Such wits and beauties are not praised for nought, But oh! what terrors must distract the soul, Let but the ladies smile, and they are blest: Peace, fools, or Gonson will for papists seize you, 235 240 245 250 255 Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. But here's the captain, that will plague them both, 260 Whose air cries, Arm! whose very look's an oath: 6 Albert Durer. 265 270 For, hung with deadly sins, I see the wall,7 275 Courts are too much for wits so weak as mine: 280 Charge them with Heaven's artillery, bold divine! From such alone the great rebukes endure, 'Tis mine to wash a few light stains, but theirs In time to come, may pass for Holy Writ. 7 The room hung with old tapestry, representing the seven deadly sins. 8 A giant famous in romances. 285 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII. [And published separately the same year, the first under the title of "One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-eight; a Dialogue something like Horace."] DIALOGUE I. FR. NOT twice a twelvemonth you appear in print, And when it comes, the Court see nothing in 't. You grow correct, that once with rapture writ, Decay of parts, alas! we all must feel 5 Why now, this moment, don't I see you steal ? 'Tis all from Horace; Horace long before ye Said, "Tories call'd him Whig, and Whigs a Tory;" "To laugh at fools who put their trust in Peter." But Horace, sir, was delicate, was nice; 10 Bubo observes, he lash'd no sort of vice: 2 1 These two lines are from Horace: and the only lines that are so in the whole poem; being meant to give a handle to that which follows in the character of an impertinent censurer: 'Tis all from Horace," &c. After ver. 2 in the MS. 66 "You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade, Like good Sir Paul, of whom so much was said, P. Sir, what I write, should be correctly writ. 2 Some guilty persons very fond of making such an observation. [Bubb Dodington.] Horace would say, Sir Billy served the Crown, Could please at Court, and make Augustus smile: His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen.6 15 20 8 Formerly jailor of the Fleet Prison, enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. [Huggins was warden of the prison, a patent office. The actual jailor was Thomas Baimbridge, to whom Huggins had let the appointment. This Baimbridge was guilty of cruelty and extortion, and was satirized by Hogarth. His gross abuse of his office at length led to inquiry, and he was subsequently expelled, and committed to Newgate. Huggins was also deprived of his patent. Swift, in his description of morning, touches on one of these prison abuses: "The turnkey now his flock returning sees, This was literally true under the reign of Huggins and Baimbridge.] 4 [In early editions "reverend Sun," or Sir Robert Sutton. Warburton prevailed on Pope to make the alteration.] 5 Said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, a captain of an English one. He cut off his ears, and bade him carry them to the king his master. [Jenkins had only one ear cut off, which he used to carry about with him in his pocket. He had been boarded and searched by a Spanish guardacosta, and though he had, as he alleged, no contraband goods on board, and had not violated the regulations of the Spanish government, he had been barbarously treated by the officers and crew of the guard-ship. The case occurred in 1731, but it made little noise till 1738, when it was taken up by the opposition in the House of Commons to show the barbarity of the Spaniards, and the pusillanimity of the British government. Jenkins was examined before the House of Commons, and his statement had the effect of swelling the popular cry against Spain. After all, it is doubtful whether the story was not an invention. Some said that Jenkins lost his ear in the pillory! Burke seems to have disbelieved the evidence, for he mentions the affair as the fable of Jenkins's ear."] 66 6 "Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum præcordia ludit."-Pers. A metaphor peculiarly appropriated to a certain person in power. But 'faith your very friends will soon be sore; 25 P. See Sir ROBERT!-hum- 7 This appellation was generally given to those in opposition to the Court. Though some of them (which our author hints at) had views too mean and interested to deserve that name. [Opposite the word " 'patriots," Lord Marchmont, Pope's friend and executor, wrote "Carteret and Pulteney." See Marchmont Papers.] 8 A phrase, by common use, appropriated to the first minister. 9 [A very pleasant and graceful allusion to the great Whig minister, whose bonhommie and good humour were remarkable considering his position |