Alone I press; in dreams I call my dear, 45 50 Three shillings cost the first, the last seven groats; Others bring goods and treasure to their houses, 55 'Tis not for that I grieve; no, 'tis to see The Groom and Sorrel Mare preferr'd to me! These, for some moments when you deign to quit, And (at due distance) sweet discourse admit, At every danger pants thy consort's breast, 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 Was there no other way to set him free? My life, alas! I fear proved death to thee. O teach me, dear, new words to speak my flame! 95 Teach me to woo thee by thy best-loved name! Whether the style of Grildrig please the most, Or Glumglum's humbler title soothe thy ear: To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnm through the nose, LINES ON SWIFT'S ANCESTORS. [SWIFT set up a plain monument to his grandfather, and also presented a cup to the church of Goodrich, or Gotheridge (in Herefordshire). He sent a pencilled elevation of the monument (a simple tablet) to Mrs Howard, who returned it with the following lines, inscribed on the drawing by Pope. The paper is endorsed, in Swift's hand: 'Model of a monument for my grandfather, with Pope's roguery.' Scott's Life of Swift.] In this church he has put FROM THE GRUB-STREET JOURNAL. [THIS Journal was established in January, 1730, and carried on for eight years by Pope and his friends, in answer to the attacks provoked by the Dunciad. It corresponds in some measure to the Xenien of Goethe and Schiller. Only such pieces are here inserted as bear Pope's distinguishing signature A.; several others are probably his.] I. Occasioned by seeing some sheets of Dr Bentley's edition of Milton's Paradise Lost 2. DIR Milton's prose, O Charles, thy death defend? A furious foe unconscious proves a friend. 1 Goodrich, or Gotheridge, in Herefordshire, where Swift had erected a monument to his grandfather, presenting a cup to the church at the same time. Scott. [Cf. Dunciad, Bk. IV. v. 212. 'Milton's prose' is the Defensio pro populo Anglicano &c. of 1649; and the Defensio Secunda of 1654.] On Milton's verse does Bentley comment?-Know While he but sought his Author's fame to further, II. EPIGRAM. SHOULD D-s1 print, how once you robb'd your brother, Say, what revenge on D- -s can be had; Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad? On Mr M III. MR J. M. S—E.3 Catechised on his One Epistle to Mr Pope. WHAT makes you write at this odd rate? What makes you steal and trifle so? Why, 'tis to do as others do. But there's no meaning to be seen. Why, that's the very thing I mean. IV. EPIGRAM -re's going to law with Mr Gilliver: inscribed to ONCE in his life M- —re judges right: His sword and pen not worth a straw, An author that could never write, A gentleman that dares not fight, Has but one way to tease-by law. This suit, dear Tibbald, kindly hatch; Thus thou may'st help the sneaking elf; And sure a printer is his match, 5 5 5 5 VI. EPITAPH. [On James Moore-Smythe.] HERE lies what had nor birth, nor shape, nor fame; For Jamie ne'er grew James; and what they call Ex nihilo nihil fit. VII. A QUESTION BY ANONYMOUS. TELL, if you can, which did the worse, That made a Consul of a horse, And this a Laureate of an ass. VIII. EPIGRAM. GREAT G- -3, such servants since thou well can'st lack, IX. EPIGRA M. BEHOLD! ambitious of the British bays, 5 ON SEEING THE LADIES AT CRUX-EASTON WALK IN THE WOODS BY THE GROTTO. EXTEMPORE BY MR POPE. UTHORS the world and their dull brains have traced AU To fix the ground where Paradise was placed; Mind not their learned whims and idle talk; Here, here's the place where these bright angels walk. [Cf. Dunciad, Bk. II. v. 50.] 2 [The Duke of Grafton.] [Stephen Duck, originally a thresher, concerning whom there are other verses in the 3 [King George II. The epigram is of course Journal, probably written by Pope. Cf. Imi on the Laureate Cibber.] tations of Horace, Bk. 11. Ep. II. v. 140.] INSCRIPTION ON A GROTTO, THE WORK OF NINE LADIES. [Carruthers, from Dodsley's Miscellany.] idleness once and This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise; And such a polish as disgraces art; But Fate disposed them in this humble sort, VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE, 5 ON HIS LYING IN THE SAME BED WHICH WILMOT, THE CELEBRATED EARL OF ROCHESTER, SLEPT IN AT ADDERBURY, THEN BELONGING to the duke of argyle', JULY 9TH, 1739. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD, 5 10 UPON A PIECE OF NEWS IN MIST [MIST'S JOURNAL], THAT the rev. mr w. refus'd to write AGAINST MR POPE BECAUSE HIS BEST PATRON HAD A FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SAID P. [FROM Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, where it is given in facsimile; accompanied by the statement that 'W.' alluded to was Samuel Wesley, and Father Francis,' the then exiled Bishop of Rochester (Atterbury).] 1 [As to the Duke of Argyle, cf. Epilogue to Satires, Dial. 11. v. 82.] 5 |