WRITTEN UNDER THE PICTURE OF DR. HAYTER,

BISHOP OF NORWICH,

SOON AFTER HE WAS DISMISSED FROM HIS POST OF
GOVERNOR TO THE PRINCE OF WALES IN 1752.

NOT gentler virtues glow'd in Cambray's breaft,
Not more his young Telemachus was bless'd;
"Till envy, faction, and ambitious rage
Drove from a guilty court the pious fage.
Back to his flock with transport he withdrew,
And but one figh, an honeft one he knew!
O guard my royal pupil, heav'n! he faid;
Let not his youth be, like my age, betray'd!
I would have form'd his footsteps in thy way→→→
But" vice prevails, and impious men bear sway."

AN ODE

TO THE MOST UNPOPULAR MAN LIVING.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1753.

SIR, while your heart with transport glows
To find your most important nose

Perceive you not, with ftrange furprize,

How Fortune smiles on fome folks lyes,

Tho' Truth herself appear?

While your wife counfels, and your cares
Affect a nation's vaft affairs,

A kingdom, and a —

Is all your breast calm and ferene,
As when you walk'd on *Winton's Green,
And dreamt of no fuch thing?

Envy, you'll fay, your worth attends
Maliciously, like treach'rous friends,
Perfidious to their truft;

Nor may ev'n Fortune's fav'rites find,
That they alone, of all mankind,
Escape by being juft.

But fay, fince in a luckless hour
You roll in wealth, and rofe to pow'r,
How relish you the scene?

Is then ambition quite as bleft
As fhe in Fancy's garb is dreft ?—

Can

How feel you, Sir, within ?

you reflect, without remorse ? I fear you can-fo much the worfe

But, Sir, How are your dreams ? Free are they all from guilt and fear? See you not injur'd Norwich, there,

Or Harcourt cross the Thames?

The family feat.

Or

WRITTEN UNDER THE PICTURE OF DR. HAYTEK,

BISHOP OF NORWICH,

SOON AFTER НЕ WAS DISMISSED FROM HIS POST OF GOVERNOR TO THE PRINCE OF WALES IN 1752.

NOT gentler virtues glow'd in Cambray's breaft,
Not more his young Telemachus was blefs'd;
"Till envy, faction, and ambitious rage
Drove from a guilty court the pious fage.
Back to his flock with transport he withdrew,
And but one figh, an honeft one he knew!
O guard my royal pupil, heav'n! he faid;
Let not his youth be, like my age, betray'd!
I would have form'd his footsteps in thy way→
But" vice prevails, and impious men bear sway.”

ANO DE

TO THE MOST UNPOPULAR MAN LIVING.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1753.

SIR, while your heart with transport glows
To find your most important nose

Loft in your P.

-s ear;

Perceive you not, with ftrange furprize,

How Fortune smiles on fome folks lyes,

Tho' Truth herself appear?

While your wife counfels, and your cares
Affect a nation's vaft affairs,

A kingdom, and a -,

Is all your breast calm and ferene,

As when you walk'd on * Winton's Green,
And dreamt of no fuch thing?

Envy, you'll fay, your worth attends
Maliciously, like treach'rous friends,
Perfidious to their truft;

Nor

may ev'n Fortune's fav'rites find,
That they alone, of all mankind,
Escape by being juft.

But fay, fince in a luckless hour
You roll in wealth, and rofe to pow'r,
How relish you the scene?

Is then ambition quite as bleft
As fhe in Fancy's garb is dreft ?-
How feel you, Sir, within?

Can you reflect, without remorfe?
I fear you can-fo much the worfe-

But, Sir, How are your dreams?
Free are they all from guilt and fear?
See you not injur'd Norwich, there,

Or Harcourt cross the Thames ?

The family feat.

Or

Or feem you lightly still to rife
In vifionary dignities,

With nothing to retard?

With ev❜n Britannia's council's fet,
To weigh your merit to the state,

And give the due reward!

Or wakeful to your country's call,
Say rather, can't you fleep at all?

-Not fleep a wink ?-Yet know

For fuch defert, a proper state
Is fix'd by the decrees of fate
-Amongst the fhades below.

Pirithous and the Lapithe,
Stretch'd at the royal banquet fee.

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*Pirithous. A man who, to accomplish his ambitious views, went to hell, and was torn in pieces by Cerberus.

Lapitha. A people of Theffaly, who violated the laws of hospitality, at a prince's table.

Quid memorem Lapithas, Ixonia, Pirithoumque?
Quos fuper atra Silex jam jam lapfura, cadentique
Imminet affimilis. Lucent genialibus altis
Aurea fulcra toris, epulæque ante ora paratæ
Regifico luxu: Furiarum maxima juxta

Accubat, et manibus prohibet contingere menfas,"
Exurgitque facem attollens, atque intonat ore.

VIRG. Lib. 6.

Thus