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diff --git a/40895.txt b/40895.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a322626..0000000 --- a/40895.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2169 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Art of Politicks, by James Bramston - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Art of Politicks - -Author: James Bramston - -Commentator: William Kinsley - -Release Date: September 29, 2012 [EBook #40895] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ART OF POLITICKS *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Marshall, Joseph Cooper and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - [** Transcriber's Notes: - -[oe] ligatures have been replaced with straight oe, - -Greek transliterations have an "=" sign before and after - -each stanza has a number footnote, e.g. [1], to a corresponding - excerpt from Horace's The Art of Poetry. **] - - - THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY - - [JAMES BRAMSTON] - - THE - - ART _of_ POLITICKS - - (_1729_) - - _Introduction by_ - - WILLIAM KINSLEY - - - - PUBLICATION NUMBER 177 - WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES - - _1976_ - - - - GENERAL EDITORS - William E. 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Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -The meagre information known about James Bramston's life has been ably -summarized by F. P. Lock in his introduction to _The Man of Taste_ (ARS -171). For our present purposes, we need only add that Bramston seems to -have been acquainted with Pope, who saw _The Art of Politicks_ before -it was printed and thought it "pretty".[A] Bramston quite likely met -Pope through John Caryll, whose Sussex estate, Lady-Holt, was in the -neighborhood of Bramston's parishes. - -_The Art of Politicks_, Bramston's first English poem, was published -anonymously in 1729 and advertised in the Monthly Chronicle of 8 -December. Several reimpressions followed, as did another London -edition, one from Edinburgh, and two from Dublin, all dated 1729, and a -London edition of 1731.[B] It was reprinted in Robert Dodsley's -_Collection of Poems, by Several Hands_ (1748), where it was attributed -to Bramston, and in John Bell's _Classical Arrangement of Fugitive -Poetry_, Volume 5 (1789), with a few notes.[C] Horace Walpole's copy of -Dodsley's _Collection_, with a few rather uninformative manuscript -notes, is now in the British Library (C.117.aa.16). - -It seems likely that the poem was completed in the summer of 1729. The -most recent events that Bramston alludes to are Thomas Woolston's trial -for blasphemy of 4 March (p. 27) and Sir Paul Methuen's resignation as -Treasurer of the King's Household, which was reported in May (p. -13).[D] - - * * * * * - -Horace's _Ars Poetica_ was one of the most fertile sources for -eighteenth-century imitations and adaptations. Some were completely -serious attempts to marry one art to another or to show that all arts -share the same fundamental principles; an example of this type is John -Gwynn's _Art of Architecture_ (1742; ARS 144). Others, like William -King's _Art of Cookery_ (1708) are downright burlesques. - -Bramston's usual method falls somewhere between these extremes. He -often uses the dignity of poetry to show up the indignity of politics -or political writing, as on pp. 5-6 where Horace's advice on choice of -subject is transformed into advice to "_Weekly Writers_ of seditious -_News_," or on page 7, where the rise and fall of South Sea stock fills -the place of Horace's famous comparison of archaic and new-coined words -to the leaves of the forest. But Bramston's poem more often aspires to -the same level as its model; in this respect it resembles _Absalom and -Achitophel_ more than _Mac Flecknoe_. - -Several factors help to bring _Ars Poetica_ and _The Art of Politicks_ -together. Perhaps most important, Bramston conceives of politics -primarily as a verbal art, the use of speech to persuade others to a -course of action. Bribes and other crasser incentives appear in the -poem, of course, but they are clearly the result of declining -standards. For Bramston, rhetoric should govern politics; the House of -Commons is a reincarnation of a Roman senate or courtroom. Bramston's -inclusion of political writing as well as politics itself in his poem -also helps to keep him in Horace's orbit. On Horace's side, his -conception of poetry is basically rhetorical and persuasive; it should -instruct and delight, move to laughter or tears. Horace's readiness to -digress into literary history gives Bramston many opportunities to -bring in political history. The _Ars Poetica_ is very much concerned -with the world of men; poets are seen in their social roles, and -Horace's standards of literary decorum are usually based on social -norms: young men in plays should behave the way young men are observed -to behave in real life. The _Ars Poetica_ also contains several sharp -satiric darts; Horace's contrast between the eloquence of ancient -Greece and the commercial arithmetic of modern Rome slides easily into -a contrast between Elizabethan learning and Hanoverian place-hunting -(pp.32-33). Finally, Horace's urbane and chatty style is as suitable -for other subjects as it is for poetry. To appreciate Horace's -adaptability, one need only imagine the difficulty of writing an art of -politics in imitation of Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica" or -Aristotle's _Poetics_. - -Though he does not pretend to Pope's image of himself as a new Horace -bringing the whole weight of Roman tradition to bear on contemporary -society, Bramston is very clever on the local level at transposing -Horace for his own purposes. Horace recounts the increasing complexity -and sophistication of theatrical music, Bramston the increasingly -elaborated musical celebrations of victorious candidates (pp. 22-23), -and Horace's implication that the sophistication of taste is really a -decline--"an impetuous style brought in an unwonted diction" -(217)--constitutes an unspoken comment on Bramston's subject.[E] -Bramston's page 27 corresponds to Horace's brief history of the -theatre, from Thespis's tragedies that he staged on wagons to the -silencing of the excessively outspoken chorus of Old Comedy (275-84). -Bramston replaces Thespis with Defoe, and the wagon-mounted stage with -the cart and pillory. Instead of deploring the silencing of the chorus, -Bramston applauds the silencing of Woolston. The contrast between -Thespis and Defoe is clearly mock-heroic, but Bramston implies that -Woolston's similarity to an ancient satyr is a decline from the -character expected of a modern clergyman. - -Sometimes the mere fact of changing from a poetic to a political -context produces the satire or humour. What is praiseworthy in a -poet--the ability to mingle fact and fiction skillfully (151)--becomes -highly ironic when applied to a politician who - - In Falsehood Probability imploys, - Nor his old Lies with newer Lies destroys. (p. 16) - -Horace's "ut pictura poesis" (361) produces this bland but destructive -couplet: - - Not unlike Paintings, Principles appear, - Some best at distance, some when we are near. (p. 36) - -More humourous than satirical is the relation between Horace's -declaration that there's no place for a mediocre poet (372-73) and -Bramston's - - The Middle way the best we sometimes call. - But 'tis in Politicks no way at all. - - * * * * * - - There is no Medium: for the term in vogue - On either side is, Honest Man, or Rogue. (pp. 37-38) - -The conclusion of the poem involves a somewhat more complex -transformation. Horace closes with a humourously self-deprecating -description of the "poetic itch": the afflicted poet stumbles into -ditches as he babbles his verses aloud; people flee from him, and with -good reason; if he catches anyone, he hangs on like a leech and reads -his victim to death. Bramston describes another "sort of itch," -parliamenteering. Sir Harry Clodpole knows better than to make speeches -to the electors; he solicits their votes by feasting them, and they run -_towards_ him (or his table), not away. They, not he, are the leeches; -"they never leave him while he's worth a groat" (p. 45). - - * * * * * - -Bramston--it seems an excessive refinement to speak of a persona or -narrator--presents himself as a rather simple, naive political observer -who yearns for clear-cut distinctions between parties; he wants to know -where politicians stand on issues. The confusion, the blurring of old -party lines, in present-day England is like the monster in the -frontispiece. Though simple, he is also well informed. He seems to have -a good knowledge of British history since the Restoration, referring -casually to the Exclusion Crisis of 1680-81 (p. 15), the Kentish -Petition of 1701 (p. 10), and the South Sea Bubble of 1720 (p. 7). All -these past events are used to reinforce present lessons. He is -up-to-date, as shown by his reference to the recent events in the -careers of Methuen and Woolston. He professes familiarity with the -characters of the leading politicians and also knows something about -what is going on in the constituencies. He knows, or claims to know, -how different kinds of listeners will react to different kinds of -speeches. - -For a son of Christ Church, one of the most Tory Colleges of Tory -Oxford, he seems remarkably non-partisan, though his Opposition biases -do show through. When he says that "Addison's immortal Page" shows us -how "to screen good Ministers from Publick rage" (p. 9), he is clearly -aiming at Walpole, known as the "Screenmaster General" since his -success in shielding many of the perpetrators of the South Sea Bubble -in 1720. (I have not been able to discover the passage of Addison that -Bramston had in mind.) When the aspiring orator is urged not to "join -with silver Tongue a brazen Face" (p. 24), Walpole is again present by -innuendo, for "brazen-face" was another of his nicknames. On the other -hand, Bramston also makes fun of the "everlasting Fame" that results -from quibbling on Sir Robert's name (p. 6). Bramston perhaps has it -both ways here; while ridiculing commonplace puns, he also invites us -to remember that "Robin" does indeed sound very much like "robbing." - -Sometimes he is more subtle and ironic. This subtlety caused difficulty -for at least one contemporary reader, and may do the same for us. -Consider the following passage, which parallels Horace's advice always -to show Achilles wrathful, Orestes mourning, and the like: - - To _Likelihood_ your _Characters_ confine; - Don't turn _Sir Paul_ out, let _Sir Paul_ resign. - In _Walpole_'s Voice (if Factions Ill intend) - Give the two _Universities_ a Friend; - Give _Maidston_ Wit, and Elegance refin'd; - To both the _Pelhams_ give the _Scipios_ Mind; - To _Cart'ret_, Learning, Eloquence, and Parts; - To _George_ the _Second_, give all _English_ Hearts. (p. 13) - -One of Bramston's early readers found his poem very faulty, and many of -his complaints were directed against the passage just quoted. - - Such artless art did ever mortal see, - Or politicks so void of policy? - - * * * * * - - What bard but this could Pelham's train compare - To Roman Scipio's thunder-bolts of war? - Did e'er their wars enrich their native isle, - With foreign treasures and with Spanish spoil? - But hark! and stare with all your ears and eyes! - Walpole is friend to Universities! - - * * * * * - - Hail politician bard! we ask not whether - A whig or tory; thou art both and neither. - Poultney and Walpole each adorn thy lays, - Which one for love, and one for money praise. - Alike are mention'd, equally are sung - Will. Shippen staunch, and slight Sir Wm. Young. - Bromley and Wyndham share the motley strain, - With Cart'ret, Maidstone, and the Pelhams twain.[F] - -This critic finds two main faults in the poem: misinformation and -confusion about particular individuals and, more generally, an -inability to distinguish Whigs from Tories and give each their due. -This last complaint of course mocks Bramston's lament at the beginning -of the poem about the current lack of distinction between parties. - -To what extent is this critique justified? What is Bramston trying to -do in this passage? There is no problem with the second line: Sir Paul -Methuen did indeed resign his office, and one gets the impression from -Hervey (pp. 101-2, 250) that he never let anyone forget that he -resigned. Thus we have here the most conventional of truisms. Walpole -is more difficult. He was certainly no friend of the universities, -which were Tory hotbeds. On the other hand, he was reluctant to try to -reduce their privileges or bring them more closely under government -control, for fear of rousing them to keener opposition. Nowhere else -did he follow so faithfully his policy of letting sleeping dogs lie.[G] -In a certain sense, then, he might be called a friend of the -universities. I have been unable to determine whom Bramston means by -"Maidston"--perhaps one of the Finches, the most prominent family in -the area of Maidstone, Kent. Bramston's critic is certainly right about -the Pelhams: they have nothing whatever in common with the Scipios. -Scipio Africanus Major (236-184/3) was one of the most illustrious -Roman heroes, consul during the Second Punic War and an outstanding -military tactician. Scipio Africanus Minor (c. 185-129) was not only a -consul and a military hero but a great patron of letters whom Cicero -considered the greatest Roman of them all.[H] Thomas Pelham-Holles, -Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693-1768), Walpole's chief election -manager, was notoriously muddle-headed, nervous, embarrassed, swamped -in petty detail, suspicious, fretful, pompous, and indecisive.[I] His -brother, Henry Pelham (1695?-1754), was much less well known; reserved -and withdrawn, he preferred to work in the background, and his tactical -and organizational abilities were not recognized until considerably -later.[J] As far as their public image was concerned, then, no two men -could be less like the Scipios. Most contemporaries agreed with -Bramston's praise of John Carteret, Earl Granville (1690-1763), though -many of them also mention other, less admirable traits.[K] As for -George II, it depends on whose hearts you consult. An anonymous -journalist: - - What an Assurance has the Kingdom already given of an - unfeigned Affection to their Majesties Persons and - Government? How do the People shew that none are acceptable - to them, but those that are so to their Majesties? How can - Subjects give stronger Proofs of the high Esteem they have - their Sovereign in, for Penetration and Wisdom, than those - who entirely rely upon the Royal Discerning, and regulate - their Conduct by the King's Direction?[L] - -William Pultney: - - The Queen is hated, the King despised, their son both the - one and the other, and such a spirit of disaffection to the - family and general discontent with the present Government is - spread all over the Kingdom, that it is absolutely - impossible for things to go on in the track they are now - in.[M] - -By now Bramston's method should be clear: he is praising everyone, but -the praise fits the Opposition (such as Carteret) much better than it -does the Government (the Pelhams). There is perhaps room for doubt -about Walpole and George II, but Bramston's critic's failure to see the -irony in the comparison of Pelhams to Scipios must be the result of -sheer obtuseness. The rationale for Bramston's technique becomes -clearer if we look again at Horace and recall that the basis of his -advice is to follow conventional opinion. The conventional opinions -that Bramston is by implication urging his pupil to follow are those of -the politician's supporters and dependents. It just happens that -Bramston has chosen his examples so that the Opposition conventions are -closer to reality than the Government conventions.[N] - - * * * * * - -All this is fun, but it is quite inoffensive. There's no animus, no -vehemence, no bite. Politics do not really engage any of Bramston's -strong convictions. The self-portrait he offers us on pages 29-30 would -be for many political satirists of the period a transparent facade of -mock-innocence, but it seems to fit Bramston very accurately: - - Alas Poor Me, you may my fortune guess: - I write, and yet Humanity profess: - - * * * * * - - I love the King, the Queen, and Royal Race: - I like the Government, but want no Place: - - * * * * * - - Was never in a Plot, my Brain's not hurt; - I Politicks to Poetry convert. - -By contrast to the increasing acrimony of most political satire of the -late 1720's, this attitude is at least refreshing. - - - - -NOTES TO _THE ART OF POLITICKS_ - - -Given the topical nature of _The Art of Politicks_, the best use of my -remaining space is probably to annotate the poem. From what I have -learned about its background--and many mysteries remain--I have tried -to choose what seems most relevant. In the interests of saving space, -and since full annotation is not possible anyway, I have kept -documentation to a minimum, especially where the information comes from -easily available sources like the DNB or, conversely, has been pieced -together from several sources. Some works are occasionally referred to -by abbreviation or author's name; the ones not mentioned in the Notes -to the Introduction are the following:[O] - -Cobbett: William Cobbett, _The Parliamentary History of England from -the Earliest Period to the Year 1803_ (London: T. C. Hansard, 1806-20). - -Ellis: Jonathan Swift, _A Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions -between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome_, ed. Frank H. Ellis -(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967). - -Grey: Anchitel Grey, _Debates of the House of Commons from the Year -1667 to the Year 1694_ (London, 1763). - -Thomas: Peter D. G. Thomas, _The House of Commons in the Eighteenth -Century_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). - -Realey: Charles B. Realey, _The Early Opposition to Sir Robert Walpole -1720-1727_ (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1931). - - -P. 1, line 1. Sir James: Sir James Thornhill (c. 1675-1734). As MP for -Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (1722-34) and Serjeant Painter to the King -(1720-32), he embodies the parallel between art and politics that -underlies Bramston's poem. His best-known works were the dome of St. -Paul's and the paintings in Greenwich Hospital. Hogarth married his -daughter in 1729. - -P. 2, line 4. Cf. Hervey's comment on Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, -who "affected to conciliate in himself both characters of Whig and -Tory, declaring himself always a Whig in the State and a Tory in the -Church" (pp. 90-91). Gibson's attitude can be traced back at least as -far as Swift's _Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ (1711). - - line 11. Patriots: the self-awarded designation of the major - group of Walpole's opponents. - -P. 3, line 6. Parliament devoted considerable time to fixing turnpike -tolls. - -Fleury: Andre Hercule de (1653-1743). Created a cardinal in 1726, he -was chief adviser to Louis XV of France from that date till his death, -and therefore a person of great interest to England. His guiding -principle was to keep France at peace with the rest of Europe. - -P. 4, lines 2-3. "Tory" originally meant an Irish outlaw, and "Whig" a -Scottish rebel. For other theories of the origin of "Whig" that were -current in 1729, see OED. - - line 12. Repetition Day: a day on which schoolboys recite - memorized lessons. - -P. 5, line 7. The human face in Bramston's frontispiece has been said -to resemble Heidegger, but it does not seem to match his reputation for -extreme ugliness. See _TE_, 5, 92, 290, 443-44. - -P. 6, lines 3-4. Ridpath: George Ridpath (d. 1726), Whig journalist. -Abel Roper (1665-1726), publisher of the _Tory Post Boy_. - -P. 7, line 10. Pinkethman: William Pinkethman (or Penkethman) (d. -1725), a comic actor said to have once eaten three chickens in two -seconds. See TE, 4, 220, 377. - - line 12. Maypole: This remarkable barometer of intellectual -history was razed by the Puritan parliament in 1644. A new one, 134 -feet tall, was set up at the Restoration; it, or a successor, had -decayed to a height of twenty feet in 1717 when Sir Isaac Newton -acquired it and presented it to James Pound to use as a telescope -mount. - -P. 8, line 2. Newer Square: Cavendish Square, according to Horace -Walpole's annotation. - - line 6. The bridge at Putney Ferry was completed in 1729. - -P. 9, lines 4-5. Thomas Tickell's poetical _Epistle from a Lady in -England to a Gentleman at Avignon_ went through five editions in 1717. - - lines 6-7. "Caleb D'Anvers" was the pseudonym under which -appeared _The Craftsman_, the opposition journal directed by -Bolingbroke and Pultney. Bramston's expression of ignorance must -be ironic. - -P. 10, lines 1-2. Arthur Onslow, who became Speaker in 1728, insisted -that all members bow to the Speaker's Chair when entering or leaving -the House (Thomas, p. 356). - - line 12. The "Kentish Petition" was presented to the -Tory-controlled Parliament on 8 May 1701 by five gentlemen of Kent. -It urged Parliament to grant speedily to King William the subsidies -that would enable him to pursue his European wars against Louis XIV. -Parliament did not consider its words soft; it voted the petition -seditious, scandalous, and insolent, and arrested the five gentlemen, -who thereupon became popular heroes, at least among the Whigs. See -Defoe's _History of the Kentish Petition_ (1701) and Ellis, -pp. 53-56, 65-66. - -P. 11, lines 3-8. Pultney: William Pultney (1684-1764), later Earl of -Bath. The leader of the "Patriot" opposition to Walpole in the House of -Commons. Hervey reluctantly concedes that his abilities were -outstanding (pp. 790-91). - -P. 12, line 4. the Rod: that is, the rod of the Serjeant-at-Arms, the -officer responsible for keeping order in the House of Commons. - - line 6. the Bar: The Bar marked the outer limit of the House, -and, as the lines imply, was where offenders stood to be reprimanded. - - lines 11-12. The "one cause" is presumably Walpole's patronage. -The Cornish constituencies were notoriously corrupt even by -eighteenth-century standards, and Walpole cultivated the Scots -assiduously. A Scottish "laird" is a landowner, not a "lord" in the -English sense. - -P. 13, line 12. Flying-Squadron: apparently a group which claimed to -vote by principle rather than from attachment to any party. Sir Joseph -Jekyll was considered its leader. See Sedgwick, _House of Commons_, 2, -175; Realey, p. 54; and OED, "Squadron 7," "Squadrone b.," and -"Squadronist." - -P. 15, lines 2ff. The famous speech of Colonel Silius Titus (7 Jan. -1681) was widely reported in two slightly different versions; see Grey, -8, 279 and Cobbett, 4, 1291. In both these versions the question is -whether to keep the lion out or to let him in and chain him. Bramston -may have been following an independent tradition or merely exercising -poetic license. The lion is, of course, James, Duke of York, the Roman -Catholic heir to the throne. - -Lane: Sir Richard Lane (c. 1667-1756), MP for Worcester 1727-34. He was -a merchant, sugar baker, and salt trader, and a consistent supporter of -the administration. For examples of his indecorous use of biblical -allusions see Sedgwick, 2, 197-98 (the "bantering speech" mentioned -there used the Book of Revelation to prove that merchants were the best -people on earth); and Knatchbull, p. 137. - -P. 16, line 5. Rufus: King William II, son of William the Conqueror, -known as William Rufus, was often evoked as an example of tyranny, as -in Pope's _Windsor-Forest_. - -P. 17, lines 9-10. Prince William: younger son of George II, eight -years old in 1729; Louisa: youngest daughter of King George, then five. - -P. 18, line 4. William Shippen (1673-1743) was an extreme Tory, noted -for his outspoken attacks on the Walpole ministry, one of which landed -him in the Tower. Sir William Yonge (c. 1693-1755) was notorious, at -least among the opposition, for voluble but empty speeches in support -of Walpole, "melodious nothings" as one satirist put it. See also -Hervey, p. 36, and TE, 4, 394. The attack on _The Art of Politicks_ -quoted above complains that Shippen and Yonge should be mentioned in -the same breath, but Bramston's point obviously is that the young MP -cares nothing for either side. - -P. 20, line 8. Polly Peachum is of course the heroine of Gay's -_Beggar's Opera_. The role was played by Lavinia Fenton, who -immediately became the toast of London. "Old Sir John" may be Sir John -Hobart (1693-1756), although he was only fifteen years older than Miss -Fenton (see Sedgwick, 2, 142). His name was sometimes spelled -"Hubbard," and the following stanza appears in "A New Ballad Inscrib'd -to Polly Peachum" (British Library C-116.i.4 #38), the cavalier -typography of which perhaps indicates hasty composition: - - Then came Sir J---- H---- - Thundring at thy Cubboard: - But you cast them like a Lubboard - And did soon dispatch him. - -Whoever he was, Sir John lost out to Charles Paulet, third Duke of -Bolton, who kept Miss Fenton faithfully as his mistress, had three -children by her, and married her on the death of his wife in 1751. - -P. 21, line 10. The House of Commons had used St. Stephen's Chapel as -its meeting place since the mid-sixteenth century. Dover-Court is "a -proverbial term for a company, in which all are speakers and none -hearers" (Bell). - -P. 23, line 2. Waits: "a small body of wind instrumentalists maintained -by a city or town at the public charge" (OED). - - line 10. To sell bargains is to return indecent answers to -civil questions. - -P. 24, line 6. Mother Needham was a prominent bawd, notorious for her -foul language. See TE, 4, 374-75, and 5, 293-94. - - lines 7-8. "Oldfieldismus" and "Kibberismus" refer respectively -to the styles of Anne Oldfield, a well-known actress, and Colley Cibber, -playwright, stage manager, and hero of the _Dunciad_. Mrs. Oldfield was -generally respected, but Pope, like Bramston, seems to have disliked -her (TE, 4, 375). - - line 11. Tallboy was a booby young lover in Richard Brome's -comedy _The Jovial Crew_ (1641), popular throughout the eighteenth -century. - -P. 26, line 12. Mist: Nathaniel Mist, Tory journalist. See TE, 5, 448. -Eusden: Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate 1718-30, often ridiculed by -Pope. - - line 14. Cibber's opera is _Love in a Riddle_ (1729), designed -to capitalize on the craze for ballad opera created by _The Beggar's -Opera_. - -P. 27, line 5. Censor: Sir Richard Steele as Isaac Bickerstaffe, the -nominal author of _The Tatler_. - -P. 29, line 6. Where Edmund Curll stood was in the pillory. - -P. 31, line 3. Hugo Grotius's classic of political science, _De jure -belli ac pacis_, was published in 1625 and translated in 1654. - -P. 32, line 1. Wickfort: Abraham de Wicquefort, _l'Ambassadeur et ses -fonctions_ (La Haye, 1680). It was summarized in _The Craftsman_ of 23 -Sept. 1727. - - line 4. John Banks was the author of _The Unhappy Favourite; or -the Earl of Essex_ (1681) and of _The Island Queens, or the Death of -Mary, Queen of Scotland_ (prohibited in 1684; a revision was produced -in 1704). Bell says that although "written in the most contemptible -language, yet they never fail to melt the audience into tears, merely -by the force of judicious and well-arranged plots and incidents." - -P. 33, line 1. Arch-Bishop: William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury -since 1716. He was 72 in 1729. Master of the Rolls: Sir Joseph Jekyll, -who had held the office since 1717, was about 66 in 1729. - - line 12. Spence: Thomas Spence (d. 1737), Serjeant-at-Arms. - -P. 34, line 3. Toft: In 1726 one Mary Toft claimed to have given birth -to seventeen live rabbits, and some who should have known better -believed her. See Pope's poem on her, _TE_, 6, 259, and Hogarth's -engraving. - -throws: i.e., throes, labor pains. - - line 8: Bromley and Hanmer: William Bromley (?1663-1732), -MP for Oxford 1701-32, Speaker 1710-13; Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746), -who represented several constituencies from 1701-27 and was Speaker -1714-15. They were Tory heroes, at least to Atterbury, for having -refused the places offered them by George I in 1715 (Foord, p. 51). - -P. 35, line 1. Tonson: Jacob Tonson, prominent bookseller. - - line 9. Cler. Dom. Com.: "Clerk of the House of Commons." - -P. 36, line 2. Die Martis is Tuesday; Thursday is Die Jovis. - -line 6. Wyndham: Sir William Wyndham, MP for Somerset 1710-40, -prominent opposition leader from the 1720s. See Sedgwick, 2, 562-64, -for his reputation. Hervey believed that his high reputation was partly -due to Walpole's henchmen, who inflated it in order to deflate -Pultney's (p. 21). - -P. 44, line 4. Sir Robert Fagg was better known for horse-racing and -wenching than for politics; he appears in Hogarth's painting of _The -Beggar's Opera_ admiring Lavinia Fenton and in the ballad cited in my -note to p. 20, line 8. Running for Parliament in the borough of -Steyning, Sussex, in 1722, he came in third in a five-man race with -nineteen votes. He also ran third in 1727; the vote is not recorded, -unless Bramston's "two Voices" is to be taken literally. - - - -Universite de Montreal - - - - -NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION - - -[A] Letter to John Caryll, 6 Feb. 1731. _Correspondence_, ed. George -Sherburn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 3, 173. See also Antony -Coleman's introduction to James Miller's _Harlequin-Horace_ (1731; ARS -178). - -[B] D. F. Foxon, _English Verse 1701-1750_ (Cambridge: The University -Press, 1975), 1, 77. I should also like to thank Mr. Foxon for generous -personal help. - -[C] I owe my knowledge of Bell's edition to Kent Mullikin of the -University of North Carolina. - -[D] Woolston was convicted on four counts of blasphemy on 4 March 1729. -His offending works were six _Discourses on the Miracles of our -Saviour_ (1727-29). He never succeeded in paying his fine of L100 -(Pope, _Poems_ (Twickenham Edition, genl. ed. John Butt; London: -Methuen, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939-69), 5, 459). Hereafter -referred to as _TE_. - -Methuen's resignation is erroneously dated in 1730 in _DNB_ and in -Romney Sedgwick, _The House of Commons 1715-1754_ (New York: Oxford -University Press, 1970), 2, 254. See Abel Boyer, _The Political State -of Great Britain, 37_ (May 1729), 523, and John, Lord Hervey. _Some -Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II_, ed. Romney -Sedgwick (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931), pp. 101-02. According -to Hervey, Methuen's ostensible reason for resigning was his dislike of -the general conduct of the court, his real reason his failure to be -appointed Secretary of State. - -[E] Translations of Horace are taken from the Loeb Library edition, -trans. H. Rushton Fairclough (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University -Press, 1961). Line numbers of the Latin verse are in the text. - -[F] "Verses on the Art of Politicks," _Additions to the Works of -Alexander Pope, Esq. Together with Many Original Poems and Letters, of -Contemporary Writers, Never Before Published_ (London, 1776). 1. -158-59. I have been unable to discover where the poem was first -printed. - -[G] J. H. Plumb. _Sir Robert Walpole_ (London: Cresset). Vol. I (1956). -pp. 249-50; Sir Edward Knatchbull, _Parliamentary Diary, 1722-30_, ed. -A. N. Newman (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1963), -p. 42. - -[H] Most of my information about the Scipios comes from the _Oxford -Companion to Classical Literature_. - -[I] _DNB_; Ray A. Kelch, _Newcastle: A Duke without Money_ (Berkeley -and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 9-11; Reed -Browning, _The Duke of Newcastle_ (New Haven and London: Yale -University Press, 1975), pp. xi-xiii, 80-88. - -[J] _DNB_; Browning, p. 18. - -[K] Plumb, _Walpole, 2_ (1960), 52-53; Hervey, pp. 411-12; Browning, p. -113; Archibald S. Foord, _His Majesty's Opposition_, 1714-1830 (Oxford: -Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 142-45. - -[L] _The British Journal_, 258 (2 Sept. 1727), p. 1. - -[M] Reported by Hervey toward the end of 1729 (p. 105). - -[N] For illuminating discussions of Opposition ideology and literary -strategies, see Maynard Mack, _The Garden and the City: Retirement and -Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope, 1731-1743_ (Toronto and Buffalo: -University of Toronto Press, 1969); Isaac Kramnick, _Bolingbroke and -his Circle: The Politicks of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole_ -(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968); and J.V. Guerinot and -Rodney D. Jilg, eds., _The Beggar's Opera: Contexts_ (Hamden, Conn.: -Archon Books, 1976), esp. pp. 69-95. - -[O] Part of the research for this introduction was done while I held a -Leave Fellowship from the Canada Council, whom I should like to thank -for their support. - -[P] _All_ Mr. Heydegger's _Letters come directed to him from abroad_, A -Monsieur, Monsieur _Heydegger_, Surintendant des Plaisirs d' -Angleterre. - -BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE - -The facsimile of _The Art of Politicks_ (1729) is reproduced by -permission from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: -*PR3326/B287A8; Foxon B383) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial -Library. The total type-page (p. 19) measures 152 x 93 mm. - - -[Illustration] - - THE - - ART of POLITICKS, - - In IMITATION of - - _HORACE_'s - - ART of POETRY. - -[Illustration] - - _LONDON_: - - Printed for LAWTON GILLIVER, at _Homer_'s - _Head_ against St. _Dunstan_'s Church in _Fleet-Street_. - - MDCCXXIX. - - - - - THE - - ART of POLITICKS, - - In IMITATION of - - _HORACE_'s - - ART of POETRY. - - - - - [1] - [Illustration] - If to a Human Face Sir _James_ should draw - A Gelding's Mane, and Feathers of Maccaw, - A Lady's Bosom, and a Tail of Cod, - Who could help laughing at a Sight so odd? - Just such a Monster, Sirs, pray think before ye, - When you behold one Man both _Whig_ and _Tory_. - Not more extravagant are Drunkard's Dreams, - Than _Low-Church_ Politicks with _High-Church_ Schemes. - Painters, you'll say, may their own Fancies use, - And Freeborn _Britons_ may their _Party_ chuse; - That's true, I own: but can one Piece be drawn - For Dove and Dragon, Elephant and Fawn? - - [2] Speakers profess'd, who Gravity pretend,) - With motley Sentiments their Speeches blend:) - Begin like Patriots, and like Courtiers end.) - Some love to roar, _the Constitution's broke_, - And others on the _Nation's Debts_ to joke; - Some rail, (they hate a Commonwealth so much,) - What e'er the Subject be, against the _Dutch_; - While others, with more fashionable Fury, - Begin with _Turnpikes_, and conclude with _Fleury_; - Some, when th' Affair was _Blenheim_'s glorious Battle, - Declaim'd against importing _Irish Cattle_. - But you, from what e'er Side you take your Name, - Like _Anna_'s _Motto_, always be the same. - - [3] Outsides deceive, 'tis hard the Truth to know;) - _Parties_ from quaint Denominations flow,) - As _Scotch_ and _Irish_ Antiquaries show.) - The _Low_ are said to take Fanaticks Parts, - The _High_ are bloody _Papists_ in their Hearts. - Caution and Fear to highest Faults have run; - In pleasing both the Parties, you please none. - Who in the _House_ affects declaiming Airs, - _Whales_ in _Change-Alley_ paints: in _Fish-Street, Bears_. - Some Metaphors, some Handkerchiefs display;) - These peep in Hats, while those with Buttons play,) - And make me think it _Repetition-Day_;) - There Knights haranguing hug a neighb'ring Post, - And are but _Quorum_ Orators at most. - Sooner than thus my want of Sense expose,) - I'd deck out Bandy-Legs with Gold-Clock't Hose,) - Or wear a Toupet-Wig without a Nose.) - Nay, I would sooner have thy Phyz, I swear, - _Surintendant des Plaisirs d' Angleterre_[P]. - - [4] Ye _Weekly Writers_ of seditious _News_, - Take Care your _Subjects_ artfully to chuse, - Write _Panegyrick_ strong, or boldly _rail_, - You cannot miss _Preferment_, or a _Goal_. - Wrap up your Poison well, nor fear to say - What was a Lye last Night is Truth to Day; - Tell this, sink that, arrive at _Ridpath_'s Praise, - Let _Abel Roper_ your Ambition raise. - To Lye fit Opportunity observe, - Saving some double Meaning in reserve; - But oh, you'll merit everlasting Fame, - If you can quibble on Sir _Robert_'s Name. - In _State-Affairs_ use not the Vulgar Phrase, - Talk Words scarce known in good Queen _Besse_'s days. - New Terms let War or Traffick introduce, - And try to bring _Persuading Ships_ in Use. - Coin Words: in coining ne'er mind common Sense, - Provided the Original be _French_. - - [5] Like _South-Sea Stock_, Expressions rise and fall: - King _Edward_'s Words are now no Words at all. - Did ought your Predecessors Genius cramp? - Sure ev'ry Reign may have it's proper Stamp. - All Sublunary things of Death partake; - What Alteration does a Cent'ry make? - Kings and Comedians all are mortal found, - _Caesar_ and _Pinkethman_ are under Ground. - What's not destroy'd by Times devouring Hand? - Where's _Troy_, and where's the _May-Pole_ in the _Strand_? - Pease, Cabbages, and Turnips once grew, where - Now stands new _Bond-street_, and a newer Square; - Such Piles of Buildings now rise up and down; - London itself seems going out of _Town_. - Our Fathers cross'd from _Fulham_ in a Wherry, - Their Sons enjoy a Bridge at _Putney-Ferry_. - Think we that modern Words eternal are? - _Toupet_, and _Tompion_, _Cosins_, and _Colmar_ - Hereafter will be call'd by some plain Man - A _Wig_, a _Watch_, a _Pair of Stays_, a _Fan_. - To Things themselves if Time such change affords, - Can there be any trusting to our Words. - - [6] To screen good Ministers from Publick rage,) - And how with Party Madness to engage,) - We learn from _Addison_'s immortal Page.) - The _Jacobite_'s ridiculous Opinion - Is seen from _Tickel_'s Letter to _Avignon_. - But who puts _Caleb_'s _Country-Craftsman_ out, - Is still a secret, and the World's in doubt. - - [7] Not long since _Parish-Clerks_, with saucy airs, - Apply'd _King David_'s _Psalms_ to _State-Affairs_. - Some certain _Tunes_ to Politicks belong, - On both Sides Drunkards love a Party-Song. - - [8] If full a-cross the Speaker's Chair I go, - Can I be said the _Rules_ o'th' _House_ to know? - I'll ask, nor give offence without intent, - Nor through meer Sheepishness be impudent. - - [9] In _Acts of Parliament_ avoid Sublime, - Nor e'er Address his Majesty in Rhime; - An _Act of Parliament_'s a serious thing, - Begins with Year of Lord and Year of King; - Keeps close to Form, in every word is strict, - When it would _Pains_ and _Penalties_ inflict. - Soft Words suit best _Petitioners_ intent; - Soft Words, O ye _Petitioners_ of Kent! - - [10] Who e'er harangues before he gives his Vote, - Should send sweet Language from a tuneful Throat. - _Pultney_ the coldest Breast with Zeal can fire, - And _Roman Thoughts_ by _Attick Stile_ inspire; - He knows from tedious Wranglings to beguile - The serious _House_ into a chearful Smile; - When the great Patriot paints his anxious Fears - For _England_'s Safety, I am lost in Tears. - But when dull Speakers strive to move compassion, - I pity their poor Hearers, not the Nation: - Unless young _Members_ to the purpose speak, - I fall a laughing, or I fall asleep. - - [11] Can Men their inward Faculties controul? - Is not the Tongue an Index to the Soul? - Laugh not in time of _Service_ to your God, - Nor bully, when in _Custody_ o'th' _Rod_; - Look Grave, and be from Jokes and Grinning far, - When brought to sue for Pardon at the _Bar_. - If then you let your ill-tim'd Wit appear, - Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses will sneer. - - [12] For Land, or Trade, not the same Notions sire - The _City-Merchant_, and the _Country-Squire_; - Their Climes are distant, tho' one Cause unites - The _Lairds_ of _Scotland_, and the _Cornish Knights_. - - [13] To _Likelihood_ your _Characters_ confine; - Don't turn _Sir Paul_ out, let _Sir Paul_ resign. - In _Walpole_'s Voice (if Factions Ill intend) - Give the Two _Universities_ a Friend; - Give _Maidston_ Wit, and Elegance refin'd; - To both the _Pelhams_ give the _Scipios_ Mind; - To _Cart'ret_, Learning, Eloquence, and Parts; - To _George_ the _Second_, give all _English_ Hearts. - - [14] Sometimes fresh Names in Politicks produce, - And Factions yet unheard of introduce; - And if you dare attempt a thing so new, - Make to itself the _Flying-Squadron_ true. - - [15] To speak is free, no _Member_ is debarr'd: - But _Funds_ and _National Accounts_ are hard: - Safer on common Topicks to discourse, - The _Malt-Tax_, and a _Military Force_. - On these each Coffee-House will lend a hint, - Besides a thousand things that are in Print. - But steal not Word for Word, nor Thought for Thought: - For you'll be teaz'd to death, if you are caught. - When Factious Leaders boast increasing strength, - Go not too far, nor follow ev'ry Length: - Leave room for Change, turn with a grace about, - And swear you left 'em, when you found 'em out, - - [16] With Art and Modesty your Part maintain: - And talk like _Col'nel Titus_, not like _Lane_; - The Trading-Knight with Rants his Speech begins, - Sun, Moon, and Stars, and Dragons, Saints, and Kings: - But _Titus_ said, with his uncommon Sense, - When the _Exclusion-Bill_ was in suspense, - I hear a Lyon in the Lobby roar; - Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door - And keep him there, or shall we let him in - To try if we can turn him out again? - - [17] Some mighty Blusterers _Impeach_ with noise, - And call their Private Cry, the Nation's Voice; - - [18] From Folio's of Accounts they take their handles, - And the whole Ballance proves a pound of Candles; - As if _Paul_'s Cupola were brought to bed, - After hard Labour, of a small Pin's Head. - - [19] Some _Rufus_, some the _Conqueror_ bring in, - And some from _Julius Caesar_'s days begin. - A cunning Speaker can command his chaps, - And when the _House_ is not in humour, stops; - In Falsehood Probability imploys, - Nor his old Lies with newer Lies destroys. - - [20] If when you speak, you'd hear a Needle fall, - And make the frequent _hear-hims_ rend the wall, - In matters suited to your Taste engage, - Remembring still your Quality and Age. - Thy task be this, young Knight, and hear my Song - What Politicks to ev'ry Age belong. - - [21] When _Babes_ can speak, _Babes_ should be taught to say, - _King George the Second_'s Health, Huzza, Huzza! - _Boys_ should learn _Latin_ for _Prince William_'s sake, - And Girls _Louisa_ their Example make. - - [22] More loves the _Youth_, just come to his Estate, - To range the fields, than in the _House_ debate; - More he delights in fav'rite Jowler's Tongue, - Than in _Will Shippen_, or _Sir William Yong_: - If in one Chase he can two Horses kill, - He cares not twopence for the Land-Tax Bill: - Loud in his Wine, in Women not o'er nice, - He damns his Uncles if they give advice; - Votes as his Father did, when there's a _Call_, - But had much rather, never Vote at all. - - [23] We take a diff'rent Turn at _Twenty-six_, - And lofty thoughts on some Lord's Daughter fix; - With Men in Pow'r strict Friendship we persue, - With some considerable Post in view. - A Man of _Forty_ fears to change his Note, - One way to Speak, and t'other way to Vote; - Careful his Tongue in Passion to command, - Avoids the Bar, and Speaker's Reprimand. - - [24] In Bags the _Old Man_ lets his Treasure rust, - Afraid to use it, or the Funds to trust; - When Stocks are low, he wants the heart to buy, - And through much caution sees 'em rise too high; - Thinks nothing rightly done since _Seventy-eight_, - Swears present _Members_ do not talk, but prate: - In _Charles the Second_'s days, says he, ye Prigs, - _Torys_ were _Torys_ then, and _Whigs_ were _Whigs_. - Alas! this is a lamentable Truth, - We lose in age, as we advance in youth: - I laugh, when twenty will like eighty talk, - And old _Sir John_ with _Polly Peachum_ walk. - - [25] Now as to _Double_, or to _False Returns_, - When pockets suffer, and when anger burns, - O Thing surpassing faith! Knight strives with Knight, - When both have brib'd, and neither's in the right. - The Bayliff's self is sent for in that case, - And all the Witnesses had face to face. - Selected _Members_ soon the fraud unfold, - In full Committee of the _House_ 'tis told; - Th' incredible Corruption is destroy'd, - The Chairman's angry, and th' Election void. - - [26] Those who would captivate the well-bred throng, - Should not too often speak, nor speak too long: - Church, nor Church Matters ever turn to Sport, - Nor make _St. Stephen's Chappel_, _Dover-Court_. - - [27] The _Speaker_, when the Commons are assembl'd, - May to the _Graecian Chorus_ be resembl'd; - 'Tis his the Young and Modest to espouse, - And see none draw, or challenge in the _House_: - 'Tis his Old Hospitality to use, - And three good Printers for the _House_ to chuse; - To let each Representative be heard, - And take due care the _Chaplain_ be preferr'd, - To hear no _Motion_ made that's out of joint, - And where he spies his _Member_, make his point. - - [28] To Knights new chosen in old time would come - The _County Trumpet_, and perhaps a _Drum_; - Now when a Burgess new Elect appears, - Come Trainbands, Horseguards, Footguards, Grenadeers; - When the majority the Town-clerk tells, - His Honour pays the Fiddles, Waits, and Bells: - Harangues the _Mob_, and is as wise and great, - As the most Mystic Oracle of State. - - [29] When the Duke's Grandson for the County stood, - His Beef was fat, and his October good; - His Lordship took each Ploughman by the fist, - Drunk to their Sons, their Wives and Daughters kiss'd; - But when strong Beer their Freeborn Hearts inflames, - They sell him Bargains, and they call him Names. - Thus is it deem'd in _English_ Nobles wise - To stoop for no one reason but to rise. - - [30] Election matters shun with cautious awe, - O all ye Judges Learned in the Law; - A Judge by Bribes as much himself degrades, - As Dutchess Dowager by Masquerades. - - [31] Try not with Jests obscene to force a Smile, - Nor lard your Speech with Mother _Needham_'s Stile: - Let not your tongue to =Oldphieldismus= run, - And =Kibberismus= with abhorrence shun; - Let not your looks affected words disgrace, - Nor join with silver Tongue a brazen Face; - Let not your hands, like Tallboys, be employ'd, - And the mad rant of Tragedy avoid. - Just in your Thoughts, in your Expression clear, - Neither too modest, nor too bold appear. - - [32] Others in vain a like Success will boast, - He speaks most easy, who has study'd most. - - [33] A Peer's pert Heir has to the Commons spoke - A vile Reflection, or a Bawdy Joke; - Call'd to the House of Lords, of this beware, - 'Tis what the _Bishops Bench_ will never bear. - Amongst the _Commons_ is such freedom shown, - They lash each other, and attack the Throne: - Yet so unskilful or so fearful some, - For nine that speak there's nine-and-forty dumb. - - [34] When _James_ the _first_, at great _Britannia_'s helm, - Rul'd this word-clipping and word-coining Realm, - No words to Royal favour made pretence, - But what agreed in sound and clash'd in sense. - Thrice happy he! how great that Speaker's praise, - Whose ev'ry Period look'd an hundred ways. - What then? we now with just abhorrence shun - The trifling Quibble, and the School-boys Pun; - Tho' no great Connoisseur, I make a shift - Just to find out a _Durfey_ from a _Swift_; - I can discern with half an eye, I hope, - _Mist_ from _Jo Addison_, from _Eusden Pope_: - I know a Farce from one of _Congreve_'s Plays, - And _Cibber_'s Opera from _Johnny Gay_'s. - - [35] When pert _Defoe_ his sawcy Papers writ, - He from a Cart was Pillor'd for his Wit: - By Mob was pelted half a Morning's space, - And rotten Eggs besmear'd his yellow face; - The _Censor_ then improv'd the list'ning Isle, - And held both Parties in an artful Smile. - A Scribbling Crew now pinching Winter brings,) - That spare no earthly nor no heav'nly things,) - Nor Church, nor State, nor Treasurers, nor Kings.) - But Blasphemy displeases all the Town;) - And for defying Scripture, Law, and Crown,) - _Woolston_ should pay his Fine, and lose his Gown,) - - [36] It must be own'd the _Journals_ try all ways - To merit their respective Party's praise: - They jar in every Article from _Spain_; - A War these threaten, those a Peace maintain: - Tho' Lye they will, to give 'em all their due, - In Foreign matters, and Domestick too. - Whoe'er thou art that would'st a _Postman_ write, - Enquire all day, and hearken all the night. - Sure, _Gazetteers_ and Writers of _Courants_ - Might soon exceed th' Intelligence of _France_: - To be out-done old _England_ should refuse, - As in her Arms, so in her Publick News; - But Truth is scarce, the Scene of Action large, - And Correspondence an excessive Charge. - - [37] There are who say, no Man can be a Wit - Unless for _Newgate_ or for _Bedlam_ fit; - Let Pamphleteers abusive Satyr write, - To shew a Genius is to shew a Spite: - That Author's Works will ne'er be reckon'd good - Who has not been where _Curl_ the Printer stood. - - [38] Alass Poor Me, you may my fortune guess: - I write, and yet Humanity profess; - (Tho' nothing can delight a modern Judge, - Without ill-nature and a private Grudge) - I love the King, the Queen, and Royal Race: - I like the Government, but want no Place: - Too low in Life to be a _Justice_ I, - And for a Constable, thank God, too high; - Was never in a Plot, my Brain's not hurt; - I Politicks to Poetry convert. - - [39] A Politician must (as I have read) - Be furnish'd, in the first place, with a _Head_: - A _Head_ well fill'd with _Machiavelian_ Brains, - And stuff'd with Precedents of former Reigns: - Must Journals read, and _Magna Charta_ quote; - But acts still wiser, if he speaks by _Note_: - Learns well his Lesson, and ne'er fears mistakes: - For Ready Money Ready Speakers makes; - He must Instructions and Credentials draw, - Pay well the Army, and protect the Law: - Give to his Country what's his Country's due, - But first help _Brothers_, _Sons_, and _Cousins_ too. - He must read _Grotius_ upon War and Peace, - And the twelve Judges Salary encrease. - He must oblige old Friends and new Allies, - And find out _Ways and Means_ for fresh _Supplies_. - He must the Weavers Grievances redress, - And Merchants wants in Merchants words express. - - [40] Dramatick Poets that expect the Bays, - Should cull our Histories for Party Plays; - _Wickfort's Embassador_ should fill their head, - And the _State-Tryals_ carefully be read: - For what is _Dryden_'s Muse and _Otway_'s Plots - To th' _Earl of Essex_ or the _Queen of Scots_? - - [41] 'Tis said that _Queen Elizabeth_ could speak, - At twelve years old, right _Attick_ full-mouth'd _Greek_; - Hence was the Student forc'd at _Greek_ to drudge, - If he would be a Bishop, or a Judge. - Divines and Lawyers now don't think they thrive, - 'Till promis'd places of men still alive: - How old is such an one in such a Post? - The answer is, he's seventy-five almost: - Th' Arch-Bishop, and the Master of the Rolls? - Neither is young, and one's as old as _Paul_'s. - Will Men, that ask such Questions, publish books - Like learned _Hooker_'s or _Chief Justice Cook_'s? - - [42] On Tender Subjects with discretion touch, - And never say too little, or too much. - On Trivial Matters Flourishes are wrong, - Motions for Candles never should be long: - Or if you move, in case of sudden Rain, - To shut the Windows, speak distinct and plain. - Unless you talk good _English_ downright Sense, - Can you be understood by Serjeant _Spence_? - - [43] New Stories always should with Truth agree - Or Truth's half-Sister, Probability: - Scarce could _Toft_'s Rabbits and pretended throws - On half the Honourable _House_ impose. - - [44] When _Cato_ speaks, young _Shallow_ runs away, - And swears it is so dull he cannot stay: - When Rakes begin on Blasphemy to border, - _Bromley_ and _Hanmer_ cry aloud---- _To Order_. - The point is this, with manly Sense and ease - T' inform the Judgment, and the Fancy please. - Praise it deserves, nor difficult the thing, - At once to serve one's Countrey and one's King. - Such Speeches bring the wealthy _Tonson_'s gain,) - From Age to Age they minuted remain,) - As Precedents for George the twentieth's Reign.) - - [45] Is there a Man on earth so perfect found, - Who ne'er mistook a word in Sense or Sound? - Not Blund'ring, but persisting is the fault; - No mortal Sin is _Lapsus Linguae_ thought: - Clerks may mistake; consid'ring who 'tis from, - I pardon little Slips in _Cler. Dom. Com._ - But let me tell you I'll not take his part, - If ev'ry _Thursday_ he date _Die Mart_. - Of Sputt'ring mortals 'tis the fatal curse, - By mending Blunders still to make 'em worse. - Men sneer when---- gets a lucky Thought, - And stare if _Wyndham_ should be nodding caught. - But sleeping's what the wisest men may do, - Should the Committee chance to sit 'till Two. - - [46] Not unlike Paintings, Principles appear, - Some best at distance, some when we are near. - The love of Politicks so vulgar's grown, - My Landlord's Party from his Sign is known: - Mark of _French_ wine, see _Ormond_'s Head appear, - While _Marlb'rough_'s Face directs to Beer and Beer: - Some _Buchanan_'s, the _Pope_'s Head some like best, - The _Devil Tavern_ is a standing jest. - - [47] Whoe'er you are that have a Seat secure, - Duly return'd, and from _Petition_ sure, - Stick to your Friends in whatsoe'er you say; - With strong aversion shun the Middle way: - The Middle way the best we sometimes call, - But 'tis in Politicks no way at all. - A _Trimmer_'s what both Parties turn to sport, - By Country hated, and despis'd at Court. - Who would in earnest to a Party come, - Must give his Vote, not whimsical, but plumb. - There is no Medium: for the term in vogue - On either side is, Honest Man, or Rogue. - Can it be difficult our Minds to show, - Where all the Difference is, Yes, or No? - - [48] In all Professions, Time and Pains give Skill, - Without hard Study, dare Physicians kill? - Can he that ne'er read Statutes or Reports, - Give Chamber-Counsel, or urge Law in Courts? - But ev'ry Whipster knows Affairs of State, - Nor fears on nicest Subjects to debate. - A Knight of eighteen hundred pounds a year-- - Who minds his Head, if his Estate be clear? - Sure he may speak his mind, and tell the _House_, - He matters not the Government a Louse. - Lack-learning Knights, these things are safely said - To Friends in private, at the _Bedford-Head_: - But in the _House_, before your Tongue runs on, - Consult _Sir James_, _Lord William_'s dead and gone. - Words to recall is in no Member's power, - One single word may send you to the _Tower_. - - [49] The wrong'd to help, the lawless to restrain, - Thrice ev'ry Year, in ancient _Egbert_'s Reign, - The _Members_ to the _Mitchelgemot_ went, - In after Ages call'd the _Parliament_; - Early the _Mitchelgemot_ did begin - T' enroll their Statutes, on a Parchment Skin: - For impious Treason hence no room was left, - For Murder, for Polygamy, or Theft: - Since when the Senates power both Sexes know - From Hops and Claret, Soap and Callico. - Now wholesom Laws young Senators bring in - 'Gainst _Goats_, _Attornies_, _Bribery_, and _Gin_. - Since such the nature of the _British_ State, - The power of _Parliament_ so old and great, - Ye 'Squires and _Irish_ Lords, 'tis worth your care) - To be return'd for City, Town, or Shire,) - By Sheriff, Bailiff, Constable, or Mayor.) - - [50] Some doubt, which to a Seat has best Pretence, - A man of Substance, or a man of Sense: - But never any Member feats will do, - Without a Head-piece and a Pocket too; - Sense is requir'd the depth of Things to reach, - And Money gives Authority to Speech. - - [51] A Man of Bus'ness won't 'till ev'ning dine; - Abstains from Women, Company, and Wine: - From _Fig_'s new Theatre he'll miss a Night, - Tho' Cocks, and Bulls, and _Irish_ Women fight: - Nor sultry Sun, nor storms of soaking Rain, - The Man of Bus'ness from the _House_ detain: - Nor speaks he for no reason but to say, - I am a _Member_, and I spoke to day. - I speak sometimes, you'll hear his Lordship cry, - Because Some speak that have less Sense than I. - - [52] The Man that has both Land and Money too - May wonders in a Trading Borough do: - They'll praise his Ven'son, and commend his Port,) - Turn their two former Members into Sport,) - And, if he likes it, Satyrize the Court.) - But at a Feast 'tis difficult to know - From real Friends an undiscover'd Foe; - The man that swears he will the Poll secure, - And pawns his Soul that your Election's sure, - Suspect that man: beware, all is not right, - He's, ten to one, a Corporation-Bite. - - [53] Alderman _Pond_, a downright honest Man, - Would say, I cannot help you, or I can: - To spend your Money, Sir, is all a jest; - Matters are settled, set your heart at rest: - We've made a Compromise, and, Sir, you know, - That sends one Member _High_, and t'other _Low_. - But if his good Advice you would not take, - He'd scorn your Supper, and your Punch forsake: - Leave you of mighty Interest to brag, - And poll two Voices like _Sir Robert Fag_. - - [54] _Parliamenteering_ is a sort of Itch, - That will too oft unwary Knights bewitch. - Two good Estates Sir _Harry Clodpole_ spent; - Sate thrice, but spoke not once, in Parliament: - Two good Estates are gone--Who'll take his word? - Oh! should his Uncle die, he'd spend a third: - He'd buy a House, his happiness to crown, - Within a mile of some good _Borough-Town_; - Tag, Rag, and Bobtail to Sir _Harry_'s run, - Men that have Votes, and Women that have none: - Sons, Daughters, Grandsons, with his Honour dine; - He keeps a Publick-House without a Sign. - Coolers and Smiths extol th' ensuing Choice, - And drunken Taylors boast their right of Voice. - Dearly the free-born neighbourhood is bought, - They never leave him while he's worth a groat: - So Leeches stick, nor quit the bleeding wound, - Till off they drop with Skinfuls to the ground. - - - - - _FINIS_. - - - [1] Humano capiti cervicem Pictor equinam - Jungere si velit, & varias inducere plumas, - Undiq; collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum - Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne: - Spectatum admissi, risum teneatis, amici? - Credite, Pisones, isti tabulae fore librum - Persimilem, cujus, velit aegri somnia, vanae - Fingentur species. Pictoribus atq; Poetis - Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas; - Scimus, & hanc veniam petimusq; damusq; vicissim: - Sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut - Serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni. - - [2] Incoeptis gravibus plerumq; & magna professis - Purpureus late qui splendeat unus & alter - Assuitur pannus, cum lucus & ara Dianae, - Aut properantis aquae per amaenos ambitus agros, - Aut flumen Rhenum, aut pluvius describitur arcus; - Sed nunc non erar his locus: & fortasse cupressum, - Scis simulare, quid hoc, si fractis enatat exspes - Navibus, aere dato qui pingitur? amphora caepit - Institui, currente rota cur urceus exit? - Deniq; sit quidvis simplex duntaxat & unum. - - - [3] Decipimur specie recti; brevis esse laboro, - Obscurus fio: sectantem laevia, nervi - Deficiunt animique: professus grandia, turget. - Qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam - Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum. - In vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte. - AEmilium circa ludum faber imus & ungues - Exprimet, & molles imitabitur ore capillos; - Infelix operis summa, quia ponere totum - Nesciet; hunc ego me, si quid componere curem, - Non magis esse velim, quam pravo vivere naso - Spectandum nigris oculis nigroq; capillo. - - [4] Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam - Viribus; & versate diu, quid ferre recusent, - Quid valeant humeri: cui lecta potenter erit res, - Nec facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo. - Ordinis haec virtus erit & venus, aut ego fallor, - Ut jam nunc dicat jam nunc debentia dici: - Pleraq; differat, & praesens in tempus omittat. - Dixeris egregie, notum si callida verbum - Reddiderit junctura novum; si forte necesse est - Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum - Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis - Continget, dabiturq; licentia sumpta pudenter - Et nova sictaq; nuper habebunt verba fidem, si - Graeco fonte cadant. - - [5] ---- licuit, semperque licebit - Signatum praesente nota procudere nomen. - Ut Sylvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos: - Prima cadunt, ita verborum vetus interit aetas, - Debemur morti nos nostraq; sive receptus - Terra Neptunus classes aquilonibus arcet, - Regis opus, sterilisve diu palus aptaque remis - Vicinas urbes alit & grave sentit aratrum. - Seu cursum mutavit iniquum frugibus amnis - Doctus iter melius; mortalia facta peribunt, - Nedum sermonum stet honos & gratia vivax. - Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere, cadentq; - Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, - Quem penes arbitrium est & jus norma loquendi. - - [6] Res gestae regumq; ducumq; & tristia bella - Quo scribi possent numero, monstravit Homerus. - Versibus impariter junctis querimonia primum, - Post etiam voti inclusa est voti sententia compos. - Quis tamen exiguos elegos emiserit auctor - Grammatici certant, & adhuc sub judice lis est. - - [7] Musa dedit fidibus Divos puerosq; Deorum, - Et pugilem victorem, & equum certamine primum, - Et juvenum curas, & libera vina referre. - - - [8] Descriptas servare vices operumq; colores - Cur ego si nequeo ignoroq;, poeta salutor? - Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo? - - [9] Versibus exponi tragicis res comica nonvult - Indignatur item privatis ac prope socco - Dignis carminibus narrari caena Thyestae, - Interdum tamen & vocem Comaedia tollit, - Iratusq; Chremes tumido delitigat ore. - Telephus & Peleus, cum pauper & exul uterq;, - Projicit ampullas & sesqui pedalia verba. - - [10] Non fatis est est pulchra esse Poemata, dulcia sunto. - Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adflent - Humani vultus; si vis me flere, dolendum est - Primum ipsi tibi: tunc tua me infortunia laedent - Telephe, vel Peleu; male si mandata loqueris, - Aut dormitabo aut ridebo. - - [11] Format enim Natura prius nos intus ad omnem - Fortunarum habitum, &c. - Post effert animi motus interprete Lingua - ---- tristia maestum - Vultum verba decent, &c. - Si dicentis erunt fortunis absona dicta, - Romani tollent equites peditesq; cachinnum. - - [12] Intererit multum Divusne loquetur, an Heros: - Mercatorne vagus, cultorne virentis agelli: - Colchus, an Assyrius: Thebis nutritus, an Argis. - - [13] Aut famam sequere, aut sibi convenientia finge - Scriptor; honoratum si forte reponis Achillem, - Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, - Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis; - Sit Medea ferox invictaq;, flebilis Ino, - Perfidus Ixion, Io vaga, tristis Orestes. - - [14] Siquid inexpertum scenae committis, & audes - Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum - Qualis ab incaepto processerit, & sibi constet. - - [15] Difficile est proprie communia dicere: tuq; - Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus, - Quam si proferres ignota indictaq; primus; - Publica materies privati juris erit, si - Nec circa vilem patulumq; moraberis orbem, - Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus - Interpres, nec sic desilies imitator in arctum - Unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex. - - [16] Nec sic incipies ut Scriptor Cyclicus olim. - Fortunam Priami cantabo & nobile bellum; - Quanto rectius hic qui nil molitur inepte, - Dic mihi Musa virum captae post tempera Trojae - Qui mores hominum multorum vidit & urbes. - - [17] Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem - Cogitat: - - [18] Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? - Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. - - [19] Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, - Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo; - ---- & quae - Desperat tractata nitescere posse, relinquit; - Atq; ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet - Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum. - - [20] Tu quid ego & populus mecum desideret, audi; - Si plausoris eges aulaea manentis, & usq; - Sessuri donec cantor, Vos plaudite, dicat, - AEtatis cujusq; notandi sunt tibi mores, - Mobilibusq; decor naturis dandus & annis. - - [21] Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, & pede certo - Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, & iram - Colligit ac ponit temere, & mutantur in horas. - - [22] Imberbis juvenis, tandem custode remoto, - Gaudet equis canibusq; & aprici gramine campi: - Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, - Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, - Sublimis, cupidusq; & amata relinquere pernix. - - [23] Conversis studiis aetas animusq; virilis - Quaerit opes & amicitias, infervit honori, - Commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. - - [24] Multa senem circum veniunt incommoda, vel quod - Quaerit & inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti: - Dilator, spe longus iners, avidusq; futuri, - Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti - Se puero, censor castigatorq; minorum. - Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, - Multa recedentes adimunt; ne forte viriles - Mandentur juveni partes, pueroq; viriles, - Semper in adjunctis aevoq; morabimur aptis. - - [25] Aut agitur res in Scenis, aut acta refertur; - Segnius irritant aminos demissa per aures, - Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, & quae - Ipse sibit tradit Spectator. - Quodcunq; ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. - - [26] Neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu - Fabula, quae posci vult & spectata reponi; - Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus - Inciderit, nec quarta loqui persona laboret. - - [27] Actoris partes Chorus officiumq; virile - Defendat: neu quid medios intercinat actus - Quod non proposito conducat & haereat apte; - Ille bonis faveatq; & concilietur amicis, - Et regat iratos, & amet peccare timentes: - Ille dapes laudet mensae brevis, ille salubrem - Justitiam, legesq; & apertis otia portis; - Ille tegat commissa, Deosq; precetur & oret - Ut redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis. - - [28] Tibia non, ut nunc, Orichalco vincta, tubaeq; - AEmula, sed tenuis simplexq; foramine pauco, - Aspirare & adesse choris erat utilis, &c. - Postquam coepit agros extendere victor, & urbem - Latior amplecti, muros, &c. - Accessit numerisq; modisq; licentia major; - Sic etiam fidibus voces crevere severis, - Et tulit eloquium insolitum facundia praeceps: - Utiliumq; sagax rerum & divina futuri - Sortilegis non discrepuit sententia Delphis. - - [29] Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum - Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit, eo quod - Illecebris erat & grata novitate morandus - Spectator, functusq; sacris, & potus, & exlex. - - [30] Effutire leves indigna Tragoedia versus, - Ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus, - Intererit Satyris paulum pudibunda protervis. - - [31] Non ego inornata & dominantia nomina solum - Verbaq; Pisones, Satyrorum scriptor amabo; - Nec sic enitar Tragico differre colori - Ut nihil intersit Davusne loquatur, an audax - Pythias, emuncto lucrata Simone talentum: - An custos famulusque Dei Silenus alumni, - - [32] Ut sibi quivis - Speret idem, sudet multum frustraq; laboret. - - [33] Ne nimium teneris juvenentur versibus unquam, - Aut immunda crepent ignominiosaq; dicta: - Offenduntur enim, quibus est equus & pater & res, - Nec si quid fricti ciceris probat & nucis emtor - AEquis accipiunt animis, donantve corona. - - [34] At nostri proavi Plautinos & numeros & - Laudavere sales, nimium patienter utrumq; - Ne dicam stulte, mirati; si modo ego & vos - Scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dictum, - Legitimumq; sonum digitis callemus & aure. - - [35] Ignotum Tragicae genus invenisse Camaenae - Dicitur, & plaustris vexisse poemata Thespis, - Quae canerent agerentq; peruncti faecibus ora; - Post hunc personae pallaeq; repertor honestae - AEichylus & modicis instravit pulpita tignis, - Et docuit magnumq; loqui nitiq; cothurno. - Successit vetus his Comaedia non sine multa - Laude: sed in vitium libertas excidit, & vim - Dignam lege regi; lex est accepta, chorusq; - Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi. - - [36] Nil intentatum nostri liquere Poetae, - Nec minimum meruere decus vestigia Graeca - Ausi deserere, & celebrare domestica facta: - Nee virtute foret clarisve potentius armis, - Quam lingua, Latium, si non offenderet unum - Quemq; Poetarum limae labor & mora. - - [37] Ingenium misera quia fortunatius arte - Credit, & excludit sanos Helicone Poetas - Democritus, bona pars non unguem ponere curat, - Non barbam---- - Nanciscetur enim pretium nomenq; Poetae - Si tribus Anticyris caput insanabile nunquam - Tonsori Licino commiserit; - - [38] ---- O ego laevus - Qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam: - Non alius faceret meliora poemata, verum - Nil tanti est: ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum - Reddere quae ferrum valet exors ipse secandi; - Munus & officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo: - Unde parentur opes, quid alat formetq; Poetam: - Quid deceat, quid non: quo virtus, quo ferat error. - - [39] Scribendi recte sapere est & principium & fons: - Rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, - Verbaq; provisam rem non invita sequuntur. - Qui didicit patriae quid debeat, & quid amicis, - Quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus, & hospes, - Quod sit conscripti, quod judicis officium, quae - Partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto - Reddere personae scit convenientia cuiq;. - - [40] Respicere exemplar vitae morumq; jubebo - Doctum imitatorem, & veras hinc ducere voces; - Fabula nullius veneris, sine pondere & arte, - Valdius oblectat populum meliusq; moratur, - Quam versus inopes rerum nugaeq; canorae. - - [41] Graiis ingenium, Graiis dedit ore rotundo - Musa loqui, &c. - Romani pueri longis rationibus assem - Discunt in partes centum diducere; dicat - Filius urbani, si de quincunce remota est - Uncia, quid superest? poteris dixisse, triens, eu - Rem poteris servare tuam. - ---- redit uncia, quid sit? - Semis; at haec animos aerugo & cura peculi - Cum semel imbuerit, speramus carmina fingi - Posse linenda cedro & laevi servando cupresso? - - [42] Quicquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta - Percipiant animi dociles, teneantq; fideles; - Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat. - - [43] Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris: - Nec quodcunq; volet poscat sibi fabula credi, - Neu pransae Lamiae vivum puerum extrabat alvo. - - [44] Centuriae Seniorum agitant expertia frugis: - Celsi praetereunt austera poemata Rhamnes. - Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, - Lectorem delectando, pariterq; monendo; - Hic meret aera liber Sofiis, hic & mare transit, - Et longum noto Scriptori prorogat aevium. - - [45] Sunt delicta tamen, quibus ignovisse velimus; - Non semper feriet quodcunq; minabitur arcus: - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis - Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria sudit, - Aut humana parum cavit natura: quid ergo? - Ut scriptor si peccat idem librarius usq;, - Quamvis est monitus, venia caret: ut citharaedus - Ridetur, chorda qui semper oberrat eidem: - Sic mihi qui multum cessat fit Chaerilus ille, - Quem bis terq; bonum cum risu mirror, & idem - Indignor quandoq; bonus dormitat Homerus; - Verum opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum. - - [46] Ut Pictura Poesis erit, quae si propius stes - Te capiet magis & quaedam, si longius abstes; - Haec amet obscurum, volet haec sub luce videri; - Haec placuit semel, haec decies repetita placebit. - - [47] O major juvenum ---- hoc tibi dictum - Tolle memor, certis medium & tolerabile rebus - Recte concedi;---- - ---- Mediocribus esse Poetis - Non homines, non Dii, non concessere columnae - Sic, animis natum inventumq; Poema juvandis, - Si paulum a summo discessit, vergit ad imum. - - [48] Ludere qui nescit, campestribus abstinet armis: - Indoctusq; pilae, discive, trochive, quiescit, - Ne spissae risum tollant impune coronae; - Qui nescit, versus tamen audet fingere. ---- - ---- quidni? - Liber, & ingenuus, praesertim census equestrem - Summam nummorum, vitioq; remotus ab omni. - Membranis intus positis, delere licebit - Quod non edideris: nescit vox missa reverti. - - [49]Sylvestres homines facer interpresq; Deorum - Caedibus & victu faedo deterruit Orpheus, - ---- Fuit haec sapientia quondam - Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis: - Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis: - Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno. - ---- Dictae per carmina sortes - Et vitae monstrata via est, & gratia regum - Pieriis tentata modis: ludusq; repertus, - Et longorum operum finis. - ---- ne forte pudori - Sit tibi Musa lyrae solers & cantor Apollo. - - [50] Natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, - Quaesitum est; Ego nec studium sine divite vena, - Nec rude quid profit video ingenium; alterius sic - Altera poscit opem res & conjurat amice. - - [51] Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, - Multa tulit fecitq; puer; sudavit & alsit, - Abstinuit vener & vino, - Nunc fatis est dixisse, Ego mira poemata pango: - Occupet extremum scabies, mihi turpe relinqui est, - Et quod non didici sane nescire fateri. - - [52] Assentatores jubet ad lucrum ire Poeta - Dives agris, dives positis in faenore nummis; - Si vero est unctum qui recte ponere possit - Et spondere levi pro paupere, & eripere arctis - Litribus implicitum, mirabor, si sciet inter - Noscere mendacem verumq; beatus amicum. - Tu seu donaris, seu quid donare velis cui, - Noilto ad versus tibi factos ducere plenum - Laetitiae: clamabit enim, pulchre, bene, recte. - ---- si carmina condes, - Nunquam te fallant animi sub vulpe latentes - - [53] Quintilio siquid recitares, corrige sodes - Hoc aiebat & hoc: melius te posse negares - Bis terque expertum frustra, delere jubelat. - Si defendere delictum, quam vertere, malles, - Nullum ultra verbum aut operam insumebat inanem, - Quin sine rivali teque & tua solus amares. - - [54] Ut mala quem scabies aut morbus regius urget, - ---- dicam Siculiq; 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