That both were good must be confess'd, The Lord of Oxford knows. TRANSLATION OF A PRAYER OF BRUTUS. 10 THE Rev. Aaron Thompson, of Queen's College, Oxon., translated the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He submitted the translation to Pope, 1717, who gave him the following lines, being a translation of a prayer of Brutus. Carruthers. G ODDESS of woods, tremendous in the chase, To mountain wolves and all the savage race, Wide o'er the aërial vault extend thy sway, And o'er the infernal regions void of day. On thy third reign look down; disclose our fate, In what new station shall we fix our seat? 5 LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN'S BOOK ON COINS1. ["WROTE by Mr P. in a Volume of Evelyn on Coins presented to a painter by a parson." Gentleman's Magazine for 1735. "Wrote in Evelyn's Book of Coins given by Mr Wood to Kent." Notes and Queries, March 13, 1851, from a copy by Mason.] R T OM WOOD of Chiswick, deep divine, To painter Kent gave all this coin. 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN, ESIGN'D to live, prepar'd to die, 5 1 [Numismata: a Discourse on Medals; published at London in 1697.] 2 [Southern, the author of Oroonoko, according to Warton's expression, 'lived the longest and died one of the richest of all our poets.' He was born in 1660, and died in 1746. The date of the first production of Oroonoko is 1696, and it kept the stage till the third decade of the present century, a rare example of popularity attaching to a drama founded on a sensation novel: for Mrs Aphra Behn's Oroonoko was the Uncle Tom's Cabin of her day.] 3 A table] He was invited to dine on his birth-day with this Nobleman (Lord Orrery), who had prepared for him the entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. Warburton. [John Earl of Cork and Orrery was a friend of Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke, and in earlier days a member of the Brothers' Club. He died in 1762.] 4 Presents her harp] The Harp is generally wove on the Irish Linen; such as Table-cloths, &c. Warburton. PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER. [TRANSLATED from an Oratio a Sancto Xavierio composita, at the desire of a Catholic priest named Brown. Gentleman's Magazine, October, 1791, where the original is given commencing 'O Deus, ego amo te.'] HOU art my God, sole object of my love; Not for the fear of endless pains below, 5 For me in tortures thou resignd'st thy breath, Embrac'd me on the cross, and sav'd me by thy death. The price of prologues and of plays,] This alludes to a story Mr Southern told about the same, to Mr P. and Mr W. of Dryden; who, when Southern first wrote for the stage, was so famous for his Prologues, that the players would act nothing without that decoration. His usual price till then had been four guineas: But when Southern came to him for the Prologue he had bespoke, Dryden told him he must have six guineas for it; " which (said he) young man, is out of no disrespect to you, but the Players have had my goods too cheap." Warburton. [This was the regular tariff for prologues and epilogues. Later, Southern could tell Dryden (according to Warton) that he had cleared £700 by a single play, while Dryden never made more than a seventh of that sum by one drama.] [Bishop of Worcester. Deprived by James II. of the Presidentship of Magdalene College, Oxford; he afterwards successively held several sees, and died in 1743.] 1740. A POEM. [THIS unfinished piece was communicated to Warton by Dr Wilson, formerly Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Dublin, to whom it had been lent by a grandson of Lord Chetwynd, 'an intimate friend of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, who gratified his curiosity by a box full of the rubbish and sweepings of Pope's study, whose executor he was, in conjunction with Lord Marchmont.' It is possible that Bowles' conjecture may be correct, according to which '1740' was to grow into the third Dialogue which Pope at one time intended to add to the Epilogue to the Satires. See the Verses on receiving from Lady Frances Shirley a Standish, &c. ante, p. 448]. Roscoe doubts whether so mediocre a production be Pope's: Carruthers also hesitates on the subject; and the piece is at most to be taken as a few rough jottings accidentally discovered.] O What God, what mortal, shall prevent thy fall? 5 Through Clouds of Passion P--'s3 views are clear, ΤΟ Impatient sees his country bought and sold, And damns the market where he takes no gold. He finds himself companion with a thief. Is all the help stern S-5 would afford. To purge and let thee blood, with fire and sword, 15 That those who bind and rob thee, would not kill, 9? 20 1 Britain. No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P Gr10, C Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards. And Cd13, who speaks so well and writes, Bowles. 2 Cobham. Bowles. This is impossible. Roscoe. Campbell (Argyle), or Cholmondely. Carruthers. Pulteney. Carruthers. 4 Sandys. Bowles. [Afterwards Lord Sandys.] 5 Shippen. Bowles, Carruthers. Impossible Roscoe. • Carlisle? Bowles. Cornbury. Carruthers. 7 Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Bowles. 8 Sir Henry Oxenden. Bowles. 9 Sir Paul Methuen. Bowles. 25 10 11 12 Lords Gower, Cobham and Bathurst. Bowles. 13 Lord Chesterfield. Bowles. 15 [The Earl of Chesterfield was... fond of play, and was partial to the company of Mr Lookup, one of the most noted professional Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on. Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine; Rise, rise, great W-3, fated to appear, And treat with half the 30 35 40 45 50 Sagacious Bubb8, so late a friend, and there 55 So late a foe, yet more sagacious H- 9? Hervey and Hervey's school, F-, H- -y, H-n 10, Yea, moral Ebor, or religious Winton11. How! what can O- -w, what can D- 12, бо N- 13, laugh, or D The wisdom of the one and other chair, -S14 sager, Or thy dread truncheon, M.'s mighty peer15? What help from J- -'s16 opiates canst thou draw, gamesters of the day.' Chatto's History of Playing-Cards, p. 173.] Lord Carteret. Bowles. [Afterwards Lord Granville.] 2 Pulteney. Bowles. 3 Sir Robert Walpole. Bowles. 4 Britain. Carruthers. 5 Horace Walpole, brother of Sir Robert, who had just quitted his embassy at the Hague. Bowles. 6 W. Winnington. Bowles. [A member of the ministry.] 7 Sir William Yonge. Bowles. 8 Doddington [afterwards Lord Melcombe]. 9 Probably Hare, Bp. of Chichester. Bowles. 65 10 Fox, Henley, Hinton. Bowles. 11 Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. Bowles. 12 Speaker Onslow and Lord Delaware, chairmen of committees of House of Lords. Bowles. 13 Duke of Newcastle. Bowles. 14 Duke of Dorset, Bowles. 15 The (second)Duke of Marlborough. Bowles. 16 Sir Joseph Jekyll. Bowles. Probably; but he died in 1738. Carruthers. 17 Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Bowles. 18 Probably Sir John Cummins, C. J. of the Common Pleas. Bowles. Or Spencer Compton, Lord Wilmington, President of the Council. Carruthers. 1 Britain. Who hears all causes, B1, but thy own, The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries Blotch thee all o'er, and sink Alas! on one alone our all relies', 70 75 80 85 Bowles. 2 Sherlock. Carruthers. [Cf. Dunciad Bk. II. v. 323, where 'his pond'rous grace' may correspond to 'the sweating peer' in this passage.] 3 Pulteney. Carruthers. 4 Earl of Scarborough (ow). Bowles. warth. Bowles. The former died in Jan. 1740. Carruthers. 6 Sir William Wyndham. Bowles. He died in June, 1740. Carruthers. 7 [Obviously the Pretender, concerning the intrigues with whom in this year see Chap. XXI. 5 Earl of Marchmont and his son, Lord Pol- of Lord Stanhope's Hist. of Engl.] THE END. |