• With art and modesty your part maintain ; And talk like Col'nel Titus, not like Lane.

The trading knight with rants his speech begins,
Sun, moon, and stars, and dragons, faints, and kings :
But Titus faid, with his uncommon sense,
When the exclufion-bill was in fufpence,
I hear a lion in the lobby roar;

Say, Mr. Speaker, fhall we fhut the door
And keep him there, or shall we let him in
To try if we can turn him out again?

* Some mighty blufterers impeach with noise, And call their private cry, the public voice.

• From folio's of accounts they take their handles, And the whole ballance proves a pound of candles; As if Paul's cupola were brought to bed,

After hard labour, of a fmall pin's head.

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* Some Rufus, fome the Conqueror bring in,

And fome from Julius Cæfar's days begin.

9 Nec fic incipies, ut fcriptor Cyclicus olim,
"Fortunam Priami cantabo & nobile bellum."
Quanto rectius hic, qui nil molitur inepte,

Dic mihi Mufa virum, captæ poft tempora Troja,
Qui mores hominum multorum vidit & urbes.
• Non fumum ex fulgore, fed ex fumo dare lucem
Cogitat

Quid dignum tanto feret hic promiffor hiatu ?
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri,
Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo;

A.cunning

A cunning speaker can command his chops,
And when the house is not in humour, stops;
In falfehood probability employs,

Nor his old lies with newer lies destroys.

"If when you speak, you'd hear a needle fall, And make the frequent hear-hims rend the wall, In matters suited to your tafte engage, Rememb'ring ftill your quality and age.

Thy task be this, young knight, and hear my fong, What politics to every age belong.

* When babes can speak, babes fhould be taught to say King George the fecond's health, huzza, huzza! Boys should learn Latin for Prince William's fake, And girls Louifa their example make.

y More loves the youth, just come to his eftate, To range the fields, than in the house debate;

& quæ
Defperat tractata nitefcere poffe, relinquit;
Atque ita mentitur, fic veris falfa remifcet,
Primo ne medium, medio ne difcrepet imum.
Tu, quid ego & populus mecum defideret, audi;
Si plauforis eges aulæa manentis, & ufque
Seffuri, donec cantor, Vos plaudite, dicat;
Etatis cujufque notandi funt tibi mores
Mobilibufque decor naturis dandus & annis.
* Reddere qui voces jam fcit puer, & pede certo
Signat humum, geftit paribus colludere, & iram
Colligit ac ponit temere, & mutatur in horas.
▾ Imberbis juvenis, tandem cuftode remoto,
Gaudet equis canibufque, & aprici gramine campi;
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More he delights in fav'rite Jowler's tongue, Than in Will Shippen, or Sir William Yonge : If in one chafe he can two horfes kill,

He cares not two-pence for the land-tax bill: Loud in his wine, in women not o'er nice, He damns his uncles if they give advice; Votes as his father did when there's a call,

But had much rather never vote at all.

We take a different turn at twenty-fix,

And lofty thoughts on fome lord's daughter fix; With men in pow'r ftrict friendship we purfue, With fome confiderable post in view.

A man of forty fears to change his note, One way to speak, and t'other way to vote; Careful his tongue in paffion to command, Avoids the bar, and speaker's reprimand.

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* In bags the old man lets his treasure rust, Afraid to use it, or the funds to trust;

Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus afper,
Utilium tardus provifor, prodigus æris,
Sublimis cupidufque, & amata relinquere pernix.
Converfis ftudiis, ætas animufque virilis
Quærit opes & amicitias, infervit honori;
Commififfe cavet quod mox mutare laboret.

Multa fenem circumveniunt incommoda ; vel quod
Quærit, & inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti.
Dilator, fpe longus, iners, avidufque futuri;
Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti

When stocks are low he wants the heart to buy,
And through much caution fees them rife too high;
Thinks nothing rightly done fince feventy-eight,
Swears prefent members do not talk, but prate:
In Charles the fecond's days, fays he, ye prigs,
Tories were Tories then, and Whigs were Whigs.
Alas! this is a lamentable truth,

We lofe in age, as we advance in youth:
I laugh when twenty will like eighty talk,
And old Sir John with Polly Peachum walk.
b Now as to double, or to falfe returns,
When pockets fuffer, and when anger burns ;

O thing furpaffing faith! knight strives with knight,
When both have brib'd, and neither's in the right,
The bailiff's felf is fent for in that cafe,
And all the witneffes had face to face.
Selected members foon the fraud unfold,
In full committee of the houfe 'tis told;

Se puero, cenfor caftigatorque minorum.
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda fecum,
Multa recedentes adimunt; ne forte feniles
Mandentur juveni partes, pueroque viriles;
Semper in adjunctis ævoque morabimur aptis.
Aut agitur res in fcenis, aut acta refertur.
Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aures,
Quàm quæ funt oculis fubjecta fidelibus, & quæ
Ipfe fibi tradit spectator.

Quodcunque oftendis mihi fic, incredulus odi.

Th' incredible corruption is deftroy'd,
The chairman's angry, and th' election void.

• Those who would captivate the well-bred throng,
Should not too often speak, nor fpeak too long:
Church, nor church-matters ever turn to fport,
Nor make St. Stephen's chapel, Dover-court.

The speaker, when the commons are affembled, May to the Græcian chorus be resembled; 'Tis his the young and modeft to espouse,

And fee none draw, or challenge in the house:
'Tis his old hofpitality to use,

And three good printers for the house to chuse;
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.

Neve minor, neu fit quinto productior actu
Fabula, quæ pofci vult, & fpectata reponi ;
Nec Deus interfit, nifi dignus vindice nodus
Inciderit; nec quarta loqui perfona laboret.
d Actoris partes Chorus officiumque virile

Defendat neu quid medios intercinat actus,
Quod non propofito conducat & hæreat apte :
Ille bonis faveatque, & concilietur amicis,
Et regat iratos, & amet peccare timentes ;
Ille dapes laudet menfæ brevis; ille falubrem
Juftitiam, legefque, & apertis otia portis;
Ille tegat commiffa, Deofque precetur & oret,
Ut redeat miferis, abeat fortuna fuperbis.