A P common poet can revive
The man who once has been alive :
But Mac revives, by magic power,
The man who never liv'd before.

Such hocus-pocus tricks, I own,
Belong to Gallic bards alone.

My mufe would think her power enough,
Could she make fome folks fever-proof;
Dub them immortal from their birth,
And give them all their heaven on earth,
Then Doctor K---, that broad divine,
With lords and dukes fhould ever dine;
Poft, prate, and preach, for years on years,
And puff himself in Gazetteers.

Sandwich for aye, should shine the star,

Propitious to our naval war ;

Caulk all our veffels't leaky fides,

And in the docks work double tides.

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While Stormont, grac'd with ribband green, 75

Keeps France from mixing in the riot,

Till Britain's lion vents his fpleen,

And tears his rebel whelps in quiet.

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THE DEAN AND THE SQUIRE:

A POLITICAL ECLOGUE: HUMBLY DEDICATED TO SOAME JENYNS, ESQ.

"REMEMBER that the principles, for which the WHIGS "ftruggle, are the foundation of our prefent Government, "which they apprehend to be undermined, whenever ‹‹ Torry maxims are openly avowed."

BY THE

Addrefs to the Cocoa-Tree,
Written in the year 1763.

SAME.

[A CARD. The Author prefents his best refpects to the Reader, and begs that he would do him the favour to read the two firft heads of Mr. Jenyns's feventh Difquifition, before he cuts open this pamphlet, that he may perceive the full force of the allufions here made to that wonderful performance.

If the delicacy of fome readers fhould be offended at the broadness of the jest in the following Eclogue, he is willing, like the ingenious author of the Walloons, to fubmit to correction, a correction to which, if he finds himself justly obnoxious, he shall withdraw the paffages, and own himfelf both edified and flattered by it*. Nay, he does not know(if his Bookfeller will agree to it) but he fhall, for the future, only write fentimentally.]

DEDI

See an article in a late news-paper.

DEDICATIO N.

To SOAME JENYNS, Esq

SIR,

WHEN I lately read your Difquifition on

Government and Civil Liberty, it gave me much concern to find, that you had not written it in verfe. Such images and such sentiments, fuch wit and fuch arguments, were furely too good to be wafted on profe. And you who have written verfe fo long, and with fo much facility, are highly inexcufable for not having employed that talent on fo important an occafion as the present, when you had taken upon you to confute " so many abfurd principles "concerning government and liberty, which "have of late been diffeminated with unufual "induftry;" principles, let me add, which were ftill more induftriously diffeminated at the Revolution by Locke, at the Acceffion by Hoadly, and a hundred years before either, by Hooker; "principles, which you fay, are as falfe as "mischievous, as inconfiftent with common "fense as with all human fociety, and which VOL. II. Ꭰ

66 re

Q. HORATII FLACCI,

CARMEN VIII. LIB. IV.

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