ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.'

PALLAS grew vapourish once, and odd,
She would not do the least right thing,
Either for goddess or for god,

Nor work, nor play, nor paint, nor sing.

Jove frown'd, and, "Use," he cried, "those eyes
So skilful, and those hands so taper;
Do something exquisite and wise-"
She bow'd, obey'd him,-and cut paper.

This vexing him who gave her birth,

Thought by all heaven a burning shame;
What does she next, but bids, on earth,
Her Burlington do just the same.

Pallas, you give yourself strange airs;

But sure you'll find it hard to spoil
The sense and taste of one that bears
The name of Saville and of Boyle.3

Alas! one bad example shown,

How quickly all the sex pursue!
See, madam, see the arts o'erthrown,
Between John Overton and you!'

vol. of Warburton's Pope's Works, formerly belonging to Cracherode, now in the British Museum, these lines are written in Dr. Birch's handwriting, with the following certificate: "This Epigram of Mr. Pope was communicated by the Rev. Dr. Warburton to Tho. Birch."

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1 First published in the Miscel lanies, 1727.

2 Before her marriage her name was Lady Dorothy Saville.

3 We may conjecture that the Countess of Burlington had in an absent mood amused herself with cutting to pieces one of the Sibylline

LINES ON SWIFT'S ANCESTORS.'

JONATHAN SWIFT

Had the gift,

By fatherige, motherige,
And by brotherige,
To come from Gotherige,
But now is spoil'd clean,
And an Irish dean:

In this church he has put
A stone of two foot,
With a cup and a can, sir,
In respect to his grandsire;
So, Ireland, change thy tone,
And
cry, O hone! O hone!
For England hath its own.

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ON SEEING THE LADIES AT CRUX-EASTON WALK IN THE WOODS BY THE GROTTO."

EXTEMPORE BY MR. POPE.

AUTHORS the world and their dull brains have traced
To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk;

Here, here's the place where these bright angels walk.

leaves of paper on which Pope had written some verses. Perhaps John Overton, her servant, had been called to remove the litter, and hence had helped to "overthrow the arts."

1 Swift set up a plain monument to his grandfather, and also presented a cup to the church of Goodrich or Gotheridge, in Herefordshire. He sent a pencilled elevation of the monu

ment (a simple tablet) to Mr. Howard,
who returned it with the following
lines inscribed on the drawing by
Pope. The paper is endorsed, in
Swift's hand: "Model of a Monu-
ment for my Grandfather, with Pope's
roguery."-SCOTT's Life of Swift.
2 From "The Student," Oxford
Miscellany, 1750. See note to ver. 2
of the next piece.

INSCRIPTION ON A GROTTO, THE WORK OF
NINE LADIES.'

HERE, shunning idleness at once and praise,
This radiant pile nine rural sisters 'raise;
The glittering emblem of each spotless dame,
Clear as her soul and shining as her frame;
Beauty which nature only can impart,
And such a polish as disgraces art;

But Fate disposed them in this humble sort,
And hid in deserts what would charm a Court.

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LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN'S BOOK ON COINS.

TOM WOOD of Chiswick, deep divine,

To painter Kent gave all this coin.
'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say,
That ever churchman gave to lay.

1 From Dodsley's Miscellany.

2 The nine ladies were sisters of Dr. Thomas Lisle, who, Warton says, was chaplain at Smyrna, and all of them were the children of Edward Lisle, of Crux Easton. They were of the same family as Lisle the regi cide, and Lady Alicia Lisle, beheaded after Monmouth's rebellion. From information in the possession of the Earl of Carnarvon, to whom Crux Easton now belongs, it appears that the nine ladies used to amuse themselves by standing on niches in the Grotto, as the Nine Muses; Pope being placed in the midst, as Apollo. Lord Carnarvon informs me that the Grotto was standing within his memory.

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may as well mention here that I learn from the same source that the lines in Moral Essay ii., on "Magdalen's loose hair and lifted eye," were written by Pope under a picture of the Countess of Suffolk as a Magdalen, at Highclere.

3 In the "Gentleman's Magazine," 1735, these lines appear with the following inscription: "Wrote by Mr. P. in a volume of Evelyn on Coins,' presented to a painter by a parson." 4 The Rev. Thomas Wood was Rector of Chiswick from 1716 to 1734. Pope no doubt made Wood's acquaintance when he removed to Chiswick in 1716 with his father and mother.

BISHOP HOUGH.'

A BISHOP, by his neighbours hated,
Has cause to wish himself translated;
But why should Hough desire translation,
Loved and esteemed by all the nation ?
Yet if it be the old man's case,

I'll lay my life I know the place:

'Tis where God sent some that adore him,
And whither Enoch went before him.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD,'

UPON A PIECE OF NEWS IN MIST (MIST'S JOURNAL), THAT THE REV. MR. W. REFUS'D TO WRITE AGAINST MR. POPE BECAUSE HIS BEST PATRON HAD A FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SAID P.

WESLEY, if Wesley 'tis they mean,'

They say on Pope would fall,
Would his best patron let his pen
Discharge his inward gall.'

What patron this, a doubt must be,
Which none but you can clear,

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1732 he was made Head Master of Tiverton School, and retained the appointment till his death, which happened in 1739.

4 Wesley's irritation against Pope doubtless arose in consequence of the mention of his father's name in Dunciad, Book i. 146, in which line the names were originally "Wesley, Watts, and Blome." We may suppose that Wesley's name was removed at the instance of his son. These lines were therefore probably written in 1728.

YES, I beheld th' Athenian Queen
Descend in all her sober charms;
"And take," (she said, and smil'd serene,)
"Take at this hand celestial arms: