For fuch is good example's power, Where governors are good and wife; Or, take it in a diff'rent view, 20 25 30 Deferves your fatire's keeneft rage; If that fame univerfal paffion 35 With ev'ry vice hath fill'd the nation; If virtue dares not venture down A single step beneath the crown; As will retrieve a loft eftate ; If law be fuch a partial whore To fpare the rich and plague the poor: 40 45 The Q The DOG and THIEF. Written in the year 1726. Uoth the thief to the dog, Let me into your door, And I'll give you thefe delicate bits, Quoth the dog, I fhould then be more villain than you're, And befides must be out of my wits. 5 Your delicate bits will not ferve me a meal, 10 The ftockjobber thus from 'Change-alley goes down, Said the freeman, Your guinea to-night would be fpent: Your offers of brib'ry cease; I'll vote for landlord to whom I pay rent, From London they come filly people to choufe, 15 20 ADVICE to the GRUBSTREET WRITER-S. VERSE Written in the year 1726. YE poets ragged and forlorn, Down from your garrets haste; Ye rhymers, dead as foon as born, Not yet confign'd to paste. I know a trick to make you thrive; Your ftillborn poems fhall revive, Get all your verses printed fair, Lend thefe to paper-sparing Pope : No letter with an envelope* Could give him more delight. When Pope has fill'd the margins round. Sell them to Curll for fifty pound, * A blank cover, On feeing VERSES written upon WINDOWS in INNS. Written in the year 1726. I. HE fage who faid he fhould be proud Because he ne'er one thought allow'd And fairly bid the devil take II: ANOTHER. BY Y Satan taught, all conj'rers know, In this the devil and you agree; 5 ANO |