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Y ;Mr. Thomas Veates. Mr. Wm. Yefcombe, 'Bath. Mr. John Young. c a ADVER- ADVERTISEMENT. A Very few Copies of this Work being printed off, befides thofe to accommodate the Sub- fcribers, the Author purpofes continuing the Sub- fcription open for a fecond Edition, -(with Additions) which is taken in by Mr. RAIKES, Printer, in Glocef- ttr ; Mr. SAVOURS, Mercer, in Cardiff; J. CARNAN, in Reading; Mr. COOK, Bookfeller, at Farnham, in Surry ; Mr. TOFT, at Chelmsford, \nEJJ~ex; Mr. FLETCHER, and Mr. PRINCE, in Oxford; Meflrs. FLETCHER and HODSON, Cambridge; and by the Publifhers. mmmmmmmm CONTENTS. PAGS SNARLERS. A Poem. ^ The IMPARTIALIST. A Poem. 24 MISCELLANIES, Upon a young Ladys. Intention to retire into a French Convent, 42 Upon leaving a Lady in the Country, 47 To the fame Lady from Newbury, ibid. An Acrojlic, 48 Upon a Petit Maitre, 49 An extempore Anfwer to an Invitation, 50 An Extempore, 5 1 An Acrojlic, 52 To a Lady, 53 An Acrojlic upon an Old Maid, 54 A Paragraph verjified, ibid. A Dialogue, 55 An Acrcflic, 56 Upon feeing Mrs. Yeates in the Earl of Warwick, 57 An CONTENTS. An Acroflic, 57 Acrojlics, 58 59 An Extempore upon Lord C* *****, 60 Lines upon Hircus, ibid. Upon a certain Beau-Preacher, 61 The Highgate Adventure, 62 Extempore upon the Death of the Right Hon. Charles Townfend, 64 Upon Mrs* Yeates in Heroic Love, ibid. Two Acrojlics, , 65 Upon a young Lady, who was much offended at the. Author's impartial Opinion, 66 An Acroflic, 67 One upon a majk' d Lady, 68 To the Author of the Countefs of Salijbury, ibid. To a married Lady, upm her Birth -Day, 69 AnAcroJlic, 70 Ditto, 7 i Anfwer to afcurrilous Epigram, ibid. Verfes to Dr. Wynjlok, vpon the Author^ Recovery from a Nervous Complaint, . 72 Upon reading a Letter Jlgn'd Major John Spinnage, 74 To a Canterbury Witling, 75 Two CONTENTS. Two Extempore* , 77 Extfmpores, 78 An Anfwer to an Invitation, 79 An Epiftle, 80 Verfes addrefs'd to two Sifters, 82 Iff on a certain Coxcomb, 84 An Extempore Epigram, 85 Sent to a Friend with the Snarlers and Impartialtft, ibid. In Anfwer to an Invitation from fame. Ladies, 86 In Praife of the Cltamberlain of London, 87 Upon afelfi/h Advertifement, 88 A Character, ibid. Upon the late College Difputes, 89 An Acrofiic, go Upon reading an Extratt from Dr. D**d's Poems, 91 A Cure for immoderate Grief, 92 Upon feeing a bea.iitiful Lady, 93 The Journal of a Day, 94 An Epiftle, 98 To a Lady at Bath, 101 The Author's Anfwer to a Tenant T 102 Upon Mifs Read at Bath. log The CONTENTS, The Smiling Fair, loif To the fame, 105 Upon being accus'd of writing againjl Mrs. Yeates, 107 The Apology to a Lady, 108 Gripus, an Epigram, 109 The World difplay'd, ibid; To Thomas Mathews, Efq. 111 To Mrs. Mathews-, 112 An Acrojlic, 113 To Mr. Mathews, 1 1-4 An Elegy, 116 Upon the Death of a young Lady, 118 Upon reading Mr. Pierces Narrative, j 19 An Epijlle, 120 TAe J5^A Squabble, a Song, ibid. An Epijlle y 123 An Acrojlic, 125 Extejnpores, 1 2 6 127 AnEpiJlle, 'ibkl. a certain Divine, i 3 1 1 3-2 1 34 CONTENTS. Upon hearing the Lycidai of Milton perform d at Balk, 139 Upon a confcientious Undertaker, 140 Jews Eye, a Song, 142 A n Epifdc to a Friend, 145 An Elegy, prefented to a Lady of Quality, 145 To the Daughters cf the fame Lady, 147 Upon feeing Mr. Barry and Mrs. Dancer in Romeo arid Juliet, 148 The Agology to David Garrick, Efq. 149 Ditto to George Colman, Efq. 150 Upon a certain eld Lady, 155 To a Lady at Bath, who defircd to fee the Author's Hcrfe, CHURCHILL, ibid,' In Praife of his Horfe, 1 56 The nolle Pair, 1^7 The Whirling Girl, a Song, 159 To a Lady in Town, 16 1 ^'crc Mr, Kelly's new Comedy, 162 Prefmied to a certain Nobleman, 163 Upon a Lady's catching Cold ata Dancing, ibid. AnEpifite, i6 5 The Hamjjfli'.rc Il'Jmlug, i66 ^ An CONTENTS. An JE/culapian Character, 1 67 AnEpiJlle, 168 The Dangler, 170 A Chrijlmas Song, 172 Upon a recent Proof of Patriotic Virtue, 173 An Extempore, 174 An Elegy, 175 t^ow a Prefent of a Sprig of Myrtle, 176 AnEpijlle, 177 Advice to a Friend additted to Gaming, 179 Upon. Mrs. Worley, at Bath, 180 The Impojlor unmaflCd, 1 8 1 Mifs Read's Triumph, 183 AnEpiJlle, 184 Uponfeeing a poor Object expiring, 187 ^4 Character, 189 ^4 &wg- ? ibid. AnEpiJlle, 191 ^?2 Extempore, 192 J LIBERTY. A Poem. 199 MISCELLANIES continued. AnEpiJlle, 222 CONTENTS: An Extempore, The Bufybody, To a Lady in Suffolk, An Epijlle, The Farewell, 225 ibid. 227 228 2*9 T O ; c v 3 T O T H E READER. T N order to illuftrate the Occalion of this his firft Effay in Print, the Author thinks it proper to lay before his Reader, an Advertifement which made its Appearance in the Gazetteer, upon die 2^th of Novem- ber, 1766, -to which (at the Requeft of a Friend of his) he would have returned the Anfwer which im- mediately follows it, but was refufed the Infertion of it, by the Gazetteer Printer in particular, and a very churlifh Meflage returned Jiim with the three Shillings fent with it. The Author thinks it but confiftent to add, that the firft eight Lines were wrote for private Perufal only ; but finding, upon farther Application to get his Advertifement inferted, that there was na B oppofmg vi To the R E A D E R. oppofing the conmcled Sway of the defpotic Printers ; he then determined upon this Publication. -The Addrefs of the 25th of November was, verbatim, as follows. ' : To the Curious, particularly the Ladies. A young married Gentleman, labouring under fome Difficulties, and willing to maintain his Family by his own Induf- try, rather than depend too much on his Friends, ha- ving a few vacant Hours in the Week, is willing to wait on any genteel Company with a very Curious Electrical Machine, and exhibit many furprizmg Expe- riments therewith ; befides many others, if required^ in natural Philofophy.As he is a Perfon of great Repu- tation, inviolable Secrecy is required ; and this Adver- tifement is only meant to Perfons of Honour.---T'he Advertifer will leave it entirely to their Generofity, to reward according to Satisfaction. Pleafe to fend a Line to the Piazza Coffee-Houfe, Covent -Garden, directed for A. P. and will be punctually attended to." The intended Anfwer to the above (as from a Lady) is exaclly as fellows. " A young Lady (of a moft experimental Turn of 'Mind) captivated with the amazing Ingenuity of the Propofal To the READER. vii Propofals, .from the Gentleman A. P. who addreffed the Ladies in particular, touching his curious Eleftri- cal Machine, finds herfelf fo ideally prepoflefled in Favour of his Art, that nothing but an aftual Proof of his natural Philofophy, can poffibly to Satisfaction convince her. An early Difplay of his fublime Ta- lent is required, by his immediate Attendance upon Seigniora Inamorata, at the Jupiter and Lceda, in the Grove of Sweets." ^ The Author now fubmits his trifling Performance to the Candour of his Reader, and leaves it entirely to his impartial Opinion, whether his defigned Adver- tifement is or is not more exceptionable, than that firfl t>f all admitted into the impartial boajling Gazetteer. B 2 THE C 9 ] THE S N A R L E R S. /^ ODS ! how I laugh to fee fuch Ictter'd Elves, Big with the vail Importance of Themfelves, Infert, reject, and with defpotic Sway, Retail fuch paltry Stuff from Day to Day ; But fhould fome fmart- wrote Pleafantry of Whim, Afk their Acceptance, " No, it flian't be in." J.uftice demands the Charge mud fingly lay, You'd wifh to have a Snarler's Name, 'tis S*}'. HERE, had I paus'd, nor all unfit to fail, Ventur'd from Shore, without poetic Gale, My ill-trim'cl Bark, but then this haughty Throng, Of News-compiling Things, had flopp'cl my Tongue, B 3 Doom'd 10 THESNARLERS. Doom'd me to Silence, mock'd at my Chagrin, And triumph' d o'er my Reafon and my Spleen ; Forbid it Heav'n avert it manly Pride, Forbid it Reafon, warring on my Side ; That e'er fuch fervile Fetters mould impofe -j Such bafe, fuch abje6t Terms; -hence flavim Dofe; j- Up rouze my Strength to crum thefe venal Foes; J Who boaft impartial Service to the Town ; But mark them well- they only mean their own ; Their Self-refpecting Interefl is in View, And if it profit them, they'll pleafure you ; If not conttmn'd by their connected Rule, Oblivion's Ruft fliall eat the forward Fool. PEACE to fuch Upflarts, who's dull leaden Brain, A Dawn of Senfe ne'er grac'd, who proudly vain Of their high letter d Office, daily fit, And tho' devoid of Senfe- yet judge of Wit ; Dealing with nice Sagacity their Blows, 'Gainft would-be Friends, encouraging their Foes : And as a further Proof of Head and Heart, Expofmg in their daily Trafh fuch Art, vSucli rotten Art, of fome bafe factious Pen, To puff vile Mcafures. and ftill viler Men. But THESNARLERS. ti But what of this ? They for their Country's Caufe, Can feel no real Grief, nor heed her Laws. Tho' trampl'd pn by mercenary Slaves, Who for depending Bread, extol State Knaves ; And fawning upon Fawners, what they fend, With moft infatiate Guft, fuch Stuff befriend, As the cloy'd Prefs (tho' Surfeits daily fpring) Would vomit forth, nor fujfer to takje Wing. NAY, further yet, what Shame it is to fee, Rais'd thus on high, the Flag of Infamy ; Perufe a recent Advertifer*, there A witling Printer's Judgment will appear ; Mark, how he hangs up Majefly -you'd fwear, The mad-cap Wilkes return'd to Scandal's Chair ; See how he glotes upon his royal Fun, And hopes to lull our Reafon with a pun ; A vaunt dull Sophifler, I fee thy Art, Thy Scrap-compiling Wit but doubt thy Heart ; Learn what Refpeft to Majefly is due, The Bow is bent, the Shaft may wing to you ; Honour thy King- --nor let a Subje6l dare Prefume to cenfure, what 'tis his to fear. OUR * Public, Dec. 10, 1766. 12 THE S N A R L E R S. OUR glorious charter'd Liberty I fee, And boaft an equal Birthright to be free ; England's my native Land, I love the Spot ; (May it long flourifh when I'm quite forgot) But tho' our Liberty I dearly rate, Licentious Freedoms, are my deadly Hate ; What Plea, becaufe our wholefome Laws provide The Subjeft Refuge 'gainft defpotic Pride ? That with gigantic Stalk, in Mid-day Sun, Scandal mould lord it, under Mafk of Fun ; And trampling upon regal Pow'r and State. Not fpare the Greateft. e'en aipongft the Great. " So great, fp good, fo excellent in Mind, Search the World o'er, his Equal where to find ; Watching his People, with a Father's Care, Loving, belov'd, thro' Gratitude, not Fear.--- And yet, (Gods, what Apoftacy of Heart!) Some vile Detractors ---in the marling Art, -Dare e'en his facred Character defame, And damn themfelves to everlafting Shame." Too many Characters of putrid note, A rcry Shock to Nature but to quote,) Are THESNARLERS. 13 Are here difpers'd about this buftling town, For like the cormorant Sea, here All go down ; Such Men there are, whofe vile abandon'd Ways, Furnifh fit Fuel for a Satire's Blaze ; Some too I've fhrewdly noted, but 'bove all, A certain One whom we will Hircus call. To human Nature what a paufe to fee, Grey Hairs difhonour'd with fuch Infamy ; Committing in the Face of Mid-day Sun, Such flagrant Actions, as the Night would fhun ; Living a daily Lye to Gofpel Truth, Immers'd in Vice e'en from his earlieft Youth ; And to Religion what a publick Scorn ! The Wretch a Parfon's made ! nay, hunts the Lawn; Impious, and vain, lur'd by his Patron's bait, He fondly hopes to gain a Mitr'd State ; - Right, prudent Sir, a Mitre would do well, To veil the Sins of fuch an Infidel ; Difcard thy Punk take my Advice -'tis true I'm young (thank Heav'n) but not fo black as you ; Throw off thy Trull ---Gods ! how I blufh to meet Your cajfock'd Sirjhip, rumbling in the Street ; When i 4 THESNARLERS. When by your Side, to taint the ambient Air, Sets Pluto's footy Dame- thy peeiiefs Fair ! For Shame, give o'er this execrable Life, Hie to your Country mind your lawful Wife ; For tho' I mayn't to Ireland (that's your Fear) The Winds mull waft it to the injur'd there. How mojt conjijlent with thy Age and Gown, You've fojourn'd here, a Pelt to Half the Town ;--- And can it be, that fuch a Wretch, fo bold, So refolute in Guilt, fhould ever hold A Mjtr'd Sceptre in his venal Hand, Not to amendbut poifon more the Land ? Hcnven- fure.fhall wink, fair Juflice fall afleep, And Nature fick'nmg at a Wound fo deep, Shall mil give.up the Ghoft, e'er fach a Deec}, (.By which Religion .will bcfure to bleed) Can be effected ^--fooTi^r the Almighty Pow'r, Avenging Crimes like his, contract his Hour ; S weep him from Earth, like. Chaff before the Wind, And (but a rotten Name) " leave not a Wreck behind." --Well keen-ey'd Satire, how does Hircus bear Mis Wounds expos' d by Truth's all-probing Air ? Docs he. feel deeply ? Will he yet repent, And purge his Crimes by keeping ilricleft: Lent ? Sooner THESNARLRS. i 5 Sooner mall Fifties leave their native Main, To graze with Cattle on the verdant Plain ; Rather fhall Wolves their favage Nature quit, And Printers learn to judge of fterling Wit ; With prudent and refpe&ful Caution keep, A decent Courfe 'twixt Shallow and the Deep ; Sooner fhall Royalty reftrain the Pen Of fuch licentious, Power-defying Men ; Fire and Water fooner fhall agree, Than Hircus ever join in Amity, With Virtue's Call, ---fuch callous Souls defy, Impending Vengance from, an angry Sky. GODS ! what an Age, how profligate and bale, Branding our very Nature with Difgrace ; All mutual Ties of Friendfhip are diffolv'd, And Man (fuch is the prefent vicious World) No longer trufls his Brother Man, but preys Like the fell Monfiers of the defart Ways, Each on the other's Property, or Fame, And damns alike his Reafon, with his Name. SELF is the reigning Principal confeft, Which rages with fuch Fury in the Breaft ; The 16 THE SNARL ERS. The deareft Ties of Nature bind no more, Father 'gainft Son exerts a rioflile Pow'r; The Son rebels againft the Father's Sway, And with an impious Rage, tho' bound to obey, By all the tender, the endearing Right, Which inftinft Nature e'en in Brutes excite ; Yet He more favage than the brutal Race, Can all parental Homage fo debafe, And bring his ali'nated Mind to dare, His Author's Being to an open War. From this degen'rate Source arife the Woes Of Party-feuds, Britain's intefline Foes. Oh, my poor Country ! tho' a tranfient Peace, Has hufti'dthe Nations, ftill thy Griefs increafe; The prefeht Calm but mars thy glorious Fame, And heaps Diigrace upon thy honour'd Name ; Better had Mars continu'd in Array, Arid left the I flue to a future Day; Better had France ally'd with factious Spain, Brav'd thy Refentment ftill, by Land and Main; More to thy Credit, England, more thy Boafl, Had even France, with an invading Hoft, O'er-run thy Borders, with a fell Intent, To add a Province of fuch rich Extent, As THESNARLERS. 17 As Britain's Crown, to the defpotic Sway, Of a French King, whole Motto is " Obey." The loyal Subjects of thy George's Throne Had foon repell'd, and drove th* Invaders home. But now, alas ! when the fweet Balm of Peace Should fpread its genial Influence, and encreafe Our public Stock of Happinefs, -behold (Curie to the venal Thirl! of Pow'r and Gold) Like a poor Matron, butcher'd by her Sons, Our Country bleeds, from bafe internal Wounds j The Rage of Party ftabs her to the Core, And Streams of Blood gum out at every Pore ; Difcord, and perfohal Abufe, employ The Hours of Counfel with malicious Joy : When in the Senate, for the public Weal, All Hearts mould glow with patriotic Zeal ; When with Catonic Energy of Mind, Thought mould be nerv'd with Sentiment refin'd ; A ftupid Paufe, with Vacancy of Face, Deftroys the wounded Luftre of the Place ; 'Till feme invidious Party-foaming Elf, Rifes- attempts -a Something for Himfelf ; His faiiltYIng Tongue betrays a venal Heart, If. by Miflake. lie Mumbles on a Part ; Which i8 THESNARLERS. Which hints the public Good fhould be his Aim, (Defpifmg ev'ry other Road to Fame) At this he Harts then to Abufe defcends, Drawcanfir-]ike, attacking Foes and Friends; With Self-promoting Intereft in View, He mangles all Refpeft, and Honour too ; Sets the whole Houfe into a Party Roar, Neglecl enfues and Times are as before. Gems ! what a fecret Triumph this muft bring, To haughty Lewis, and his Spanifh King, To hear tumultuous Jars diftraft our State, And that our Great combine againfl die Great; Warring (with State-craft Intereft at their Head) Againft our Peace, as if for daily Bread ; But all are not Apoftates to the Caufe ; No, fome remain ftifl careful of our Laws ; Still watchful for their Country's beft Support, Untainted with the baneful Pow'r of Court: Who's Virtues, merit far fuperior Praife, Than I can offer in my humble Lays. O, ye brave Few. who love your Country's Health Superior (as ye ought) to worldly Wealth ; Who, THE SNARLED S. * 9 Who, rather than behold her daily Bane, Would fooner fuffer a whole Age of Pain ; Go on, affert the glorious God-like Caufe, Unite as one, and but refpeft her Laws ; Succefs, (the fure Reward of virtuous Men) Shall crown your Labours, and my grateful Pen; Shall make, tllo' but a faint Effay to tell, What honed Rapture ev'r/ Heart mail fwell ; When our dear Country, with herfelf at Peace, - { - f Inftead of Difcord, mall a fweet Increafe Of mutual Love, and Fellowfhip unfold, And, to Content, revive the Age of Gold ! " And gracious Heav'n, if thy Servant's Pray' t, With kind Indulgence thou'lt vouchfafe to hear, In thy good Time, produce this wifh'd Reverfc, And banim far for ever Party Curfe." BUT foft methinks I hear fome whifp' ring -Friend, Kindly advife my drawing to an End ; And with forboding Speech, that chills my Hopes, Like the drear Bird of Night, with frightful Notes, Screams in my Ear, prefumptious Youth no more, Prudent in Time direft thy Bark to Ihore ; Nor 20 THE SNARLE&S. Nor madly venture further out to Sea, i A Sea of Rhyme but never meant for Thee. No Pilot at thy Helm---but here I fmile, For I've a Mufe in Petto all the while ; A little Clio of my own fo kind, And tho' but young, yet of a Form and Mind So op' n ing to Per feclion,--- that I fwear, I would not quit her Patronage and Care; Tho' all her Sifters * elfe mould offer Aid, I want no more, fhe's all !--- My charming Maid f But on my Friend what further Dangers wait ? The daring Fool that mall prefume to prate, And prate in Rhime, of Manners, and of Men, Whofe Aftions would debafe a Grub-ftreet Pen. Say what the Perils are, the Rocks difclofe, And fave thy Friend from his yet ambufh'd Foes ?- Hear then and tremble---d"read the keen Reviews, Their monthly Satire will attack thy Mufe ; Thy favourite Clio, with malicious Rage, And probe Thee deeply in their poignant Page ; Pinion in Time, nor urge thy defp'rate Flight, What tho' 'tis prefent Day, 'twill foon be Night; Soon * The Mufe's, THESNARLERS. 21 Soon fliall the gathering Storm eclipfe that Sun, Which now but gleams to partial Thee alone ; To foar is dang'rous in thefe fnarling Times, Quit then in Prudence, quit this Rage for Rhimes ; In humble Profe thy (lender Parts employ, Nor hunt for Danger, which muft fure deftroy. Peace, good Sir Prudence, what have I to care ? Why mention the Reviews ? I cannot fear, Tho' thofe Bum-fighting Lurkers monthly write, And fcalp poor Authors with an envious Spite ; 'Tis not for Me, a very Moufe in Rhime, ^ To think thofe learned Harpies will combine, I To feed on fuch infipid Food as mine ; J The fturdy Oak may dread the furious Blafl, My Reed will bend, and when the Storm is paft, Elaftic in itfelf will fpring again, Nor fear a Rupture, from thefe boift'rous Men ! In this I'm firm, let Candour fhield my Mufe, Or if differed by thofe fell Reviews, Still will I keep my Couvfe--nor mean in Heart, From what I've wrote thro' fervile Fear depart ; Unlike a recent Bard whom I could name, Who. dead to ev'ry Senfe of honeft Fame, C Rccall'd 22 THESNARLERS. Rccall'd his publifh'd Mind, nay worft, Upon himfelf the Stigma of a Curfe Bafely affix'd.-- -Gods ! that a noble Mind, So flrong, fo nervous, and to Worth inclin'd, Should by fome ftrange Fatality of Heart, Fall off, and dwindle to fo mean a part, As to retraft, and faulter from Himfelf, Whether thro' Fear of Law, or Love of Pelf, I know not, bat 'twas Slave-like poorly done, And well may mar his Credit's Rifing-fun ; Or, I miftake my Aim, or Satire's Pen Was meant to lafh fuch flagrant-living Men As Hircus, whom I've piftur'd in my Verfe, To Nature, and Profeflion what a Curfe ! But yet I hold it Cruelty of Heart; To let meek Charity fo far depart, As to expofe a real Name to view, And brand it with the worft of Scandal's Hue ; Could I do this, I would forfwear my Pen, Fly to the Defarts, quit the Sight of Mert ; - . ' Prowl there for Food, provide the Lion's Prey, And think myfelf as favage full as They : Forbid it Heav'n, that fuch malignant Rage, Should blot th' impartial Piirpofe of my Page ; Let 1* H E S N A R L E R S. 23 Let fweet Humanity, and focial Love, The darling Attributes of Saints above ! Be ever prefent with Propitious Sway, My Guard by Night, my Happinefs by Day : Let not foul Malice, with her venom' d Tooth, Pervert my Purpofe, from the facred Truth ; Far, far remov'd keep Rancour from my Mind, " I am a Man, and feel for all Mankind." On this juft Bafis I would raife a Name, And emulate a LLOYD'S or CHURCHILL'S Fame. C 2 T H THE IMPARTIALIST. HP HANKS to the kind Indulgence of the Town, My firfl EfTay's gone comfortably down ; The SNARLERS, that's my Piece, 1 now proclaim, * And flart again, in queil of further Game ; But had I ta'en my prudent Friend's Advice, -, You've ventur'd once, low'rs he, beware of twice, L. I told him (for I'm bold) I'd hazard thrice; J And thrice to that, perhaps, what check my Pen, Let Knaves fecurely fit as honeft Men ? No, if I do, may I contempt engage, And as a fecond Hircus, damn the Age. ENOUGH F * The Author did not put his Name to the SXARLERS. THE IMf>ARTlALiST. 25 ENOUGH of Hircus let him mend his Life, Difcard his Punk, folace his Injh Wife ; From ME, he need not dread a fecond Dart. My firft I know ftill rankles in his Heart ; Let him fneak Home, and hide his Mifcreant's Head. Forfake the Adult'rous, mind his lawful Bed ; When he does this, purging his Crimes away, E'en I may be his Friend, fome future Day. ENOUGH of Printers too; that witling Race^ No more mail blot my Page, my Pen difgrace ; Let Snarler SAY Himfelf, e'en think and do - Whate'er he lifts, by Folly's erring Clew, j, t Directed One, and all that venal Crew. J O, fora CHURCHILL'S Energy of Soul! A Flow like his, not fubjecl; to Controul ! At the bare mention of that hdnour'd Name, How my Breaft fires wtih noble Thirft of Fame, His matchlefs Greatnefs floats before my Sight, To my Mind's Eye, what exquifite Delight ! It AIL to our deathlefs Bard, a Mufe like mine, (Humble and poor, the leaft of all the Nine) C 3 H THE I M P A R T I A L I $ T. Her grateful Tribute to his Mem'ry pays, Ambitious only to attempt his Lays ! By his Example, with impartial Pen, I'll drive to mend; orlafh fuch vicious Men, Who to their Country are a foul Difgrace, Or In, or Out, with Penfion, or with Place, I value not AD, all's the fame to ME, I mind a titl'd Knave no more than he ; Can boldly, when I'm wrong'd, a LORD upbraid, Nor dread his Frown, though he's a VICE-ROY made. WHY mould I fear a Lordling that's in Pow'r, Who's only Worth's the Perfume of an Hour ? Who rotten to the Core with Filth and Sin, Ne'er lets a tranficnt Gleam of Grace break in. THANK Heaven, I'm not of fuch a fluvifh MouM, To mafk the real Feelings of my Soul, I hate HYPOCRISY, my Heart and Tongue Shall live in flriclefl, lioncfl Bonds ; when wrong, With vile Contempt, for Favours to the Great, Urgctny jufl Anger to arraign their State, I will not hold my Peace, though ]J***** L frown -(With Impotence of Wrath) to crufli me down. BUT THE IMPARTIALIS T. 27 BUT when Nobility to Worth ally'd, Di (plays a proper, not difguftful Pride, When as a Man himfelf, he owns a Mind, Open and gen'rous, to his Brother kind ; When fvmpathedc Feelings for Diftrefs, Exalt his noble State, not make it lefs, To Worth like this Refped is juftly due, 1 love his Merit, and rejoice with you ; Pleas'd to the Soul, the World has fuch a Friend, Whom Vice muft praife, whom Envy mufl commend. ENGLAND, my well beloved Native Land ! Has many, many fuch at her Command, And thofe of noble Extract, noble Hearts, Who with the Pow'r, have Will to grace their Parts ; Who live as Lovers of Mankind, not think, Becaufe they're Rich and Great, the Poor fliou'd fink ; Shou'd crouch beneath the Ravage of the Times, Opprefs'd with Wrongs, tho* notapp:>H'd with Crimes; Thank Heav'n ! Humanity and facial Love, Are Jlill poflcfs'd by ibmc of thofe above ; The Mufe, whilft Gratitude and Plenfurc vie, Points out a TEMPLE to the public Eye ; Report 28 T H E I M P A R T I A L I S T. Report fpeaks nobly of his gen'rous Miild, I love his Worth, my CHURCHILL found him kind; Unknown to Me, I have no venal Aim, In thus proclaiming, what's well known to Fame. CURSE to Dependance on thefeeming Great, My Soul difdains fuch flavifh, abject State, I cannot, will not let Abufe and Wrong, (E'en from a LORD) unnotic'd pafs along ; Can B*****L fpeak the Truth ? Let him declare, How late I gall'd him in his Regal Chair, Bold Fafts I fpoke not to his Face 'tis true, He lurk'd, -for Reafons which he bluming knew, TH ERE was a Time, when Nobles fraught with Senfe, (E'er Luxuiy and Vice had drove it hence) There was a Time, when LoRcsthemfelves could praife, Could judge of Merit; but in the fe our Days, When Thirft of Pow'r, with Love of ill-got Pelf, Cankers the Soul, and nought but venal SELF Floats in the Mind : Now what a flrange Reverfe, Plain Common Senfe, is deern'd almofl a Curfe ; They hate through Ignorance, defpi'e through Pride, That Man who foars with Reafon for his Guide ; But THE IMPARTIALIST. 29 But above all they loath Satiric Vein^ And what's the Caufe ? to Me, it's very plain They've felt that Satire J s Pen can probe their Hearts, Search out their rotten, their infefting Parts ; Lay bare their Wounds of Confcience to the World, And mock their tinfel'd State at diftance hurl'd ; H***** D andS******H but for CHURCHILL'S Pen, Thofe blulh to Nature, Scandal-living Men ! Had flept infeignd Security, unknown (But to their goading Confciences alone) Had not his poignant Truth-difplaying Mufe, Dragg'd them to Light, unmafk'd their vile Abufe ; Expos'd their Herd of Crimes in Face of Day, And damn'd their Mem'ry in his honeft Lay. No wonder then, that Satire gives Offence, To tid'd Knaves, devoid of Worth as Senfe : Nay, Rev rend Fathers of the Church, now fear, ('Caufe they deferve the Lam) as well as PEER ; They too would pull Satiric Freedom down, Though D**D builds Chapels all about the Town, But that's his Zeal, his Fervor to his God ; No Love of Lucre, taints the Mind of D**D : Perufe his publilh'd Breathings of the Soul, Can any worldly View his Heart controul ? No; 3 o THEIMPARTIALIST. No; Wu$ a MITRE offer'd ; well, what then ? D**D would accept, and prove lik'e other Men And fhall fuch Worldlings making a pretence, Of fair Religion, to delude our Senfe, Shall they unnoticd pafs as Saints devout, And lull our Reafon, with their preach-about ? No ; it fhall never be, whilil I have Pow'r, And can command my Clio's ev'ry Hour, I will not fuffer fuch a venal Crew, To gull you of your Pence, and Reafon too ; But to the Light (in real Colours drawn) rildragg thefe Saints, who then muft move your Scorn ; BISHOPS to Me are juft like other Men, They too have felt a CHURCHILL'S probing Pen; And why not, good Sir Critic, tell me why, Thefe LORDS of LAWN fhou'd pafs unnotic'd by ? I know no Reafon ; are they better grown, Than when he lafh'd the Vices of the Town ? Do they attend their facred Function more ?. Are they lefs cringing than they were before ? Produce an Infiance if you can-r-what mute ? Nay, then 'tis plain no Caufe fora Difpute Suppofe I anfwer G*******R'S mitred Head, hftatn quo not better learn'd, nor bred, Than THE IMPARTIALIST. 31 Than when our Englifh Bard, in juft Array, Led his Satiric Troops, and won the Day, Expos'd Corruption, laid his Meannefs bare, And deeply fearch'd him, with an honeft Air :. N*****JH is courtly, affable, and kind, Prejudging, with a moft impartial Mind, I once was honour'd with a " Sit you down," With what becoming, what engaging Frown ; Thefweet Impre/fion, cannot but remain, Though I'm determin'd not to fit again. How prudent is the Age ! how fhrewd and wife, To rear their Sons, in hopes of mitr'd Prize, To Church Profeffion ! what a glorious Call ! I marvel much, Mechanics fprout at all The G own they think brings certain Profit home, Whether the Boy a Patron has or none ; No matter, give him but Canonic Trade They've done, his Fortune muu be amply made ; Deluded Mortals ! little do they think, His Curate's Pittance won't afford him Drink ; For Meat, he muft not hope to tafte a Bit on, Aik but the prefent Price of Beef and Mutton'. r But 3 2 THE IMPARTIALISt. But come, to hufh your Fears, and make you (Though but a tranfient Pleafure afl the while) Suppofe he has a Patron ; nay, a LORD ; A BISHOP too ; will that fupply his Board ? Nay further yet ; * fuppofe that BISHOP, too, Should be related ; that muft furely do : No, you're miftaken ftill ; I know, am clear, He long may ftarve on Twenty Pounds a Year : Give me the Proof, let C s T R take the Hint, I dare to fpeak what Nephews fcarce dare think ; J Tis a reflecting Truth, fay what they will, Though Coufins crouch, no caufe I mould be ftill; Well, my canonic Dupe, what think you now, Had not your Hopeful better drive the Plow ? Can it be worth thy wond'rous Wafte of Pains, To dub him Parfon for fuch mighty Gains ? Better he drove your Cart for certain Pay, (A common Labourer from Day to Day) More for your Profit, more his real Good, To earn by Sweat of Brow his daily Food j Than ftarving all your Family befide To bring him up in Poverty and Pride ; The Varfity, you think, will make him bright, Polifh his Mind, and form his Manners ricrht : O, THE I M P A R T I A L I S T. 33 O, yes, it cannot fail of this, and more ; He'll foon defpife his Father's humble Door : And though, like many SERVITERS I've known, Ht foots the Journey to CAM'S learned Town ; No fooner is the Bonnet on his Pate, A fervile Badge, miftaken then for State : But flraight he fwaggers all about the Town, Forgets his Mode cf Travel, Father Clown ; Affumes fuch Self-fufEciency, you'd fwear He was a DUKE'S, and not a Hob-naiFs Heir : Poor mallow Oaf J how foon his Fate's difplay'd; How galling to the Soul, a Lacquey made ! Forc'd at the Call of Bell to ferve a Crew Of pamper'd Fellows, who with Quinly Gout Mangle whole Joints, in fearch of dainty Bit, And never eafy 'till they're fmacking it ; Not once confid'ring that the fervile Hind Who wait at Back are afterwards to dine : No matter ; let their Gorge be fully cramm'd, E'en to the Throat, their Servants may be d 'd ; " Nature is foon fumc'd, an Ounce will do, Of folid Meat, though not for ME for You; Befides, for Study only you came here, And therefore, likeCAMELioN, feed on Air. Without 34 T H E I M P A R T I A L I S T' 4 Without this Prudence can you once fuppofe That I could to this Dignity arofe ?" Infulting Pedant ! to your Fellow Fools Belch out fuch Stuff, quit philofophic Schools ; And learn Humanity, learn Common Senfe, Difcard your mufly Problems, fend them hence ; Embrace Society, ye cloifter'd Elves, Live to the World, throw off your dirty Selves ; Your Pride difgufts, your Ignorance appears ; For Shame f aft more confluent with your Years,- Ye long immur'd Dons ! reform your Mind, Be affable, and treat your Pupils kind ; Slack not a proper Government, but blend Authority, with Mildnefs of a Friend ; Love will of courfe fucceed, and due Regard, Muft to content requite, your chiding Bard ; Hirnfelf with Pleafure will anounce your Praife, And thus reformed, mall thank you in his Lays. Enough of PEDANTS SERVITERS no more You may fare better than you did before ; If not, why let your haughty matters know, When next I print I'll give a Lift, and mow, In Capitals difplay'd, the Names of thofe Who thus mal- treat your lordly bamaw Foes: THEJMPARTIALIST. 35 I know them all ; but thank my kinder Fate, I was not doom'd to your corroding State : Saint PETEH'S * and Saint JOHN'S are different quite In Men, and Manners; JOHNIANS may be right ; But give me LAW'S pacific, friendly Train, Where nricl Attention, with good Humour's Vein, Ever prefides a TUTOR of a Mind, Open and gen'rous, to his Pupil kind : I've felt his Goodnefs with a grateful Heart; Shall long remember ; it cannot depart : But foft ! a fudden Chill ; what can this mean f Sure, or I dream, fome Danger lurks unfeen ; Cold Drops bedew my trembling Limbs ; I fear, I know not what, but fure fome Danger's near j My dear, dear Clio, whither art thou fled ? Bring me thy timely Succour, or I'm dead ; Hear my Petition, grant my anxious Pray'r, If thou art prefent, what have I to fear ? Let all the Monfters of the defart Plain Befet me round, they gnafh their Teeth in vain ; If thou but fliieldme with thy pow'rful Aid, I Ihall revive, and blefs my charming Maid. Goddefs, * The Author was of this Houfe, 36 THE IMPARTIALIST, Goddefs, I thank thee ; thou hafl heard my Suit, I feel my Spirits bound, my Pow'rs recruit ; And now, MYSELF again, I fee the Caufe, See, and rejoice ; The HYDRA'S foaming Jaws I now defy : Come on, ye lurking Crew, Ye marling Critics in a train Review ; I brave your Venom ; Jmow, I bear a Charm, Can lull a CERB'RUS ; e'enyour Spite difarm : TRUTH is my Guard ; by her propitious Sway, I'll on and write, nor mail you bar my Way ; I've boldly fet my Name, difTecT: your Fill, To be oppos'd is Fuel to my Quill ; I love it ; by my Life it feeds my Vein, And but for this I might be dumb again : Unmafk your Monthly Batt'ry, come, behave Like gen'rous Foes, and dare for cncc be brave ; Give up you Names, ye Stabbers in the Dark, Let's know your Force, I'm but a fmgle Mark ; What, fear a Muftiroom Bard ? I fee you're nice, For, Frenchma'n-like, you too can feed on Mice : You've moutK 'd my firft, I hope the Difh was good, Now take my Name alas, poor UNDERWOOD ! Wou'd it were Wormwood, then perhaps the Gall Might be corrected ; that will fuit you all. THUS, THE IMPARTIALIST. 37 THUS, Bravoes, in my Turn I lunge at you, > Parry again, and let your One in Two * > Come thund'ring on ; mufter your witling Crew ; J Bid 'em to HAMILTON'S in Haile repair, Review 'emjlri&ly, mind they all are there ; Cafhier that Coward who deferts his Poft, Forfakes you when his Aid is needed mofl ; And when affembled all t expound your Will, Give 'em to know an Upflart Stripling's Quill, Has dar'd to throw his fingle Gauntlet down, And thus, in Print, defies your Lurkers Frown : Defies ! No, rather covets, by the Gods ! It fires my Soul thus to engage with Odds ; I cannot loofe, it may encreafe my Fame, Unnotic'd yet, and fcarcely known by Name : Reviewing Scalpers, for the prefent, then, I take my Leave, you'll hear from me again. Maflc, or unmafk, it's all the fame to ME, I'll not retract through Fear, or Love of Fee ; Let * The Author with the fame Candour of Sentiment which he lately experienc'd from thefe Gentry, who deny'd the SNARLERS being his firft Eflay, concludes, that the Monthly and Critical Reviews are from the fame Lurkers. D 3 8 THE I M P A R T I A L I S T. Let grovelling Souls deny their publifh'd Voice, Freedom's great Call fhall ever be my Choice ; In Thought and Aft Confiftency fhall fway, Nor fhall the Morrow contradift To- Day. What Interruption now? this prudent Friend Is ever teazing ; fure fome private End Mufl be in view ; once more I'll hear you, then, (Plague to fuch meddling felf-fufficient Men) Come, fpeak your Mind, expound the mighty Caufe, That prompts you thus to break good Manners Laws ; Out with it quickly : but with the Reviews No more perplex my Mind, my favourite Mufe ; My darling Clio, with her friendly Care, -^ Has nerv'd my Soul ; your Prudence now is Fear, > Unworthy of a Man; but come, declare, J Ungrateful Boy ! you fcarce deferve to know My Feelings, which from real Friendfhip flow : But as I deem thcfe Ravings of the Mind, Not meant to give Difguft, I'll flill prove kind ; My friendly Purpofe mall not perifh : No ; I'll fpeak my Thoughts, though You become my Foe. Know, then, I hold it Madnefs thus to brave The Critics Fury ; better flem a Wave, An THE I M P A R T I A L I S T. 39 An Adriatic Billow : Better dare, In fingle Combat, the great God of War : Sooner the tiny Wren fhall put to Flight The tow'f ing Eagle from his topmoft Height : The Wolf (hall dread the Lamb's Approach, e'er thou, (Weak and unfkill'd to bend keen Satire's Bow) Shall pierce a Witling Waff : I faid before, To foar was dangerous ; what need of more ? But, come, a further Proof of my Regard, If you're determin'd to commence a Bard, And nothing can allay this Itch for Rhime, I'll wave my Suit, your Humour mail be mine ; But mark the Terms ; let it be firft your Care, To court a Patron, with obfequious Air ; Turn Levee- Hunter to fome Lord ; your Mufe Muft praife his Friends, his Enemies abufe ; Write Panegyrics, fulfome as the Strain, Which well repaid a MALLET'S pliant Brain ; ELVIRA we remember ; fo muft B**E ; The Author's dead ; enough, then, we are mute.- Arid peace thee too, be dumb, I'll hear no more, This Language grates my Soul ; my ev'ry Pore Is flagnated, to hear fuch Worldlings prate, And then to think /'// grovel to fuch State ; D * Such 4 o THEIMPARTIALIST. Such abjeft State, a Negro fcarce could bear, Though he but breathes, no Native of our Air. May I be branded wilh the like Difgrace, As Broker H*****D when he was in Place ; Or as a Mad-cap G*******E in the Park, With Punk parading, as a public Mark ; May I, like him, difplay the Faults. of Youth t Without a Blum, exulting in the Truth ; Such flavifh Counfel my free Soul difdains, What fhdl I crouch, and fuffer -willing Chains ? Chains of the Mind to curb my Reafon down ? It mail not be, let LORDS or fmile or frown, I care not, if one honefl good Man praife, I've Fame enough, he well requites my Lays ; Nor will I, Minion-like, attend the Great, Or pocket Iniult from a Fool of State : No, good Sir Prudence, it mall never be ; You may revere, I fpurn Nobility ; Unlefs with Principle and Goodnefs fraught, To me they're vile, unworthy of a Thought ; The higher titled, greater is my Scorn ; Alas, how few have Worth, though nobly born I And yet I grant a Patron might diffufc, ipome real Server, to an Infant Mufe ; My THE IMPARTIALIST. A\ My grateful Heart expands with Favour (hewn, The PUBLIC'S all the Patron I would own ; Private Addrefs, with but Refpeft in View, INGRATES mall never more receive ; 'tis you, And you alone, the PUBLIC'S all my Care, If they protect, what then have I to fear ? To gain the PUBLIC was our CHURCHILL'S Aim, -j* Thro' their Indulgence, from the Height of Fame, s His honeft Mufe tranfmits a lafling Name. By his Example fir'd, I wifh to prove, (If but a partial Share) of public Love ; Refolv'd, fair TRUTH mall ever be my Guide, I cannot err, that Goddefs on my Side ; All that I afk, and fure you won't deny, Impartial hearing, and a friendly Eye : Affur'd I am your CANDOUR willexcufe, Faults too apparent in a Stripling's Mufe : Se RESUMING upon Friendmrp (hown, In April laft at Bath when down, I Ihould e'er now addreis'd a Letter, (Perhaps like this for want of better) And begg'd to be indulg'd the Reafon, You came not up in May's fair Seafon ^ But ever fince a fell Difeafe, Foe to my Mind and Body's Eafe, Has prey'd upon my ev'ry Hour, Palfy'd each Senfe with baneful Pow'r ; Relax' d my Nerves in ev'ry Breath, I 1'ufFcr'd, and I wifh'd for Death. At * The Author takes this Opportunity to thank this Gentleman lor \\isjlril Attention to his Promife, and the very genteel ingenuous Reception he has fmcc met with from him ; at the fame Time af- fures him, that he is preparing (with all convenient Difpatch) the public Rttort which he has already private!-; engaged to treat him with. MISCELLANIES. Si At length reflor'd, in grateful Lay, The Public Prints my Thariks convey. * 'Tis now with focial Pleafure fraught, Your friendly Offer floats in Thought : You promis'd, Sir, a Stripling Bard, (Unworthy of fo much Regard] To honour with your fkilful Art; A Favour, which with grateful Heart, Shall long remain in high Efteem, An Artift Friend, my fav'rite Theme ! Th' Occafion of this frank Addrefs, Is briefly neither more nor lefs, A Fortnight from this Date I mean To quit this noify, buftling Scene ; t Leaft the State-boobies of the Times, Should plunge me in a Sea of Rhimes* Before my matter' d Nerves recruit Their Powers for a frefh Purfuit ; I mean to pafs the Severn Tide, To vifit Friend on t'other Side ; And if your leifure Time permit, For Seafon fcarce commences yet, I * Public Adv. Sept. 231 1767. t LONDON* 82 MISCELLANIES. I fhouldbe proud of your Difplay, For Bath of courfe is in my Way ; But if the Times are preffing ftill, And Shoals demand your wond'rbus Skill, Contented 'till a future Day, Your jingling Scribbler U. muft flay. Your Kindnefs will, 1 hope, excufe This Freedom of a nervelefs Mufe ; I beg a Line with much Regard, Remain your moft refpetiful Bard,- V E R S E S In -which the Author addrejjes two Sifters of his intimate Ac- quaintance, (one married unhappily] upon their informing, him that they -were obliged to fubmit to a Separation ; the youngeji,, MtfsH. going to live with her Mother. I. O CARCE yet reilor'd to focial Joy, How little did I dream, A lecond Stroke fo foon prepar'd, To damp Life's future Scene ! And MISCELLANIES. 83 II. And muft our Friendfhip finifti here ? But what muft be your Grief, Ill-fated Fair, depriv'd of all, A Sifter's dear Relief ? III. So fair, and yet fo early known, To Cruelty and Wrong, The fhameful Author well deferves, A Lafti from ev'ry Tongue. IV. Let Patience, and a confcious Calm, Support your Virtue ftill ; Heav'n will afford you frefh Refource, Depriv'd of Sifter H*LL. V. She but obeys a duteous Call, Nor willingly departs ; A Mother's Claim what need of more To move the beft of Hearts ? VI In Friendfhip's Name continue" here. To foreign Parts why roam ? * Preferve Equality of Mind, You've ev'ry Thing at Home. Upon * This Lady intimated: a-Defign of going Abroad. 84 MISCELLANIES. Upon a certain ineffable. Coxcomb, who fcandaloujly abitfca the Author's Confidence-. I. T 7t 7HY, you mufl have a roaring Trade, An ample Fortune too ; Women and Wine ! higli Ven'fon Feafts ! Who lives like Quinly You, II. Let fubtle Tom attend the Shop, Gay Pleafures all your Care ; Whole Mornings fpent in Billet-doux, With dreffing of your Hair. III. Your tafly Picture too I note, O ! you're a finifh'd Piece ! But why VANDYKE ? An Artiil furc, From Italy or Greece ! IV. No more with Folly, all your own, Proclaim a SAMPSON'S Sway; I've found in Slight you far furpafs His manual Bifplay. * An * As a Jinking Proof of the ajlonifhing intdkftual Qualifications of this new-fangled Gentleman, the Author here alludes to his extolling SAMPSON'S Feats of Aftivity on Horfeback as the fineft Manual Pptrations" he ever beheld. Rifum teneetiis ? MISCELLANIES. 85 An EXTEMPORE EPIGRAM, In Anfwer to a Witling's Attack upon Mr. MAHOON'S playing Macheath at Covent-Garden. I. T)EACE, witling Scribbler Johnny Gay Was candid and fmcere, MAHOON has Merit likes us well Regaling Eye and Ear. II. I fear you croak your own fad Fate, " A Gibbet !" flop your Lay ; Or fpeedy Execution waits, A SNARLER of the Day ! Sent to a Friend with the SNARLERS and IMPARTIALIST as a Prefent. I. ' impartial Scribblers beft Refpeas Prefents to friendly Eye, His hettic Profe, with Candour view Thefe firft Attempts to fly. Q Time $6 MISCELLANIES. II. Time may mature this pleafmg Flow ; (No profitable Trade !) In almoft ev'ry daily Print My Signature's difplay'd. * III. Turn but to Yeflerday's Addrefs, The Public Advertifer ; See there a Minor's bold Attempt, To lafli a Major wifer. t EXTEMPORE Anfwer to an Imitation Jrom two Ladies of the Author. s intimate Acquaintance, in which they very genteely excused the Treat they defigrid him, ly faying, as ' ; Friendjhip is the Party we know you'll excufe bad Fare.". !. GAIN I'm honour' d by the Fair ! Your friendly Invitation Plas reached me fafe of more Efleem Than higheft Feafl Collation. Expert * The Impartial!!*. r Tlic Lines addrefs'd to Major John Spinnage, printed in the P:-Mic Advcriifer, and fign'd A Minor." Vide p. 74. MISCELLANIES. 87 II. Expeft me, Ladies, at the Time, No matter for your Fare ; 'Tis Friendship's Party happy Thought ! And I'll with Joy repair. . N. B. In Anfwer to your friendly Letter, Extemp're thus for want of better. JHfcl^ EXTEMPORE In Praifc of the worthy patriotic CHAMBERLAIN, Sir THEODORE JANSSEN. WHEN Vice triumphant lords it in a State, And fouleft Actions ftigmatize the Great, Who but with Honefty of Soul mufl praife That Man, whofe Conduct in thefe canker d Days, Can fland the Teft, above Detraction's Brawl, And makes Integrity his All in All ? Nor think I paint too high I'll give you Proof, JANSSEN'S that Man e'en Envy fpeaks this Truth. G 2 Upon 88 MISCELLANIES. Upon a moft fdjijh premature Advertifement in Lloyd's Evening Pojl, foliciting the Votes of the Liverymen of the City byoncWiLsoxN, to fucceed the above moft worthy Character in the Chamberlainjhip of London, Sir THEODORE being then at Bath, and (thank Heaven!) yet amongjt us. C* HAME to the bufy, meddling Age, How vilely felfifh Views engage ! What ! bait for Place ? folicit Votes ? (Curfe to your Raven-croaking Notes !) JANSSEN yet lives ! preferve him Heav'n ! An honeft Man's thy B letting giv'n : Far better for the World to fee, Ten thoufand Wilfonns gone than HE, A CHARACTER. IMPATIENT at another's Senfc, (Self-confcious that he's no Pretence) Teachy and wayward, ne'er at reft, Like weaning Child for Mother's Breafl ; Difplay MISCELLANIES. 8g )ifplay but Reafon's pow'rful Light, His Soul ferments with fore affright ; No Worth Himfelf at other's Praife He pines and fickens out his Days : Not feeble old, nor Stripling young, Indecent Language fouls his Tongue ; At ev'ry palling Female Face, Like Hamlet ftarts from fitting Place ; Cries, {he's d- 'd fine, if very Hag, Debauchery his florid Brag ; Eat up with Spleen to that Degree, Sage HILL himfelf can't fet him free. ^^ EXTEMPORE Upon the factious College Difputes between the Lie EN* TIATES and DOCTORS. T T 7HY all this mighty public Rout ? Give up the real Caufe ; \Vhat ! have the bold Licentiates brokRIES Gripus, gloating on his Pelf, ^ O! what a noble Paffion ! Since Love of Gain increafes more, The more we get Poflefiion. II. Thus M****N thinks ; fuch dirty Souh Are never worth our heeding ; Then fare you well, we give you Joy Of this your conjlant Breeding. The WORLD Difplayd: Addrefsd to a certain BRISTOL COLONEL of the Yellow. /CALLING lately, mum for where, Balking in an Elbow-Chair, Gloating on a painted Piece,* Which furpafs'd the Works of Greece; In his own conceited Whim, (For Caprice is right with him) Thus * A great Lover of no MISCELLANIES. Thus, but not in fervile Phrafe, I abhor vile cringing Ways ; " Sir, I mean to publifh foon,* And I come to afk a Boon, Let me but enrol your Name, In my Lift, 'twill fwell my Fame." Gripus ftar'd, with ftupid Eyes, Teftifying blank Surprize, Low' ring like a wint'ry Sky ; (O ! that HOGARTH had been by !) " What's your Plan ? Poetic Stuff ! The World is clogg'd we've had enough." Some Months ago. he lik'd my Lines, When gratis he perus'd the Rhimes ; f How alter' d are Qfeprfftnt 'Times ! Well, let it pa fs this churlifh Elf, Has my free Leave to keep his Pelf; I'll give no farther Soid Alarms, For who wou'd roufe a Man of Arms ? To * By Subfcription. + The Snariers and Impartialift. \ MISCELLANIES. 111 To THOMAS MATHEWS, Efq. Of Landaf, upon his Birth and Wedding-Day . I. A yf USE propitioufly attend, ^ ^ Hail the Birth- Day of a Friend ; Add an interwoven Lay, To his Hymenaeal Day ! II. Happy, happy youthful Pair ! Hail to fweet LEANDER'S Fair ! What a charming graceful Mein, Hail DIANA ! * lovely Queen ! III. Fraught with ev'ry Heart-felt Joy, Not a Moment's blank Alloy ; May a Train of whiteft Days, Crown, with Happinefs and Praife. IV. Sifter ANNA claims my Note, Brother's Likenefs I muft quote ; Grant (he mares a Sifter's Fate, plefs'd like her in married State. Addrefe'd * Mrs. MATKEWS'S Chriftiaiv Nuno 11* MISCELLANIES. Addrefs'd to Mrs. M A T H E W S, Upon the fame Occajion. I. A T Friendship's Call my willing Mufe, * * Aflifts the Heart- fprung Lay ; And thus with beft of Wifties hails LEANDE&'S natal Day ! II. Hail to the kind aufpicious Hour, That gave your Hero Birth ; But doubly bleft that Halcyon Time, You ftamp'd his Fate on Earth ! III. Who that beholds DIAMA'S Face, Her very Goddefs Mein, But joins with Homage juflly due, To praife his peerlefs Queen ? IV. How wou'd my Tongue, with florid Phrafe, Grow wanton in her Charms ; But foft ! LEANDER'S happy Fate, Has doom'd her to his Arms. Long MISCELLANIES. V. Long may you live in blisful State, I wifh it, by my Life ; And when I many, grant, ye Gods ! Juft fuch a lovely Wife. ; An ACROSTIC, addreffed to Mifs A s mild as April-falling Shpw'rs, N ot a fingle Look that low'rs : & N eat and elegant in Drefs, M any Charms I can't expreJs ; A s DIANA'S lovely Mein, T hus a Sifter Goddefs feen ; H ow unequal are my Lays, E, v'ry ftriking Grace to praife ; W hat a pow'rful Charm to bind, S Uch a fweet, good-natur'd Mind f & To H4 MISCELLANIES. To THOMAS MATHEWS, Efq. In grateful Remembrance of the many Obligations con- ferrd upon the Author, and in Praife of his courtly Hofpitality. I. /COPIOUS Subjeft for the Day, Fav'rite Mufe then come away, To LEANDER'S courtly Seat * . Where the Graces daily meet ; _,, . , , n . . '_ '-{A '^ M.ii A I hither haite with grateful Lay, Pleafmg Subjea for the Day. ' II. See, prefiding at her Board, With the niceft Dainties ftor'J; Sweet DIANA, Miftrefs Queen, What a courteous graceful Mein T Happy, happy youthful Pair, Health to fweet LEANDKR'S Yair. III. Social Pleafure there abounds, Prudent Mirth in fportive Rounds ; See * Known by the elegant Diftinftion of The COURT." M I S C E L* L- A N I E S. tj,$ See the laughing Hours pafs, j 3inv ; Varied by the Cards and Glafs ; Social Pleafure yields Relief, Or we die through Weather Grief.* IV. View LEANDER'S chofen Friends, (Not through any venal Ends) He's a noble gen'rous Heart,. Scorns a dirty M****N'S Part : See his worthy friendly Corps, EDMONDES, JONES, and many more. V. Mufe enrol with high-Eueeni, For it is a darling Theme ; Hand to public Note a Name, Which muft fwell thy puny Fame ; Tell the World with much Regard, The worthy DAVIS t treats your Bard. VI. By my Life it joys me more, To inlift in fueh a Corps ; Though * Remarkably rainy at the Time this was wrote, t Mr.. JAMKS DAVIS, of Landa/'m Waks\ a perfcft Man of Ross, no* MISCELLANIES, Though a private Napfack Man, (Since the Love of All's our Plan) Than to hold a Poft in State, Curs'd amongft our tittle Great. VM. Heaven ! it is my ardent Pray'r, With propitious Favour hear ; Grant a Train of happy Years, (Such as prefent Time appears) May in whiteft Order grace, Good LEANDER'S courtly Place. 44*H*HHh4HHh4* An E L E G Y, Addrefs'dto EDMUNP TRAHERNE, Efq. upon the mwctt- lamented Death of /us amiable Lady. I. TV/fUSE afford thy wonted Aid, Come, not fmiling, fav'rite Maid ; Quit, O quit thy wanton Sport, Well receiv'd of late at Court.- Crief, MISCELLANIES. iif II. Grief, the " Sorrow-loaded Sigh" * Now demands a wat'ry Eye ; Mufe in elegiac Strain, Sooth the good AM IN TOR'S Pain, III. Alas ! the cruel fatal Day, Which MEL i OR A fnatch'd away; And left you widow'd to deplore The Lofs of fuch a precious Store. IV. " How mild her Influence !" how refin'd ! What dear Perfections of the Mind ! But even Virtue's Self can't fave Her Vot'ry from an early Grave. v- 3 To Heav'n's high Will fubmifTive bow, Such Bleffings granted here below, Are doom'd to take an early Flight, TQO rich for longer mortal Sight. I But, * The Author lakes the Freedom to quote Mr. T'g Language, from a very pretty Compofition of that Gentleman's, wrote from txetcr, (before his Marriage) upon his Abfcnce from hrs in- ] I,aclv T -\vhcm he ftiles n8 M I S C E L L A N I E S. VI. But, foft ! a Beam of Hope appears, A young AM IN TOR, (blefs his Years !) Is giv'n to calm a Father's Grief, O ! may he long afford Relief ! VII. May coming Time improve your Boy, In ev'ry pleafing Heart-felt Joy ; May MELIORA'S graceful Air, Reflected in his Form appear. VIII. Long may you both continue here, To Selves, to ev'ry Heart moil dear ; And when remov'd to upper Light, Grant MELIORA joys your Sight. ^H^MHNHffr-^HHjH^^ EXTEMPORE Upon the Death of a mo/l amiable young Lady, at. BRISTOL HOT-WELL. H ! thou fell Tyrant, who's denru6tive Sway, And lawlefs Rule, all Mortals mud obey ; 'Twere Pity, on my Life, fo P.veet a Fair, To Parent, Sifters, and Acqinint.ince dear : Poffefs'd MISCELLANIES". 119 Poffefs'd of Charms might fire a Hermit's Soul, Calm Rage itfelf, the frantic Mind controul ; Duteous in Conduct, and with mental Grace Enrich'd, as nobly as with Heav'nly Face ; That fuch a Fair, in Life's fweet blooming Flow'r, Shou'd fall a Vi6tim,to thy ruthlefs Pow'r, Who but muft grieve ? muflfhare a Parent's Moan ? And feel her Pangs, as if they were our own ? ^^-&^ ^ Addrefsd to Me/rs. R ------ Y, H ------ s, and M ----- N, upon reading Mr. PIERCE'S Narrative concerning his late-invented Styptic Medicines. QHAME to fuch vile, detracting Elves ! What ! Merit centers in themfelves ? O ! yes ; no Doubt you'll find it true, If PIERCE'S Story you review; Penile hb honeft artlefs Page, In proper Colours fee the Age ; This Spleen-ftruck World of envious Souls, Whom canker* d Intereft controuls ; Obfervc how patient Merit bears The PiiJe of Office ; down my Tears. I 2 Or 120 MISCELLANIES. Or I fliall, Female-like, bewail, Reading this worthy Artifl's Tale. Gods! whatAbufe! And fliall Mankind, Becaufe ^.fdjifhfew are blind, Want his approv'd, this noble Art ? Shame to Venality of Heart ! No, fear it not, my honefl Rhirnes, (Nor am I vain) to coming Times, Shall with a PIERCE'S Worth unite, And hand " Defert" to public Sight. A POETIC EPISTLE, Addrefid to a Friend in WALES, wrote at BATH. "O ESOLV'D, at all Events, to quit The Clamour of a Town Cock-pit, Here I arriv'd laft Tuefday Night, Juft in the Nick of Wrong or Right ; We've ilrange Commotions in this State, Wars, horrid Wars, 'mongft little Great : A lawlefs Band of Rioteers, Have fet the Circle by the Ears. On MISCELLANIES. 121 On fell Defign, or more or lefs, (Which they've avow'd from thund'ring Prefs) Than to depofe from regal State, King DERRICK, with their baneful Hate. I m neutral yet not that I fear, I'd fpeak rny Mind tho' H was here : And yet I fay with Jack Avail, They Humble oft who run too faft ; Shou'd I refolve, I'll put in Steep, Thefe Rioteers, in Pickle deep, Doubt not the Winter through they'll keep : That I've the Art to cure well, Let Scoundrells P T, B L tell. The urgent Poft here flops my Lay, Or I fhou'd fcribble out the Day ; Farewell prefent my bed Refpeds, And candidly excufe Defefts. 1 The BATH SQUABBLE. A Song. I. T/f7HAT a famous Debate Has arifen of late, U(urpation I fear is on float; I 3 But s.22 MISCELLANIES. But Courage, my Friends, They'll not gain their. Ends, King DERRICK will Mill find Support, Brave Boys, King DERRICK will flill find Support, II. LetA***sandS*****E Rave, bully, and fcowl, jRegard not their bluft'ring Noife ; Prophetic I tell, The more Stir the worfe Smell, Then Courage my DERRICAN Boys; Brave Boys, Then Courage my DERRICAN Boys. III. Low Cunning, Deceit, . Our Senfes flian't cheat, Their felfiih Deiigns are well known ; Innovations won't do, Time after will rue. If fcurvily now we lay down, Brave Boys, |f fcurvily now we lay down. Let MISCELLANIES, 123 IV. Let the Seafon advance, We'll lead them a Dance, Shall caper them out of their Schemes ; November mall prove, Our Monarch we love, Then a Fig for chimerical Dreams, Brave Boys, Then a Fig for chimerical Dreams. A POETIC EPISTLE, Addrcfs'd tofim: Ladies of the Author s Acquaintancce in Town, inclojing the preceeding Song. T EAST you fliould think I mean to flight, I've feiz'd my Ouill thus foon to write : I fled from Town t' avoid the Times, Leafl they mou'd plunge me into Rhirnes; Lo ! the Effecls why, Ladies, here, Still more provoking they appear, Already I've engag'd a Proof j I tell you nothing but uric! Truth ; Mark 124 MISCELLANIES. Mark the inclos'd What cou'd I fay ? A Monarch's Caufe demands a Lay : King DERRICK'S Dignity to fave, His tott' ring Power from the Grave, Provok'd me on ; his Title's good, Or neuter wou'd your Scribbler flood ; But to illuftrate this Difpute, And tell you whence it firft took Root DERRICK, by Suffrage of the Great, Obtain'd the Rule of this gay State ; Nor can I learn he's much offended, Faults we have all his not intended ; Sometimes, by even thofe in Rule, 'Tis pleafant deem'd to play the Fool ; And yet a Band of upftart Souls, Whom Thirft of Intereft controuls, Have clan'd themfelves into a Crew, A Sage Committee wife, as true ; A***s and S*****E the Rebels head, With Hearts of Stone, and Sculls of Lead : I think I've put 'em into Steep ; But leafl they mould not rightly keep, 'Tis ten to one but very foon. I rate 'em to this very Tune. Here MISCELLANIES. 125 Here break we off. With much Regard, I reft your moft refpe&ful Bard. An EXTEMPORE ACROSTIC, Addrefs'd to Mrs. EDMON'DES, upon her little Daughter. Mifs M irth, Good-nature, fprightly Eafe, A s much as tender Years can pleafe ; R eafon's early Dawn difplay'd, I n your little fav'rite Maid ; A nd I wifh in honeft Rhime, E v'ry graceful Charm with Time ; D uty's Call in ev'iy Stage, M ay your little Fair engage ; O f Perfections grant the Mind, N or can ought fo furely bind ; D ear to all, her Parents moft, - E v'ry Year a Grace to boaft, L S urh I wifh my little Toaft. J EXTEM- 12 6 MISCELLANIES. EXTEMPORE Upon RICHARD TURBERVILLE. Ef quire's offering his Services to the County of Glamorgan in Wales. \ T 7HEN grofs Venality, with bare-fac'd State, Lords it amongfl our Honour-grafping Great ; When A&ions which wou'd ftigmatize a Turk. And make him curfe his own bafe Canvas-Work ; Who but muft honour, much approve that Man, Directed by a far .more worthy Plan ? That gen'rous Soul, who with an honed Heart. In thefe corrupted Times, avows a Part, So nobly great, a CATO well might claim, (For Love of Country is a God-like Aim) Then fhow your Love, accept his profer'd Care. Reft on his honeft Zeal, you've nought to fear ; Join One and All to give his Merits due, The more you favour Him, the fafer You. EXTEM- MISCELLANIES. 127 EXTEMPORE Upon feeing Mifs READ, at BATH, in the Character of ROSALIND, in As you like it. T F Elegance and fprightly Eafe Are Requifites to charm and pleafe, READ muft attraft our firft Efteem : In Rofalind. obferve her Mein ; The very Cuckoo's Note I hear, . } To married Dupes a Word of Fear, Mow galling to the Hen -peck' d Ear ! In ev'ry Sentence, ev'ry Deed, How charming is this Ganymede \ Envy muft own thy wond'rous Merit, And grow enamour'd with fuch Spirit. "j A POETIC EPISTLE, Addrefid to a Lady at the HOT-WELL, BRISTOL, wrote in WALES. T>ARDON, Madam, this Intrufion, But of Rhime I've fuch Profufion, Write I muft, in my own Way, Why to Me ? I hear you fay : Troth, 128 MISCELLANIES. Troth, becaufe at friendly Board You regal'd me like a Lord ; And your Treatment fo polite. Grateful thus my Mufe will write : Ever fmce I landed here, Scarce a fingle Hour fair ; Rain and Wind without CefTation ; If a Moment's calm Vacation, Quick a gloomy wint'ry Sky, Hovers with malignant Eye, Strait enfues a beating Rain, (Noah's Flood renew'd again) Nothing but a Houfe Employ ; Hunting, Shooting, manly Joy ! Both forbid to active Mind, Galling thus to be confm'd ; Indeed (as at the prefent Time) I neal away to fav'rite Rhime ; Deareft Mufe ! thou befl Support, To vilit thee I quit a COURT. I know you wim my Clio's Fame ; A Proof I'm honour'd with your Name ; My Lift fwells nobly ; good Report ; Nay, further, owing to the COURT. MISCELLANIES. 129 On Tuefday next (pleafe Heav'n) I mean, To quit this friendly, wat'ry Scene, And, as you pre-advis'd, fuppofe I take at WELL a refting Dofe ; After the Perils of the Sea, So fnug a Birth muft well agree ; ! how I love your Garden Spot, -j And eke your little Grotto-Cot : Our fweet Review can't be forgot. But foft ! the Poft is going out, Per-force I quit my jingling Rout ; Then fare you well with much Efteem, 1 greet our Friends at Hot-Well Scene. A POETIC EPISTLE, Addrefs'd to T. MATHEWS, Efq. of Landaff, -who had promised the Author an introductory Letter to Mr. FOOTE. DISHING Subjea for the Day, Asm flceplefs Bed I lay, " Jog 130 M ISCEL.LANIES. " Jog LEANDER'S friendly Mind, Touching Promife left behind." Thus my Mufe I muft obey, For her Commands brook no Delay. Mafter FOOTE, that Prince of Wags, Porting with his own Dun Nags, BATH has left fome Time ago, (And indeed you hinted fo) Shortly I defign for Town, But mail foon again come down ; Send me then your promised Letter, To gain the Ear of this Face-Setter ; He will help my Canvas more, Than Dukes or Lords, a very Score Already you have fhown Regard, And much avail'd your grateful Bard"; Add this Favour, I'm contented, Truft me it {han't be repented. An Accident I've got to tell, Which happen'd late at Briftol Well ; Lady F has loft a Daughter, Who was there to drink the Water ; I arriv'd that very Night, Juft as Breath was taking Flight - MISCELLANIES. i 3 . t By Peep of Day, " What, ho! my Quill," For my Mufe wou'd not lay flill ; Strait in Elegiac Strain, I addrefs'd the Mother's Pain ; 'Twas well receiv'd there's good Report, For (he has Weight at Royal Court. Farewell prefeht my beft Refpe&s, And candidly excufe Defefts. EXTEMPORE Upon a certain charitable DIVINE, who, upon a pious Pretence of enlarging his Church, rooted up the Dead in order to effect this falutary Purpofe. T> Y living Means, mofl griping Elves, Scrape precious Pelf to Cheft ; But this Divine more fubtle grown, Won't let the Dead take Reft. Mount 1 3 2 MISCELLANIES, II. Mount but to C-^-ft n's tow' ring Hill. My weeping Friends, behold, The pious T*Y**R brings to Light Your Dead for Thirft of Gold. $3~ The above Hint proving injiifficient to diffuadc this avaricious Elf from proceeding in his Scheme, the fol- lowing more explicit Denunciation was wrote againji him. A new-invented PLAN To raife Money with the Dead. I. ^nr^IS no uncommon Thing, we know. To move the Living- Race ; But by an Art, divinely rare ! The Dead mufl now give Place. II. Right Matter T**L*R, root 'em up. One Hole will well fuffice : What ! Jingle Graves for mould'ring Clay ! Pavlons are now Gr So good-natur'd, eafy, free. J No Suipicions of the Mind Taint this Phoenix of her Kind. If a Scribbler fhou'd come in, Spruce in Garb, and ftrait of Limb, With a kind engaging Air, Quick invites to friendly Chair ; Harbours nofufpicious Thought, Or arraigns his coming nought. To compleat this Houfe of Joy, (Sterling all without Alloy) Add the courteous, fueetSiR TOBY ; Here to -live how happy you'd be : So genteel in Figure, Manner, Under his improving fyznner, Lift ye raw, unpolifh'd Lads, Beft of Hufbands, beft of Dads ; Then he's fuch a joyous Soul, Not becaufe he loves the Bowl, Ale and Porter's better Liquor; Some, indeed, it clouds the thicker ; But MISCELLANIES. 159 But to him, 'tis quick'ning bright, Moulds him cleaver and polite. Tell me, Cynic, if you can, Such a Woman ? fuch a Man ? The WHISTLING GIRL: .Occafiotfd by hearing a Servant Maid at ^CROWN- INN, Reading, amufe herfelf in this Manner whilft at her Work. A S O N G. /^OME hither, Girls, and lift to me, A new Receipt, without a Fee, To make Old Time pafs on with Glee, And mock your daily Labour. II. No matter if you're forc'd to work, By Miftrefs, cruel as a Turk, Take my Example, in a Jerk, You'll foon forget your Hardlhips. Leave 160 MISCELLANIES. ill. Leave humming Tunes, 'twill never do, And fo I've told both Bet and Sue ; But learn to put your Mouths a-fcrew, Believe me this will anfwer. IV. To whiftle out a pleafant Catch, My own Invention ! charming Hatch ! There's nothing truly that can match, Or give tfie Mind fuch Pleafure ! V, Let Lady Folks fay what they will, I learnt it of our Hoftler Will, Who vows 'twill make a Horfe ftand ftill, If e'er fo rude or reftiff. VI. Ye Girls who wifli to pafs away, With Eafe, the Labour of the Day, Apply my Scheme without Delay, Tis Whittling beft will anfwer. The MISCELLANIES. i6i The Author takes his Leave of a Lady in Tozun, who very obligingly permitted the Correction of his loft Poem upon LIBERTY (u'hil/l in the Prefs) at her Houfc. I. TAEAREST Lady, much indebted To your friendly Houfe I Hand ; For your Kindnefs and Prote&ion, Has been long at my Command. II. Thus with Gratitude I thank you, For your kind Indulgence paft ; And retreat with Heart contented ; Grant the Blefling ever lafl ! III. May the Time to come be happy, Fraught with ev'ry focial Joy ; Health and Pleafure long united, In your Lord, and fav'rite Boy. * IV. My Refpe&s await his coming ; t Tell him that with friendly Care, I've difcharg'd a Guardy's Duty To his lovely Wife and Heir. Let * An only Son. ? Her Kufband then updn a Journey, 162 M I S C E L L A N I E S, V. Let him know the Rout I've taken ; BATH, e'er long, contains your Bard ; There command his early greeting, If he wifhes our Regard. VI. Now farewell-*-niy CHURCHILL waits me ; 'Tis a Name by which I thrive ; Truft me, Lady, full as potent As your Number FORTY-FIVE.* EXTEMPORE Upon feeing Mr. K EL L Y ' s mo/l excellent Comedy of FA'LSE DELICACY. TF to enrich the Mind, the Heart engage, And with a noble Picture charm the Age : Where Characters fo worthy to the View, They claim our Praife, and Imitation too ; If fuch is Merit, then with high Regard, My honeft Mufe thus early hails our Bard ; With grateful Pleafure, tho' in humble Lays, Proclaims " Defert" above her mallow Praife'/ Prtftntcd . * The Number upon their Houfc. MISCELLANIES. 163 Preferred to a certain NOBLEMAN of much admir'd Literary Knowledge* npRUST me, my Lord, nor Birth or Name, (But high Refpea to letter d Fame) Has urg'd an Infant Mufe to foar A dang'rous Height ! not brav'd before : Forgive, my Lord, this bold Efiay, 'Tis her's not my afpiring Lay ; A GARRICK'S, and a COLMAN'-S Name, Were thus indulg'd, to grace her Train ; But wou'd your Lordfhip condefcend, To rank yourfelf a foil' ring Friend ; With Gratitude (fo vafl the Debt) Your fuppliant Bard cou'd ne'er forget. Upon a Ladys complaining of a fevere Cold, caught at Dancing, I. O AY, lovely FLAVIA, what's the Caufe? Thofe Eyes divinely bright, Why thus eclips'd ? Alas ! the Change ! The Change fince Yefter-night ! How *64 MISCELLANIES. II. How oft have I, with friendly Zeal, Moft anxious for your Life, Exclaim' d Avert from me, ye Gods I Avert a Dancing Wife ! III. Still you wou'd brave the Fairy Round, Regardlefs of my Voice ; And with your laughing Sifter mock, The Folly of my Choice ! IV. Tis now too late like mip-wreck'd Souls. But juft efcap'd the Sea, They view the Rock which fplit their Bark, And you muft think on M E. V. Aft prudent for the Time to come, Nor rafhly fport with Health ; Learn to efteem that beft of Joys. Superior far to Wealth ! VI. So mall your Life (which Heav'n defend) With Eafe and Comfort pafs ; And Age itfelf come fmiling on, Without Refleftion's Glafs. A POP- MISCELLANIES. 165 A POETIC EPISTLE, Addrcfid to a Lady in the Country. Y Pocket Tablets, ftr icily fruc, The following Charge contain 'gainft You, Let's fee hcr.v* many Months a r e paft Since I difpatch'd a Letter hit ? Tis rail ni'i? Moans, n^.y further yet, I find your Anfvver itill in Debt ; What has occafion'd this Delay, You better than myfelf can, fay ; It refts with you to give a Reafon, Why this Negleft? So long a Sea/on! However, for the prcfent Date, Suffice to tell in jingling Prate, How the Complexion of the Times At prefent {land refpecting Rhimes : Inclos'd you have my Bill of Fare, Submitted to your friendly Care ; If fo it pleafe you in my Caufe, f Which I entreat by Friendfhip's Laws) To give me Vote and Int'reft too, Much you'll oblige the Scribbler U : M If i66 MISCELLANIES. If not, efteem me Hill a Friend, I fcorn a venal felfifh End. My beft Refpefts await your Lord, And all his hofpitable Board. The HAMPSHIRE HUMBUG. TV TEWS for your Ear, my gaping Clown; A Story's got about the Town, ThatMafter TAP LIN late has fold His Carcafe for a Piece of Gold : No fure, fays Bumpkin, that can't be ; But tell, my Friend, what was the Fee ? ]uft Haifa Guinea further ftill At three Weeks Date, to DIGWEED'S Will, He's promis'd to rcfign hi;> Self, To be difleacd foolifh Elf! What ! put in Cafe at Surgeon's Hall ? O Many ! what a timelefs Fall ! Peace to your Fears the Jefl I finoke, Friend TAPKIN'S all this while in Joke ; Why MISCELLANIES. 167 Why, Man, he loves his Life too well Go home, and found by Crier's Bell, That DIGV/EED is the laugh'd-at Tool, 'Tis he that plays the public Fool. An vEfculapian Chara&er. TTfTITH Self-fufficiency and State, '^ * Abfurd, aftefted in his Gait; O'er -run with Dignity of Wig, A Journey round, fo monftrous big ! This proud Huflar, with fuch a Cloak, Had he but Whifkers, (O ! the Joke!) Deep fkill'd mmilitary Knowledge, That noble School! -a perfed College ! And yet his Merit, nothing more \ ,-/ -*'. Than knowing two and two makes four. From learned Sire, who, (blefs the Time] Rofe from his flaught'ring grunting Swine ; He, by hereditary Claim, Enjoys his Lack of Wit and Name ; And is, in fine, without a Fable, A 'fkilful Blade moll wife and dbh. M 2 AH s68 MISCELLANIES. An EPISTLE, Wrote at the Deftre of a Wv : : n Anjwer to * CorrcfpondenC s Lciisr. T> Y an Agent, in a Trice, ^ This Reply to MifterR**E. Having jull penis d your Letter, Thus 'tis anKver'd wifh 'twas better - Wife, you y, is brought-to-Bed, Triumph this for lordly head ; Give you Joy of this Event ; But mull tell you I'm content : iQitf ?. Once I've venture! from the Shore, , " jrd Steer'd by matrimonial Oar; Why again mull put to Sea ? - Single, happy, eafy, free ! Tell the Truth you envy ME. ' I'll be cautious ; 'tis a Lott'ry ! Still I find you deal in Hatfc'ry : v Had you told your real Mind, Praiies mufl been left behind ; J Tis a Medley, Life at beft, Good or bad we (land the TcIL Give MISCELLANIES. 169 Give my Compliments, and Joy To your Spoufe, on Birth of Boy ; If he features but his Dad, He's a lovely, chopping Lad : My Refpefts await on all, Who, thro' Friendfhip's focial Call. Deem me worthy of their Note ; ALL, I lay, no need to quote. Not to kill you with Surprize, By alarming Ear, and Eyes, Explanation I've inclos'd,* Why my anfwer is not pros'd ; If you like the Bill of Fare, Which is relifh'd far and near, Join your Vote and Intreft too, Much you'll honour Scribbler U ; And confer on me Regard, By your Friendfhip to my Bard. * Propofals for this Work. ; <* the ijo MISCELLANIES. The DANGLE R, A frequent Character. T 71 7 HAT an eafy, happy Life, Free from Noife and Worldly Strife ; Ev'ry Hour's dear Employ Brings a very Life of Joy ; Vulgar Mortals come not near, We're the Guardians of the Fair ; Shou'd the Day invite to walk, Or at Home, with prattling Talk, If the Humour, ilrait a Card (Proof of Sex's beft Regard) " BILLY DANGLE we expect, Ever ready, noNegleft; He's a fweet, engaging Souf, Swbjeft to our mild Conlroul." To their Order, in a Trice, BILLY, garnim'd out fo nice, Comes fubmiffive, and- with Speech Too refin'd for Me to reach ; " Begs to know the Ladies Pleafure-. He awaits their ev'ry Leifure ; Proud, MISCELLANIES. 171 Proud, moft ready to obey, ^ Such a fweet, defpotic Sway, v Craves the Service of the Day. Inftant he's difpatch'd, to bear Greetings to fome abfent Fair; That fhe wou'd, with utmoft Speed, (BILLY feigns fome prefling Need) Hafte, and join the Morning's Rout What's their Scheme ? a Gad-a-bout : Well fuppofe the Group compleat ; Out they trip it into Street : Now, Sir, D A N G L E'S in the Rear, Then again, his GEN'RAL FAIR, Orders him in Front to move ; He obeys, nor envies JOVE ; Thus the Morning's Sun is fpent, BILLY happy Fair content : Home they go, with laughing Eyes ; There, without the leaft Difguife, Vow their Spark is va/lly wife. A CHRIST* 172 MISCELLAN I K S. A CHRISTMAS SONG. i. T^ THAT tho' the Earth in frozen Chains ^ * Is bound, and hoaiy Winter reigns, Yet come, my Friends, it ftill remains, We make a merry Chriftmas. II. Then hie for Dance and prudent Mirth, WV11 foon forget the frozen Earth, And warm ourfelves by giving 'Birth To Exercife and Pleafure. III. !Jff% Thank Heav'n the Year's fo nearly fpent^ :;v r Enjoy the Time, 'tis only leijt ; May many Years bring Heart-Content To all our Friends and Neighbours, IV. Here, Boy, fill out a Bumper-Glafo, I drink to ev'ry fprightly Lafs, Who will not let the prcfent pals. But feizes fair Occafion. The MISCELLANIES. 173 V. The Liquor likes me paffing well, 'Tis Nut-brown Ale, for Tafte and finell, Which all our home-brew' d Wines excel, Believe me, Friends and Neighbours. VI. Now fare you well ; for prefent Time I take my Leave in hoiieft Rhime ; May ev'ry Bleffmg long combine To vifit Friends and Neighbours. *$H*-$^^ EXTEMPORE Upon a recent Proof of PATRIOTIC VIKTUI. I. /^ ET Money," 'tis the worldly Mode, No Matter for the Means ; That's very true, cries honeft Blunt, For fo in troth it feems. II. Of this a flagrant damning Proof, Afk but at Newgate .there You'll find a conscientious Group., And eke their worthy M r. There 1 74 MISCELLANIES, III. There let the T rs groan in Chains, Their Country's Curfe await 'em ; And when they're fuffer'd to depart, JackK h, I hope, will flake 'em. EXTEMPORE Upon feeing two Sifters dancing. T Tf 7 HAT a fweet, engaging Air ! Show me two fuch lovely Fair : How fuperior in the Round, Not their Equals to be found ; See the very Graces move, Ev'iy Step an ambujtid Love. Add to Elegance of Eafe, That all-pow'rful Charm to pleafe, Such Perfection of the Mind, Sprightly, charming, unconfin'd'. Hail to all the Sifter Train, Long may Health and' Pleafure reign ; Thus with grateful, beft Regard, Greets your mod refpeclful Bard. Ad MISCELLANIES. An E L E G Y, Upon the Death of Mr. WILLIAM WEBB, (a very ii nious young Gentleman) at the Hot-Well, Brijlol. I. HATH ! is the common Lot of all, The Prince and Peafant both muft fall ; Not all the Splendor of the Great, Can Ihield 'em from this gen'ral Fate. II. But when mch op'ning Virtues fly, Too early feek their Kindred Sky, Who but laments ? deplores the Time ? As I, in.fympathetic Rhime ; Iir. When fuch a Youth, efteem'd, belov'd, To Friends mod dear, by all approVd, - Was, in the Prime of Life's fweet Flow'r, Giv'n up to Death's all-grafping Pow*r. IV. Well may ttfe Siller Arts deplore Their Lofs of fuch a precious Store ; In plainlive Moan, with drooping Head, He's gone ! they cry, alas ! our WJBBB I '75 But 176 M I S C E L L A N I E S. V. But what avail thofe ftreaming Eyes ? Or all their Sorrow-loaded Si^Jis ? J Tis paft ! inexorable Doom, Has fent him to an early Tomb ! VI. Submit we then to Heav'n's Decree ; And grant, whene'er that Time mall be, That we may leave as white a Name, And reap with him immortal Gain. Addrefid to Mifs CHARLOTTE B***s, upon her pre- fenting the Author with a Sprig of Myrtle. TV If AY my future Days be Rue, If this Myrtle Sprig from you, Gives me not exalted Joy : What's the fmeft DzARD-bought Toy, When compar'd to Nature's Store ? But to make the Treafure more. From a Fair, divinely fweet ! Where the dimpl'd Graces meet; Giv'n with that Goddefs Air, Thanks, my CHAR LOT TE-^lovely Fair ! A pa- MISCELLANIES. 177 A POETIC EPISTLE, Wrote from London to a Friend in the -Country. ETURN'D from BATH on Sunday laft, Where I have been thefe two Months paft; Your Letters reach'd me fafe indeed 'Twas well you wrote with prudent Speed; Or in my poignant, probing Rhimes I'cJ pickl'd you, to after Times ; My Bow was bent but now the Yew Shall fooner wound myfelf than You, Your Letters like me pafling well; In faith I think (you beft can tell) Twas you, my much-refpe&ed Friend, In print, with in oft uxorious End, Who lately was my Foe, in Print, September laft come, take the Hint ; And frankly own, if fo it be, That " Modeft Genius" * beams in THEE. But to your Lines f you fay with Care You've read my Heftici, J ftill appear NV * Fld. 76. - i This Gentlemin wrote in Verfe. .t Snarlers and Impattialift. 178 MISCELLANIES. No Reafons for Satyric Truth ? You're ftrangely partial, Rev'rend Youth : The Wormwood Quality you fear, -. I know it galling to the Ear, (. Of every putrid Character. J Much you didike my laming C*****R. Who (inter nos) is not a Neftor ; Let this mock Patron foon apply My friendly Rub. or, by the bye, I've got another Shaft in Store, Nay, on Demand, a hundred more : But, in Excufe, I hear you fry, He has no Pickings in his Way Hold let me tell this Son of Lawn, He's ev'ry Courtier's Levee-Spawn r There, long ago, he might have fped, And earrid his crouching Nephews Bread.* Enough of dirty, cringing Men ; Return we to our Text again : I think you write wilh fluent Eafe, Repeat it oft, the more you 11 pleafe. In , * With impartial Jujtict the Author takes this Opportunity to acknowledge the ffex Removal, (dio' eftcera'd a dtfiyi'd Species ci Banifhmcnt) and hopes this Right Rev'rend will fhorily re- Hampfmrc tenger-jfanding Claim upon him. M I S C E L L A N I E S. 179 In Town I make a trifling Stay, Qttaw cries to BATH away : There I expeft your writing foon ; Now fare you well, obferve my Boon. ADVICE to a FRIEND, Much adifted to GAMING. Q TILL you perfift, unthinking Youth, In fpite of daily, painful Truth ; Why fuffer all my friendly Care To vanifh into fleeting Air ? Let Reafon but afifume her Reign, You'll quickly be yourfelf again ; And loath (wirh me) fuch vile Employ, Deftruclive, Foe to ev'ry Joy ; : Tis Madnefs all avaunt the Plea Of rooted Ciiftom, that with ME Weighs nothing ; 'tis an idle dream, And Reafon knows not what you mean : Judge by Effefts, they bed declare, How ill the Caufe ; defifl, forbear* By i8o M I S C E L L A N I E S. By me your Children, pncl-ni Wife, (Made wretched by your thou-ghtlfjs Life) Implore, befeech your giving EPT ; By 'hefe (if yet they're held rnoft dear) Coniidcr, then, retreat in Time, Let me prcvr.il in honed Rhyme ; Think how unjuft, whnt foul Difgrac?, To bring Diftrefe upon your Race : Ponerity mull dearly rue Their abjecl State entail'dby You. Reflect in Time, nor raflily flight Advice, which well you know is right. E X T E M P O R E Upon feting Mrs, WORLEY at BATH, in the Ckarafar of Mrs. OAKI.EY, in the Jealous Wife. /CHURCHILL, with never-dying Praife, Has flamp'd a PR rr CHARD'S Fame ; Had we his Genius flill to boaft, He'd join a WORLEY'S Name. Upon MISCELLANIES. 181 Upon a certain E^TH PRINTER, who grofsly abufes the Public by "uniting in his own weekly Paper a vulgar, fcandalizing Review, under the Signature of FRANK FREEMAN, and others. The IMPOSTOR Unmask'd. T print my Lines, good Matter K***E, t You've Reafons, clear as Day-light feen ; What P**e and you (a noble Pair) Refolve t' engrofe the public Ear : Nothing, but pleafmg to themfelves, Thefe wou'd-be Widings, dirty Elves, Wou'd force the Public to comply With Terms as fervile ; but fhall I Per-force conform ? and, like the Town, Swallow your Grub-Street FREEMAN down? No thus with honeft Zeal I burn, And claim Attention in my Turn. WITH foul-mouth'd Scandal running o'er, (Thcrjltes never rail'd before) Abufing in- his paltry News, Which this bright Genius calls REVIEWS ! J N Thofe f A cotmporary Worthy with the Jmpoftor, whorefus'd the Infcr- tion of thefe Lines in his Monday's Paper. t THEATRICAL; God blef$ US ! 182 MISCELLANIES. Thofe Characters, which well I ween Wou'd pafs unnotic'd in a Scene ; But Prejudice, with jaundic'd Eye, Makes this (Mock Freeman, by the bye) Drawcanfir like, or wrong or right, DiiTeft, impale, at very Sight. Fie ! Soul-gall' d P**E, t reftrainyour Rage,- Why thunder thus againft the Stage ? Why on devoted ARTHUR'S Head, Hurl thus to wafte your weekly Lead ? " Hence to your Clofet, {hut you in," Purge your own Life fromfoulc/l Sin : Apply this Hint or, if it's meet, I'll quote a Proof from Awn-Sired. Stick to your Shop the Devils fwear Your Hclincfs is feldom there ; Nor with rude Irafult all your own, Blurt your Pit-noife in Face of Town : Corrode t His being turn'd off from printing for the Theatre, is gene- rally eftecmed the fole Occafion, of his repeated infolent Attacks upon the Manager, &c. + This inflammatory Witling has the Infamy to make fre- quent Difturbanccs in the Houfe, attended by his debauch'^ Brothd-fangl'd Myrmidons. M I S C E L L A N I E S. 183 Corrode at home, thou Spleen -ftruck Elf, There firilly probe thy dirty Self; We'll bear no Tnfolence from THEE Down with this I*urge, it comes from ME. The Triumph over Spleen, Prejudice, and moft compli- cated Villainy ; occafwn'd ly Mifs READ'S being re- call' d to the Bath Stage by the generous Protection, and at the exprefs Defire of the- Nobility, 3c, upon the %tk cf March, 1768 ; whenjhe again appear d in the Cha- r after of I N D i AN A in the Confcious Lovers. nnHUS to relieve a wounded Heart, Which (tho' unconfcious) felt the Smart ; For who can bear, with fteady Eye, Such foul Report ? a Hell-bred Lye ! * Thus fpeaking Comfort to a Breaft, By Villains Malice fore opprefl ; How great the Pleafure ! fo refin'd ! The Public, with one Voice and Mind, N 2 Kindl^ * IT-ji- intended Retreat (of which flic gave public Notice) was owing to a moil fcandalous refle&ing Print, exhibited Febv. 184 M I S C E L L A N I E S. Kindly protects an injur'd Fair, And ftamps her Conda&iju/l and clear. Henceforth be dumb reform yourfelves, Ye Soul-gatt'd Villains, Spken-Jlruck Elves. A Hj^JME-iJMf* An EPISTLE, 7b : ALL gracious Heav'n, with thy propitious Care, Protect, and grant his long prefiding here ; May ev'ry Bleffing, Happinefs and Peace, Crown all his Virtues, with a fweet Increafe, His ROYAL CONSORT, of illuftrious Name, Mod worthy to partake his Crown and Fame ! May SHE, with all that Teadernefs and Care, (A bright Example to our Britijh Fair) Abound in flriclefl: Harmony and Love. 4dmir'd by alj as fanftkm'd from above. May 204 LIBERTY. May Brunfwick's much-lov'd Race be long our own, And many future GEORGES grace the Throne." UNDER fo great a Prince, fuch envy'd Laws, Which from defpotic Pow'rs extort Applaufe, To what Pre-eminence ! what Height of Fame ! Might Britons raife a never-dying Name ; Would all unite and for the public Weal, Exert their utmoft Loyalty and Zeal ; With US not ancient ROME herfelf could vie, Nor more attract the univerfal Eye : Though proudly llil'd the MISTRESS of the Earth, Barbarians all, except of Roman Birth. BUT we, alas ! degen'rate, thanklefs Race, Jnfult thofe very Laws, our Fame difgrace ; And with licentious Freedom of Abufe, Madly attack e'en MAJESTY traduce His facred Name, and with an impious Rage, Defy the Reach of Fow'r ungrateful Age ! Are thefe Requitals for a Monarch's Love ? (The deareft, be/I of Bleffings from above) Is this the Tribute of a grateful Soul ? Which ev'ry venal Motive mould controul. What LIBERTY. 205 What epidemic Madnefs of the Brain, Diffus'd of late its curfed, baneful Train, Of hell-bred Monfters o'er our leading Men ? O ! may fuch Times be ne'er reviv'd again- When Party-Riot foaming in our Streets, Roaring out LIBERTY to all me meets, Stalk'd proudly on, difdaining legal Rule ; Plac'd high in Front a poor deluded Tool, State-Mad-Cap W-LK-S appear' d his very Ned The vulgar worihipp'd hail'd him as their GOD ; Bellow'd fuch Praifes to his Deeds, you'd fwear, The Idol PITT no longer worth their Care : Paufe but a Time, and let Reflection's Light, Beam on the Mind ! could this be afting right ? Was this like Subjects Loyalty, to engage With brutal Fury, and contemptuous Rage, The Dignity of Kings ? Infult his Name, And brand with rank Abufe the ROYAL FAME ? What Provocation giv'n ? declare the Caufe, Thou Mufe impartial, were our wholefome Laws Defective ? that this frantic, head-ftrong Crew, Led on by Faction's ever-erring Clue, Rear'd their licentious Banner thus on high, And with the fpecious Plea of Liberty, Gull'd sjo6 LIBERTY. Gull'djhallozu Souls into a groundlefs Fear, Our Freedom was affaulted Slav'ry near If fpeedy Succour was not brought to aid, Our ftruggling Goddefs, LIBERTY ! bright Maid ! Was this the true Complexion of the Times ? Give up the Truth Truth may be told in Rhitnes Was there this real Danger then or not ? So great the Stir, you'd thought a ieccnd Plot, Was deeply hatching by a Popilh Crew, T' extirpate King, the Lav/s, ?.rjd People too ; That we poor Heretics muil a;l to Stake, Forfeit our Lives for dear Religion's Sajice. 'Twas but a Feint I grant the Helm of Pow'r, Was at that Time, in an ill-fated flour, Strangely committed to a S******n (Caie ; A Wretch devoid, of Honour, Love, or Fr;r . Beyond Conception infamous and bafe, Disgracing in his Life ihe human Race ; Perhaps a weaker minifterial Train, Wicked withal, in any former Reisrn, * O ? Scarce gall'd our Country, with a Set of Men So ill inclin'd- but fort a CHURCHILL'S Pen, Has with fuperior Dignity of Verfe, A lajlirig Stigma fix'd. an honeR Curfe, Ga LIBERTY. 207 On their Abufe of Pow'r ; fuffice for me, Thus to declare, in this I muft agree, And join my grateful Plaudit to his Fame, * His Country's Honour was a glorious Aim, I And well deferves a never-dying Name. J BUT ft ill I muft condemn the real Caufe, That broach'd this Outrage to our King and Laws, Muft deeply cenfure with impartial Pen, Such Ways and Means, though from thofe very Men, Who wifh'd their Country's Welfare, have been prov'd Our beft of Friends, and therefore well belov'd : How then could T****E poorly condefcend, To aid fuch Mai-contents, nay rank as Friend, A Bofom Friend, that grofs infulting Man, Whofe whole Life through was built on Folly's Plan, State -Bravo W-LK-S was this a Patriot's Care, To ftorm and blufter thus with lawlefs Air ? Was this refpeclful Service to the Crown ? With rank Sedition and imperious Frown, Could they expect that MAJESTY fhould pay, An inifcmt Homage to his Subjecls Sway ? What bafe Apoftacy ! Now learn the Caufe, iVhy King and Country, Liberty and Laws, Were 2o8 LIBERTY. Were thus affail'd the Helm was in Difpute, S**##** H our pij ot} then pi f e leagu'd with B**i, Join'd with Affociates of inferior Note, So weak, fuch Dupes, that were I but to quote Their Names alone, my Ink would change its Hue, Blufhing Contempt of fuch a fervile Crew. To difpoflefs thefe Worthies of their State, Then, mount themfelves, the whole of the Debate ; At length, by Means which they muft bluih to own, They gain'd their wifti'd-for Stations near the Throne; Hufh'd our Alarms, appeas'd the mil-led Rout ; Their Point was gain'd, the In became the Out. S******H expell'd, or rather, as a Phrafe, (Much better fuited to thefe modern Days) Having refign'd his Dignity of State, That envied Station, by our little Great, On Patriot PITT we caft a longing Eye, Retir'd fome Time (though penfion'd by the bye) All with one Mouth, requir'd his Aid to fave A finking Nation from an early Grave : But HE, opprefs'd with Sorrows of his own, Declin'd his further Service to the Crown ; - His LIBERTY. 209 His Health ib much impair' d I grant the Plea Was juft enough 'tis fit he mould be free : Would you confine a Man to State- Affairs, Flannel' d as he, from Toe to very Ears ? 'Twere Pity, on my Life, to add a Weight, A public Load on one in fuch a State : An ill Requital this for all his Care ! Don't think I jeft I'm truly ferious here. And with Refpeft, nay, Gratitude of Heart, I own his Merit 'twas a noble Part, He lately afted for the public Weal, Purfu'd fuch Meafures, with that worthy Zeal, As highly rais'd his Country's Honour, more Than long preceding Statefmen had before ; The Love of all enfu'd, our Patriot's Name Was far difpers'd upon the Wings of Fame ; Already honour'd with his Country's Voice, The higheft Credit, moft refpeclful Choice : What grofs ambitious Frenzy of the Mind (A flrange Propenfity in Human-kind) Could prompt him to give up his vaft Repute, And facrifice his Fame to crafty B**i ? Accept a Title, meant but to controul, And thus difplay his Poverty of Soul? But 210 LIBERTY. But hold without this Offer we had loft, The ableft Head, and all' our Projefts croft. On fecond Thoughts, We muft applaud the End, And own this DOCTOR. PEERAGE much our Friend: Anticipation hence th' Event may prove, His Conduct ftill deferves the public Love : I truft this Honour will but whet infpire Frefti glowing Ardour, and a CATO'S Fire; That we mail ftill have Caufe to love his Name, And BRITAIN flourifh with a deallilefs Fame. MAY no inteftine Broils difiurb our Peace, May Factions die, and Unity encreafe ; Let each exert his Pow'r, an honeft Love, A grateful People ever muft approve : Let this Contention be the only Care Who beft ftiall ferve his Countiy, let not fear, Or rank Ambition, warp the gen'rous End Of public Good, to turn ^Jdfijh Friend, Aft from an upright Principle of Heart, From fuch a Bafis, dare, not to depart : Remember W-LK-S. that Mad- Cap of the Times; Cap we then wonder, that in foreign Climes, He's LIBERTY. 211 He's left to linger, having dons his Work, And fpurn'd with Rancour, that would damn a Turk? I marvel not, fucli be the exil'd Fate Of all thofe baneful Subjects to a State; Whofe A&ions guided by a Party-Rage, Serve only to enflame a vicious Age ; And under Pretext of a gen'ral Good, (By which their King and Country's underflood) Sow rank Sedition o'er their native Spot, Almoft renewing Times (thank Heav'n) forgot. Is this our boafted Liberty ? For Shame ! Why proftitute her facred, fpotlefs Name To fuch licentious Actions ? Turn your Eyes To CORSICA'S brave Sons, 'tis their's the Prize, Who jtt/?/y ftruggle 'gainft oppreflive Force, To curb their ancient Freedom, turn the Courfe Of LIBERTY'S fweet Channel Friends, beware, The Time's at Hand, avoid th' infidious Snare, Corruption's Bait, fo nicely gilded o'er, MEDEA, Sorcerefs fo fam'd of yore, Was p6or in Wiles, compar'd with prefent Times, Be cautions then, apply my honeft Rhimes ; the 212 LIBERTY. The real Men, and Morals flri&ly try, Examine both with the moft curious Eye ; Nor fuffer daily fafcinating Treats, To lull your Reafon by the Fouleft Cheats : Think not a Spendthrift L***** R worth your Care; Tell me his Merit He's AVARO'S Heir. PERISH thofe Villainsj to their Country's Health, Who thus prefuming on their dirty Pelf, Would lead us Captive, to a fhameful End, Perifh each Agent ev'ry Canvas-Friend, Who dead to Honour, for the Sake of Place, Would flab his Country with the worft Difgrace; Curfe us with Tools fo ignorant and vain, As even Folly blufhing cannot name. BE wary then, 'tis now the Time to think., We Hand on Happinefs or Ruin's Brink. " WiCely and flow, they flumble who run fafl" Apply this Maxim, let it ever Ml : With Prudence paufe and when a meddling Lord Calls you his Friend, invites you to his Board, And cringing, hopes you'll give his Nephew Vote, (Whofe Merit centers in his Uncle's Coat) Reply LIBERTY. 213 Reply, with honeft patriotic Zeal, My Lord, confider 'tis the public Weal, Muft rife (or fall) upon our prudent Choice, If he deferves- why, he fhall have my Voice ; If wot--- 'tis fit he keep his private Seat, We're full fufficient curs'd with little Great. THIS will be afting like a free-born Soul, Above the Reach of Brib'ry or Controul : J Tis fuch a Spirit, as will trump your Name, And rank you in the higheft Lift of Fame. Fair LIBERTY, which otherwife muft die, Andjkortly too (Oh! tha t fore -boding Sigh !) Shall running o'er with Gratitude and Joy, Carefs, and love you, as her darling Boy ; Pofterity muft honour, and approve, Such dear Cpncem, with never-dying Love. MARK the Reverfe ye Money -loving Slaves, Who fell your Confciences to fhamelefs Knaves, That hunt Ocrafion to deflroy yourfelves, (Curfe to fuch venal, mercenary Elves) Who fwallow Brib'ry, without Difguife, And damn themfelves, with open Ears and Eyes. P MARK 214 LIBERT Y. MARK the Reverfe ye Traitors to the Caufe, Ye bafe Betrayers of your Country's Laws ; Your putrid Actions, rotten in Offence, Difgufting, pois'nous to each honcft Senfe, Smell to high Heaven (where Freedom ever reigns) 'Gainft you on Earth the Forgers of our Chains. SHAME on't, ye Monfters, who in various Guife, Would rob your Country of her deareft Prize ; Would drive fair LIBERTY, diftreft, forlorn, Regardlefs of her Sbul-diflra&ed Moan, To feek for Refuge where to lay her Head; And gain, by foreign Alms, her daily Bread : If for your Country you have no Regard, Attend the Warnings of her honeft Bard, Think, e'er too late, how fcandaloufly bafe, To load with Infamy, and foul Difgrace, The coming Times, Pofterity will rue, Thofe dire Effefts entail'd by venal you. APPLY thefe Hints, thus friendly urg'd to all, Attend the Duties of your Country's Call : Exert a noble Ai'dour, worthy Men, A&Jlriftly honeft, and my grateful Pen, Shatf LIBERTY. 215 Shall in fome future, nay, an early Lay, Proclaim your Merits to the Blaze of Day ; But fhould grofs Int'reft, with her foulefl Tide, Bear down all Principle, to glut your Pride ; - v Take Heed, ye Slaves, I'll pr,obe you with an Air, Severely keen, and lay each Bofom bare ; To public Note, I'll hand your Names of Scorn, And make you curfe the Hour, when you were born ; NABOBS and LORDS, alike my honeft Hate, Who indireBly plot to wound the State. THUS pre-advis'd, my honeft Friends, beware, Look e'er you leap, djiftruft the lurking Snare ; By my Directions cautioufly proceed ; Firft, know your Men, then, chufe with prudent Speed: Remember, 'tis your Country's deareft. Health, Fair LIBERTY'S at Stake hence fordid Pelf Perim that Wretch, whofe mean, corrupted Heart, For Thirfl of Gold, would aa a Traitor's Part ; May he, detefted by the Good and Juft, Live here forbid, be afterwards accurft ; Bonds moft grievous in a future State, His bafe Apoftacy of Soul await ! P a - ai6 LIBERTY. PAY due Attention to our wholefome Laws, On thefe depend, by thefe direcl: our Caufe; Let firm Integrity of Mind controul, Abhor a renal, mercenary' Soul ; All private Int'reft for the public Weal, Reject with Scorn, exert an honeft Zeal : Grant us, with Gratitude that noble Chain, (Keep me, fair Goddefs, ever in thy Train) To honour and approve your prudent Skill ; Give us but thofe, whofe honeft Hearts and Will Go Hand in Hand ; whofe firft, whofe only Care/ Is Love of Country what remains to fear? With fuch Supports, fuch Bulwarks of Defence, Intrenched with Principle and folid Senfe ; When Meafures wifely plan'd, by honeft Men, (O ! what a pleating Subject for the Pen !) To what Advancement Honour, and Renown, Mufl add a Luftre to the Britifh Crown : When Peace and Concord grant the Time's at Hand, Shall fweetly join, to blefs our native Land ; Content at Home (by Heav'n's all-ruling Pow'r) Shall arm, defend us in the hoflile Hour. LIBERTY. n LET fubtle France, clofe leagu'd with Sifter Spain, If flie would brave another Blow again, Come foaming on, expect no eafy Prey, BRITONS, the Glory of the well-fought Day Muft beam on you if with yourfelves at Peace, Expe6l the faireft Karveft of Increafe : Abroad refpefted, and at Home fecure. Sweet UN ITY ! thou only lafting Cure, Jnfufe thy Balm, 'tis thy all-wanted Aid, Propitious hear, thou Heav'n-defcending Maid ! Grant us thy Light Happy, thrice happy State, The Mufe, with Gratitude of Heart elate, Foretells the Bleflings under GEORGE'S Sway, Which then fhall vifit at an early Day. The Lib'ral Arts fhall flourifh and abound, (And e'en to POETRY a Patron found;) Time fhall flow on, replete with ev'ry Joy ; And fterling LIBERTY, without Alloy, Shall mine fuperior in Meridian Ray, And, like the glorious Sun, enrich our Day. Such the Effeds of UNITY'S mild Pow'r; Qourt but her Influence, at the prefent Hour, Then reft aflur'd, fucceeding Time fhall prove, Our Country's Honour, and her fteady Love. P 3 But 2i8 LIBERTY. But if neglected in prophetic Rhime, J croak the Mis'ry of approaching Time. No more of this let wholefome Hints fuffice, A61 circumf^e*Sl be honefl and you're wife. KEIE we break oflF and now to the Reviews, With 'all Suli.^J/ion, I give up the Mufe. They fay, fhe's petulant but is it true ? Good, candid Reader, I refer to you : Indeed I cannot dread thefe Lurkers Frown. Or court their Smiles, and yet 'tis plain the Town Are much inclin'd to favour or condemn, As thefe confederate Wits will fufFer them : No Matter, 'tis a Handing Rule with me, Impartial as I am, I will be free. Let 'em puff Medleys * with a venal Praife, - (Themfelves a Proof, we live in meddling Days) >- And thunder monthly Bulls againft my Lays ; I value not, 'twere Folly to be hurt, By fucha namckjs Cloud of Mift and Dirt: Befides, 'tis but their Duty after all, A Servant mutt obey his Matter's Call : Write '* A Publication under this Title fome Months ago.' MISCELLANIES. zjg Write on, ye trufty fcientific Crew, L; harms not me, and if it feeds but you, I would not -by meek Charity I fwear I would not, ycu fhould quit your lettered Chair Of critical Importance, hold itftill, -* Obey your Orders, execute the Will, > Of your defpotic Lord, and fpare or kill. J I offer you Alliance, as 3 Proof, I mean to act xroniiilent with the Truth ; This waits your Teft call a Scnatus ftrsic, Poize well each Line mark that each Word has Weight : for once let CANDOUR hold, an equal Scale. Juftly afTay the whole, let Right prevail : Nor meanly pilf'ring out fome trifling Word, Condemn at large, the reft unfeen, unheard ; This is prejudging with felonious Art, And argues neither Worth of Head or Heart. 'Tis poorly done, yourfelves intrench'd, unfeen, Lurking, like Brother B**E,_ behind the Screen, Thus to difcharge your miffile Darts, and wound With monthly Rancour, thofeon open Ground, Who fcorn fuch Covert, brave the public Eye, (With Names a,ffix'd) 'tis theirs to judge, and tiy On 220 LIBERTY. On CANDOUR'S Bafis, if an Author's Claim, To public Notice, and a letter'd Fame, Is juftly grounded on Defert t or not, 'Tis their's to judge What Need then of a Plot? A monthly Combination of fuch Elves, Who entertain fo highly of themfelves, As to prefume on polifh'd Flafehood's Plan, To crufh at Random that afpiring Man, Who ventures to difplay, or well, or ill ; Let pow'rful Reafon guide his honed Quill ; Or grant him Tool of fome State-juggling Knave, (Curfe to the Mem'ry of each Hireling Slave) "Tis all the famethefe Lurkers'in the Dark, For write they muft, and fhoot at ev'ry Mark ; Hurl their Abufe, no Matter wrong or right, Unknown themfelves, mere Bravoes of the Night. AND mail fuch Slaves (detefled be the Thought) Who work for Pay, and therefore fold and bought, Ufurp Dominion ? Muft we then obey, Submit our Thoughts to their defpoiic Sway ? Up-roufe for Shame ! be drvg'd no more to reft, Judge for yourfelves, you are our proper Teft : Let LIBERTY. 221 Let not thefe Minions, Slaves to venal Pow'r, (Whofe only Claim, the Venom of an Hour) Controul your Reafon, thefe your worft of Foes, Who would a Bondage on the Mind impofc ; Thefe ftrike at LIBERTY, would cramp the Mind, Which bounteous Nature, free and unconfin'd, Has lent to all, exert the Gift of Heav'n, For this alone, is God-like Reafon giv'n : With Candour hear, let Equity decide, You cannot err, with Reafon for your Guide. THIS- and no more in future Walk of Life, Let come what may- --unknown to ambufh'd Strife, I'll keep my Road, Snarkrs with Lurkers join, '* To curfe the Freedom of each honeft Line :" It moves me not, 'twould but difgrace my Page, To anfwer ev'ry Gnatling of the Age : Curs will bay on when Cynlhia heav'nly bright ! Stoops from her Dignity of fpangled Night To notice Mongrels then but not before, I'll make Reply to ev'ry Witling's Roar. LURKERS adieu be honefl, if you can Unkennel one- we're equal- --Man to Man. MIS- 222 MISCELLANIE CONTINUED. An E P I S T L E, Tb ^7. Friend in TOZVK, Jent. from Batk. T ^TITH clouded Head, and out of Time,* * * Still I'm refolv'd to icribble Rhimc ; Thanks for your kind, obliging Letter, It merits a Return much better. I'M glad, nay much rejoic'd to find, That LIBERTY fo hits your Mind ; The Par fon too approves my Brat I'm plcas'd, extremely pleas'd with that. A Piece Mufis Aurora arnica. MISCELLANIES, 223 A Piece of News, for private Ear No matter Ihortly 'twill appear, As public as a Prefs can make it, And therefore let the Winds all take it. GAINSBRO', an Artiil in this Place, I told you was to draw my Face ; And t gratis, promis'd to fupply, A Picture for the public Eye : * Apojlate like, denies his Word, In fine, has a&ed fo abfurd, And treated me with fuch Neglect, Though I've behav'd with all Refpeft, That I've engag'd am in Advance, To treat him with fatyric Dance ; In Manner on Churchilliad Plan, I'll la fh this petty Gentleman. A fecond HOGARTH to your View When maul'd in my corroding Stew, His Ufage he fhall quickly rue.t Yoir * Intended for the Spring-Garden Exhibition. * Shortly will be publifh'd, An EPISTLE to THOMAS GAINSBOROUCH, Painter, at Bath, 224 MISCELLANIES. You tell me W-LK-S, with full Intent To gain a Seat in Parliament, Is juft return'd from exil'd State, And much befriended by the Great I'm forry for't, without Oifguife ; I've given up, to public Eyes, My Thoughts, in honeft, recent R/iimes, Touching the paft licentious jTV.w ; And much I fear, if mad-cap Zeal Should fix him in the Public- V/cal, Confufion may again prevail, Like Ship depriv'd of Helm and Sail.- Well, let the Times go as they will, My Recipe is pow'rful Hill - Integrity of Heart a Mind Of equal Ballance thus inclin'd You muft be happy ; Time and Place, Will ever wear a pleafing Face. BUT holdwe'll put a finifli here. Relieve me your's, moft fmcere. The MISCELLANIES. 225 An EXTEMPORE. The Author confoles a Friend whofe Inclinations were oppos'd by the Parent of a young Lady, to wliom he paid his Addreffes. /COURAGE, my Boy, the prefent Day, I grant you has no genial Ray ; But tell me is it therefore meet ? Muft we ftill lack a Sun-mine Treat ? Perhaps the Morrow may fupply, Elate your Heart, and glad the Eye Be chearful, Man avaunt Deipair, Since you can truft the partial Fair ; Allure yourfelf that Time will work y And proper Conduft footh a Turk ; With Patience wait this friendly Balm The Mufe foretells" All will be calm." The BUSYBODY. Teneas tuis Te. r ~T^HEY who in Quarrels interpofe, Muft often wipe a bloody Nofe." A Maxim 226 M I S C E L L A N I E S. A Maxim this from honeft GAY, And yet we find how far aftray, Blind Mortals wander ev'iy Day. But little did I think Friend P**E, (You fee I've hitch' d you in a Line) Would fo forget himfelf, and Bard, For whom he had profefs'd Regard, As to negleft this golden Rule, And thus difplay, the meddling Fool ; Impertinent, officious, wrong (Much better he had held his Tongue)- For let your Brother Artijl know, Since 'tis Himfelf that nerves my Bow, The promis'd Shaft ere long mail wing, For you've but doubly brac'd the String : In the mean while his dapper Squire, Compos'd of true pacific Fire, May fetch and carry, * blufter, fwear in vain he hsftors Air. Sent * This worthy Confidant -\v?.s fo nettled at the Author's ad- hering to his retort Determination, that he declared he would bring any Mejfcwe vhtteyfr from Mr. G, MISCELLANIES. 227 Stnl to a Lady in SUFFOLK, whom the Author had ken formerly acquainted, -with. T F you retain the leaft fteem, And former Friendfhip (grateful Theme) Is not effac'd by Place or Timfe, Permit me thus in humble Rhime, To afk your Vote, and Int'reft too, To grace the Lift of Scribbler U. Inclos'd you have the Fare defign'd, I hope 'twill i eliih to four Mind ; If fome Variety can pleafe, And Subjects wrote with daily Eafe, I think, in fome Degree at leaft, You muft approve the Medley Feaft ; And clear I am, with candid Eye, You'll view thefe firft Attempts to fly : In Time, perhaps, (for that fpeaks Truth) This Mufe of mine, but now in Youth, May fet before you fomething better .Farewell excufe this hafty Letter. A* 228 MISCELLANIES. An E P I S T L E, To a neglettjul Correspondent in Town. XT'OU give me paufe no Anfwer yet ! Let's fee how long you've been in Debt *Tis near two Months a fhameful Date ; But fay, why thus fejlefting late ? You're like the French, in Treaty wife ; But foon (like them) throw off Difguize ; And break through ev'ry Promife made Pray leave to France this fluffing Trade The Englifh are of different Breeding, Such low FineJJe not worth our Heeding. IN future, treat me with Refpeft, And lay afide this cool Neglect ; Nor further urge my Lady Mufe, The prefent Fault me may excufe ; But mark the Terms without Delay Difpatch a Line ; a (ingle Day May fo provoke her take the Hint, . Or fhortly you'll be chid in Print : At prefent, with fincere Regard, I reft your mod pacific Bard. The MISCELLANIES. 229 The Author defcribes his Subfcription Canvafs, and takm Leave of his Friends. firft: my Mufe, perhaps more bold than wife, Defign'd rfiis Trifle for the public Eyes, Thus fhe refolv'd Enough of CanVafs Routs, To treat with equal State both Ins and Outs : Steel'd with Refolves of this well-temojd Kind, I chofe this Plan, pre-fraught with equal Mind : Mark the Refult accept a brief Detail, Believe me, 'tis a " Round unvarnifh'd Tale. 5 * TRICK'D and abus'd by Publilhersin Town, October laft to BATH I trip'd me down; There the Whim feiz'd me, by Subfcriptien Mode, (Affur'd that it rnuft prove a better Road) To give thefe Trifles to the public Eye, And print 'em here I've Reafons by the bye But mould you alk a damning Proof, I quote The faithful W*B**Y, of true Coxcomb Note.* WELL, my Propofals firft appeared let's fee- With Specimens affix'd t (fdme two or three) Q About * We p. 84. * In thfBath Papdr. ^t> MISCELLANIES, About the lofe of bleak O&ober's Reigrt ; Inviting all, who lov'd poetic Strain, To honour with their Names, and beft Regard, Th' impartial Scribbler a mere Mumroom Bard.* Some Days claps' d my Boots as Maiden-fair, As if they never were expos'd to Air : J heeded not ; indeed I gave a Hint, To Friends firofefs'd, of what I meant to print ; But they, kind Souls, thro' Prudence choofe to flay $ <{ 'Tis Time enough, when others lead the .Way, We'll join the Corps" as if they meant to fight The Battle o'er ; theyr'e doubtlefs in the right : 'Twas S*******E'S Plan : we all allow his 'Mcr.it ; For though he faftked-, 'twas Hot Want of Spirit. ~ At length fome unknown Volunteers began, To patronise this fame fubfcribing Plan : A grateful Public is the beft lo tnift, TOY prudent Friends are clog'd with Envy's Rwft : How do I laugh to hear thefe Worthies cn>, (Whilft Spieeti-ftruL-k r'viry maddens in their Eye) I wifh Succefs, with all my friendly Heart, And really mould be glad to help in Part ; But- * The Author lias not wrote more than a Year. MISCELLANIES. 231 But here the Canker of fuch dirty Souls Sticks in their Throat a felfifti Blank controuls ; They cannot, for their Life, declare the Caufe ; No Need of Words 'tis plain what gives 'em paufe. Still my Lift fwell'd, in fpite of Soul-gall'd Elves, Who hurt not Me they only flung thcmfdves. And here, with Gratitude for Favours mown, I thank my num'rous Friends in Norfolk's Round : I thank you ALL ; perhaps another Year, (If Heav'n fo grant my Life and Health to fpare) A fecond Volume of the Medley-kind, May furnifh Laughter for the gen'rous Mind : At prefent, I refign my public State ; Why mould not Scribblers love (as well as Great) To quit the Buftle of a PrefsRefort Farewell for Reft I'll hie me to the COURT.* * Of LAND AFP. FINIS. BOOK THE FIRST. 5 But you muft know we are no more fuch fools, To fancy knowlege is acquir'd in fchools. With all your learning, Madam, learn our plan The only way to make a boy a man. That time is precious, you'll yourfelf atteft : The fhorteft method then muft be the beft, Be yours all theory $ we envy not : By practice only is perfection got. To dub my fon a doctor, if I pleafe, "J 35 The 'pothecary's peftle pounds degrees : The wig gives wifdom, and the chariot fees. Or if he muft attain the lawyer's fkill, Swift let him feize the cunning fcriv'ner's quill. But fhould he choofe(for boys muft have their way ) 4 o The gallant foldier's eafy part to play, tec 4 EDUCATION. Let him fhut ev'ry book, nor open Hoyle, Whofe labors prove the riper heroes toil* None is too young to grace the fmart cockade, Bow in the box, or ftrut on the parade : 4 ; No age denies the garniiht fword to wear, And infant-organs eafieft learn to fwear. Like qualities bent not each command : But this fiats equally the fea and land. Who would in mufly mines of learning dig, ^ That can go midfhipman, or guinea-pig ? To read and write and cypher, all muft know, Whate'er they purpofe, or where'er they go; The three great arts by which may foon become A fon of Commerce parent of a plum : ,r To dance and fence and draw complete the plan, While talking french fublimes the gentleman. To B O O K THE F I R S T. 5 To read or write it were an idle view : Be this, with greek and latin, left to you. The lawyer's latin is not taught at fchool, 63 Nor doctor's hi'roglyphics learnt by rule. Eafy their language : none fure need decline it j And yet the ignorant can ne'er divine it. Scholars and wits the drones of any nation, Be all confign'd to madam Education. 65 By fuch wife means the child to manhoqd fprung Learns to defpife alike the old and young j Hears other wits with indignation due, And glories in his own unfpoil'd by you ; Starts up felf-form'd divine land politician, 70 Outlaughs, if not outlogics the logician. How juftly, ftill Experience adding knowlege, The boy-man pities other boys at college ! B 3 Thus 6 EDUCATION. Thus have you feen how well we do without you : So, learned Madam, you may look about you.' 75 He faid. She with a fmiie confeft her rnind, And hi'd her thence a friendlier face to find. Soon to another as fhe told her name, Her occupation and for what (lie came j c Miftrefs, I fee, and fee without reproach, 80 Your feet your horfes, or a flage your coach. But tho' your tongue is fmooth enough, and tho' You may be what you fay, for aught I know j Is't poflible that you fhould e'er pretend To afk my premifes for fuch an end ? 8$ I fpeak it without pride nay, do not flare ; They've ferv'd an alderman, and might a may'r, I'd B O OK THE FIRST. 7* I'd recommend, were any fuch hard by, An empty barn, old flable, or a fty.' ' Your fervant, Madam,' greeted next a fquire : 90 * Whence are you come, and what is your defire ?' * Fame points a feat that you have, Sir, to fpare; And thinks the Mufes might inhabit there/ * From earlieft youth I've ever wifht you well : Where dwelt my fires, may now the Mufes dwell. 95 Two families fcarce fill the vaft extent : Then do not wonder at the double rent, But Time, by whom the ftrongeft fabric falls, Has ript the roof, and undermin'd the walls. You're welcome to repair it, if you're willing : IQO But, Madam, I cannot afford a ihilling.' Sir,' S EDUCATION. e Sir,' faid the Lady, rev'rence dropt withal, c By me your fabric nor {hall (land nor fall.' One fummer's eve Pedia chanc'd to ftray, Where young plantations hedg'd the winding way, 105 Where beauteous Flora with Pomona vi'd, To fo w and plant and prune and educate their pride. Here rofe the product of eaph fun and fhower. Of tree each gender, and each tribe of flower, Each fpringing fpeqes of the verdant throng , j i < Danc'd in due order to, Pomona 's fong p Here patient Induftry improv'd the foil, And here bloorn'd Health the eldeft child of Toi|. What Earth fends fair or fragrant from her womb Adorn'd this Eden, once a field of broom. ji Where B O O K THE FIRST. 9 Where gentle Zephyrs only dar'd to blow, Spontaneous as of old, the plants appeared to grow. Enraptured long in this enchanting ground, At laft Vertumnus in a field ihe found : * If e'er Vertumnus woo'd Pomona here, 120 If e'er Pomona held Vertumnus dear j If next to thee fair plants be all her joy, Far fairer plants my tender cares employ. Like culture both demand, like fituation, Thou beft canft point a place for Education.' 125 ' Hail, fifler,' faid the filvan, 'twere my woe, And my Pomona's* that thou hence ihouldil go. If, till thou find fome adequate abode, A fweet recefs, fequefter'd from the road, Can flay thy fteps, it waits thy wife command j 130 Oh ! blefs a while this yet-uncultur'd land. Each no EDUCATION. Each nymph and Twain attend thy charming call : Each hedge I'll wattle, and I'll prop each wall. Thy care fhall gambol fafe upon the green, And thou (halt humbly reign their lov'd, their 135 honor'd Queen.' c Glad I accept the fweet fequefter'd cell, Faft by where thou and thy Pomona dwell j Where native Virtue radiates ftill the plains, Where Peace and Plenty crown the hofpitable fwains.' Now Education caft a piercing ray O'er ev'ry region where her fav'rites lay : Nor twice fevcn times had Sol his courfe begun, When at a parent's call Edina fent a Ton. 'Hail B OOK THE FIRST. ii ' Hail my firft-born/ fhe faid, * 'tis my defign To place thee and thy darlings here, the Nine. Where filvan fcenes on ev'ry hand delight, Where great Augufia too exalts the fight. See holy Peters light-afcending pile, The peerlefs glory of a gothic ifle ! There my furviving fons fome tribute pay 1 50 To thofe whofe afhes, earth to earth, they lay. There ev'ry Mnfe combines her pow'r to fhow That worth ftill triumphs over ev'ry foe ; That wit fhines brighter forth a beam of God, When difembodi'd from the deadly clod; 155 That thofe whofe deeds have writ their names on high, Amid the very tombs fliall Time and Death defy. Look 12 EDUCATION. Look where great Paul's auguft corinthian fane Now fwells in air, now finks in fmoke again : Stupendous ftrufture paffing tongue or pen, 160 That blends the pow'r of Majefty and Wren. There palaces arife, and villa's here : Where Peace moft flourifhes, fell War is near. There Affluence riots on what Heav'n has lent ; Here well-earn 'd Competence beflows Content. 165 There foul and body join to purchafe Wealth : Here cloudlefs Toil fecures the foul's and body's health. Yet trees alone to rear has been the fcope -, Nor ever rofe before the britifh hope - y But now fhall rife. And ev'n if trees to rear, 170 Pomona s fons muft ferve a feven-long year ; So BOO K THE FIRST. 13 So here muft thou my nobler art to reach : He that would teach to learn, muft learn to teach. Train'd to my lore the term expir'd fhall fee Thee worthier of a fite, a fite more worthy thee. 175 OF all the arts that honor human-kind, The fir ft muft be the culture of the mind , And of the objects that our care employ, The moft momentous is the rifmg boy. How then to form the infant head and heart, 1 80 To mold the outward with the inward part j To trace young genius from its latent fprings, T'explore what each denies, and what it brings ; T'impr'ove the pow'rs, as Nature bids them play, To make the Paflions own fair Reafon's fway j 185 1 4 EDUCATION. To rear the child to youth, the youth to man, Be my advent'rous theme. Behold the plan, On which I form'd the great of ev'ry age, Infpir'd the heroe, and illum'd the fage ; On which a Samuel or a Cyrus rofe, 190 Whence ev'ry art and ev'ry fcience flows: T^ " " W Paths which the fons of Wifdom ftill have trod : Hail, paths thrice hallow'd by the Son of God ' Great Sire of all, fend thy blefl daughter down. My mighty Parent, and my fole renown, 195 Wifdom, my fyftem and my fong to guide, And o'er my fon as o'er myfelf prefide. The natal hour begins Tuition's plan : For the firft miniature commences man. BOOK THE F IRS T. 15 As from the cradle joy and forrow flow, 200 Much to the tut'refs muft the tutor ow : Nay much, ye maids, it boots how firft ye bind And much, ye nurfes, how ye mold the mind. Health the firft care's firft rule is, Shun excefs, Of heat or cold, of aliment or drefs. 205 But, O ye parents, fave your charming boy ; For yours it is to fave or to deftroy. Ye tender dames will ne'er deny the food, That ev'ry dam difpenfes to her brood. Shall InftincT: teach the parent's part to play, 2 10 And Reafon, God and Nature difobey ? Has Nature pour'd her own neclareous tide But to fuftain her pleafure and her pride ? Or can fhe fubftitute a foreign flood, To mingle nobleft with ignobleft blood ; 215 To 16 EDUCATION. To form a changeling, or in part or whole, A tainted body or a fordid foul ? Health, truft me, Fair, attends on Duty's call: 'Tis Nature's rebel that is Languor's thrall. But come ye bleft, ye real mothers, fay, 220 When on the milky mount the fuckling lay, When your fond arms enelos'd the fmiling boy, Did e'er your bofoms beat with fuch a joy? Did ever Btauty's felf appear fo bright, Or Modefty afford fo fine a fight ? 22 j Did e'er the Virgin blufh in higher charms, Than with her Son and Savior in her arms ? Yet, if ye wifli to be completely kind, O ! nurfe as tenderly the infant- mind. For BOOK THE FIRST. 17 For Nature fpeaks in ev'ry fmile or frown: 230 4 Ah ! cherifh one, and bear the other down. Begin to-day, if you'd the body bend 5 And not to-morrow, if the mind you'd mend. The pliant twig accepts the fureft form, The young- train'd tree will flouteft ftand the 235 florm. Long ere young Reafon take the guife of fpeech, Ye may great leflbns and good habits teach ; Ye may give ev'ry limb its proper play, Ye muft found all your rules in one Obey : So with fuccefs ye (hall each fpirit mold, 2^0 Excite the gentle, and reprefs the bold ; The modeft chear, the rav'nous counteraw j And ftill your look muft be the ftanding law. Cod iS EDUCATION. Cofl what it will, be fteacly now, and know % One timely word fhali fave you many a blow. 245 Whatever Reafon afks, your love fupplies : What Will demands, the felf-fame love denies. Oh ! learn once to deny : the tafk is o'er : The regulated will rebels no more. Your pow'r obtained prevents all farther jftrife, 250 In health gives hajppinefs, in ficknefs life ; Prepares to tutor now the loofening tongue, Whence good and ill in ev'ry age have fprung, Though my paft {trains may mofl regard the fair, Both parents always muft combine their care, 255 In pure example, and the niceft choice Of ev'ry menial's manners, temper, voice. For BOOK THE FIRST. 19 For now whate'cr the apelings hear or fee, The found they echo, and the thing will be. With children then, O vvhdfo talk or play, 260 For their dear fake be innocent as they : If Purity you prize not for your own $ Oh ! taint not theirs, which nothing can atone. Not all the monfters earth or ocean fpreads, Not all the hydra's with their hundred heads, 265 Not all the horrors that in fancy dwell, Can image Vice, the fpring and fpawn of hell. In her deplor'd abode, remote from day, Aw the foul fiend, with thy refifllefs ray ; O thou as far beyond the human ken, 270 Beyond the tongue of angels as of men ! Darling of faints below and gods above, Fair progeny of Wifdom and of Love, G 2 ' Whether 20 EDUCATION. Whether Area's name celeftials know, Or Virtue moft endear thee here below 5 27 Shield ffom Contagion's reach my virgin-charge j Purge native ill, and native good enlarge. Infpire the thoughts, the manners, geftures, fpeech Of all that minifter and all that teach. Hear then, ye guardians of whatever degree j 2 8 Nor longer hear, as if ye heard not me. Think that each ufe or notion ye beflow, Sows certain feeds of endlefs weal or wo 5 That ev'ry word ye drop, or tale ye tell, May kindle fires that nothing e'er fhall quell ; 28 May (hike vain terror, or puff vainer pride, Some folly flatter, or fome wifdom hide. Nor yet fuffice it you no ill to teach : Precept muft much,and practice more mufl preach. They BOOK THE FIRST. 21 They you, as you your God, by love obey : 290 To their God and to yours, like you they pray. They venerate your age, as you their youth; They fcorn a ly, becaufe you tell the truth. Be Truth, by ev'ry art, their firfl delight ; < Let all endear her, and let nought affright ; 2 95 Still let them find, whatever they've faid or done. That Honefty and Policy are one. Jjet Modefty, the guardian of each grace, Erect her throne on each ingenuous face. Let love to all, but each in his degree, 300 Shine forth, as Nature bids, improv'd by me. Bland Curtefy can ne'er too foon begin, To heighten, not to hide, whate'er's within. Thus fhall ye nurture Virtue's charming train, Entail true pleafure and extirpate pain. . 305 C 3 Thus *2 EDUCATION. t Thus mall ye Nature make or mend by art, And teach the Soul betimes to play her arduous part. Amid the higher cares already fung, Let mother-wit mature in mother-tongue ; Alike in purity, alike unmixt 310 With ought that's foreign, till they both are fixt. Sweet converfe now excites to tafte the fprings, Whence wider knowlege flows of men and things : Yet earnefl muft the Loves their letters afk, A favor granted, not impos'd a tafk. 3 1 5 Bleak are the borders of fair Learning's land ; Her joys we credit, ere we underftand : t But the" firft entrance pail, where'er we ftray, She feafts us with her wealth, and dazzles with her day. EDU- EDUCATION. BOOK THE SECOND. TEACHING or taught each fex has grac'd my fong; To thee, my fon, my future {trains belong. M oft might indeed as well affect the fair ; But feldom do I prove their happy (hare. Mind knows no gender, but of grofs or fine : 5 Congenial fouls fhould rife on one defign. Yet, while both fexes common gifts demand, Each aiks its branches from my plaftic hand. C 4 The 24 EDUCATION. The fmall peculiar of the female care Is houfehold-lore, a fcience now but rare. 10 Yet muft not each deep-read in Hannah Glas, Straight for a daughter of Minerva pafs : Pallas is patronefs of arts, 'tis true ; But higher arts her vot'ries muft purfue. The needle (he difdains not, or the loom : 15 Ye fair, forget not poor Aracbne's doom. All cannot hope to ftrike a Sappho's lyre, Nor muft each maid to .Daciers praife afpire, Or merit fuch a mate, or boaft of fuch a fire. But all may learn to read and write and fpell : 29 Some may remember, others reafon well. Eafy the female culture, light the foil : v Tis heavy he's that are the fons of toil. Knew BOOK THE SECOND. 25 Knew but the fair how faireft they might fhine, How dull the di'mond's rays to rays divine ; 25 A letter'd lady would no more be antic : Tis affeftation only proves pedantic. Hear then, ye matrons who announce my name, ProfefTmg to mature th'accomplifh'd dame, While you teach Mifs the curt'fy long and low, 30 Point the bleft paths where Virtue's daughters go. While you teach Mifs to rear her lovely head, Oh ! furnifh it ere ye pronounce her bred : Nor teach her Marthas bufy part to play, But that bleft part which nought (hall take away. 35 Think, while you mold the fhape, and grace the air, That Virtue only lafts, and blooms for ever fair. But, 26 EDUCATION. But, if to tut'reffes I'm rarely known, O that the tutors' felves were all my own ! Long did the guardians, nat'ral and profeft, 40 Known or unknown to me, alike conteft, Whether in fchools I rather chofe my fway, Or deem'd ftill fafer the domeftic way ; Which made my maxims better underftood, Which made my children fooner great or good ; 45 Pointed the paths they fhould not quit when old, Or promis'd better, when their tale is told. Did Nature furnifh alfo mental milk, Could mothers judge of genius as of filk ; If parents always did a parent's duty, 50 And fought the mind's as much as body's beauty ; Purchas'd they not (fad merchants !) for their train A moment's pleafure with an age of pain ; Were BOOK THE SECOND. 17 Were Solitude impregnable to Sin, Crept Danger leaft, where leafl Sufpicion, in 5 55 Did Vice not wear the face of Virtue here, Did pamper'd Pride not Dignity appear j Took Sheepifhnefs not Modefty's fair guife, Were to be cowardly not to be wife; Ufurpt not Ignorance bright Knowlege' name, 60 Nor boafted felfifh Dulnefs focial flame ; Some plea might urge clandeftine Education : Yet where's the whetter like my Emulation? Say then, infpirer of whoe'er excel, In what bleft region thou delight'ft to dwell. 65 For where thou liv'fl, I live ; where di'ft, I dy : Joint as we ftand, unfever'd fhall we ly. Retireme. :t ne'er could light thy focial fires : The cocker'd for ne'er knew thee at his fire's. 'Mong 2 3 EDUCATION. 'Mong numbers is thy reign, or friends or foes : 70 By various fprings impelling thefe and thofe. Thou gen'rous rivals joy 'ft to make or find : Now he before looks back on him behind, Now the furpaft o'ertakes the bleft before ; And now they pant abreaft, till either can no 75 more. So minds maturer vy in life's career, By hope incited, or allay 'd by fear. Each pafTes each, as thou enflam'ft their foul, Till mutually fublim'd, they reach the goal. Nor ftopp'ft thou there but fir'lt the heav'nly 80 hoft Who fhall ftill higher hymn Sire, Son and Holy Ghoft. Yet BOOK THE SECOND. 29 Yet not each youthful throng, yclept a fchool, Has feen my charmer, or confeft my rule. Unnumbered fchools have fill'd, nay fill'd the fafter, That neither fhe nor I e'er knew the mafter. 85 Some critics eye the polity and ftate j The dame that nurfes, and the ilaves that wait. Some fcan the manfion, or furvey the lands, Each minding moil what mofl each underftands. While others go a fchcoling as a fhopping, 90 With no more view than children go a hopping ; Or with a view to criticife the elves, To plague the people, or to pleafe themfelves. Oft parents choofe by fite : 'tis near, they fay : We ftill can blefs our darling once a day. 95 Nay 30 EDUCATION. Nay once a week we'll have the urchin home, Left from ourfelves his little heart (hould roam : For, did we not, the dear might bo the fool To blind himfelf with books, and love an odious fchool. There mould we let him mope throughout the 100 year, As fome think beft, who think they know to rear ; He would forget to rule, where all obey ; Nay and to feed but poor four times a day : No wonder if he prove no epicure, (What parent can the cruel thought endure ?) 105 No wonder if the chick become no glutton, Where mutton follows beef, beef follows mutton. But when we get him home, well make amends j We'll (how him there, that all his thraldom ends. There BOOK THE SECON D. 31 There he, except himfelf, fhall mafter all : The trembling fervants fhall attend his call. There he fhall learn to eat, and not to read : What, though a forfeit fhould fometimes fucceed ? He's near the do&or, who will but confine him A week or two ; and that ourfelves defign him. 115 Then he may pour his pleafures and his pains ; Who kindly loves, or cruelly reftrains ; What gives him mofl to laugh or moil to cry : For in his life he never told a ly. Talk not of future joy at prcfent coft : 120 A bird in hand for me : he fhan't be croft. If e'er his bofom with refentment burn 4 And fo he choofe, he never fhall return ; But range from fchbol to fchool,till,childhood paft, He can but gird the gallant fword at laft. 125 Eafe 32 EDUCATION. Eafe teaches others there to place their pride, Where moil commodious for the funday's ride. Health and Convenience join t'increafe the flocks That Ikip contiguous to the country-box. Others far relegate their hopes from town : 1 3 No matter though a fchool-boy fpring a clown. Some us'd to fcales can weigh me by the pound ; Now in the heavy, now the light I'm found. Some frugal folks prefer what Yorkshire breeds, And think one foil may.nourifh men and fleeds. i^ With any lingo and without a letter, May rife a jockey or Newmarket-better. The pious favings of the fage defign Shall leave a luftre diff'rent far from mine. Some more refin'd by t'other touchftonetry : j/ My merit heightens, as my terms are high. Sure EO OK THE SECOND. 33 Sure fuch expence of fortune and of years, 'Midft a young mob of commoners and peers, Mud form the heroe, patriot, or divine ; Whate'er is folid, or whatever can fhine. 145 Ten years the Doc~lor fpent at J3fc-fchool, Which fent to Cam nor ignorant nor fool : Full fifteen years have there enroll'd his name; Degrees fucceflive afcertain'd his fame. The dignitary, Reafon will decide, 150 In Learning's paths muft prove the haliow'd guide. Some fchools are farn'd, becaufe of ancient Handing : This man's a mailer j for he loves commanding. This well will feed : remark how well he eats! That well will nurture ; for he never beats. 155 D T'other 34 EDUCATION. T'other don't plague his boys to read. or think : He (focial foul !) can with the parents drink. One half the year is oft aflign'd to play j But here the whole is one fweet holiday. c Give me a native : Children's bread to dogs ? 1 60 { And me a foreigner, before our hogs.' A butcher broke may breed a batcher's brat : Himfelf is ftill a brother of the bat. Whom nought befits, and who can nothing fit, May open ftill a nurfery of wit. 165 Here come more cuflomers, and fewer judges, Than in whatever other path he trudges. He undertakes alike and nnderflands, And executes alike all my commands. BOOK THE SECOND. 35 But who can now announce with equal plea, 170 All fchools collective in ^Academy ; With him who waves the ready writer's pen, And fo is qualified to flouiifh men ? He'll ftrike great A with any man alive : Nay he can fhow that two and three make five. 1 75 All elfe th'Academift muft teach on truft : Proxies he pays, who doubtlefs will be juft. Sometimes Academy befpeaks dejign> And forms the youth to ev'ry art that's fine > Each falutary art that lulls the fenfe, 180 Or all in one, tbefcience of defence : Sometimes announcing, with peculiar pride, The art, to Britons yet unknown, to ride. The dancer thus or finger rears the dame, Their arts engroffing now my female name. 1 8 $ D 2 Yet 36 EDUCATION* Yet either fcx ftijH boafts fome erudition : Wifdom of words remains the joint ambition* "Tie drefs that coniHtutes the bdlt and beau : Guiltlels of fenfe, their very words are fhow. But without me no foreign tongue is known, 190 And truly vulgar were perhaps their own. So with the french of Swifs or refugee* Unlicenc'd menials as untaught by me, They brltifh blend from latin pure and greek : French-englifti then, or englifli-french they 19* fpeak. Names I regard not, or of perfon, place 5 Of fchool or college, title, robe or race. I afk not where or how, but what is bred j No more dy Learning black, than Courage red. Crude BOOK THE SECOND. 37 Crude lifrature and adfcititious color 200 But cover coxcombs, or make dunces duller. I've feen urbanity profeft by clowns, Seen Vice and Dulnefs {talk in fblemn gowns; Seen Wit and Virtue till a barb'rous ground, Long ere their luftre pierc'd the palpable around. 205 Where'er he be, whatever be his coat, Mine be the man who has not fprung by rote ; Whom Learning boafts as critically known, Whom jealous Virtue vindicates her own j On whom the Graces wait, or grave or gay, 210 To double all his worth, and give his pow'rs their play. In books and things divine and human taught, In pureft language pouring pureft thought : D 3 Of 38 EDUCATION. Of eye fagacious embryo-parts to fcan, C)f pow'r to perfect ev'ry pow'r in man. 215 Bleft with a rafte and talent to impart, A mailer's firmnefs and a parent's heart ; By Nature and by Art ordain'd to rear, To win by fondnefs, or compel by fear : Still mafter of himfelf who others aws, . 220 And by his life enforcing all his laws. Such is the man that's born and bred for me : Happy, my fon, if fuch I find in thee ! Of all the. names that have my name confer}, Abus'd Academy feems ftill the beft; 225 In due gradation op'ning ev'ry fchool, Maturing Reafon ftill by Reafon's rule ; With BOOK THE SECOND. 39 With pains proportion'd forming frame and mind, That one part leave not t'other part behind. Such fchool, my fon, to open with fuccefs., 230 Mark well what Wifdorn and Experience prefs, Be Siractts heir and fapient Solomon, But more the Jefus, David's wifer fon j With his blefl convert, bold and polifh'd Paid, Thy matters, models, paragons in all. 235 Let Provocation rage, or Folly buz, Still foar fuperior with the^man of Uz. Nor hallow'd only, Eloquence and Rime Have offer'd counfel in each tongue and time. A Xenophon in wit and war, we fee, 24.0 Could form a heroe, or a heroe be. D 4 40 EDUCATION >uintilian offers too a various light, And (hows an equal Ikill to rear and write, Rolliti, the famous pedagogue of France, Left other lefTons, than to ride or dance. 245 Locke, the great analyft of man and mind, Points how the fources may be beft refin'd. In fyflem'd fong I ne'er was tui'd before, Though without me no genius e'er could foar. Milton difdain'd me not j but had he fung, 250 My name with Evis around the world had rung. As bird-catchers pretend to fkill in birds, So boy-catchers announce my ait in words ; Nor only words : to their, not my difgrace, Many have daub'd, who never faw, my face. 255 Ne'er more than now pretenders fvvarm'd our ifle : This by the way my children know my ftile. Sages BOOK THE SECOND. 41 Sages or bards with chaften'd rapture read : Mere human genius may fometimes miflead. Blindly thou canft not follow guides divine, 260 Whofe pillar never fails, whofe fires unerring fhine. Firft Nature fcan, elfe fruitlefs were the toil j And mark the feed beft fuited to the foil. Mark how each foil may beft receive its feed, How beft produce what Nature has decreed. 265 Explore the depth, the temper, turn and tafte; The age, complexion, clime, the tilth, the wafte. . To each, or each combined, thy culture fuit, And hope in time to reap the happy fruit. But 42 EDUCATION. x But Emulation only wakes the pow'rs j 270 Shows what fublimes, what fweetens and what fours. Each jftrikes from each, as fteel from flint, the fire: By turns they triumph, and by turns infpire. Prime be the care then like witfi like to clafs ; Nor yoke the young and old, the horfe and afs. 275 Without or hope or fear, in vain they flrive, One to advance, another to arrive. Yet no more from like age than equal fize, Not always from like parts do rivals rife. Mind is not meted or by year or yard : 280 Mere accidents may forward or retard. Far lefs can equal {landing, like defire, Or fuch {till kindle Emulation's fire. Let BOOK THE SECOND. 4 j Let real rivals then together go, Neither too rapid thefe, nor tjhofe too flow. 285 So fhalt thou fathom and extend the reach, So fhalt thou whet and model each by each ; Or lop luxuriance or defect fupply, Exalt the humble and pull down the high. Some minds by thofe of equal age furpafr, 290 May no lefs furely reach the goal at laft. Some temp'raments are hot, and others cold : Minds ripen varioufly in various mold j Nay difPrently mature in diffrent clime. Yet tranfplantation may abridge the time, 295 From cold to warm, nay oft from hot to mild : As Nature grafts the twig, fhe grafts the child. Much on the cultivating hand depends > Which way fhe nurfes, and what time fhe tends > Much 44 EDUCATION. Much on the plight : pale Skknefs lags behind j 300 Enormous Health fometimes o'ergrows the mind. Let Nature do her bcft combin'd with Art, Feeble are fondlings, and dilToIv'd their heart ; Deprav'd their body, foul, their temper, all : Oh, mold the temper, let what will beiall. 305 Clofe, though contrafted parts, the ftirine and foul, Each tempering each., make one attempered whole, Corporeal weal four articles enhance : Fine air, ftrong toil, plain food and temperance. Yet the beft temper of the mortal part 31 c Can only minifter to head and heart. That thefe confent and mutually excel, Nor one mifregulate, nor one rebel, Be BOOK THE SECOND. 45 Be thy momentous talk. In all their kinds By temp'rature to train the op'ning minds, 3 1 5 The fame quaternion muft their influence blend In concert due ; fo ftill the fourth tranfcend. 'Tis Virtue that ferenes the mental air, And bids, Be light: for radiant Learning's there. Far then be foul Contagion's clouds difpell'd ; 320 Far be each folly, name and thing, with-held. Far be the thpughtlefs of whatever degree : Nay far be menials ; or ihow menials me. For mind and body vig'rous toil is good : Firft to deferve, and then digeft, the food. 325 The food for both muft without furfeit fill, Supply new fpirits and new ftrength inftih Both much it boots by period to abftain, That each may bring new appetite again. The 4$ EDUCATION. The wond'rous pair for mutual good contefls 330 Alternate : while one labors, t'other refts. This is abftemious, while that partner feeds : So joy .to joy inceffantly fucceeds. Wife Temp'rance, foe alike to each excefs, Marks well the points where pain and pleafure 335 prefs j Apportions all, economist of joy { Elfe fated pleafure pleafure would deftroy. While food thus food, and toil thus toil relieves, The mate refrefh'd the weary mate retrieves. Th'organic part, to tune the mental fong, 340 By food is nouriftYd, and by toil is ftrong. The gen'rous mind unbent the fport partakes, And joins the body in the chear it makes. Yet BOOK THE SECOND. 47 Yet body knows not intellectual joy, Which long indulged, its organ would annoy, 345 Did not each night a Recreater kind At once refit the frame and renovate the mind. Deep in a (hade, fequefter'd far from day, Where filver Cynthia fcarce fteals in a ray ; Unknown to tumult, unalarm'd by noife, ' 350 A fanftuary from human cares or joys, By Lethe lav'd, in which alike are loft The fcheme fuccesful and the courtfhip croft -, Lurks a low fane, which glimm'ring tapers light But juft enough to lay their lord in fight. Here funk in down, fupinely lies along The mighty monarch of the droufy throng. His 48 EDUCATION. His pond'rous brows entwining poppies bind, He waves his fceptre, when he will be kind. He fheds his balfam o'er the lids of men 360 From his dread fceptre's point, a dunce's pep. No clarion clangs 5 the fignal is a yawn : The vot'ries enter, and the vail is drawn. Then falls the drop -, but not alik on all : Drop mofl mellifluous, when mofl ting'd with 365 gall! Pervading ev'ry bone as fmooth as oil j Of fureft virtue to the fons of Toil. But above all is this bleft balfam kind, When Recollection has feren'd the mind. For Vice and Sleep are enemies profeft, 370 Nor ever Riot fhall engender Reft. Who- BOOK THE SECOND. ^49 Whoe'er to Toil prefers inglorious Eafe, Whoe'er on Idlenefs begets Difeafe ; Whoever latnguifhes with black annoy, Let none fuch hope the foporific joy. 375 The balmy God to Guilt denies the quill, Or makes the heart with double horror thrill, When he bids Morpheus arm his griily forms With vengeance premature, and more than imag'd ftorms. On t'other fide the ball (lands Labor's fane, 380 The antipode direct of Sleep's domain. Toil'loves the day, loves hurry, noife and ftrife, And all the bufy fcenes of focial life. Alternate here the mind and body move : Alternate, yet un parted, they improve. 385 E Conjunct, 5 o EDUCATION. Conjunct, though fev'rally, the throne addrefs, A Homer here, and there a Hercules. Each morn Melpomene attunes the fong : Each eve T^erpfichore cnweaves the throng. Youth works the frame, Maturity the mind; 390 Health hails her parent, flrength'ner of mankind. Here Art and Science, Wit and Virtue wait, To pay their matins at the temple-gate. The cock crows loud, the ample doors unfold : The worfhippers fucceflive are enroll'd. 395 The watchful Hours precede the gray-ey'd Maid, Who paves the way with rofes : charming trade ! Bleft harbinger of radiance yet afar. Hail, bright Apoik in thy golden car 1 Led by .thy light, and by thine ardor nVd, 400 Toil's vot'ries run the courfe thou haft infpir'd ; Till B O OK THE SECOND. 5? Till ev'n thyfelf fatigu'd thy Thetis gain, And leave mankind to Sleep's refloring reign. While thefe contending friends the world divide, Bleft Temp'rance ftill mufl over both prefide; 405 Elfe each encroaching would the other foil : Toil would unbalfam Sleep, or Sleep enervate Toil. Nor muft who mean a healthful mind to train, The body's labors or its fports difdain. Each toil as tafk muft know its dated hour, 410 To bring falubrity or perfect pow'rj To mold the motion by the graceful dance, The foil to flourifh, or to wield the lance : E 2 Or, 5 2 EDUCATION, Or, fallying forth, the mountain's deep to fcale j Thence darting down, to brufh along the vale -.415 To cleave the wave, when Sinus' ardors glow, Or on its furface glaz'd with grace to flow : To tafte the joys gymnaftic labors yield, The various 'conflicts of th'olympic field : To run, to vault ; to urge or rein the fteed : 420 To fend the ball along tfrenamel'd mead With club herculean ; or with dextrous hand/ Each waiting wifely at the meafur'd ftand, | To fpank th'elaflic globe, at ev'ry bound, Or from the batter'd wall, or from the echoing 42 5 ground. But Temp'rance marks when toils .become too ftrong, And points the gentfer to the fportive throng. When BOOK THE SECOND. #3 When fhe behojds with ftorms Aquarius ftor'd, .> v She bangs, the balls, about the verdant board; Or bids the cunning bow], in air ferene, 430 Bias its winding way acrofs the fhaven green. Now for the flying cork the feafon comes : Hark how they drive it with alternate drums ! And now with certain aim the archers know To wing an arrow from the twanging bow : 435 Cut foon more lawful minions of the fky, The harmlefs kites above the pigeons fly. Yet to defcend from fuch enormous height (Beneath thy note is not the youngeft wight.) Not tops to honor were no venial fin, 440 The blunt we torture, or the fpik'd we fpin. So reftive Duhiefs moves as lafht along, While Genius fprings fpontaneous, found and ftrong. So, 54 EDUCATION. So, when ALe&o lafht the latian queen, Around and round fhe roam'd, for injur'd445 'furnus keen. Nay ds :gn a tender fmile on humble taw t But be flrift Juftice e'en the infant's law. Far from each fport be fordid third of gain : The prize be pleafure, nor the forfeit pain, How clofe to Juftice Mercy is alli ? d ! 450 Still let us Sport from Cruelty divide. What has yon fongfter warbling on the fpray, But pour'd her throat, that (he fhould dy to day ? Or what the haplefs child of vernal fun But fpred his gorgeous wing, for torture, done? 455 Parent of fweet, and friend of human-kind, What haft thou done, or what haft thou defign'd, But BOOK TIJE SECOND. 55 But emblem'd Induftry and beggar'd Skill ? What though thy fweets one bitter tnnh inftil ? That foul Ingratitude fhall Vengeance bring, 46 Nor bafe Barbarity e'er want a fting ? Muft man and boy for this thy life purfue ? For this can fire and brimftone be thy due ? Ye beauteous frifkers in the flood beware: The writhing worm but clothes a barbed mare. 465 For food as ye furprife the thirfty fly, For food, by the fictitious caught ye dy. Shall Pufs and Tray thy focial fervants be, And fhall they prove the fport of Cruelty ? The fox and tiger may have vengeance drawn ; 470 But canft thou kill the lev'ret or the fawn ? E 4 Nor 56 EDUCATION. Nor yet too foftly-high, my Mufe, difdain, The honeft labors of the hardy fwain : Whether to fkim aloft the whirling coit, Or a huge rock to heave the hard exploit; 475 Whether at once, to batter down the rune, Or. be- the ce-nter'd fire the dread defign > Or rnuft a ftronger ball the plains aftouud, . ;' As whirring through the air, and fmoking o'or the ground. Ev'n in fuch, feats Attention's eye may fee 480 What Nature is, or what fte once may be. But if we would her nobler temper fcan, . And in the child inveftigate the. man ; From humble draughts we higher draughts may guefs, . And mathcmatic minds explore in chefs. 485 BOOK THE SECOND. 57 Yet far from youth be cards and dice away ; Far as the gates of hell, the luft of play. Such exercife, in quantity and kind, As but diverts, not diflipates, the mind ; Recruits the vitals, recreates the foul To feek new labor, without new controul ; Such only earns the name of Recreation, Such claims alone the fmile of Education. f i EDU- ,:,:': EDUCATION. - BOOK THE THIRD. COrporeal temper gain'd empow'rs thy care With like fuccefs the mental to prepare. T'improve the Reafon, thou muft win the Will : This fummons all thy temper, all thy fkill. Self-love, the guardian of mankind below, ,5 Is mimift oft by Selfifhnefs his foe ; Of Artifice and Dulnefs this the brat, Of Nature and of Wit the offspring that. In univerfkl good he finds his own : Her happinefs is plac'd in felf alone. 10 As 60 EDUCATION. As diff'rent fpring, though like as he antf the, ! Vy i. jt \ k J -/ vl From rival parents, rival progeny. Here Dignity, the confcious queen of grace ! Her lifter Modefty with blufhing face ! There puffing Pride, diftinguifh'd by her gait, 15 And fneaking Meannefs her unfever'd mate ! Hence Vanity and Rage and Envy fwell } Hence Prowardnefs and Fear and ev'ry hejl ; ' Nay Indolence, who chains each noble pow'r, Denies the heart to warm, the head to tow'r ; 20 Denies all motion or to frame or mind Crufh, crufli the trait'refs where fhe yawns reclin ' d \ : - ."i*tiMM>., :. .V ^ I: How beft to overthrow thy various foes, The tempers they attack will bell difclofe. One BOOK TH* THIRD. 61 One rule is gen'ral: if they muft be feen, 25 Let each appear with an unborrow'd mien, To infant Reafon's early-piercing eye : Seen they're detefted, and detefted dy. Nor aught detects fo true their hateful fhape, As the bright paragon that each would ape : 30 For, if thou wouldft o'erturn tlie felfifh reign, If quite eject the forc'refs and her train ; Let bold Self-love difrufe his radiarice round ; The hag abafht fhall quit the hallow'd ground. Let Honor's harbinger but woo th'embracc ; 35 Deftru6lion's forerunner (hall fly the place, With Difobedience, man's as angel's foe : Dulnefs herfelf at laft fhall feck the fhadb below. Each 62 EDUCATION. Each paflion hailing now thy bleft command, Unclouded Reafon courts fair Culture's hand ; 40 Thirfls to be good, and hungers to be wife ; Strains ev'ry pow'r, and opens all her eyes. Swift feize the juncture ; fatisfy her lore With pleafing food : but let her pant for more. Nought is more hazardous to either part 45 Than furfeit : let fufficience feal thine art. Far eafier 'tis t' allay than to excite, Which be thy conftant aim, the appetite. For, 'till the temp'raments are quite fubdu'd, Some will be ravenous, and fome be rude 3 r O Some fickly ftomachs lothe whatever they're bid, Or ftubborn tafte not^ if they are not chid. Some fhut their ears, and hear not Reafon's voice j Some fhut their eyes, and fee notWifdom's choice -, Some BOOK THE THIRD. 63 Some feed the flefti, and flarve th'immortal mind; 55 Some count thee cruel, when thou moil art kind. As various culture tempers various clay, So various tempers various rule obey. One meets thy wifhes, ardent to imbibe ; One waits thy orders, of the pliant tribe. 60 This little flutt'rer hardly thinks at all : That heavy droufer hears not till thou bawl. Nay to this other thou muft bawl again, And ah ! to that thou fpeak'fl or bawl'ft in vain. The laft firft afcertain'd thoult foon deplore, 6^ Each human effort tri'd, thou canft no more. Where Nature owns flie has not play'cl her part, Vain were the-, efforts of angelic art. ait 64 E D U C A T I ON. But Nature feldom fails : falfe Culture's ken, Or blind or carelefs, blafts the future men. 70 Of all things Habit is the beft or word : Tis fecond Nature mends or mars the firft: The fecond to neglect then how abfurd ; Since none can either hope or fear a third. The two firft clafles may be well careft': ^ 75 Yet ah : ! indulge but as they can digeft. Few volunteers does fair Attention find, Parent of thought, and guardian of the mind : Bleft introdu6lrefs of each mental good, Whofe prefence can alone each ill exclude. 80 Come, heavenly Tutorefa, and with thee bring The cifars that beft prune the flutt'rer's wing; The lure that beft excites the loit'rer's hafte, ' JJid the one ftop, .bid t'other come and tafte A joy BOOK THE THIRD. 65 A joy nor Sloth nor Giddinefs beftows. 85 Hail, Queen of duty, whence each pleafure flows ! Here, young and old, your ardent homage pay : Ye learners, glory to confefs her fway. Young Reafon muft to riper Reafon bow; Nay what fhe cannot fee, muft credit now. 90 But clear thy Culture's light as lambent be : Let what thou fhow'ft {how what they once fhall fee. To this bleft ftate with mutual ardor prefs : So fhall each day be crown'd with new fuccefs, The fole true animation : never bribe 95 By mercenary bait th'ingenuous tribe. Duty felf-bleffing be in means and end: All other joys on Duty fhall attend. F Still 66 EDUCATION. Still let thy fmile endear th'attended nod : Show that thy fmile befpeaks the fmile of God. 100 But ah ! where neither nod nor fmile avails, Where the moft wifely-charming charmer fails ; Where Love, man's noblefr, paffion, can't endear, Defcend thou mult to her Hill ftronger, Fear. Such is their ftate, who know not yet the Lord, ioj They fee fair W r ifdom but in her reward : Their fcanty ken can boaft no more extent, Than to fpy Folly in her punifhment. To Duty's lore if no allurements draw, From Folly's fate let admonitions aw. 1 1 < Then flutt-rers, fix j ye loit'rers, fpeed your pace j Court, court Attention, or attend Difgracc. Thron'd on each brow be ftill ingenuous Shame, Still fparkle in each eye fair Glory's flame. With BO OK THE THIRD. 67 With young or old, when Shame difdains to dwel], 1 1 5 All goodnefs, greatnefs, every hope farewel. ;:sdbts>iomori What fafcination binds the ftubborn crew ? Or what idolatry, ye rebels, you ? Blind hell-born Difobedience and Self-will, Joint to produce and perfevere in ill. 120 If neither Hope, nor Honor, Virtue's fpur, Can prompt your pleafure, or prevent demur ; If to bland Reafon's voice ye will not yield, Know that your lord reluctant arms fhall wield, That fhall refiftlels overturn your reign, 125 For pleafure profFer'd wreak the chofen pain, And from my fane expel you by the rod, As once the Savior from the fane of God. F Whije 63 EDUCATION. While thus, my fon, thou know'ft thy foes to quell, And bidd'ft the rebel-fool no more rebel; When thus thou draw 'ft the fa lutary tear, Still be thy mercy, like thy juflice, near. Graces tranfmutable become but one : . Mercy to Penitence is juflice done. But when no more mild Mercy's beauties move, 135 Stern Juflice rous'd can only Mercy prove. So, come the worft that can, the fufPrers fee They have themfelves to thank ; my fon, not thee ; That thy htart bleeds it can no longer fpare, That Cruelty alone could farther bear. 140 Be angry thus, nor fin : inflicl: no more, When the delinquent fhall his crime deplore ; When BOOK THE THIRD. 69 When tardy forrow in the eye fhall fwim, Thy point obtain'd releafes thee and him. While kind companion thy fole paffion feems, 1 45 While ev'n in Juftice, godlike Mercy gleams, Wouldft thou deferve both to be faid and fung, While thou withhold'ft thy hand, withhold thy tongue ; Would'ft thou be lov'd, or only not adord> Sheath'd be thy words, nor be thy tongue a 150 fword. Who knows not that mad member to reftrain, Or preaches, prays, or punifhes in vain ? When thus the quick are taught what pace to go, When patient art thus animates the flow ; F 3 When 7 o EDUCATION. When various minds by various means are rear'd, 1 55 When now thy empire is belov'd and fear'd ; AH may proceed, though not proceed alike : The {haft that parTes one, will t'other ftrike. Each op'ning genius, ultimately good, Will now accept, if not demand its food. 160 Food be the firfl and laft, the bread divine, Kurfe of the fair, and parent of the fine ; Perennial fpring whence living waters flow, Source of whate'er we hope, whate'er we know ; That Word, which bid the great Creation be, 165 Which gives felf-darken'd man once more to fee. Sages or poets, of creative vein, How weak your wifdom, and how low your flrain ! ' Could BOOK THE THIRD. 7 t Could fire or water, earth or air, or chance Create ev'n you, or bid the planets dance ? 1 70 Dream that might give Democritus to weep, Or Heraclitm felf to laugh, or fleep ! To Mofes beams how feeble Nafe's light ! As Cynthia pale, when P be bus is in fight. Whate'er from Solon or Lycurgus flow'd, j^ Decemvirs' tables, or Juftinian's code ; What is th'athenian, fpartan, ronian law, To that which quaking Sinai heard and faw ? Mere magic art compar'd to Mofes 1 rod ; The fon of Amram to the fon of God. 180 Creator, lawgiver, redeemer, hail ! Still may thy law o'er cv'ry law prevail. To thee each knee in earth and heav'n fhall bow, Great fource and fummit of perfection, Thou ! F 4 With 72 EDUCATION. With God's hiftorians what profane fhall quote 185 Livy, Thucydides, or Hcrodote ? Or Trogus, whom in Jujlin we deplore, Or the flill-fav'd ficilian Diodore ? , Shall NepoSy Plutarch) Curt tits y Xenopbon, Eclipfe th'evangelifts, outfoar Saint John -, \ 90 Peculiar object of thy matter's love, Who blend'ft fo bleft the eagle and the dove ! As foon their boafted themes fhall rival thine, And human heroes pafs the man divine. Not (even alone mud yield to Solomon: 195 O that the fage and king had ft ill been one ! See Plato $ felf before 'Jfaiah fall ; Dumb is Demofihenes before St. PauL Ne'er fhall keen fully cateh a Peters fire, Or ought profane to hallow'd James afpire. 200 Hail BOOK THE THIRD. 73 Hail Daniel, with the captive vi&ors three ! Low is Longinus* felf to them and thee. Yet he too kenn'd fublimity afar, Beyond the fphere of the meonlan ftar, Star of firfl magnitude ! admir'd excefs ! 205 Beyond the greater, then beyond the lefs. Mbfes, Ifaiab, David, Joel, Job, Where beam your rivals on the ftarry globe? But that of BetbTem, by yourfelves foreftiown, Which ev'n your greateft muft his greater own? 210 Nor let celcftial glories dim thine eyes, Mere human fplendors wholely to defpife. For Nature's lamps with light ethereal mine, And, the divine away, become 'divine. * ' ' ' With 74 EDUCATION. With Tully well a Herodote might reign 2 1 5 The fire of ftory, in ionian ftrain. Sage, copious Lfoy proves the roman theme, Of Rome's recorders doubtlefs the fupreme. To paint the flrife Peloponnefus faw, Thy pencil intimates hifloric law, 220 Nay oratorial ; but what's more than all, . Fair Truth, tfhucydides, attends thy call 5 Who knew'fl^ in flagrant war, nor friends nor foes! Yet fome to thee quaint Crifpus can oppofe. But of prefumption who fhall dare t'accufe Compar'd the roman with the attic mufe ? Who could but Xenoplwn, like Cefar, fight ? Who could, like Xenophon, but Cefar, write ? If BOOK THE THIRD. ff If ancient war to wage be thy defign, Great Africanm matter muft be thine : 230 Nor Elian s, nor Vegetius aid contemn ; While fly Frontinus points the ftratagem. But modern arts the arts of yore outdo : Now Gattia mourns (he taught Britannia too. Or would'fl thou rather woo the healing art? 235 Phyfic's own father will his aid impart, With Galen well confeft her eldeft fon, And CelfuSj ne'er deni'd yet to be one. Sages of Health, if not in claflic drefs, Are bleft Bafavias fam'd Hippocrates ; 240 He who firft taught with meafure to perfpire, And he who bid the circling mafs admire ; Or 76 EDUCATION. Or old or new, who beft have known to fcan, The wondrous wifdom in the frame of man. But yours, whoe'er in Nature would be greatj 245 Be Pliny's lore, without a Pliny 's fate. Inveftigating things deni'd below, Vefuvius rapt him where 'tis giv'n to know. Be comforted ; nor ceafe the glorious toil : . New lights beam forth in Bacon and in Boyle. 250 With certain flep would'ft thou the fcale afcend, Begin with Euclid, and with Newton end. That climbs the fcale with fleady fteps, if flow, This on his fhoulders kens what man can know ; Explores with rapture all Creation's laws, 255 And weighs the worlds, didactic of their caufe. If flru&ures charm, and genius longs to rear Still be PifruvMS and Palladio near. Or BOOK THE THIRD. 77 Or is the humbler object rural things ? Thefe Cokimella fpeaks and Maro lings. 260 But, would'ft thou trace the mazes of the mind, And court high Wifdom, wherefoe'er (he's kind ? Mark what a Plato 's genius could endite, What his difciple Ihrewd, the Stagyrite. Who but admires a Socrafefcs life, 265 The Job of Paynim, not without his wife ? While from his tongue ftupendous fcience flows, His fum of knowlege is, he nothing knows ; So nothing writes : Laertius treafures all, And Xenophon forbids a word to fall. 270 In patience ftill the floic Have fhall fhine : In virtue emperor is Antonine. Secure 78 EDUCATION. Secure was Seneca s, though fatal, praifel Not all, like pabius, can young Pimm raife. Yet, would'ft infpire the fpeaker's glorious 271 pride ? Who befl exemplify, the beft can guide. Who then like "fully bids perfuafion flow ? Who like the Greek hurls thunder on the foe ? Athem beturk'd mud her Mars hill deplore, Nay ehriftian Rome her fenate knows no more. 28c With Freedom Eloquence transferr'd her fmile, Through Qallia flew, to blefs the Britijh ifle j And here they daign to linger may they long Infpire our fpeeches and attune our fong ! For fongfters too a-re ours : no age or clime 28 < Engrofles or the mean or the fublime. This, BOOK THE THIRD. 79 This, thou Longinus know'ft, whofe eagle-eye Can pierce each fplendor, and each mift defy : Thou beyond vulgar daring foar'fl to fee The boldeft efforts of fublimity. 290 Say then, has Time extinguish! Homers fire? Are all his fons inferior to their fire ? Though Mantuas with Meonias eagle tow'rs; Though from ajlrcan^ nay Jlcilian flow'rs, Though from the car i an bard's unhallow'd ground, 295 Where only poifon 'mid the flow'rs is found, He, like his bees, fucks quintefTence ; yet known The honey charms us, like the hive, his own. But fprung from both, behold in modern days, A rival-candidate for epic praife; 300 In dialect if lower, loftier ftill As Sion's fummits 'bove Olympus hill. What 8o EDUCATION. What though Achilles ire and flaming Troy Could fend a heroe to be Latiums joy ? What though UlyJ/es, various realms o'errun, 305 Produc'd at length in Gaul an equal fon ; What though loft Paradife the fong fuftain'd Higher, heart- felt, than Paradife regain d? Though Excellence herfelf the golden mean Betwixt two ills, the two extremes, is feen; 310 Yet ne'er 'twixt good and ill her place fhe finds, Supreme, yet diverfe ftill in diverfe kinds. Behold not then with fupercilious fcorn The various themes that various tongues adorn ; Not the dire theban brothers' deadly ftrife, 3 1 $ Whofe livid flames extinguiflit not with life 5 Far lefs the furies of Pbarfalias day, Or all the horrors of the punic fray. All BOOK THE THIRD. 8j All Hail, ye bulwarks of the fatal pafs, Who ftand and fall with brave Leonidas ! 320 Nor fworn to thefe or argonautic pow'rs, Forget the chief that refcu'd Salem $ tow'rs. Who but muft glow that madding Rowland reads ? What heart not beat at Gallic Henrys deeds ? Yet not fublime alone is epic fong : 325 To various kinds exalted ftrains belong. Epic and tragic are but whole and part, Ennobling both th'ingenuous of the heart : One reprefents what t'other but relates, Heroic Virtue fov'reign o'er the fates. 330 Some moderns hence renown'd for epic vein, Have foar'd no lefs aloft in tragic flrain. Wife, S2 EDUCATION. Wife, 7^-like, were Milton and Voltaire, Knew they their genius and continu'd there. The high cothurn, O Greec^ is all thy own : 335 Ennius or Accius could not long be known. A The/pis firft might ftrike the tragic firing, An Efchylus might decoration bring : Yet what are both, whate'er their high degree, To the fweet (baring of vSdflstmtfn bee ? 340 Hail Salami*, all hail th'aufpicious morn Thatfaw the perfian foil'd, the poet born, Who flrong as tender, folid as fublime, Defies, as merit muft, the tooth of Time ! Great rife and ruler of theatric rage, 345 Where'er the bufkin ftalks the modern ftage ! Thy paragon, chafle, charming, -grand Racine! And wlio (hall call th'affimilation mean ? Thou BOOK THE THIRD. 83 Thou found'ft, as Maro had in Homer done, That Nature and Euripides were one. 350 But now Corneilk will like a comet glow, Now cool eccentric where no glafs can go. Our Shakefpear thus his eagle-genius tries, With Nature fweeps the earth, and foars the ikies j Nor e'er would from exalted Nature part, 3 55 But that he knows not Nature's compafs Art. But Johnfon dipt in Hippocrenes fpring, Shows how the fcholar imps the poet's wing ; Confefles genius without learning blind, As learning without genius turns to wind. 360 So Jobnfon now, fublime in various ways, Tweet Addifon for both the bays j G 2 Supreme 84 EDUCATION. Supreme in reafon, as fupreme in rage, Gives Vice to tremble in a vicious age ; Bids Learning once again extend her rule, 365 Difdain the coxcomb, and difmay the fool : In fpeech a 7w//y, and a Pope in fong ; As Mofes learned, and as Samfon flrong ; To friends or foes, whate'er he fpeak or write, He thunders truth, and deluges delight. 370 In tragic fcenes, while paft and prefent times Own that, decorum abfent, nought fublimes 5 The comic mufe, as if her fitter's foe, Abhorring to be high, would needs be low. BluQi Athens, Rome, blufli London, that fo few 375 Of all your comic fons court Virtue's view. Know B O O K THE T H I R D. 85 Know the facetious rnuft be ftill the fit, And wantonnefs the antipode of wit. Hence, Ariftophanes ! vile Plautus hence ! Your attic founds fupply not attic fenfe. 380 Yet Athens her Menander well might boaft, Nay Rome her Terence as the lead begroir. But where is now the fine Meander? where? Cries France^ he lives again in my Moliere. Molt ere, who fent the doctors back to fchool, 385 Nor left the decent, while he lafht the fool ; The pedant male or female, prig or prim, The mifer, man-hater, the gay or grim ; Whate'er be Folly's guife, the gown or frock, Moliere remains the monarch of the foek. 390 G 3; Heroic 86 EDUCATION. x Heroic Comedy takes Satyr's name, With fcope direct to rally and reclaim : But who teach others, fhould themfelves be wife, - Nor feed the folly that they ftigmatife. Say Juvenal, fay Pcrfms, Horace fay, 395 Mud ye be grofs to drive the grofs away ? Blufh Swift, thou fhame and glory of our tongue, Before thy friends Arbuthnot^ Pope and Toung. Yet Horace hail, great parent of Boileau - t Hail tuneful Dryden, who gave Pope to flow. 400 Hail critic bards, how varioufly emblaz'd ! Where wifdom genius, genius wifdom rais'd. But thrice high Horace hail ! chaftife thy love, The tbeban eagle hardly tow'rs above : How- B O O K THE T H I R D. 87 Ho'we'er fublime he tune the doric lay, 405 Dry den and Pope as high will tune Cecilia's day. The lofty head that would true laurels gain, Muft, doubling joy, inflrucl: and entertain. This without that would into vapor fly : That without this would fbon in dulnefs dy. ' 410 Then let Callimachus attune the lyre, And fage Propertius catch contagious fire j But far from genius be th'unhallow'd flame, That boafts the fanclion of an Ovid's name ^ Name fadly fufFring by what Time has reft, 415 More fadly fufFring by what Time has left ! By both we fuffer too, the loft and found, Enchanting though thou tread enchanted ground. s i ~ G 4 Of 88 EDU'CATIO N. Of other wanton wits, or old or new, Fly virgin-genius, fly the tainted crew. 42$ Yet early muft Mythology difplay Her Efop, Pbedrus, La Fontaine and Gay. No aids like thefe ingenious Learning finds, To win by fweet furprife the infant-minds. Nor flights fhe him who fung the works and days,** 425 While him fhe honors of the threefold praife, > To tune the fwain's, the hind's and heroe's lays ; J But mod the hind's : and thou in rural fports Conjunct, the glory and difgrace of courts, Hail Qppian, prime of cynegetic race, 430 From Marc down to him who founds the Chace : Healthful inhuman trade ! forgive me, Squires, The Mufe that feels when Rcnartfs felf expires. Yet BOOK THE THIRD. 89 Yet who'd deny the nerves by toil are ftrung, Had never fage declaim'd, or poet fung ? 435 Health, Armftrong, is thy own : no rival fear, To T^homjon next in nature and the year. Fair Reafon, hail, firft daughter of the Sky, Hail Speech, fweet paintrefs to the ear and eye, Humble or high, all hail ! yet firft the fame 44* Is his who earns the bard's exalted name. Forth from a fpeaker mud a fpeaker fpring : A poet only bids a poet fing. For who gives what he has not ? Who could reach Parna/us* fummit, befl the road can teach. 445 Then Horace, Boileau, Pope, effufe your light : j Give th'infant-Mufe to read, before (he write - y \ And by your own direct her daring flight J He's 9 o EDUCATION, rfe's the true mafter of the flying fteed, Who claim's the ftagyrite's and theban's meed. 45 The bard muft fitly mold the fprightly mind. Who Perfius, Juvenal, nay Horace felf refin'4. The critic- boy is with his matters plac'd : While they give talent, he difpenfes tafte. He bids our reafon range, our numbers run j 455 And fines the honey Wallers bee begun. Amid the gloom, when Learning rear'd her head, Fir ft Fida rais'd poetics from the dead. He beam'd a Horace in a Virgil's drefs, For higher born than filk- worms or than chefs. 460 One golden age, my wond'ring Mufe, record, Produced three guides, a duke, an earl, a lord. BOOK THE THIRD. 91 A Mu/grave, with ParnaJJus* joint applaufe, Apoltis delegate, promulg'd his laws. Rof common, confcious of the truly great, ,5 r Skill'd to compofe, difdain'd not to tranflate : And Lanfdown taught, though us'd to foar and The needful art to prune the poet's wing. Rofe ommon, Dry den, Pope, hail m afters three, Who could a Horace, Virgil, Homer be ! 470 i Grave Pit with Dryden vies for mantuanT)ays ; But who like Dryden lifts a Chaucer 's lays ? Pindaric Prior needs no foreign aid, Yet never foars beyond the Nut-brown Maid. Were deathlefs wit in deathlefs flile enroll'd, 475 Thy queen, dear Spenfer, were not now grown old. Not 92 EDUCATION. Not that fhe e'er fhall dy ; but in her drefs She is no more immortal than queen Befs. Bold was the bard that fwept a Pindar's lyre ; And Denham glows with unrekindled fire : 480 Sooner fhall Helicon withhold his rill, Than Cowley perifh or a Coopers Hill. V -;'?* What theme, my Pope, could fpirit loftier lays, Than that which crown'd the infant-poet's praife ? Can heaven and earth combine another ftrain, 485 Or like to that or next, which hails Mejfiatts reign ? Nor to fhine fingle is thy fcanty fcope, Abus'd, mifconftru'd, candid, pious Pope; Of wits the darling, and of fools the dread, Who gladd'ft the living, and embalm'ft the dead. 490 Thy BOOK THE THIRD. 93 Thy friendfl\ip knows no bound of clafs or clime, Thy friend is Merit of each tongue and time. He who made Homer ours, bid Shakefpear fhine, Emblaz'd the peer, the flatefman and divine. Thy Parnel without thee unknown would 495 dwell, His Hermit flill had flumber'd in his cell; The latian minors ne'er had known renown, Nor Palearius liv'd to rival Browne. Yet thou a man might'ft err, fevere or kind : Thy gen'rous warmth might dark thy beaming 50 mind; As dark it did, which bid immortal be Some who have damned themfclves in fpite of thee. Nor 94 EDUCATION. Nor lefs thy glory, venerable Toung, Who with fuch ftrength thy various bow haft fining ; Where wit refifllefs heavenly wifdom wings, 5 5 And the fage thunders, while the feraph fmgs. Not two bleft ages only hail the lay, And ftill the lilver night outbeams the golden day. Confummate Man was thine, efTay'd by Pope: Hail, heirs coeval of immortal hope! S ig \ Fir'd with like zal fee young Racine afpire To fhare their praife, and emulate his fire. He bids bland Reafon ope Religions fchool, And fhow but one the infidel and fool. He bids all Nature with one voice declare 51 ^ The hand of Him who made her face fo fair j Who BOOK THE THIRD. 95 Who hung the radiant orbs that dance on high, And ceafelefs fing as they revolve the iky. See Nature's wifemen wilder'd and confefs, They neither know the reafon nor redrefs. 520 Steering without a chart, themfelves explore A pilot W!K> (hall wreckt mankind reftore ; And, while fuccefllve empires rife and fall At the .great nod of Him who rules the ball ; Heav'n-raptur'd bards the Prince of peace pro- 525 claim ; Acclaiming angels hail the Savior's name ; For man who daigns to live, for man to dy ; To man renew'd who opens all the fky. Light is his load j nor knows his yoke annoy, Subliming ^Nature to a purer joy; 530 Proving 9 6 EDUCATION. Proving alike in practice and in thought, That true Religion is but Reafon taught ; That thus the wifeman perfe&ing the fage, The high profane flill owns the higher facred page. By this then human wifdom that muft fcan : 535 The word of God becomes the lamp of man. Eternal Truth affords this teft to Time ; This the fole ftandard of the true fublime. All muft be right, where God and man agree :. Man muft be wrong, where he no God can fee. 54 Humility hails eagle-ey'd the light, Superior clearing ftill the nat'ral fight ; While felf-confiding Dulnefs ftill more dark, Owns not in all the fun the leaft celeftial fpark, / JtWi, BOOK THE THIRD. 97 Hail, Radiances ! all hail, ye heavenly train, 545 Bards, Orators, or facred or profane ! Bright in your fev'ral orbs ye ftill fhall fhine, High or more high, as more or lefs divine. Still may your light in concert due defcend : On your bleft influence all our hopes depend. 5 j O O may this effort of didactic fong Prove fome faint polar to the lanching throng j To point your place, if not to foar your height ; To fried fome beams of your reflected light O'er all my flumb'ring fons, to ope their eyes, 555 And fhow to fleer my nurfelings as they rife. H E D U- EDUCATION. BOOKTHE FOURTH. O N thee, my Son, be all their pow'r dif- play'd, Whom they their fav'rite and my darling made ; That, which way Nature fhall thy aid command, Each object ftill may blefs thy plaftic hand. Whether fhe bid thee crown th'ingenuous arts, Where "head and liand muft play their mutual parts : Though this tranfcend, yet that muft ftill prefide ; As mind muft ftill mechanic motion guide, Ha To joo EDUCATION. To form the honor 'd artift, and to (how That to be ufeful is not to be low, He refts not in effects, but fcans each caufe j And edifies his art on Nature's laws. His fphere he thus to reputation brings, In fcience verfant as expert in things. Th'ingenious court him, and the great carefs If not an A. M. yet an F. R. S. Or if fair Commerce to thy care confide Her prefent pleafure and her future pride, Not merely meant a thing to buy and fell, Or on per-cents and ufances to dwell ; Not qualified alone with flight of hand . To flake a letter, or a fum command j But BOOK THE FOURTH. 101 But who at leaft each trading weal fhall fcan, And in the merchant polifh flill the man ; To whom Britannia fhall one day make known 25 Her (kill to render either Ind her own ; Whofe weight nor falls nor rifes with the flocks, Whofe wit elicits gold from Norway's rocks : Whofe lib'ral learning of commercial laws, Shall bid him plead with pow'r his country's 30 caufe ; Her conftant credit ev'n in barb'rous climes, And Juftice' bulwark ev'n in venal times. But would'ft thou rear a minion of the main, Born to aflert Britannia's own domain ? Caft him not letterlefs on Neptune s care : 35 For whofo fails a cub, returns a bear. H 3 Nor 102 EDUCATION. Nor think that Science muft be loft at fea, Or dream that Skill and Danger difagree. Who ne'er knew home, fhall he know other lands ? How fliall he fleer, who nothing underftands ? 4<* Bend then his yet unharden'd neck betimes : Teach him to talk the tongues of various climes ; Tell him their flory, manners, cuftoms, trade j Nor let wife Mcthejis withhold her aid. Improve his heart, while yet his heart is pure, 45 And lend his head the ftrength that may mature. Thus learning ftill and lov'd, where'er he go, The higher court him, while he leaves the low. He wafts comrnutual wealth from fhore to fliore, Or, if he muft, bids Britain 's thunder roar : 50 Too BOOK THE FOURTH. 103 Too brave or man to dread, or God to dare, His word is warrant ; for he will not fwear. Unruffl'd thus, each danger he defies j And humbly triumphs, or undaunted dies. For ah ! difgrace to man ! fome rife to arms j 55 To fhield mankind from human-kind's alarms. What though, where Peace expands her downy wing, She give each flock and field to laugh and fing ? Though Art and Science blefs her golden reign, Though fearlefs Commerce dance along the 60 main ; Though antipodes unite in mutual love, And antedate the harmony above ; H 4 Yet 104 EDUCATIO N. Yet what bid blinded angels firft rebel, And in the heart of heaven engender'd hell, May bid their lower lower blifs forego, 65 And tafte too foon the horrors of below. When Pride emerging with the felfifh train, Fell foes to Peace, bid Defolation reign, This fpirit fcorns his higher to confefs : That will be great by making t'other lefs. 70 Immenfe pofTeffions mourn the unpofTeft : The poor man's little lamb would render bieft. Where'er Opprefiion threats, fee Valor near, Whofe radiant fword inculcates flight or fear. Thus Nitnrod fteel'd by (laughter firft of brutes 75 Turn'd on mankind Ambition's dire purfuits : But AJJurs realm, that made the world a thrall, Muft with the foft Sardanapalus fall; And BOOK THE FOURTH. 105 And Babylon, who rear'd her head on high, On light Belfoazzar can no more rely. 80 Euphrates fwerves to call a Cyrus in, And bid the perfian well-earn'd pow'r begin. But ah ! when to his fame no more it tends, By grecian weight the perfian fcale afcends. For who fhall ferve himfelf a Cyrus" heir, 85 But the great fon of Arijlotles care ? Who, when he won the world, might well deplore, That he could not fubdue one monarch more. So Grecla yields, or partial or combin'd : Rome duly rifes miftrefs of mankind. 90 If fhe muft have a partner in her throne, What rival there can mighty Julius own ? Brave, io6 EDUCATION. Brave, fcight, wife, warlike, unknown, injur'd name, To which Augujlus felf refers his fame ; Julius, whofe battles butt bid battles ceafe, 95 And introduc'd th'eternal Prince of peace / If then the perfian or pelican boy, Or his great paragon who ranfackt Troy, Enflame thy heroe, give him foon to know That but from Xenopbon can Cyrus flow j jo That whofo would like Alexander fight, Muft ftudy firft beneath the Stagyrite 3 And he who emulates Achilles ire, Muft to a Chiron ow a Homers fire. A yulius will convince the manly mind, 1 05 It was the fcholar who fubdu'd mankind; Nay, BOOK THE FOURTH. 107 Nay, as his higheft praife, his heir pretends That Virgil and that Horace were his friends.' No trifle then will feem the foldier's tafk, That head and heart and hands combiu'd muft j 10 afk. Where not alone great models muft precede, But patient Theory to Practice lead : Polybtus, Euclid, Newton and the reft, To whom great Nature all her art confeft. The Youth whom thefe enlight, and thofe infpire, 1 15 Whom neither dangers daunt, nor duties tire - t Who oppofite regards the brave and bold, Who thirft and hunger fcorns, and heat or cold j Who from obeying beft, can beft command, His wits when needed moft, ftill moft at hand \ i *e Prefers joS EDUCATION. Prefers a wife to a fuccesful aft, A ipirit conquer'd to a city fackt ; Secure of honor, let him ftend or fall, True to his Lord, and to the Lord of all : Humane as brave, and humble as obey'd, 125 Of nought but meannefs, that is, fin, afraid : Whofe worth intrinfic afks no aid of cloaths, Whofe converfe fcorns the expletive of oaths, Of nothing confcious, not afham'd to fail ; He bows to Providence, if he prevail: 130 Juft to each friend, and gen'rous to each foe, He owns each merit, and he weeps each woe. Grim War he wops as harbinger of Peace, And fhall ftill brighter fhine when battles ceafe. He's frill his Country's foldier, fights her caufe, 135 And wins new laurels while he props her laws ; Still BOOK THE FOURTH. 109 Still Reafon's champion, till he reach the fhore Where all is right, and War annoys no more. Nature the youthful artift marks her own, Wife Commerce choofes by her aid alone ; 140 Her mighty fandrion muft each fphere adorn : The failor and the foldier muft be born. Without this rule what millions have been loft, Or Genius never known, or always croft ! Without this rule what fpheres have been em- broil'd By thofe who liftlefs mov'd, or blindly toil'd ! But oh ! be fure thou hear great Nature's voice: Not always hers is the fond youngfter's choice. How I io EDUCATION, How ffoould he chopfe, who no one fphere has known ? How bring the talents, who ne'er fcann'd his 150 own ? One will defign, becaufe he will not dunk j And one will trade -for he loves pen and ink. This to fee foreign parts will plough the main, That for a fwordknot venture a campaign. They know not, but thou know'ft, in one and 155 an 'Tis Infancy, not Inftinft, gives the calL Be thine then with attentive eye to fcan The m after-features of the future man j To humor unfeduc'd great Nature's will, And growing tafte by talent to inftil. 160 Saga- BOOK THfc FOURTH. m Sagacious ken the young fagacious mind, Whom Hygieia bids relieve mankind $ To whom kind Nature proffers not in vain The focial fyftems of her threefold reign ; To whom Philofophy expands her lore, 165 And Demonstration opens all her ftcre ; Who fpeaks the language of the coan fage, Digefts his do<5trine, and imbibes his rage ; Nor fcorns his fons of any tongue or time, Extracting ev'ry balm from ev'ry clime ; 170 And while to him the pow'r of all is known, Their pow'r he renders honeftly his own. Nor learn'd alone in the corporeal part, Is he who emulates a Peons art. Sage too to trace the foul, which way Ihe tend, 175 Convinc'd how mutually the parts depend ; He ii2 EDUCATION. He fcans each fymptom upward to the caufe, And from the fource unfailing balfani draws: Bleft with a heart that foftens to diftrefs, With head and hands that haften .to redrefs ; With ear ftill open to the humble 'cry : 180 To Opulence relief is ever nigh. Nor hies he to decreafe the fcanty ftore, Nor fays he to the rich, f Be rich no more.' Sufficient without Rapine is Difeafe : The friend of man's delight is man to eafe-^- 185 Nor not himfelf : with Fame his Fortune flows, And he has more, flill more as he bellows. Thus arm'd he marches '.gainft the grifly band, Whom Terror's monarch pours around the land. Before him each Difeafe and Demon flies; 190 And from new triumphs ftill new triumphs rife. Hear BOOK THI FOURTH. 113 Hear blooming Health, with all her buxom train, Her Heroe blefs, who blefTes Heaven again j Thence raptur'd owns his ev'ry light defcencfo> Thence well he knows all human hope depends. 195 He knows our make, kow beauteous and how ftrong ; Yet knows the miracle we laft fo long. In both the great Creator he adores, Till finifht Skill to Intuition foars. fc' ' No-r lefs acutely than the young phyficiaii 200 Defcry afar the infant politician. But frothy Pertnefs promifcs no parts, And poor prognoftics are low Cunning's arts. Yet, in the box as pages may take places^ Who vanifh on th'amval of their Graces ; 205 I So ii 4 EDUCATION. So Pert and Sly may now and then declare, That Wit and Wifdom fhall in time be there. But Cure how long the mimic menials ftay, They intimate their paragons away. Be then, whate'er the coft, the genius found, 210 Whofe parts are piercing, and whole fenfe is found ; Whom Juftice bids arife her chofert friend, Who fhall Demojlhenes with fully blend - y Who of dull precedent fhall fpurn the load, And but from Juftice' felf receive her code, 215 Arm'd with each grace of fcience and of fpeech, With all that Nature gives, and Ages teach- > Wrongs to redrefs his pregnant pow'rs confpire, And Truth not Triumph fets his foul on fire. As BOOK THE FOURTH. 115 As knowing modeft, and as modeft bold, 220 He fhows that Juftice is not to be fold. Warm not to win, but to deferve applaufe, He burfts the heroe of the helplefs caufe. He gives the widow's heart to fing for joy, And fmiles a parent on her fmiling boy ; 225 Bids Virtue triumph, and keeps Vice in aw, And proves nee more that Juftice is but Law. So now, behold the Pleader rais'd to hear ! See lift'ning fenates his award revere. Who fcorn'd to dazzle, dazzling arts defies, 230 And kens fair Truth however low (he lies. Both fides my Lord with calm attention fcans, And weighs the caufe 's merit, not the man's ; Hails Truth preponderant, nor dreads to deem, And bids the lighter balance kick the beam. 235 I 2 But ii6 EDUCATION. But mark the Youth, whofe head and heart combine, Whate'er is delicate, whate'er divine : Where Piety to parents lifts the eye, Thence foaring to the Parent of the fky ; Where heavenly Meeknefs fUll ferenes the mind, 240 Where ardent Love embraces human-kind j Who in his foul and fpirit, wit and love, Unites the lamb, the lion, ferpent, dove. : Vers'd in the (acred books from earlieft years, And zealous for the God he loves and fears. 245 Who does not fee young Timothy confefl, Or infant Samuel in his hallow'd veft ? Hafte, hafte to hail the Herald of the pole, Hafte to mature the Doclor of the foul. To BOOK THE FOURTH. 117 To him be tongues, but moft the facred, 250 known, While each new day adds polifh to his own. For him let each fair Science play her part ; And he, who means to heal, muft lean the heart. Philofophy muft found the deep Divine, And by Religion's rays mufl Reafon fliine. 255 Here Faith and Works one bleft aflemblage beam, As Soul 'and Body, or as Source and Stream. He holds blind Bigotry, or high or low,, Fororagainft, Religion's equal foe. He fcorns each party, for himfelf explores ; 260 And flill the more he fees, the more adores. Truth flill is Truth, whoe'er oppofe her reign ; And Falfehood Falfehood, let who dare maintain. I 3 Fraught ii8 EDUCATION. Fraught with each grace of body and of mind, As Peter fimple, and as Paul refm'd ; 265 Without prefumpuon and with temper'd zeal, Fir'd not to wound, but ev'ry wound to heal ; The firfl of martyrs, and the lov'd Divine, Enflame his foul, and in his afpeft fhine. While Elocution heightens Eloquence, 270 His Soul {till fpeaks more potent than his Senfe, Form'd to perfaacle with pow'r, or win with eafe, Hail him, yc Schools, who dignifies degrees. Ambition fires not or of pow'r or praife ^ Bafe Lucre lures not with her tinfel-rays. 275 He hears no calls of fuch infernal hoft : He hears no voice but of the Holy Ghoft, Thrice-reverend Sires., who fanftify the lands. Well have ye here irripos'd your hallow'd hands : Ye BOOK THE FOURTH. Ye truly blefs the flock ye bid him feed, 280 Who fweats to train, and would to fave it bleed. Where'er he prays, an Angel intercedes : Where'er he preaches, none can fay, he reads. The Orator fills even kings with aw, When in his Matter's name he deals his law ; 285 When peace on earth, and glory in the higtift t He preaches not himfelf, but Jefus-Chrift. Conviction waits, whate'er the doctrine be : Compunction cries, a Son of Thunder he ! If Melody attune whate'er he fays, 290 What higher Rapture fwells his humble praife ! Nor does the efFervefcence of his love Dream beggars only muft be faints above ; But thinks who hope to hymn in higher fphere, If ever, muft begin their hymning here. 2 95 I 4 When EDUCATION. When the glad Organ blows the folemn note, And the fet fongfters fwell their various throat, He lolls not liftlefs to th'infpiring fong, The leaden leader. of the dofmg throng. His glory waking bids the reft rejoice : 300 Above the human hark ! a Seraph's voice ! But deem him not -a faint one day in feven : His weekly converfe alfo is in Heaven. Inftruclive joy attends, where'er he turns j And while he talks, each ravifht bofom burns. 305 Each member of his flock 'tis his to know : The old, the young j the lofty and the low. All watch his watchful eye : by night or day No wolves can enter, and no fheep can ftray. All he becomes to all, the more to win : 310 The gen'ral friend is only foe to fin. He BOOK THE FOURTH. 121 He feeks not theirs, but them, or great or fmall : He covets nothing, yet poflefTes all. To each degree while due regard he pays, And various minds amends in various ways - t 3 j 5 He holds extrinfic, title, pow'r or pelf, Regarding nought as man but man himfelf. God's angel fears but God, regards but Truth ; By Age is honor'd, and rever'd by Youth ; Admir'd by Wealth, and half-ador'd by Need, 320 Allow'd by all the man of God indeed. His Confcience'feafting, he rejoices (till: He knows no forrow, for he knows no ill. Soul of true joy, difpeller of difmay, Choice of the grave, and charmer of the gay ; 325 Bleft in himfelf, he blefles all around : Where'er he treads, he treads on hallow'd ground. Not ii2 EDUCATION. Not that he never vifits fcenes of woo, Nor does he {till forbid the tear to flow. Tears are fometimes a falutary tide, 330 Exalting Virtue, and o'ervvhelrning Pride , JBleft emanations of the feeling mind, Which leave it calm, repentant and reiign'd. Bleft are they thus who mourn ! How Jund the fcope, That bids Compunclion pave the way to Hope ! 33.J He to the bottom probes each deadly wound, Nor quits the cure, until the heart be found. Pale Sorrow thus acknowleges her foe : He either hears or fpeaks away each woe. But when the grifly king defies all art, 340 When Soul and Body, deareft friends, muftpartj To BOOK THE FOURTH. 123 To blunt his fhafts becomes the bleft employ, And fpeed the fpirit to the realms of joy. With holy Hope, he balms the mutual pain, Of that dread day when they fliall meet again j 345 And when th'unfetter'd Soul returns on high, He bids in humble trufl the body ly. Nor is his friendfhip bounded by the bier : He hies to mix the fympathetic tear With him or her who feels a widow's wound, 350 Or who has laid an only in the ground j Who niourns a parent ripen'd for the fky, Or for a benefactor pours a figh ; For t'other felf who banifht each annoy, For t'other felf who doubled ev'ry joy. 355 Or for a public or a private lofs, The chriftian pried commands to bear the crofs j And 124 EDUCATION. And when the tribute is to Nature paid, Turn to the living ev'ry needed aid. Thus, like the Sun who beams around the ball,. 3 60 He fheds unceafing light and heat on all, Till, his courfe finiiht, he defcend the Ikies In a horizon without cloud to rife. While iuch great objects thine attention fharc, Yet muft not they erigrofs thy gen'rous care. 365 Some born to independance on mankind, But for th'improvement of a noble mind, And for the exercife of" ev'ry grace, Would but for thee bely their honor'd race. On thee then they depend, and on thy nod, 370 How they {hall ferve their Country, King and God 5 Whether BOOK THE FOURTH. I25 Whether they fhall improve paternal ground, And beam the bleflings of the regioa round, The happy darlings of the rival-great, The pow'rful patterns of th'inferior flate j 375 Giving flill Virtue purer to defcend From fire to fon, till fonfhip's felf hall encj. Or if for higher fpheres they ftili are born, if tviftred life their talents rauft adorn ; Perhaps the Legiflature claims a h,and, 380 Or Virtue's voice to fave a finking land: Perhaps a fubje&'s aid a King commands, To character him felf in foreign lands -, Or in the ftorm. of State to rule the helm, Spite of a madding crew,, to poife a reeling realm. 3 85 What Conftancy befits the arduous talk ! What pow'rs does fuch an Exaltation afk \ What 126 EDUCATION. What pow'rs from God and thee ! that he may know How beft to treat the public friend or foe, How polity and policy agree, 390 Alike from puny pride and panic free ; Where foreign Politics play foul or fair, Where native Honor can or cannot bear ; What methods, when and where the State mud ufe, What fhe muft grant, and what (he muft refufe j 395 How long a chriftian* people muft abhor, Or how beft pour th'inevitable vvarj How bid grim War fend home angelic Peace, And how blefs Induftry, when battles ceafe One who ftill humble, affable, ferene, Knows neither party-love, nor party- fpleen ; No BOOK THE FOURTH. 127 No bigot ev'n to Country, or to Caufe ; No upftart idol of a mob's applaufe j One who can fmile whatever Envy fay, And croaking Clamor can negleft away. - 405 Still ready for Edhnas worft alarms, Peace is ftill fortifi'd by Virtue's arms. For Vice is ever blind and rafh and low, Unknown to any friend, expos'd to ev'ry foe. While heav'nlyPeace thus fhields the envi'd land, 4 1 o And fheds new glory o'er fupreme Command ; Each Art reviving hails the blisful day, Each Science fofter'd beams a brighter vay. The learned Mufe with rapture muft record, Detected Merit now accepts reward. 4 r 5 Religion courted rears her rev'rend head, And hooted Guilt lies nucnber'd with the dead. Such 128 EDUCATION. Such the bleft beams that radiate from a throne* Beams firft to delegated Luftre known. Wide and more wide their influence they extend, 420 Till from each great his lefs, and all they com- prehend. Pedla, foid her Son without delay Whate'er thou bidd'ft, unargud- 1 obey* Bold is t-he enterprise thou cbft endite : Yet I wili dare, fince thou haft daign'd to light 425 Six fultry feafons he purfu'd hii& toil, Collecting various plants, of variottsr oiL The teermmg nurs'ry could comtam nsa more : Now had he deep imbib'd his parent's lore ; When (he: My fon, 'tis with enormous jpy C 430 I fee my maxims all thy care empby^ Thy BOOK THE FOURTH. 129 Thy time's elapft : 'twas never my defign, Thee notelefs in a corner to confine ; I deftin'd thee this fvveet recefs to grace, Till thou wert ripen'd for a nobler place. 43 5 Such place awaits thee : look where yonder grove, As Academus erft, invites to rove. Magnificent the manfion, gardens, fields ; What either paftime, or what pafture yields. Faft by where flood the haplefs Kennds town, 446 Where yews for houfes verdant ftreets embrown ; Where elfin tribes were oft by Cynthia feen,, Shall other elves face Phebus on the green ? Fail by the lengthen'd lawns, and nodding (hades, ' Where wanton other than hefperian maids; 445 K Where 130 EDUCATION. Where ev'iy tree bears golden fruit of health, But where no dragon guards the grove of wealth '. Here Art and Nature dance in conftant fpring i Here reigns a lord beyond 'Pbeacias king : A lord whom titles higher far enhance, 450 As king moft chrifrlan, than as king of France. Yet, if mere modern illuftration fails, When Kenfmgton but vies with a Verfailks; Here roams a royal pair, nor fears to fall, In Eden as of old, the lords of all. 45 From out this Eden if thou chance to ftray, HydSs high fam'd park becomes the London way: Domes, tow'rs and palaces give here delight : Woods,' lawns' and villaes ravifli there the fight. * Such BOOK THE FOURTH. i$i Such is the wifdom of the gen'ral plan : 46* So kindly vail'd futurity from man : Little did predeceflbr-lords forefee, That they built, planted, livM and di'd for thce. The owner is my own ; hell ne'er refufe The manfion modeled for the britifh mufe. 465 Nor more She flew. The Squire confeft the Queen, Who had herfelf his early tut'refs been. She fignifi'd her errand, nam'd her ibn : * My fecond Author/ faid the Squire, ' 'tis done. I to my Country (hall my kindnefs fhow, 470 When I but pay to thee the vaft I ow. None but the high could honor my domain : Honor'd am I indeed, if it can thee contain : K 2 . Thee 132 EDUCATION. Thee of the rifing race the plaflic fun, Whence Learning's radiance round the realm 475 {hall run.' Pedia blufht and bow'd * O'erjoy'd I fee My ev'ry fondeil hope fulfill'd in thee. Still be thou bleft, and may thy pleafaut Vine Abound in plants, each in its feafon mine. While elfewere I employ my happieft art, 480 To mold each daughter from thy fairer part, Thy goodnefs muft my nobleft efforts fire, To form each fon but worthy fuch a fire.' Now home with rapid wing Pedia hies : ' A word, my fon, fuffices to the wife. 485 The envi'd dome is ours, and all around : Halle then to feize the confecrated ground. Long BOOK THE FOURTH. 133 Long had I fought, but never faw before A fite fo worthy of thy worthieft lore. Here Learning, lighted by the torch of Truth, 490 Shall prove a magnet to th'ingenuous youth : Thy dearer Self fhall chear thy gen'rous toils, While thou fuit'ft culture to the fcv'ral foils. On aid celeftial we rely alone, And from the gloom fhall make each other known. 495 Here I refolve to fix my fav'rite ftand, And hence from age to age to blefs the land/ ' All hail, great Parent ! to thy ceafelefs praife A fane, a lofty fane I here will raife > That fons of fons of fons may rife and fee, What thou haft done for Albion and for me/ He fays and foon a ftately temple tow'rs, A threefold region for the threefold pow'rs. Ceres 134 EDUCATION. Ceres and Bacchus, and th'olympic train Soar humble heights, and feek the ground again, 505 1'erpfichore renews her toils below, Where fair Euterpe not difdains to blow. Thalia here bedecks her garlands gay, And fometimes with Euterpe wings her way To where Melpomene enchants the pain, 5 ia And fweet Calliope exalts the {train. Here Polyhymnia fweeps the lefbian lyre, Or climbs the lofty Clio's fam'd retire : Tile higheft, happieft, mod auguft abode, Where all his art Aldmedm beftow'd; 515 But where Vitruvius fir ft defign'd the fane, And bid the elegant ionic reign ; Where a Praxiteles were prcud to own The poliflit columns of the parian (tone. To BOOK THE FOURTH, 135 To this high dome the Queen herfelf afcends, 520 When (he to nobleft contemplation tends; When fhe will quaff what the horizon yields, See dancing hills, or hear the fmging fields ; Or will adore the Author of the iky, And gaze the circling orhs, with more than hu- 525 man eye. In this high dome her Majefty is plac't, When fhe will banquet at a board of Tafte $ And bid Urania fummon all the Nine, Nor Erato exclude, if fhe's divine : Still in extreme fond Erato we fpy, 530 Or loweft of the low, or higheft of the high. Where they, but chiefly fhe, delights to rove, Where arching elms embrown the long alcove, Behold 136 EDUCATION. Behold ^polios felf enchanted ftand, Love in his look, and empire in his hand ; 535 Daigning himfe^f to guard the facred fpring In ftately femblance of the fprightly king* Not far difparted from the God of day Can hoary Cbronus be fuppos'd to ftray : With waving forelock, bluntlefs fcythe and glafs, 640 He fees the Hours, his virtuous daughters, pafs ; Eleas'd he beholds wild Pegafus on high, While founding Fame has almoft foar'd the j(ky. ill 111 II A 000000975 3