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Tumult and noise are dear, which with them bring His people's blessings to their ardent king; But when those great heroic motives cease, His swelling soul subsides to native peace; From tedious Grandeur's faded charms withdraws, A sudden foe to splendour and applause; Greatly deferring his arrears of fame, Till men and angels jointly shout his name. O pride celestial! which can pride disdain ; O bless'd ambition! which can ne'er be vain. From one fam'd Alpine hill, which props the sky, In whose deep womb unfathom'd waters lie, Here burst the Rhone and sounding Po, there shine, In infant rills, the Danube and the Rhine; From the rich store one fruitful urn supplies, Whole kingdoms smile, a thousand harvests rise. In Brunswick such a source the Muse adores, Which public blessings thro' half Europe pours. When his heart burns with such a godlike aim, Angels and George are rivals for the fame; George! who in foes can soft affections raise, And charm envenom'd satire into praise,

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Nor human rage alone his pow'r perceives,
But the mad winds, and the tumultuous waves.
Eva storms (Death's fiercest ministers!) forbear,
And in their own wild empire learn to spare.

* The King in danger by sea.

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Thus Nature's self, supporting man's decree,
Styles Britain's sov'reign Sov'reign of the sea.
While sea and air, great Brunswick! shook our state,
And sported with a king's and kingdom's fate,
Depriv'd of what she lov'd, and press'd with fear
Of ever losing what she held most dear,
How did Britannia, like Achilles,* weep,
And tell her sorrows to the kindred deep?
Hang o'er the floods, and, in devotion warm,
Strive for thee with the surge, and fight the storm!
What felt thy Walpole, pilot of the realm?
Our Palinurus† slept not at the helm;

His eye ne'er clos'd, long since inur'd to wake,
And outwatch'd ev'ry star, for Brunswick's sake:
By thwarting passions toss'd, by cares oppress'd,
He found the tempest pictur'd in his breast:
But now, what joys that gloom of heart dispel,
No pow'rs of language---but his own, can tell;
His own, which Nature and the Graces form,
At will to raise or hush the Civil storm.

*Hom. II. Hb. i.

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+ Ecce Deus ramum Lethæo rore madentem, &c. Virg. lib. v.

End of the Satires.

TO THE UNIVERSAL PASSION.

SATIRE 1.

---Gives applause to B--------e, or to me.] Blackmore (Sir Richard.)

---Churchmen ́Scripture for the Classics quit ;---Polite apostates from God's grace to wit.] N. B. Virgil, Horace, Terence, Cattullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Manilius, Lucretius, Longinus, Ciceronis opera, Cæsaris Comment. Homer, &c. were published by Bishop Hare, Dr. Bently, Dr. Davis, Dr. Clarke, Dr. Pearce, &c. S----e's bumour.] Steele (Sir Richard.)

P----y's eloquence.] Pulteney (William, Esq.)

If at his title T---- bad drop'd bis quill, &c.] Dr. Trapp, when Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, wrote Prælectiones Poetica, Poetical Lectures, which were deservedly esteemed; but upon his blank verse version of Virgil, vol. I. Dr. Evans of St. John's college, Oxon, sent the following distich:

Read the commandments, Trapp, translate no further ;--: For there 'tis written, Thou shalt do no murder.

A is depos'd, and B with pomp restor'd.] This alludes to Mr. Theobald's publication of a book, entitled, Shakespeare Restor'd, in opposition to Mr. Pope's edition of that author.

C----dos be'll outdo.] Chandos (Duke of.)

--B----¡-----ton, thy taste is not so true. Burlington (Earl of)

Not F--t--n's self more Parian charms has known,--Nor is good P---b---ke more in love with stone.] Sir Andrew Fountaine, and the late Earl of Pembroke, both great admirers of antique statues.

Put off at night with Lady B---'s bair.] The venerable gray-headed Countess of Bristol.

Fewer grave lords to S-------pe discreetly bend Mr. Scroope, a great money-lender.

SATIRE 11.

Paul Diack, who gave name to a tulip, was an honest, toping, old citizen of London, and a great stockjobber.

--T------n_turn'd upholsterer, &c.] Tonson (Jacob) fitted up many libraries of gilt books for south-sea coxcombs, 1720.

--Leaves to O--------.] Orrery (Charles of)

D--

---

--.] Dorset (Earl of), the poet's patron.

Miss D-tottering.] Miss Duncomb.

----the Stagerite.] Aristotle.

Hence D, that openness of beart.] Dodington. St-------pe in wit, in breeding D------ne.] Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.---Deloraine (Lord.)

SATIRE III.

---H--y's eyes unmercifully keen.] Lady Hervey. Well, H-------r, dost thou thy master serve.] Heiddegger, director of the masquerades.

SATIRE IV.

While C------- mpurns, &c.] Anthony Collins, Esq. founder of the seat of Freethinkers.

C----, who makes so merry with the Creed.] The same A. Collins.

· Arb-----t is a fool, and F----- a sage ---S----ey will fright you, E------ engage.] Dr. Arbuthnot, Daniel de Foe, Sir Charles Sedley.

S----- is the worst of friends.] Sussex.

Q------y is fair.] Duchess of Queensberry.

S-- the foremost toyman of his time.] Sloan (Sir Hans,) alluding to his Museum.

Unhappy J----y.] Lady Jersey.

B------le shines in council, M------t in the fight :-P--------m's magnificent, but J------ can write Boyle (Charles) Earl of Orrery. Mordaunt (Charles) Earl of Peterborough. Pelham, Duke of Newcastle. John Dennis.

--H-----t,

Will H-----t pardon, if I dare commend; with zeal, a patron, and a friend? ---A-----le true wit is studious to restore :---And D-----t smiles, if Phabus smit'd bef re --------ke, in years, the long liv'd arts adm res,--- And Henrieta like a Muse inspires.] Harcourt (Lord Chancellor.) Argyle (Duke of.) Dorset (Duke of) Thomas Pembroke (late Earl of) Lady Henrietta-Cavendish-Holles Harley. Character of Augustus, in the conclusion, applied to his late Majesty (Geo. I.)