DR. GIBBS.

All men he does with justice view,
And their iniquity

With direful vengeance can pursue,
Or patiently [6] pass by.

Lo! now th' inflictions [7] they design'd
By others to be borne,

Even all the mischiefs [8] in their mind,
Do on themselves return.

O'er all the birds that mount the air,
And fish that in the floods appear [9].

Confounded at the sight of thee,
My foes are put to flight [1].
Thus thou, great God of equity,
Dost still assert my right [2].

DR. SWIFT.

(6) That is no great mark of
viewing them with justice. God
has wiser ends for passing by his
vengeance on the wicked, you
profane dunce!

(7) Ay, but what sort of
things are these inflictions?

(8) If the mischiefs be in
their mind, what need they re-
turn on themselves; are they
not there already?

(9) Those, I think, are not
very many: they are good fish
when they are caught, but till
then we have no great sway
over them.

(1) The doctor is mistaken;
for, when people are confound-
ed, they cannot fly.

(2) Against Sternhold and Hopkins.

DR. GIBBS.

But God eternally remains,

[3] Fixt in his throne on high, And to the world from thence ordains

[4] Impartial equity.

And thus consider still, O Lord,

The justice of my cause;

Who often hast my life [1] restor'd
From death's devouring jaws.

And from the barbarous [2] paths they tread,
No acts of providence
Can e'er oblige them to recede,
Or stop [3] their bold offence.

DR. SWIFT.

(3) That is false and prophane: God is not fixed any where.

(4) Did any body ever hear
of partial equity?

(1) Nothing is restored, but
what has been taken away; so
that he has been often raised
from the dead, if this be true.

(2) The author should first
have premised what sort of
paths were properly barbarous.

suppose they must be very
deep or dirty, or very rugged
and stony; both which I myself
have heard travellers call bar-
barous roads.

(3) Which is the way to stop an offence? would you have it stopt like a bottle, or a thief?

DR. GIBBS.

[6] But they were all perverted grown,
Polluted all with blood;
And other impious crimes: not one
Was either just [7] or good.

DR. GIBBS.

[3] O, that his aid we now might have
From Sion's holy hill,
That God the captive just would save,
And glad all Israel!

All those that lead a life like this
Shall reign in everlasting bliss [9].

FINIS.

DR. SWIFT.

(3) And O that every parish
clerk,

Who hums what Brady
cribs

From Hopkins, would attend
this work,

And glad the heart with
Gibbs.

(9) And so the doctor now
may kiss

coundrel Scot

ott.

Impudent Nonsensical Ignorant

At the end of the MS. is the following note.

"The above was written from the manuscript mentioned in the first page, now in the hands of Nicholas Coyne, Esq. being the only copy in the kingdom of Ireland; he having purchased the original, and afterward generously given it to his friend Dr. Dunkin, finding the doctor extremely uneasy at the disappointment the earl of Chesterfield was like to meet with, as he had promised the earl to attend the auction, and procure it for him at any price; and is now transcribed by Neale Molloy, Esq. of Dublin, by the favour of the said Nicholas Coyne his brother-in-law, and sent by him to his kinsman and dear friend Charles Molloy of London, Esquire."

"Dublin, May 26, 1748."