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Knight lifts the head; for what are crouds undone,
To three effential partridges in one?

Gone every blush, and filent all reproach,
Contending princes mount them in their coach.

Some, deep Free-mafons, join the filent race,
Worthy to fill Pythagoras's place:
Some botanifts, or florifts at the leaft,
Or iffue members of an annual feast.

Next bidding all draw near on bended knees,
The Queen confers her titles and degrees.
Her children firit of more distinguish'd sort,
Who ftudy Shakespeare at the Inns of Court,
Impale a glow-worm, or vertu profess,
Shine in the dignity of F. R. S.

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Nor paft the meaneft unregarded, one
Rofe a Gregorian, one a Gormegon.
The laft, nor least in honour or applause,

575

Ifis and Cam made Doctors of her Laws.

Then, bleffing all, Go, children of my care!

To practice now from theory repair.

All my commands are eafy, fhort, and full;
My fons! be proud, be felfifh, and be dull.
Guard my prerogative, affert my throne:
This nod confirms each privilege your own.
The cap and switch be facred to his Grace;
With staff and pumps the Marquis leads the race;

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An hundred fouls of turkeys in a pye;

From stage to ftage the licens'd Earl may run,
Pair'd with his fellow-charioteer, the Sun;
The learned Baron butterflies design,
Or draw to filk Arachne's fubtile line;
The Judge to dance his brother serjeant call;
The Senator at cricket urge the ball;
The Bishop ftow (pontific luxury!)

590

The sturdy Squire to Gallic masters stoop,
And drown his lands and manors in a foup.
Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make fenates dance.
Perhaps more high fome daring fon
may foar,
Proud to my lift to add one monarch more;

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And,

And nobly confcious princes are but things
Born for first minifters, as flaves for kings;
Tyrant fupreme! fhall three eftates command,
And make one mighty Dunciad of the land!
More the had fpoke, but yawn'd-All Nature nods:
What mortal can refift the yawn of gods?
Churches and Chapels instantly it reach'd;
(St James's firft, for leaden G- preach'd :)

606

Then catch'd the Schools; the Hall fcarce kept awake; The Convocation gap'd, but could not speak:

610

Loft was the Nation's fenfe, nor could be found,
While the long folemn unison went round:

Wide, and more wide, it fpread o'er all the realm;
Ev'n Palinurus nodded at the helm :

The vapour mild o'er each Committee crept;
Unfinish'd treaties in each office flept;
And chieflefs Armies doz'd out the campaign;
And Navies yawn'd for orders on the main.

O Mule! relate, (for you can tell alone,
Wits have short memories, and dunces none,)
Relate who first, who last, refign'd to rest ;
Whofe heads the partly, whofe completely bleft;
What charms could faction, what ambition lull,
The venal quiet, and intrance the dull;

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Till drown'd was Senfe, and Shame, and Right, and Wrong

O fing, and huth the nations with thy fong!

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In vain, in vain-the all-compofing hour

Refiftless falls; the Mufe obeys the pow'r.
She comes! he comes! the fable throne behold
Of night primeval, and of Chaos old!
Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay,
And all its varying rainbows die away.
Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires,
The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.

IMITATIONS.

v. 621. Relate whe first, who last, refign'd to ret: Who e hea is the partly, whoje completely blet.]

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As

"Quem telo prinum, quem postremam a pera Virgo
"Dejic.s? aut quot numi, morientia corporatundis

Virg

As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain,
The fick❜ning ftars fade off the ethereal plain;
As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppreft,
Clos'd one by one to everlafting reft;
Thus at her felt approach, and fecret might,
Art after Art goes out, and all is night.
See fculking Truth to her old,cavern fled,
Mountains of Cafuiftry heap'd o'er her head!
Philofophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before,
Shrinks to her fecond caufe, and is no more.

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Phyfic of Metaphyfic begs defence,

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See Myftery to Mathematics fly!

And Metaphyfic calls for aid on Sense !

In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die..
Religion, blushing, veils her facred fires,

And unawares Morality expires.

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Nor Public flame, nor Private, dares to shine;

Nor human spark is left, nor glimpfe Divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is reftor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:

Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; 655
And univerfal Darkness buries All.

IMITATIONS,

v. 637. As Argus' eyes, &.]

"Et quamvis fopor eft oculorum parte receptus,
"Parte tamen vigilat-

66 Vidit Cyllenius omnes
Succubuiffe oculos," &c.

VARIATIONS.

v. 643.] In the former edit. it trod thus:

Philofophy, that reach'd the heav'ns before,

Shrinks to her hidden caufe, and is no more.

Ovid, Met. IL

And this was intended as a cenfure of the Newtonion philofophy. For
the Poct had been misled by the prejudices of foreigners, as if that hi
lofophy had recurred to the ocult quait es of Aristotle. This was the
idea he received of it from a man educated much abroad, who had read
every thing, but every thing fuperficialy. Had his excellent friend, Dr
A. been confulted in this matter, it is certain that fo unjust a refl éiion
had never difcredited to noble a Satire. When I hinted to him how he
had been impofed upon, he changed the lires with great pleafare, into a
compliment (as they now stand) on that divine genitis, and a fatire on the
oil by which he, the Poet bimfelt, had been misled.

INDEX

OF

PERSONS AND MATTERS

CELEBRATED IN THIS

POEM AND NOTES.

The Numerals fhew the Book, the Figures the Verse.

A

AMBROSE Philips, i. 105, iii. 326.

Attila, iii. 92.

Alaric, iii. 91.

Alma Mater, iii. 338.

Annius, an antiquary, iv. 347.

Arnall, William, ii. 315.

B.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, i. 104. ii. 268.

Bezaleel Morris, ii. 126. iii. 168.

Banks, i. 146.

Broome, ibid.

Bond, ii. 126.

Brown, iii. 28.

Bladen, iv. 560.

Budgel, Efq. ii. 397.

Bentley, Richard, iv. 201.

Bentley, Thomas, ii. 205.

Boyer, Abel, ii. 413.

Bland, a gazeteer, i. 231.

Breval, J. Durant, ii. 126. 238.

Benlowes, iii. 21.

Bavius, ibid.

Burmannus, iv. 237.

Benfon, William, Efq. iii. 325. 410.

Burgersdyck, iv. 198.

Baotians, iii. 50.

Bruin and Bears, i. 101.
Bear and Fiddle, i. 224.

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C.

Cibber, Colley, Hero of the Poem, passim.
Cibber, jun. iii. 139, 326.
Caxton, William, i. 149.

Curl, Edm. i. 40. ii. 3, 58, 167, &c.
Cooke, Thomas, ii. 138.
Concanen, Matthew, ii. 299.

Centlivre, Sufannah, ii. 411.

Cæfar in Egypt, i. 251.
Crouzaz, iv. 198.

Codrus, ii. 144.

D.

De Foe, Daniel, i. 103. ii. 147.
De Foe, Norton, ii. 41.
De Lyra, or Harpsfield, i. 153.

Dennis, John, i. 106. ii. 239. iii. 173.
Dunton, John, ii. 144.

D'Urfey, iii. 146.

Dutchmen, ii. 405. iii. 51.

Doctors, at White's, i. 203.

Douglas, iv. 394.

E.

Eufden, Laurence, Poet-Laureate, i. 164.
Eliza Haywood, ii. 157, &c.

F.

Fleckno, Richard, ii. 2.

Fauftus, Dr. iii. 233.

Fleetwood, iv. 326.

Free-mafons, iv. 576.

French cooks, iv. 553.

G.

Gildon, Charles, i. 296

Goode, Barn. iii. 153.

Goths, iii. 90.,

Gazeteers, i. 215. ii. 314.

Gregorians and Gormogons,iv. 575.

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