Tho' ftill he travels on no bad pretence,

Or thofe foul copies of thy face and tongue,
Veracious W --- and frontless Young;
Sagacious Bub, fo late a friend, and there
So late a foe, yet more fagacious H---?
Hervey and Hervey's fchool, F-H--y, H.-o,
Yea, moral Ebor, or religions Winton.
How! what can O--w, what can D...
The wisdom of the one and other chair,
N- laugh, or D-- s fager,

Or thy dread truncheon M.'s mighty peer?
What help from J- - s opiates canft thou draw,
Or H-k's quibbles voted into law?

C. that Roman in his nofe alone,
Who hears all causes, B--, but thy own,
Or those proud fools whom nature, rank, and fate
Made fit companions for the Sword of State.

Can the light packhorfe, or the heavy fteer, The fowzing Prelate, or the fweating Peer, Drag out with all its dirt and all its weight, The lamb'ring carriage of thy broken State? Alas! the people curfe, the carman fwears, The drivers quarrel, and the master stares.

The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries To fave thee in th' infectious office dies. The firft firm P--y foon refign'd his breath, Brave Sw lov'd thee, and was ly'd to death.

Good Mm t's fate tore Pth from thy fide,

And thy laft figh was heard when W

m died.

Thy Nobles Sls, thy Se -- s bought with gold, Thy Clergy perjur'd, thy whole People fold.

An atheft a "'s ad . .

Blotch thee all o'er, and fink..

Alas! on one alone our all relies,

Let him be honeft, and he must be wife,
Let him no trifler from his

school,

Be but a man! unminifter'd, alone,

And free at once the Senate and the Throne;
Efteem the public love his beft fupply,

AO's true glory his integrity:

Affect no conqueft, but endure no wrong.
Whatever his religion or his blood,

His public virtue makes his title good.
Europe's just balance and our own may fland,
And one man's honefty redeem the land.

THE

PLAN

OF AN

EPIC POEM.

As ENEAS was famed for his piety, fo his grand

fon's characteristic was benevolence; this firft predominant principle of his character, prompted his endeavours to redeem the remains of his countrymen, the descendants from Troy, then captives in Greece, and to establish their freedom and felicity in a juft form of government.

He goes to Epirus; from thence he travels all over Greece; collects all the fcattered Trojans ; and redeems them with the treafures he brought from Italy.

Having collected his fcattered contrymen, he confults the oracle of Dodona, and is promifed a fettlement in an Ifland, which, from the defcription, appears to have been Britain. He then puts to sea, and enters the Atlantic Ocean.

The First Book was intended to open with the appearance of Brutus at the Straits of Calpe, in fight of the Pillars of Hercules (the ne plus ultra). He was to have been introduced debating in council