VERSES

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I KNOW NOT WHAT.

Y lateft tribute here I fend,

MY

With this let your collection end.
Thus I confign you down to fame,
A character to praife or blame:
And, if the whole may pafs for truc,
Contented reft, you have your due.
Give future times the fatisfaction,
To leave one handle for detraction.

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TOLAND'S INVITATION

Το

DISMA L,

To dine with the CALVES-HEAD-CLUB.

Imitated from HORACE, Epift. V. Lib. I.

A BALL A D.

IF, deareft Difmal, you for once can dine Upon a fingle dish and tavern-wine,

Toland to you this invitation fends,

To eat the CALVES-HEAD with your trusty

This Poem was occafioned by the Lord-Treasurer Oxford's hinting one evening to Dr. Swift, that he wished a ballad was made on the Earl of Nottingham; and, accordingly, the ballad was written and printed the next morning. — And when it was read after dinner, in a large circle, where my Lord Oxford was prefent, it made the whole company laugh a dozen times. Vide Swift's Effay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Chap. II. p. 227.

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Mitte

Suspend a while your vain ambitious

hopes, [tropes. Leave hunting after bribes, forget your To-morrow we our myftic feaft prepare, Where thou, our lateft profelyte, fhalt share : When we, by proper figns and symbols, tell

How, by brave hands, the ROYAL TRAITOR

fell:

The meat shall represent the TYRANT'S
head,

The wine his blood our predeceffors fhed;
Whilft an alluding hymn fome artist sings,
We toaft Confufion to the race of kings:
At monarchy we nobly fhew our spite,
And talk what fools call treafon all the night,
Who, by disgraces or ill-fortune funk,
Feels not his foul enliven'd when he's
drunk?

Wine

Mitte leves fpes, et certamina divitiarum,
Et Mofchi caufam. Cras nato Cæfare feftus
Dat veniam fomnumque dies: impune li-
cebit

Eftivam fermone benigno tendere noctem.

Wine can clear up Godolphin's cloudy face, And fill Jack Smith with hopes to keep his place;

By force of wine ev'n Scarborough is brave, Hal grows more pert, and Sommers

*

Wine can give Portland wit, and Cleveland fense,

Montague learning, Bolton eloquence: Cholmondley, when drunk, can never lofe his wand,

And L-----n then imagines he has land. My province is, to fee that all be right, Glaffes and linen clean, and pewter bright; From

Spes jubet effe ratas; in prælia trudit iner

mem:

Solicitis animis onus eximit; addocet ar

tes.

Fœcundi calices quem non fecere difertum? Contractâ quem non in paupertate folu

tum?

Hæc ego procurare et idoneus imperor, et

non

Invitus; ne turpe toral, ne fordida mappa

Harry Boyle, who is mentioned three times in this ballad.

From our mysterious club to keep out spies, And Tories (drefs'd like waiters) in disguise. You fhall be coupled as you beft

Grace

approve, Seated at table next the men you love. Sunderland, Orford, Boyle, and Richmond's [pole's * place. Will come; and Hampden fhall have WalWharton, unless prevented by a whore, Will hardly fail, and there is room for

more;

But I love elbow-room whene'er I drink, And honeft Harry is too apt to ft--k.

Let no pretence of bus'ness make you ftay,

Yet take one word of counsel by the way. If Guernsey † call, fend word you're gone abroad, [Bishop Laud, He'll teaze you with King Charles and

Or

Corruget nares; ne non et cantharus, et lanx,

Oftendat tibi te; ne fidos inter amicos
Sit, qui dicta foras eliminet: ut coëat par,
Jungaturque pari. Brutum tibi, Septimi-
[num
Et, nifi cœna prior, potiorque puella Sabi-

umque,

Walpole was then confined in the Tower.
The Earl of Nottingham's brother.

Detinet,