Howe'er he may dispute their right, DEA N. I fear, Sir, here you beg the question. May, if he please, depatriate, (Unless, by juftice to be mumbled, He's forc'd to stay, like nabob Rumbold ;) And go, for reasons weak or weighty, To Zealand-New, or Otaheite. 205 210 Than ev'n was your's my doughty Dean, DEAN. Perhaps the might. Then let's fuppofe To fome unpeopled ifle he goes, And takes a mistress in his fleeve, To live as Adam did with Eve; Or fay, that he had luck to find 220 225 Το To migrate with their mates by dozens, We will not call them firs, and madams, 230 Ver. 230.] Here the Dean turns afide to his own ingenious hypothesis, which he makes the true bafis of civil government, and which, the more to diffeminate it, I fhall here briefly explain. He fuppofes, that a hundred Adams and Eves fhould all be produced full grown, and in conjugal pairs; and then concludes, that they would naturally herd together, and form a civil fociety, from their instinctive love of living together as gregarious animals. But, as some might object that another instinctive appetite would speedily disturb the peace of this fociety, and that Horace's teterrima belli caufa might make it a state of war, he Tagely provides against this by noting, "that the appetite be"tween the fexes can have no place in the question, because is "is not of that fort which renders mankind gregarious." Yet, as he alfo owns, that the most folitary animals, at certain feasons, "converfe in pairs," it is neceffary, for the fupport of his hypothefis, that all his Adams and Eves fhould be as chafte as turtles ; and, therefore, I have called them a cool hundred, an epithet which, the reader fees, is here far from being an expletive, but highly emphatical; for, if the Dean's hundred Adams and Eves were not more cool than an hundred pairs of people of fashion, whom could mention, it is to be feared, that many of the males in his civil fociety, would not only be gregarious animals, but abfolutely horned cattle. See Tucker on Government, P. 136. I think 1 I think they would, or foon, or late, By quafi-compact, found a state. What think you, 'Squire, of that Scotch peer, Who wenching held fo very dear, (I don't aver his taste was right 235 In liking black girls more than white, Not that I rafhly would decide: They know the best, who both have tried) Dear Dean, you interrupt my theme. Ver. 233.] The late Lord Fairfax, ufually diftinguished by the name of Lord Fairfax, of Virginia. Ver. 242.] Dryden. Of Of negro girls and patriarch kings- Are all of the old round-head leaven, Right. This would give my mind much eafe, Locke and his crew, I know right well, Have fent full many a fool to Hell, But not from what you've prov'd, but I 265 * ** Hold Mufe! nor give the 'Squire's reply. 'Tis much beyond an Eclogue's length! Come breathe awhile, and gather strength. You fhall not tax, fhould it be willing, 270 The town beyond a fingle fhilling: Stop Stop then in time your tinkling rill; CERTIFICATE, WHEREAS a late ingenious and anonymous production, entitled An Archæological Epiftle, has been attributed to my pen, I think proper to declare, that, however I may approve the political fentiments therein contained, I am above wearing any man's laurels; and that I conceive thofe, who do not difcriminate between my ftyle and that author's, have as little critical acumen as he seems to allow to his reverend correfpondent. (Signed) MALCOLM MAC-GREGGOR. Knightsbridge. Ver. penult.] Claudite jam rivos, pueri; fat prata biberunt. VIRG. LORD |