HE.

Dear Shade! I will:

Then mix this duft with thine-O fpotlefs Ghoft!
O more than Fortune, Friends, or Country loft!
Is there on Earth, one care, one wish befide ?
Yes-SAVE MY COUNTRY, HEAVEN,
-He said, and dy'd.

XIV.

On EDMOND Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Who died in the Nineteenth Year of his Age, 1735.

I

F modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd,
And every opening Virtue blooming round,
Could fave a Parent's juftest Pride from fate,
Or add one Patriot to a sinking state;
This weeping marble had not ask'd thy Tear,
Or fadly told, how many hopes lie here!
The living Virtue now had fhone approv'd,
The Senate heard him, and his Country lov'd.
Yet fofter Honours, and lefs noisy Fame
Attend the fhade of gentle BUCKINGHAM:
In whom a Race, for Courage fam'd and Art,
Ends in the milder Merit of the Heart;
And, Chiefs or Sages long to Britain given,
Pays the laft Tribute of a Saint to Heaven.

XV. For

XV.

For One who would not be buried in
Westminster-Abbéy.

H

EROES and KINGS! your distance keep;
In peace let one poor Poet sleep,
Who never flatter'd Folks like you :
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.

Another, on the fame.

UNDER this Marble, or under this Sill,

Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will;
Whatever an Heir, or a Friend in his stead,
Or any good creature fhall lay o'er my head,
Lies one who ne'er car'd, and ftill cares not a pin
What they faid, or may say of the Mortal within :
But who, living and dying, ferene still and free,
Trufts in GOD, that as well as he was, he fhall be.

XVI.

Lord CONINGSBY's EPITAPH*.

H

ERE lies Lord Coningsby-be civil;
The reft God knows-fo does the Devil.

*This Epitaph, originally written on Picus Mirandula, is applied to F. Chartres, and printed among the works of Swift. See Hawkefworth edition, vol. vi. S.

On

On BUTLER's MONUMENT.

Perhaps by Mr. POPE *.

RESPECT to Dryden, Sheffield justly pay'd,

And noble Villers honour'd Cowley's fhade:
But whence this Barber?-that a name fo mean
Should, join'd with Butler's, on a tomb be feen:
This pyramid would better far proclaim,
To future ages humbler Settle's name :
Poet and patron then had been well pair'd,
The city printer, and the city bard.

* Mr. Pope, in one of the prints from Scheemaker's monument of Shakespeare in Weftminster-Abbey, has fufficiently fhewn his contempt of Alderman Barber, by the following couplet, which is fubftituted in the place of "The cloud-capt towers, &c."

"Thus Britain lov'd me ; and preferv'd my fame, "Clear from a Barber's or a Benfon's name."

A. POPE.

Pope might probably have fuppreffed his fatire on the Alderman, because he was one of Swift's acquaintances and correfpondents; though in the 4th Book of the Dunciad he has an anonymous stroke at him

"So by each bard an Alderman fhall fit, "A heavy Lord shall hang at every wit.”

S.

To

To Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE *.

I.

1

IN beauty, or wit,

No mortal as yet

To queftion your empire has dar'd,
But men of difcerning

Have thought that in learning,

To yield to a lady was hard.

II.

Impertinent schools,

With mufty dull rules,

Have reading to females deny'd:
So papifts refufe

The Bible to use,

Left flocks fhould be wife as their guide.

III.

'Twas a woman at first,

(Indeed she was curft)

In knowledge that tasted delight,

*This panegyric on Lady Mary Wortley Montague might have been fuppreffed by Mr. Pope, on account of her having fatirized him in her verses to the imitator of Horace; which abuse he returned in the first Satire of the fecond book of Horace.

"From furious Sappho, fcarce a milder fate, "P-'d by her love, or libel'd by her hate."

S.

And

And fages agree

The laws fhould decree

To the first of poffeffors the right.
IV.

Then bravely, fair dame,
Refume the old claim,

Which to your whole sex does belong;
And let men receive,

From a second bright Eve,
The knowledge of right, and of wrong.

ས

But if the first Eve

Hard doom did receive,

When only one apple had she,
What a punishment new
Shall be found out for you,

Who tafting, have robb'd the whole tree?

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