The cup of forrow from their lips,
And fly, like rats from finking fhips.
While fome, who by his friendship rose
To wealth, in concert with his foes,
Run counter to their former track,
Like old Actæon's horrid pack
Of yelling mungrels, in requitals
To riot on their master's vitals;
And, where they cannot blast his laurels,
Attempt to ftigmatize his morals;
Through Scandal's magnifying-glass
His foibles view, but virtues pass,
And on the ruins of his fame
Erect an ignominious name.
So vermin foul, of vile extraction,
The spawn of dirt and putrefaction,
'The founder members traverse o'er,
But fix and fatten on a fore.

Hence! peace, ye wretches, who revile
His wit, his humour, and his ftyle;
Since all the monsters which he drew
Were only meant to copy you;

And, if the colours be not fainter,

Arraign yourselves, and not the painter.
But, oh! that He, who gave him breath,

Dread arbiter of life and death;
That He, the moving foul of all,
The fleeping spirit would recall,

And crown him with triumphant meeds,
For all his past heroic deeds,

In

In manfions of unbroken reft,

The bright republick of the blefs'd!
Irradiate his benighted mind

With living light of light refin'd;
And these the blank of thought employ
With objects of immortal joy!

Yet, while he drags the fad remains
Of life, flow-creeping through his veins,
Above the views of private ends,
The tributary Mufe attends,
To prop his feeble steps, or fhed
The pious tear around his bed.

So Pilgrims, with devout complaints,
Frequent the graves of martyr'd Saints,
Infcribe their worth in artless lines,

And, in their stead, embrace their fhrines.

INSCRIPTION intended for a MONUMENT. 1765.

SAV

AY, to the Drapier's vaft unbounded fame, What added honours can the Sculptor give? None.-'Tis a fanction from the Drapier's name Muft bid the Sculptor and his Marble live.

EPIGRAM Occafioned by the above INSCRIPTION.

W

HICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend; And each afferts her Poet, Patriot, Friend: Her mitre jealous Britain may deny;

That lofs Iernia's laurel fhall supply:

Through life's low vale, fhe, grateful, gave him bread; Her vocal ftones fhall vindicate him dead.

1766.

B. N.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

OF

SWIFT'S POEMS.

ON the Death of Dr. Swift.

An Epistle to two Friends. To Dr. Helsham.

Dr. Helfham's Answer.

Epigrams.

Page

3

22

To the Rev. Dr. Swift, with a Present of a Paper-
book, finely bound, on his Birth-day, Nov. 30,
1732. By John Earl of Orrery.

Verfes left with a Silver Standifh on the Dean of
St. Patrick's Delk, on his Birth-day. By Dr.
Delany.

Verfes occafioned by the foregoing Presents.
The Beafts' Confeflion to the Prieft, on obferving

how most men mistake their own Talents.

Advice to a Parfon.

27

28

29

30

37

Christians; fo familiarly used by the Advocates for the Repeal of the Test-act in Ireland.

41

The

The Yahoo's Overthrow; or, The Kevan Bayl's

New Ballad upon Serjeant Kite's infulting the

Dean.

On the Archbishop of Cashell and Dr. Bettefworth.

On Poetry: a Rhapsody.

Horace, Book IV. Ode XIX. imitated. To Hum-

phry French, Efq.

Page

44

47

48

64

A New Simile for the Ladies. By Dr. Sheridan. 67

Answer. By Dr. Swift.

A Vindication of the Libel: or, A New Ballad,

written by a Shoe-boy, on an Attorney who was

formerly a Shoe-boy.

A Friendly Apology for a certain Juftice of Peace.

By Way of Defence of Hartley Hutchinson, Efq.

By James Black-well, Operator for the Feet.

Dr. Sheridan's Ballad on Ballyfpellin.

Answer. By Dr. Swift.

Horace, Part of Book I. Sat. VI. paraphrased.

On a Printer's being fent to Newgate.

The Day of Judgement.

Verses fent to the Dean on his Birth-day, with

Pine's Horace, finely bound. By Dr. J. Sican.

On Pfyche.

The Dean and Duke. 1734.

On Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry.

Epigram.

70

76

78

80

83

85

87

ibid.

88

91

ibid.

92

94

95

103

109

Verfes

A Character, Panegyrick, and Description of the

Legion-club. 1736.

An Apology, &c.

The Dean's Manner of Living.

Verfes made for Fruit-women, &c.

On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel. Inftructions to a
Painter.

Ay and No; a Tale from Dublin.

Page

109

112

114

Dr. Swift's Answer to a Friend's Question.
Apollo's Edict.

ibid.

115

Epigram.

Three Epigrams, occafioned by Dr. Swift's intended
Hospital for Ideots and Lunaticks.

On the Dean of St. Patrick's Birth-day, Nov. 30,
St. Andrew's-day.

Epiftle to Robert Nugent, Efq. with a Picture of
Dr. Swift. By Dr. Dunkin.
Infcription intended for the Dean's Monument.
Epigram occafioned by the above Inscription.

119

122

126

ibid.

118

ibid.

END OF SWIFT'S POEMS.

VOL. XLIV.

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