"And to affume without affent,. They'll fay your brains are in your eyes. But now go on.. 'S QUIRE. Their next affertion You'll find affords me more diverfion. For how fhould men be e'er born free,. 125 130) “ ever hands it is put, being intrusted with this condition, "and for this end, that men might have and secure their "properties, the prince or fenate, however it may have 66 power to make laws for the regulating of property be"tween the subjects one amongst another, yet can never "have a power to take to themselves the whole or any part "of the fubjects property without their own confent, for this "would be in effect to leave them no property at all." Ch. XI. fec. 139. DEAN. DEAN. Yet, when begot, in my opinion, He has. Nay more, I'd have you know, 140 145 For church, one Eafter-Sunday morn, With labour-pains was forely torn. The church, good foul! fhe lov'd fo dearly, That with her fpoufe the chofe to parley;" 150 Nor Ver. 143.) "Children are entitled to protection, whilft in embryo, though they neither did nor could enter into "any compact with the ftate for that purpose." Tucker on Civil Government, p. 2. I have taken the liberty to add the term quafi in my verfion of this paffige, to make it more analogous to the learned writer's general fentiments, who allows of no compact, but what he is pleafed to term Nor would the let the midwife lay her, 'S QUIR E. Your ftory, Mr. Dean, is pleafant, But, tell me, is fuch freedom free? In fwaddling clothes he now is bound, 155 160 165 170 Like Styx, that gird him nine times round; 175 Ver. 174.) Tho' fate had faft bound her, They Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. They squeeze his navel, press his head, 'Tis found he must not yet go loose. To plague him both by day and night. 1801 Thrashes the wretch with grammar's flail, 185 And this with most defpotic fury, DEAN. Sir, you've a happy vein for fatire, His grace, you know, is one of us.. 'SQUIRE.. I ask his pardon. At the time He chanc'd to hitch into my rhyme 190 But Ver. 194.) Had not this unlucky bolt been shot by the 'Squire, it is probable the Dean would not have been thrown off But to our point-thus far I've ftated, ; 195 200 off his fcent, but would have answered all, that had been afferted, in fome fuch manner as Mr. Locke does: "Chil"dren, 1 confefs, are not born in this full state of equality, "though they are born to it. Their parents have a fort of "rule and jurisdiction over them, when they come into the "world, and for fome time after; but it is but a temporary "one. The bonds of this subjection are like the fwaddling "clothes they are wrapt up in, and fupported by, in the "weakness of their infancy: age and reafon, as they grow "up, loosen them, till at length they drop quite off, and "leave a man at his own free difpofal." Ch. VI. fec. 55. This paffage, and the other two already quoted, feem to be a fufficient answer to Mr. Jenyns on his two firft heads. All his objections turn on the term born: whereas Locke's propofitions are, Men are by nature equal, and by nature "free;" that is, have equal natural rights in their perfons and liberty: Howe'er |