Unless, like the Dutch, you rather would boil Then chufe which you pleafe, and let each bring a faggot, For our fear's at an end with the death of the maggot. 40 &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& To QUILC A. A COUNTRY-HOUSE of Dr. SHERIDAN, in no very good repair, where the fuppofed author, and some of his friends, spent a fummer in the year 1725. L ET me thy properties explain: * Sloth, Dirt, and Theft, around her wait A cant-word in Ireland for a counterfeit halfpenny. * An Irish name. 5 10 HORACE, HORACE, ODE 14. BOOK I. paraphrafed, and infcribed to IRELAND. 1. Written in the year 1725-6. The INSCRIPTION. Poor floating ifle, tofs'd on ill fortune's waves, Unhappy fhip, thou art return'd in vain: New waves fhall drive thee to the deep again. Look to thyfelf, and be no more the sport 2. Of giddy winds, but make fome friendly port. 3. Loft are thy oars, that us'd thy courfe to guide, Like faithful counfellors on either fide. 4. Thy maft, which like some aged patriot ftood The fingle pillar for his country's good, Malus celeri faucius Africo. To lead thee, as a staff directs the blind, As when fome writer in a public caufe The nation fcar'd, the author doom'd to death, A larger facrifice in vain you vow ; 7. There's not a pow'r above will help you now : A nation thus, who oft heav'n's call neglects, In vain from injur'd heav'n relief expects. 8. 'Twill not avail, when thy ftrong fides are broke. 5. ; That thy defcent is from the British oak Ac fine funibus. Vix durare carina Poffint imperiofius 6. Non tibi funt integrá lintea. 7. Non dii, quos iterum preffa voces malo. 8. Quamvis Pontica pinus," Sylva filia nobilis. Her Her matchlefs fons, whofe valour still remains 9. In fhips decay'd no mariner confides, In the gay trappings of a birthday-night : 10. Dear veffel, ftill be to thy fteerage juft; 11. Weary and fea-fick when in thee confin'd, Retire, yet ftill bemoan their country's fate. 9. Nil pilis timidus na vita puppibus. 10. Fidit; tu, nifi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave. 11. Nuper folicitum quæ mihi tædium, Nunc defiderium, curaque non levis, Interfufa nitentes Vites a quera Cycladas. BLIOTHE On reading Dr. YOUNG's fatires called the UUIVERSAL PASSION, by which he means PRIDE. Written in the year 1726. IF there be truth in what you fing, 5 10 15 * Sir Robert Walpole. He was prime minister of state to King George I. and II. for above twenty years. He was made a knight of the Bath in May 1725, and a Knight of the Garter in May 1726; was created Earl of Orford in Eebruary 1742, and died March 18. 1745. Sir Spencer Compton, the Speaker of the houfe of Commons at that time. He was created Baron of Wilmington of Suflex, January 11, 1727. and Earl of Wilmington, May 14. 1730, He died first Commiffioner of the Treafury, July 2. 1743. For |