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"I found you did it, by your grinning; "Your business is, to mind your fpinning. "But how you came to interpofe "In making bifhops, no one knows : "Or who regarded your report; "For never were you feen at court. "And if you must have your petition, "There's Berkeley* in the fame condition: "Look, there he flands, and 'tis but just, "If one muft drown, the other muft; "But, if you'll leave us bifhop Judas, "We'll give you Berkeley for Bermudas. "Now, if 'twill gratify your spight, "To put him in a plaguy fright,"

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Although 'tis hardly worth the coft, "You foon fhall fee him foundly toft.

"You'll find him fwear, blafpheme, and damn

"(And every moment take a dram)

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"His ghaftly vifage with an air

"Of reprobation and defpair :"

"Or elfe fome hiding-hole he feeks,

"For fear the reft fhould fay he fqueaks;
"Or, as Fitzpatrick † did before,

"Refolve to perifh with his whore ;

"Or elfe he raves, and roars, and fwears,

"And, but for fhame, would fay his prayers.

"Or, would you fee his fpirits fink,

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Relaxing downwards in a stink?

*Dr. George Berkeley, dean of Derry, and afterwards bishop of Cloyne.

+ Brigadier Fitzpatrick was drowned in one of the packet-boats in the bay of Dublin, in a great ftorm.

If fuch a fight as this can please ye,
Good madam Pallas, pray be easy,
"To Neptune speak, and he 'll confent ;
But he'll come back the knave he went."
The goddefs, who conceiv'd an hope,
That Horte was deftin'd to a rope,
Believ'd it beft to condefcend

To fpare a foe, to savé a friend:
But, fearing Berkeley might be fcar'd,
She left him Virtue for a guard.

ODE

ON

SCIENCE.

H, heavenly-born! in deepest dells
If faireft fcience ever dwells
Beneath the moffy cave;

Indulge the verdure of the woods:
With azure beauty gild the floods,

And flowery carpets lave;

For melancholy ever reigns
Delighted in the fylvan fcenes
With fcientific light;

While Dian, huntress of the vales,
Seeks lulling founds and fanning gales,
Though wrapt from mortal fight.

Yet, goddefs, yet the way explore
With magic rites and heathen lore
Obftructed and deprefs'd :

Till Wisdom give the facred Nine,
Untaught, not uninfpir'd, to fhine,
By Reason's
power redrefs'd.

When

When Solon and Lycurgus taught,
To moralize the human thought
Of mad opinion's maze,

To erring zeal they gave new laws.
Thy charms, O Liberty, the cause
That blends congenial rays.

Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn,
Or bid a hundred funs be born,
To hecatomb the year;
Without thy aid, in vain the poles,
In vain the zodiac fyftem rolls,
In vain the lunar fphere.

Come, faireft princefs of the throng,
Bring fweet Philofophy along
In metaphyfic dreams;

While raptur'd bards no more behold

A vernal age of purer gold

In Heliconian ftreanis.

Drive Thraldom with malignant hand,

To curfe fome other deftin'd land

By Folly led aftray:

Ierne bear on azure wing;

Energic let her foar, and fing
Thy univerfal fway.

So, when Amphion bade the lyre
To more majestic found aspire,

Behold the madding throng,
In wonder and oblivion drown'd,
To fculpture turn'd by magic found
And petrifying fong.

CONTENT S

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

ODE to the Hon. Sir William Temple, 1689. Page r

to the Athenian Society, 1691.

Lines written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699. 20 Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition.

Ballad on the Game of Traffic.

Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one.
The Discovery.

The Problem, that my Lord Berkeley stinks when
he is in Love.

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Description of a Salamander, 1706.

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To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the

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Whitehall.

Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, afterwards Countess of Winchelsea.

Vanbrugh's House, built from the Ruins of

The History of Vanbrugh's House.

Baucis and Philemon, 1708.

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Elegy

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