tyrical and comical disposition) others that you are infinuating yourfelf into the opinion of the ingenious Mr. What do ye - call him. Some think you are preparing your fermons for the press, and others that you will transform them into effays ' and moral difcourfes. But the only excufe, that I will allow is, your attention to the life of Zoilus, the Frogs already feem to croak for their transportation to England, and are fenfible how much that Doctor is curfed and hated, who introduced their fpecies into your nation; therefore, as you dread the wrath of St. Patrick, fend them hither, and rid your kingdom of thofe pernicious and loquacious 'Animals. I have at length recieved your poem out of Mr. • Addifon's hands, which fhall be fent as foon as you order it, and in what manner you shall appoint. I fhall in the mean time give Mr. Tooke a packet for you, confifting of divers merry pieces. Mr. Gay's new farce, Mr. Burnet's letter to Mr. Pope, Mr. Pope's Temple of Fame, Mr. Thomas Burnet's Grumbler on Mr. Gay, and the Bishop of Ailfbury's Elegy, written either by Mr. Cary or fome other hand. Mr. Pope is reading a letter, and in the mean time, I make use of the pen to teftify my uneafinefs in not hearing from you. I find fuccefs, even in the moft trivial things, raifes the indignation of fcribblers: for I, for my What'd'-ye-call-it, could neither escape the fury of • Mr. Mr. Burnet, or the German Doctor; then where will rage end, when Homer is to be tranflated? let Zoilus haften to your friend's affistance, and • envious criticism fhall be no more. I am in hopes that we may order our affairs fo as to meet this fummer at the Bath; for Mr. Pope and my❝ felf have thoughts of taking a trip thither. You 'fhall preach, and we will write lampoons; for it is * esteemed as great an honour to leave the Bath, for fear of a broken head, as for a Terræ Filius of Oxford to be expelled. I have no place at court, therefore, that I may not entirely be without one every where, fhew that I have a place in your re ⚫membrance; Your most affectionate, • Faithful fervant, A. POPE, and J. GAY Homer will be published in three weeks. I cannot finish this trifle, without returning my fincereft acknowledgments to Sir John Parnell for the generous affiftance he was pleased to give me, in furnishing me with many materials, when he heard I was about writing the life of his uncle; as alfo to Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, relations of our poet; and to my very good friend Mr. Steevens, who, being an ornament to letters himself, is very ready to assist all the attempts of others. TO A Fairy Tale, in the old English style, Pervigilium Veneris, The Vigil of Venus, Battle of the Frogs and Mice, To Mr. Pope, 19, 20 26 36 37 55 81 Part of the first canto of the Rape of the Lock trans lated, Health, an Eclogue, The Flies, an Eclogue, 86, 87 90 94 An Elegy. To an old beauty, The Book-worm, An Allegory on Man, An Imitation of French Verses, A Night-piece on Death, A Hymn to Contentment, 98 102 107 112 116 121 The Hermit, 125 138 144 VISIONS. |