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cup of forrow from their lips,
And fly, like rats from finking fhips.
While fome, who by his friendship rose
To wealth, in concert with his foes,
Run counter to their former track,
Like old Actæon's horrid pack:
Of yelling mungrils, in requitals :
To riot on their mafter's vitals;
And, where they cannot blast his laurels,
Attempt to ftigmatize his morals;
Through Scandal's magnifying-glafs
His foibles view, but virtues pafs,
And on the ruins of his fame
Erect an ignominious name.

So vermin foul, of vile extraction,
The fpawn of dirt and putrefaction,
The founder members traverfe o'er,
But fix and fatten on a fore.

Hence! peace, ye wretches, who revile
His wit, his humour, and his style;
Since all the monsters which he drew
Were only meant to copy you;

And, if the colours be not fainter,
Arraign yourselves, and not the painter.
But, O! that He, who gave him breath,

* Dread arbiter of life and death;
That He, the moving foul of all,
The fleeping fpirit would recall,

And crown him with triumphant meeds, For all his past heroic deeds,

In manfions of unbroken rest,

The bright republick of the bless'd ! ́
Irradiate his benighted mind

With living light of light refin'd;
And these the blank of thought employ
With objects of immortal joy!

Yet, while he drags the fad remains
Of life, flow-creeping through his veins,.
Above the views of private ends,
The tributary Muse attends,
Το prop his feeble steps, or shed
The pious tear around his bed.

So Pilgrims, with devout complaints,-
Frequent the graves of martyr'd Saints,
Infcribe their worth in artless lines,

And, in their ftead, embrace their shrines.

INSCRIPTION intended for a MONUMENT. 1765..

SAY

AY, to the Drapier's vaft unbounded fame,
What added honours can the Sculptor give?

None.

'Tis a fanction from the Drapier's name Muft bid the Sculptor and his Märble live.

EPIGRAM Occafioned by the above INSCRIPTION.

WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend;

And each afferts her Poet, Patriot, Friend:

Her mitre jealous Britain may deny;

That lofs Iernia's laurel shall supply :

Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him bread; Her vocal ftones fhall vindicate him dead.

1766.

B. N.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

THE

O.F.

SECOND

VOLUME.

ON Stella's Birth-day, March 13, 1726.

Horace, Book I. Ode XIV. inscribed to Ireland. 4

On the fudden drying-up of St. Patrick's Well.

On reading Dr. Young's Universal Passion.

The Dog and Thief.

Advice to the Grub-street Verfe-writers.

To a Lady, who defired the Author to write fome

Verfes upon her in the Heroic Style.

A Young Lady's Complaint, for the Stay of the

Dean in England.

A Letter to the Dean when in Englands

Palinodia. Horace, Book I. Ode XVI.

Bec's Birth-day, November 8.

On the Collar of Tiger, Mrs. Dingley's Lap-dog. 35

Epigrams on Windows.

To Janus, on New-Year's-Day.

A Paftoral Dialogue, written after the News of the

Defire and Poffeffion. 1727.

The Furniture of a Woman's Mind.

Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged.

To Mr. Pope, while he was writing the Dunciad.

A Love Poem from a Phyfician to his Miftrefs.

An Epiftle to Lord Carteret. By Dr. Delany.

An Epiftle upon an Epistle from a certain Doctor

to a certain great Lord; being a Christmas-box

for Dr. Delany.

A Libel on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret.

To Dr. Delany, on the Libels written against him. 128

Directions for making a Birth-day Song.

Bouts Rimés, on Signora Domitilla.

Helter Skelter; or, the Hue and Cry after the

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Bawn fhould be turned into a Barrack or a Malt-

To Dean Swift. By Sir Arthur Achefon.

Drapier's-hill.

The Dean's Reasons for not building at Drapier's-

A Panegyrick on the Dean, in the Perfon of a
Lady in the North. 1730.

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Death and Daphne. To an agreeable young Lady,

but extremely lean.

Daphne.

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