To let each representative be heard,
And take due care the chaplain be preferr'd;
To hear no motion made that's out of joint,
And when he spies his member, make his point.
To knights new chofen in old time would come
The country trumpet, and perhaps a drum ;
Now when a burgess new elect appears,
Come trainbands, horfeguards, footguards, grenadeers;
When the majority the town-clerk tells,
His honour pays the fiddles, waits, and bells:
Harangues the mob, and is as wise and great,
As the most mystick oracle of state.
f When the duke's grandfon for the county stood, His beef was fat, and his october good;
Ille dapes laudet menfæ brevis ; ille falubrem
Juftitiam, legefque, & apertis otia portis ;
Ille tegat commiffa, Deofque precetur &oret,
Ut redeat miferis, abeat fortuna fuperbis.
• Tibia non, ut nunc Orichalcho vincta, tubæque
Emula, fed tenuis fimplex foramine pauco
Afpirare, & adeffe choris erat utilis, &c.
Poftquam cæpit agros extendere victor, & urbem
Latior amplecti murus, Sc.
Acceffit numerifque modifque licentia major ;
Sic etiam fidibus voces crevere feveris,
Et tulit eloquium infolitum facundia præceps:
Utilium fagax rerum & divina futuri
Sortilegis non discrepuit fententia Delphis.
f Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum,
Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit, eo quod
Illecebris erat & grata novitate morandus
Spectator, fun&tufque facris, & potus, & exlex.
His lordship took each ploughman by the fist,
Drank to their fons, their wives, their daughters kifs'd;
But when ftrong beer their free-born hearts inflames,
They fell him bargains, and they call him names.
Thus it is deem'd in English nobles wife
To ftoop for no one reafon but to rise.
8 Election matters fhun with cautious awe,
O all ye judges learned in the law;
A judge by bribes as much himself degrades,
As duchefs-dowager by masquerades.
h Try not with jests obscene to force a fmile, Nor lard your speech with mother Needham's ftile: Let not your tongue to Ωλφιεδισμα run,
with abhorrence fhun;
Let not your looks affected words difgrace,
Nor join with filver tongue a brazen face;
Let not your hands, like tallboys be employ'd,
And the mad rant of tragedy avoid.
Juft in your thoughts, in your expreffion clear,
Neither too modeft, nor too bold appear.
• Effutire leves indigna Tragedia verfus,
Ut feftis matrona moveri jussa diebus,
Intererit Satyris paulum pudibunda protervis.
n Non ego
inornata & dominantia nomina folum,
Verbaque, Pifones, Satyrorum fcriptor amabo;
Nec fic enitar Tragico differre colori,
Ut nihil interfit Davufque loquatur, & audex
Pythias, emunto lucrata Simone talentum :
An cuftos famulufque Dei Silenus alumni.
i Others in vain a like fuccess will boast, He speaks moft eafy, who has ftudy'd most.
* A peer's pert heir has to the commons spoke A vile reflection, or a bawdy joke:
Call'd to the house of lords, of this beware,
"Tis what the bishops' bench will never bear,
Among the commons is fuch freedom shown,
They lash each other, and attack the throne ;
Yet fo unskilful or fo fearful fome,
For nine that speak there's nine-and-forty dumb.
1 When James the first, at great Britannia's helm,
Rul'd this word-clipping and werd-coining realm,
No word to royal favour made pretence,
But what agreed in found and clash'd in fenfe.
Thrice happy he! how great that speaker's praise,
Whofe ev'ry period look'd an hundred ways.
Speret idem, fudet multum, fruftraque laboret. *Ńe nimium teneris juvenentur verfibus unquam, Aut immunda crepent ignominiofaque dicta: Offenduntur enim quibus eft equus, & pater & res, Nec fi quid fricti ciceris probat, & nucis emptor, Equis accipiunt animis, donant-ve corona. 1 At noftri proavi Plautinos & numeros & Laudavere fales; nimium patienter utrumque, Nec dicam ftulte, mirati; fi modo ego & vos Scimus inurbanum lepido feponere dicto, Legitimumque fonum digitis callemus & aure.
What then? we now with just abhorrence fhun
The trifling quibble, and the school-boy's pun;
Tho' no great connoiffeur, I make a shift
Juft to find out a Durfey from a Swift ;
I can difcern with half an eye, I hope,
Mift from Jo Addifon; from Eufden, Pope:
I know a farce from one of Congreve's plays,
And Cibber's opera from Johnny Gay's.
"When pert Defoe his faucy papers writ,
He from a cart was pillor'd for his wit:
By mob was pelted half a morning's space,
And rotten eggs befmear'd his yellow face;
The Cenfor then improv'd the lift'ning ifle,
And held both parties in an artful smile.
A fcribbling crew now pinching winter brings,
That spare no earthly nor no heav'nly things,
Nor church, nor ftate, nor treasurers, nor kings.
But blafphemy displeases all the town ;
And for defying fcripture, law, and crown,
Woolfton fhould pay his fine, and lose his gown.
Ignotum Tragicæ genus invenisse Camana
Dicitur, & plauftris vexiffe poëmata Thefpis,
Qua canerent agerentque peruniti facibus ora
Poft hunc perfonae pallæque repertor honefta
Efchylus, & modicis inftravit pulpita tignis,
Et docuit magnumque loqui, nitique cothurno.
Succeffit vetus his Commedia, non fine mulie
Laude: fed in vitium libertas excidit, & vim
Dignam lege regi: lex eft accepta, chorusque
Turpiter obticuit fublato jure nocendi.
S
" It must be own'd the journals try all ways To merit their respective party's praise : They jar in every article from Spain;
A war thefe threaten, those a peace
Tho' lie they will, to give them all their due,
In foreign matters, and domeftick too.
Whoe'er thou art that would'sft a Postman write
Enquire all day, and hearken all the night.
Sure, Gazetteers and writers of Courants
Might foon exceed th' intelligence of France :
To be out-done old England fhould refuse,
As in her arms, fo in her publick news:
But truth is fcarce, the scene of action large,
And correfpondence an exceffive charge.
• There are who fay, no man can be a wit
Unless for Newgate, or for Bedlam fit;
Let pamphleteers abusive satire write,
To fhew a genius is to fhew a spite:
n Nil intentatum noftri liquêre Poëta;
Nec minimum meruêre decus, veftigia Græca
Aufi deferere, celebrare domeftica facta:·
Nec virtute foret clarifve potentius armis,
Quàm lingua, Latium, fi non offenderet unum-
quemque Peëtarum lime labor & mora.
• Ingenium miferâ quia fortunatius arte
Credit, excludit Janos Helicone Poëtas
Democritus, bona pars non ungues ponere curat,
Non barbam.
Nancifcetur enim pretium nomenque Poëta
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