To Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE*. I Ι.. N beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dar'd; To yield to a lady was hard. * This panegyric on Lady Mary Wortley Montague might have been fupprefled by Mr. Pope, on account of her having fatirized him in her verses to the imitator of Horace; which abuse he returned in the first Satire of the second book of Horace. "From furious Sappho, scarce a milder fate, S. And sages agree The laws should decree To the first of possessors the right.. IV. Then bravely, fair dame, Which to your whole fex does belong; From a fecond bright Eve, The knowledge of right, and of wrong, V. But if the first Eve Hard doom did receive, When only one apple had she, What a punishment new Shall be found out for you, Who tafting, have robb'd the whole tree? The The FOURTH EPISTLE of the FIRST Book of HORACE'S EPISTLES*. S A MODERN IMITATION. AY +, St. John, who alone peruse What schemes of politics, or laws, "Or shoots he folly as it flies? 5 10 * This fatire on Lord Bolingbroke, and the praise bestowed on him in a letter to Mr. Richardson, where Mr. Pope says, "The fons shall blush their fathers were his foes;" being so contradictory, probably occafioned the former to be suppressed. S. Ad ALBIUM TIBULLUM. † Albi, noftrorum fermonum candide judex, Quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana? Scribere, quod Caffi Parmenfis opufcula vincat? ‡ The lines here quoted occur in the "Effay on Man." § An tacitam filvas inter reptare falubres ? * To you (th' all-envy'd gift of Heaven) + What could a tender mother's care ‡ Amidst thy various ebbs of fear, Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque fruendi. † Quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno, ↑ Inter spem, curamque, timores inter et iras 15. 20 25 30 Hafte |