For hung with deadly fins I fee the wall, 279 Courts are too much for wits fo weak as mine: Charge them with heav'n's artill'ry, bold divine ! From fuch alone the great rebukes endure, Whose fatire's facred, and whose rage fecure : 'Tis mine to wash a few light ftains, but theirs To deluge fin, and drown a court in tears. Howe'er what's now Apocrypha, my Wit, In time to come, may pass for Holy Writ. 285 Tir'd, now I leave this place, and but pleas'd fo As men from gaols to execution go, Go, through the great chamber (why is it hung NOTES. * A giant famous in romances. Ver. 274. For bung with deadly fins] The room hun with old tapestry, reprefenting the feven deadly fins. EPI EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. In Two DIALOGUES. Written in M DCC XXXVIII. Fr. NOT DIALOGUE I. OT twice a twelvemonth you appear in print, And when it comes, the court fee nothing in't. NOTES. Ver. 1. Not twice a twelvemonth, &c.] Thefe 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 cenfurer. 'Tis all from Horace; etc. VARIATIONS. After ver. 2. in the MS. You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade, O 2 You 5 You grow correct, that once with rapture writ, 15 Could please at court, and make AUGUSTUS fmile: An artful manager, that crept between His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen. NOTES. 21 Ver. 12. Bubo obferves,] Some guilty perfon very fond of making fuch an obfervation. Ver. 14. H-ggins] Formerly jailor of the Fleet-prifon, enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. Ver. 18. Who cropt our ears] Said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins a captain of an Englith one. He cut of his ears, and bid him carry them to the King his master. Ver. 22. Screen.] "Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico 66 Tangit, et admiffus circum præcordia ludit." PERS. Ibid. Screen.] A metaphor peculiarly appropriated to a ertain perfon in power. But |