VERSES, &c. referred to from the LIFE of Dr. SWIFT.

STELLA to Dr. SWIFT on his birth-day, November 30, 1721.

The Dean declared that thefe verfes had undergone no correction [D. S. p. 81.]

T. PATRICK's dean, your country's pride,
My early and my only guide,

STM

Let me among the reft attend,

Your pupil and your humble friend,
To celebrate in female ftrains

The day that paid your mother's pains ;
Descend to take that tribute due

In gratitude alone to you.

When men began to call me fair,
You interpos'd your timely care;
You early taught me to despise
The ogling of a coxcomb's eyes;
Shew'd where my judgment was misplac'd;
Refin❜d my fancy and my taste.

Behold that beauty juft decay'd,
Invoking art to nature's aid;
Forfook by her admiring train
She spreads her tatter'd nets in vain ;
Short was her part upon the stage ;
Went fmoothly on for half a page;
Her bloom was gone, fhe wanted art,
As the scene chang'd, to change her part:
She, whom no lover could refiit,
Before the fecond act was hifs'd.
Such is the fate of female race
With no endowments but a face;
Before the thirti'th year of life
A maid forlorn, or hated wife.

STELLA to you, her tutor, owes
That she has ne'er refembled those ;
Nor was a burthen to mankind
With half her courfe of years behind.

You

You taught how I might youth prolong
By knowing what was right and wrong;
How from my heart to bring fupplies
Of luftre to my fading eyes;
How foon a beauteous mind repairs
The lofs of chang'd or falling hairs;
How wit and virtue from within
Send out a fmoothness o'er the skin :
Your lectures could my fancy fix,
And I can please at thirty-six.
The fight of CHLOE at fifteen
Coquetting, gives not me the spleen ;
The idol now of every fool

"Till time shall make their paffions cool;
Then tumbling down time's steepy hill,
While STELLA holds her flation ftill,
Oh! turn your precepts into laws,
Redeem the women's ruin'd cause,
Retrieve loft empire to our fex,
That men may bow their rebel necks.
Long be the day that gave you birth
Sacred to friendship, wit, and mirth ;
Late dying may you caft a fhred
Of your rich mantle o'er my head;
To bear with dignity my forrow,
One day alone, then die to-morrow.

An elegy upon Demar the mifer, was a fubject started and partly executed in company, confifting of Swift and Stella and a few friends; every one threw in a hint, and Stella's was the following:

But as he weigh'd his gold, grim death in spite
Cafl in his dart, which made three moidores light:
And when he saw his darling money fail,

Blew his laft breath, to fink the lighter fcale.

Address

Addrefs of the Inhabitants of the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

W E the inhabitants of the liberty of the Dean

and Chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and the neighbourhood of the fame, having been informed, by univerfal report, that a certain man of this city hath openly threatened and fworn before many hundred people, as well perfons of quality as others, that he refolves upon the firft opportunity, by the help of feveral ruffians, to murder or maim the reverend the Dean of St.Patrick's, our neighbour, benefactor, and head of the liberty of St. Patrick's, upon a frivolous unproved suspicion, of the faid Dean's having written fome lines in verfe refecting on the faid man:

Therefore we the said inhabitants of the said liberty, and in the neighbourhood thereof, from our great love and respect to the faid Dean, to whom the whole kingdom hath fo many obligations, as well as we of the liberty, do unanimously declare, that we will endeavour to defend the life and limbs of the said Dean against the faid man, and all his ruffians and murderers, as far as the law will allow; if he or any of them prefume to come into the faid liberty with any wicked malicious intent against the house, or family, or perfon, or goods of the faid Dean, to which we have chearfully, fincerely, and heartily, fet our hands.

The Dean being in bed, very much indisposed, and not able to receive the faid perfons, dictated the following answer:

Gentlemen,

I receive, with great thankfulness, thefe many kind expreffions of your concern for my fafety, as well as your declared refolution to defend me (as far as the laws of God and man will allow) against all murderers and ruffians, who fhall attempt to enter into the liberty with

any

any bloody or wicked defigns, upon my life, my limbs, my houfe, or my goods. Gentlemen, my life is in the hands of God, and whether it may be cut off by treachery or open violence, or by the common way of other men; as long as it continues, I fhall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have shewn, beyond my expectation, and almost exceeding my wifhes. The inhabitants of the liberty, as well as thofe of the neighbourhood, have lived with me in great amity for near twenty years; which I am confident will never diminish during my life. I am chiefly forry that by two cruel diforders of deafness and giddiness, which have pursued me for four months, I am not in a condition either to hear, or to receive you, muft lefs to return my moft fincere acknowledgments, which in juftice and gratitude I ought to do. May God bless you and your families in this world, and make you for ever happy in the next.

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