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Grave, righteous S- jogs on till, past belief, He finds himself companion with a thief.

Το purge and let thee blood, with fire and sword, Is all the help stern S-- would afford.

That those who bind and rob thee, would not

kill,

Good C-- hopes, and candidly sits still.

Of 'Ch-s W-- who speaks at all,

No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P --.

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Whose names once up, they thought it was not

wrong

To lie in bed, but sure they lay too long.

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G-r, C-m, B-t, pay thee due regards, Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards.

with wit that must

And 'C---d who speaks so well and writes,
Whom (saving W.) every S. harper bites,

Whose wit and

must needs

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equally provoke one, Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on. As for the rest, each winter up they run, And all are clear, that something must be done. 30 Then urged by *C--t, or by C-t stopp'd, Inflamed by 'P--, and by P-- dropp'd; They follow reverently each wondrous wight, Amazed that one can read, that one can write:

e Sandys. 4 Shippen.

f Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Perhaps the Earl of Carlisle.

Sir Henry Oxenden and Sir Paul Methuen.
Lords Gower, Cobham, and Bathurst.

* Lord Chesterfield.

* Lord Carteret.

William Pulteney, created in 1742 Earl of Bath.

So geese to gander prone obedience keep,
Hiss if he hiss, and if he slumber, sleep.

Till having done whate'er was fit or fine,
Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine;
Each hurries back to his paternal ground,

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Content but for five shillings in the pound,
Yearly defeated, yearly hopes they give,

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And all agree, Sir Robert cannot live.

Rise, rise, great 'W--, fated to appear, Spite of thyself, a glorious minister !

Speak the loud language princes

And treat with half the .

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Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, Veracious "W--- and frontless Young; Sagacious Bub, so late a friend, and there So late a foe, yet more sagacious 'H---? Hervey and Hervey's school, 'F-, H--y, 'H--n, Yea, moral 'Ebor, or religious Winton.

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Either Sir Robert's brother Horace, who had just quitted his embassy at the Hague, or his son Horace, who was then on his travels.

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✦ Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, bishop of

Winchester.

How! what can "O-- w, what can D--

The wisdom of the one and other chair,

W

"N--- laugh, or D--s sager,

Or thy dread truncheon 'M.'s mighty peer?

60.

What help from 'J ---s opiates canst thou draw,
Or 'H--k's quibbles voted into law?

"C. that Roman in his nose alone,

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Who hears all causes, B--, but thy own,
Or those proud fools whom nature, rank, and
fate

Made fit companions for the sword of state.
Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer,
The sowzing prelate, or the sweating peer,
Drag out with all its dirt and all its weight,
The lumbering carriage of thy broken state?
Alas! the people curse, the carman swears,
The drivers quarrel, and the master stares.

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The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries 75 To save thee, in the infectious office dies. The first firm P --y soon resign'd his breath, Brave Sw loved thee, and was lied to death.

Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Earl of Delawar, Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords.

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* Dorset ; perhaps the last word should be sneer.

Duke of Marlborough.

b

Jekyll.

a Hardwick.

Probably Sir John Cummins, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

c Britain.

d Earl of Scarborough. In another place Pope spells his name with a w. Ep. to the Sat. Dial. 2. 1, 65.

Good M-m-t's fate tore 'P--th from thy side, And thy last sigh was heard when 'W--m died. 80

NOTES.

Ver. 80. W-m died.] Sir William Wyndham died this year; his death was a severe blow to the party, and none felt it perhaps more than Bolingbroke, whose friendship for him appears to have been ardent and sincere. The following extract of a letter from Bolingbroke, to Sir Charles Wyndham on this occasion will be read with interest, as it particularly shews the sentiments of the party at this time :

LORD BOLINGBROKE TO SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM. "DEAR SIR,

Argeville, August 8th, 1740.

"I feel as I ought to do, the kindness you shew me in sending a servant on purpose, with a letter that gives me as much comfort as I am capable of receiving, since the loss we have sustained by the death of your father and my friend. You are in the right, and I love you the better for the sentiment: it is reputation to be descended from so great and so good a man; and surely it is some to have lived thirty years with him in the warmest and most active friendship. Far from any need of making excuses, that you did not write the cruel news to me when you sent to my Lady Denbigh, I have thanks to return you for sparing me, as you spared yourself. The news came to me with less surprize, but not with less effect. My unhappiness, for such it will be as long as I am able to feel pleasure and pain, began however a little later. It is a plain truth, free from all affectation or compliment, that as your father was dearer to me than all the rest of the world, so must every thing be that remains of him: you, Sir, especially, who are as dear to my heart as you could be, if, being the same worthy man you are, you was my own son. The resolutions you have taken both as to public and private life, are such as become the son and successor of Sir William Wyndham. To be a friend to your country, is to be what he was eminently; it is to be what he would have recommended you to be, even with his dying breath,

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'Polwarth, son to Lord Marchmont. • Wyndham,

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Thy nobles 'sl-s, thy 'se--s bought with gold, Thy clergy perjured, thy whole people sold. An atheist a ""'s "ad..

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Alas! on one alone our all relies,

Let him be honest, and he must be wise,

Let him no trifler from his

Nor like his..

school,

still a .

Be but a man! unminister'd, alone,

And free at once the senate and the throne;
Esteem the public love his best supply,

A 'O's true glory his integrity;

Rich with his . . . . in his ... strong,

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Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong.
Whatever his religion or his blood,

His public virtue makes his title good.

NOTES.

85

90

95

if the nature of his distemper had permitted such an effort. He thought this country on the brink of ruin, and that monarchical but free constitution of government, wherein the glory and the happiness of our nation consisted, at the point of being dissolved, and sacrificed to the support of a weak and wicked administration; but he thought that the greater the distress was, the more incumbent and the more pressing the duty of struggling to prevent, or to alleviate it, became. One of the last things he said to me the day before he left this place was, that he did not expect to live to see Britain restored to a flourishing and secure state, but that he would die in labouring to procure that happiness to those he should leave behind him." MS. from the Egremont Papers; communicated by Mr. Coxe.

Ver. 95. Whatever his religion] He probably means Frederick Prince

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