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"To facrifice Old England's glory,

"And make her infamous in story::
"When fuch a tempest shook the land,
"How could unguarded Virtue stand ! ̈·
"With horror, grief, defpair, the Dean
"Beheld the dire deftructive fcene :
"His friends in exile, or the Tower,
"Himself within the frown of power;
"Pursued by base-invenom'd pens,
"Far to the land of f-- and fens ;

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"The Dean did, by his pen, defeat

"An infamous deftructive cheat;

"Taught fools their intereft how to know,
"And gave them arms to ward the blow.
"Envy hath own'd, it was his doing,
"To fave that hapless land from ruin ;
While they who at the steerage ftood,
"And reap'd the profit, fought his blood.
"To fave them from their evil fate,
"In him was held a crime of state.

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"A wicked monster on the bench,
"Whofe fury blood could never quench;
"As vile and profligate a villain,
"As modern 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 Heaven his innocence defends,
"The grateful people ftand his friends;
"Not ftrains of law, nor judges frown,
"Nar topics brought to please the crown,
4. Nor witnefs hir'd, nor jury pick'd,
Prevail to bring him in convict.
"In exile, with a steady heart,

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"He spent his life's declining part;

"Where folly, pride, and faction sway,

"Remote from St. John, Pope, and Gay.”

"Alas, poor Dean! his only scope

Was to be held a misanthrope.

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"This into general odium drew him,

"Which if he lik'd, much good may 't do him.

"His zeal was not to lash our crimes,

"But discontent against the times :

"For, had we made him timely offers

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"To raise his poft, or fill his coffers,
"Perhaps he might have truckled down,
Like other brethren of his gown ;
"For party he would scarce have bled:
"I fay no more because he 's dead.

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“What writings has he left behind?”

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"I hear they're of a different kind: * A few in verse; but most in profe "Some high-flown pamphlets, I suppose: "All fcribbled in the worst of times,

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To palliate his friend Oxford's crimes; "To praise queen Anne, nay more, defend her, "As never favouring the Pretender :

Or libels yet conceal'd from fight, "Against the court to fhew his fpite: "Perhaps his travels, part the third; "A lye at every fecond word

- Offensive to a loyal ear: —

"But
not one fermon, you may swear."
“He knew an hundred pleafing ftories,

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"With all the turns of Whigs and Tories:

"Was chearful to his dying-day;'

"And friends would let him have his way. "As for his works in verfe or profe,

"I own myself no judge of those.

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"Nor can I tell what criticks thought them; "But this I know, all people bought them, "As with a moral view defign'd,

"To please and to reform mankind:

"And, if he often mifs'd his aim,

"The world muft own it to their shame,
"The praife is his, and theirs the blame.
"He gave the little wealth he had

To build a houfe for fools and måd;
VOL. II.

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"To shew, by one fatiric touch,
"No nation wanted it fo much.
"That kingdom he hath left his debtor,
"I wish it foon may have a better.
"And, fince you dread no farther lashes,
"Methinks you may forgive his afbes."

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AN EPISTLE TO TWO FRIENDS*.

TO DR. HELSHAM.

SIR,

Nov. 23, at night, 1731.

WHEN

HEN I left you, I found myself of the grape's juice fick;

I'm fo full of pity, I never abuse fick ;

And the patienteft patient that ever you knew fick ;
Both when I am purge-fick, and when I am fpew-fick.
I pitied my cat, whom I knew by her mew fick ;
She mended at first, but now the 's a-new fick.
Captain Butler made fome in the church black and blue

fick;

Dean Crofs, had he preach'd, would have made us all pew-fick.

Are not you, in a crowd when you sweat and stew, fick ? Lady Santry got out of the church when she grew fick,

*This medley (for it cannot be called a poem) is given as a fpecimen of thofe bagatelles for which the Dean hath perhaps been too feverely cenfured. Some which were fill more exceptionable are fuppreffed. N.

And,

And, as fast as fhe could, to the deanry flew fick. Mifs Morice was (I can you affure 'tis true) fick : For, who would not be in that numerous crew fick ? Such mufick would make a fanatick or Jew fick,. Yet, ladies are feldom at ombre or lue fick :

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Nor is old Nanny Shales, whene'er fhe does brew, fick.
My footman came home from the church of a bruise sick,
And look'd like a rake, who was made in the flews fick;
But learned doctors can make whom you chufe fick :
And poor I myself was, when I withdrew, fick;
For the smell of them made me like garlick and rue fick,
And I got through the crowd, though not let by a clue,
fick.

You hop'd to find many (for that was your cue) fick;
But there was not a dozen (to give them their due) sick,
And thofe, to be fure, ftuck together like glew, fick.
So are ladies in crowds, when they fqueeze and they
fcrew, fick,

You may find they are all, by their yellow pale hue, fick; So am I, when tobacco, like Robin, I chew, fick.

TO DR. SHERIDAN.

IF I write any more, it will make my poor Mufe fick. This night I came home with a very cold dew fick, And I wish I may foon be not of an ague fick; But I hope I shall ne'er be, like you, of a shrew fick, Who often has made me, by looking afkew, fick.

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