Let B*rr*t*n arreft him in mock fury, But hark, the voice of battle fhouts from far, The Jews and Maccaronies are at war : 130 The Jews prevail, and, thund'ring from the stocks, And all the Maids of Honour cry Te! He! 135 140 Be these the rural-paftimes that attend Great B*nfw*k's leifure: thefe fhall bet unbend His royal mind, whene'er from ftate withdrawn, He treads the velvet of his Richmond lawn ; These shall prolong his Afiatic dream, Tho' Europe's balance trembles on its beam. And thou, Sir William! while thy plastic hand Creates each wonder, which thy bard has plann'd, While, as thy art commands, obfequious rife Whate'er can please, or frighten, or surprize, O! let the Bard his Knight's protection claim, 145 And share, like faithful Sancho, Quixote's fame. Verse 127. Let B**n.] "The watch feizes on the culprit." Page 33. Verfe 128. And M**d, &c.] "He is conveyed before the judge, and fometimes severely bastinadoed." Ibid. Verse 129, But hark, &c.] "Quarrels happen-battles enfue." lbid. Verfe 132. Circumcife C*s F*.] "Every liberty is permitted, there is no diftinction of perfons." Ibid. ́ ́Verse 134. And all the maids of honour, &c.] "This is done to divert his Imperial Majefty, and the ladies of his train." Ibid. AN AN HEROIC POSTSCRIPT TO THE PUBLIC, OCCASIONED BY, THEIR FAVOURABLE RECEPTION OF A LATE HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAM . BERS, KNT. &c. BY THE AUTHOR OF THAT EPISTLE. Sicelides mufa, paullo majora canamus. VIRG. I THAT of late, Sir William's Bard, and Squire, Comptroller General of the works of taste), glittering orbs, and, what endear'd them more, Each glittering orb the facred features bore Verfe 1. I that of late.] Ille ego qui quondam, &c. 10 VIRGIL, or fomebody for him. Verse 4. Works of taste.] Put fynonimously for his Majesty's works. See Sir William's title page. Or, Or, were they not, they pafs'd with current ease, Lightly they came, and full as lightly went. To cut down Dunces, wherefoe'er they spring, I know thy ftrains can pierce the ear of Kings. 15 20 25 30 Thy Verfe 16. Cadogan's part.] Master of the Mint. Emperor Thy fong could cure his Afiatic spleen, 35 And make him wish to see and to be seen; 40 Which, e'en Reviewers own, adorns thy line, Emperor of China is a poet. M. de Voltaire did him the honour to treat him as a brother above two years ago; and my late patron, Sir William Chambers, has given a fine and most intelligible profe verfion of an ode of his Majesty upon tea, in his postfcript to his Differtation. I am, however, vain enough to think, that the Emperor's compofition would have appeared ftill better in my heroic verse; but Sir William forestalled it ; on which account I have entirely broke with him. Verse 37. That folemn vein of irony.] "A fine vein of solemn irony runs through this piece. See Monthly Review, under the article of the Heroic Epiftle to Sir William Chambers. Verfe 43. There fhould he fee.] A certain naval event happened just about two calendar months after the publication of the Heroic Epiftle. 'Twas impoffible, confidering the neceffary preparations, it could have been fooner. Facts are stubborn things. And And then fail back, amid the cannon's roar, Such is thy pow'r, O Goddess of the song, te That he who runs may read; while well he knows 55 So fhall my fong, undifciplin'd by art, Verfe 52. Nor like Mac-Homer ] See, if the reader thinks it worth while, a late tranflation of the Iliad. Verfe 62. Like old young Fannius.] The noble perfonage here alluded to, being asked to read the Heroic Epiftle, faid, "No, it was as bad as blafphemy." Ibid. Fannius.] Before I fent the MS to the prefs, I discovered, that an accidental blot had made all but the first fyllable of this name illegible. I was doubtful, therefore, whether to print it Fannius or Fannia. After much deliberation, I thought it beft to use the mafculine termination. If I have done wrong, I ask pardon, not only of the Author, but the Lady, The Editor. Let |