he is a " beaft, and a man, a Whig, and a Tory : a writer (at one and PROLEGOMENA. 8i "the fame time) of * Guardians and Examiners ; an aflertor of " liberty, and of the difpenfmg power of kings ; a jefuitical pro- " feffor of truth, a bafe and a foul pretender to candour." So that, upon the whole account, we muft conclude him either to have been a great hypocrite, or a. very honeft man ; a terrible impofer upon both parties, or very moderate to either. Be it, as to the judicious reader fhall feem good : Sure it is, he is little favour'd of certain authors, whofe wrath is perilous : For one declares he ought to have a price fet on his head, and to be hunted down as a wild beaft. ^ Another protefts that he does not know what may happen, advifes him to infure his perfon, fays he has bitter enemies, and exprefly declares, it will be well if he efcape with his life. ' One defires he would cut his own throat or hang himfelf : ^ But Pafquin feem'd rather inclined it fhould be done by the government, reprefenting him ingaged in grie- vous defigns with a Lord of Parliament, then under profecu^ tion. ' Mr. Dennis himfelf hath written to a Minifter, that he is one of the mofl dangerous perfons in this kingdom ; and af- fured the publick, that he is an open and mortal enemy to his Country ; a monfter, that will, one day, fhow as daring a foul as a mad Indian who runs a muck to kill the firft Chriftian he meets." Another gives information of Treafon difcovered in his poem:" Mr. Curl boldly fupplies an imperfed: verfe with Kings and PrincefTes ; ^ and one Matthew Concanen, yet more impudent, publifhes.at length the Two moft Sacred Names in this Nation as members of the Dunciad h This is prodigious ! yet is it almoft as ftrange, that in the midfl: of thefe invedives, his enemies have (I know not how) born te- ftimony to feme merit in him. » The Names of two Weekly Paper;. h Theobald, Letter in Mill's Journal, June 22, lyzS. i Sincdley, Prcf. to Gulliveriana, p. 14. 16. k Gullivcrianu, pag. 3}2. 1 Anno 1723. n Pref to Rem. on R.ipe of the Lock, pig. 12. and in the laft page of that Trc.itifc. o P.ig. 6, 7, of tlie Preface to a Book intitled, A Colleaion of all the Letters, Ellays, Verfts, and A'dvertiicments.occafionMby Pope and Swift's Mifcellanies, printed for A. Moore, 3"'- 1728. p Key to the Dune. 3d edit. p. iS. q A Lift of perfgns, &c. at the end of the Ibrementiyn'd Colkftion of all the Letters, Eilays, &c. by Concanen. 82 M. SCRIBLERUS his Mr. Theobald, in cenfuring his Shakefpear declares, " he has fo great an efteem " for Mr. Pope, and fo high an opinion of his genius, and excel- " lencies ; That notwithftanding he profeffes a veneration almoft " rifing to Idolatry for the writings of this inimitable poet, he " would be very loth even to do him juftice, at the expence of that " other gentleman's charader. •" Mr. Charles Gil don, after having violently attacked him in many pieces, at laft came to wifh from his heart, " That Mr. Pope would be prevailed up- " on to give us Ovid's Epiftles by his hand : for it is certain we " fee the original of Sapho to Phaon with much more life and " likenefs in his verfion, than in that of Sir Car. Scrope. And " this (he adds) is the more to be wifh'd, becaufe in the Englifh " tongue we have fcarce any thing truly and naturally written up- *' on Love.*" He alfo, in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore for his heterodox opinions of Homer, challengeth him to anfwer wJiat Mr. Pope hath faid in his. preface to that Poet, Mr. Oldmixon calls him a " great Mafter of our Tongue," declares, " the Pu- " rity and Perfedion of the Englifh language is to be found in " his Homer ; and faying, there are more good Verfes in Dryden's " Virgil than in any other work, excepting this of our author " only '." One who takes the name of H. Stanhope, the maker of certain verfes to Duncan Campbell, " in that poem which is wholly a fatire on Mr. Pope, confeffeth, r Introduction to his Sh-ikefpear reftorVl, 4° p. 3. s CommenCiry on the Duke of Buckingham's ElTav, 8° 1721, pig- 97. 9S. t In bis Profe ElTay on Critkilin. u Printed under the Title of the Progrefs of Dulncfs, 12'^ 1728. PROLEGOMENA. 83 "Tis true, if finefl: notes alone cou'd fKow (Tun'd juftly high, or regularly low) That we fhould fame to thefe mere vocals give : Pope, more than we can offer, fhou'd receive : For when fome gliding river is his theme, His lines run fmoother than the fmoothefb ftream, &c. Mr. Thomas Cooke, after much blemifhing our author's Homer, crieth out. But in his other works what beauties fhine ? While fweetefl: Mufic dwells in ev'ry line. Thefe he admir'd, on thefe he ftamp'd his praife, And bad them live to brighten future days. "^ Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728. Altho' he fays, " the fmooth Numbers of the Dunciad are all ** that recommend it, nor has it any other merit:" Yet that fame paper hath thefe words : " The author is allowed to be a perfed: " mafter of an eafy, and elegant verfification : In all his works, " we hnd the moft happy turns, and natural fimilies, wonderful- " ly fhort and thick fown." The Effay on the Dunciad alfo owns, p. 25, it is very full of beautiful Images. ^Mr. GiLDON and Dennis in the moft furious of all their works (the forecited Charader, p. 5.) do in concert confefs, " That fome men of good underftanding, " value him for his rhymes :" And p. 1 7. " That he has got, X Battle of Poets, fol. pag. 15. y Mr. Gildon and Dennis.] Hear how Mr. Dennis hath prov'J our Miftake in this place. " As to my writing in concert with Mr. Gildon, I declare upon the word and " honour of a Gentleman, that I never wrote fo much as one Line in concert with any one Man whatfocvcr ; " and thefe two Letters from Mr. Gildon will plainly fliow, that we are not Writers in concert with each " other. " Sir, — — The height of my Ambition is to plcafe Men of the beft Judgment ; and finding that I have V cntcrtain'd my Mailer agreeably, I have the Extent of the Reward of my Labour, Sec. 8$ M. SCRIBLERUS his " like Mr. Bayes in the Rehearfal, (that is, like Mr. Dryden) a no- " table knack of rhyming and writing fmooth verfe." To the Succefs of all his pieces tliey do unanimoufly give teftimony : But it is fufficient, " inftar omnium," to behold this laft great Critic forely lamenting it, even from the Effay on Cri- ticifm to this Day of the Dunciad ! " A moft notorious inftance ! " (quoth he) of the depravity of genius and tafte, the Approbation « this ElTay meets with ! ^ — I can fafely affirm, that I never at- " tacked any of thefe writings, unlefs they had Succefs, inlinite- " ly beyond their merit.'' — This, tho' an empty, has been a po- *' pular fcribler : The Epidemic madnefs of the times has given *' him reputation. ^ — If after the cruel treatment fo many extra- " ordinary men (Spencer, Lord Bacon, Ben. Johnfon, Milton, But- *' ler, Otway, and others) have received from this country, for " thefe laft hundred years ; I fliou'd fhift the fcene, and fhew all " that penury chang'd at once to riot and profufenefs : and more " fquander'd away upon one objeft, than would have fatisfy'd *' the greater part of thofe extraordinary men: The reader to " whom this one creature fhould be unknown, would fancy him " a prodigy of art and nature, would believe that all the great " qualities of thefe perfons were centred in him alone — But if I ** ihiould venture to alTure him, that the People of England had " made fuch a choice — the reader would either believe me a " malicious enemy, and flanderer ; or that the reign of the laft " (Queen Ann's) Miniftry, was defign d by fate to encourage " fools. ' " Sir, I had not the opportunity of hearing your excellent Pamphlet 'till this Day : I am infinitely fatis- ficd and plcas'd with-it, and hope you will meet with that Encouragement which your admirable Perfor- mance dcfcrvcs, &c. Ch: Gil don. ". Now is it not plain, that any one who fends fuch Compliments to another, has not been Ui'd to write " in .P.irtncrlhip with }^im to whom he fends them?" [Dennis's J^emar^SvOn the Dunciad, pag. 50.] Mr. Dennis is therefore welcome to take this Piece to himfclf. 7. Dennis Pref. to the Refleft. on the Eflay on Crit. a Pref. to his Rem. on Homer. b Ibid. c Rem. on Horn. pag. 8, 9. PROLEGOMENA. 85 However, left we imagine our Author's Succefs was conftant and univerfal, they acquaint us of certain works in a lefs degree of repute, whereof (altho' own'd by others) yet do they aflure us he is the writer. Of this fort Mr. Dennis afcribes to him'^ two Farces, whofe names he does not tell, but aflures us there is not one jeft in them ; and an Imitation of Horace, whofe title he does not mention, but affures us, it is much more execrable than all his works. " The Daily Journal, May it, 1728. affures us, " he is below Tom Durfey in the Drama, becaufe " (as that writer thinks) the Marriage-Hater match'd and the " Boarding-School are better than the What-d'ye-call-it ; " Which "is not Mr. P.'s but Mr. Gay's. Mr. Gildon affures us, in *' his new Rehearfal, pag. 48,' that he was writing a Play of " the Lady Jane Gray ; But it afterwards prov'd to be Mr. Rowe's. The fame Mr. Gildon and Dennis affure us, he wrote a pam- phlet called Dr. Andrew Tripe ; ^ which prov'd to be one Dr. Wag- ftaff^s. Mr. Theobald affures us, in Mift of the 27 th of April, " That the treatife of the Profound is very dull, and that Mr. " Pope is the author of it;" The writer of Gulliveriana is of another opinion, and fays : " the whole or greateft part of the merit of " this treatife muft and can only be afcribed to Gulliver.'' [Here gentle reader cannot I but fmile at the ftrange blindnefs and po- fitivenefs of men, knowing the faid treatife to appertain to none other but to me, Martinus Scriblerus.] Laftly we are affured, in Mift of June 8. " That his own Plays " and Farces wou'd better have adorn'd the Dunciad, than '' thofe of Mr. Theobald : for he had neither genius for Tragedy *' or Comedy:" Which whether true or not, is not eafv to judge; in as much as he hath attempted neither. .But from all that hath been faid, the difcerning reader will collect, that it little avail'd our author to have any Ca7idota\ fmce when he declar'd he did not write for others, it was not d Rem. on Horn. p. S. e Charafl. of Mr. P. p. 7. f ii*. printed iji.i- g. Ciunct- of Mr. P- p- 9- ^ Gulliveriana, p. 359. 8d M. S R I B L E R U S his, &c. credited: As little to have any Modejly^ fince when he declin'd writing in any way himfelf, the prefumption of others was impu- ted to him. If h^Ji/igly enterpriz d one great work, he was tax'd of Boldnefs and Madnefs to a prodigy : ' if he took AJftfiants in another, it was complain'd of and reprefented as a great injury to the publick. "^ The loftieft Heroicks, the loweft ballads, treatifes againft the ftate or church, fatire on lords and ladies, raillery on wits and authors, fquabbles with bookfellers, or even full and true accounts of monfters, poyfons, and murders : of any hereof was there nothing fo good, nothing fo bad, which hath not at one or other feafon been to him afcribed. If it bore no author's name^ then lay he concealed ; if it did, he father'd it on that author to be yet better concealed. If it refembled any of his ftyles, then was it evident ; if it did not, then difguis'd he it on fett purpofe. Yea, even diredt oppofltions in religion, principles, and politicks, have equally been fuppofed in him inherent. Surely a moft rare and fingular charafter ! of which let the reader make what he can. Doubtlefs moft Com-mentators wou'd hence take occafion to turn all to their author's advantage ; and from the teftimony of his very enemies wou'd affirm, That his Capacity was boundlefs, as well as his Imagination ; That he was a perfeft mafter of all Styles, and all Arguments; And that there was in thofe times no other wri- ter, in any kind, of any degree of excellence fave he himfelf. But as this is not our own fentiment, we fhall determine on nothing; but leave thee, gentle reader ! to fteer thy judgment equally be- tween various opinions, and to chufe whether thou wilt incline to the Teft:imonies of Authors avowed, or of Authors concealed ? of thofe who knew him, or of thofe who knew him not ? i Burnet Homerides, pag. i. of his Tranflation of the Iliad. k The London and Mill's Journals, en his Undertaking of the Odyffey. 87 ){§- liw "m' im" '"m' %^ V^ '%{ NOTES VARIORUM O N T H E D U N C I A D. BOOK the FIRST. THIS Poem was writ in 1727. In the next year an im- perfeft Edition was publifhed at Dublin, and re-printed at London in 12°. Another at DubHn, and another at Lon- don in 8 ", and three others in i 2 "^ the fame year. But there was no perfe &c.] Relates to the well- known ftory of the geefe that faved the Capitol, of which Vir- gil, JEn. 8. Atquz hie auratis volita?is argenteus anfer PorticibuSy Gallos in limine adejfe canebat. A paflage I have always fufpefted. Who fees not the antithefis of auratis and argenteus to be unworthy the Virgilian Majefty ? and what abfurdity to fay a goofe fnigs ? canebat. \''irgil gives a contrary chara£ler of the voice of this filly bird in Eel. 9. — argutos interftrepere anfer olores. Read it xhtrtiovc adejfe firepebat. And why auratis porticibusf Does not the very verfe preceding this inform us, Romuleoque recens horrebat regia culmo. Is this thatch in one line, and gold in another, confiflent ? I fcru- ple not (repugnantibus omnibus ma?itifcriptis) to corred: it, au- ritis. Horace ufes the fame epithet in the fame fenfe, — AurksLs fidibus canoris Ducere quercus. And to fay that walls have ears is common even to a proverb. SCRIBLERUS. Ve r. 194. Mighty Mijl /] Nathaniel Mift was publffher oi a famous Tory Paper (fee Notes on 1. 3.) in which this Author was fometimes permitted to have a part. Ver. 197. Adieu ?ny children I &c.] Virg. -^n. 3. — Felix Priameia virgo I Jujfa 7Hori : qucefortitus non pertulit ullos^' Nee viEloris heri tetigit captiva cubile ! Nos patria incenja^ diverja per neqiiora 'veSice.^ &c. A tender and pafTionate Apoftrophe to his own works which he on the D U N C I A D. lop is going to facrifice, agreeable to the nature of man in great afflidion, and reflecting like a parent on the many miferable fates to which they would otherwife be fubjedt. Ver. 200. Orjhipfd with Ward to ape and monkey lands.'] "Edward Wa r d, a very voluminous Poet in Hudibraftick verfe, " but befl: known by the London Spy, in profe. He has of late " years kept a publick houfe in the City (but in a genteel way) " and with his wit, humour, and good liquor (Ale) afforded his " guefts a pleafurable entertainment, efpecially thofe of the high- *' church-party. Jacob Lives of Poets, vol. 2. p. 225. Great numbers of his works are yearly fold into the Plantations. Edward Ward in a Book call'd Apollo's Maggot, declar'd this account to be a great Falfity ; protefting that his publick houfe was not in the city, but in Moorflelds. Ver. 202. And vifu alehoufe^ Waller on the Navy, Thofe towers of oak oer fertile plains may go^ And vift mountains where they once did grow, Ver. 203. — He lifted thrice the fparkling brandy And thrice he dropt it — ] Ovid of Althoea on the like occafion, burning her off-fpring. Turn conata quater flammis imponere torrem, Ccepta quater tenuit. — Ver. 208. Now flames old Memnon^ now Rodrigo burns. In one quick flafh fee Profe?pi?ie expire.] Memnon, a hero in the Perfian Princefs, very apt to take fire, as appears by thefe lines with which he begins the play. By heavn it fires my froze?! blood with rage, And makes itfcald my aged trunk Rodrigo, the chief perfonage of the Perfidious Brother (a play written between T. and a Watchmaker.) The Rape of Profcr- S 110 NOTES VARIORUM pine, one of the Farces of this author, in which Ceres fetting hre to a corn-field, endanger'd the burning the Play-houfe. Virg. JEn. 2. — yam Deiphobi dedit ampla ruinam Vtdcano fuperantey domus 5 jam proximus ardet Ucalegon Ve R. 2 1 o. Andlafiy his own cold JEfchylus took]ire?\ He had been (to ufe an exprefTion of our Poet) about iEfchylus for ten years, and had received fubfcriptions for the fame, but then went about other books. The charadler of this tragic Poet is Fire and Bold- nefs in a high degree, but our author fuppofes it very much cool- ed by the Tranfiation : upon fight of a fpecimen of which was made this Epigram, Alas ! poor ^fchylus ! unlucky Dog ! Whom once a Lobjler i/7/V, and now a Log. But this is a grievous error, for ^fchylus was not flaia by the fall of a Lobfter on his head, but of a Tortoife. Tefte Vah Max. 1. g. cap. 12. • SCRIBLERUS. Ve R. 21 2. When the lafi blaze fent Ilion to the skies.'] See Virg. JEn. 2. where I would advife the reader to perufe the ftory of Troy's deftru6tion, rather than in Wynkin. But I caution him alike in both, to beware of a mofi: grievous error \ that of think- ing it was brought about by I know not what Trojan Horfe ; there never having been any fuch thing. For hrft, it was not Trojan, being made by the Greeks ; and fecondly, it was not a Horfc, but a Mare. This is clear from many verfes in Virgil, Uterufu armato milite complent Inclufos Utero Danaos — Can a horfe be faid Utero gerercf Again, Uteroque recujjo Infonuere cavce Atqiie uterofo7ntuin quater arma dedere. on the D U N C I A D. in Nay is it not exprefly faid, Scandit fatalis machina muros Foeta armis How is it poflible the word foeta can agree with a horfe ? and in- deed can it be conceived, that the chafte and Virgin Goddtfs Pallas would employ her felf in forming and fafliioning the Male of that fpecies ? But this fhall be proved to a demonftration in our * Virgil Reftor'd. ^ Scriblerus. Ve r. 214. Thule.'\ An unfinifli'd poem of that name, of which one fheet was printed fifteen years ago, by Ambrofe Philips a northern author. It is an ufual method of putting out a fire to cafl: wet fheets upon it. Some critics have been of opinion, that this fheet was of the nature of the Asbeftos, which cannot be confumed by fire ; but I rather think it only an allegorical allufion to the coldnefs and heavinefs of the writing. Ve R. 2 1 9. Great i?t her charms! as when on Shrieves and Mayrs She looks, and breathes her felf into their airs.l Alma parens confejfa Deam ; qualifque videri Ccelicolis, &' qua?ita folet Virg. -^n. 2. Et Icetos oculis afflarat honores Id. iEn. i. Ve R. 221. — the f acred Domei] The Cave of Poverty above- mentioned ; where he no fooner enters, but he reconnoitres the pkce of his original ; as Plato fays the Spirits fhall do at their en- trance into the celeftial regions. His dialogue of the Immortality of the foul was tranflated by T. in the familiar modern ftile of Pri- thee Phcsdo, and For Gods fake Socrates: printed for B. Lintot, 1713- Ver. 226. And infweet numbers celebrates the feat ^ He writ a poem call'd the Cave of Poverty , which concludes with a very extraordinary wifli, " That fome great genius, or man of diftin- " guifh'd merit may be fiarved, m order to celebrate her power. " and defcribe her Cave." It was printed in odtavo, 1 7 15. • Sec this Piece in Swift and Pope's MiTcelbnies, Vol. 3. S 2 112 NOTES VARIORUM Ver. 240. Ca?t jnake a Gibber^ *' Mr. Colly Gibber, an *' author and adlor, of a good fhare of wit, and uncommon vi- " vacity, which are much improved by the converfation he enjoys, " which is of the beft." Jacob Lives of Dram. Poets, p. 38. Be- fidestwo volumes of Plays in 4"* he has made up and tranllated feveral others. Mr. Jacob omitted to remark, that he was par- ticularly admirable in Tragedy. Ver. 240. — John/on.'] "Charles Johnson, famous for " writing a Play every feafon, and for being at Button's every day : " he had probably thriven better in his vocation, had he been a *' fmall matter leaner : he may juftly be called a martyr to obe- *' fity, and to have fallen a vidim to the rotundity of his parts." Charader of the Times, p. 1 9. Some of his Plays are, Love in a Foreft (Shakefpear's As you like it) Wife's Relief (Shirley's Game- fter) The Vidiim (Racine's Iphigenia) The Sultanefs (Racine's Bajazet, the prologue to which abufed Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay) The Cobler of Prefton, his own. Ver. 240. — Or Ozell^ " Mr. John Ozell, if we credit " Mr. Jacob, did go tofchool in Leicefterfhire, where fomebody " left him fomething to live on, when he (hall retire from bufi- " nefs. He was defigned to be fent to Cambridge in order for " Priefthood ; but he chofe rather to be placed in an office of *' accounts in the City, being qualified for the fame b-y his skill " in Arithmetick, and writing the neceffary hands. He has obli- " ged the world with many tranflations of French Plays." Jacob Lives of Dram. Poets, p. 198. Mr. Jacob's Charadler of Mr. Ozell feems fhort of his merits, and he ought to have further juftice done him, having fince ful- ly confuted all the Sarcafms on his Learning and Genius, by an Advertifement of Sept. 20, 1729. in a Paper call'd the Weekly Medley. " As to my Learning, every body knows that the whole " Bench of Bifhops, not long ago, were pleas'd to give me a Purfe " of Guineas, for difcovering the erroneous Tranflations of the on the D U N C I A D. 113 '^ Common-Prayer in Portuguefc, Spanifh, French, Italian, &'c. " As for my Genius, let them fhew better Verfes in all Pope's " Works than Ozell's Verfion of Boileau's Lutrin, which the late " Lord Hallifax was (o pleas'd with, that he complimented him " with Leave to dedicate it to him. Let them fliow better and " truer Poetry in the Rape of the Locke, than in Ozell's Rape of " the Bucket, nay Mr. 'Poland and Mr. Gildon publickly declared " Ozell's Tranflation of Homer to be, as it was prior., fo like- " wife fuperior to Pope's. — Surely, furely, every man is free " to deferve well of his Country ! John Oz ell. We cannot but fubfcribe to fuch Reverend Teftimonies, as thofe of the Bench of Bifhops, Mr. Toland, and Mr. Gildon. Ve r. 244. A Heideggre.'] A ftrange bird from Switzerland, and (not as fome have fuppofed) the name of an eminent Perfon, who was a man of Parts, and as was faid of Petronius, Arbiter Elegantiarum. Ver. 250. Where Gildon., Banks, a?id high-born Howard rejl."] Charles Gildon, a writer of criticifms and libels of the laft age, bred at St. Omer's with the Jefuits, but renouncing Popery, he publifh'd Blount's books againft the Divinity of Chrift, the Oracles of reafon, &'c. He fignaliz'd himfelf as a Critic, having written fome very bad plays ; abufed Mr. P. very fcandaloufly in an anonymous pamphlet of the Life of Mr. Wycherley printed by Curl, in another called the New Rehearfal printed in 1 7 1 4, in a third entituled The Compleat Art of Englifh Poetry in two volumes, and others. Ver. 250. Ba7jks'] Was author of the plays of the Earl of Ef- fex, Ann Boleyn, ^c. He followed the law as a Sollicitor and Poetry alfo, like Tibbald, with much the fame fuccefs. Ver. 250. — Howard^ Hon. Edward Howard, author of the Britifh Princes, and a great number of wonderful pieces, celebrated by the late Earls of Dorfet and Rochefter, Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Waller, ^c. 114 NOTES VARIORUM Ver. 258. As fings thy great forefather^ Ogilby?^ See his iEfop Fables, where this excellent hemyftic God save King Log ! is to be found. Our author manifefts here, and elfevvhere, a prodigious Ten- dernefs for the bad writers : We fee he feleds the only good paflage perhaps in all that ever Ogilby writ, which fhows how candid and patient a reader he muft have been. What can be more kind and affedionate, than thefc words in the preface to his Poems, Edit. 4"" 17 17, where belabours to call up all our hu- manity and forgivenefs toward thefe unlucky men, by the moft moderate reprefentation of their cafe that has ever been given by any author ? " Much may be faid to extenuate the fault of " bad Poets : What we call a Genius is hard to be diftinguifhed, " by a man himfelf, from a prevalent Inclination : And if it be " never fo great, he can at firft difcover it no other way than hj " that ftrong propenfity, which renders him the more liable to " be miftaken. He has no other method but to make the expe- " riment by writing, and fo appealing to the judgment of others: " And if he happens to .write ill (which is certainly no iin in it *' felf) he is immediately made the objed of ridicule ! I wifh " we had the humanity to refled, that even the worft authors " might endeavour to pleafe us, and in that endeavour, deferve " fomething at our hands. We have no caufe to quauel with " them, but for their Obftinacy in perilling, and even that *' may admit of alleviating circumftances : For their particular " Friends may be either ignorant, or unfincere ; and the reft of " the world too well bred, to fhock them with a truth which « generally their bookfellers are the firft that inform them ^' of." But how much all Indulgence is loft upon thefe people, may appear from the juft Refledion made on their conftant Condud: and conftant Fate, in the following Epigram. on the D UNCI AD. "5 Ye little Wit s^ that gleam d a-whiky When P-pe vouchfafd a ray^ Alas ! deprivd of his kind/mile^ How f 0072 ye fade away ! To compafs Phoebus' Car aSoutj Thus empty F'apours rife ; Each lends his Cloudy to put Him out. That reard him to the Skies. Alas ! thofe Skies are not your Sphere-, T'herey He fjall ever burn : Weepi weep a?id fall! for Earth ye were. And mufi to Earth return. :,ffl aA\ NOTES on the Second Book. Two things there are, upon the fuppofition of which the very bafis of all Verbal criticifm is founded and fupported : The firft, that an Author could never fail to ufe the befi worci^ on every occafion: The fecond, that a Critic cannot chufe but know, which that is P This being granted, whenever any word doth not fully content us, we take upon us to conclude, firft that the author could never have usd it ; and fecondly, that he muft have ufed that very 07ie which we conjedure in its ftead. We cannot therefore enough admire the learned Scriblerus, for his alteration of the text in the two laft verfes of the preceding book, which in all the former editions ftood thus, Hoarfe thu7tderto its bottom JJjook the bog, And the loud nation croaKd, God fave King "Log ! He has with great judgment tranfpofed thefe two epithets, put- ting hoarfe to the nation, and loud to the thunder : And this being evidently the true reading, he vouchfafed not fa much as to mention the former ; for which aflertion of the juft right of a Critic, he merits the acknowledgment of all found com- mentators. Ver. I. High on a goigeous feat^ Parody of Milton, lib. 2. High on a throne of 7~oyal fate, that far Outfjo?ie the wealth of Ormus a?id of Ind, Or where the gorgeous Eafi with richefi hand Show7~s on her Kings barbaric pearl a7jd gold, Satan exalted fate, — on the D U NCI A D. 117 Ve r. 2. Hetjlys gilt 7iib.'\ The pulpit of a DifTenter Is ufual- \y called a Tub ; but that of Mr. Orator Henley was covered with, velvet, and adorned with gold. He had alfoa fair altar, and over it this extraordinary infcription. The Primitive Eucharifl. See the hiftory of this perfon, book 3. verfe 195. Ver. 2. Or Fleck?ids IriJIj Throne^ Richard Fleckno was an Irifh Prieft, but had laid afide (as himfelf exprefled it) the mechanic part of Priefthood. He printed fome Plays, Poems, Letters and Travels. I doubt not our author took occafion to mention him in refped to the Poem of Mr. Dryden, to which this bears fome refemblance ; tho' of a charader more different from it, than that of the iEneid from the Iliad, or the Lutria of Boileau from the Defaite des Boutes rif?iees of Sarazin. Ver. 3. Or that^ where o?i her Curls the Public pours."] Edm. Curl flood in the Pillory at Charing-Crofs, in March 1727-8. Mr. Curl loudly complain'd of this Note as an Untruth, protefting, " that he ftood in the Pillory not in March but in Fe- *' bruary ; And of another on Verfe 144. Saying he was not toft "in a Blanket-, but a RugV Curliad in \2^ 1729. p. 19, and 25. Ver. II. Rome ift her Capital faw^ernojit^ Camillo Querno was of Apulia, who hearing the great encouragement which Leo the tenth gave to Poets, travell'd to Rome with a harp in his hand, and fung to it twenty thoufand verfes of a Poem called Alexias. He was introduced as a buffoon to Leo, and promoted to the honour of the Laurel ; a jeft, which the Court of Rome and the Pope himfelf entred into fo far, as to caufe him to ride on an Elephant to the Capitol, and to hold a folemn Feftival on his Co- ronation ; at which it is recorded the Poet himfelf was (o tranf- ported, as to weep for joy. He was ever after a conftant fre- quenter of the Pope's table, drank abundantly, and poured forth verfes without number. Paulus Jovius, Elog. Vir. dod. ch. 8 2. Some idea of his Poetry is given by Fam. Strada in his Prolufions. T ii8 NOTES VARIORUM Ve R. 3 1 . A Poets Form fie placd before their eyes."] This is what Juno does to deceive Turnus, -^n. lo. Turn dea nube cava, tenuem fiie viribus umhrani^ In fact em M>nece (vifu mirabile tnonfirumj Dardaniis omat ielis^ clypeumque jubafque Divini ajfmilat capitis Dat inania verbay D at fine mente fonum — The reader will obferve how exadly fome of thefe verfes fuit with their allegorical application here to a Plagiary : There feems to xne a great propriety in this Epifode, where fuch an one is imag'd by a Phantom that deludes the grafp of the expeding Book- feller. Ver. 35. But fuch a bulk as no twelve bards!\ Virg. 1 2. Vix illud leSli bis f ex — ^ualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus. Ver. 43. Never was dafi'd out, at one lucky hits'] Our author here feems willing to give fome account of the poffibility of Dul- nefs making a Wit, (which could be done no other way than by chance.) The fidion is the more reconciled to probability by the known ftory of Apelles, who being at a lofs to exprefs the foam of Alexander's horfe, dafh'd his pencil in defpair at the pi- d:ure, and happen'd to do it by that fortunate ftroke. Ve r. 46. And calfd the phantom, More.] Curl in his Key to the Dunciad, affirm'd this tobejAMEs Moore Smith, Efq; and it is probable (confidering what is faid of him in the Tefti- monies) that fome might fancy our author obliged to reprefent this gentleman as a Plagiary, or to pafs for one himfelf. His cafe" indeed was like that of a man I have heard of, who as he was fitting in company, perceiv'd his next neighbour had ftolen his handkerchief *' Sir (faid the Thief, finding himfelf dete6ted, " do not expofe me, I did it for mere want : be fo good but to on the DUNCIAD. 115^ " take it privately out of my pocket again, and fay nothing." The honeft man did fo, but the other cry'd out, " See Gentlemen ! <* what a Thief we have among us ! look, he is dealing my " handkerchief." The Plagiarifms of this perfon gave occafion to tlie following Epigram : M—re always fmiles 'whenever he recites \ He f miles (you think) approving what he writes ; Arid yet in this no. Vanity is Jhown ; A modeji man may like what's not his own. His only work was a Comedy call'd the Rival Modes ; the Town condemn'd it in the adion, but he printed it in 1726-7 with this modeft Motto, Hie ccefluSy artemque repono^ The fmaller pieces which we have heard attributed to this au- thor, are. An Epigram on the Bridge at Blenheim, by Dr. Evans : Cofmelia, by Mr. Pit, Mr. Jones, &c The Saw-pit, a Simile, by a Friend. Certain Phyfical works on Sir James, Baker; and Ibme unown'd Letters, Advertifements, and Epigrams againft our author, in the Daily Journal. Notwithftanding what is here colleded of the Perfon imagin'd by Curl to be meant in this place, we cannot be of tliat opinion; iince our Poet had certainly no need of vindicating half a dozen verfes to himfelf which every reader had done for him ; fince the name itfelf is not fpell'd Moore but More ; and laftly, fince the learned Scriblerus has fo well prov'd the contrary. Ve r. 46. The Phanton, More.'] It appears from hence that this is not the name of a real Perfon, but hditious ; More from f**^®-, JlultuSy |x*6(«, fiultitia^ to reprefent the folly of a Plagiary. Thus Erafmus : Admonuit me Mori cognomen tibi, quod tarn ad Morice vocabulum accedit^ quam es ipfe a re alienus. Dedication of Morice Encomion to Sir Tho. More ; the Farewel of which inav^ T 2 120 NOTES VARIORUM be our Author's to his Plagiary, Vale More! ^ Moriam tuam gnaviter defe7ide. Adieu More^ mid be Jure flrongly to defend thy own folly. Scrirlerus. Ve r. 49. But lofty Lintot.'] We enter here upon the Epifode of the Bookfellers : perfons, whofe names being more known and famous in the learned world than thofe of the Authors in this Poem, do therefore need lefs explanation. The adlion of Mr. Lintot here imitates that of Dares in Virgil, rifing juft in this manner, to lay hold on a Bull. This eminent Bookfeller printed the Rival Modes above-mentioned. Ver. 54. Stood dau7itlefs Curl, &c.] We come now to a cha- radler of much refped:, that of Mr, Edmund Curl. As a plain repetition of great adlions is the bed praife of them, we fhall only fay of this eminent man, that he carried the Trade many lengths beyond what it ever before had arrived at, and that he was the envy and admiration of all his profeflion. He poflefs'd himfelf of a command over all authors whatever ; he caus'd them to write what he pleas'd ; they could not call their very names their own. He was not only famous among thefe; he was taken notice of by the State, the Church, and the Law, and receiv'd particular marks of diftindlion from each. It will be own'd that he is here introduc'd with all poflible dig- nity: he fpeaks like the intrepid Diomed ; he runs like the fvvift- footed Achilles ; if he falls, 'tis like the beloved Nifus ; and (what Homer makes to be the chief of all praifes) he is favour'd of the Gods : He fays but three words, and his prayer is heard ; a Goddefs conveys it to the feat of Jupiter ; tho' he lofes the prize, he gains the vidlory ; the great Mother her felf comforts him, fhe infpires him with expedients, fhe honours him with an immortal prefent (fuch as Achilles receives from Thetis, and ^neas from Venus) at once inftrudlive and prophetical : after this, he is unrival'd and triumphant. The tribute our author here pays him, was a grateful return on the DUN C I A D. 121 for feveral unmerited obligations : Many weighty animadverfions on the Publick affairs, and many excellent and diverting peices on Private perfons, had he given to his name. If ever he ow'd tvvoVer- fes to any other, he ow'd Mr. Curl fome thoufands. He was every day extending his fame, and enlarging his writings: Witnefs innu- merable inftances ! but it iliall fuffice only to mention the Court- Poems, which he meant to publifli as the work of the true writer, a Lady of Quality ; but being hrft threaten'd, and afterwards punifh'd for it by Mr. Pope he generoufly transferr'd it from her to him, and printed it twelve years in his name. The fingle time that ever he fpoke to C. was on that affair, and to that happy inci- dent he owed all the favours iince received from him. So true is the faying of Dr. Sydenham, " that any one fhall be, at fome " time or other, tlie better or the worfe, for having but Cecn or " fpoken to a good, or a bad man. Ver. 54. &'c. Something like this is in Homer II. lo. ver. 220. of Diomed. Two different manners of the fame author in his Similes, are alfo imitated in the two following ; the firft of the Bailiff, is fliort, unadorn'd, and (as the Critics well know) from familiar life ; the fecond of the Water-fowl more extended, pi- (flurefque, and from rural life. The 55th verfe is likewife a li~ ter£il tranflation of one in Homer. ,Ver. 56. So take the hindi?toJl Hell.'] Horace de Art. Occupet extremumfcabies ; mihi ttirpe reli?2qui ejl. Ver. 60. On feet, and wings, a?iei flies, and wades, and hops'. So laUring 07i, withjhoulders^ hands, and head ^ Milton, lib. 2. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog, oerfieep, thro ftrait, rough, denfe, or rare., With head., hands, wings, or feet, purfues his way, A?id f^i7ns, or finks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Ver. 66. Curf s Corinna.] This name of Corinna it feems was 122 NOTES VARIORUM taken by one Mrs. Thomas, who procured fome private Letters of Mr. Pope's, while almoft a boy, to Mr. Cromwell, and fold them without the confent of either of thofe gentlemen to Curl, who printed them ini2°i727. He difcover'd her to be the pubhllier in his Key, p. n. Ver. 69. Herefortufid Curl to Jlide.'] Virg. Mn. 5. of Nifus« Labitur infelix^ ccefts ut forte juvencis Fufus humum viridefque fuper madefecerat herbas —. Concidit^ immundoque Jimo^ facroque cruore. Ver. 70. Ajid Lintoty Lmtot.] Virg. Eel 6. : — Ut littusy Hyla, Hyla^ omnefonaret, Ver. 71. Objcene with filthy &c.] Tho' this incident may feem too low and bafe for the dignity of an Epic Poem, the learned well know it to be but a copy of Homer and Virgil ; the very words ocS©- 2,Ti6.Fimus are ufed by them, tho' our Poet (in compli- ance to modern nicety) has remarkably enrich'd and colour'd his language, as well as rais'd the verfification in thefe two Epifodes. Mr. Dryden in Mac-Fleckno has not fcrupled to mention the Morning Toaft at which the fifhes bite in the Thames, Pifling- Ally, Reliques of the Bum, &'c. but our author is more grave, and (as a fine writer fays of Virgil in his Georgics) tofies about his Dung with an air of Majefty. If we confider that the Ex- ercifes of his Authors could with juftice be no higher than Tick- ling, Chatt'ring, Braying, or. Diving, it was no eafy matter to invent fuch Games as were proportion'd to the meaner degree of Bookfellers. In Homer and Virgil, Ajax and Nifus the per- fons drawn in this plight are Heroes ; whereas here they are fuch with whom it had been great impropriety to have join d any but vile ideas ; befides the natural connexion there is between Li- bellers and common Nufances. Neverthelefs I have heard our author o\vn, that this part of his Poem was (as it frequenly hap- on the D U N C I A D. 123 pens) what coft him moft trouble, and pleas'd him leaft : but he hoped 'twas excufable, fince levell'd at fuch as underftand no de- hcate fatire : Thus the poHteft: men are fometimes obHged to fwear, when they happen to have to have to do with Porters and Oyfter-wenches. Ver. 78. Down inith the Bible-, up with the Pope s Arms^ The Bible, Curl's fign, the Crofs- keys, Lintot's. Ver. 79. A place there is, &c.] See Lucian's Icaro-Menippus s where this Fidlion is more extended. Orbe locus medio eji, i?iter terrafque fretumque Ccelejlefque plagas — Ovid. Met. 1 2; Ver. 88^ Ichor^ Alludes to Homer, Iliad 5. A Jlreatn of mSiarous humour ijfuing flowed, Sanguiti, fuch as celefiial Spirits may bleed, Milton, Ver. 89. Cloacina.'] The Roman Goddefs of the Common- fhores. Ver. 93. Oft as he fifod, 8cc.] See the Preface to Swift and Pope's Mifcellanies. Ver. 96. As oil d with magic juices^ Alluding to the opinion that there are Ointments us'd by Witches to enable them to fly in the air, Mc. Ver. 100. Nor heeds the brown difhonours of his face^ ^^'X' /En. 5. — faciem oftendebat^ &' udo Turpia membra fimo Ver. 103. A Jhapekfs Jhade, &c.] Virg.JEn. 6. — £//^^// imago. Par levibus ventis, volucrique fimillima fomrio. 124- NOTES VARIORUM Ver. io6. His papers lights fly diverfe, toji in air.'\ Firg. 6. of the Sybils leaves, Carmi?ia tiirhata volent rapidis ludibi'ia ventis. The perfons mentioned in the next line are fome of thofe, whofe writings, epigrams or jefts, this man had own'd. See Note on ver. 46. Ver. 1 10. A7t impayd Taylor?^ This line was loudly com- plain'd of in Mift, June 8. Dedic. to Sawney, and others, as a moft inhuman fatire on the Poverty of Poets : but it is thought our author would be acquitted by a Jury of Taylors. To me this inftance feems unluckily chofen : if it be a fatire on any body, it muft be on a bad Paymafter, fince the perfon to whom they have here apply'd it was a man of Fortune. Not but Poets may well be jealous of fo great a prerogative as Non-payment : which Mr. Dennis fo far afferts, as boldly to pronounce, that "if " Homer himfelf was not in debi, it was becaufe no body would *« truft him." Pref. to Rem. on the Rape of the Lock, p. 1 5. Ve R. II 6. Like Congreve-, Addifon^ and Prior."] Thefe Au- thors being fuch whofe names will reach pofterity, we fhall not give any account of them, but proceed to thofe of whom it is neceffary. Befaleel Morris was author of fome Satires on the Tranflators of Homer (Mr. Tickel and our author) w'ith many other things printed in News-papers. Bond writ a fatire againft Mr. P. Capt. Breval was author of The Confederates, " an in- " genlous dramatic performance to expofe Mr. P. Mr. Gay, Dr. *' Arbuthnot, and fome Ladies of quality." Curl, Key, p. 1 1. Ver. 117. Mears, W-arner, Wilkins.'] Bookfellers and Printers of much anonymous fluff. Ve R. II 8. Bond, Befaleel, Breval^ I forefee it will be objed:- ed from this line, that we were in an error in our affertion on verfe 46 of this Book, that More was a fictitious name ; fince thefe perfons are equally reprefented by the poet as Phantoms. on the D U N C I A D. 125 So at firft fight it may feem ; but be not deceived Reader ! thefe alfo are not real perfons. 'Tis true Curl declares Brcval a Cap- tain, and author of a piece call'd The Confederates : But the fame Curl firfl: faid it was written by Jofeph Gay : Is his fecond affer- tion to be credited any more than his firft ? He likewife affirms Bond to be one who writ a fatire on our Poet, but where is fucli a fatire to be found, where was fuch a writer ever heard of? As for Befaleel, it carries Forgery in the very name, nor is it, as the others arc, a furname. Thou may'ft depend on it, no fuch au- thors ever lived ; all phantoms ! Scriblerus. Ve r. 1 20. Jofeph Gay.'] A fiditious name put by Curl be- fore feveral pamphlets, which made them pafs with many for Mr. Gay's. Ver. 124. And turn this 'whole illufton on the town.] It was a common pradice of this Bookfeller, to publifli vile pieces of ob- fcure hands under the names of eminent authors. Ve r. 128. Lady Marys.] This paffage was thought to allude to a famous Lady who cheated a French Wit of 5000 pounds in the South-Sea year. But the Author meant it in general of all brag- ging Travellers, and of all Whores and Cheats under the name of Ladies. Ve r. 130. Cook pall be Prior.] The man here fpecified was the fon of a Muggletonian, who kept a Publick-houfe at Braintree in Eflex. He writ a thing call'd the Battle of the Poets, of which Philips and Welfted were the heroes, and wlicrein our author was attack'd in relation to his Homer and Shakefpear. He writ more- over a Farce of Penelope, in the preface of which alfo he was fquinted at : and fome malevolent things in the Britifh, London and Daily Journals. At fame time the honeft Gentleman wrote Letters to Mr. P. in the ftrongeft terms protefling his innocence. His chief work was a tranflation of Hefiod, to which Theobald writ notes, and half-notes, as hath already been faid. Ver. id. ^ — and Concanc/i Swift.] In the firft Edition of this U 12(5 NOTES VARIORUM Poem there were only afterisks in this place : but the names were fmce inferted merely to fill up the verfe, and give eafe to the ear of the reader. Ve R. 132. And we too boafl our Garth and Addifon?\ No- thing is more remarkable than our author's love of praifing good writers. He has celebrated Sir Ifaac Newton, Mr. Dry- den, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Wycherley, Dr. Garth, Mr. Walfl>, Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Addifon, Lord Lanfdown, in a word, almoft every man of his time who deferv'd it. It was very difficult to have that pleafure in a poem on This fubjeft, yet he found means to infert their panegyrick, and here has made even Dulnefs out of her own mouth pronounce it. It muft have been particulaly agreeable to him to celebrate Dr. Garth, both as his conftant friend thro' life, and as he was his predeceflbr in this kind of Satire. The Difpenfary attack'd the whole Body of Apothecaries, a much more ufeful one undoubtedly than that of bad Poets (if in truth this can be call'd a Body, of which no two members ever agreed) : It alfo did what Mr. Theobald faid was unpardonable, drew in parts of private Charadler, and introduced perfons independent of his Subjedl. Much more would Boileau have incurr'd his cenfure, who left all fubjeds whatever on all occafions, to fall upon the bad Poets ; which it is to be fear'd wou'd have been more immediately His Concern. But certainly next to commend- ing good Writers, the greateft fervice to Learning is to expofe the bad, who can only that way be made of ufe to it. This truth is very well fet forth in thefe lines addreft to our author. iJje craven Rook^ and pert Jackdaw^ (Tho neither Birds of moral kind) Tetfervey if hang d^ or fluff \l with fir aw^ lopow us which way blows the wifid^ on the D UNCI AD. 127 Thus dirty Knaves o?' chatir'mg Fools^ Stru?ig tip by dozens in thy Lay^ Teach more by half than Dennis' rulesy And point InfiruSiion evry way. With Egypt's art thy pen may Jlrive ; One potent drop let this but Jl^edy And ev ry Rogue that Jiunk alive Becomes a precious Mujnmy dead. Ve R. 13 3. — piteous of his cafe, Tetfniling at his ruful length of face. "] Virg. j^n. 5. — Rift pater optimus illi. Me liceat cafum miferare info?itis amici — Sic fat us, GcetuJi tergum ifnmane leonis, &c. Ve r. 1 34. Ruful length of face."] " The decrepid perfon or fi- ** gure of a man are no refledions upon his Genius : An honeft *' mind will love and efteem a man of worth, tho' he be deform'd " or poor : yet the author of the Dunciad hath libell'd a perfon ■" for his ruful length of face !" Mift's Journ. June 8. This Ge- nius and man of worth whom an honeft mind fhould love, is Mr. Curl. True it is, he flood in the Pillory ; an accident which will lengthen the face of any man tho' it were ever fo comely, therefore no refledion on the natural beauty of Mr. Curl. But as to refledions on any man's Face or Figure, Mr. Dennis faith ex- cellently ; " Natural deformity comes not by our fault, 'tis often " occafion'd by calamities and difeafes, which a man can no more " help than a monfter can his deformity. There is no one mif- *' fortune and no one difeafe, but what all the reft of men " are fubjeft to But the deformity of this Author is vifible, " prefent, lafting, unalterable, and peculiar to himfelf: 'tis the " mark ot God and Nature upon him, to give us warning that wc ^' fhould hold no fociety with him, as a creature not oi our origi- U 2 128 NOTES VARIORUM " nal, nor of our fpecies : And they who have refufed to take *' this warning which God and nature have given them, and have " in fpite of it by a fenfelefs prefumption ventur'd to be familiar *' with him, have feverely fuffer'd, ^'c 'Tis certain his original is " not from Adam, but from the Devil, ^c." Dennis Charad. of Mr.P. 8°i7i6. Admirably is it obferv'd by Mr. Dennis againft Mr. Law, p. 2Z' " That the language of Billingfgate can never be the language of " Charity, norconfequentlyof Chriftianity." I fhouldelfe be tempt- ed to ufe the language of a Critic : for what is more provoking to a Commentator, than to behold his Author thus pourtrayed ? Yet I confider it really hurts not Him ; whereas malicioufly to call fome others dull might do them prejudice with a world too apt to believe it. Therefore tho' Mr. D. may call another a little Afs or young Toad, far be it from us to call him a toothlefs Lion or an old Serpent. Indeed, had I written thefe Notes (as was once my intent) in the learned language, I might have given him the ap- pellations of Balatroy Qalceattmi caputs or Scurra in trroiis^ be- ing phrafes in good efteem and frequent ufage among the beft learned : But in our mother-tongue, were I to tax any Gentle- man of the Dunciad, furely it fhould be in words not to the vul- gar intelligible ; whereby chriftian charity, decency, and good accord among authors might be preferved. Scriblerus. The good Scrtblerus here, as on all occafions, eminently fhows his Humanity : but it was far otherwife with the Gentlemen of the Dunciad, whofe fcurrilities were always Perfonal : They went fo far as to libel an eminent Sculptor for making our author's Bufto in marble, wliich Rhimes had the undeferv'd honour to be anfwer'd in an Iniproniptu by the Earl of B Well Sir^ fuppoje the Bujio a dam?t(i heady ■ Snppofe the Man an Elf\ on the D U N C I A D. 129 ji^ll he can fay fort is, he 7ieither made The Bujio, 7iar Himfelf And by another Perfon of Quality, Rysbrake-f to make a Pope of fione^ Mufl labour hard and fore ; But it 'would coft hi?n labour 7to?iey To make a Stone of Moore. Their ScurriHties were of that nature as provoked every honed man but himfelf, yet never to be lamented fince they occafion- ed the following amiable Verfes. While Malice^ PopCj denies thy page Its own celeflial Fire ; While Critics-^ a?id while Bards i?t rage' Admiring, wont admire-. While wayward Pens thy worth ajfaily And envious Tongues decry \ Thefe Times tho many a Friend bewail, Tloefe Times bewail Jiot I. But when the World's loud Praife is 'thine, And Spleen no more f jail blame ; . When with thy Homer Thou fjalt fjine In one ejlablifjd Fame ; Whe?i 7ione fhall rail, a7td evry Lay Devote a Wreath to Thee ; That Day (for co7ne it will) that Day Shall I la77ient to fee, Ver. 135. A paggy Tafjlry^ A forry kind of Tapeftry fre- quent in old Inns, made ol worfted or fomc courfer fluff : like that which is fpoken of by Do6tor Donne — Faces as frightful rgo NOTES VARIORUM as theirs who ivhip Chriji in old hangi?tgs. The imagery woven in it alludes to the mantle of Cloanthus in iEn. 5. Ve R. 13 6. On Codrus old^ or Duntons modern bed^ Of Cod- rus the Poet's bed fee Juvenal, defcribing his poverty very copi- oufly. Sat. 3. V. 103, &'£. LeEtus erat CodrOy &c. Codrus had but one bed^ foJJjort to boot^ That hisjhort Wife's fiort legs hung dangling outy His cupboard's head Jix ea?'then pitchers gracd, Beiteath thejnwas his trufty tankard plac d ^ And to fupport this noble Plate^ there lay A bending Chiron^ caji from honefi clay. His few Greek books a rotten chefi contain d^ Whofe covers much of mouldinefs complain d. Where mice and rats devour d poetic bread-^ And on Heroic Ve^fe luxurioufly were fed, ^T'is true-t poor Codrus nothing had to boafi^ And yet poor Codrus all that nothing lofl. Dryd. But Concanen in his dedication of the Letters, Advertifements, &^c. to the author of the Dunciadj affuresus, that " Ju\^enal ne- " ver fatirized the poverty of Codrus." John Dunton was a broken bookfeller and abuilve fcribler : he writ Neck or Nothings a violent fatire on feme Minifters of State ; a libel on the Duke of Devonfhire and on the Right Rev. Bifliop of Peterborough, ^c. Ver. 140. A?2d Tutchin flagrant from the fcourge^^ John TuTCHiN, author of fome vile verfes, and ot a weekly paper caird the Obfervator. He was fentenc'd to be whipp'd thro' fe- veral towns in the Weft of England, upon which he petition'd King James II. to be hanged. When that Prince died in exile, on the DUNCIAD. 131 he wrote an inve yours tofijake, &c.] Firg. Mn. 6. Excudent alii fpirantia j?wllius cera. Credo equidem, vivos due ant e mar more vultus, &c. Tu, regere imperio populos, Romane, meme7Jto, Hce tibi erujit artes Ver. 218. With Tlomtder ru77ibling f^om the 7m{fiard~bowl?\ The old way of making Thunder and Muftard were the fame ; but fmce, it is more advantagioufly perform'd by troughs of wood with flops in them. Whether Mr. Dennis was the inventor of that improvement, I know not ; but it is certain, that being once at on the D U N CI A D. 137 a Tragedy of a new Author, he fell into a great paflion at hear- ing fome, and cry'd, "S'death! that is my Thunder." Ver. 220. With a tolling Bell.~\ A mechanical help to the Pa- thetick, not unufeful to the modern writers of Tragedy. Ver. 223. 7'hree Cat-calls^ Certain mufical Inftruments ufed by one fort of Critics to confound the Poets of the Theatre. Ver. 230. JVorton^ See verfe 383 — J. Durant Breval, Au- thor of a very extraordinary Book of Travels, and fome Poems. See before, Note on ver. 116. Ver. 233 A Cat- call each pall win^ &c.] Virg.Ecl. i. Non nojlrum inter vos tantas comp07ie?'e' lites, Et vitiila tu digfius^ &' hie Ve r. 237.] A Simile with a long tail, in the manner of Homer. Ve R. 248 l?rajy back to hijn again^ A figure of fpeech ta- ken from Virgil. Et vox ajfenfu nemorum ingemi?iata remugit. Geor. 3. He hears his nufnrous herds low o'er the plain^ While neighb'riftg hills low back to them again. Cowley; The poet here celebrated Sir R. B. delighted much in the word Brayy which he endeavour'd to ennoble by applying it to the found of Armour, War, ^c. In imitation of him and ftrengthen'd by his authority, our author has here admitted it into Heroic poetry. Ver. 25 c. Prick all their ears up, and forget to graze^ ^^'^S' Eel. 8. Immemor herharum quos ejl mirata juvenca. The progrefs of the found from place to place, and the Scenary here of the bordering regions, Tot'nam-fields, Chancery-lane, the Thames, WcRminfter-hall, and Hungertord-flairs, are imita- ted from Virg. yEn. 7. on the founding the horn of Alcfto. 138 NOTES VARIORUM Audiit &' Trwice longe lacus^ audiit amnis Sulphurea Nar albiis aqua, fontefque Velbii, &c. Ver. 251. Long Cha?jcry-lane^ The place where the office of Chancery are kept : The long detention of Clients in that Court, and the difficulty of getting out, is humouroufly allego- riz'd in thefe lines. Ver. 256. Who fmgs fo loudly, a?id who fmgs Jo lo7ig?\ A juft charadler of Sir Richard B l a c k m o r e, Kt. who (as Mr. Dry- den exprefs'd it) U'T/V to the rumbling of his CoacFs wheels, and whofe indefatigable Mufe produced no lefs than fix Epic poems : Prince and King Arthur, 20 Books; Eliza 10 ; Alfred i 2 ; The Redeemer 6 : belides Job in folio, the whole Book of Pfalms, The Creation, 7 Books, Nature of Man, 3 Books, and many more. 'Tis in this fenfe he is ftiled afterwards, the Everlajling Blachnore. Notwithftanding all which, Mr.Gildon feems affu- red, that *' this admirable author did not think himfelf upon the "fame foot with Homer." Comp. Art of Poetry, Vol. i. p. 108. But how different is the judgment of the author of Characters of the Times ? p. 25. who fays, " Sir Richard is unfortunate in " happening to miftake his proper talents, and has not for many " years been fo much as named, or even thought of among wri- " ters." Even Mr. Dennis differs greatly from his friend Mr. Gil- don. " Blackmore's Adtion (faith he) has neither unity, nor in- " tegrity, nor morality, nor univerfality ; and confequently he " can have no Fable, and no Heroic Poem : His Narration is nei- " ther probable, delightful, nor wonderful : His Charaders have " none of the neceffary qualifications The things contain'd in *' his Narration are neither in their own nature deliglitful, nor *' numerous enough, nor rightly difpofed, nor furprifing, nor pa- *' thet'c Nay he proceeds fo far as to fay Sir Richard has no Genius; firft laying dovvn "that Genius is caufed hy 2i furious *^ joy and pride of Ibul, on the conception of an extraordinary on the D UN CI A D. 139 " Hint. Many Men (lays he) have their Hints^ without thefe " motio7is of fmy and pride of foul^ becaufe they want fire " enough to agitate their fpirits ; and thefe we call cold Writers : " Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent or- " gans, feel the foremention d motions, without the extraordina- " ry liints ; and thefe we call fuftian writers. But he declares, " that Sir Richard had neither the HintSy nor the Motions. Re- marks on Prince Arthur 8" 1696, Preface. Hiis gentleman in his firft works abufed the charader of Mr. Dryden,and in his laft of Mr. Pope,accufmg him in very high and fubcr terms of Prophanenefs and Immorality (EfTay on polite wri- ting, Vol. 2. p. 270.) on the credit of Edmund Curl that he was author of aTraveftie on the firft Pfalm. Mr. Dennis took up the fame report, but with the addition ol what Sir Richard had neo-- leited, an Argument to prove it ; which being very curious, we fhall here tranfcribe. (Remarks on Homer, 8" p. 27.) " It was " he \vho burlcfqu'd the Pfalm of David. It is apparent to me " that Pfalm was burlefqu'd by a Popifh rhymefter : Let rhyme- "ing perfons who have been brought up Proteftants be otherwife " what they will, let 'cm be Rakes, let 'em be Scoundrels, let 'em " be Atheifts, yet education has made an invincible impreflion on " them in behalf of the facred writings. But a PopilK rhymefter " has been brought up with a contempt for thofe lacred writings. " Now lliow me another Popifh rhymefter but he." This man- ner of argumentation is ufual with Mr. Dennis; he has employ 'd the fame againft Sir Richard himfelf in a like charge of Impiety and Irreligion. " All Mr. Biackmore's celeftial Machines, as they " cannot be defended fo much as by common-receiv'd opinion, " fo are diredly contrary to the dodrine of the Church of En- " gland : For the vifible defcent of an Angel muft be a miracle. " Now it is the dodlrine of the Church of England that miracles " had ceas'd a long time before Prince Artiiur^came into the " world. Now if the dodrinc cf the Church of England be true, i^o NOTES VARIORUM " as we are oblig'd to believe, then are all the celeftial machines " in Prince Arthur unfufferable, as wanting not only human but " divine probability. But if the machines are fufferable, that is " if they have fo much as divine probability, then it follows of " neceflity that the dodlrine of the Church is falfe : So I leave it " to every impartial Clergyman to confider, ^c." Preface to the Remarks on Prince Arthur. Ver. 258. As morttmg pray 7- and fiagellatmi end.] It is be- tween eleven and twelve in the morning, after church fervice, that the criminals are whipp'd in Bridewell This is to mark punctually the Time of the day : Homer does it by the circum- ftance of the Judges rifmg from court, or of the Labourers din- ner i our autlior by one very proper both to the Perfons and the Scene of his Poem, which we may remember commenc'd in the evening of the Lord mayor's day : The firfl: book pafied in that night; the next morning the games begin in the Strand, thence along Fleetftreet (places inhabited by Bookfellers) then they pro- ceed by Bridewell toward Fleetditch, and laftly thro' Ludgate to the City and the Temple of the Goddefs. Ver. 261. T/je King of dykes! ^c] Firg. Fluviorum Rex Eridanusj quo non alius, per pinguia culta, hi mare pu?-pureum violent ior infiuit amnis. Ver. 261. T'he Diving^ " This I fancy (fays a great Enemy *' to the Poem) is a Game which no body could ever think of " but the Author : however it is work'd up admirably well, efpe- *' cially in thofe lines where he defcribes Eufden (he fhould fay *' Smedley) rifing up again. EiTay on the Dunciad, p. 19. Ver. 264, 265, 266. — dap thro thick a?id thin — love of dirt, dark dexterity — ] The three chief qualifications of Party- writers V to flick at nothing, to delight in flinging dirt, and to flander in the dark by guefs. (m die DI/NCIAD- ifi Ver. 268. 77je fFeekfy younm/s.'] Papers of news and fcandal intermrx'd, on difFerent lides and parties, and frequently fliiftincr from one fide to the other, call'd the London Journal^ Mift's Journal, Britifh Journal, Daily Journal, &'c. the conceal'd writers of which for fome time were Old mixon, Roome, Arnall, Conca- nen, and others ; perfons never feen by our author. Ver. 270. A peck of coals apiece^ Our indulgent Poet, when- ever he has fpoken of any dirty or low work, conftantly puts us in mind of the Poverty of the offender, as the only extenuation of fuch pradices. Let any one but remark, when a Thief, a Pick-pocket, a Highwayman, or a Knight of the Poft is fpoken of, how much our hatred to thofe charaders is leffened, if they add a needy Thief, a poor Pick- pocket, a hungry Highwayman, a ftarving Knight of the Port, &^c. Ve R. 271. In naked majejiy Old??iixofi J}a?icls^ Mr. John O l d- KHxoN, next to Mr. Dennis the mofl: ancient Critic of our Na- tion: an unjuft cenfurer of Mr. Addifon in his Profe Effay on Criticifm, whom alfo in his imitation of Bouhours (call'd the Af'ts of Logic a fid Rhetoric] he mifreprefents in plain matter of fa6t : for in p. 45. he cites the Spedtator as abufing Dr. Swift by name, where there is not the leaft hint of it ; And in p. 304, is fo injurious as to fuggeft, that Mr. Addifon himfelf writ that Tatler N° 43, which fays of his own Simile, that " 'tis as great as ever enter'd " into the mind of man." In Poetry, " he was not fo happy as " laborious, and therefore chara6leriz'd by the Tatler, N'" 62, by the name of Omicron the UjibornPoetT Curl, Key, p. 13. " He writ Dramatic works, and a volume of Poetry, confiflinrr '' of heroic Epifiles, ^c. fome whereof are very well cJone," faith that great Judge Mr. Jacob in his Lives of Poets, Vol. 2. p. 303. Li his Effay on Criticifm, and the Arts of Logic and Rheto- ric, he frequently refle6ls on our Author. But the Top of his Charader was a Perverter of Hiftory, in that fcandalous one of the Stuarts in folio, and his Critical Hiftorv of England » Y 142 NOTES VARIORUM 2 Vol. 8 ° Being imploy'd by Billiop Kennet in publifhing the Hi- ftorians in his Colledtion, he fahihed Daniel's Cronicle in num- berlefs places. Yet this very man, in the Preface to the firft of thefe, advanc'd a particular FaEi to charge three Eminent Per- fons of faliifying the Lord Clarendon's Hiftory ; which Fa6l has been difprov'd by the Bifhop of Rochefter, then the only furvivor of them ; and the particular part produced fmce, after almoft ninety Years, in that noble Author's own Hand. He was all his life a virulent Party-writer for Hire, and received his reward in a fmall place which he yet enjoys. He is here likened to Milo, in allufiion to that verfe of Ovid, — Fletque Milon fenior^ cumfpeSiat inajies Hercukis Jimiles, fluidos pendere lacerioSy either with regard to his Age, or becaufe he was undone by try- ing to pull to pieces an Oak that was too ftrong for him. Refnember Milos end^ TVedgd in that timber which he Jlrove to rend. Rofc. Ver. 279. Next Smedly divd.'] In the furreptitious editions, this whole Epifode was apply'd to an initial letter E — , "by whom if they meant the Laureate, nothing was more abfurd, no part agreeing with his character. The Allegory evidently demands a perfon dipp'd in fcandal, and deeply immers'd in dirty work : whereas Mr. Eufden's v/ritings rarely offended but by their length and multitude, and accordingly are tax'd of nothing elfe in book I. verfe 102. But the perfon here mention'd, an Irifhman, was author and publilher ot many fcurrilous pieces, a weekly Whitehall Journal in the year 1722, in the name of Sir James Baker, and particularly whole volumes of Billingfgate againft Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope, called Gulliveriana and Alexandriana, printed in 8° 1728. on the D U N C 1 A D 14J Ver. 281. — and call on Smedley lofi^ Sec] Lord Rofcoin- mon's tranflation of Virgil's 6th Eclog. Alcides wept in 'u am for Hylas lojl^ Hylas in vain refounds thro all the coafi. Ver. 283. ThenF*^ #yV.] A Gentleman of Genius and Spirit, who was fecrctly dipt in fome papers of this kind,, on whom our Poet beftows a Panegyric inftead of a Satire, as defer- ving to better imployed than in Party-quarrels and Perfonal-in- vedlives. Ver. 287. Concane?i?^ Matthew Concanen, an Irifhman bred to the Law : he abufed Dr. Swift, to whom he had obli- gations, to which Smedley (one of his brethren in enmity to Swift) alludes in his Metamorphofis of Scriblerus, p. 7. accu- ling him of having " boafted of what he had not written, " but others had revis'd and done for him." He was author of feveral dull and dead fcurrilities in the Britifli and London Journals, and in a paper call'd the Speculatift. In a pamphlet call'd a Supplement to the Profund, he dealt very unfairly with our Poet, not only frequently imputing to him Mr. Broome's verfes, (for which he might indeed feeni in fome degree accounta- ble, having correded what that gentleman did) but thofe of the Duke of Buckingham, and others : To this rare piece, fome-body humoroufly caus'd him to take for his motto, De profundis cla- mavi. He was fince a hired Scribler in the Daily Courant^ where he pour'd forth much Billingfgate againft the Lord BoHngbroke and others ; after which this man was furprizingly promoted to adminifker Juftice and Law in Jamaica. Ver. 290. Nor everlajiing Blachnore this denies?^ Nee bonus Euiytion prislato invidit Jmiori. Virg. Ver. 293. Arnall.l William A r n a l l bred an A ttorne y, Y 2 144 NOTES VARIORUM was a perfect Genius in this Art : He began under twenty with furious Party-papers : then fucceeded Concanen in the Btitifh Journal. At the firft pubHcation of the Dunciad, he prevail'd on the Author not to give him his due place in it, by a Letter pro- fefling his deteftation of all fuch pra6lifes as his PredecelTor's : but iince, by the moft unexampled Infolence, impudent Billingf- gate Language, and Perfonal Abufe of fcveral Great Men the Poet's particular Friends, he hath moft amply deferred a Niche in the Temple of Infamy. Witnefs a paper call'd the Free Bri- ton, a Dedication intitled, To the Genuine Blunderer, 1732, and many others. He writ for Hire, and valued himfelf upon it, but frequently thro' his Fury, and wrong Judgment exceed- ed all the bounds of his Commiffion, and obliged his Honorable Patron to difavow his Scurrilities. Ver. 302. — in Majefty of mud.'] Milton. — in majejiy of darknefs round Circled Ver. 305. Greater he looks, and 7mre than mortal flares^ ^^'X' 6. of the Sybil. majorque videri Nee mortale fonans •Ver. 312. As Hy las fair ^ Who was ravifh'd by the water- nymphs and drawn into the river. The ftory is told at large by Valerius Flaccus, Lib. 3. Argon. See Virg. Eel. 6. Ve R. 31 4. &'c. A branch of Styx, 8cc.] Homer, 11. 2 CataL OyJ'' oyi iWiPHu (rvfjifjiiiyileu it^yv£st. Of Alphceus his waters gliding fecretly under the fea of Pifa, to mix with thofe of Arethufe in Sicily, vid. Mofchus Idyl. 8. Firg. Eel. lo. Sic t'lhi., cum flicSius fubter labere Ska7Jos, Doris ajnarafuam no?i i?itermifceat undam. And again, lEn. 3. — Alphceum, fama eft., hue Elidis ammm Oceultas egiffe vias^ fubter mare., qui nunc Ore Arethufa tuo^ Siculis confunditur undis. Ve R. 321. How to the banksy &c.] Firg. EcL 6. Turn canit errantem Permejft ad Jlu7m?ia Gallufn^ Utque viro Phcebi chorus affurexerit omnis \ Ut Linus hcec illi divino carmine pajlor, Floribus atque apio crines ornatus amarot Dixerit, Hos tibi dant cala^nos^ en accipe^ Mufce^ Afcrceo quos ante feni — &c. Ver. 323. Taylor^fweet Swan of Thames.'] John Taylor the Water Poet, an honeft man, who owns he learn'd not fo much as his Accidence : a rare example of modefty in a Poet ! / ?/wJi confefs I do wa?2t eloquence^ And never fcarce did lea?' fi 7?ty Accide7ice\ For havi72g got fro7n Pofium to Poflet, I there was gravelfd^ could 710 fa7'ther get. He wrote fourfcore books in the reign of James I. and Charles L and afterwards (like Edward Ward) kept an Alehoufe in Lon« Acre. He died in 1654.. Ver. 324. And Shadwell 7iods the Poppy.'] Shad well took Opi- i^6 NOTES VARIORUM tim for many years, and died of too large a dofe of it, in tlie year 1692. Ver. 325. J^-F/jJle Milbomm?\ Luke Mil bourn a Clergy- man, the fairefl: of Critics ; who when he wrote againft Mr. Dry- den's Virgil, did him juftice, in printing at the fame time his own tranflations of him which were intolerable. His manner of wri- ting had a great refemblance with that of the Gentlemen of the Dunciad againft our author, as will be feen in the Parallel of Mr. Dryden and him. Append. Ve R. 332. Gates of Lud^ " King Lud repairing the City, cal- " led it after his own name, Lud's Town ; the ftrong gate which *' he built in the weft part, he likewife for his own honour na- " med Ludgate. In the year 1260, this gate was beautified " with images of Lud and other Kings. Thofe images in the *' reign of Edward VI, had their heads fmitten off, and were other- " wife defaced by unadvifed folks. Queen Mary did fet new " heads on their old bodies again. The 28th of Queen Elizabeth *' the fame gate was clean taken down, and newly and beauti- " fully builded with images of Lud and others as afore." Stow's Survey of London. Ver. 342. SQQHom. Odyjf. 12. Ovid. Met. i. Ver. 348. Tie fame their tale?its. — Each prompt., &'c^ Virg. Ed. 7. Amho florentes cetatibus., Arcades ambo, Et certare pares., &' refpondere paratt. Ve R. 352. 7^^ heroes ft ; the vulgar forfn a ring."] Ovid. M. 13. Confedere duces., &^ vulgi fante coro?ia. Ver. 356. 'Thro the long., heavy., paiitfid page., &c.] " All thefe « lines very well imitate the flow drowzinefs with which they pro- *' ceed. It is impoflible for any one who has a poetical ear to « read them, without perceiving the heavinefs that lags in the on the D U N C I A D. 147 '* verfe, to imitate the action it defcribes. The Simile of the Pines " is very juft and well adapted to the fubjed." EfTay on the Dunciad, p. 21. Ver. 365. Thrice Budgel aimd to/peak^ " He is a very inge- " nious gentleman, and hath written fome excellent epilogues to " plays, and one fmall piece on love, which is very pretty." Ja- cob Lives of Poets, vol. 2. p. 289. But this Gentleman after- wards made himfelf much more eminent, and perfonally well- known to the greateft Statefman of all parties, in this nation. Ver. 367. Toland and Tindal.'] Two perfons not fo happy as to be obfcure, who writ againft the Religion of their Country. Ver. 368. Chrifl''s No kifigdom^ &c.] This is faid by Curl, in his Key to the Dunciad, to allude to the Sermon of a reverend BifLop. If the Poet in this place, among mean and injurious Party-writers, could have any thought of that Prelate ; it muft have been occafion'd by his having fometimes fJoop'd to rank himfelf with them : or perhaps in particular for having in the London Journals borrow'd the name of Britannicus, to inflame the Accufations and aggravate the Sufferings of a Brother of his own Order in the Church, after he had fatisfy'd the Rigour of the Law, and adually lay under thofe Pains and Penalties which continued his whole life : I mean the learned Bifliop Attcr- bury. Ver. 378. O'er all the fea of heads."] Blackmore's Job. A waving fea of heads was round me fpread^ A?id ftill frefj firearm the gazi?ig deluge fed. Ve R. 37 9. Centlivre.'] Mrs. Susanna Centlivre, wife to Mr. Centlivre, Yeoman of the Mouth to his Majefty. She writ many Plays, and a fong (fays Mr. Jacob, vol. i. p. 32.) before file was feven years old. She alfo writ a Ballad againft Mr. Pope's Homer, before he begun it. 148 NOTES TA RIORUM Ver. 381. Boyer the State^ and Law the Stage gave o'er.'j A. Boyer, a voluminous compiler of Annals, Political Collections,. ^c. William Law, A.M. wrote with great zeal againfl: the Stage, Mr. Dennis anfwer'd with as grealr. Their books were printed in 1726. Mr. Law affirm'd that "the Playhoufe is the ^' Temple of the Devil, the peculiar pleafure of the Devil, where " all they who go yield to the Devil, where all the Laughter is " a laughter among Devils, and all who are there are hear- " ing Mufick in the very Porch of Hell." To which Mr. Dennis reply'd, that " there is every jot as much difference between a " true Play, and one made by a Poetafter, as between Two re- " ligious books, the Bible and the Alcoranr Then he demon- flrates that " All thofe who had written againft the Stage were " Jacobites and Nonjurors, and did it always at a time when *' fomething was to be done for the Pretender. Mr. Collier pub- " lifh'd his Short View, when France declar'd for the Chevalier ; " and his Diffwaiive juft at the great Storm, when the devaftation *' which that Hurricane wrought had amazed and aftoniflied the " minds of men, and made them obnoxious to melancholy and " defponding thoughts. Mr. Law took the opportunity to attack *' the Stage upon the great preparations he heard were, making " abroad, and which the Jacobites ilatter'd themfelves were de- " ficrn d in their favour : And as for Mr. Bedford's Serious Ps.e- *' monftrance, tho' I know nothing of the time of publifhing it, " yet I dare to lay odds it was either upon the Duke D'Aumont's *' being at Somerfet-houfe, or upon the late Rebellion." Dennis, Stage defended againft Mr. Law, p. ult. Ver. 383. NQrt07i?\ Norton de Fofe, Off-fpring of the fa- mous Daniel. Fortes creantur fortibus. He was one of the Au- thors of the Flying- Poft, in .which well-bred work Mr. P. had fometime the honour to be abus'd with his betters ; and of ma- ny hired fcurrilities and daily papers, to which he never fet his name, in a due fear of Laws and Cudgels. on the D U N C I A D. 149 Ver. 386. And all was hi/p\l^ as Folly s f elf lay dead.'] Al- ludes to Dryden's verfe in the Indian Emperor, All things are hujh'dy as Nature s f elf lay dead : Ver. 394. And to mere mortals, feenid a Priefl in drinh] This line prefents us with an excellent Moral, that we are never to pafs judgment merely by Appearances ; a lelTon to all men who may happen to fee a reverend perfon in the like fituation, not to determine too rafhly : fince not only the Poets frequently defcribe a Bard infpir'd in this pofture On Cam's fair ba7ik where Chaucer lay i^ifpit'd, and the like: but an eminent Cafuift tells us, " that if a Priefl: " be feen in any indecent adion, we ought to account it a De- " ception of fight, or Illufion of the Devil, who fometimes takes " upon him the fliape of holy men on purpofe to caufe fcandal." How little the prophane author of the Charadlers of the Times, printed 1728, regarded this admonition, appears fromthefe words pag. 26, (fpeaking of the reverend Mr. Laurence Eufden) " A " mofl worthy fucceflbr of Tate in the Laureatfhip, a man of in- " fuperable modefty, fince certainly it was not his Ambition that *' led him to feek this illuftrious poft, but his AfFedtion to the " Perquifite of Sack. Scriblerus. Ver. 395. Fleet.'] A Prifon for infolvent Debtors on the bank of the Ditch. Ti. ^J'^ f' h NOTES on the Third Book. VERSE 5, 6, Which only Heads rejifi d from reafon know .^ 8cc.J Hereby is intimated that the following Vifion is no more than the Chimera of the dreamer's brain, and not a real or in- tended fatire on the Prefent Age^ doubtlefs more learned, more inlighten'd, and more abounding with great Genius's, in Divinity, Politics, and whatever Arts and Sciences, than all the preceding. For fear of any fuch miftake of our Poet's honeft meaning, he hath again at the end of the Vifion repeated this monition, fay- ing that it all paft thro' the Ivory gate^ which (according to the Ancients) denoteth Falfity. Scriblerus. Ver. 8. Hence from the fir aw where Bedla^ns Prophet ?2odsy He hears loud Oracles^ a7td talks with Gods. Et varias audit voces, fruitiirque deorum Colloquio Virg. j^n. 7. Ver. 15. T'here in a dusky vale, 6cc.] Virg. j^7i. 6. . — Videt JEneas i7t valle reduEia Seclufum netnus Lethceumque dojnos placidas qui prcenatat ajmietn, 8cc. Hu9ic circum innumercB gentes, &c. Ver. 16. Old Bavius fits, to dip poetic fouls.~\ Alluding to the flory of Thetis dipping Achilles, to render him impenetrable. At pater Anchijcs penitus convalk virenti Inclufas animas, fuperufnque ad limien ituras, Lufirabat — Virg. JEn. 6. NOTES VARIORUM, &c. i$i Ve r. 1 6. Old Bavius Jits.l^ Bavius was an ancient Poet, celebra- ted by Virgil for the like caufe as Tibbald by our author, tho' not in To chriftian-like manner : For heathenillily it is declared by Virgil of Bavius, that he ought to be Jmted and detefied for his evil works ; ^lui Bavium non odit : whereas we have often had occafion to obferve our Poet's great good nature and merci- fulnefs, thro' the whole courfe of this poem. Scriblerus. Mr. Dennis warmly contends that Bavius was no inconfidera- ble author ; nay, that " he and Msevius had (even in Auguftus's " days) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much " fuperior to Virgil and Horace : For (faith he) " I cannot be- " believe they would have fix'd that eternal brand upon *' them, if they had not been coxcombs in more than ordi- "nary credit." Rem. on Pr. Arthur, part 2. c. i. (An argument which if this Poem fhould laft, will conduce to the honour of the Gentlemen of the Dunciad.) In like manner he tells us of Settle, " that he was once a formidable Rival to Mr. Dryden, and " that in the Univerfity of Cambridge there were thofe who " gave him the preference." Mr. Welfted goes yet farther in his behalf : " Poor Settle was formerly the Mighty Rival of Dry- " den, nay for many years bore his Reputation above him." Preface to his Poems, 8 ° p. 5 1 • And Mr. Milburn cry'd out, " How little was Dryden able, even when his blood run high, to " defend himfelf againft Mr. Settle !" Notes on Dryd. Virg. p. 175. Thefe are comfortable opinions ! and no wonder fome Authors indulge them. Ver. 20. Broivn mid Mea?'s] Bookfellers, Printers for Tibbald, Mrs. Haywood, or any body The Allegory of the Souls of the Dull coming forth in the form of Books dreft in Calves Leather, and being let abroad in vaft numbers by Bookfellers, is fufficient- ly intelligible. Ver. ibid. Ufibar the gates of Light ^ Milton. Ve r. 2 3. Millio7is a?jd millions — Thick as ths fta?'Sj Sec] Firg.6. Z 2 152 NOTES VARIORUM i^uam multa in Jyhh autuftmi f rigor e primo Lap/a cadimt folia^ aut ad terram gurgite ab alto ^uam multce glouteranticr avesj 8cc. Ver. 26. Ward ill Pil/ory.'jJoHu Ward of Hackney, Efq; Member of Parliament, being convided of Forgery, was firfl: expelled the Houfe, and then fentenc'd to ftand in the Pillory on the 17th of February 1727. Mr. Curl (having likewife ftood there) looks upon the mention of fuch a Gentleman in a Satire, as a great aft of Barbarity. Key to the Dunciad, 3d Edit. p. 16. And another author thus reafons upon it: Durgen 8*^, pag. 11, 12. " How unworthy is it of Chriftian Cha- " rity to abufe a worthy man in fic/j a fttuation f What cou'd " move the Poet thus to mention a brave Sufferer^ a gallant Pri- ^^foner, expos'd to the view of all mankind I It was laying afide " his Senfes, it was committing a Crime for which the Law is de- *' ficient not to punifli him ! nay a Crime which Man can fcarce " forgive, nor Time efface ! Nothing furely could have induced " him to it but a great Lady" (to whom this brave, gallant, wor- thy Gentleman was guilty of no offence but Forgery proved in open Court, &'c) But it is evident this verfe cou'd not be meant of him ; it being notorious that no Eggs were thrown at that Gentleman : Perhaps therefore it might be intended of Mr. Ed- ward Ward the Poet. Ver. 28. A?id length of Ears.] This is a fophifticated reading. I think I may venture to affirm all the Copyifts are miftaken here : I believe I may fay the fame of the Critics ; Dennis, Old- mixon, Welfled, have pafs'd it in filence : I have always {tum- bled at it, and wonder'd hov/ an error fo manileft could efcape fuch accurate perfons ? I dare aflert it proceeded originally from the inadvertency of fome Tranfcriber, whofe head run on the Pillory mention'd two lines before : It is therefore amazing that Mr. Curl himfelf fhould overlook it ! Yet that Scholiaft takes not the lead notice hereof. That the learned Mifl: alfo read it thus, on the D UN CI A D. 153 is plain, from his ranging this paflage among thofe in which our Author was blamed for perfonal Satire on a Man's Face (whereof doubtlefs he might take the Ear to be a part) So likewife Conca- nen, Ralph, the Flying-poft, and all the Herd of Commentators. — T'ota armejita jequtmtiir. A very little Sagacity (which all thefe Gentlemen therefore wanted) will reftore to us the true fenfe of the Poet, thus, By his broad poulders known^ and le?igth of years. See how eafy a change ! of one fingle letter ! That Mr. Settle was old is mofi: certain, but he was (happily) a ftranger to the Pillory. This Note partly Mr, Theobald, partly Scriblerus. Ver. 42. Might from Bceotia?i^ &^c.'\ See the Remark on Book I. Ver. 23. Ve r. 46. Mix'd the Owfs Ivy with the Poets Bays.'] Firg. Ec. 8. — fme temp or a circum Inter viBrices hederam tibi ferpere latiros. Ver. 53. For this ^ our ^ueen unfolds to vifon true Thy mental eye J for thou haft much to view.] This has a refemblance to that paffage in Milton, 1. ir, where the Angel To nobler fights fro?n Adajns eye removd The flm \ then purgd with Euphrafie and Rue The vifual jierve — For he had much to fee. There is a general allulion in what follows to that whole Epifode. Ver. 61, 62. See round the Poky <^c.] Almoft the whole Sou- thern and Northern Continent wrapt in Ignorance. Ver. 65. Far Eaflivard.] Our author favours the opinion that all Sciences came from the Eaftern nations. Ver. 69.] He whofe long Wall — ] Chi Ho- am- ti^ Emperor of China, the iame who built the great wall between China and Tartary, dcftroyed all the books and learned men of that empire. i6o NOTES VARIORUM Ver. 73, 74. The Caliph, Omar I. having conquered -^gypt, caus'd his General to burn the Ptolomaean library, on the gates of which was this infcription, Medici?ta Afiimce^ The Fhyfuk of the Soul. Ve R. 88. The Soil that arts and infant letters hre."] Phoenicia, Syria, &c. where letters are faid to have been invented. In thefe Countries Mahomet began his Conqueft. Ver. 93. Thimcfri^ig agai?ifl Heathen lore.'] A ftrong inftance of this pious rage is plac'd to Pope Gregory's account. John of Salisbury gives a very odd Encomium to this Pope, at the fame time that lie mentions one of the ftrangeft efl'edls of this excefs of Zeal in him. Do8ior fa7iSlifftmus ille Gregorius^ qui ?nelleo pracii- cationis i^nbre totam rigavit &' inebriavit ecclefiam^ nan modo Ma- thefm juffit ab aula^ fed^ ut traditur a majoribus^ incendio dedit probata; leBionis fcripta^ Palatinus qu^ecunque tenebat Apollo. And in another place : Fertur beatus Gregorius bibliothecam co?nbuj[fiJfe geittilem \ quo divi7tec pagince gratior ejfet locus &' major authori- tas^ &^ dilige7itia fludiofior. Defiderius Archbifliop of Vienna was fharply reproved by him for teaching Grammar and Litera- ture, and explaining the Poets ; Becaufe (fays this Pope) in uno Je ore cum Jovis laudibus^ Chrifii laudes no?i capiunt : Et qua/n grave nefa7tdumque ft., Epifcopis canere quod nee Laico religiofo C07ive7iiaty ipfe co7ifidera. He is faid among the reft to have burn'd Livy, •:quia in fupe?fitio7iibus &' facris Ro777a7wrum perpetuo ver- fatur. The fame Pope is accufed by Voillus and others of ha- ving caus'd the noble monuments of the old Roman magnificence to be deftroyed, left thofe who came to Rome fliou'd give more attention to Triumphal .Arches, &'.c. than to holy things. Bayle, .Dia. Ver, 1 01. Till Peters Keys fo77ie chrifle7i d Jove a dor 71., McP\ After the Government of Rome devolved to. the Popes, their zeal was for fome time exerted in demoliflaing the heathen Temples and Statues ; the Goths fcarce deftroyed more monuments of An- on the D U N C I A D. i6i tiquity out of rage, than thefe out of devotion : At length they fpar'd fome of the Temples by converting them to Churches, and fome of the Statues by modifying them into images of Saints. In much later times, it was thought neceflary to change the ftatues of Apollo and Pallas on the tomb of Sannazarius, into David and Judith, the Lyre eafily became a Harp and the Gorgon's head turn'd to that of Holoternes. Ve R. II o. Happy — had Eajier never been^^ Wars in England anciently, about the right time of celebrating Eafter. Ve r. ibid. Happy — had Eajier never been?[ Virg. Eel. 6. Et fortunatantj ft nunquam arme?2ta fuijfent ! Ve R. 1 1 9, 121. Now look thro Fate — See all her Progeny — . Sec] Firg. M?u 6. Nu7ic age, Darda?iiam prole fn quce deinde fequatur Gloria-) qui ma7jeant Itala de gent e7ie pot eSy lllujlrcs a?timas, nojlrtmique in nomen ituras^ Expediam Ver. 123. As Berecynthia-, &c.] Virg. ib. Felix prole viru7n-, qicalis Berecynthia mater hivehitur ciirru Phrygias turrita per urbes^ Lceta deum partu^ centu7n C077iplexa nepotesy 07n7ies ccelicolas, 07i2nes fupera alta tei7e77tes. Ver. 131. Mark Jirjl the youthj Sec] Firg. u^7i. 6. Ilk videsy pura juvenis qui 7tititur hajlay Proxi77ia forte tenet lucis loca Ve R. 133. With all thy Father s virtues blejl, be born /] A manner of exprelTion ufed by Virgil, Eel. 8. Nafcere ! prcaque die7n venie7iSj age Lucifer — • As alio that of patriis virtutibus. Ed. 4. 156 NOTES VARIORUM Ver. 137. Fro77i the ftrong fate of drains if thou get free-t &c.] Virg,Min. 6. . — f qua fata afpera rumpas^ fu Marcellus eris ! . — Ver. 139. Thee fjjall each Ak'houfe^ 8cc.] yS;'/. 7. Te nemus Angitice^ vitrea te Fucinus unda, Te liquidi flevere lac us. Virgil again Eel. 10. Ilium etiam lauri, illu?n flevere myricce, he. Ver. 145. Haywood, Centlivre^ See Book 2. Ver. 146. Hor?jeck a?id Koome?\ Thefe two are worthily cou- pled, being both virulent Party-writers ; and one wou'd think prophetically, fince immediately after the publishing of this piece, the former dying, the latter fucceeded him in Honour and Em- ployment. ' The firft was Philip Horneck, Author of a Bil- lingfgate paper call'd The High German DoBor. The fecond Ed- ward Rookie, fon of an Undertaker for Funerals in Fleetftrcet, writ fome of the papers call'd Pafquin, and Mr. Ducket others ; where by malicious Innuendos it was endeavour'd to reprefent our Author guilty of malevolent pradlices with a great Man then un- der profecution of Parliament. Of him was made the following Epigram. You ask why Roome diverts you with his jokes, Yett if he writes, is dull as other folks ^ You wonder at it This Sir is the cafe. The J eft is loft, tmlefs he prints his Face. Ver. 1-47 . Goode^ An ill- natur'd Critic who writ a Satire on ■our Author, • call'd 7/3^ ;i!;^(?c^y'E/^^, and many anonymous Libels in News-papers for Hire, &'c. Ver. 149. Jacob, the Scourge of Grammar, mark with awe."] on the DUNCIAD. 157 " This Gentleman is fon of a conjiderahh Maltfter of Romfey in *' Southamptonfhire, and bred to the Law under a very eminent <* Attorney : who, between his more laborious Studies, has divert- " ed himfelf with Poetry. He is a great admirer of Poets and ♦' their works, which has occafion'd him to try his genius that " way — He has writ in profe the Lives of the Poets, Eflays, and " a great many Law-Books, The Accomplifli'd Conveyancer, Mo- " dern Juftice, ^c. Giles Jacob of hiniicii, Lives of Poets, Vol. r. He very grofsly and unprovok'd, abufed in that book the Au- thor's Friend Mr. Gay. Ver. id. Jacob the Scourge^ &c.] There may feem to be fome Error in thefe Verfes, Mr. Jacob having proved our Author to have a RefpeEi for him, by this undeniable Argument. "He " had once a Regard for my Judgment ; otherwife he would ne- " ver have fubfcribed Two Guineas to me for one fmall Book in *' 06tavo." [Jacob's Letter to Dennis, in his Remarks on the Dunciad, pag. 49.] Therefore I fhould think the Appellation of Blunderbufs to Mr. Jacob, like that of Thimderbolt to Scipio, muft have been meant in his Honour. Mr. Dennis argues the fame way. ■" My Writings having made " great impreilion on the minds of all fenfible men, Mr. P. repent- " ed, and to give proof of his Repentance, fubfcribed to my Two " Volumes of feled Works — and afterwards to my Two Vo- " lumes of Letters." [Ibid. pag. 40.] This wou'd make one be- lieve the name of Mr. Dennis hath alfo crept into this Poem by fome miftake. But from hence, gentle Reader ! thou may 'ft be- ware, when thou giveft thy mony to fuch Authors, by no means to flatter thy felf, that thy motives arc Good Nature or Charity. SCRIBLERUS. Ver. 150.] Virg. K^n. 6. — duo fidmhia belli Scipiadasj cladem Lybice ! Aa 158 NOTES VARIORUM Ver. 151. Bond a7id Foxton^ Two inofFenfive offenders againft our poet ; perfons unknown, but by being mention'd by Curl. Ver. 159. Ralph.'] James Ralph, a name inferted after the firft editions, not known to our Author till he writ a Swearing- piece call'd Sawney, very abuiive of Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, and himfelf. Thefe lines allude to a thing of his, intituled Night, a Poem. Shakefpear, Hamlet. Vijit thus the glimpfes of the Moon^ Making Night hideous -,^ This low writer conftantly attended his own works with panegy- ricks in the Journals, and once in particular prais'd himfelf highly above Mr. Addifon, in wretched remarks upon that Author's ac- count of Englifh Poets, printed in a London Journal, Sept. 1728. He was wholly illiterate, and knew no language, not even French. Being advifed to read the rules of dramatick poetry before he began a Play, he fmiled and reply'd, Shakefpear writ without rides. He ended at lafi: in the common Sink of all fuch writers, a Political News-paper, to which he was recommended by his Friend Arnal, and receiv'd .a fmall pittance for pay. Ver. 162. 7kf(?rr/V, Befaleel. See Book 2. ver. 11^. Ver. 163. Flow Welfled, ^c.] Of this Author fee the Remark on Book 2. ver. 199. But (to be impartial) add to it the follow- ing different charader of him. " Mr. We L s T E ]) had, in his Youth, rais'd fo great Expeftations " of his future Genius, that there was a kind of ftruggle between " the moft eminent in the two Univerfities, which fhou'd have the *' honour of his Education ? To compound this, he (civilly) be- " came a Member of both, and after having pafs'd fome time at " the one. He (was) removed to the other. From thence he return'd *' to Town, where he became the darling Expectation of all the po- ** lite Writers, whofe encouragement he acknowledg'd in his occa- *' iional Poems, in a manner that will make no fmall part of the on the D UN CI A D. 159 " Fame of his Protedors. It alfo fliould feem, that he was happy *' in the patronage of the moft illuftrious Characters of the prefent " Age becaufe he has dedicated to them Incourag'd by fuch a " Combination in his favour, he — pubUfh'd a book of Poems, " fome in the Ovidian, fome in the Horatian manner, in both which *' the moft exquifite judges pronounce, he even rival'd his mafters. " His Love-verfes have relcued that way of writing from con- " tempt — In his Tranflations, he has given us the very foul and " fpirit of his author. His Ode — his Epiftle — his Verfes *' his Love-tale — all, are the moft perfed: things in all Poetry !" ^c. WELSTEDofhimfelf Char. oftheTimes, S'^ i728,pag. 23, 24. Ver. 163. Flow TVelJledj flow! 8cc.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. could I flow like thee^ and make thy flrea?n My great example^ as it is my theme. Tho deep J yet clear ; tho gentle^ yet not didl ; St?'o?ig, without rage ; without erflowingt ftdl. Ver. 167. Ah Den7tis, &c.] The reader, who has feen thro* the courfe of thefe Notes, what a conftant attendance Mr. Den- nis paid to our Author and all his works, may perhaps wonder he fliou'd be mention'd but twice, and fo flightly touch'd, in this Poem. But in truth he look'd upon him with fome efteem, for having (more generoufly than all the reft) fet his Name to fuch writings. He was alfo a very old man at this time. By his own account of himfeli in Mr. Jacob's Lives, "he muft have been above threefcore in the Mayoralty of Sir George Thorold in 1720, and hath ftnce happily lived ten years more. So that he is already fenior to Mr. Durfey, who hitherto of all our Poets enjoy'd the longeft Bodily life. Ver. 171. Embracey embrace my Sons ! be foes no more^ Virg. Mn. 6. __ Ne tanta anunis ajfucfcitc bella, Aa 2 i6o NOTES VARIORUM JVeu patrtce validas i?i vifcera vertite vires : Tuque prior-i tu farce — Janguis meus ! — Ve R. 1 7 3. Behold yon pair i inJlriB efubraces join d?^ Virg. ^?u 6. nice autem paribus quas ftdgere cernis i?i artnis., Concordes animce — And in the fifth, Euryalus^ forma ifijignis viridique juventa^ Nifus atnore pio pueri. Ve R. 175. Famd for good nature Burnet, &c. Ducket.^ for pious pajfion to the youth ^ The firft of thefe was fon of the late Bifhop of S. Author of a weekly paper called The Grumbler, as the other was concern'd in one call'd Pafquin, in which Mr. Pope was abufed (particular- ly with the late Duke of -Buckingham and Bifhop of Rochefter.) They alfo join'd in a piece againft his firft undertaking to tranflate the Iliad, intituled Homerides, by Sir Iliad Dogrel, printed 17 15. Mr. Curl gives us this further account of Mr. Burnet. " He did himfelf write a Letter to the E. of HalHfax, *' informing his Lordfhip (as he tells him) of what he knew much " better before : And he publifh'd in his own name fevcral poli- " tical pamphlets, A certain information ot a certain difcourfe, " A fecond Tale of a Tub, ^c. all which it is ftrongly afiirmed " were written by Colonel Ducket." Curl, Key, p. 17. But the author of the Charadlers of the Times, tells us, thefe political pieces were not approv'd of by his own Father, the Reverend Bifhop. Of the other works of thefe Gentlemen, the world has heard no more than it wou'd of Mr. Pope's, had their united laudable endeavour difcourag'd him from his undertaking. How fev/ good works had ever appeared (fince men of true merit are always the on the D U N C I A D. i6i leaft prefuming) had there been always fuch champions to ftifle them in their conception ? And were it not better for the publick, that a milhon of Infeds came into the world, which are fure to die as foon as born, than that fuch Serpents fhould flrangle one Her- cules in his cradle ? The Union of thefe two Authors gave occaiion to this Epigram. Burjiet and Ducket^ friends infpite^ Came hijfmg forth in Verfe ; Both we?'e fo foru-ard., each isjoiidwrite^ So dulL each hung- an A — Thus Aj7iphisbcena (I have read] At either end affails ; None knows which leads^ or which is led. For both Heads are but Tails. Ver. 176 for pious paffion to the youth.'] The verfe is a literal tranflation of Virgil, Nifus amore pio pueri — and here, as in the original, apply'd to Friendfhip : That between Nifus and Euryalus is allow'd to make one of the mod amiable Epifodes in the world, and furely was never interpreted in a perverfe fenfe. But it will aftonifh the reader to hear, that on no other occafion than this line, a Dedication was written to this Gentleman to in- duce him to think fomething farther. " Sir, you are known to " have all that affedion for the beautiful part of the creation " which God and Nature defign'd Sir, you have a very fine " Lady — and. Sir, you have eight very fine Children," — &'c. [Dedic. to Dennis Rem, on the Rape of the Lock.] The truth is, the poor Dedicator's brain was turn'd upon this article ; he had taken into his head that ever fince fome Books were written againft the Stage, and fince the Italian Opera had prevail'd, the nation was infedled with a vice not ^li to be nam'd : He went fo far as to print upon the fubjedl, and concludes his argument with this re- mark, '' that he cannot help thinking the Obfccnity of Plays ex- i62 NOTES VARIORUM " cufable at this jundure ; flnce, when that execrable fin is fpread " fo wide, it may be of ufe to the reducing mens minds to the na- " tural defire of women." Dennis, Stage defended againft Mr. Law, p. 20. Our author folemnly declared, he never heard any creature but the Dedicator mention that Vice and this Gentleman together. Ve R. 181. But who is he^ &c.] Virg, M71. 6. queftions and an- fwers in this manner, of Numa. ^luis procul ille aiitcm ram is i?2fig7iis olivce Sac7~a ferens f — 7ioJco criTies^ i7ica72aque 77ienta^ &c. Ver. 184. Worj7iius hight.\ Let not this name, purely fidi- tious, be conceited to mean the learned Olaus Wormius ; much lefs (as it was unwarrantably foifted into the furreptitious editions) our own Antiquary Mr. Thomas Hearne, who had no way ag- orieved our Poet, but on the contrary publilhed many curious trads which he to his great contentment perufed. Mod rightly are ancient words here imployed, in fpeaking of fuch who fo greatly delight in the fame ; We may fay not only rightly, but wifely, yea excellently ; inafmuch as for the like pra- 6tife the like praife is given to Hopkins and Sternhold by Mr. Hearne himfelf [Gloffar. to Rob. of Glocefter.] Artie. Behett ; ** others fay behight^ pro7rAjed^ and fo it is ufed excellently well " by Tho. Norton in his tranflation into metre of the 116 Pfalm, *' verfe 14. / to the Lord will pay my vows, That I to hi-m behight. " where the modern innovators, not underftanding the propriety " of the word (which is Truly Englifh, from the Saxon) have " mod unwarrantably alter'd it thus, / to the Lord will pay 7tiy vows, With joy and great delight. oil theDUNCI AD. KJ3 Ve R. ih'id. — Hig/jt,'] "In Cumberland they fay to ^ig/jf, for *' to promife or vow ; but bight ufually fignifies was calld : and " fo it does in the North even to this day, notwithflanding what " is done in Cumberland. Hearne iiid. Ver. 183. y^rede.'] Read ov perufe ; tho' fometlmes ufed for counfel, " reacia thy read^ take thy counfaile. Thomas Stern- " holde in his translation of the firft Pfalm into Englifh metre, " hath wifely made ufe of this word, T'he ma?i is hlejl that hath not bent 'To wicked Read his ear. " But in the laft fpurious editions of the finging Pfalms the word " Read is changed into Men : I fay fpurious editions, becaufe not " only here, but quite throughout the whole book of Pfalms, *' are ftrange alterations, all for the worfe ! And yet the title-page " ftands as it us'd to do ! and all (which is abominable in any " book much more in a facred work) is afcribed to Thomas Stern- " hold, John Hopkins, and others ! I am confident, were Stern- " hold and Hopkins now living, they would proceed againft the " innovators as cheats — A liberty which, to fay no more of their *' intolerable alterations, ought by no means to be permitted or " approved of by fuch as are for Uniformity, and have any regard " for the old Englifh Saxon tongue." Hearne, Gloff. on Rob. of Gloc. Art. rede. I do herein agree with Mr. Hearne. Little is it of avail to objeft, that fuch words are become unintelligible. Since they are Truly Englifh, ' men ought to underftand them ; and fuch as are for Uniformity, fhould think all alterations in a language flrange, abominable, and unwarrantable. Rightly therefore, I fay again, hath our Poet ufed ancient words, and poured them forth as a precious ointment upon good old Wormius in this place. SCRIBLERUS. Ver. ibid. Mjfler wight.'] Uncouth mortal. 1(54- NOTES VARIORUM Ver. i88. Wits^ who like Owls ^ &c.] Thefe few lines exad:]y delcribe the right verbal Critic : He is to his author as a Quack to his patients, the more they fuffer and complain, the better he is pleas'd ; like the famous Dotftor of that fort, who put up in his bills, He delighted in matters of difficulty. Some- body faid well of thefe men, that their heads were Libraries out of order. Ver. 195. — Lo! Henly flands^ &c.] John Henly the Orator ; he preach'd on the fundays of Theological matters, and on the wed nefd ays upon other Sciences. Each auditor paid one fliilling. He declaim'd fome years unpunifli'd againft the great- eft perfons, and occafionally did our Author that honour. Wel- fted (in Oratory Tranfadions, N'^ i. publifh'd by Henley him- felf) gives the following account of him. " He was born at Mel- " ton Mowbray in Leicefterfhire. From his own Parifh fchool he " went to St. John's College in Cambridge : he began there to " be uneafy ; for it fliock'd him to find he was commanded to " believe againft his judgment in points of Religion, Philofophy, " &^c. Forhis genius leading him ireely to difpute all propohtions, *' and call all points to account, he was impatient under thofe fet- " ters of the free-born mind. — Being admitted to Prieft's orders, " he found the examination very fhort and fuperhcial, -and that " it was not neceflary to conform to the Chriftian Religion in or- " der either to Deaconfl^iip or Priefthood." He came to town, and after having for fome )iears been a writer for Bookfellers, he had an ambition to be fo for Minifters of ftate. The only rea- fon he did not rife in the Church, we are told " was the Envy of ^'others, and a difrelilh entertain'd of him,- becaufe he ivas not *■'■ .qualify d to be a compleat Spanieir However he offer'd the fer- vice of his pen, in one morning, to two Great men of opinions and interefts diredly oppofite ; by both of whom being rejected, •he fet up a new Projed and ftiled himfeJf xkit Reflorer of ajicient Eloquence. He thought " it as lawful to take a licence from the " King and Parliament at one place as another, at Hick's hall as on the D U N C I A D. 165 ** at Dodlors Commons ; fo fet up his Oratory in Newport- Market " in the Butcher-row. There (fays his friend) he had the ajfu- ^■^ ranee to form a Plan which no mortal ever thought of; he " had fuccefs againft all oppofition ; challenged his adverfaries to " fair difputations, and none would difpute with him; writ, read. " and ftudied twelve hours a day ; compos'd three diflertations a " week on all fubjedts ; undertook to teach in one year what " Schools and Univcrfities teach in five ; was not terrify 'd hy me- " naces, infults or fatires, but ftill proceeded, matured his bold " fcheme, and put the Church and all that ^ in danger." Welfted, Narrative in Orat. Tranfadl. N'^ i. After having flood fome Profecutions, he turned his Rhetoric to Buffoonry upon all publick and private occurrences. All this pafled in the fame room ; where fometimes he broke [efts, and fomctimes that Bread which he call'd the Primitive Eucharift. Being at lafl: become a Scorn even to Butchers, he took up a Weekly-paper to abufe the men out of Power, it was calfd the Hyp-DoBor^ and exceeded all that ever was writ of Gallimatias and Impertinence. This wonderful perfon flruck fome Medals, vvhofe device was a Star rifing to the Meridian, with this Motto, Ad Summa \ and below, hweniam Viam aut Faciam. Ver. 208. Of Toland and Tindal, fee book 2. Tho. Wool- fton was an impious madman, who wrote in a moft infolent flyle againft the Miracles of the Gofpel, in the year 1726, Mc. Ver. 220. But learn-, ye Du?ices I 7iot to Jcoim your God7\Virgr, ^n. 6. puts this precept into the mouth of a wicked man, as here of a ftupid one, D if cite jujlitiam inoniti., &' non temiiere divos f Ver. 227. — afahleSorcrer.'] Dr. Fauftus, the fubjed of a fett ol Farces which lafted in vogue two or three feafons, in which both Play-houfes ftrove to out-do each other, in the years 1726, 1727. All the extravagancies in the fixtccn lines fol'lowi- Bb 1(56 NOTES VARIORUM ing were introduced on the Stage, and frequented by perfons of the firft quality in England, to the tvventieth and thirtieth time. Ver. 231. Hell rifes^ Heavn defcends^ a?id dance on earth.'] This monftrous abfurdity was aftually reprefented in Tibbald's Rape of Proferpine. Ver. 238. Ajtd other planets?^ Vtrg. j^7t. 6. — folemque fumn, fuajydera norunt. Ve r. 240. Whales fport in woods^ and dolphins in the skies.] Hor. DelphiJtmn fylvis appingit^ fluSlibus apriwt. Ver. 242. Lo I o?ievaJlEgg^ In another of thefe Farces Har- lequin was hatched upon the Stage, out of a large Egg. Ver. 247. Son I what thoufeelijl is i?z thee,] ^uod petfs in te eji — Ne te qiice-jiveris extra. Perf. Ver. 250. Wings the red lightJting., &c.] Like Salmoneus in ^n. 6. ■ Dur?i jla?nmas yovis, &^Jonitus irnitatur olympi. . — Nimbos., W non imitabile ftdmeji., j^re &' cornipedum curfu fi7nularat Equormn. " Ver. 252. — o'er all imclajfic ground^] Alludes to Mr. Addi- fon's verfe in the praife of Italy, Poetic fields incompafs jne around^ And Jim I feem to tread on clajfic groimd. As verfe 260 is a Parody on a noble one of the fame Author in the Campaign; and verfe 255, 256, on two fublime verfes of Dr. Y. Ver. 255. hmnortal Rich^ Mr. John Rich, Mafter of the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, was the firft that exceil'd this way. on the D U N C I A D. 167 Ver. 260. Booth and Gibber.'] Two noted Adiors, managers of the Theatre in Drury-lane, who however in thefc performan- ces, imitated Mr. Rich, no?i pajftbus ceqiiis. Ve r. 270. None but thy feif can be thy parallel^ A marvellous line of Theobald ; unlefs the Play call'd the Double Falfhood were (as he would have had it believed) Shake fpear's. But whe- ther this line were his or not, he try'd to prove Shakeipear to have written as bad, as for example, Try what Repentance can : what can it not ? But what can it, when one cannot repent ? — For Cogitation Refidcs not in the man who does not think, Mill's Journ. of April 27, 1728. But the laft of thefe is no man's nonfenfe but Tibbald's, as he might have found had he read what follows, — who does not think My Wife is flippery — Cymbeline. Ve r. id.] The former Annotator feeming to be of opinion that the Double Falfhhood is not Shakefpear's ; it is but juftice to give Mr. Theobald's Arguments to the contrary in his preface. Firfl: that the MS. was above lixty years Old : fecondly, that once Mr. Betterton had it, or he hath heard fo : thirdly, that fome- body told him the author gave it to a baftard-daughter of his: but fourthly and above all, "that he has a great mind every " thing that is good in our tongue fhould be Shakefpear's." I allow thefe realons to be truly critical \ but what I am infi- nitely concern'd at is, that fo many Errors have efcapcd the learned Editor; a few whereof we fliall here amend out of a much greater number, as an inflance of our regard to chis dear r click, Bb 2 i68 NOTES VARIORUM ACT I. SCENE I. I have his letters of a modern date, Wherein by Julio-) good Camillo's Ton (Who as hey^x, fhall follow hard upon, And whom I with the growing hour expert) He doth follicit the return of gold, To purchafe certain horfe that like him well. This place is corrupted: The epithet ^o^?^ is a meer infignificant expletive, but the alteration of that iingle word reftores a clear light to the whole context, thus, I have his letters of a modern date, Wherein, by July.^ (by Camillo's fon, Who, as h^faithy fhall follow hard upon, And whom I with the growing hours exped) He doth follicit the return of gold. Here you have net only the Per/on fpecify'd, by whofe hands the return was to be made, but the moft neceffary part, the Ti^ne by which it was required. Camillo's fon was to follow hard upon What ? Why upon July. — Horfe that like him well, is very abfurd : Read it without contradiction, Horfe that he likes well. ACT I. at the end. I muft ftoop to gain her, Throw all my gay Comparifons afide. And turn my proud additions out of fervice : Saith Henriquez of a maiden of low condition, objedling his high quality : What have his Co7npariJons here to do ? Corredl it boldly, Throw all my gay Caparifons afiide. And turn my proud additions out of fervice. on the DUNCIAD. 169 A C T. I. S C E N E II. All the verfe of this Scene is confounded with profe. O that a man Could reafon down this Feaver of the blood, Or footh with words the tumult in his heart I Then Julio, I might be indeed thy friend. Read, this Fervor of the blood. Then Julio, I might be i?t deed thy friend, marking the juft oppofition of deeds and words. ACT IV. SCENE J. How his eyes pjake fire ! faid by Violante, obferving how the luftful fhepherd looks at her. It muft be, as the fenfe plain- ly demands How his eyes take fire ! And meafure every piece of youth about me! Ibid. That, tho' I wore difguiG^ for fome ends. She had but one difguife, and wore it but for one end, Reftore it, with the alteration but of two letters, That, tho' I were difguif^J for fome end. A C T IV. S C E N E II. To oaths no more give credit, To tears, to vows ; falfe both ! Falfe Grammar I'm fure ! Both can relate but to two things : And fee ! how eafy a change fets it right ? To tears, to vows, falfe troth I could fhew you that very word Troth, in Shakefpear, a hun- dred times. lyo NOTES VARIORUM Ibid. For there is nothing left thee now to look for, That can bring comfort, but a quiet grave. This I fear is of a piece with, No?ie but it f elf can be its parallel : for the grave puts an end to all forrow, it can then need no com- fort. Yet let us vindicate Shakefpear where we can : I make no doubt he wrote thus. For there is nothing left thee now to look for, Nothing that can bring quiet but the grave. Which reduplication of the word Nothing gives a much ftronger emphafis to Violante's concern. This figure is call'd Ajiadyplofn. I could fhew you a hundred fuch in him, if I had nothing elfe to do. SCRIELE RUS. Ver. 278. Annual Trophies, on the Lord Mayor's Day ; and mo72thly ivars^ in the Artillery Ground. Ver. 279. Tholojtg m-y Party.] Settle, like moft Party- writers, was very uncertain in his political principles. He was cmploy'd to hold the pen in the Charader of a Popifh Succellbr, but af- terwards printed his Narrative on the contrary iide. He had ma- nao-ed the Ceremony of a famous Pope-burning on Nov. 17, 1 68c : then became a trooper in King James'-s army at Hounflow- heath. After the Revolution he kept a Booth at Bartlemew-fair, where in the Droll call'd St. George for England, he adled in his old age in a Dragon of green leather of his own invention. He was at jaft taken into the Charter-houfe, and there dyed, aged above 60 years. 'Ver. 2^1-82. l^F'ith equal grace Our Goddefs f?niles on Whig andTory race.] Tros Rutulufvefuatj nidlo difcri?ni?ie habebo. Rex Jupiter omnibus idem. Virg. j^n. i o. Ver. 284. To Dulnefsy Ridpath is as dear as Mifl.'] George on the D U N C r A D. 171 RIdpath, author for feveral years of the Flying-PoA, a Whig- paper; Nathaniel Mift, pubHiher oi the Weekly- Journal, a Tory- paper. Ver. 297. Thy Dragons Magijl rates a7id Peers pall tajle'] It flcod in the firft edition with blanks, iJjy drag07is *" a?td'^'^''^ JJjall tafte. Concanen was lure " they could mean no-body but "KingGEORGE, and Queen Caroline ; and faid he would in- " lift it was fo, till the Poet clear'd himfelf by filling up the blanks " otherwifc, agreeably to the context, and confident with his Al- legiance." Fief to a Colle6lion of Verfes, Efiays, Letters, &'c. againft iMr. P. printed for A. More, pag. 6. Ver. 305. . — Faiijlus is thy Fr!e?jcl., Pluto 'with Cato^ 8cc.] Names of miferable Farces of Tibbald and others, which it was their cuftom to get aded at the end of the beft Tragedies, to fpoil the digeftion of the audience. Ver. 308. — e7iftire it but from Fire.'] In Tibbald's Farce of Proferpine a Corn-field was fet on fire, whereupon the other Playhoufe had a Barn burnt down for the recreation of the fpe- (flators : Thev alfo rival'd each other in fhowing the Burnings of Hell-fire, in Dr. Fauftus. Ver, 309. Another j^fchylus appears I &c.] It is reported of ^fchylus, when his Tragedy of the Furies was ac^ed, the au- dience were fo terrify'd that the children fell into fits, and the big-bellied women mifcarried. Tibbald was about tranflating this author : he printed a fpecimen of him many years ago, of which I only remember, that the firft Note contained fome com- parifon between Prometheus and Chrift crucify'd. Vf. R, 317. This^ this is he^ foretold by ancient rhy?nesy Th^ Auguflus, 8cc.] Virg. iEn. 6. Hie vir-) hie efi ! tibi quern promitti fcepius audis-, ■ Auguflus Ccefar^ divum genus ; aurea condet 172 NOTES VARIORUM Specula qui ruffus Lathy regnata per arva Saturno quondam Satufman here relates to the age of Lead, mention'd book r. ver. 26. Ve R. 317. Eufden wear the bays?\ See Book i . verf. 102. I have before obferv'd fomething hke Prophecy in our Author. Eufden, whom he here couples with Gibber, no fooner died but his place of Laureate was fupply'd by Gibber, in the year 1730, on which was made the enfuing Epigram. In merry old England it ofice zvas a rule^ 'The King had his Poet^ and alfo his Fool : But now werefofrugaly Td have you to know it^ That C * * r can ferve both for Fool and for Poet. Ver. 319. Beifon fole judge of ArchiteSiure Jit^ William Benfon (late Surveyor - of the Buildings to King George I.) gave in a report to the Lords, that their Houfe and the painted Chamber adjoining were in immediate danger of falling. Where- upon the Lords met in a Gommittee, to appoint fome other place to {it in while the Houfe fhould be taken down. But; it being propofed to caufe fome other Builders firft to infped it, they found it in very good condition : The Lords, upon this, were going upon an addrefs to the King againil; Benfon for fuch a mif- reprefentation ; but the Earl of Sunderland, then Secretary, gave them an afiurance that his Majefly would remove him, which was done accordingly. In favour of this man, the famous Sir Chri- ftopher Wren, who had been Architecfl to the Grown for above fifty years, who built moft of the Churches in London, laid the firft (lone of St. PauTs Cathedral, and lived to finifti it, had been difplaced from his employment, at the age of ntar ninety years. Ve^r. 320. And Namby Pamby?\ Ambrose Philips, an Au- thor whofe eminence in the Infantine ftile obtained him this name. on the D U N C I A D. 173 He was (faith Mr. Jacob) " one of the Wits at Button's, and a " Juftice of the Peace." But fince he hath met with higher pre- ferment in Ireland : and a much greater charadler we have of him in Mr. Gildon's compleat Art of Poetry, vol. i. p. 157. " In- " deed he confeffes, he dare not fet him quite on the fame foot " with Virgil, left it fhould feem Flattery : but he is much mi- " ftaken if pofterity does not afford him a greater efteem than he " at prefent enjoys." He endeavour'd to create fome mif-under- ftanding between our Author and Mr. Addiibn, whom alfo foon after he abufed as much. His conftant cry was, that Mr. P. was an Enemy to the government ; and in particular he was the avow- ed author of a report very induftrioufly fpread, that he had a hand in a Party-paper call'd the Examiner : A falfhood well known to thofe yet living, who had the dire6lion and publica- tion of it. ^i jneprife Cot in., nejtwie point f on Royy Et na, (felon Cotin) ni Dieu^ ni Foy^ ni Loy. Ve R. 3 2 1 . Dormitory wall.'] The Dormitory in Weftminfter was a building intended for the lodging of the King's Scholars ; toward which a Sum was left by Dr. Edw. Hannes, the reft was raifed by contributions procured from feveral eminent perfons by the intereft of Francis Atterbury Bifhop of Rochefter, and Dean of Weftminfter. He requefted the Earl of Burlington to be the Archited;, who carry'd on the work till the Bill againft that learn- ed Prelate was brought in, which ended in his banifliment. The ihell being finifhed according to his delign, the fucceeding Dean and Chapter employ'd a common builder to do the inftde, which is pernor m'd accordi?igly. Ver. 322. A?jd yo?ies a?icl Boyle s mii ted labours fall?\^ At the time when this Poem was written, the Banquetting-houfe of Whitehall, the Church and Piazza of Convent-garden, and the Cc 17^ NO.TES VARIORUM Palace and Chappel of Somerfet-hourc, the works of the famous Inigo Jones, had been for many years fo negleded as to be in danger of ruin. The Portico of Convent-garden Church had been juft then reftored and beautified at the Expence of Richard Earl of Burlington ; who, at the fame time, by his publication of the Defigns of that great Mafter and Palladio, as well as by many noble buildiugs of his own, revived the true Tafte of Archite- :«? muft be the error of the Author: Nor had he art enough to corredl it at the Prefs ^ Mr. Dryden writes for the Court Ladies He writes for the Ladies, and not for ufe". The Tranflator puts in a little Burlefque now and then into Virgil, for a Ragout to his cheated Subfcribers *. Mr. DRYDEN trick'd his Subfcribers. I wonder that any man who cou'd not but be confcious of his own unfitnefs for it, fhou'd go to amufe the learned world with fuch an Undertaking ! A man ought to value his Reputa- tion more than Money ;' and not to hope that thofe who can read for themfelves, will be impofed upon, merely by a partially and unfeafonably-celebrated Name''. Poetis quidlibet audendi fhall be Mr. Dryden's Motto, tho' it fliould extend to Picking of Pockets ^ Names beflow'd on Mr. DRYDEN. An Ape.j .a crafty Ape drefl up in a gaudy gown — Whips put into an Ape's paw, to play pranks with — None but Apifh and Papifh Brats will heed him. Whip and Key, Pref. An Ass.] A Camel will take upon him no more burden than is fufficient for his ftrengtli, but there is another Beafl: that crou- ches under all : Mr. Dryden, &c. Milb. p. 105. A Frog.], Poet Squab indued with Poet Maro's Spirit! an ugly, croaking kind of Verraine, which would fwell to the bulk of an Oxe, p. i r. q Pjg. 203. r Pag. 78. s P.ig. 2o6-. t Pag. 19. u Pag. 124, 190. w P.ig. 67. T l'.;g. 192. y Ibid. p. iij. APPENDIX. 193 ftiould it be difcover'd, that he has not tranflated ten verfcs toge- ther in any book of Homer with juftice to the Poet, and yet he dares reproach his fellow- writers with not underftanding Greek ''. He has (hick fo little to his Original, as to have his knowledge in Greek called in queftion ', 1 fhould be glad to know which it is of all Homer's Excellencies which has fo delighted the Ladies, and the Gentlemen who judge like Ladies ? ^ But he has a notable talent at Burlefque ; his genius Aides f© naturally into it, that he hath burlefqu'd Homer without design- ing it'. Mr. POPE trick'd his Subfcribers. 'Tis indeed fomcwhat bold, and almofl: prodigious, for a fin- gle man to undertake fuch a work ! But 'tis too late to diffuade hy demonftrating the madnefs of the Projed. The Subfcribers expedations have been rais'd in proportion to what their Pockets have been drain'd of". Pope has been concerned in Jobs, and hired out his Name to Bookfellers \ Names beftow'd on Mr. P O P E. An Ape.] Let us take the initial letter of his chriftian name, and the initial and final letters of his furname, viz. A. P. E. and they give you the fame Idea of an Ape, as his face, &c. Dennis, Daily Journal, May 11, 1728. An Ass.} It is my duty to pull off the Lion's skin from this little Afs. Dennis's Rem. on Homer, pref A Frog.] A fquab fliort Gentleman — a little creature that like the Frog in the Fable, fwells and is angry that it is not al- low'd to be as big as an Oxe. Dennis's Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, pref p. 9. q Daily Journal of April 23, 1728. r Supplement to the Profund. Pref. s Oldmi.xon, Elliy on Criticifm, p. 66. t Dennis's Remarks, p. 28. u Burnet Homerides, p. », &c. x Britifh Journal, Nov. zj, 1727. ip4 A P P E N D I X. A Coward.] A Clinias or a DaniEetas, or a man of Mr. Dry- den's own Courage, p. 176. A Knave.] Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul, the Knave of Je- fus Chrift : And if I miftake not, I've read fomewhere of John Dryden, Servant to his Majefty, p. 57. A Fool.] Had he not been fuch a felf-conceited Fool Whip and Key, pref. Some great Poets are pofitive Blockheads. Milbourn, p. 34. A Thin G.] So little a Thing as Mr. Dryden. Ibid. p. 35. APPENDIX. 195 A Coward.] A lurking way-laying Coward. Char, of Mr. P. P^g- 3-- A Knave.] He is one whom God and nature have mark'd for want of common honefty. Ibid. A Fool.] Great Fools will be chriften'd by the names of great Poets, and Pope will be call'd Homer. Dennis's Rem. on Ho- mer, p. 37. A Thing.] A little abjed Thing. Ibid. p. 8. INDEX To the D U N C I A D. Of THINGS (including Authors) to be found in the Notes, &c. The firft Number denotes the Book, the fe- cond the Ve r s e. Pro. Prolegomena. AD D I s o N (Mr.) written againft with vehemence, by J. Dennis. Bookii. Verfe 271. Railed at by A. Philips, iii. 320: Abufed by J. Oldmixon, in his Profe- Effay on Criticifm, &c. ii. 271 . by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 159. Celebrated by our Author — Upon his Difcourle of Medals — In his Prologue to Cato — and in this Poem, ii. 132. Falfe Fads concerning him and our Au- thor related by anonymous Perfons in in Mift's Journals, &;c. Pro. p. 75,76 — - Difprov'd by the Teftimonies of — The Earl of Burlington, — Mr. Tickel, — Mr. Addifon hinafelf. Anger, one of the Charafteriflics of Mr. Dennis's Critical Writings, i. 104 . Affirmation, another: Pro. p. 71 [To which are added by Mr. Theo- bald, Ill-nature, Spite, Revenge, i. 104.] Altar of Tibbald's Works, how built, and how founded ? i. 135, &c. ^fchylus. How long he was about him, i. 120, In what refpedl like him, iii. 309. Affes, at a Citizen's gate in a morning, ii. 237 Appearances, that we are never tojudge by them, efpecially of Poets and Di- vines, ii. 393 Alehoufe, The Birth-place of many Po- ems, i. 202 - And of fome Poets, ii. 130 One kept by Taylor the Water- ,poetii. 323 - and by Edward Ward, i. 200 B. Bavius, Book iii. verfe 16. Mr. Den- nis his great opinion of him, ibid. Bawdry, in Plays, not difapprov'd of by Mr. Dennis, iii. 176 Black MORE, (Sir Rich.) his Impiety and Irreligion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. 256 — His Quantity of Works, and vari- ous Opinions of them. — His abufe IN D E X. 91 of Mr, Dryden and Mr. Pope, ib. Sray, a word much belov'd by Sir Ri- chard, ii. 248 Braying, defcribed, ii. 243 Birch, by no means proper to be apply 'd to young Noblemen, iii. 328 Broome, (Rev. Mr. Will.) His Senti- ments of our Author's Virtue, Pro. Our Author's of his abilities, iii. 326 And how he rewarded them, ib. Billingfgate-language, how to be ufed by learned Authors, ii. 134 Bond, Be z ale el, Breval, not living Writers, but Phantoms, ii. 118 Bookfellers, how they run for a Poet, ii. 27, ^c. Bailiffs, how Poets run from them, ii. 57 Cardinal Virtues of Dulnefs, Book i Verfe 45 to 50. Cave of Poverty, a Poem of Tibbald commended by Mr. Giles Jacob, i 106. Its extraordinary Conclufion, i. 226 Cooke, (Tho.) abufed Mr. Pope's mo ral Charader, ii. 130 CoNCANEN (Mat.) one of the Authors of the Weekly Journals, ii. 287. Oblig'd to Dr. Swift, and writ fcur riloufly of him, ibid. Dcclar'd that when this Poem had Blanks, they meant Treafon, iii. 297 Of opinion, that Juvenal never la- tiriz'd the Poverty of Codrus, ii. 136 Critics, verbal ones, muft have two i'o- flulata allowed them, ii. i Cat-calls, ii. 223 Curll, Edm. His Pancg)Tic, ii. 54 HisCorinna, and what (lie did, 66 His Prayer 75. — Like Eridanus, 176 Much favour'd by Cloacina, 93 , &c. Purged and vomited, ii. 143 — Tort in a Blanket and whipped, ib. Pillory'd, ii. 3 D. Difpcnfary of Dr. Garth, Book ii. Verfe 132 Daniel de Foe, in what refembled to Will. Prynn, i. loi Dennis (John) His Charader of him- felf, i. 104 Senior to Mr. Durfey, iii. 167 - — Efleem'd by our Author, and why, ib. His Love of Puns, i. 6 1 And Politicks, i. 104. ii. 271 His great Loyalty to King George how prov'd, i. 104 A great Friend to the Stage — and to the State, ii. 38 i How he proves that none but Nonjurors and dilall'eded Perfons writ againft Stage- plays, ibiJ. His refped to the Bible and Alco- ran, ibid. His Excufe for Obfcenity in Plays, iii. 176 His mortal fear of Mr. Pope, found- ed on Mr. Curl's afTurances, i. 104 Of opinion that he poyfbn'd Curl. ib. His Realbn why Homer was, or was not in debt, ii. 1 1 1 His Accuiacions of Sir R. Blackmorc, — As no Proteftanr, ii. 256 — As no Poet, ibtd. His wonderful Dedication to George Ducket, Efq; iii. 176 Drams, dangerous to a Poet, iii. \\-y Double-Fahehood, a P!.iy publifli'd by Tibbald iii. 270 Ff 198 INDEX. . — A famous Verfe of it, ibid. — How plainly prov'd by him to be Shakefpear's, ibid. — But grievous Errors committed by him in the Edition : A Specimen ol 'em, ibid. Dedicators, ii. 189, &cc. Dunciad, how to be corredly fpell'd, i. i — How it came to be written, App N° I. Note p. 177 ■ — How long in writing, various Opi- nions thereof, ibid. p. 179 Dulncfs, thcGoddeis; her Oiiginal and Parents, i. 9. Her ancient Empire, 14. Her cardinal Virtues, 45, &c. Her Ida^as, Productions, and Creation, 53. &c. Her Survey and Contemplation of her Works, y/, 6cc. And of her Children, 93. Their uninterrupted SuccefTion, 96, ficc. to no. What Nations in fpecial manner favour'd by her, 156. Her Scholiafts, Com memators, &c. 159 to 172. Her be loved Seat in the City, i. 30. The Crifis of her Empire there at Settle's death, 88, 185. Her appearance to Tihbald, 2 17. She manifcfts to him her Works 227, &c. Anoints him 241, &c. Inftitutes Games for her Sons ii. 15, &:c. How ufcful in Bu- finefsi. 147. How beneficent to Man J51. The manner how rtie makes a Wit ii. 43. A great Lover of a Joke , 30 — And loves to repeat the fame over again 114. Her ways and means to procure the Pathetick and Terri- ble in Tragedy 218, 8cc. Incoura- ges Chattering and Bawling 223, 6cc. And is Patroness of Party- writing and railing 263: Makes ufe of the heads of Criticks as Scales to weigh the iicavincfs of Authors 335. Promotes Slumber, with the Works of the kid Authors ibid. The wonderful Virtue of flceping in her Lap iii. c;, &c. Her Elyzium 15, &c. The Souls of her Sons dipt in Lethe ibid. How brought into the world ? 20. Their Tranf- figijration and Metemfychofis 41. The Extent and Glories of her Empire, at large, in Book iii. Her Conquefts throughout the World, 60 to 100. A Catalogue of her prefent Forces in this Nation, to the end. EusDF.N (Laurence) i. 102. 111.317 Tax'd by Oldmixon with Nonfenfe 1. 102 — by Curl with Ebriety ii. 393 — Defended from the Charge of Li- belling ii. 279 Ears : Some people advis'd how to pre- ferve them iii. 2 1 o. F. Fa L s E H o OD s, told of our Author in Print. Of his taking Verfes from James Moore, Pro. p. 76 And of his intending to abufe Bifliop Burnet, p. yj, ibid. By John Dennis, of his really poyfon- ing Mr. Curl ii. 104 And of contempt for the facred Wri- tings ii. 256 By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a Duchefs to fatiri:4e Ward of Ilackney in the pillory iii. 26 By Miit's Journahfts, of unfair proceed- ing in the Undertaking of the Od} lley and Shakcfpear, Pro. p. 74 INDEX. i95> — Difprov'd by the teftimony of the Lords, Harcourt and Bathurft, JS^ibid — By Tho. Cook, of the fame, ii. 130 By Mlft's Journalifts, concerning Mr Addifon and him, two or three Lies, Pro. p. 73 and j£ By Pafquin, of his being in a Plot, iii. 146 By Sir Richard Blackmorc, of his bur lefquing Scripture, upon the author! ty of Curl ii. 256 Mac Fleckno, not fo decent and chaftc in the Didlion as the Dunciad ii. 71 Friendfhip, underftood by Mr. Dennis tc be fomewhac elfe, in NiJ'us & Eun- aluSy &c. iii. 176. Furius, Mr. Dennis call'd io by Mr. Theobald i. 104 Fleet-Ditch ii. 258. Its Nymphs 308 Smedley's Dilcoveries there il)iJ. G. Good-nature of our Author ; Inftance;: of it in this work i. 41, 258. ii.285 Good Senfe, Grammar, and Verfe, dc fired to give place, for the fake ol Mr. Be?-. Morris and his Works iii. 161 Gil DON (Charles) abufed our Author in many things, Pro. p. 68, 85. i. 250 — Printed againll: Jefus Chrift i. 250 GiLDON and Dennis, their unhap py D ffcrence lamented iii. 167 Gentleman, his tlymn to his Creator, by Welfled ii. 199 H. Horace, cenfured by Mr. Welfled, Pro. p. 69 Did not know what he was about when he wrote his Art of Poetry, il^id. Called Flaccus bv Tibbald, and why r i. 189 Henley (John the Orator). His Tub and Eucharift ii. 2. His Hiftory iii. 195. His Offer to Sir R, W. and the Hon. Mr. P ibid. His Opinion of Ordination and Chriftian Priefthood ibid. His Medals ibid. Haywood (Mrs.) What fort of Game for her? ii. 155. Won by Curl 182 Her great Rei'pe^fb for him 149. The Offspring of her Brain and Body, (ac- cording to Curl) ibid. Not underva- lued by being fet againfl a Jordan 1 59 Hints, extraordinary ones ? ii. 256 HoRNECKand RooME, two Party- Writers iii. 146 I. Johnson (Charles) abufed Dr. Arb. Mr, Gay and Mr. P. in a Prologue, i. 240 — Perfonally abufed by Curl and others for his fatnefs ibid. Impudence, celebrated in Mr. Curl ii. 178 — in Mr. Norton de Foe ii. 383 — in Mr. Cibber iii. 13 r — in Mr. Henley iii. 1 95 -ord-Mayors-Show, i. 85 library of Tibbald i. i 2C .ud (king) ii. 332 .og (King) i. verfe ult. Lintot (Bernard) ii. 42 M. Moor r. (James) His Story of fix Ver- fes, and of ridiculing Bifhop Burnet Ff 2 200 / N D E X. In the Memoin of a Parifk-Ckrk^ prov'd falfe, by the Teftimonies of — The Lord BoHngbroke, Pro. p. jj — Hugh Bethel, Efq; ibid. — Earl of Peterborough, ibid. — Dr. Arbuthnot, ibid, — His Plagiarifms, feme few of them, ibid, and ii. io8. What he was real Author of (befide the Story above- mentioned) Vide Lift of fair r Hon s Pa- pers iti the Appendix, N^ 3. Erafmiis, his advice to him ii. 46 MiLBouRNE, a fair Critic, and why? "•325 Madnefs, of what fort Mr. Dennis's was, according to Plato i. 104 — According to himfelf iii. 174 May-pole in the Strand, turn'd into a Church ii. 24 N. Norton de Foe, a fcandalous Wri- ter ii. 385 Nodding, defcribed ii. 359 O. O L D M I X o N (John) abufed Mr. Add fon and Mr. Pope ii. 271. Falfify'd Daniel's Hiftory, then accus'd others of falfifying Lord Clarendon's ; pro- ved a Slanderer in it, ibid. — Mr. Eufden and my Lord Chamber- lain i. 102 OdyfTey, Falfehoods concerning Mr. P's Propofals for that Work, Pro. p. -jc^ — Difprov'd by the Right Honoura- ble the Lord Bathnrft ibid. — And by thofe very Propofals ibid. Owls and Opium i. 35 Opiates, two very confiderable ones ii 238. Their Efficacy 358, Sec. Owls, defired to anfwer Mr. Ralph iii. 160 P. Pope (Mr.) his Life] Educated by Je- fuits — by a Parfon — by a Monk — at St. Omers — at Oxford — at home ■ — -no where at all. Pro. p. 68 His Father a Merchant, a Husbandman, a Farmer, a Hatter, the Devil, ibid. — His Death threaten'd by D. Smedley, ibid. p. 8 I. but afterwards advis'd to hang himfelf or cut his Throat ibid. To be hunted down like a wild Beaft, by Mr. Theobald ibid, unlefs hang'd for Treafon on Information of Paf- quin, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Curl, and Con- canen, ibid. Poverty, never to be mentioned in Sa- tire, in the opinion of the Journalifts and Hackney Writers — The Pover- ty of Codrus, not touch'd upon by Juvenal ii. 136. When, and how far Poverty may be fatirized. Letter p. 8. Whenever mention'd by our Au- thor, it is only as an Extenuation and Excufe for bad Writers ii. 270 Perfonal abufes not to be cndur'd, in the opinion of Mr. Dennis, Theobald, Curl,&c. ii. 134 Perfonal abufes on our Author by Mr. Dennis, Gildon, &c. ibid. Pro. — By Mr. Theobald, Pro. p. Notes. — By Mr. Ralph iii. 159. — By Mr. Welfted ii. 199. — By Mr.Ch. John- fon i. 240. — By Mr. Cooke ii. 130. — By M. Concanen iii. 297. — By Sir Richard Bhickmore ii. 256. • — By Edward Ward iii. 26. — And their Brethren, pajjim. Perfonal abufes on others] Mr. Theo- bald of Mr. Dennis for his Poverty INDEX, 201 i. 104. Mr. Dennis of Mr. Theobald for his Livehhood by the Stage and the Law i. 106. Mr. Dennis of Sir Ri- chard Bhickmore for Impiety ii. 256 D. Smedley of Mr. Concanen ii. 130 Mr.Oldmixoii's of Mr. Eufden i. 102 — Of Mr.Addifon ii.271. Mr. Cook's of Mr. Eufden i. 102. Politicks, very ufeftil in Criticifm, Mr. Dennis's i. 104. ii. -58 i Pillory, a Poft of refpedt, in the opinion of Mr. Curl iii. 26 — and of Mr. Ward, ibU. Plagiary, defcribed ii. 38, 6cc. 102, 5cc. Plato, in what manner tranflatcd by Tib bald i. 221 Poverty and Poetry, their Cave i. 30 Profanenefs, not to be endur'd in our Author, but very allowable in Shake- fpear i. 48 Party-writers, their three Qualifications, ii. 264 PcetefTes iii. 141 Pindars and Miltons, of the moden fort iii. 158 R. Rag-fair i. 27 Round-houfe ii. 392 Ralph (James) iii. 160. See Sawney RooME and HoRNECKiii. 146 S. Shakefpear, to be fpell'd always with an e at the end i. i — Crucify'd once a week by Tibbald i. 164 — Proved by him to borrow of Win- kin i. 162 — To have made great Blunders, Pufis, and Anacronijifis, ibid. — To have had a Baftard iii. 270 — Saidbyhimtodekrve//'7ji!//>/V7^i. 162 — And by Dennis call'd a Rajcal, ibid. Settle (Elkanah) Mr. Dennis's Ac- count of him i. 88. iii. 16. And Mr. Welded 's, ibid. A Party- writer of Pam- phlets i. 88. and iii. 279. Once pre. ferred to Dryden i. 88. A writer of Farces and Drolls, and employ 'd at lall: in Bartholomew-Fair iii. 279 ■lawney, a Poem : The Author's' great Ignorance in Clajjical Learnmg i. i — In Rules of CriticiJ'm iii. 159 — In Languages, ibid. — In Englijh Grammar i. 28 — His Praifes of himfelf above Mr. Ad- difon iii. 159 — His own opinion of his Equality to Shakefpear, ibid. Scholiafts i. 159. iii. 188 Supperlefs, a miftake concerning this word fet right, with refpeil to Mr. Theobald and other temperate Stu- dents i. 109 T. Tibbald, why he was made Hero of this Poem according to Scrible- rus. Pro. The true reafon i. 102, Why SuccefTor to Settle i. 108. Con- ceal'd his Intentions upon Shakefpear all the time Mr. Pope defir'd Affifl- ance, and promis'd Encouragement, toward perfefting an Edition of him i. 106 His own Confeflion of tliat Proceeding in a Daily journal — yet ask'd favours of Mr, P. at that time i. ic6 202 INDEX. — One of Mift's Writers i. io6, 164 And Author fecretly and abettor ot Scurrilities againfl: Mr. P. i. 106. Vid. Pro. p. 74, 80. and Appendix N^ 3 — How he was hke ^Efchylus iii. 309 — Like Shakefpear iii. 270 — And hke Settle i. 108. and iii. 279 Taylors, a good word for them, againfl: Poets and ill Paymafliers ii. 11 1 Thunder, how to make it, by Mr. Den- nis's receipt ii. 218 V. Verbal Critics. Two Points always to be granted them ii. J W. Ward (Edw.) a Poet and Alehoufe- keeper in Moorfields, i. 200 — His high opinion of his Namefake, — and his refpedt for the Pillory, iii. 26 We L ST ED (Leonard) one of the Au- thors of the Weekly Journals, abufed our Author, &c. many years fince ii. 199. And afrefli, ibid. Taken by Dennis for a Didapper, ibid. The Chara<^er of his Poetry, ii. 199. iii, 163 Weekly Journals by whom written ? ii. 268, 279 Whirligigs iii 49 INDEX OF THE AUTHORS of the NOTES. TjL TR. Winftanley, 7 Authors of Lives of Poets, i. 104, 106, 121, 122, 126^ iVX Mr. Giles Jacob, 3 134,200,240. ii. 271, 3.65. iii. 149. Mr. Lam. Curl, i. 48, 240. ii. 46, 66, 1 16, 149, 368. iii, 26 Mr. Charles Gildon, ii. 256, 134. iii. 322 Mr. Lewis Theobald, i. 48, 104, 106, 129, 162, 221, ii. 177. Jii. 28 Mr. John Dennis, i. 6i, 88, 104, 106, 162. ii. iii, 134, 258, 295, 382^2!. i& Mr. Mift, Pubhfher of the Journal, i. 106, 129. ii. 134. Flying-Poft, ii. 383 London Journal, ii. and iii. Daily Journal, i. 6 1, &c. Mr. Jonathan Smedley, ii. 130, 295. Mr. John Oldmixon, i. 102. iii. 3 19 Mr. J. Ralph, i. 1, 28, 31 Mr. Welfted, iii. 16, 195 The Learned Martinus Scriblerus, and others, pqffim. PIECES contained in this BOOK. AL E T T E R to the Publlfl-ier, occafion'd by the firft corre6t Edition of the D u n ci a d. The Arguments to the Books. The DUNCIAD, in three Books. The Author's Declaration. Index of Perfons celebrated in the Poem. The Prolegomena ofMARTiNus Scriblerus, containing 1. A Dissertation of the Poem. 2. Testimonies of Authors concerning our Poet and his Works. Notes Variorum: Being the Scholia of the learned M. Scriblerus and others, with the Adverfaria of John Den- nis, Lewis Theobald, Edmund Curl, the Journalists, &c. Appendix. Index of Things (including Authors) to be found in the Notes. Index of the Authors of the Notes. FINIS. 'POSTSCRIPT. IT was intended in this Edition, to have added JVoUs to the Ethic Epiftles as well as to the Dtmciad, but the book fwel- ling to too great a bulk, we are oblig'd to defer them till an- other Volume may come out, of fuch as the Author may here- after write,- with fevcral Pieces in Profe relating to the fame fubjeds. In the mean time, that nothing contained in the former Edi- tions may be wanting in this, we have here colledled all the Variatio7n of the feparate Impreflions, and the Notes which have been annexed to them, with the addition of a few more which have been judg'd the moft neccflary. NOTES. EPISTLE to Lord BATHURST, Ver. 20. To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, ajid the Devil. John Ward of Hackney, Efq; Member of Parliament, be- ing profecuted by the Duchefs of Buckingham, and convidred of Forgery, was firft expelled the Houfe, and then flood in the Pillory on the 1 7th of March 1727. Me joinM in a Conveyance with Sir John Blunt to fecrete hfty thoufand pounds of that Di- redor's Eftate, forfeited to the South Sea Company bv Act of 2o6 NOTES. Parliament, which afterwards detaining from his Friend, Sir John informed the Company of the Fraud, on promife of a Pardon for himfelf. The Company recover'd the fifty thoufand pounds againft Ward, but he fet up prior Conveyances of his real Eftate to his Brother and Son, and conceal'd ail his perfonal Eftate, which was computed to be one hundred and fifty thoufand pounds: Thefe Conveyances being alfo fet alide by a Bill in Chancery, Ward was imprifoned, and hazarded the forfeiture of his Life by not giving in his Effedls till the laft Day, which was that pf his Examination. During his Confinement, his amufe- ment was to give Poyfon to Dogs and Cats, and fee them expire by flower or quicker torments. To fum up the Worth of this Gentleman, at the feveral JEras of his Life ; at his ftanding in the Pillory, he was worth above two hundred thoufand pounds: at his Commitment to Newgate, he was worth one hundred and fifty thoufand, but has been fince fo far diminifh'd in his Repu- tation, as to be thought a wo7'fe Man by fifty or fixty thou- fand. Fr. Chart res, a Man infamous for all manner of Vices. When he was an Enfign in the Army, he was drumm'd out of the Regiment for a Cheat ; he was next banifh'd Brufi'eh, and drumm'd out of Ghent on the fame account. After a hundred Tricks at the Gamiog-Tables, he took to lending of Money at exorbitant Intereft, and on great Penalties, accumulating Pre- mium, Intereft, and Capital into a new Capital, and feizing to a minute when the Payments became due ; in a word, by a ' conftant Attention to the Vices, Wants, and Follies of Mankind, he acquir'd an immenfe Fortune. His Houfe was a perpetual Bawdy -houfe. He was twice condemn'd for Rapes, and pardon- ed, but the laft time not without Imprifonment in Newgate, and large Conhfcations. He died in Scotland in 173 i aged 62. The Populace at his Funeral rais'd a great Riot, almoft tore the NOTES. 207 Body out of the Coffin, and caft: dead Dogs, &'c. into the Grave with it. The following Epitaph contains his Chara6ler very juftly drawn by Dr. Arbuthnot. HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an Inflexible Constancy, and Inimitable Uniformity of Life, Persisted, In fpite of Age and Infirmities, In the Pradice of Every Humane Vice ; Excepting Prodigality and Hypocrisy : His infatiable Avarice exempted him from the firft, His matchlefs Impudence from the fecond. Nor was he more fingular in the un-deviating Pravity of his Manners^ than fuccefsful in Accinnulatijig Wealth, For, without Trads or Profession, Without Trust of Publick Money, And without Bribe-worthy Service, He acquired, or more properly Created, A Ministerial Estate. He was the only Perfon of his Time, Who cou'd Cheat without the Mask of Honkstv, Retain his Primaeval Meanness when poilefs'd of Ten Thousand a Year, And having daily deferv'd the Gibbet for what he did. Was at lail condcmn'd to it for what he could not do. Oh Indignant Reader ! Think not his Life Ufelefs to Mankind ' Gg 2 2o8 NOTES. Providence conniv'd at his execrable Defigns, To give to After-Ages a confpicuGus Proof, and Example, Of how fmall Eftimation is Exorbitant Wealth in the Sight of GOD, by his beftowing it on The moft Unworthy of All Mortals. This Gentleman was 'isoorth feven thoufand pounds a year Eftate in Land, and about one hundred thoufand pounds in Mony. Mr. Wate R s, the third of thefe Worthies, was a Man no way refembhng the former in his Military, but extremely fo in his Civil Capacity; his great Fortune having been rais'd by the like diligent Attendance on the Neceflities of others. But this Gen- tleman's Hiftory muft be defcrr'd till his Death, when h\% Worth may be known more certainly. Ve R. 53. Colepeper.'] Sir Wi l l i a m C o l e p e p e r, Bart, a Per- fon of an ancient Family and ample Fortune, without one other quality of a Gentleman, who after ruining himfelf at the Gam- ing-table, paft the reft of his Days in fitting there to fee the Ruin of others ; preferring to fubfift upon borrowing and beg- ging, rather than to enter into any reputable Method of Life, and refufmg a Poft in the Army whicli was offer'd him. Ver. 65. — beneath the Patriots Cloke.'] This is a true Story which happened in the Reign of William IlL to an unfufpedted old Patriot, who coming out at the Back-door from having been tlofeted by the King, where he had received a large Bag of Gui- neas, the burfting of the Bag difcover'd his Bufinefs there. Ver. 74. Or pip off Senates tofome dijlant Jhore.'] Alludes to the Fate of feveral Minifters, Counfellors, and Patriots banifh'd in our times to Siberia, and to that more glorious one of the Par- liament of Paris, banifli'd to Pontoife in the year 1720. NOTES. 209 Ver. 84. Turner.] One, who being poffefled of three hun- dred thou land pounds, laid down his Coach becaufe Intereft was reduced from 5 to 4 per Ce7:P. and then put leventy thouland into the Charitable Corporation for better Intcrert : Which Sum having loft, he took it To much to heart, that he kept his Chamber ever after. It is thought he would not have out-Iiv'd it, but that he was Heir to anotl>er confidcrable Eftate which he daily expected, and that by this courfe of life he fav'd both Clothe and all other expences. Ver. 86. Unhappy Wharton !] A Nobleman of great Qua- lities, but as unfortunate in the application of them, as in his Vices and Follies. See his Charader in the firft Epiftle of the fecond Book. Ver. 87. Hopkins,] A Citizen whofe Rapacity obtain'd him the name o{ Vultur Hopkins. He lived worthlefs, but dy'd worth three hundred thoufand pounds : which he would give to no Perfon living, but left it fo as not to be inherited till after the fe- cond Generation. His Counfel reprefenting to him how many years it muft be before this could take effed:, and that his Mony could only lie at Intereft all that time, he expreft great joy at that, and faid, " they wou'd then be as long in fpending, as h^ *' had been in getting it." But the Chancery afterv/ards fet afide the Will, and gave it to the Heir at Law. Ver. 88. Japhety Nofe and Ears ^ Japhet Crook, alias Sir Peier Stranger, was punifhed with the lofs of thofe Parts, for having forged a Conveyance of an Eftate to himfelf, upon which he took up feveral thoufand pounds. He was at the fame time fued in Chancery for having fraudulently obtain'd a Will, by which he poffefs'd another confiderable Eftate, in wrong of the Brother of the deceas'd. By thefe means he was nvorth a great Sum, which (in reward for the fmall lofs of his Ears) he enjoy'd in Prifon till his death, and quietly left to his Executor. 210 NOTES. Ver. 98. Dye J and efidow a College^ or a Cat?\ A famous Duchefs of R. in her laft Will left confiderable Legacies and An- nuities to her Cats. Ve R. 102. B*nd dajmis the Poor — But Reverend S * * with a fofter air Admits-i and leaves theniy P7'0vidences care. In the year 1730, a Corporation was eftablifhed to lend Mo- ny to the Poor upon Pledges, by the name of the Charitable Co?-poration. It was under the direction of the Right Honourable Sir R S. Sir Arch. Grant, Mr. Denis Bond, Mr. Burroughs, &'c. But the whole was turned only to an Iniquitous Method of enrich- ing particular People, to the ruin of fuch numbers, that it be- came a Parliamentary Concern to endeavour the relief of thofe unhappy Sufferers, and three of the Managers who were Members of the Houfe, were expelled. That " God hates the Poor^ and '' That every man in ivant is Knave or Fool^' were the genuine Apothegmes of fome of the Perfons here mentioned. Ve r. 119. JFhat made DireElors cheat f — To live on V en Jon — ] In the Extravagance and Luxury of the South-fea year, the price of a Haunch of Venilon was from three to hve pounds. Ve r. 121. Ask you why Phrync the whole AuSlion buys f Phryne forefees a General Excife. Many People about the year 1733) had a Conceit that fuch a thing was intended, of which it is not improbable this Lady might have fome Intimation. Ver, 125. PFife Peter ^ Pet e r Walter, a Perforf not only eminent in the V/ifdom of his Profeffion, as a dextrous Attorney, but allowed to be a good, if not a fate, Conveyancer; extremely refpi-clcd by the Nobility of this [.and, tho' free from all manner of Luxury and Ollentatiun : His Wealth was never feen, and his Bounty never heard of; except to his own Son, for whom lie pro,- NOTES. 2 1 F cur'd an EmpIoymGnt of conilderable Profit, of which he gave him as much as was necejfary. Therefore the taxing this Gentle- man with any ylmbition^ is certainly a great wrong to him. Vii R. 12 1. Romes great Didius^ A Roman Lawyer, fo rich as to purchafe the Empire when it was fet to fale upon the death of Pertinax. Ver. 130. 7be Cro-mi of Pola?7d^ &c.] The two Perfons here mentioned were of Quality, each of whom in the time of the Miffi- fipi defpis'd to realize above three hundred thoufand pounds : The Gentleman with a view to the purchafe of the Crown of Poland, the Lady on a Vifion of the like Royai nature. They fince retired into Spain, where tliey are (till in fearch of Gold in the Mines of the AAuries. Ver. 135. Much injur d B/unt, ^c] Sir John Blunt ori- ginally a Scrivener, was one of the firfl: Projectors of the South- fea Company, and afterwards one of the Directors and chief Ma- nagers of the famous Scheme in 1720. He was alfo one of thofe who fuffer'd mod feverely by the Bill of Pains and Penalties on the faid Diredors. The fraudulent Conveyance he made of part of his Eftate, to the value of fifty thoufand pounds, to John Ward of Hackney being deteded, thro' a Mifu/u/erJIanding between thofe two Friends, he not only loft that great Sum, but had forfeited his Life, without a Pardon for the Difcovery. He was a Difienter of a moft religious Deportment, and pro- fefs'd to be a great Believer. Whether he did really credit the Prophecy here mentioned, is not certain, but it was conftantly in this very ftylc he declaim'd againft the Corruption and Lu- xury of the Age, the Partiality of ParliamentSj and the Mifery of Party-Spirit. He was particularly eloquent againft /Ivarice in Great ■\\m\ Noble Perfons^ of which he had indeed Jiv'd to fee many milerable Examples. He died in the year 1732. Ver. 243. OxioR d's better part^ Edward Ilarley Earl oi' 212 NOTES. Oxford, the Son of Robert, created Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer by Queen Anne. Ve R, 269. The Man of Ross.] This Perfon who with no greater Eftate adually performed all thefe good Works, and whofe true Name was almoft loft (partly by the Title of the Man of Rofs given him by way of Eminence, and partly by being bu- ried without fo much as an Infcription) was called Mr. yohiKyrh. He died in the year 1 724. aged 90, and lies interred in the Chan- cel of the Church of Rofs in Herefordfhire. EPISTLE to Dr. ARBUTHNOT THIS Epiftle contains an Apology for the Author and his Wri- tings. It was drawn up at fevcral times, as the feveral Occafions offer'd. He had no thought of publifliing it, till it pleas'd fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune to attack in a very extraordinary manner, not only his TVritifigs^ but his Morals^ Perfon^ and Fa- mily : of which he therefore thought himfelf obliged to give fome account. Ver. 129. Gra?iville the polite^ 8cc.] Thefe are the perfons to whofe account the Author charges the publication of bis flrft Writings. The Catalogue might have been extended very much to his honour, but that he confin'd it to Friends of that early date. Ver. 135. Great Dxy6.cn s Friends before^ All thefe were Pa- trons or Admirers of Mr. Dryden, tho' a fcandalous Libel againft him, called Dryden s Satire to his Mufe^ has been printed in the Name of the Lord Somers^ of which he was wholly ignorant. Ver. 207. Atticus.] It was a great Falfhood which fome ♦>f the Libels reported, that this Character was written after the Gentleman's death, which fee refuted in the Teflimonies prefix'd to the Dunciad. But the occafion of writing it was fuch, as he would not make publick in regard to his memory ; and all that could further be done was to omit the Name in the Edition of liis Vv^orks. NOTES. 213 Ver. 241. — help' d to bury.'] Mr. Dryden, after having liv'd in Exigences, had a magnificent Funeral beflow'd upon him by the contribution of feveral Perfons of QuaUty. Ver. 342. Ithe Lye fo oft 6 e7'thrown?^ As that he receiv'd Suh- fcriptions for Shake/pear-, that htfet his name to Mr. Broome s Ver- fes, &'c, which tho' pubHckly diiprov'd, were neverthelefs (hame- lefsly repeated in the Libels, and even in that called The Noble- man s Epijlle. Ver. 343. TV imputed Irajh^ Such as \>tohnQ Pfalms^ Court- Poems^ and other fcandalous things, printed in his Name by Curl and others. Ver. 346. Abufe on all he lov dy cr lovd him, fpread.'] Name- ly on the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Burlington, Lord Bathurft, Lord Bolingbroke, Bifhop Atterbury, Dr. Swift, Dr. Ar- buthnot, Mr. Gay, his Friends, his Parents, and his very Nurfe, afperfed in printed papers: by James Moore and G. Ducket, Efquires, Welfted, Tho. Bentley, and other obfcure perfons, ^c. Ver. 366. Ten Tears.] It was fo long, before the Author of the Dunciad publifhed that Poem, till when, he never writ a word in anfwer to the many Scurrilities and Falfehoods concerning him. Ver. 367. Weljled' s Lye^ This Man had the Impudence to tell in print, that Mr. P. had occafion'd a Ladys death, and to name a perfon he never heard of. He alfo publifh'd that he had libel'd the Duke of Chandos ; with whom (it was added) that he had liv'd in familiarity, and receiv'd from him a Prefcnt of jive hundred pounds : The Falfehood of which is known to his Grace, whom Mr. P. never had the honour to fee but twice, and never receiv'd any Prefent, farther than the Subfcription for Homer, from him, or from Any Great Man whatfoevcr. Budgel in a Weekly Pamphlet calFd the Bee, beflow'd much abufe on him, in the imagination that he writ feme things about the Lajl Will of Dr. Tindal, in the Grnbjlreet J our rial ; a Paper H h 214 NOTES.- wherein he never had the leaft Hand, Diredionj or Supervifal, nor the leaft knowledge of its Authors. He took no notice of fo frantick an Abufe ; expefting that any man who knew hinnfelf Author of what he was llander'd for, would have juftify'd hitii on that Article. Ver. 372. His Father^ Mother^ &c.] In fome of Curl's and other Pamphlets, Mr. Pope's Father was faid to be a Mechanic, a Hatter, a Farmer, nay a Bankrupt. But what is ftranger, a No- hleman (if fuch a Refledion can be thought to come from a No- bleman) has dropt an Allufion to this pitiful Untruth, in his Epiflle to a DoElor of Divinity : And the following Line, Hard as thy Heart, and as thy Birth Ob/cure, had fallen from a like Courtly pen, in the Verfes to the Imitator of Horace. Mr, Pope's Father was of a Gentleman's Family in Oxfordfhire, the Head of which was the Earl of Downe, whofe fole Heirefs married the Earl of Lindfey. — His Mother was the Daughter of William Turhor, Efq; of York : She had three Bro- thers, one of whom was kill'd, another died in the Service of King Charles ; the eldeft following his Fortunes, and becoming a General Officer in Spain, left her what Eftate remain'd after the Sequeftrations and Forfeitures of her Family. Mr. Pope died in 1717, aged 75; She in 1733, aged 93, a very few Weeks after this Poem was iinifhed. The following Infcription was placed by their Son on their Monument, in the Parifh of Twickenham, in Middlefex. D. O. M. Alexandro Pope, Viro Innocuo, Probo, Pio, Qui vixit annos Lxxv, ob. Mdccxvii. Et EDITHiE CONJUGI InCULPABILI, PiENTIS SIMiE, Qu^ VIXIT ANNOS XciII, OB. MdCCXXXIII. Parentibus Benemerentibus Filius Fecit, et Sibi. VARIATIONS. Edit. I. Fol.&Quart. Essayo«Man. Epift. i. Ver. 89,90. What Blifs above he gives not thee to know. But gives that Hope to be thy Blifs below. Ed. 2. What future Blifs - - - - to be thy bleffmg now. Ed. I. Ver. 95. If to beperfeSi in a certain State, What fnatter, here or there^ orfoon or late f He that is bleji to day^ as fully foy As who began ten thoufand years ago. Omitted in the fubfequent Editions. Ed. I . Ver. 237. Vafl Chain of Being which from God began. Ethereal EJfence, Spirit, Subftance^ Man, 6cc. Ed. 2. Natures Ethereal, human, Angel, Man. Ver. 243. Let Earth unbalanced from her Orbit fy, Planets and Suns rufj lawlefs from the Siy, Let y^uVmg Angels frofn their Spheres be hurld. Being 071 Beifig wrecked, a?id World 07i World, Heavns whole foundations to their Centre ?iod. And Nature tre7nble to the Tljrone of God. Thefe fix Lines are added fince the firft Edition. Epistle II. Ver. 2. Edit. i. T^e only Science of Mankind is Man. Ed. 2. l^ie proper Study ~ - WQi.2i.'Ed.i,UcJnfru^ the Planets in what Orbs to ru72, CorreSl old Time, and 7'egulate the Su7i. H h 2 2 16 VARIATIONS. Ed. 4, 5. Show by what Rules the wandring Planets Ji fay, CorreB old 'Tnne^ ajid teach the Sun his way. \^er-. 35. Ed. i . Could hs, who taught each Planet where to roll. Defer ibe, or fix, one movement of the Soul f Who fnarK d their Points to rife or to defend. Explain his own beginning, or his endf Ed. 4. Could he whofe Laws the whirling Comet bind, Defcribe, or fix, o?ie Movement of the Mind ? Who f aw the Stars here rife, and here defcendj Explai7i his own beginning, or his end? Ver. 179. Lufi, thro fojne certain Strainers well refind, Is ge7itle Love, and charms all Wofnankind. Left out in fome Editions. Ver. 2 o 5 . Ed . I . A Cheat 1 a Whore I whoflarts not at the Name, In all the In?js of Court, or Drury-lane P But where th' Extreme of Vice was neer agreed, 8cc. Thefe two are alfo omitted in the fubfequent Editions. Epistle III. Ver. i. Learn Dulnefs, learn ! the Univerfal Caufe ASls to one End, but aEis by various Laws. Ed. 4, 5. Here then we refl : iToe Univerfal Caufe AEis Ver. 9. Ed. i. See lifelefs Matter moving to one End. Ed. 2. Seeplaflic Nature working to this End. VARIATIONS. 217 Ver. 49. As far as Goof e coud judge i he reafon d right j Bui as to Man^ miflook the Matter quite. Omitted in the laft Editions. Ver. 198. Who for thofe Arts they lear?id of Brutes before^ As Ki?igs fh all crown them^ or as Gods adore.' Ed. 5. And for thofe Arts 7nerc Infl'mSl could afford^ Be crown d as Monarchs^ or as Gods adord. Ver. 208. Converfe and Love mankifid might Jlro?jgly di'awy When Love was Liberty ^ and Nature Law. Thefe two Lines added iince the firft Edition. Epistle IV. Ver. no, &'c. Gods fends not III^ 'tis Nature lets it fall, Or Change efcape, and Man improves it all. Thus in the laft Edition. God fends not III : if rightly underflood^ Or partial III is univerfal Goody Or Change admits^ or Nature lets it fall, Short i and but rare^ till Man itnprovd it all. Ver. 1 40. Give each a Syjlem, all tnufl be a Strife, What different Syjlemsfor a Man aftd Wife f Omitted in the laft Edition. Ver. 380. When Statefnen, Heroes^ Kings, in duf repofe, Whofe Sons /hall blufh their Fathers were thy Foes. Omitted by miftake in the Folio Edition. 2i8 VARIATIONS. Epistles, Book the Second, Epift. i. Ver. 146. Triumphant Leaders^ &c. Thefe four Verfes ha- ving been mifconftrued , contrary to the Author's meaning, they are fuppreffed in as many Copies as he cou'd recall. Ep. 2 . Ver. 103. In fevral Men we feveral Paffions find ; In Wofnen-t two almofi divide the Kind. In the laft Edit. In Men-, we various ruling Paflions^W ; In Women., 8ec. Ep. 3. Ver. 400, &c. Inftead of the four laft Lines are only thefe two in the Folio Editions. Wife., Son and Daughter, Satan^ are thy Prize., And fad Sir Balaam curfes God and dies. E p. 4. Ver. 1 69. Who then pall grace, or who improve the Soil? &c. The twelve Verfes- following are added fince the feparate Editions. Ep. 7. Ver. 29. What Drop, or Noflrum, can this plague remove f Or which mujl end me, a Fool's Wrath or Love ? It ftands thus in the feparate Folio Edition. Ver. 8 g, 90. Defiroy his Fib, or Sophifiry, in vain! The Creatures at his dirty Work again. In the fame Edition. Ver. 1 00. Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn d are right. It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite. -In the fame Edition. Ver. 109. Time, Praife, or Money, js the leaf they crave. Yet each declares the other Fool or Knave. Thefe two Lines are not in the feparate Folio. VARIATIONS. 219 Ver. 238, 8cc. Dryden alone (what wonder PJ catne not nigby Dry den alone efcapd this judging eye ; But Jl ill the Great have kindnefs in referve^ He helped to bury him he help d to Jlarve. Thefe four alfo are not in the feparate Editions. Ver. 24.5. Ed. I. Above a Patron^ tho I condefcejid Sometimes to call a Minijler my frieftd. I was not born for Courts Ver. 250, &c. Stand thus in the feparate Polio, Why am I aslid-, what next Jhall fee the light ? Heavns I was I born for nothing but to write f Has Life no Joys for me f or, to begrave. Have I no Friend toferve, no Soul to fave f Ver. 278. in the Folio. TVho reads but with a Lufl to mif apply ^ Make Satire a Lampoon, and FiStion Lie, ALafh like fnine, no honefl Man Jhall dread. Sec. Ver. 280. Sporus^ It was originally P^r/>, but that Name having been, as we conceive, the only reafon that fo contemptible a Charader could be applied to a Noble and Beautiful Perfon, the Author changed it to this of Sporus, as a Name which has never yet been fo mif-applied. Ver. 340. iTje dijiant Threats of F'efigeaftce on his head. The Blow unfelt, the Tear he never fhed : Thefe Lines arc not in the feparate Folio Edition. F I N I & ERRATA. Epift. I. Ver. io8. For Tbii faithful Dog, r. His, Epift. 4. Ver. 112. for Chance, r. Change. Epiftle to Lord Cobham, Ver. 9. for are fuch, r. is. and Ver. 14. for thofe r. thefe. Add alfo the numeral Figures to that page. Epiftle to a Lady, Ver. 180. for creates this J'ofter Man^ r. It forms a fofter Man. Epiftle to Lord Burlington, Ver. 180. for Natives r. Navies. Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Ver. 383. for Clodio's r. Bepa's. Firft Satire of Horace, Ver. 1 10. for Bear the mean Heart, r. Bare, and in Ver. 91. be fare to read Waters. Fourth Satire of Donne, Ver. 247. for wagd r. "wagg. Epitaphs, in that of the Earl of Dorfet, inftead of the Church of Kmlle in Kent, read the Church of Withyham in Suffex. Prolegomena to the Dunciad, folio, page 63. 1. 9. iox prefuppofed x.propofed, and in the Quarto p. 67. 1. 23. the fame Error. In the Index of Perfons celebrated in the Dunciad, for Omar the Ottoman Em- peror, r. Omar the Caliph, as it is in the Place refer 'd to, viz. 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