You raife the honour of the peerage,
Proud to attend you at the steerage.
You dignify the noble race,
Content yourself with humbler place.
Now learning, valour, virtue, fenfe,
To titles give the fole pretence.
St. George beheld thee, with delight,
Vouchfafe to be an azure knight,
When on thy breast and fides herculean
He fixt the ftar and string cerulean.
Say, poet, in what other nation

Shone ever fuch a conftellation!

Attend, ye Popes, and Youngs, and Gays,
And tune your harps, and ftrow your bays:
Your panegyrics here provide:
You cannot err on Flattery's fide.
Above the stars exalt your ftyle,
You ftill are low ten thousand mile.
On Lewis all his bards beftow'd,
Of incenfe, many a thoufand load;
But Europe mortify'd his pride,
And fwore the fawning rafcals ly'd.
Yet what the world refus'd to Lewis,
Applied to George, exactly true is.
Exactly true! invidious poet!
'Tis fifty thousand times below it.

Tranflate me now fome lines, if you can,

From Virgil, Martial, Ovid, Lucan.
They could all pow'r in Heav'n divide,
And do no wrong to either fide:

They

Give

and Jove an equal share.

They teach you how to split a hair,

Yet, why should we be lac'd fo strait ?

I'll give my

butter-weight.

And reafon good; for many a year
Jove never intermeddled here:

Nor, though his priests be duly paid,
Did ever we defire his aid:

We now can better do without him,

Since Woolfton gave us arms to rout him.

Cætera defiderantur.

OF

OF

THE USE OF RICHES.

This poem, as Mr. Pope tells us himself, coft much attention and labour; and, from the eafinefs that appears in it, one would be apt to think as

much.

WHO

P. 7HO fhall decide, when Doctors difagree, And foundest Cafuifts doubt, like you and me?

You hold the word, from Jove to Momus giv'n,
That man was made the standing jeft of Heav'n;
And gold but fent to keep the fools in play,
For fome to heap, and fome to throw away.

But I, who think more highly of our kind,
(And, furely, Heav'n and I are of a mind)
Opine, that Nature, as in duty bound,
Deep hid the shining mischief under ground:
But when, by man's audacious labour, won,
Flam'd forth this rival to its Sire, the Sun,
Then careful Heav'n supply'd two forts of Men;
To fquander These, and Thofe, to hide agen.

Like doctors, thus, when much difpute has pafs'd, We find our tenets juft the fame at laft.

Both fairly owning, Riches, in effect,

No grace of Heav'n, or token of th' Elect;

VOL. I.

K

Giv'n

Giv'n to the Fool, the Mad, the Vain, the Evil,
To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the Devil.
B. What

*

John Ward, of Hackney, Efq. member of parliament, being profecuted by the dutchefs of Buckingham, and convicted of forgery, was first expelled the house, and then flood in the pillory on the 17th of March 1727. He was fufpected of joining in a conveyance with Sir John Blunt, to fecrete 50,000l. of that director's eftate, forfeited to the South-Sea company by act of parliament. The company recovered the 50,000 1. against Ward; but he fet up prior conveyances of his real estate to his brother and fon, and concealed all his perfonal, which was computed to be 150,000l. Thefe conveyances being alfo fet afide by a bill in Chancery, Ward was imprifoned, and hazarded the forfeiture of his life by not giving in his effects till the laft day, which was that of his examination. During his confinement, his amusement was to give poifon to dogs and cats, and fee them expire by flower or quicker torments. To fum up the worth of this gentleman at the feveral æra's of his life; at his ftanding in the pillory he was worth above 200,cool. at his commitment to prifon he was worth 150,000l. but has fince been fo far diminished in his reputation, as to be thought a worse man by 50 of 60,000 1.

Fr. Chartres, a man infamous for all manner of vice. When he was an enfign in the army, he was drummed out of the regiment for a cheat: he was next banished Bruffels, and drummed out of Ghent on the fame account. After a hundred tricks at the gaming tables, he took to lending of money at exorbitant intereft, and on great penalties, accumulating præmium, intereft, and capital, into a

new

B. What Nature wants commodious Gold bestows; 'Tis thus we eat the bread another fows.

P. But

new capital, and feizing, to a minute, when the payments became due. In a word, by a conftant attention to the vices, wants, and follies of mankind, he acquired an immenfe fortune. His houfe was a perpetual bawdy-houfe. He was twice condemned for rapes, and pardoned; but, the last time, not without imprisonment in Newgate, and large confifcations. He died in Scotland in 1731, aged 62. The populace, at his funeral, raifed a great riot, almoft tore the body out of the coffin, and caft dead dogs, &c. into the grave along with it. The following epitaph contains his character, very justly drawn, by Dr. Arbuthnot.

HERE continueth to rot

The body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED,

In fpite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His infatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchlefs IMPUDENCE from the laft.

Nor was he more fingular in the undeviating pravity
Of his manners, than fuccefsful in
Accumulating WEALTH;

For, without TRADE OF PROFESION,
Without TRUST of PUBLIC MONEY,
And without BRIBE WORTHY fervice,
He acquired, or, more properly, created
A MINISTERIAL ESTATE.