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Howe'er he may difpute their right,
And Coke with Burgerfdicius fight,
Muft make at Tyburn his confeflion.

DEA N.

I fear, Sir, here you beg the question.

A fubject born in any state

May, if he please, depatriate,

(Unless, by juftice to be mumbled,

He's forc'd to ftay, like nabob Rumbold;)
And go, for reafons weak or weighty,

To Zealand-New, or Otaheite.

'SQUIRE.

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Yet there what freedom will he have,
When made Queen Oberea's flave?

215

Her Majefty may lay a tax,

I fear would weaken ftronger backs,

Than ev'n was your's my doughty Dean,
When nerv'd with youth, and ftout eighteen. 220

DEAN.

Perhaps the might. Then let's fuppose

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

225

A hundred more of the fame mind,

Το

To migrate with their mates by dozens,
And there to live like cater-coufins,
We will not call them firs, and madams,
But a cool hundred Eves and Adams;

230

I think

Ver. 230.) Here the Dean turns afide to his own inge nious hypothefis, which he makes the true bafis of civil go vernment, and which, the more to diffeminate it, I shall 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 inftin&tive love of living together as gregarious animals. But, as fome 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 fagely provides against this by noting," that the appetite between the fexes can "have no place in the question, because it is not of that fort "which renders mankind gregarious.” Yet, as he also owNS, "that the most solitary animals at certain feafons converse "in pairs," it is necessary, for the support 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 hundredAdams and Eves were not more cool than an hundred pairs of people of fashion, whom I 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 they would, or foon, or late,
By quafi-compact found a ftate.

What think you, 'Squire, of that Scotch peer,
Who wenching held fo very dear,

(I don't aver his tafte was right

In liking black girls more than white,

Not that I rafhly would decide:

235

They know the best, who both have tried)

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Ver. 231.) The late Lord Fairfax, usually distinguished

by the name of Lord Fairfax of Virginia,

Ver. 240.) Dryden.

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Of negro girls and patriarch kings

Pray clip your fancy's wayward wings.
My two points prov'd, I draw from hence

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Are all of the old round-head leaven,

And therefore ne'er will get to heaven.

260

DEAN.

Right. This would give my mind much ease, If drawn from founder premises.

Lock and his crew, I know right well,

Have fent full many a fool to he1l,

But not from what you've prov'd, but I 265

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Hold Mufe! nor give the 'Squire's reply.

You've run two heats; to start a third
Would now, I think, be quite abfurd;

'Tis much beyond an Eclogue's length!

Come breath a while, and gather ftrength. 270 You shall not tax, fhould it be willing,

The town beyond a fingle fhilling:

Stop

Ver. 272.) Though the Author chufes to be so very moderate in his mode of taxation, I, his bookfeller, in ftrict

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Stop then in time your tinkling rill;
The reader's ears have drank their fill.

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 feems to allow to his reverend correfpondent.

Knighfbridge.

(Signed)

MALCOLM MAC-GREGGOR.

DEBRETT.

conformity to our rule of trade, have ventured to lay on t'other fixpence. Ver. penult.] Claudite jam rivos, pueri; fat prata bi

berunt.

VIRG.

LORD

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