EPISTOLA I. RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena, PRIMA Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaeris, Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo. C Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. Veianius, armis VER. 3. Sabbath of my days?] i. e. The 49th year, the age of the Author. VER, 8. Hang their old Trophies o'er the Garden gates,] An EPISTLE I. T. To L. BOLINGBROKE. JOHN, whofe love indulg'd my labours paft, S parts Matures my present, and shall bound my laft! Why will you break the Sabbath of my days? Now fick alike of Envy and of Praise. Public too long, ah let me hide my Age! See Modest Cibber now has left the Stage: с Our Gen'rals now, retir'd to their Eftates, Hang their old Trophies o'er the Garden gates, e 5. I I Nor fond of bleeding, ev'n inBRUNSWICK's caufe. f A voice there is, that whispers in my ear, ('Tis Reafon's voice, which fometimes one can hear) Friend Pope! be prudent, let your Mufe take "breath, "And never gallop Pegafus to death; NOTES. occafional ftroke of Satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epiftle on Tafte. "Load fome vain Church with old theatric state, VER. 10. ev'n in Brunswick's caufe.] In the former Editions it was, Britain's caufe. But the terms are fynonymous. Nunc itaque et h verfus, et caetera ludicra i pono: Quid verum atque decens, curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc fum: * Condo, et compono, quae mox depromere poffim. Ac ne forte roges, 'quo me duce, quo Lare tuter: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri, TM Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes. Nunc agilis fio, et merfor " civilibus undis, Virtutis verae cuftos, ° rigidufque fatelles: NOTES. VER. 16. You limp, like Blackmore on a Lord Mayor's horse,] The fame of this heavy Poet, however problematical elsewhere, was univerfally received in the City of London. His verfification is here exactly defcribed: ftiff, and not ftrong; ftately and yet dull, like the fober and flow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor: and therefore here humouroufly opposed to Pegasus.. P. VER. 26. And houfe with Montagne now, and now with Locke,] i. e. Chufe either an active or a contemplative life, as is |