ARGYLL, the State's whole Thunder born to wield, Or WYNDHAM, just to Freedom and the Throne, Names, which I long have lov'd, nor lov'd in vain, Train; And if yet higher the proud Lift should end, 91 NOTES. Yet The two lines on Argyle are faid to have been added, on the Duke's declaring in the Houfe of Lords, on occasion of some of Pope's fatires, that if any man dared to use his name in an invective, he would run him through the body, and throw himself on the mercy of his Peers, who, he trusted, would weigh the provocation. Bolingbroke's Letter to Wyndham is one of the most curious of his works, and it gave a deadly and incurable blow to the folly and madness of Jacobitifm. WARTON. VER. 84. CHESTERFIELD forget,] His character was much funk by the publication of the loose and libertine Letters to his Son. WARTON. VER 88. WYNDHAM,] Sir William Wyndham, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Anne, made early a confiderable figure; but fince a much greater, both by his ability and eloquence, joined with the utmost judgment and temper. VER. 88. Or WYNDHAM, just to] In former Editions, РОРЕ. WARTON. Or WYNDHAM arm'd for FreedomVER. 88. Freedom and the Throne,] We must always remember that the facred appellation of Patriot, is always adopted by difappointment, but it feems almoft ludicrous that it fhould be fo perpetually in the mouth of the high Tory Party, fuch as Bolingbroke, &c. VER. 92. And if yet higher, &c.] He was at that time honoured with the esteem and favour of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. WARBURTON. Yet think not, Friendship only prompts my lays ; I follow Virtue; where the fhines, I praise: 95 Din'd with the MAN of Ross, or my LORD MAY'R. NOTES. Some, Frederic Prince of Wales; who poffeffed many of what the King of Pruflia called, ces qualités fociables qui s'allient fi rare. ment avec la morgue et la grandeur des Souveraines WARTON. VER. 93. Still let me fay! No Follower, but a Friend] i. e. Unrelated to their parties, and attached only to their perfons. WARBURTON. VER. 99 the MAN of Ross,] Kirle, the celebrated Man of Rofs, was educated at Baliol College Oxford, where there is a curious Tankard, infcribed with his name, which he left as a prefent to the College; it is often fhewn as a curiofity, in confequence of the fplendor given to his name, by Pope's numbers. The Tankard ftands about 10 inches high from the ground, being fupported by three legs, in the fhape of Lions. The handle is formed by the figure of a Dolphin, and the cover lifted up by a figure of an Hedge hog, which was Kirle's Crest. Upon the cover of the Tankard, the arms of Baliol College. In the centre, the Arms of the Donor, above which are the words "Poculum Charitatis:" and underneath, the following Infcription: "Ex dono Johannis Kirle de Roffe, in Agro Herefordienfi et bujus Collegii Sono Commenfalis." The date of the year, in which the gift was made, is, contrary to the ufual form, omitted. VER. 99. my LORD MAY'R.] Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor in the year of the Poem, 1738. A citizen eminent for his virtue, public fpirit, and great talents in Parliament. An excellent Man, Magiftrate, and Senator. In the year 1747, the City of London, in memory of his many and fignal fervices to his Country, erected a ftatue to him. But his image had been placed long before in the heart of every good Man. WARBURTON, Some, in their choice of Friends (nay, look not grave) Have ftill a fecret Bias to a Knave: To find an honest man I beat about, And love him, court him, praise him, in or out. 100 P. Not fo fierce; Find 105 110 For him the weeps, for him fhe weds agen. NOTES. 115 No VER. 102. To find an bonet man, &c.] In this fearch, in which he was very fincere, it would have been well if he had not fometimes trufted to the reports of others, who had lefs penetration, but more paffions to gratify. WARBURTON. VER. 112. Enough for half the Greatest] Dr. Warton asks, whether this is not too high language? He might well afk. Pope puts me in mind here, of what we read of the beautiful, but fearful ferpent, in a rich African landfeape, that lifts his head above. the tall grafs, as if he thought himfelf the lord of the Earth. VER. 116 What RICHLIEU wanted,] A curious and uncom mon fact is mentioned by the learned Abbé Longuerue, Part ii. P. 5. That Cardinal Richlieu had, from time to time, fits of in. fanity, 3 No Pow'r the Mufe's Friendship can command; 120 O let my Country's Friends illumine mine! I think your Friends are out, and would be in. NOTES. 125 COBHAM'S fanity, during which no perfon was permitted to approach him but a few confidents, and efpecially Bois-Robert. He gave, fays Segrais, p. 170. one hundred and twenty thoufand crowns a year in penfions to men of learning and fcience. The hiftory of his founding the French Academy is well known; which is frequently faid to have polished and fixed the French language. But Malherbe, their first correct writer, died before the inftitution of this Academy. WARTON. VER. 116. LOUIS fearce could gain,] By this expreffion finely infinuating, that the great Boileau always falls below himself in thofe paffages where he flatters his Mafter. Of which he gives us an inftance in Ver. 231. where the topic of adulation is exceeding childish and extravagant. WARBURTON. "The relentless defpotifm of Louis," fays a certain eloquent writer," was proudly arrayed in manners, gallantry, fplendor, magnificence, and even covered over with the impofing robes of fcience and literature."-But the defpotism was notwithstanding relentless. WARTON. VER. 121. O let my Country's Friends illumine mine! Warbur ton calls this a pretty expreffion, alluding to the old practice of ilumi nating MSS. with gold and vermilion !!! VER. 128. Come then, I'll comply] Here is a moft happy imitation of Perfius, and of Boileau ; -Per |