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

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

The Dean declared that these verses 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;
Defcend 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 defpife
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 ftage;
Went fmoothly on for half a page;
Her bloom was gone, fhe wanted art,
As the fcene chang'd, to change her part
She, whom no lover could refift,
Before the second 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 resembled thofe ;
Nor was a burthen to mankind
With half her courfe of years behind.

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 smoothness o'er the skin
Your lectures could my fancy fix,
And I can please at thirty-fix.
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 fill.
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 ftarted 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
Caft in his dart, which made three moidores light:
And when he saw his darling money fail,

Blew his last breath, to fink the lighter fcale.

Addrefs

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

E the inhabitants of the liberty of the Dean

WE 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 fufpicion, of the faid Dean's having written fome lines in verfe reflecting on the faid man:

Therefore we the faid inhabitants of the faid liberty, and in the neighbourhood thereof, from our great love and refpect to the faid Dean, to whom the whole kingdom hath fo many obligations, as well as we of the Fiberty, do unanimously declare, that we will endeavour to defend the life and limbs of the faid 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 houfe, 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 indifpofed, and not able to receive the faid perfons, dictated the following anfwer:

Gentlemen,

I receive, with great thankfulness, these 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 fhewn, beyond my expectation, and almost exceeding my wishes. 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 disorders of deafnefs and giddiness, which have purfued me for four months, I am not in a condition either to hear, or to receive you, muft lefs to return my moft fincere ac-. knowledgments, 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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