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What cannot copious Sacrifice atone?
Thy Treufiles, Perigord! thy Hams, Bayonne?
With French Libation, and Italian Strain,
Wash Bladen white, and expiate Hays's stain.
KNIGHT lifts the hea:: for what are crowds undone,
To three effential Partridges in one?
Gone every blush, and flest all reproach,
Contending Princes mount them in their Coach.
Next, bidding all draw near on bended knees, 565
The Queen confers her Titles and Degrees.
Her children first of more diftinguish'd fort,
Who ftudy Shakespeare at the Inus of Court,

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Impale a Glow-worm, or Vertù profess,
Shine in the dignity of F. R. S.
Some, deep Free-mafons, join the filent race
Worthy to fill Pythagoras's place!
Some Botanists, or Florists at the least,
Or iffue Members of an Annual feaft.
Nor part the meanest unregarded, one
Rofe a Gregorian, one a Gormogon,
| The last, not least in honour or applaufe,
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 Sons! be proud, be selfish, and be dull.
Guard my Prerogative, affert my Throne:

lating to Wines, which fignify their flavour and This Nod confirms each Privilege your own. poignancy.

"Et je gagerois que chez le Commandeur "Villandri priferoit fa Seve et fa Verdeur."

Défpreaux.

St. Evremont has a very pathetic Letter to a Nobleman in difgrace, advising him to feek comfort in a good Table, and particularly to be attentive to these Qualities in his Champaigne.

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man of the last Edition," which we hereby declare
concern not his birth, but his adoption only: and
mean no more than that he is become a Gentleman
of the laft Edition of the Dunciad. Since Gentle-
men, then, are fo captious, we think it proper to
declare that Mr. Thomas Thimble, who is here faid
to be Mr. Thomas Edwards's Ancestor, is only re-
SCRIBL.

Ver. 560. Bladen-Hays] Names of Gamefters.lated to him by the Mufe's fide.
Bladen is a black man. ROBERT KNIGHT,
Cashier of the South Sea Company, who fled from
England in 1720 (afterwards pardoned in 1742).-
Thefe lived with the utmost magnificence at Paris,
and kept open Tables frequented by perfons of the
firft quality of England, and even by Princes of the
Blood of France.

This Tribe of Men, which Scriblerus has here fo well exemplified, our Poet hath elsewhere admirably characterized in that happy line,

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Ibid. Bladen, &c.] The former Note of Bladen " is a black man,' is very abfurd. The Manufcript here is partly obliterated, and doubtlefs could only have been, Wafh Blackmoors white, alluding to a known Proverb. SCRIBL.

Ver. 367. Her children first of more diftinguish'd fort,

Who study Shakespeare at the Inns of

Court.

Ill would that Scholiaft difcharge his duty, who fhould neglect to honour those whom DULNESs has diftinguished; or fuffer them to lie forgotton, when their rare modefty would have left them nameless. Let us not, therefore, overlook the Services which have been done her Caufe, by one Mr. THOMAS EDWARDS, a Gentleman, as he is pleafed to call himself, of Lincoln's Inn; but, in reality, a Gentle man only of the Dunciad; or, to fpeak him better, in the plain language of our honeft Ancestors to fuch Mushrooms, a Gentleman of the laft Edition: who, nobly eluding the folicitude of his careful Father, very early retained himielf in the caufe of Dulness against Shakeipeare, and with the wit and learning of his Ancestor Tom Thimble in the Rehearsal, and with the air of good nature and politeness of Caliban in the Tempest, hath now happily finished the Dunce's progrefs, in perfonal abute. For a Libeller is nothing but a Gruoftreet Critic run to Seed.

"A brain of Feathers, and a heart of Lead."

For the fatire extends much farther than to the perfon who occafioned it, and takes in the whole fpecies of thofe on whom a good Education (to fit them for fome ufeful and learned profeffion) has been bestowed in vain. That worthlefs Band

"Of ever-liftlefs Loiterers, that attend
"No caufe, no truft, no duty, and no friend;"

Who, with an understanding too diffipated and futile for the offices of civil life; and a heart too lumpish, narrow, and contracted for thofe of focial, become fit tor nothing: and fo turn. Wits and Critics, where fenfe and civility are neither required nor expected.

Ver. 571. Some, deep Free-Mafons, join the filent race] The Poet all along expreffes a very particular concern for this filent Race: He has here provided, that in cafe they will not waken or open (as was before propofed) to a Humming-Bird or a Cockle, yet at worst they may be made Free-Mafons; where Taciturnity is the only effential Qualification, as it was the chief of the difciples of Pythagoras.

Ver. 576. A Gregorian. one a Gormogon.] A fort of Laybrothers, Slips from the Root of the FreeMafons.

Ver. 584. each Privilege your own, &c.] This fpeech of Dainels to her Sons at parting may posibly fall fhort of the Reader's expectation; who may imagine the Goddel's might give them a Charge of more Lamentable is the Dulnefs of thefe Gentlemen of confequence, and, from fuch a Theory as is before the Dunciad. This Fungofo and his friends, who delivered, incite them to the practice of something fe all Gentlemen, have exclaimed much against us more extraordinary, than to perfonate Running FooLfor reflecting his birth, in the words, a Gentlemen, Jockeys, Stage Coachmen, &c.

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The Cap and Switch be facred to his Grace;
With Staff and Pumps the Marquis leads the Race;
From Stage to Stage the licens'd Earl may run,
Pair'd with his Fellow-Charioteer the Sun;

Churches and Chapels inftantly it reach'd :
(St. James's firit, for leaden G- preach'd)
Then catch'd the Schools; the Hall scarce kept
awake;

The Convocation gap'd, but could not speak: 610
590 Loft was the Nation's Senfe, nor could be found,
While the long folemn Unifon went round :
Wide, and more wide, it spread o'er all the realm;
Ev'n Palinurus nodded at the Helm :

The Vapour mild o'er each Committee crept; 615 595 Unfinish'd Treaties in each Office slept ;

The learned Baron Butterfies defign,
Or draw to filk Arachne's fubtile line;
The Judge to dance his brother Sergeant call;
The Senator at Cricket urge the ball;
The Bishop ftow (Pontific Luxury !)
An hundred Souls of Turkeys in a pyɛ j
The sturdy Squire to Gallic mafters ftoop,
And drown his Lands and Manors in a Soupe.
Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach Kings to fiddle, and make Senates dance.
Perhaps mere high fome daring fon may foar,
Proud to my lift to add one Monarch more:
And, nobly conscious, Princes are but things
Born for firft Minifters, as Slaves for Kings,
Tyrant fupreme! fhall three Estates command,
And MAKE ONE MIGHTY DUNCIAD OF THE
• LAND!
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More he had fpoke, but yawn'd-All Nature

nods:

What Mortal can refift the Yawn of Gods?

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But if it be well confidered, that whatever inclination they might have to do mifchief, her fons are generally rendered harmless by their Inability; and that it is the common effect of Dulness (even in her greatest efforts) to defeat her own defign; the Poet, I am perfuaded, will be justified, and it will be allowed that thefe worthy perfons, in their feveral ranks, do as much as can be expected from them.

Ver. 585. The Cap and Switch, &c.] The Goddefs's political balance of favour, in the diftribution of her rewards, deferves our notice. It confifts in joining with thofe Honours claimed by birth and high place, others more adapted to the genius and talents of the Candidates. And thus her great Forerunner, John of Leyden, King of Munfter, entered on his Government, by making his ancient friend and companion, Knipperdolling, General of his Horfe and Hangman. And had but Fortune feconded his great fchemes of Reformation, it is faid, he would have eftablished his whole Household on the fame readable footing. SCRIBL. Ver. 590. Arachne's fubtile line;] This is one of the most ingenious employments affigned, and therefore recommended only to Peers of Learning. Of weaving Stockings of the Webs of Spiders, fee the Phil. Traní.

Ver. 591. The Judge to dance his brother Sergeant call:] Alluding perhaps to that ancient and folemn Dance, intitled, A call of Sergeants.

Ver. 598. Teach Kings to fiddle,] An ancient amufement of Sovereign Princes, (viz) Achilles, Alexander, Nero; though defpifed by Themiftocles, who was a Republican-Make Senates dance, either after their Prince, or to Pontoile, or Siberia.

Ver. 6c6. What Mortal can refift the Yawn of Gods?] This verfe is truly Homerical; as is the conclusion of the Action, where the great Mother compofes all, in the lame manner as Minerva at the period of the Odytiey.-It may indeed feem a very

And Chieflefs Armies doz'd out the Campaign!
And Navies yawn'd for Orders on the Main.
O Mafe! relate (for you can tell alone,
Wits have fhort Memories, and Dunces none)

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fingular Epitafis of a Poem, to end as this does, with a Great Yawn; but we must confider it as the Yawn of a God, and of powerful eflects. It is not out of Nature, moft long and grave counfels concluding in this very manner: Nor without Authority, the incomparable Spenfer having ended one of the most confiderable of his werks with a Roar; but then it is the Roar of a Lion, the effects whereof are defcribed as the Catastrophe of the Poem.

Ver. 607. Churches and Chapels, &c.] The Progrefs of this Yawn, is judicious, natural, and worthy to be noted. First it feizeth the Churches and Cha pels; then catcheth the Schools, where, though the boys be unwilling to fleep, the Masters are not: Next Westminster-hall, much more hard indeed to fubdue, and not totally put to filence even by the Goddess: Then the Convocation, which though extremely defirous to speak, yet cannot Even the Houfe of Commons, juftly called the Sense of the Nation, is loft (that is to fay fufpended) during the Yawn; (far be it from our Author to fuggeft it could be loft any longer!) but it spreadeth at large over all the rest of the Kingdom, to fuch a degree, that Palinurus himself (though as incapable of fleeping as Jupiter) yet noddeth for a moment; the effect of which, though ever fo momentary, could not but caufe fome Relaxation, for the time, in all public affairs. SCRIBL.

Ver. 610. The Convocation gap'd, but could not fpeak ;] implying a great defire fo to do, as the learned Scholiaft on the place rightly obferves. Therefore beware, Reader, left thou take this Gape for a Yawn, which is attended with no defire but to go to reit: by no means the difpofition of the Convocation; whofe melancholy cafe in fhort is this: She was, as reported, infected with the general influence of the Goddefs; and while the was yawning carelessly at her ease, a wanton Courtier took her at advantage, and in the very nick clap'd a Gag into her chops. Well therefore may we know her meaning by her gaping; and this diftressful pofture our poet here defcribes, just as the ftands at this day, a fad example of the effects of Dulness and Malice unchecked, and defpifed. BENTL

Ver. 615-618.] Thefe Verfes were written many years ago, and may be found in the State Poems of that time. So that Scriblerus is mistaken, or whoever elfe have imagined this Poem of a fresher date.

Ver. 620. Wits have short Memories,] This feema

Relate, who firft, who laft refign'd to reft;
Whofe Heads the partly, whofe completely bleft;
What charms could Faction, what Ambition lull,
The Venal quiet, and entrance the Duil;

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

O fing, and hush the Nations with thy Song!

In vain, in vain, the all-compofing Hour
Refiftlefs falls: the Mufe obeys the Power.
She comes! fhe comes? the fable Throne behold
Of Night Primæval, and of Chaos old!
Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay,
And all its varying Rain-bows die away.

Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires,
The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.
As one by one at drezd Medea's ferain,
The fickening ftars fade off th' ethereal plain;
As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppreft,
Clos'd one by one to everlafting reft:

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to be the reason why the Poets, when they give us a Catalogue, conftantly call for help on the Mufes, who, as the Daughters of Memory, are obliged not to forget any thing. So Homer, Iliad ii.

Πληθυν δ' εκ αν μυθήσομαι εδ' οιομηνών
Ει μη Ολυμπιάδες Μεσαι, Διος αιγιόχειο
Θυγατέρες, μνησαιαθ

And Virgil, Æn. vii.

"Et meminiftis enim, Divæ, et memorare poteftis: "Ad nos vix tenuis famæ perlabitur aura.

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But our Poet had yet another reafon for putting this Tafk upon the Mufe, that, all befides being afleep, fhe only could relate what paffed. SCRIBL. Ver. 624. The Venal quiet, and, &c.] It were a Problem worthy the folution of Mr. Ralph and his Patron, who had lights that we know nothing of, -Which required the greateft effort of our Goddess's power, to intrance the Dull, or to quiet the Venal. For though the Venal may be more unruly than the Dull, yet, on the other hand, it demands a much greater expence of her Virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIEL. Ver. 629. She comes! he comes! &c.] Here the Mufe, like Jove's Eagle, after a fudden ftoop at ignoble game, foareth again to the fkies. As Prophecy hath ever been one of the chief provinces of Poely, our Poet here foretells from what we feel, what we are to fear; and in the style of other prophets, hath ufed the future tenfe for the preterit; fince what he fays hall be, is already to be feen, in

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the writings of some even of our most adored an thors, in Divinity, Philofophy, Phyfics, Metaphysics, &c. who are too good indeed to be named in fuch company.

15. The fable Throne behold] The fable Thrones of Night and Chaos, here reprefented as advancing to extinguish the light of the Sciences, in the first place blat out the Colours of Fancy, and damp the fire of Wit, before they proceed to their work.

Ver. 641. Truth to her old cavern fled.] Alluding to the faying of Democritus. That Truth lay at the bottom of a deep well, from whence he had drawn her: Though Butler fays, He first put her in, before he drew her out.

Ver. 649. Religion blufhing veils her facred fires,] Blufhing as well at the memory of the paft overflow of Dulnefs, when the barbarous learning of fo many ages was wholly employed in corrupting the firoplicity, and defiling the purity of Religion, as at the view of thefe her falfe fupports in the prefent; of which it would be endlefs to recount the particuLars. However, amidst the extinction of all other Lights, he is faid only to withdraw hers! as hers alone in its own nature is unextinguishable and eter

nal.

Ver. 650. And unawares Morality expires.] It appears from hence that our Poet was of very differeat fentiments from the Author of the Characteriftics, who has written a formal treatife on Virtue. to prove it not only real but durable, without the fupport of Religion. The word Unawares alludes to the confidence of thofe men, who fuppofe that Morality would flourish belt without it, and confequeatly to the furprize fuch would be in (if any fuch there are) who indeed love Virtue, and yet do all they can to root out the Religion of their Country.

END OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.

LOITS

POPE'S POEM S.

RANSLATION of Homer's Iliad, 1-184 The BASSET-TABLE, on Eclogue,

TRAN

Recommendatory Poems,

SPRING, the firit Pastoral,
SUMMER, the second Paftoral,
AUTUMN, the third Paftoral,
WINTER, the fourth Paftoral,
MESSIAH, a Sacred Eclogue,
WINDSOR FOREST,

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,

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397

422 424 ib.

Anfwer to a Question of Mes. Howe,
Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM,

ib

308 A Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, ib. 309 Prologue to Sophonifba,

316 On a certain Lady at Court,
ib. On his Grotto at Twickenham,
317
To Mrs. B. on her Birth-day,

ib.

310 MACER, a Character,

425

311 To Mr. MOORE, author of the WORM POWDER, ib. 314 Song, by a Perfon of Quality, 1733,

ib.

426

ib.

ib.

ib. To Mr. SoUTHERN, on his Birth-day,

ib.

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ib. Epigram on one who made long Epitaphs 334 To Sir GODFREY KNELLER

337 A Farewell to London,

341 A Dialogue,

348 Epigram engraved on the Collar of a Dog,

352 Epigram occafioned hy an Invitation to Court,
359 On an old Gate erected in Chiswick Gardens,
360 A Fragment,

Verfes left by Mr. Pope, on his lying in the fame
Bed which Witmot the celebrated Earl of Rochef-
ter flept in, at Adderbury, then belonging to the
Duke of Argyle,

Verfes to Mr. C. St. James's Place,

CHAUCER,

361

SPENCER, the Alley,

ib.

WALLER, of a Lady finging to her Lute,

362

429

On a Fan,

ib.

ib.

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Satires and Epiftles of HORACE imitated, 398-407
SATIRES of Dr. JOHN DONNE, verfified, 410-411
Epilogue to the SATIRES two Dialogues, 413-415
Imitations of HORACE,
417-419

MISCELLANIES.
On receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady FRANCIS
SHIRLEY, a ftandifh and two pens,
419
TO ROBERT Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, 420
TO JAMES CRAGGS, Efq. Secretary of State, ib.
To Mr. JERVAS, with Mr. DRYDEN'S Tranflation
of FRESNOY'S Art of Painting,
To Mifs BLOUNT, with VOITURE'S Works, 421
On her leaving the towp after the Coronation 422

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VI. On Mrs. CORBET, who died of a Cancer in
her breast,
ib.
VII. On the Monument of the Hon. ROBERT
DIGBY, and of his Sitter MARY, 1727, ib.
VIII. On Sir GODFREY KNELLER,
IX. On General HENRY WITHERS,
X. On Mr ELIJAH FENTON,
XI. On Mr. GAY,

ib.

ib.

ib.

431

ib.

.ib.

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