PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER. [TRANSLATED from an Oratio a Sancto Xavierio composita, at the desire of a Catholic priest named Brown. Gentleman's Magazine, October, 1791, where the original is given commencing 'O Deus, ego amo te.'] HOU art my God, sole object of my love; THO Not for the hope of endless joys above; For me in tortures thou resignd'st thy breath, Embrac'd me on the cross, and sav'd me by thy death. Such as then was, and is, thy love to me, 1 The price of prologues and of plays,] This alludes to a story Mr Southern told about the same, to Mr P. and Mr W. of Dryden; who, when Southern first wrote for the stage, was so famous for his Prologues, that the players would act nothing without that decoration. His usual price till then had been four guineas: But when Southern came to him for the Prologue he had bespoke, Dryden told him he must have six guineas for it; "which (said he) young man, is out of no disrespect to you, but the Players have had my goods too cheap." Warburton. [This was the regular tariff for prologues and epilogues. Later, Southern could tell Dryden (according to Warton) that he had cleared £700 by a single play, while Dryden never made more than a seventh of that sum by one drama.] 2 [Bishop of Worcester. Deprived by James II. of the Presidentship of Magdalene College, Oxford; he afterwards successively held several sees, and died in 1743.] 1740. A POEM. [THIS unfinished piece was communicated to Warton by Dr Wilson, formerly Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Dublin, to whom it had been lent by a grandson of Lord Chetwynd, 'an intimate friend of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, who gratified his curiosity by a box full of the rubbish and sweepings of Pope's study, whose executor he was, in conjunction with Lord Marchmont.' It is possible that Bowles' conjecture may be correct, according to which '1740' was to grow into the third Dialogue which Pope at one time intended to add to the Epilogue to the Satires. See the Verses on receiving from Lady Frances Shirley a Standish, &c. ante, p. 448]. Roscoe doubts whether so mediocre a production be Pope's: Carruthers also hesitates on the subject; and the piece is at most to be taken as a few rough jottings accidentally discovered.] WRETCHED B1! jealous now of all, What God, what mortal, shall prevent thy fall? C-2, his own proud dupe, thinks Monarchs things Through Clouds of Passion P--'s3 views are clear, Impatient sees his country bought and sold, And damns the market where he takes no gold. He finds himself companion with a thief. Is all the help stern S-5 would afford. To purge and let thee blood, with fire and sword, 15 That those who bind and rob thee, would not kill, No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P 9? 20 Whose names once up, they thought it was not wrong must needs Whose wit and equally provoke one, Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on. Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine; And treat with half the Tho' still he travels on no bad pretence, Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, The wisdom of the one and other chair, Or thy dread truncheon, 12 -s14 sager, H—n, What help from J- -'s16 opiates canst thou draw, 10 Fox, Henley, Hinton. Bowles. 30 35 40 45 50 55 бо 65 11 Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. Bowles. 12 Speaker Onslow and Lord Delaware, chair. men of committees of House of Lords. Bowles. 13 Duke of Newcastle. Bowles. 14 Duke of Dorset. Bowles. 15 The (second)Duke of Marlborough. Bowles 16 Sir Joseph Jekyll. Bowles. Probably; but he died in 1738. Carruthers. 17 Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Bowles. 18 Probably Sir John Cummins, C. J. of the Common Pleas. Bowles. Or Spencer Comple Lord Wilmington, President of the Council Carruthers. 1 Britain. Who hears all causes, B1, but thy own, The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries Blotch thee all o'er, and sink 70 75 80 85 school, still a Bowles. 2 Sherlock. Carruthers. [Cf. Dunciad Bk. II. v. 323, where 'his pond'rous grace' may correspond to 'the sweating peer' in this passage.] 3 Pulteney. Carruthers. 4 Earl of Scarborough (ow). Bowles. warth. Bowles. The former died in Jan. 1740. Carruthers. 6 Sir William Wyndham. Bowles. He died in June, 1740. Carruthers. 7 [Obviously the Pretender, concerning the intrigues with whom in this year see Chap. XXI. 5 Earl of Marchmont and his son, Lord Pol- of Lord Stanhope's Hist. of Engl.] THE END. |