His rump well pluck'd with nettles stings, Such, Lady Mary, are your tricks ; THE ELEPHANT; OR, THE PARLIAMENT MAN. WRITTEN MANY YEARS SINCE. TAKEN FROM COKE'S INSTITUTES. ERE bribes convince you whom to choose, The precepts of Lord Coke peruse : Observe an Elephant, says he, And let like him your member be: Thus the Lord Coke hath gravely writ, In all the form of lawyers wit; And then with Latin, and all that, Yet in some points my lord is wrong : VERSES TO BE PREFIXED BEFORE BERNARD LINTOT'S NEW MISCELLANY. * [Pope informs us in one of his letters, that this jeu d'esprit was suggested by some lines of his friend Gay, addressed to this emi. nent bibliopolist. With respect to Lintot's Miscellany, the poet informs Mr Pitt, the translator of Virgil, that he had no concern in reviewing or recommending it; and in the same letter he complains of the slovenly manner in which Lintot reprinted his poetry.] SOME Colinæus † praise, some Bleau, † *The Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany.-H. + Printers, famous for having published fine editions of the Bible, and of the Greek and Roman classics.-H. A famous printer.-H. Stephens prints heathen Greek, 'tis said, A page is blotted, or leaf wanting: And pays prodigious dear for-sense. Lintot's for gen'ral use are fit; For some folks read, but all folks sh―. *Thomas Rawlinson, Esq. eldest son of the lord-mayor.CURLL. TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER. [The following certificate in favour of Mr Moore and his vermifuge, appeared repeatedly in the papers about this time. "Whereas I Michael Parrot have had brought away a worm of sixteen feet long, by taking the medicines of J. Moore, apothe cary in Abchurch-Lane, London, witness my hand, Michael Parrot. Witness, Anthony Spyer."-Postboy, 27th to 29th April, 1710. Mr Isaac Bickerstaff, in his capacity of Censor of Great Britain, deemed it necessary to pass the following stricture on this modest attestation: "I shall therefore dismiss this subject with a public admonition to Mr Michael Farrot, that he do not presume any more to mention a certain worm he knows of, which, by the way, has grown seven feet in my memory, for if I am not much mistaken, it is the same that was but nine feet six months ago." Tatler, No. 221. In the first anonymous copies of this poem, there occurred a very indelicate verse, which was omitted by the author on better consideration, and restored by the malignant correctness of Curll, in his spu rious edition of Pope's Miscellanies.] How much egregious MOORE, are we Man is a very worm by birth, That Woman is a worm, we find, |