Plate XVIII. Vol. IV. facing p. 232. Hayman inv.et del. CGrignion Sculp O Sacred Weapon, left for Truth's Defence, The Muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide. Ep: 2 to 4 Satin 1 EPILOGUE FR. TO THE SATIRES. Written in MDCCXXXVIII. DIALOGUE 1. NOT T OT twice a twelve-month you appear in And when it comes, the Court fee nothing in't. VARIATIONS. After 2. in the MS. You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade, NOTES. VER. 1. Not twice a twelve-month etc.] These two lines are from Horace; and the only lines that are fo in the whole Poem; being meant to give a handle to that which follows in the character of an impertinent Censurer, 'Tis all from Horace; etc. P. VER. 2. the Court fee nothing in't.] He chofe this expreffion for the fake of its elegant and fatiric ambiguity. His writings abound in them. You grow correct, that once, with Rapture writ, Decay of Parts, alas! we all must feel -- 5 Why now, this moment, don't I fee you steal? Bubo obferves, he lash'd no fort of Vice: Who cropt our Ears, and sent them to the King. VARIATIONS. P. Sir, what I write, fhould be correctly writ. NOTES. 15 VER. 12. Bubo obferves,] Some guilty perfon very fond of making fuch an obfervation. P. VER. 14. H-ggins] Formerly Jaylor of the Fleet prifon, enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. P. VER. 18. Who cropt our Ears,] Said to be executed by the Captain of a Spanish fhip on one Jenkins a Captain of His fly, polite, infinuating style Could please at Court, and make AUGUSTUS fmile: His Friend and Shame, and was a kind of Screen. Go fee Sir ROBERT -- P. See Sir ROBERT !--- hum And never laugh for all my life to come? an English one. NOTES. 21 25 30 He cut off his ears, and bid him carry them to the King his master. P. VER. 22. Screen.] Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Perf. P. Ibid. Screen.] A metaphor peculiarly appropriated to a certain person in power. P. VER. 24. Patriots there are, &c.] This appellation was generally given to thofe in oppofition to the Court. Though 1ome of them (which our author hints at) had views too mean and interefted to deferve that name. P. VER. 26. The Great man] A phrafe, by common use, appropriated to the firft minifter. VIR. 31. Seen bim, uncumber'd] These two verfes were |