Howe'er he may difpute their right, 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;) To Zealand-New, or Otaheite. 'SQUIRE. Yet there what freedom will he have, 215 Her Majefty may lay a tax, I fear would weaken ftronger backs, Than ev'n was your's my doughty Dean, 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, 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, What think you, 'Squire, of that Scotch peer, (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) Ver. 231.) The late Lord Fairfax, usually distinguished by the name of Lord Fairfax of Virginia, Ver. 240.) Dryden. Of Of negro girls and patriarch kings Pray clip your fancy's wayward wings. 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 ** Hold Mufe! nor give the 'Squire's reply. You've run two heats; to start a third '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 con 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 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 |