◄ Of no man's greatness was afraid,
"Because he fought for no man's aid.
“Though trusted long in great affairs,
"He gave himself no haughty airs i
4 Without regarding private ends,
"Spent all his credit for his friends :
"And only chofe the wife and gos
“No flatterers; no allies in blood +
"But fuccour'd virtue in diftrefs,
"And feldom fail'd of good fweeefs;
44 As numbers in their hearts muft own,
"Who, but for him, had been unknown,

"He kept with priness due decorum ý
"Yet never flood in awe before '6th.
"He follow'd David's leflon juft

"In princes never put his truft

"And, would you make him truly four,
"Provoke him with a flave in power,
"The Irish fenate if you nam'd,

44 With what impatience he declaim'd1
"Fair LIBERTY was all his cry;
"For her he flood prepar'd to dies
"For her he boldly flood alone;
"For her he oft' expos'd his own,
"Two kingdoms, juft as faction led,

Had fet a price upon his head;
"But not a traitor could be found,

To fell him for fix hundred pound. "Had he but fpar'd his tongue and pen, "He might have rofe like other men s

"But power was never in his thought,

"And wealth he valued not a groat:

"Ingratitude he often found,

"And pity'd those who meant the wound : "But kept the tenor of his mind,

"To merit well of human-kind ea

"Nor made a facrifice of thofe

"Who ftill were true; to please his foes. "He labour'd many a fruitless hour,

To reconcile his friends in power ; ·

"Saw mifchief by a faction brewing,
"While they parfued each other's ruin.
But, finding vain was all his care,

He left the court in mere despair.

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"And, oh! how fhort are human schemes! 435 "Here ended all our golden dreams.

"What St. John's skill in state affairs,
"What Ormond's valour, Oxford's cares,

"To ruin, flaughter, and confound';

"To turn religion to a fable,

"And make the government a Babel'; "Pervert the laws, difgrace the gown, "Corrupt the fenate, rob the crown';

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450 "To

"To facrifice Old England's glory,
"And make her infamous in ftory:
"When fuch a tempest shook, the land,
"How could unguarded Virtue ftand !"
"With horror, grief, despair, the Dean
"Beheld the dire deftructive fcene:
"His friends in exile, or the Tower,
"Himself within the frown of power;
"Pursued by base-invenom'd pens,
"Far to the land of f and fens;
"A fervile race in folly nurs'd,

"Who truckle moft, when treated worst.

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"The Dean did, by his pen, defeat

"An infamous destructive cheats

"Taught fools their intereft how to know,...
"And gave them arms to ward the blow
"Envy hath own'd, it was his doing,
"To fave that hapless land from ruin a
"While they, who at the steerage flood,
"And reap'd the profit, fought his blood 3.
"To fave them from their evil fate,

"In him was held a crime of state

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480"A wicked

"A wicked monfter on the bench,
"Whose fury blood could never quench;
"As vile and profligate a villain,
"As modern Scrøggs, or old Treffilian ;
"Who long all justice had discarded,
"Nor fear'd be God, nor man regarded;
Vow'd on the Dean his rage to vent,
“And make him of his zeal repent:
"But Heaven his innocence defends,
"The grateful people ftand his friends;
"Not ftrains of law, nor judges frown,
Nor topics brought to please the crown,
"Nor witness hir'd, nor jury pick'd,

Prevail to bring him in convict.

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"In exile, with a steady heart,

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He spent his life's declining part;

Where folly, pride, and faction sway,

Remote from St. John, Pope, and Gay."

"Alas, poor Dean his only scope

44. Was to be held a nifanthrope.

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"This inte general odium drew him,

"Which if he lik'd, much good may 't do bim.

"His real was not to lash our crimes,

"But difcontent against the times :

"For, had we made him timely offers "To raise his poft, or fill his coffers,

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Perhaps he might have truckled down,

"Like other brethren of his gown ;
"For party he would scarce have bled:

I fay no more — because he 's dead.

510 " What

What writings has he left behind!" "I hear they're of a different kind: "A few in verfe; but most in profe "Some high-flown pamphlets, I fuppofe : "All fcribbled in the worst of times, «To palliate his friend Oxford's crimes; "To praise queen Anne, nay more, defend her, -“ As never favouring the Pretender : "Or libels yet conceal'd from fight,

Against the court to fhew his fpite : Perhaps his travels, part the third; "A lye at every fecond word

"Offenfive to a loyal ear: —

"But not one fermon, you may fwear." "He knew an hundred pleasing stories,

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"With all the turns of Whigs and Tories:

"Was chearful to his dying-day;

"And friends would let him have his way. "As for his works in verfe or profe,

"I own myself no judge of those.

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"Nor can I tell what criticks thought them; "But this I know, all people bought them, "As with a moral view defign'd,

"To please and to reform mankind:

"And, if he often mifs'd his aim,

"The world muft own it to their shame,
"The praise is his, and theirs the blame.
"He gave the little wealth he had

To build a houfe for fools and mad;
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