Hifs'd from the stage, or hooted from the court,
Their air, their drefs, their politics import :
Obfequious, artful, voluble and gay,
On Britain's fond credulity they prey.
No gainful trade their induftry can 'scape,
They fing, they dance, clean fhoes, or cure a clap; All fciences a fafting-Monfieur knows,
And bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Ah! what avails it, that, from flav'ry far,
I drew the breath of life in English air;
Was early taught a Briton's right to prize,
And lifp the tales of HENRY's victories;
If the gull'd conqueror receives the chain,
And flattery fubdues when arms are ́vain ?
Studious to please, and ready to submit,
The fupple Gaul-was born a parasite:
Still to his int'reft true, where-e'er he goes,
Wit, bravery, worth, his lavish tongue bellows;
In every face a thousand graces shine,
From every tongue flows harmony divine.
Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, fermo
s Augur, fchænobates, medicus, magus: omnia novit
Græculus efuriens, in cælum, jufferis, ibit.
Ufque adeo nihil eft, quod noftra infantia cœlum
Haufit Aventini ?
Quid, quod adulandi gens prudentiffima laudat
Sermonem indofti, faciem deformis amici ?
are polig beide thy fcornful eye
pad, vin gold could never buy,
i, now, dif-approving day,
And conflence ever gay...
thece od 100's happy fav'rites fee;
great carets, who frown on me.
rowdy villain's genʼral home,siw
over of Paris and of Rome,
1. belly or by fate,
ests on a theme like this,
egs of eich corrupted flate....
Hope à metropolis. 1
sata from the realms of day,
grees and of flats survey-; 50
Sueguents to trace, od s...
100s eate, and empty show,
windled to a beau;
***, reda'd away,
ac, and of Spain the prey.
40 no more canbeg`or steal,
than a wheel;
es gens acceptiffima noftris,
Nov sedan ferre, Quirites,
Hifs'd from the stage, or hooted from the court,
Their air, their drefs, their politics import:
Obfequious, artful, voluble and gay,
On Britain's fond credulity they prey.
No gainful trade their induftry can 'scape,
They fing, they dance, clean fhoes, or cure a clap;
All sciences a fafting-Monfieur knows,
And bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Ah! what avails it, that, from flav'ry far,
I drew the breath of life in English air ;
Was early taught a Briton's right to prize,
And lifp the tales of HENRY's victories;
If the gull'd conqueror receives the chain,
And flattery fubdues when arms are ́vain ?
"Studious to please, and ready to submit,
The fupple Gaul-was born a parasite:
Still to his int'reft true, where-e'er he goes,
Wit, bravery, worth, his lavish tongue bellows;
In every face a thousand graces shine,
From every tongue flows harmony divine.
Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, fermo
s Augur, fchænobates, medicus, magus: omnia novit
Græculus efuriens, in cælum, jufferis, ibit.
Ufque adeo nihil eft, quod noftra infantia cœlum
Haufit Aventini ?
■ Quid, quod adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indofti, faciem deformis amici ?
* These arts in vain our rugged natives try,
Strain out with fault'ring diffidence a lye,
And gain a kick for aukward flattery.
Befides, with juftice this difcerning age
Admires their wond'rous talents for the ftage:
y Well may they venture on the mimic's art,
Who play from morn to night a borrow'd part;
Practis'd their mafter's notions to embrace,
Repeat his maxims, and reflect his face;
With every wild abfurdity comply,
And view each object with another's eye;
To shake with laughter ere the jeft they hear;
To pour at will the counterfeited tear;
And as their patron hints the cold or heat,
To fnake in dog-days, in December sweat.
z How, when competitors like thefe contend,
Can furly virtue hope to fix a friend?
Slaves that with ferious impudence beguile,
And lye without a blush, without a smile;
x Hæc eadem licet & nobis laudare fed illis
Creditur.
y Natio comoda eft. Rides? majore cachinno
Concutitur, &c.
z Non fumus ergo pares i melior, qui femper & omni
Nocte dieque poteft alienum fumere vultum :
A facie jactare manus, laudare paratus,
Si bene ructavit, fi rectum minxit amicus.
Exalt each trifle, every vice adore,
Your taste in fnuff, your judgment in a whore;
Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and fwear
He
gropes
his breeches with a monarch's air.
For arts like these preferr'd, admir'd, carefs'd,
They first invade your table, then your breaft;
Explore your fecrets with infidious art,
Watch the weak hour, and ranfack all the heart;
Then foon your ill-plac'd confidence repay,
Commence your lords, and govern or betray.
By numbers here from shame or cenfure free,
All crimes are safe, but hated
poverty.
This, only this, the rigid law pursues,
This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mufe.
The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak,
Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke
With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze,
And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Of all the griefs that harrafs the diftrefs'd;
Sure the most bitter is a fcornful jeft;
Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart,
Than when a blockhead's infult points the dart.
a Scire volunt fecreta domûs, atque inde timeri.
-Materiem præbet caufafque jocorum
Omnibus hic idem ? fi fœda & feiffa lacerna, &c.
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se,
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
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