Each pleasing Blount shall endless smiles bestow, And soft Belinda's blush for ever glow. Oh lasting as those Colours may they shine, 65 Led by some rule, that guides, but not con strains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains. The kindred Arts shall in their praise conspire, One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. 70 Yet should the Graces all thy figures place, And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face; Yet should the Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms, and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis' Helen thy Bridgewater vie, 75 And these be sung till Granville's Myra die: Alas! how little from the grave we claim! Thou but preserv'st a Face, and I a Name. NOTES. Henrietta, Countess of Godolphin, afterwards Dutchess of Marlborough; Anne, Countess of Sunderland; Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater; and Mary, Dutchess of Montagu. Their portraits are at Blenheim. Lady Bridgewater, whom Jervas affected to be in love with, and who amused herself at his expense, was the most beautiful of the four sisters. She died, March 1713-14, aged 27. In 1720, her husband was created Duke of Bridgewater. Bowles. Ver. 60. Worsley's eyes:] This was Frances Lady Worsley, Wife of Sir Robert Worsley, Bart. of Appuldercombe, in the Isle of Wight; Mother of Lady Carteret, Wife of John Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl Granville. There is an excellent letter of this Lady to Dr. Swift in his Letters, p. 77. Warton. Он be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send, Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend: Not with those Toys the female world admire, Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, NOTES. 5 10 Ver. 10. 'Tis but the Fun'ral] Immediately after this line were these four following, in the original : " If there's no hope, with kind tho' fainter ray, To gild the evening of our future day; If every page of life's long volume tell : The same dull story, Mordaunt, thou did'st well!" Colonel Mordaunt, who destroyed himself, though not under Warton. the pressure of any ill or misfortune. Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, VARIATIONS. Ver. 15. Originally thus in the MS. And oh since Death must that fair frame destroy, 15 In these gay thoughts the Loves and Graces shine, 5 10 Cheerful he play'd the trifle, Life, away; 15 Ev'n rival Wits did Voiture's death deplore, NOTES. Ver. 13. As smiling Infants, &c.] There is a beautiful passage of this sort in Temple's Essays:--" After all, life is like a froward child, that must be trifled with, and played with, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Bowles. The truest hearts for Voiture heav'd with sighs, 20 Let the strict life of graver mortals be 25 A long, exact, and serious Comedy; 35 By Nature yielding, stubborn but for fame; VARIATIONS. Ver. 19. The Smiles] Alluding to an elegant epitaph on |