"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," 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) "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; "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, 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, To fpare a foe, to savé a friend: ODE ON SCIENCE. H, heavenly-born! in deepest dells Indulge the verdure of the woods: And flowery carpets lave; For melancholy ever reigns While Dian, huntress of the vales, Yet, goddefs, yet the way explore Till Wisdom give the facred Nine, When When Solon and Lycurgus taught, To erring zeal they gave new laws. Bid bright Aftræa gild the morn, Come, faireft princefs of the throng, 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 So, when Amphion bade the lyre Behold the madding throng, 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 Problem, that my Lord Berkeley stinks when 21 26 28 29 Description of a Salamander, 1706. 31 To the Earl of Peterborow, who commanded the 33 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. 38 39 41 46 48 Elegy |