"the reft of this Poem: It is to be hop'd, however, that the Poet compleated it, and that it will not "be loft to Pofterity, if we may truft a Hint given in one of his Satires.

Publish the present Age, but where the Text
Is Vice too high, reserve it for the next."

As you have seen fome Pieces on the Stage end in a univerfal Groan, or Chorus of Yawns, our Author concludes his Poem with an univerfal Yawn, and both are the Effects of Dulnefs.

She yawn'd,all Nature nods:

What Mortal can refift the Yawn of Gods?
Churches and Chapels inftantly it reach'd,

(St. James's firft, for leaden Glb-t preach'd)
Then catch'd the Schools, the Hall fcarce kept awake,
The Convocation gap'd, but could not speak;
Loft was the Nation's Senfe, nor could be found,
While the long folemn Unifon went round;
Wide and more wide it spread o'er all the Realm;
Ev'n Palinurus nodded at the Helm;

The Vapour mild o'er each Committee crept,
Unfinish'd Treaties in each Office flept;
And chiefless Armies doz'd out the Campaign,
And Navies yawn'd for Orders on the Main.

And now having gone over this Poem in a general Manner, we beg to be more particular. Speaking of Dulness, he gives one more Push at the Laureat : Soft on her Lap her Laureat Son reclines.

And before we are advanc'd one hundred Lines in the Poem, Narciffus and his Flatterer are taken Notice

of:

There march'd the Bard and Blockhead Side by Side, Who hym'd for Hire, and patroniz'd for Pride; Narciffus prais'd with all a Parlon's Pow'r, Look'd a white Lilly funk beneath a Show'r.

But the Satire that is more general more pleafes us, as we think it of more Ufe, and abundantly where Dulnefs confefles that arbitrary and ecclefiaftical Power are what the flourishes moft under. His Reafon of mentioning King James the First in this Place, is because that King took upon himself to teach the Latin Tongue to Car Earl of Somerset, and Gondomar the Spanish Ambaffador would fpeak falfe Latin to him, on purpose to give him the Pleasure of correcting it, whereby he wrought himself into his good Graces: This great Prince was the first who affum'd the Title of SACRED MAJESTY, which his loyal Clergy transferr'd from God to him, nay, he was ftiled MOST SACRED MAJESTY; the Principles of paffive Obedience and Non Refiftance, which before his Time had skulk'd, perhaps in fome old Homily, were talk'd, written, and preach'd into Vogue, in that glorious Reign. Hear the Goddess!

Oh! (cry'd the Goddefs) for fome pedant Reign!
Some gentle James, to blefs the Land again;
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,
And turn the Council to a Grammar School!
For fure if Dulness fees a grateful Day,
'Tis in the Shade of arbitrary Sway.

O! if my Sons may learn one earthly Thing,
Teach but that one, fufficient for a King;
That which my Priests, and mine alone, maintain,
Which as it dies, or lives, we fall, or reign:

May

May you, may Cam, and fis preach 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 Shoal:
Thick and more thick the black Blockade extends,
A hundred Head of Ariftotle's Friends.
Nor wert thou, Ifis! wanting to the Day,
(Tho' Chrift-Church long kept prudishly away)
Each ftaunch Polemick ftubborn as a Rock,
Each fierce Logician still expelling Lock.
Came Whip and Spur, and dafh'd thro' Thin and
On German Grouzaz and Dutch Burgerfdyck. [Thick
As many quit the Streams that murmuring fall
To lull the Sons of Margret and Clare-Hall,
Where B--tly late tempeftuous us'd to fport
In troubled Waters, but now fleeps in Port.
Before them march'd that awful Ariftarch;
Plow'd was his Front with many a deep Remark:
His Hat which never vail'd to human Pride,
Walker with Rev'rence took, and lay'd afide.
Low bow'd the rest, he kingly, did but nod;
So upright Quakers please both Man and God.

Mr. Pope does not mention Quakers intending to make any Reflection upon that Sect, for he had held them in very good Eftimation, and induc'd the Earl of Peterborough to read Books containing the Principles of their Religion; that the Earl had read them is evident from a Letter of his to Mr. Pope, where he fays:

"I confent you fhall call me Polemick, or affo"ciate me into any Sect or Corporation provided "you do not join me to the charitable Rogues, or to the pacifick Politicians of the Age. I have

<< read over * Barclay in vain, and find after a Stroke "given to the left, I cannot offer the right Cheek "for another Blow: All I can bring myself to, is "to bear Mortification from the fair Sex with Pa"tience."

This Apology was dedicated to King Charles the Second, and in the Dedication was this remarkable Paffage. "Thou haft tafted of Profperity and Ad"verfity; thou knoweft what it is to be banish'd "thy native Country; to be over-rul'd as well as to « rule, and fit upon the Throne, and being op"prefs'd, thou haft Reason to know how hateful the "Oppreffor is both to God and Man: If after all "these Warnings and Advertisements, thou doft "not turn unto the Lord with all thy Heart; but

forget him who remember'd thee in thy Diftrefs, "and give thyself up to follow LUST and VANI"TY, furely great will be thy Condemnation."

We believe there is not any modern Example of fuch Plainnefs and Couragioufnefs of Addrefs to any Prince in Europe, this excepted. Of this Book Mr. Pope was profeffedly an Admirer, which he often declar'd breath'd forth the Spirit of primitive Chriftianity, and Mr. Norris Rector of Bemerton near Salifbury, declares :

"He cannot think Quakerism inconfiderable, as "the Principles of it are laid down and manag'd by Mr. Barclay.

"That great and general Contempt they lie under, does not hinder him from thinking the Sect "of the Quakers to be far the most confiderable of any that divide from the Church: In cafe the Quakerism that is generally held, be the fame with that "" which

Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.

which Mr. Barclay has delivered to the World as fuch; whom he takes to be fo great a Man, "that he profeffes freely, that he had rather engage against an hundred Bellarmins, Hardings, and Stapletons, than with one Barclay."

Another ingenious Writer and much applauded, fcruples not to say:

"He is not asham'd to own, that he hath with "great Pleasure read over Mr. Barclay's Apology

for Quakerifm, and doth really think it to be the "most masterly, charitable, and reasonable System "that he hath ever feen: It folves (fays he) the nu"merous Difficulties rais'd by the other Sects, "and by Turns thrown at one another: He fhews (fays he) all Parts of Scripture to be uniform and "confiftent.

"And comprehends every Thing which has been ❝ fince faid by the best Writers for Liberty of Confcience, and against all Sort of religious Impofitions, with as much Wit, happy Turn, and mafterly Expreffions, as is confiftent with the Plain"nefs and Simplicity affected by thofe of his Sect, "and for the most Part used in holy Writings."

Though had their Way of Thinking as to religipus Matters been what it would, Mr. Pope often faid before he infpected into their Matter of Faith, that their quiet, peaceable, and unambitious Lives, recommended them fufficiently to the Efteem of wife Men; for they incapacitate themfelves by refufing Oaths and the Sacraments, to fill up any Places either of Honour or Profit.

But to return to our Satire: The Goddess Dulnefs confers Titles on all her Sons of different Degrees, and gives them her Bleffing: