35 10 Of civil rule and liberty; That men are equal born-and free- On which a Prince his rights can found- That government is put in motion, DEA N. 'Sblood! do you controvert them all? 'S. QUIRE. Indeed I do, Sir, great and small. DE A N. You're a bold man, my mafter Jenyns, 45 And have good right to count your winnings, If you fucceed. But I, who dare As much as moft, to go so far Tho' I fuborned a tory jury. 50. 'SQUIRE, Ver. 50.) Before the Dean published his elaborate treatife, he printed it firft only for the perufal of certain friends, who were either Tories from principle or difcretion. It may therefore reasonably be fuppofed, that (in Milton's phrase) 'S QUIR E: That men were equal born at first, For I was born as much as you. But now, comparing fize and ftrength, The periwigs, that grace our pate, DEAN, My honest friend, you're too polite. And none e'er doubted Hardwicke's taste, men. 55 60 65. it numbered many choice intellects among our great churchThe mitred author of the letter to the Cocoa-Tree, (written at the commencement of Lord Bute's adminiftration) 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 mafterly hand. They fay, and with them I agree, It refts on native rights they have, 'S QUIRE. 70 Jokes, Mr. Dean, I'd have you knów, 75 Have parried many a ftouter blow. A Ver. 73.) The paffage in Mr. Locke's treatife, which the Dean here alludes to, feems to be this: "Though I faid "that all men are by nature equal, I cannot be supposed to "understand all forts of equality: age or virtue may give "men a juft precedency: excellency of parts and merit may "place others above the common level: birth may subject "fome, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance "to thofe, 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 respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another: which was the equality I "there (ch. 28.) fpoke of, as proper to the bufinefs in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his natural freedom, without being fubjected to the will or "authority of any other man,” Ch. VI. fect. 54. To this the Dean accedes in his first chapter: "Firft then, I ❝ agree with Mr. Locke and his difciples, that there is a "fenfe, in which it may be faid, that no man is born the "political fubject of another." A joke like this, as I conceive, Who, vefted with his rights, is fent Yet fcorns, like fome they patriots call, 'S QUIR E. Sometimes he may-but to proceed→→ Have equal learning, wit and power, 8@ 85 Tho', at Lucina's fqualling hour, The new-born babes, in nurfe's lap, Good heavens! to talk of wit and learning 99 Is just as if thefe Whigs difputed, As moft fools do, to be confuted, Whether their teeth, in breadth and length, When, blefs each little flobbering mouth, 95. It had not cut a fingle tooth. DE AN. Your instance, I confefs, is pretty : I wish it were as apt as witty. Ꭰ 6 'SQUIRE, 'S QUI R E. But let us give them all they afk, More than he had at natal hour. 100 Strange doctrine this! ye Whigs, shall none 105 Or, because Hunter cannot treat us I prove they all are not born free. DEA N. My fprightly 'Squire, if this be proving, 110 115 120 "And |