Then chufe which you pleafe, and let each bring a

faggot,

For our fear's at an end with the death of the mag

got 1.

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To QUIL CA.

A COUNTRY-HOUSE of Dr SHERIDAN, in no very good repair, where the fuppofed author, and fome of his friends, fpent a fummer in the year 1725.

LET me thy properties explain :

A rotten cabin, dropping rain;

Chimneys with fcorn rejecting smoke;
Stools, tables, chairs, and bedsteads broke.
Here elements have loft their uses,

Air ripens not, nor earth produces;
In vain we make poor Sheelah || toil,
Fire will not roaft, nor water boil.
Thro' all the valleys, hills, and plains,
The goddess Want in triumph reigns;
And her chief officers of state,

Sloth, Dirt, and Theft, around her wait,

See vol. ii. p. 143.

An Irish name.

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HORACE, ode 14. book 1. paraphrased, and infcribed to IRELAND.

1.

Written in the year 1725-6.

THE INSCRIPTION.

Poor floating ifle, tofs'd on ill fortune's waves,
Ordain'd by fate to be the land of flaves;
Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted fland;
Thou, fix'd of old, be now the moving land?
Altho' the metaphor be worn and ftale,
Betwixt a fate, and vessel under fail ;
Let me suppose thee for a ship a while,
And thus address thee in the failor's ftyle.

Unhappy hip, thou art return'd in vain :

New waves shall drive thee to the deep again.

Look to thy felf, and be no more the sport

2. Of giddy winds, but make fome friendly port. 3. Loft are thy oars, that us`d thy course to guide Like faithful counsellors on either fide.

4. Thy maft, which like some aged patriot stood The fingle pillar for his country's good,

5.

To lead thee, as a staff directs the blind,
Behold it cracks by yon rough eastern wind.
Your cables burst, and you must quickly feel
The waves impetuous enter at your keel.

1. O navis, referent in mare te novi

2.1

Fluctus.

Fortiter occupa

Portum.

Thus, commonwealths receive a foreign yoke, When the strong cords of union once are broke. 6. Torn by a fudden tempeft is thy fail, Expanded to invite a milder gale.

7.

8.

9.

As when some writer in a public cause
His pen to fave a finking nation draws,
While all is calm, his arguments prevail;
The people's voice expands his paper fail;
Till pow'r difcharging all her ftormy bags,
Flutters the feeble pamphlet into rags.

The nation fcar'd, the author doom'd to death,
Who fondly put his truft in pop'lar breath.

A larger facrifice in vain you vow;

There's not a pow'r above will help you now:
A nation thus, who oft heav'n's call neglects,
In vain from injur'd heav'n relief expects.

"TWILL not avail, when thy ftrong fides are
broke,

That thy defcent is from the British oak;
Or, when your name and family you boast,
From fleets triumphant o'er the Gallic coaft.
Such was Terne's claim, as just as thine,
Her fons defcended from the British line;
Her matchlefs fons, whofe valour ftill remains
On French records for twenty long campaigns:
Yet from an emprefs now a captive grown,
She fav'd Britannia's rights, and loft her own.
IN fhips decay'd no mariner confides,
Lur'd by the gilded ftern and painted fides;
Yet at a ball unthinking fools delight
In the gay trappings of a birthday-night:

6. Non tibi funt integra lintea.

7. Non dii, quos iterum preffa voces malo.
8. Quamvis Pontica pinus,

Sylva filia nobilis.

9. Nil pictis timidus navita puppibus

10.

11.

They on the bold brocades and fatins rav'd,
And quite forgot their country was inflav'd.
DEAR veffel, ftill be to thy fteerage juft;
Nor change thy courfe with ev'ry fudden guft,
Like fupple patriots of the modern fort,
Who turn with ev'ry gale that blows from court.
WEARY and fea-fick when in thee confin'd,
Now for thy fafety cares diftract my mind;
As thofe who long have ftood the ftorms of ftate,
Retire, yet ftill bemoan their country's fate.
Beware, and when you hear the furges roar,
Avoid the rocks on Britain's angry fhore.
They lie, alas! too eafy to be found;
For thee alone they lie the island round.

On reading Dr YOUNG's fatires called the UNIVERSAL PASSION, by which he means PRIDE.

Written in the year 1726.

IF there be truth in what you fing,

Such god-like virtues in the King; A minifter fo fill'd with zeal

And wisdom for the common-weal:

If he who in the chair prefides,

So fteadily the fenate guides:

10. Fidit; tu, nifi ventis

Debes ludibrium, cave.

11. Nuper folitum quæ mihi tædium,
Nunc defiderium, curaque non levis,
Interfufa nitentes

Vites æquora Cyclades.

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Sir Robert Walpole He was prime minister of state to King George 1. and II. for above twenty years. He was made a Knight of the Bath in May 1725, and a Knight of the Garter in May 1726; was created Earl of Orford in February 1742, and died March 18. 1745.

+ Sir Spencer Compton, the Speaker of the house of Commons at that time. He was created Baron of Wilmington of Suffex January 11. 1727, and Earl of Wilmington, May 14. 1730. He died First Commiffioner of the Treafury, July 2. 1743.

If others whom you make your theme,
Are feconds in this glorious fcheme:
If ev'ry peer whom you commend,
To worth and learning be a friend:
If this be truth, as you atteft,
What land was ever half fo bleft?
the great

No falfehood now among
And tradefien now no longer cheat;
Now on the bench fair Fuftice fhines;
Her fcale to neither fide inclines:
Now Pride and cruelty are flown,
And Mercy here exalts her throne.
For fuch is good example's power,
It does its office ev'ry hour,
Where governors are good and wife
Or elfe the trueft maxim lies:
For fo we find all ancient fages
Decree, that, ad exemplum regis,
Thro' all the realm his virtues run,
Rip'ning and kindling like the fun.
If this be true, then how much more,
When you have nam'd at least a score
Of courtiers, each in their degree,
If poffible, as good as he?

OR, take it in a diff'rent view,

I afk, (if what you say be true),
If you affirm the prefent age
Deferves your fatire's keenest rage;
If that fame universal paffion
With ev'ry vice hath fill'd the nation
If Virtue dares not venture down
A fingle ftep beneath the crown;
If clergymen, to fhew their wit,
Praife claffics more than holy writ;
If bankrupts, when they are undone,
Into the fenate-house can run,