Montibus impofitas, et barbara regna, tuifque
Aufpiciis totum confecta duella per orbem,

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Clauftraque cuftodem pacis cohibentia Janum,
Et formidatam Parthis, te principe, Romam :
Si quantum cuperem, poffem quoque. fed neque par

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* Carmen majeftas recipit tua; nec meus audet
Rem tentare pudor, quam vires ferre recufent
Sedulitas autem1 ftulte, quem diligit, urget;
Praecipue cum fe numeris commendat et arte.
Difcit enim citius, meminitque libentius illad
Quod quis m deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Nil moror" officium, quod me gravat: ac neque fico

VER. 405. And I'm not us'd to Panegyric firains ;] Arch bishop Tillotson hath said, “That satire and invective were

the eafieft kind of wit, because almost any degree of it "will ferve to abuse and find fault. For wit (fays he) is a "keen inftrument, and every one can cut and gash with it. "But to carve a beautiful image and polish it, requires great 66 art and dexterity. To praife any thing well, is an ar

gument of much more wit than to abuse: a little wit, " and a great deal of ill-nature, will furnish a man for fa"tire, but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well." Thus far this candid Prelate. And I, in my turn, might as well fay, that Satire was the most difficult, and Panegyrick

How & barb'rous

rage

fubfided at your word,

And Nations wonder'd while they drop'd the sword! How, when you nodded, o'er the land and deep, 400 1 Peace ftole her wing, and wrapt the world in fleep 3 'Till earth's extremes your mediation own,

And Afia's Tyrants tremble at your Throne→
But * Verfe, alas! your Majefty disdains;

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And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains :
The Zeal of Fools offends at any time,

405

But most of all, the Zeal of Fools in rhyme,

Befides, a fate attends on all I write,

That when I aim at praife, they fay m I bite.

A vile Encomium doubly ridicules :
There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools.

410

the most easy thing in nature; for that any barber-furgeon can curl and fhave, and give cofmetic washes for the fkin; but it requires the abilities of an Anatomift to diffect and lay open the whole interior of the human frame. But the truth is, thefe fimilitudes prove nothing, but the good fancy, or the ill judgment of the ufer. The one is just as easy to do ill, and as difficult to do well as the other. In our Author's Efay on the Characters of Men, the Encomium on Lord Cobham, and the fatire on Lord Wharton, are the equal efforts of the fame great genius. There is one advantage indeed in Satire over Panegyric, which every body has taken notice of, that it is more readily received; but this does not fhew that it is more easily written.

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In • pejus vultu proponi cereus ufquam,
Nec prave factis decorari verfibus opto :
Ne P rubeam pingui donatus munere, et una
Cum fcriptore meo capfa porrectus aperta,
Deferar in vicum vendentem thus et odores,

Et piper, et quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis.

If true, a woful likeness; and if lyes,
"Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise:"

Well may he P blush, who gives it, or receives;
And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves

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415

(Like Journals, Odes, and fuch forgotten things

As Eufden, Philip, Settle, writ of Kings)

Cloath fpice, line trunks, or flutt'ring in a row,
Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho.