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"A fervile Race in Folly nurs'd,
"Who truckle moft, when treated worst.

"By Innocence and Refolution, He bore continual Perfecution ; While Numbers to Preferment rofe; "Whose Merits were, to be his Foes. "When, ev'n bis own familiar Friends "Intent upon their private Ends ; "Like Renegadoes now he feels,

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(1) One Wood, a Hardware-man from England, bad a Patent for coining Copper Halfpence in Ireland, to the Sum of 108,000l. which in the Confequence, must leave that Kingdom without Gold or Silver (See Drapier's LetLers.)

"Taught Fools their Inc reft how to know; "And gave them Arms to ward the Blow. "Envy hath own'd it was his doing, "To fave that helplefs Land from Ruin; While they who at the Steerage food, " And reapt the Profit, fought his Blood.

"To fave them from their evil Fate, In him was held a Crime of State. (1) "A wicked Monster on the Bench, Whofe Fury Blood could never quench;

"As

(1) One W

was then Chief Justice: He bad fome Years before profecuted a Printer for a Pamphlet writ by the Dean, to perfwade the People of Ireland to wear their own Manufactures. Whitfhed fent the Jury down eleven Times, and kept them nine Hours, until they were forced to bring in a Special Virdiet. He fat as Judge afterwards

"As vile and profligate a Villain,
"As modern (1) Scroggs, or old Treffilian;
"Who long all Justice had discarded,
"Nor fear'd be GOD, nor Man regarded;
"Vow'd on the Dean his Rage to vent,,
"And make him of his Zeal repent ;

"But

wards on the Tryal of the Printer of the Drapier's Fourth Letter; but the Jury, against all be could fay or fwear, threw out the Bill: All the Kingdom took the Drapier's Part, except the Courtiers, or those who expected Places. The Drapier was celebrated in many Poems and Pamplets: His Sign was fet up in moft Streets of Dublin (where many of them still continue) and in feveral Country

Towns,

"

(1) Scroggs was Chief Justice under King Charles the Second: His Judgment always varied in State Tryals, according to Directions from Court. Treffilian was a wicked Judge, hanged above three hundred Years ago.

"But Heav'n his Innocence defends,
"The grateful People ftand his Friends i
*Not Strains of Law, nor Judges Frown,
"Nor Topicks brought to please the -,
"Nor Witness hir'd, nor Jury pick'd,

"Prevail to bring him in convict,

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(1) IN Exile with a steady Heart,' "He spent his Life's declining Part; "Where, Folly, Pride, and Faction fway, (2)" Remote from ST. JOHN, POPE, and GAY,

(1) HIS

(1) In Ireland, which he had Reafon to call a Place of Exile; to which Country nothing could bave driven him, but the Queen's Death, who bad determined to fix him in England, in Spight of the Dutchefs of Somerset, &c.

(2) Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, mentioned before.

(i) His Friendship there to few confin'd, Were always of the midling Kind:

* No Fools of Rank, a mungril Breed,

"Who fain would pass for

indeed;

(2) "Where Titles give no Right or Power; * And ✶✶✶✶ is a wither'd Flower,

He would have held it a Difgrace, *If fuch a Wretch had known his Face.

• On

(1) In Ireland the Dean was not acquainted with one fingle Lord Spiritual or Temporal. Не only converfed with private Gentlemen of the Clergy or Laity, and but a small Number of sither.

(2) The Peers of Ireland lost all their Furif diction by one fingle Alt,

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