When folks might see thee all the country round But on the maiden's nipple when Oh teach me, dear, new words to speak my flame ! Or Glumglum's humbler title soothe thy ear: To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnm through the nose, 79 90. 100 110 1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM. O WRETCHED B1 jealous now of all, 10 Through clouds of passion P's3 views are clear; He foams a patriot to subside a peer; Impatient sees his country bought and sold, And damns the market where he takes no gold. Grave, righteous S-4 jogs on till, past belief, He finds himself companion with a thief. To purge and let thee blood with fire and sword, Is all the help stern S-5 would afford. That those who bind and rob thee would not kill, Good C- 6 hopes, and candidly sits still. Of Chs W7 who speaks at all, 20 No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P—8 G-r, Cm, B— -t,9 pay thee due regards, Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards. with wit that must And Cd10 who speaks so well and writes, must needs, 66 B -:' Britain.-2 'C- -:' Cobham. -3 'P's:' Pulteney's.'S' Sandys.-'S:' Shippen.- C-:' Perhaps the Earl of Carlisle.-Ch- -s W-:' Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.- Sir Har-y or Sir P -:'Sir Henry Oxenden or Sir Paul Methuen.B-t:' Lords Gower, Cobham, and Bathurst.-1o 6 C G– ―r, C—m, -d:' Chesterfield. . Whose wit and . . equally provoke one, Speak the loud language princes And treat with half the At length to B kind as to thy Espouse the nation, you What can thy H Dress in Dutch . Though still he travels on no bad pretence, Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, 16 1C-t:' Lord Carteret.-2 6 P— : ' William Pulteney, created in 1742 Earl of Bath.—3 · W——— : ' Walpole.—1 · H———— : ' either Sir Robert's brother Horace, who had just quitted his embassy at the Hague, or his son Horace, who was then on his travels. W: 'W. Winnington.-Young: 'Sir William Young. Bub: 'Dodington.- H—: 'probably Hare, Bishop of Chicester. M 76 VOL. II. Hervey and Hervey's school, F-- H −y,1 H————n 2 Or thy dread truncheon M-'s7 mighty peer? C 10 that Roman in his nose alone, Who hears all causes, B-11 but thy own, Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer, 58 70 The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries To save thee, in the infectious office dies. The first firm P―y soon resign'd his breath, Brave Sw 12 loved thee, and was lied to death. Good M-m-t's 13 fate tore P-th 14 from thy side, And thy last sigh was heard when Wm15 died. 80 Thy nobles sls,16 thy ses17 bought with gold Thy clergy perjured, thy whole people sold. 6 1 F H-y:' Fox and Henley.-2 H- -n:' Hinton.-3 Ebor: ' Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester.✦‘O——w: ' Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Earl of Delawar, Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords.-5 N-:' Newcastle.-D's sager :' Dorset; perhaps the last word should be sneer.7M- -'s: Duke of Marlborough.-8 · J- -'s: 'Jekyll.- 'H—k's: ' Hardwick. 'C--:' probably Sir John Cummins, Lord Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas.-"B-:' Britain.-12S- -w: Earl of Scarborough.-13 13 M-m-t's: Marchmont.-14 P-th:' Polwarth, son to Lord Marchmont.-15 · W—m : ' Wyndham.-16 Sl—s: 'slaves.- 'Se――s: ' senates. 9 17 Blotch thee all o'er, and sink Alas! on one alone our all relies, Let him be honest, and he must be wise, school, still a Be but a man! unminister'd, alone, And free at once the senate and the throne; Rich with his . . . in his . . . strong, His public virtue makes his title good. 83 90 THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.4 Ad SAY, St John, who alone peruse Than all the tomes of Haines's band? Does St John Greenwich sports repeat? 10 .:'administration.-2 King's.-Religion:' an allusion perhaps to Frederick Prince of Wales. First Book of Horace :' attributed to Pope. |