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EPILOGUE

TO THE

SATIRES,

In Two DIALOGUES.

Written in MDCCXXXVIIL

THE NEW.YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDE FOUGE

Plate XVIIШ.

Vol. IV. facing p. 232

T.Hayman inv.et del.

Grignion Sculp

O Sacred Weapon, left for Truth's Defence,
Sole Dread of Folly, Vice and Insolence!

To all but Heaven-directed Hands denied,

The Muse may give thee, but the Gods

must guide & Sch

to Satire

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And when it comes, the Court see nothing in't.

VARIATIONS.

After y 2. in the MS.

You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade,
Because you think your reputation made :
Like good ** of whom so much was said,
That when his name was up, he lay a-bed.
Come, come, refresh us with a livelier song,
Or like ** you'll lie a-bed too long.

NOTES.

VER. 1. Not twice a twelve-month etc.] 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; etc. P.

VER. 2. the Court see nothing in't.) He chose this expression for the sake of its elegant and satiric ambiguity. His writings abound in them.

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