X. See next the decent Scudamore advance, With Winchelsea, still meditating song: With her perhaps Miss Howe came there by chance, 75 Nor knows with whom, or why she comes along. Far off from these see Santlow, famed for dance; And frolic Bicknell, and her sister young; With other names, by me not to be named; Much loved in private, not in public famed! 80 XI. But now behold the female band retire, And the shrill music of their voice is still'd! Sheffield, who knows to strike the living lyre, 85 most. 73 Scudamore. Lady Scudamore. 74 Winchelsea. The countess of Winchelsea, celebrated under the name of Ardelia. 75 Miss Howe. Mentioned before in the verses On Prudery.' 77 Santlow, famed for dance. Afterwards married to Booth, the player. Mrs. Bicknell, the actress, is mentioned in the 'Spectator' with applause. XII. See generous Burlington, with goodly Bruce, And friendly Congreve, unreproachful man! Oxford by Cunningham hath sent excuse. See hearty Watkins comes with cup and can; And Lewis, who has never friend forsaken And Laughton, whispering, asks-' Is Troy town taken ?' ; 95 XIII. Earl Warwick comes, of free and honest mind; Bold, generous Craggs, whose heart was ne'er disguised: Ah, why, sweet St. John, cannot I thee find? 100 Or else to see thee here I well surmised: Thou too, my Swift, dost breathe Boeotian air : When wilt thou bring back wit and humor here? XIV. Harcourt I see, for eloquence renown'd, 105 Another Simon, like as straw to straw. How Lansdowne smiles, with lasting laurel crown'd! What mitred prelate there commands our awe? 99 St. John. Lord Bolingbroke, in France. 103 Baotian air. Swift, in Ireland. See Rochester approving nods his head, 111 XV. Carlton and Chandois thy arrival grace; Hanmer, whose eloquence the unbiass'd sways; Harley, whose goodness opens in his face, 115 And shows his heart the seat where virtue stays. Ned Blount advances next, with busy pace, 120 XVI. Arbuthnot there I see, in physic's art As Galen learn'd, or famed Hippocrate; Whose company drives sorrow from the heart, As all disease his medicines dissipate : Kneller amid the triumph bears his part, Who could, were mankind lost, anew create: What can the extent of his vast soul confine? A painter, critic, engineer, divine! 111 Rochester. The bishop of Rochester. 114 Hanmer. Speaker of the house of commons. 115 Harley. Brother of the earl of Oxford. 119 Carylls. Of West Grinstead, Sussex. 125 125 Kneller amid, &c. A compliment to the vanity of sir Godfrey, which Pope and other wits were always putting to the strongest trials. XVII. Thee Jervas hails, robust and debonair : 'Now have we conquer'd Homer, friends,' he cries: Dartneuf, grave joker, joyous Ford is there, 130 And wondering Maine, so fat with laughing eyes: (Gay, Maine, and Cheney, boon companions dear, Gay fat, Maine fatter, Cheney huge of size) Yea, Dennis, Gildon, (hearing thou hast riches) 135 And honest, hatless Cromwell, with red breeches. XVIII. O Wanley, whence comest thou with shorten'd hair, And visage from thy shelves with dust be sprent? Forsooth,' quoth he, from placing Homer there, For ancients to compyle is myne entente: 140 Of ancients only hath lord Harley care; But hither me hath my meeke lady sent: 131 Joyous Ford is there. Charles Ford, esq. by Swift's interest appointed gazetteer. 137 O Wanley. Humphrey Wanley, librarian to lord Oxford. XIX. 145 Yonder I see, among the expecting crowd, And Titcomb's belly waddles slow along. XX. 155 Lo, the two Doncastles in Berkshire known! But who can count the leaves, the stars, the Lo, Stonor, Fenton, Caldwell, Ward, and Broome! Lo, thousands more, but I want rhyme and room! 160 146 Evans. Dr. Evans, of St. John's, Oxford, an unsparing epigrammatist. 148 Slow along. The names of the majority of persons here enumerated are in want of no illustration; and concerning a few of them, it would be difficult to supply any.Warton. |