Of civil rule and liberty; That men are equal born-and free- Co which a Prince his rights can found- hat government is put in motion, And stopt again, like clock or chime, DEAN. Sblood! do you controvert them all! 'S QUIRE. Indeed I do, Sir, great and fmall. DEAN. You're a bold man, my mafter Jenyns, And have good right to count your winnings, If you fucceed.-But I, who dare As much as most, to go so far 35 49 45 Had not the courage, I affure ye, Tho' I fuborn'd a Tory jury. 50 'S QUIRE. Ver. 50.] Before the Dean published his elaborate treatife, he printed it first only for the perufal of certain friends, who were eather Tories from principle or difcretion. It may therefore reafonably be fuppofed, that (in Milton's phrafe) it numbered many 'S QUIRE. That men were equal born at first, DEAN. My honest friend, you're too polite. And none e'er doubted Hardwicke's taste, 55 65 choice intellects among our great churchmen. The mitred atthor of the letter to the Cocoa Tree, (written at the commence ment of Lord Bute's administration) from which I have taken my motto, was amongst these perfonages; and it is not to be doubted, but it would receive many improvements from his adroit and masterly hand. D 5 They They fay, and with them I agree, It refts on native rights they have, 'S QUIRE. 70 Jokes, Mr. Dean, I'd have you know, 75 Have parried many a ftouter blow. Ver. 73.] The paffage in Mr. Locke's treatife, which the Dean here alludes to, feems to be this: "Though I said that all "6 men are by nature equal, I cannot be fuppofed to understand all "forts of equality: age or virtue may give men a juft prece"dency: excellency of parts and merit may place others above "the common level: birth may fubject fome, and alliance or “benefits, others, to pay an observance to those, to whom nature, gratitude, or other respects may have made it due: and yet all "this confifts with the equality, which all men are in, in re"fpect of jurifdiction or dominion one over another : which was "the equality I there (ch. 2d.) spoke of, as proper to the business" "in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his "natural freedom, without being fubjected to the will or autho"rity of any other man." Ch. VI. fect. 54. To this the Dean accedes in his first chapter. "First then, I agree with Mr. Locke "and his disciples, that there is a sense, in which it may be said, "that no man is born the political fubject of another. A A joke like this, as I conceive, Who, vested with his rights, is fent To difputation's parliament. DEAN. Yet fcorns, like fome they patriots call, 'S QUIRE. Sometimes he may-but to proceed So $5 Good heavens! to talk of wit and learning 90 Is just as if these Whigs disputed, As moft fools do, to be confuted, Whether their teeth, in breadth and length, When, bless each little flobbering mouth, 95 It had not cut a single tooth. DEAN.. Your inftance, I confess, is pretty : I wish it were as apt as witty. 'S QUIRE. But let us give them all they ask, That men thro' life must equal move; power More than he had at natal hour. 100 Strange doctrine this! ye Whigs, fhall none 105 Be long and lank as Jenkinson, None grow to full fix feet or more, Because fome only measure four? Or, because Hunter cannot treat us I prove they all are not born free. DEAN. My fprightly 'Squire, if this be proving, Dame Logic knows, whene'er I meet her, Thefe Whigs will anfwer your demand 110 115 120 "And |