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"But, not a Traytor cou'd be found, "To fell him for Six Hundred Pound.

"HAD he but fpar'd his Tongue and Pen, "He might have rofe like other Men: But, Power was never in his Thought "And, Wealth he valu'd not a Groat:

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Three Hundred Pounds to whatever Perfon would difcover the Author of a Pamphlet called, The Publick Spirit of the Whiggs; and in Ireland, in the Year 1724, my Lord Carteret at his first coming into the Government, was prevailed on to iffue a Proclamation for promifing the like Reward of Three Hundred Pounds, to any Person who could diftover the Author of a Pamphlet called, The Drapier's Fourth Letter, &c. writ against that deftructive Project of coining Half-pence for Ireland; but in neither Kingdoms was the Dean difcovered.

"Ingratitude he often found,

"And pity'd those who meant the Wound:

"But, kept the Tenor of his Mind,

"To merit well of human Kind:

"Nor made a Sacrifice of those.

"Who ftill were true, to please his Foes.
(1) "He labour'd many a fruitless Hour
"To reconcile his Friends in Power;
"Saw Mischief by a Faction brewing,
"While they purfu'd each others Ruin.

"But,

(1) Queen ANNE's Ministry fell to Variance from the first Year after their Ministry began: Harcourt the Chancellor, and Lord Bolingbroke the Secretary, were difcontented with the Treafurer Oxford, for his too much Mildness to the Whig Party; this Quarrel grew higher every -Day till the Queen's Death: The Dean, who was the only Perfon that endeavoured to reconcile them,

found

But, finding vain was all his Care,
He left the Court in meer Defpair.

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AND, oh! how fhort are human Schemes!

¿‹ Here ended all our golden Dreams.

What ST. JOHN's Skill in State Affairs,
What ORMOND'S Valour, OXFORD's Cares,
To fave their finking Country lent;

Was all destroy'd by one Event.

(1) "Too foon that precious Life was ended, * On which alone, our Weal depended.

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found it impoffible; and thereupon retired to the Country about ten Weeks before that fatal Event: Upon which he returned to his Deanry in Dublin, where for many Years he was worryed by the new People in Power, and had Hundreds of Libels writ against him in England.

(1) In the Height of the Quarrel between the Minifters, the Queen died.

(1) "When up a dangerous Faction starts," "With Wrath and Vengeance in their Hearts} "By folemn League and Cov'nant bound,

To ruin, flaughter, and confound; "To turn Religion to a Fable, "And make the Government a Babel : "Pervert the Law, difgrace the Gown, "Corrupt the -, rob the;

"To

(1) Upon Queen ANNE's Death the Whig Faction was restored to Power, which they exercifed with the utmost Rage and Revenge; impeached and banished, the Chief Leaders of the Church Party, and stripped all their Adherents of what Employments they had, &c.

"To facrifice old

Glory,

"And make her infamous in Story.

"When such a Tempest shook the Land, "How could unguarded Virtue stand?

"WITH Horror, Grief, Defpair the Dean

"Beheld the dire deftructive Scene:

"His Friends in Exile, or the Tower, (1) "Himself within the Frown of Power; "Purfu'd by bafe envenom'd Pens,

(2) "Far to the Land of *** and Fens ;

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(1) Upon the Queen's Death, the Dean returned to live in Dublin, at his Deanry-Houfe: Numberless Libels were writ against him in England, as a Jacobite; be was infulted in the Street, and at Nights he was forced to be attended by his Servants armed.

(2) The Land of *** and Fens, is Ireland.

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