To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne,
Give law to Words, or war with Words alone,
Senates and Courts with Greek and Latin rule,

As many quitthe streams that murmuring fall
To lull the fons of Margaret and Clare-hall,

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Where Bentley late tempestuous wont to sport

And turn the Council to a Grammar School! 180 In troubled waters, but now fleeps in Port.

For fure, if Dulness fees a grateful Day,

Before them march'd that awful Ariftarch;

'Tis in the shide of Arbitrary Sway.

O! if my fons may learn one earthly thing,
Teach but that one, fufficient for a King;

Plow'd was his front with many a deep Remark:
Hi, Hat, which never vail'd to human pride, 205
Walker with reverence took, and laid arise.

That which my Priefts, and mine alone maintain,
Which, as it d'es, or lives, we fall or reign: 186
May you, my Cam, and fis, proach it long,
"The RIGHT DIVINE of Kings to govern
wrong."

Prompt at the call, around the Goddefs roll Broad hats, and hoods, and caps, a fable thod: 190 Thick and more thick the black blockade extends, A hundred head of Aristotle's friends.

BENTE.

brated were not real horfes, nor even Centaurs, which, for the fake of the learned Chiron, I frould rather be inclined to think, if I were forced to find them four legs, but dowanght plain men, though Logicians: and only thus "metamorphofed by a rule of rhetoric, of which Cardinal Perron gives us an example, where he calls Clavius, "Un Efprit pefart, lourd, fans fubtilité, " ni gentileffe, UN GROSS CHEVAL D'ALLI

MAGNE."

Here I profess to go oppofite to the whole ftreatm of commentators. I think the poet only aimed, though awkwardly, at an elegant Græcism in this representation; for in that language the word irra [Horse] was often prefixed to others, to dene'e greatnefs of strength; as ἱππολάπαθος, ἱππόγλωσσος ἱππομάραθρον, and particularly IIIΠΓΝΩΜΩΝ.. great, commouffeur, which comes nearest to the cafe in hand. SCIP, MAFT.

Ver. 199. the ftreams] The river Cam, running by the wall of these Colleges, which are particularly famous for their skill in difputation.

Ver 196. ftill expelling Locke,] In the year 1703 there was a meeting of the heads of the Uni-" verity of Oxford to cenfare Mr. Locke's Effay on Human Understanding, and to forbid the reading of it. See his Letters in the last Edit.

Ver. 198. On German Crouzaz, and Dutch Burgersdyck.] There seems to be an improbability that the Doctors and Heads of Houses should ride on horfebacck, who of late days, being gouty or unwieldy, have kept their coaches. But these are houses of great ftrength, and fit to carry any weight, as their German and Dutch extraction may manifeft; and very famous we may conclude, being honoured with Names, as were the horfes Pegafus and Bucephalus.

SCRIBE.

Though I have the greatest deference to the penetration of this eminent Scholiaft, and must own that nothing can be more natural than his interpretation, or jutter than that rule of criticism, which directs us to keep to the literal sense, when no apparent absurdity accompanies it (and fure there is no absurdity it (and fure, there is abfurdity in fuppofing a Logician on horseback) yet kill must needs think the Hackneys here cele

no

Ver. 202. fleeps in Port.] viz. " Now refired into harbour, after the tempefts that had long agi"tated his fociety. So Scriblerus. But the learn ed Scipio Mafici understands it of a certain Wine i called Port, from Oporto, a city of Portug-l, of which this Profeffor invited him to drink abundantly. SCIP. MAFF. De Compotationibus Academicis. [And to the opinion of Maffei inclineth the fagacious Annotator on Dr. King's Advice to Horace.")

Ver. 210. Ariftuchus.] A famous Commentator and Corrector of Homer, whose name has been frequently used to figrify a complete Critic. The Compliment paid by our Author to this eminent Profeffor, in applying to him to great a Name, was the realon that he hath omitted to comment on this part, woich contains his own praises. We shall therefore fupply that lofs to our best ability.

SERIBL.

Ve. 214. Critics like me-) Alluding to two famous Laitions of Horace and Milton: whose richest veins of Poetry he had prodigally reduced to the pooreft and most beggarly profe.-Verily the learned scholiaft is grievously mistaken. Aristarchus is not boasting here of the wonders of his art in annihilating the fublime; but of the usefulness of it, in reducing

ter:

Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Bet-
Author or fomething yet more great than Letter;
While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet like Saul,
Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all.
'Tis true, on Words is still our whole debate,
Difputes of Me or Te, or Aut or At,
To found or fink in cano O or A,
Or give up Cicero to C or K.
Let Freind affect to speak as Terence spoke,
And Alfop never but like Horace joke:
For me, what Virgil, Pliny may deny,
Manilius or Solinus shall fupply:

REMARKS.

For Attic Phrafe in Plato let them feek,
I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek,
In ancient Senfe if any needs will deal,
Be fure I give them Fragments, not a Meal; 230
What Gellus or Stobæus hash'd before,
Or chew'd by blind old Scholiafts o'er and o'er,

220 The critic Eye, that Microfcope of Wir,
Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit:
How parts relate to parts, or they to whole;
The body's harmony, the beaming foul,
Are things which Kuster, Burman, Waffe shall fee,

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225 When Man's whole frame is obvious to a Flen,
Ab, think not, Mattr 1 more true Dulness lies
In Folly's Cap, thin Witdom's grave disguise. 240
Like bunys, that never fink into the flood,
On Learning's furface we but lie and nod,
Thise is the genuine Head of many a house,
And much Divinity without a Nữs.
Nor could a BARROW work on every block,
Nor has one ATTERBURY spoil'd the flock.
See! till thy own, the heavy Canon ral,
And Metaphyfic finokes involve the Pole.

the turgid to its proper class; the words "make it
profe again," plainly thewing that profe it was,
though athamed of its original, and therefo e to pofe
it should return. Indeed, much it is to be I mented
that Dulnefs doth Pot confine her critics to this uteful
talk; and comar lion chem to difmount what Aristo.
phanes cail Popad' ἱπποβάμηνα, all profe on horte-For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head

back.

SCRIBL.

Ver. 216. Author of fomething yet more great than Letter; Alluding to those Grainmarians, fuch as Palamed's and Simonides, who invented fingle letters. But Aristarchus, who had found out a double one, was therefore worthy or double honour.

SCRIBL.

Ver. 217, 218. While towering o'er your Alphaber, like Soul, -Stands our Digamma,] Allules to the boafted restoration of the Eolic Digamma, in his long projected Edition of Homer. He calls it fomething more than Letter, from the enormous fi. gure it would make among the other letters, being one Gamma fet up the shoulder of another.

Ver 220. of Me or Te,] It was aferious difpute, about which the learned were much divided, and fome treatifes written: Had it been about Meum and Tuum it could not be more contested, than whether at the end of the first Ode of Horace, to read, Me doctarum hederæ præmia frontium, or, Ted trum hederæ -By this the learned scholiaft would feem to infinuate that the dispute was not about Meum and Tuun, which is a Mistake: For, as a vererable fage observeth, Words are the counters of Wifemen, but the money of Fools, so that we fee their property was indeed concerned.

SCRIEL.

Ver. 222. Or give up Cicero to C or K] Grammatical difputes about the manner of pronouncing Cicero's name in Greek. It is a d spute whether in Latin the name of Hermagoras should end in as or a. Quintilian quotes Cicero as writing it Hermagora, which Bentley rejects, and says Quintilian must be mistaken, Cicero could not write it fo, and that in this cafe he would not believe Cicero himself. The se are his very words: Ego vero Ciceronem ita fcripfifle ne Ciceroni quidem affirmarti crediderim.-Epift ad Mill. in fin Frag. Menand. et Phil.

Ver. 223, 224. Freind-Alfop] Dr Robert Freind, master of Westminster-fchool, and canon of Christ-church-Dr. Anthony Alfop, a happy imita, tor of the Horarian style.

Ver. 226. Manilius and Solinus] Some critics having had it in their choice to comment either on

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With all fuch reading as was never read:
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,
Ard write about it, Goddefs, and about it:
So spins the filk-worm smail its fiender store,
And labours, tillit clouds itself all o'er.
What though we let fome better fort of fool
Thrid ev'ry fcience, run through every school?
Never by tumblertthrough the hoops was shown
Such skill in pailing all, and touching none.
He may indeed (if fober all this time)
Plague with Difpute, or perfecute with Rhyme. 260
We only furnish what he cannot ufe,
Or wed to what he mu't divorce, a Mufe:
Fail in the midd of Euclid dip at once,
And petrify a Cenius to a Dunce:
Or fet on Metaphyfic ground to prance,
Show all his paces, not a itep advance.
With the fame CEMENT, ever fure to bind,
We bring to one dead level every mind.
Then take him to develop if you can,
And hew th Block off and get out the Man. 270
But wherefore wafte I words? I fee advance
Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor, from France.

REMARKS.

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Virgil or Manilius, Pliny or Solinus, have chofen the worfe author, the more freely to display their critical capacity.

Ver. 228, &c. Suidas, Gellius, Stobœus] The first a Dictionary-writer, a collector of im; ertirent facts and barb rous words; the fecond a misure Critic; the third an ad hor, who gave his Common-place book to the public, where we happen to find much Mince-mest of old boaks.

Ver. 245, 246. Barrow, Atterbury] Ifaac Barrow. Matter of Trinity, Francis Atterbury. Dean of Christchurch, boch great Geniufes and eloquent Preachers; one more converont in the fublime Geomely the other in cluficat Learning; but who equally made it their care to advance the polite Arts in their several Societies.

Ver. 272. lac d Governor] Why lac'd? Because The Sire faw, one by one, his Virtues wake: 285 Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls, The Mother begg'd the bleffing of a Rake.

Spoil'd his own language, and acquir'd no more; 320 Wherebask on sunny banks the simple theep,

O may thy cloud still cover the deceit!
325 Thy choicer mists on this affembly shed,
But pour them thickest on the noble head.
So shall each youth, assifted by our eyes,
See other Cæfars, other Homers rise;
Through twilight ages hunt th' Athenian fowl,

This glorious Youth, and add one Venus more. 330 Which Chalcis Gods, and mortals call an Owl,

Prop thine, O Empress! like each neighbour Be rich in ancient brass, though not in gold, 365

No Cause, no Truft, no Duty, and no Friend. 340 Who like his Cheops stinks above the ground,

True, he had wit, to make their value rise;
From foolish Greeks to fteal them, was as wife:
More glorious yet, from barbarous hands to keep,
When Sallee Rovers chac'd him on the deep. 380
Then taught by Hermes, and divinely bold,
Down his own throat he risqu'd the Grecian Gold,
Receiv'd each Demi-God, with pious care,
Deep in his Entrails-I rever'd them there,
I bought them, shrouded in that living shrine, 385
And, at their second birth, they issue mine.

Witness great Ammon! by whose horns I fwore,
(Reply'd foft Annius) this our paunch before
Still bears them, faithful; and that thus I eat,
Is to refund the Medals with the meat.
To prove me, Goddess! clear of all design,
Bid me with Pollio fup, as well as dine:
There all the Learn' fhall at the labour stand,
And Douglas lend his foft, obstetric hand.

Fair from its humble bed I rear'd this flower, 405
Suckled, and chear'd, with air, and fun, and
shower:

Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread,
Bright with the gilded button tipt its head.
Then thren'd in glass and nam'd it CAROLINE:
Each maid cried, Charming! and each youth, Di-

vinel

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Did Nature's pencil ever blend fuch ravs,
Such varied light, in one promifcuous blaze!
New prostrate! dead! behold that Caroline:
No maid cries, Charming! and no youth, Divine!
And lo the wretch! whose vile, whose infect luit 415

390 Lay'd this gay daughter of the Spring in duft.
Oh punish him, or to th' Elysian shades
Difmifs my foul where no carnation fades.
He ceas'd, and wept. With innocence of mien,
Th' Accus'd stood forth, and thus address'd the

The Goddess smiling seem'd to give consent; 395
So back to Pollio, hand in hand, they went.

Then thick as Locusts blackening all the ground,
A tribe, with weeds and shells fantastie crown'd,
Each with fome wondrous gift approach'd the Power,
A Neft, a Toad, a Fungus, or a Flower.
But far the foremost, too, with earnest zeal,
And aspect ardent, to the Throne appeal.

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Queen:

Of all th' enamel'd race, whose filvery wing, 421
Waves to the tepid Zephyrs of the spring,
Or fwims along the fluid atmosphere,
Once brightest shin'd this child of Heat and Air.
I faw, and started from its vernal bower
The rifing game, and chac'd from flower to flower.
It fled, I follow'd; now in hope, now pain;

The first thus open'd: Hear thy fuppliant's call, It stopt, I topt; it mov'd, I mov'd again.
Great Queen, and common Mother of us all !

REMARKS.

The Arange tory following, which may be taken for a fiction of the Poet, is justified by a true relation in Spon's Voyages. Vaillant (who wrote the Hiftory of the Syrian Kings as it is to be found on medals) coming from the Levant, where he had been collecting various coins, and being pursued by a Corfair of Sallee, swallowed down twenty gold medals. A fudden Bourasque freed him from the Rover, and he got to land with them in his belly. On his road to Avignon he met two Phyficians, of whom he demanded affistance. One advised Purgations,

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At last it fixt, 'twas on what plant it pleas'd,
And where it fix'd, the beauteous bird I seiz'd: 430
Rofe or Carnation was below my care;
I meddle, Goddess! only in my sphere.
I tell the naked fact without difguife,
And, to excuse it, need but shew the prize;
Whose spoils this Paper offers to your eye,
Fair ev'n in death! this peerless Butterfly.
My fons (the answer'd) both have done your
parts:

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Live happy beth, and long promote our arts.
But hear a Mother, when the recommends
To your fraternal care our fleeping friends.
The common Soul, of Heaven's unore frugal make,
Serves but to keep fools pert and knaves awake;
A drowsy Watchman, that just gives a knock,
And breaks our rest, to tell us what's a clock.

the other Vomits. In this uncertainty he took nei-Yet by some object every brain is stier'd;

ther, but purfued his way to Lyons, where he found his ancient friend the famous Phyfician and Antiquary Dufour, to whom be related his adventure. Dufour, without staying to inquire about the uneafy symptoms of the burthen he carried, first asked him, Whether the Medals were of the higher empire? He affured him they were. Dufour was ravished with the hope of poffefsing so rare a treasure; he bargained with him on the spot for the molt curious of them, and was to recover them at his own expence.

The dull may waken to a Humming-bird;
The mostrecluse, discreetly open'd, find
Corgenial matter in the Cockle kind;
The Mind in Metaphyfics at a lofs,
May wander in a wilderness of Mofs;
The head that turns at fuperlunar things,
Pois'd with a tail, may steer on Wilkins' wings.

REMARKS.

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Ver. 387. Witness great Ammon!) Jupiter Ampliment which the Florifts usually pay to Princes and

mon is called to witness, as the father of Alexander, to whom those Kings succeeded in the divifion of the Macedonian Empire, and whose Horns they wore on their Medals.

Ver. 394. Douglas] A physician of great Learning and no lefs Taste; above all, curious in what related to Horace, of whom he collected every Edition, Tranflation, and Comment, to the number of feveral hundred volumes.

Ver. 409. and nam'd it Caroline:] It is a comgreat perfons, to give their names to the most curious Flowers of their railing: Some have been very jealous of vindicating this honour, but none more than that ambitious Gardener, at Hammersmith, who caufed his Favourite to be painted on his Sign, with this infcription, This is My Queen Caroline.

Ver. 452. Wilkins' wings] One of the first Projectors of the Royal Society, who, among many enMarged and ufeful notions, entertained the extravagant