1740,

A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.

O WRETCHED B

*

jealous now of all, What god, what mortal, shall prevent thy fall! Turn, turn thy eyes from wicked men in place, And see what succour from the patriot race. C▬▬‚† his own proud dupe, thinks monarchs things

Made just for him, as other fools for kings;
Controls, decides, insults thee every hour,
And antedates the hatred due to power.

Through clouds of passion P's views are clear;

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He foams a patriot to subside a peer;
Impatient sees his country bought and sold ;
And damns the market where he takes no gold.
Grave, righteous S--§ jogs on, till, past belief,
He finds himself companion with a thief.

To purge and let thee blood, with fire and sword,
Is all the help stern S-- would afford.
That those who bind and rob thee, would not kill,
Good C- T hopes, and candidly sits still.

Of Ch-s W- ** who speaks at all,

No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P- · ? ++ 20 Whose names once up, they thought it was not wrong

To lie in bed; but sure they lay too long.

G- -r, C— -m, B- t,++pay thee due regards, Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards. with wit that must

And C -d,§§ who speaks so well and writes,
Whom (saving W.) every Sharper bites,

* Britain. + Cobham.

|| Shippen.

Pulteney's.

Sandys.

Perhaps the Earl of Carlisle.

** Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

++ Sir Henry Oxenden and Sir Paul Methuen. tt Lords Gower, Cobham, and Bathurst.

$8 Lord Chesterfield.

Whose wit and

must needs

equally provoke one; Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on. As for the rest, each winter up they run; And all are clear, that something must be done. 30 Then urged by C- -t,* or by C- -t stopp'd, Inflamed by P- -, and by P- - dropp'd; They follow reverently each wondrous wight, Amazed that one can read, that one can write : So geese to gander prone obedience keep, Hiss if he hiss, and, if he slumber, sleep; Till, having done whate'er was fit or fine, Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine; Each hurries back to his paternal ground, Content but for five shillings in the pound: Yearly defeated, yearly hopes they give; And all agree, Sir Robert cannot live. Rise, rise, great W--, fated to appear, Spite of thyself, a glorious minister! Speak the loud language princes

And treat with half the .

At length to B― kind, as to thy
Espouse the nation, you

What can thy H§

Dress in Dutch.

Though still he travels on no bad pretence,
To show

Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, Venacious W-- and frontless Young; T Sagacious Bub,** SO late a friend, and there So late a foe, yet more sagacious H▬▬? ††

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*Lord Carteret.

+ William Pulteney, created in 1742 Earl of Bath. Walpole.

§ Either Sir Robert's brother Horace, who had just quitted his embassy at The Hague; or his son Horace, who was then on his travels.

W. Winnington.

**Doddington.

Sir William Young.

tt Probably Hare, Bishop of Chichester.

Hervey and Hervey's school, F, Hy, *
H▬▬▬n,†

Yea, moral Ebor, or religious Winton.‡
How! what can O- -w, what can D-
The wisdom of the one and other chair,
N- laugh, or D- -'s ¶ sager

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Or thy dread truncheon, M.'s ** mighty peer? What help from J's+topiates canst thou draw, Or H-k's quibbles voted into law?

CSS that Roman in his nose alone,

Who hears all causes, B——, but thy own;
Or those proud fools, whom nature, rank, and fate
Made fit companions for the sword of state.

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Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer, The sowzing prelate, or the sweating peer, Drag out, with all its dirt and all its weight, The lumbering carriage of thy broken state? Alas! the people curse, the carman swears, The drivers quarrel, and the master stares. The plague is on thee, Britain; and who tries To save thee, in the infectious office dies. The first firm P--y soon resign'd his breath, Brave S--h¶¶loved thee, and was lied to death; Good M-m-t's*** fate tore P--th+++ from thy side;

And thy last sigh was heard when W--m ‡‡‡ died.

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Thy noble sl-s, §§§ thy se-s I bought with gold,

Thy clergy perjured, thy whole people sold.

*Fox and Henley.

+ Hinton.

Blackburn, Archbishop of York; and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester.

§ Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons; and the Earl of Delaware, Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords. Newcastle.

¶ Dorset; perhaps the last word in this line should be 'sneer.'

** Duke of Marlborough. ++ Jekyl. It Hardwick. §§ Probably Sir John Cummins, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Il Britain. 11 Earl of Scarborough. *** Marchmont. ttt Polwarth, son to Lord Marchmont. ‡‡‡ Wyndham. $$$ Slaves. J! Senates.

An atheist D, a ''''s ad*
Blotch thee all o'er, and sink

Alas! on one alone our all relies ;

Let him be honest, and he must be wise;
Let him no trifler from his

Nor like his

school,

Be but a man! unminister'd, alone,

And free at once the senate and the throne ;
Esteem the public love his best supply,
A's true glory his integrity;

Rich with his

in his

Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong.
Whatever his religion or his blood,‡

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strong,

His public virtue makes his title good.
Europe's just balance and our own may stand,
And one man's honesty redeem the land.

POEMS

ON READING THE TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER.

TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN,

THE MAN-MOUNTAIN.

AN ODE BY TITTY TIT, POET LAUREATE TO HIS MAJESTY OF LILLIPUT. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH,

In amaze
Lost I gaze!
Can our eyes
Reach thy size?

May my lays

Swell with praise,

* Administration.

+ King's.

Probably, Frederick, Prince of Wales, who took a decided part with the malcontents against Sir Robert Walpole's administration.

Worthy thee!
Worthy me!
Muse, inspire
All thy fire!
Bards of old
Of him told,
When they said
Atlas' head
Propp'd the skies:

See, and believe your eyes!

See him stride

Valleys wide,
Over woods,

Over floods!

When he treads,
Mountains' heads
Groan and shake:
Armies quake;
Lest his spurn
Overturn

Man and steed:
Troops, take heed!
Left and right,
Speed your flight,
Lest a host

Beneath his foot be lost!

Turn'd aside

From his hide,

Safe from wound,
Darts rebound:
From his nose
Clouds he blows:
When he speaks
Thunder breaks :

When he eats,
Famine threats:
When he drinks,
Neptune shrinks:
Nigh thy ear,
In mid air,