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diff --git a/43673-8.txt b/43673-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3321629..0000000 --- a/43673-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2224 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poeta de Tristibus: Or, the Poet's Complaint, by -Anonymous - -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: Poeta de Tristibus: Or, the Poet's Complaint - -Author: Anonymous - -Contributor: Harold Love - -Release Date: September 8, 2013 [EBook #43673] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETA DE TRISTIBUS *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Richard Tonsing, Joseph Cooper -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY - - - - -POETA DE TRISTIBUS: -OR, THE -Poet's Complaint - - -(1682) - -_Introduction and Notes by_ - -HAROLD LOVE - -PUBLICATION NUMBER 149 - -WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY - -UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES - -1971 - - -GENERAL EDITORS - - William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ - George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - -ASSOCIATE EDITOR - - David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - -ADVISORY EDITORS - - Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ - James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ - Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ - Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ - Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ - Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ - Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ - Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ - James Sutherland, _University College, London_ - H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ - Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ - Curt A. Zimansky, _State University of Iowa_ - -CORRESPONDING SECRETARY - - Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ - -EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - - Lilly Kurahashi, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -_Poeta de Tristibus: or, the Poet's Complaint (PdT)_ was published by -two newly established booksellers, Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, -early in November 1681 (title-page dated 1682). The poem is only one of -a large number of Restoration satires on writers as a group, its nearest -neighbors in time being the pseudo-Rochester "A Session of the Poets," -the anonymous "Advice to Apollo," Mulgrave's "An Essay upon Satyr," -Otway's _The Poet's Complaint_, Robert Gould's "To Julian, Secretary to -the Muses," the anonymous "Satire on the Poets," Shadwell's _The Tory -Poets_, and Thomas Wood's _Juvenalis Redivivus_. It differs from these -in its Hudibrastic meter, the richness of its biographical detail, and a -relatively mild degree of animus against its victims, though there is -quite a deal against poetry as art and trade. - -In the two introductory epistles, we are asked to believe first that the -poem is the work of a young writer driven into exile by his poverty and -secondly that the manuscript was sent from Dover to a relative on 10 -January 1681 in acknowledgment of a piece of gold. It is possible, as -will be seen, that this reflects an actual history; however, the matter -is complicated by the existence of a second text, published by 12 -November 1681 (Luttrell's date on his copy, now at Harvard, and -apparently the only one still extant) as _The Poet's Complaint (PC)_ in -which the story is presented in a slightly different form and the text -of the poem is little more than a third the length of _PdT_. An -advertisement placed in Nathaniel Thompson's _Loyal Protestant and True -Domestick Intelligence_ on 19 November 1681 claims that the rival -version, published by Dan Brown, was printed from a "spurious and very -imperfect Copy which contains only the first Part of the said Poem, the -three last Parts (which are the most considerable) being wholly left -out, excepting some few lines of them foisted in here and there without -any Sense or Coherence" and describes the Faithorne and Kersey -manuscript as "from the Authors Original Copy in four parts (together -with several Additions and Corrections by an Ingenious Person)." In a -recent article (_PQ_, XLVII [1968], 547-562) the present editor has -argued against this account of the poem's genesis, and has proposed the -following hypothetical order of versions. (For the details of the -argument the reader is referred to the article.) - - (1) An impromptu written as _The Poet's Complaint_ on or about 30 - December 1680, for despatch to "a Person of Quality," using - materials from a commonplace book dating from circa 1677. This - assumption is based on the terminal dates of its collection of - quotations from other writers which differs from that of _PdT_, and - a disparity between the times of composition alleged in the - epistles to the two poems--_PdT_ claiming "less than a fortnight's - space" and _PC_ "less than three days space." - - (2) An enlarged version of #1 in four cantos completed by 10 - January 1681. (The "Authors Original Copy.") - - (3) The version of #2 revised and augmented by "The Ingenious - Person," who may or may not have been identical with the - "Publisher," and printed as _Poeta de Tristibus_. - -It would follow that the near-simultaneous publication of versions #1 -and #3 in November 1681 was wholly coincidental. My initial assumption -that _PC_ represents an early draft rather than a truncated copy of -_PdT_ has been reviewed with approval by my colleague David Bradley, -using criteria developed during a study of analogous situations among -Elizabethan dramatic texts. One of his most valuable observations is -that the two versions are thematically distinct, _PC_ being a satire on -backbiting, attacking those who abuse poets and poetry, and _PdT_ a more -general study of the notion "Wit versus Wealth." It is unfortunately -impossible to reproduce his more detailed comments since this would also -involve reproducing sizeable sections of _PC_; however, the basic point -concerning the direction of copying can be made in another way through -the pattern of variants revealed in extracts from the epilogue to Lacy's -_The Old Troop_ and Dryden's prologue to _Aureng-Zebe_ which are quoted -in both _PC_ and _PdT_. Collation shows that both texts are derived -from a lost intermediary which was in close though not complete -agreement with _PC_ against _PdT_. This rules out any chance that this -section of _PC_ could be derived from the printer's copy of _PdT_, and -suggests that the intermediary is more likely to have been the -hypothetical commonplace book or the MS of _PC_ than any four-canto -text, though the second possibility cannot be dismissed on textual -grounds alone. - -The only real clues to the authorship of the poem are the biographical -details of the preface and the signature initials "T.W." following the -author's epistle of _PC_--either or both of which may of course result -from a conscious intention to deceive. Surprisingly, both seem to be -relevant to the history of Thomas Ward, the author of the hudibrastic -anti-protestant satire, _England's Reformation_ (1719), who is known to -have left England at roughly the time suggested as that of the poem's -composition. In the life of Ward prefixed to _An Interesting Controversy -with Mr. Ritschel, Vicar of Hexham_ (1819), which appears to be based at -an unknown degree of removal on a personal memoir, he is said to have -been born on 13 April 1652, and to have returned to England in the -thirty-fourth year of his age after at least "five or six years" abroad, -a figure which may just be reconciled with a departure date in January -1680/1. However, other details of the case do not fit so well. To start -with, it is hard to see how a man of twenty-eight could refer, as the -author does in both epistles, to his "want of years, and a necessary -Experience in the Ages humour." Nor is it easy to reconcile Ward's -fervent Catholicism with a satiric allusion in _PC_ to non-preaching -bishops--a favorite topic of Puritan polemic--or with a reference to the -Pope as "Rome's great Idol." Ward is said in the _Life_ to have been a -Catholic before his departure, and writes movingly in _England's -Reformation_ of his friendship with the Yorkshire anchorite Father -Posket, executed in March 1679. The matter is further complicated by the -appearance of the initials "T.W." together with the dateline "Rome, June -10. 79. Stilo Novo." on a broadsheet of 1679, _A letter from Rome to a -Friend in London in Relation to the Jesuits Executed, and those that are -to be Executed in the Countryes_, which is in fact an anti-Catholic -tract vigorously supporting the executions. For this to have been the -work of Ward we would have to assume that he had set out for Rome at -least two years before the departure of the Poeta and then suffered a -violent relapse into Puritanism. On the other hand, if the pamphlet, as -is quite probable, was really the work of one of Shaftesbury's -propagandists in London, there would have been excellent reasons for -attaching the initials of a known Catholic exile. As the year 1679 is -also within the stated date-range of Ward's departure, the existence of -the broadsheet must count marginally against his being the author of -_PdT_. - -I can cast no further light on this mystery beyond proposing that if the -story of the exiled poet is in fact a fabrication, the poem may have -been the work of a younger (b. 1661) and Protestant "T.W." in the person -of Thomas Wood, Anthony à Wood's nephew, later celebrated as a legal -writer, poet, and controversialist and for his fondness for anonymous -and pseudonymous publication. Two of Wood's poems, _Juvenalis Redivivus_ -(published anonymously in 1683) and an elegy on the death of Oldham -(included with Dryden's lines in the _Remains_ of 1684), are satires on -the poets of a similar kind to _PdT_, while the second has a striking -structural similarity to its opening canto. Neither _PdT_ nor _PC_ is -included in Wood's list of his writings sent to his uncle in 1692 for -inclusion in _Athenae Oxonienses_ (Bodl. MS. Wood F.45, f.#229), nor do -they appear in _A Catalogue of Part of the Library of the Reverend Dr. -Wood_ (London, 1723); however, neither omission need be significant. A -third possibility is Thomas Walters, claimed by Anthony à Wood as the -true author of William Bedloe's tragedy, _The Excommunicated Prince_ -(1679); but I have found nothing beyond the fact he was an author to -connect him with _PdT_, nor any evidence that either he or Thomas Wood -spent the years 1681-1682 otherwise than accumulating time for their -degrees at Oxford. - -Monash University - - -BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE - -This facsimile of _Poeta de Tristibus_ (1682) is reproduced from a copy -(*PR3291/P795) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. - - - - -POETA DE TRISTIBUS: - -OR, THE - -Poet's Complaint. - -A - -POEM - - -_In Four_ CANTO'S. - -_Ovid de Trist._ - -_Parve, nec invideo, sine me Liber ibis in Urbem: - Hei mihi! qụ_---- - -_LONDON_, - -Printed for _Henry Faitborne_ and _John Kersey_, at the -_Rose_ in St. _Paul_'s Church-Yard. 1682. - - - - -_The Publisher's Epistle to the_ - -READER. - - -_Courteous Reader_, - -The following Poem was presented me about a year ago; and (as it appears -by the Author's Epistle to me) was designed only for my Private -Divertisement: But numerous Draughts being dispers'd abroad, by the -Unworthiness of a Gentleman I Trusted it withal, I was more easily -perswaded to Publish the Original, to prevent the Inconveniencies of a -Surreptitious Copy, which, without my Allowance, was designed for the -Press. - -The Author being out of _England_, I would not venture to set his Name -to it; nor have I presumed thus far, without extraordinary regret; not -that I know any other Reason that enforces a concealment, besides that -it was sent to me with such a Bond. I am sure no particular Person can -pretend to any distaste; and _Satyr_ on general Subjects was ever -Allowable, _Religion_ and _Government_ only excepted. - -But I must Confess, that in the Third Part of this Poem, there were some -Capital Letters which began the Names of certain Poets of this Age, but -them I have so altered, lest any Offence should be given, that by them I -am sure no Discovery can be made. I will no longer detain you from your -better Divertisement in the following Poem; which, if you have any good -Nature, you cannot chuse but favour, especially if you carry along with -you those several Circumstances which in the way will offer themselves -to you in the Author's behalf. - -_Farewel._ - - - - -The Author's Epistle. - - -SIR, - -_My Obedience to your desire so happily concentring with my Inclination -to this Subject, has in less than a fortnight's space produc'd what here -you see. To you I need not make any Apology for its Artless Habit, who -very well know my want of years, and a necessary Experience in the Ages -humour; nor can you reasonably expect any extraordinary strokes from one -whose thoughts are divided between so many various Afflictions; since_ -Ovid _himself, when Condemn'd to Banishment, was forc'd to resign that -Spirit of Poetry, which animated all his Works, besides that of his_ De -Tristibus. _Besides, I must desire your Patience to observe, that (the -Verse I use being a kind of Doggrel) it is but Natural that now and then -it should run harsh and rugged; nor do I believe I have done amiss by -forcing my self sometimes to be so very plain and familiar. As for the -Rhyme and Measure, though perhaps they may not always answer the -strictest Law, yet I do not think it worth the while to make any excuse -for that, being faults so inconsiderable, that they are seldom reflected -on, but by the meanest sort of Criticks, who want judgment to discern -the Intrigues of Humour and Invention, which are the Principal -Ingredients of a Poem, and which I must needs confess are here extreamly -deficient: For as this little Poem was written_ extempore, _so it -presumes to kiss your hand in its Native unpolish'd shape, not having -the least thought or word of it Corrected; for to Morrow being the time -we design to take Shipping, I had not so much leisure as to Transcribe -it._ - -_I must Confess, it seems unnatural, that one who pretends to the Title -of a Poet, should endeavour, as I have done, to disparage his own -Profession. However, the Poets of this Age, whom it most concerns, I -hope will not take it unkindly of me, since doing thus, I only follow -the Example they have given me; for in that short time of my Residence -in_ London, _among all the Poets I was in Company with, I heard little -else besides their Complaints, and unmerciful damnings both of the Times -and one another. Neither have I seen a Modern Play but either began or -ended in the same Tune. Some few of which I have, for Example-sake, here -presumed to quote._ - - -In the Prologue to _Aurenzebe_. - - _The Clergy thrives, and the Litigious Bar,_ - _Dull Heroes fatten by the Spoils of War._ - _All Southern Vices (Heav'n be prais'd) are here,_ - _But Wit's a Luxury you count too dear._ - -In the Epilogue to the _Libertine_. - - _S Death! What a Devil would you have us do?_} - _Each take a Prison, and there humbly sue,_ } - _Angling for single Money in a Shoe?_ } - -In the Epilogue to _Monsieur Rogooe_. - - _I Am a Poet, and I'll prove it plain,_ - _Both by my empty Purse, and empty Brain._ - _I've other Reasons to confirm it too;_ - _I've great, and self-conceits of all I do._ - _As for my Play, I Pawn'd it to some Cit,_ - _At least six Months before my Play was writ._ - _But when the third day comes, away I run,_ - _Knowing that then in sholes come all my Duns._ - _If these things make me not a proper Poet,_ - _He that has better Title, let him shew it._ - -In the Prologue to _Theodosius_; Or the Force of Love. - - _On Poets only no kind Star e're smil'd,_ - _Curst Fate has damn'd 'em every Mothers Child._ - _Therefore he warns his Brothers of the Stage_ - _To write no more to an ingrateful Age._ - _Think what penurious Masters you have serv'd;_ - Tasso _ran mad, and Noble_ Spencer _starv'd_. - _Turn then, who e're thou art, that canst Write well,_ - _Thy ink to Gall, and in Lampoons excell._ - _Forswear all Honesty, traduce the Great,_ - _Grow Impudent, and rail against the State;_ - _Bursting with Spleen, abroad thy Pasquils send,_ - _And choose some Libel-spreader for thy Friend._ - _The Wit and Want of_ Timon _point thy Mind,_ - _And for thy Satyr-subject chuse Mankind._ - -In the Prologue to the Unhappy Favourite; or the Earl of _Essex_. - - _The Merchant, joyful with th' hopes of Gain,_ - _Ventures his Life and Fortunes on the Main;_ - _But the poor Poet oft'ner does expose_ - _More than his Life, his Credit, for Applause._ - -In the Epilogue to the same Play. - - _Let those who call us Wicked, change their Sence,_ - _For never Men liv'd more on Providence:_ - _Not Lott'ry Cavaliers are half so poor,_ - _Nor broken Cits, nor a Vacation Whore;_ - _Not Courts, nor Courtiers living on the Rents_ - _Of the three last ungiving Parliaments._ - _So Wretched, that if_ Pharaoh _could Divine,_ } - _He might have spar'd his Dream of seven lean Kine,_} - _And chang'd the Vision for the Muses Nine._ } - -And a little after. - - _'Tis not our want of Wit that keeps us poor,_ - _For then the Printer's Press would suffer more:_ - _Their Pamphleteers their Venom daily spit,_ - _They thrive by Treason, and we starve by Wit._ - -_Now I do not blame these Ingenuous Gentlemen for inveighing against the -thing to which they owe their Ruin; nor were it to any purpose to -endeavour to conceal a Truth so generally taken notice of: For who is -Ignorant of this, that a Man, in all Professions, except that of Poetry, -may with Honour advance a Livelihood? But that (though it may be -sometimes found proper for the Divertisement of those few who have -leisure to read it) was ever known to be most unprofitable to the -Authors; for few or none have been Advanced by it, though many have been -hindred by this Art of Versifying, from making their Fortune otherwise -in the World. Yea, this Profession is grown so Vile and abject, that -whereas others count it an Honour to be stiled Physicians, Barristers, -or the like; these are offended with the very Name of Poet: And that -with good Reason too, since Poetry only glories in Disguising the Truth; -for which cause it begins to be Banished even from Theatres, to which -alone it was Destinated; and Prose is now come in request, being -prefer'd for its Gracefulness and Naturalness above it: By which means -this Art is in danger to be confin'd to the Corners of Streets; to serve -only for Songs and Ballads. Hence it was that_ Ovid _was so severely -Punished by his Father, to make him leave off this Art, which proved so -unlucky to him, that he became of a Rich_ Roman _Knight, a Miserable -Exile among_ Barbarians. _Hence_ Plato _was pleased to Banish it out of -his imaginary Common-Wealth. And_ Philip, _the first Christian Emperour, -denied them those Immunities which he granted to all others. Numerous -Instances of this Nature offer themselves to my Pen, but I must take -care not to stretch my Epistle too far, for fear you should Reflect on -it, what was formerly said on Sir_ William D'avenant's _Preface before -his_ Gondibert, - - A Preface to no Book, a Porch to no House, - Here is the Mountain, but where is the Mouse? - -_However, I must not neglect to desire this one Favour of you, that -after you have taken the pains to peruse these undigested Lines, you -would be pleased to bestow on them a Funeral Fire; or if you apprehend -that Sentence to be too severe, I do most earnestly beg of you to keep -them Secret to your self, without shewing them to your trustiest Friend, -at least, with my Name_ _to them. It were superfluous now to engage you -not to convey them to the Censorious World through the Press, since -that, and more was already by the precedent Caution imply'd; besides, -the Opinion I have of your Candour, is better grounded, than to admit of -any such Jealousie._ - -_I will now only add my most hearty Thanks for all your Favours, -particularly for the Piece of Gold I Received inclosed in your last -Letter; and had some others of my Relations proved as kind to me as your -self, or had I in my own Countrey met with encouragement any way sutable -to my Endeavours, I had not in this Passion shaken hands with it. But -now I am in hast to be gone, yet will for ever remain,_ - -_Dearest Cousin!_ - -Your assured, Faithful Friend, -and most Humble Servant. - -Dated at _Dover_ the Tenth -day of _January, 1680/1_. - - POETA DE TRISTIBUS: - - OR, THE - - Poet's Complaint. - - A - - POEM. - - - - -_The First CANTO._ - - - Since here I'm bandy'd up and down - By the keen blows of Fortunes frown, - Whil'st Art and Nature vainly strive - To make th' unhappy Poet live; - I'le fly such Native Plagues as these - For Refuge, to the calmer Seas: - And try if boading Stars dispence - Ev'ry where the same influence. - Climes vary Constitutions, so - Why may not they change Fortunes too? - Through th' habitable World I'le go, - And if that fails, I'le search for new. - Wit somewhere has a happy Reign, - Or Nature gives us Thoughts in vain. - Tho' here her bounty she provides - For ev'ry thing which breaths besides. - - The Dunce made Batchelor of Art, - Some Fustian Sermon learns by heart, - Then Preaches 'fore a Country Squire,} - Who his deep Learning does admire, } - And gives him sixscore pounds a year.} - But he must Marry th' Chamber-Maid, - Who is, forsooth, a Mistress made: - So he goes on with a fair hope, - And of his Pulpit makes a Shop. - - So Quacks as eas'ly as they will, - Can get Licenses to kill, - Whil'st the hungry Poet may } - For an _Imprimatur_ stay, } - Till h'has eaten up his Play.} - - Yet since the Press has lately had - Its Liberty, 'tis near as bad. - For scarce a broken Shop-keeper, - Or a cast Serving man grown bare, - But herds among our starved Crew, - And falls a Writing Poems too. - The Plot, the Jesuit, and the Pope - Are now grown Theams for ev'ry Fop. - Who by such wretched, Ballad-ware, - Makes Writing cheap, and Paper dear. - - See how the gaping Merchants range, - Hunting their Chapmen on the Change, - Whose Various Voices frame a sound, - Like Billows when their Ships are drown'd, - And in one hour more fat do sweat - Than th' Poet in a year can get. - Those worst of Atheists! who do hold - There is no Deity but Gold! - They hate the Poet 'cause he's poor, - And only th' Golden Calf adore. - Our Plays, they say, are wicked dear, - Th' expence in Ballads will go far. - Nay, I protest I've heard some say - Plays are a kind of Popery. - I'th' City-shops they're thought Profane, - As were Minc'd-pies in _Cromwel_'s Reign. - Where, when for _Dryden_'s Works I came, - They vow'd they never heard his Name. - But they had _Baxter_'s, if you please, - And such-like precious things as these. - Bless 'em from Plays; they'd rather go - Unto a Conventicle, or so. - - The Stationer grows fat on th' gain, - He sucks from the poor Poet's brain. - He, and the Printer, who does know - Nothing beyond the Cris-cros-row, - Do still their Heads together joyn - To cheat the Poet of his Coyn. - Whil'st he, poor Drudge! must toil and sweat - Honourable stabs to get; - And is forc'd to sigh, and stay - For the Lawrel 'till he's gray: - And at last together come - To his Honour, and his Tomb. - Tho' when dead, his Friends may'nt raise - Enough to gild his Fun'ral Bays. - - The Players, who scarce know to write - Their Names, or spell one word aright, - Or read their Parts, unless writ fair - In a large _Roman_ Character, - Call us their Slaves, who for their gain - Must toil, and all their faults sustain. - In gay Attire each day they shine; - Eat well, and drink the Richest Wine, - All fat and plump, except some few - The _French-man_ prov'd invet'rate to. - Look how they strut it as they go! } - And in the streets make such a show,} - As if they'ld there Act Princes too!} - While th' Poet sneaking all alone - In some by-lane where he's unknown; - No farther than his Pot can go, - And has a Pipe to th' bargain too. - - I hardly a poor Lawyer know, - Unless some who are Poets too. - They thrive by Rapine and Revenge, - And making Enemies of Friends: - Feeding on others hopes and fears, - On Orphants groans, and Widows tears. - In short, the World it self; and all - We Trade, and Art, and Science call, - Are grand Impostures; false and vain, - Invented but to bring in gain. - - Astronomy does our Faith engage, - And with dark Notions cheats the Age: - But take off its Disguise, you'll see - It is as feign'd as Poetry. - Else let it for a certain show - Whether this Globe has Wings or no, - Or _Ovid_ blame, who said, the Sun - Did run away with _Phaëton_. - I cannot chuse but laugh to think - If these poor Moon-calves had no Drink - But that same thinnish, blewish Whey - Press'd from green Cheese i'th' Milky-way; - When Goddesses make the New Moon, - How soon they'd throw their Cross-staves down! - - What is Geometry, I'ld know, - But a false Brat of Fancy too? - If 'tis a Science, let it tell - How far from hence the Stars do dwell; - And due proportion give between - A _direct_ and a _crooked Line_. - Yet while the Dotards sit at home, - Each _Line_ is tip't with Golden _Plumme_; - And still we find that each _Right-Angle_ - Some Gain or other does entangle; - As Tonnellers catch Partridge; so - Geometricians, you must know, - Although in other things but Asses, } - They eat, and drink, and sleep with Lasses} - Between the Legs of their _Compasses_. } - - So th' Natural Philosopher - 'S perpetual Motion keeps a stir, - But straight his Engines rest obtain, - And all the Motion's in his brain; - Except some easie hand, forsooth, - That opens but to fill his mouth. - - Rhet'rick, which we so much adore, - Ne'r had a perfect Orator. - And yet their mouths provide; I trow,} - As lame and cripled people's do, } - Who lie, because they cannot go. } - - And what is Logick, but a cheat? - Nothing, or something worse than it. - A _Delphick_ Sword, bends any way } - To make Truth yield to Sophistry, } - And bring home Gold from _BARBARA_.} - - The lingring Chymsts blow their fire, - Till their own Lamps of Life expire; - And searcheth for th' Inchanted stone, - Till they themselves grow cold as one; - Which they would quickly do, but that - 'Tis written in the Book of Fate, - The great work (much too great for one) - Cannot be carried on alone, - But asks more hands; and so another, - That's Rich, helps his poor Chymick Brother. - - Speak, dull Philosopher; what's all - You, in mistake, do Science call? - Since _Socrates_ with much ado, - Learn'd only that he nothing knew. - There's nothing unconfin'd and free, - Except the Soul of Poetry, - When it does on our Organs play. - Throw all your Mystick Books away, - And study Natures Library: - Mount up to Heaven's refulgent Throne, - There by the Lab'ring Muses drawn. - First, pause a while, then Write, and all - The Gods to Convocation call; - Then with Imperious frowns survey - Poor Mortals damn'd to treading clay; - And raising Piles, till pitying Fate - Pulls the brick ruins on their pate. - There laugh at Princes, who do groan - Under the burden of a Crown: - And condemn Riches, which we see} - Is but a Golden Slavery; } - We're Richer far in Poetry. } - But hold!---- - I'm almost starv'd, as I'm a Sinner, - Prethee, _Jack_, Trust me for a Dinner. - - Poor Poet! what a wretch th'art grown? - Cast to a Dungeon from a Throne! - Thou who but now did'st reach the Sky, - Low as Despair art forc'd to lie: - Those soaring thoughts thou didst admire, - With thy Poetick rage expire. - 'Twas but a Dream, and now I see - Riddles unty'd to Fetter me. - The Angels height procur'd their Thrall, - But 'tis my lowness makes me Fall. - Had Nature giv'n me a Rich Mine, - As other Fops I'd happy been; - Nor had I been exposed thus, - To make my plaints ridiculous. - - For Wit and Wealth such Rivals are, - That they can't Reign in the same Sphere, - But as when Kings each other thwart, - Th' unhappy Subjects feel the smart: - So those t' whom Nature has been kind, - Must Fortunes Rage and Malice find. - And 'till these Friends and Partners grow, - Who can have Wit and Money too? - But if the World hath such a Creature, - He's Monstrous, and not made by Nature. - Poets are Chymists, who want skill - To perfect Metals as they will; - Yet Clothes, or Money, what you please, - Be sure they'l turn to _Sack_ with ease; - Then with that _Sack_ they can prepare } - Castles, nay, Kingdoms in the Air, } - And carve themselves whole Lordships there.} - But since they here so disagree - About a paltry Lawrel Tree, - I wonder what a Dev'l they do, - When to these fancy'd Lands they go: - But hold! they'l all be De'ties there, - And every one will have his Sphere. - For all the Gods of which we read, - Were by th' Almighty Poets made: - And they who did their God-heads make, - May at their pleasures take 'em back. - - - - -_The Second CANTO._ - - - How often have I seen the Taylor, - The Shoe-maker, and Milliner, - And ev'ry Fop that sells his Ware, - O're this poor Creature domineer? - And I can't choose but let you know it, - How a curst _Broker_ met a _Poet_, - Walking through _Smithfield_ on a time, - O're whom he swagger'd thus in Rhime. - - Is this your Wit! the Devil take it! - For without question he did make it. - The truest Wit is Honesty, - And to get Coyn your Debts to pay. - Wit is an Ass, when Money's slow; - Nay, 'tis that makes the Ass to go. - Why? I am but a mean Trades-man, - And yet do more than any Poet can. - I walk the Streets, yet fear no Dun, - Nor in their Debts, nor from 'em run. - Nor yet for fear of being found out, - Do walk half a mile about. - Altho' you're in _White-Fryers_ lurking, - I've certain Ingeneers a working: - And, Sir, unless you quickly pay me, - Expect a Visit from a _Baylie_. - - This Language less dismaid the Poet, - Having been long accustom'd to it: - Howe're, he thought it not amiss - To give him these fair promises. - - Sweet Sir! I vow I'm mighty sorry - You've so long tarry'd for your Mony: - But should you my late Suff'rings hear, - Pity would force you to forbear. - Howe're, as soon as th' Term begin} - I shall recruit my self agen; } - For my _Play_ will be ready then. } - Last Night the _Lord_--read what I'd made on't; - And should I tell you what he said on't, - 'Twould be immodest in the Author; - But you'll hear more of it hereafter. - How'ere, to tell you as a Friend, - He did it mightily commend. - And 'twixt me and you, he said, } - He did not question to perswade } - The _King_, and _Court_, to see it Play'd.} - And if it takes, (which I don't fear) - 'Tmay bring an hundred pounds, or near. - And for your great Civility, - Sir, you're the first I intend to pay. - - When this Doggrel Speech was ended,} - The Poet, having lowly bended, } - Took his leave, by me attended. } - We had not walk'd past half so far - As 'twixt _Fleet-Bridge_ and _Temple-Bar_, - Ere my sad Brother was so kind, - As thus to let me know his mind. - - Oh, wretched Man! what shall I do! - Or whither had I best to go! - _Job_ happy was, compar'd to me, - A Prince in th' midst of's misery. - Oh Heavens! since all his Griefs I know, - Why have I not his Patience too? - Hells self less Torment does contain - Than is lodg'd in a Poet's brain; - Howe're we may hereafter fare, - I'm sure we meet Damnation here. - I'd rather be a Dog; or Cat, - The thing which next my self I hate. - A Snake, an Adder, or a Toad: - To these once _Egypt_'s Dotage bow'd. - But me, the wretched'st thing e'r Born, - Ev'n these by instinct loath and scorn. - Then sighing, _Oh, my Play_! he cry'd; - My _Play_ both _Houses_ have deny'd. - They tell me, that their Summer-store - Will all this Winter last, or more: - Besides, that mine won't please the Times, - Being Tragedy, and writ in Rhimes. - Oh, I am ruin'd utterly! - What shall I do! _My Play_! _My Play_! - There's no one knows what pains I took, - Ere I stretch'd it, to a Book. - Nine Months my _Muse_ labour'd to bring - Forth this Abortive, hapless thing: - And suffer'd more than can be told - Of Summers heat, and Winters cold. - I've walk'd from Morning until Noon, - 'Twixt _Lyon-Fields_ and _Kentish-Town_; - Study'ng my self hungry and dry, - I envy'd th' Beggers on the way. - Then being forc'd to jogg it home - Empty as a _vacuum_: - I'd no way to appease my _Hostess_, - But vow my _Play_ finish'd almost is; - Then reading what I'd made of't o're, - She'ld trust me for one shilling more. - But since she heard it was refus'd, - None can guess how I've been us'd. - 'Bout Eight o'th'Clock on Thursday Morning, - (My Angel then giving me warning) - I had scarce lock'd my Door, but th' Baily - Knock'd, saying, he'd a Letter for me: - From first to last, he knock'd an hour, - Ere I could get him to give o're; - But when he saw it was in vain, - The Rogue went swearing back again. - But from that time to Sunday Morning, - I kept the Fort, for all their Storming. - Then without fear away I went; - Thanks to the _King_ and _Parlement_. - And now it is five days compleat, - Since I had any thing to eat: - Nor know I where to get Relief, - No, not one Meal to save my Life. - I've not a Neighbour, or Relation, - But when they see me, quit their Station, - And from me, as a Plague, they go, - I wish my Creditors would do so! - The Dev'l a rag of Clothes has _Jack_ - 'Sides these you see upon my back; - And they're so torn, I'm taken still - For a walking Paper-Mill. - - My _Hat_ is like a Funnel grown, - To vent the Vapours of my Crown. - - M' Eternal _Peruque_ does appear - Golden, as _Apollo_'s Hair. - And the Moss which hides my Face - Is thicker, and as long as his. - - My _Breeches_ like th' Ship _Argo_ seem, - Which is, and yet is not the same; - For 'tis so patch'd, you cannot call - One shred of 't the Original. - - As for my _Cloak_, 'tis well enough. - Only 'tis out of Fashion now. - But I'm content my Rags 't does hide, - For this is an ill time for Pride. - - My _Stockings_ are worse rent and torn, - Than ever _Poverty_ was drawn: - And round about more _Stars_ appear } - Than _Ursa major_ has in th' Sphere,} - Or any _Constellation_ there. } - - My _Shoes_ made of thin _Spanish_ Leather, - Do sigh, and sob this Rainy Weather: - And in dumb Language of their own, - Pity mine, 'cause their _Souls_ are gone. - - As for my _Linnen_, let 't alone,} - It needs not a Description; } - As I'm a Poet, I have none. } - - My lac'd _Crevat_ lies in _Shoe-Lane_, - Pawn'd for Tripe, and Chitterlin, - With an honest Mother there, - One Mistress _Smith_, a Victualler. - - My _Shirt_ lies Morgag'd in a Celler, - About the middle of _Long-Acre_, - With a Shee-Cook, call'd _Goody Dutton_, - For Porrage, Beans, and Chops of Mutton. - - Oh that I had a wooden Leg! - Or but one Arm, then might I beg! - I'd Steal or Cheat, did I know how, - 'Tis better hang than perish so. - - I could not hear this piteous moan - Unmov'd, nor let him sigh alone. - But when I'd all the Comfort gave, - He could from Friendly Advice receive; - I lent him six-pence, which was half - Of the small Stock I had my self. - Then after many thanks, and vows, - Unto _White-Fryers_ straight he goes: - Where Bread and Cheese he said he'ld buy; - Or fill himself with Curds and Whey. - - You see what Malice Fate has shown } - To this poor Wretch, who once was known} - To be the gayest Spark in Town. } - One who would play at six-pence gleek, - And go to _Creswel_'s once a week: - Who Din'd at _Locket_'s ev'ry day, - And sate in th' Boxes at a Play. - Envy it self cannot dispraise - His Poems, nor some of his Plays. - Three of which just Applause did bear - In the _Royal Theatre_. - Lords and Knights desired to be - Made happy in his Company; - And did with a due Rev'rence mark - Him, as he walk'd the Streets or _Park_. - But this did in a moment cease, - 'Twas but a sudden, short-liv'd blaze, - Like that which is from Meteors sent, - Which end their Shine when th' Fuel's spent. - Running in Debt, and living High,} - And the hissing of his last Play,} - Did bring him to this Misery. } - - May all the Sons of _Helicon_ } - Take heed, this Fate prove not their own!} - For I've a shrewd suspicion! } - I've seen the briskest of our Crew - Walk peny-less, and hungry too, - In _Temple-walks_, 'bout Dinner-time, - Digesting his crude thoughts int' Rhime; - Where, if he meets with a Sir-fool, - With empty Head, and Pockets full, - Up to him straight he'll make, and cry, - Where does your Worship Dine to day? - I was this Morning bid by two; } - But Faith I don't much care to go,} - I'd rather take a bit with you. } - Then, stretching, swears he is not right, - Since being plaguy drunk last Night. - And's Company, you needs must know, - _My Lord_--_Sir John_--and God knows who. - But tho' the Gallant he attacks, - Not the least Invitation makes: - He must, he says, out of esteem, - Not that he's Hungry, wait on him. - Then as soon as Dinner's ended, - And his last Work read and commended, - (Which without Vanity, he says, - Is th' best he writ, his Master-piece.) - He whisp ring in his Cully's ear, - Makes his Necessity appear: - Tells him of his last-nights expence, - And how he's not recruited since. - Then begs his Pard'n, he must away,} - To get a Ticket for th' new Play, } - Acted at the _Duke's House_ to day.} - - I've sev'ral _Coffee-Houses_ known} - By these unhappy Guests undone, } - For People, now adays, are grown } - So wise, they first of all peep in,} - And if a Poet there is seen, } - They presently down stairs agen. } - For who a Devil cares to sit - To be drawn by a Poet's wit? - Sir _Am'rous_ can't make a Relation - Of his last-nights Assignation. - The _Sycophant_ can't exercise - His Art, for these quick-sighted Spies: - Nor _Fopling_ comb his Wigg, but they - Make it a Humour for a Play. - The Cheat, the Pick-pocket, and Bully, - (Who're the best Guests, and spend most Money) - Flie the loath'd House where these appear, - As if the Constable were there. - - But there are some of Honour yet, } - Who're great pretenders unto Wit, } - And that they m'seem t' encourage it,} - Will have a Poet at their tail; - And whom to know that you mayn't fail, - Has an old-fashion thread-bare Coat, - Foul Linnen, Hat not worth a groat. - If it be Summer, Freeze he'l wear; } - In th' Winter Stuff, and that so bare, } - His Lice can scarce find Harbour there.} - Perhaps, he wears a Sword by's side, - To 'ts Hilt one yard of Ribband ty'd. - In fine, by all he meets, he's t'ane - To be th' _Epitome_ of _Long-Lane_. - And when their Lordships walk before - To th' Tavern, or to see a Whore, - He's caution'd not to come too nigh, - Lest he disgrace the Company: - But b'hind like one new fluxt does crawl, - And lets each Foot-boy take the Wall. - But when he comes to th' place design'd, - Their Lordships use to seem more kind. - There he may swagger, swear, and lie, - And do any thing--but pay. - Then after a sufficient stay, - Borrows a Crown, and so good-by'e. - - - - -_The Third CANTO._ - - - I'd e'en forgot to let you know - The Club w' once kept in _Channel-row_; - Where _A_. & _B. C. D._ & _I_, - Were th' elements o' th' Company: - But all which past there was so common, - 'Tis scarce worth th' pains of a Relation, - How they kept a hideous pother, - Damning the Times, and one another. - Who most Glasses did destroy, - Or with most Courage beat the Boy. - How such-a-one commends a Whore, - Which t'other prizes Sack before. - Or who so neatly div'd away, - Ere he his Reckoning did pay. - Humours so trite as these, are known - To ev'ry Tapster in the Town. - But e're they so unruly grew, - Thus each ones Character I drew. - - _A._ as 'tis first in th' Alphabet, - So here he took the highest seat. - As one whose Fortune, Birth, and Wit, - Indeed did truly merit it. - And here he neither struts nor swaggers, - As I have known some Kings o' th' Beggers. - But that convenient distance gave, - Which else they'ld take without his leave. - But him let all with Rev'rence name - The Darling, and the Pride of Fame: - Who's so all over wrapt in Bays, - There's nothing to be seen but's Praise. - He's one t' whom each Officious Muse - Were of their Favours so profuse, - That they have brought themselves to be - Fed by his Mercy now; and we, - The little Infants of the Art, } - Do as severely feel the smart, } - Deny'd a Younger Brothers part. } - Nay, all our stocks won't mount t' a sum - To pay him an _Encomium_. - He's one whose Works, in times to come, - Will be as Honour'd, and become - Deathless as _Ben's_ or _Cowley's_ are, } - As _Beaumont_, _Fletcher_, or _Shakespear_,} - One he himself is pleas'd t' admire. } - Nor could these Laureats living, be - Better prefer'd, or lov'd than he. - What could the _Muses_ more have done, - Or _Apollo_ for a Son? - Yet still he discontented is, - And snarles at all the happiness - The Richest Poetry can bring, - And wounds it too with its own Sting. - But who can blame that Active Soul, - Which in a larger Sphere would roul? - Whose Wit and Learning does deserve - More than that narrow Art can give. - - Next unto _A. B._ took his place, - Or Sir _Fopling_, if you please. - I mean that Famous Limner, who - So exactly his own Picture drew. - Bless me! how neat a Wigg he has! - What a rich Watch and Pocket-Glass! - What a gay Suit trim'd all about! - Made by a _French-man_ without doubt. - His Ruffles and Cravat's all Lace, - _Poynt a Venice_ he says it is. - To what advantage does he wear - His Rings? How stuft with Stones they are? - One having this Inscription, - _My Plow is all my Portion_. - For you must know he's kept by a Miss, - A _French_ one too, I've heard she is; - Whose Favours tho' he strives to shew, - Her scars he has, I assure you too. - Here I must his Description end, - For fear he should a Challenge send. - Tho' he had better stay at home, - To Hector Foot-boy, or a Groom. - - On th' other side Heroick _C._ - Did seat himself most formally. - Whose Clothes now did not seem so bad, - Because he lately vampt 'em had. - His Hat new dress'd, darn'd were his Hose, - And neatly underlay'd his Shoes. - His Lac'd Cravats again appear, } - And his kind Laundress lets him wear} - His Ruffles, and an Hankercher. } - And now he seems to be a made Man, - Since he an Int'rest got in _Cadem_-- - Who now-and-then does not refuse - A Crown, t' encourage a slow Muse, - A Dish of Coffee, or Bochet, - Or on a Sunday a Meals-meat. - And 'tis most Charitably done, - T' encourage such a wretched one, - Without hopes of a Recompence, - At least 'till two or three years hence, - About which time his Play, we guess, - Will be ready for the Press. - He's one who much of _Oxford_ talks, - Its stately Structures, Air, and Walks: - Who, in his time, were Proctors there; } - How often he was caught, and where, } - Or with what craft he 'scap'd the snare.} - But if you speak one word of's Chumb, - The man immediately grows dumb. - - Then who sat next, if you would know it, - 'Twas _D._ the brisk lack-latine Poet; - Who'll talk of _Virgil_ and _Horatius_, - _Homer_, _Ovid_, and _Lucretius_. - And by the help of I know who, - Sometimes presumes to quote 'em too. - He's the fam'd Comedian of the Town,} - Who near a dozen Plays does own, } - Tho' I dare swear he ne'r writ one: } - But he has good Acquaintance, thô, - I am inform'd, a Lord or two, - To whom he brings the lump; and they - Club to mould it to a Play. - And if my Author tells me right, - Epistles too themselves they write. - May they continue to do so, } - Or else poor _D._ to th' Goal must go,} - _Angling for single Money in a Shoe_. } - - Lastly, I must my self explain, - One of the same unhappy Train: - Who neither Wit or Learning boast, - For both are in a Poet lost. - Scatter'd to nought in his Carreer, - Through Airy Roads, he knows not where. - Neither do I hope to find - One grain of Fortune left behind. - For all I grasp'd which pleas'd me here, - Whether they Wealth, or Honours were, - As soon they were snatch'd back again, - And swallow'd in this Hurricane. - But, Sir, I need not op'e to you } - These Ulcers of my Fate anew, } - You've seen so oft, and pitty'd too.} - I'll therefore only blame the Cause - Which did such Miseries produce: - And then for ever bid good-by'e - To that starv'd Hag of Poetry. - - - - -_The Fourth CANTO._ - - - _Phoebus!_ art thou the God of Wit, - Yet takest no more care of it? - Because thou art invok'd by us, - Must we be damn'd and tortur'd thus? - And art resolv'd, lean Poverty - Shall still thy Badge and Liv'ry be? - As well, let Paper-Mills, and all - The lousie Tribe of Begger's Hall, - With the ragged Gipsie-Crue, - Be Dedicated to thee too! - All the _Muses_ ask thee why - Thou 'dopt'st 'em to such Slavery! - And suffer'st ev'ry Fop in Town, } - For to insult and trample on } - These rad'ent Di'dems of thy Crown!} - Sure thou want'st _Pow'r_ to Rule below; - For 'tis not _Policy_ to do so. - No! _Kings_ their Greatness do secure - By their _Subjects_ Wealth and Pow'r. - Nay, th' _Gods_ may lose their Deities, - If their Religious _Votaries_ - Do so Poor and Needy grow, - That they want _Victims_ to bestow. - But Wit will above all things cease, - Deny'd the helps of Wealth and Ease. - It must be cherish'd and kept warm; - Which, like the _Halcyon_, hates a Storm. - But since I find I am us'd so, - And treated worse than _Turk_ or _Jew_: - Since the Tinker and his Trull - Strut it with their Bellies full: - Since the Cobler and the Sweep-Chimney - Live happier and more safe than me, - I'll quit thy Service, great _Apollo_, - And some new Vocation follow: - And tear thy _Idea's_ from my Brain, - With thy starv'd, wretched Female Train. - - But must I from thy Service go - Naked, in mid'st of Winter too? - Did I for this a year, or more, - Thy Airy, empty Shrine adore? - Are thus my Cares and Watchings pay'd? - The thousand Vows and Pray'rs I made? - The Lights which on thy Altar shone, - When thou wert forc'd to hide thy own? - Think how ost thou hast me espy'd - Walking by such a Rivers side! - When I saw thy shining Beam - Gild the smooth Surface of the Stream, - Thou know'st I did thy Image greet, - And sang a thousand Hymns to it. - But since I find I am thus serv'd, - Rent and torn, and almost starv'd, - Yet would'st thou have me longer stay - To expect a fairer Day? - Should I be couzen'd to do so, - And again my Vows renew, - My Case would never better'd be } - Under thy Conduct, no, tho' I } - Should share in th' Immortality.} - - Loath'd Muse! Hag of my rest, be gone! - Who'rt Scandalous as Av'rice grown: - Common as any _Whetstone_-Whore, - Where Poets learn their Stage-Amour. - Go jilt among thy Vot'ries there, - And clap 'em with Poetick fire! - Flie to some Rhymer of the Town, - By his lean, hungry Visage known! - That Renegado, whifling Blade, - Who's not himself but when he's Mad! - But 'tis not all thy _Syren_-charms - Can again tempt me to thy Arms: - For I too well thy Couz'nage know, - Thy hollow Heart, and painted Brow. - How first thou to my Brain did'st creep, - And whil'st my Sense was lock'd in sleep, - Thou did'st before my Fancy's Eye - A thousand gaudy Fantasms lay. - Then thorow false Perspectives show - Groves, where gilded Lawrels grow. - And ev'ry Tree's Ambrosiack Root - With Arms of Nectar clasp'd about, - In whose bright Streams I did espie - Nine Naked Airy Ladies play: - Some swimming on their Backs were seen, - Who rise aloft, then dive agen; - Whilst others yet more Am'rous grew,} - And seem'd not only to bestow } - Brimmers, but gave Embraces too. } - And th' little Mansions where they dwell,} - Were some of Gold, and some of Pearl, } - Tyl'd and Pav'd with Tortoise-shell. } - - A hundred things as vain as these, - Did once my partial Fancy please: - But when I look'd about to know - Whether they real were, or no; - I apprehended the mistake, - As Dreams of Pleasures when we 'wake. - For when the crafty _Muses_ thought - They'd me for a Disciple got; - They took the painted Scene away; - Lay'd down their Smiles and Flattery, - And now in their own Shapes appear - Rough, and Ghastly, as they are. - - Wherefore once more, Ladies adieu! - Farewel to _England_, and to you. - For I'm resolv'd; and now ev'n Gain - Shan't draw me to yee back again. - Tho' _Juno_ should assure me more, - Than she did _Paris_ heretofore: - Or _Venus_ too at the same time; - I would not give 'em thanks in Rhyme. - No, tho' should all of you agree - To give your _Helicon_ to me. - Tho' those dear Bays I once did woo, } - Should strive to cling about my Brow;} - Nay, thô they were gilded too. } - I'ld thence those fruitless Branches tear, - And throw 'em with my Muse in th' fire. - So what she so long courted, shall - At last adorn her Funeral. - - Here I would end, be'ng much in hast, - And tyr'd with scribbling so fast: - Howe're a word or two I'll add, - Lest you infer from what I've said, - That Poverty's the only cause - Which makes me thus desert my Muse. - Thus far, indeed, the cause 't'as bin, - As 'tis th' effect of such a sin. - For who 'n that Art can hope to thrive, - Which does such wicked Licence give? - Whose first Founders _Pagans_ were, - Groping for Truth they knew not where? - And shall we _Christians_ Sacrifice - To their Fantastick _Deities_? - No, were I Rich 'nough to set up, - I would not keep a Poet's Shop; - Nor Traffick in such dang'rous Ware, - They sell so cheap, and buy so dear. - I'ld not pick up each Whore I meet, } - Give her a _Guynie_ and a Treat; } - Nor maintain Pimps nor Bawds for wit.} - No, I'ld not give one brass Half-crown - For all the Bawdry in the Town: - For all th' Intrigues your _Whetstone_-Bawd, - _More-Fields_, or _Tower-Hill_ afford. - To see _Miss Betty_ ev'ry day, - Dance Naked, or the Tumbler play. - How well upon her Head she stood, - Or with what Art she us'd the Rod. - Or how she was unrig'd and kick'd, - When _Sir John_ found his Pockets pick'd. - - I have not been at _Newgate_ yet, - To learn the Lifter, or the Cheat. - But such lewd Learning let alone - To the brisk _Poets_ of the _Town_. - -_FINIS._ - -PRESS VARIANTS - -AND - -NOTES - - - - -PRESS VARIANTS - - -Copies collated: Clark (CLC); Trinity College, Cambridge, H. 6. 93^9 -(CT1) and H. 10. 28^6 (CT2); British Museum (L); Folger (WF1); -Folger/Luttrell (WF2). - - -Sheet B--Outer Forme. - -_Uncorrected_: CT1, CT2, L, WF1. - -_Corrected_: CLC, WF2. - -B4^v, _l._ 7. Paragraph indentation supplied. - - -Sheet B--Inner Forme. - -_Uncorrected_: CLC, CT1, WF1. - -_Corrected_: CT2, L, WF2. - -B4^r, _l._ 1. Chymsts] Chymists - - -Sheet C--Inner Forme. - -_Uncorrected_: CT1, CT2, CLC - -_Corrected_: L, WF1, WF2. - -C3^v, _l._ 15. _Peruque_] _Perruque_ - -C4^r, _l._ 13. _Crevat_] _Cravat_ - - - - -NOTES - - -These notes are of necessity selective and are chiefly concerned with -the identification of persons. No attempt has been made to indicate the -complex textual relationships of the two versions. Where detailed -evidence for identifications is not given, the reader is referred to the -article mentioned above. - -Title-page. _Parve_ ... _qụ_-. Ovid, _Tristia_, I, i, 1-2. - -A2^v-A3^v. The authors of the extracts are Dryden, Shadwell, Lacy, Lee, -and Banks. The Banks extract is unlikely to have been in print for more -than a few weeks at the time _PdT_ was published. The corresponding list -in _PC_ is called "Quotations" and contains twenty-three passages of -which only two reappear in _PdT_. - -A4^r: 15-16. _Philip, the first Christian Emperour._ Marcus Julius -Philipus, c. 204-249. - -P. 2: 21-22. _Yet ... Liberty._ The press regained its liberty through -the expiry of the Licensing Act in 1679. This passage does not occur in -_PC_ and may be one of the "Ingenious Person's" additions to _PdT_. - -P. 3: 28. _Cris-cros-row._ I.e., Christ-cross-row. The alphabet with a -cross before it as represented in horn books. - -P. 4: 4. _Honourable stabs._ Perhaps a reference to the attack on Dryden -in Rose Alley on 16 December 1679, which was popularly attributed to -various honorable persons satirized in Mulgrave's _An Essay upon Satyr_. - -P. 4: 9-10. _Tho' ... Bays._ Cf. John Aubrey on the funeral of Samuel -Butler on 27 September 1680: - - About 25 of his old acquaintance at his Funerall. I myself being - one of the eldest, helped to carry the Pall. His coffin covered - with black Bayes. (_Brief Lives_, ed. O. L. Dick [London, 1958], p. - 47.) - -P. 6: 7. _As Tonnellers catch Partridge._ A tunnel was a kind of net -used by bird-catchers. - -P. 6: 21-22. _As ... go._ Cf. Donne's "A Lame Begger," _The Satires, -Epigrams and Verse Letters_, ed. W. Milgate (Oxford, 1969), p. 51. - -P. 6: 27. _BARBARA._ The opening word of a mnemonic used in expressing -the moods of the syllogism. - -P. 7: 21. _Lab'ring Muses._ _PC_ has "tab'ring" (i.e., playing on -tabors), a fairly clear case of _lectio difficilior_. - -P. 10: 6. _How a curst Broker met a Poet._ The earlier part of the -description seems to be hinting at the distresses of John Banks, who was -reduced to poverty after two of his plays met censorship trouble; -however, the closing section on pp. 16-17 is clearly meant to refer to -Wycherley. It is possible that this is another of the "Ingenious -Person's" additions. Indeed it would have to be as Wycherley's troubles -did not begin until after the date given for the departure of the Poeta. - -P. 10: 21. _White-Fryers._ The sanctuary area on the city side of the -Temple: Shadwell's Alsatia. - -P. 12: 1-2. _half ... Temple-Bar._ I.e., Whitefriars. - -P. 12: 26. _Being Tragedy, and writ in Rhimes._ Dryden abandoned rhyme -with _All for Love_ (1677). Cf. Elkanah Settle's complaint in the -preface to _Ibrahim_ (licensed 4 May 1676): "Another misfortune the Play -had, that it was written in Rhime, a way of writing very much out of -Fashion...." - -P. 16: 9. _Where Bread and Cheese he said he'ld buy._ This detail has -some resemblance to a circumstance in Shiels and Cibber's account of -the death of Otway, which may derive from a mistaken belief that he was -the subject of the passage. See R. G. Ham, _Otway and Lee_ (New Haven, -1931), p. 214. - -P. 16: 14. _One who would play at six-pence gleek._ The index of -extravagance at gleek seems to have advanced alarmingly in the course of -the seventeenth century. Jonson in _The Devil is an Ass_ (V, ii, 31) -specifies three-pence; however, Shadwell in 1680 was already foreseeing -a shilling (_Works_, ed. M. Summers, IV, 60). - -P. 16: 15. _Creswel's._ The famous bawdy house, finally closed down in -1681. - -P. 16: 16. _Locket's._ An ordinary at Charing-Cross mentioned in many -Restoration comedies. - -P. 16: 21. _the Royal Theatre._ Presumably the Theatre Royal, Drury -Lane, although the term could equally well be meant for the theatre at -Whitehall. - -P. 17: 7. _the briskest of our Crew._ Probably Dryden, although the -description has some problematical features. The fact that the poet is a -rhymer and connected with the Duke's house rules out most other -possibilities. - -P. 19: 1. _Will have a Poet at their tail._ Possibly Otway. In _PC_ (pp. -2-3), a shorter version of the description is combined with lines from -the "Dryden" portrait--the one piece of evidence for the truncation -theory: - - Then there are mighty Peers o' th' Realm, - Whose conduct helps to steer the Helm: - They're great pretenders unto Wit. - And that they may seem to incourage it - They'll have a Poet at their Tail: - And that to know him they mayn't fail, - He has an old fashion thread-bare Coat, - Foul Linnen, Hat not worth a Groat; - One points and cries, there goes _Long-lane_, - Another cries, he's Long-and-Lean. - For like one newly fluxt he'l crawl, - And lets the Foot-Boys take the Wall. - But when to th' Tavern they do go, - Their Honours will more freedom show; - There they may Swagger Swear and Lye, - And doe any thing, but Pay: - Damn ye, I din'd with such a Lord to Day, - And such a Lord did like my Play: - And without Vanity it is - The best I writ, my Master-piece. - -P. 20: 2. _Channel-row._ The scene of this canto is Arthur Prior's -Rhenish house in Channel-row near Whitehall. - -P. 20: 19. _A. as 'tis first in th' Alphabet._ In view of his exalted -station, wealth, and Whiggish company, it is probably safe to identify -"A" with Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, who is known as a -habitué of Prior's wineshop through the stories of his encouragement of -the owner's nephew Matthew. However, most details would apply equally -well--in his own mind at least--to another prominent patron of the day, -John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave. In this connection, it is interesting -to note that Mulgrave's account at Child's bank records a payment of -£20/--/--made on 14 May 1683 to a Thomas Wood. The name was, naturally, -a common one. - -P. 21: 28. _And wounds it too with its own Sting._ Presumably a -reference to Dorset's "On Mr. Edward Howard upon his British Princes" or -Mulgrave's "An Essay upon Satyr." Both poems may be found in the first -volume of the Yale _Poems on Affairs of State_ series (ed. George -deForrest Lord [New Haven, 1963]). - -P. 22: 3. _Next unto A. B. took his place._ Sir George Etherege. The -opening lines anticipate Dean Lockier's comment recorded by Spence that -"he was exactly his own Sir Fopling Flutter" which may on the other hand -be derived from it. See Joseph Spence, _Observations, Anecdotes, and -Characters of Books and Men_, ed. James M. Osborn (Oxford, 1966), p. -281. - -P. 22: 17. _For you must know he's kept by a Miss._ Frederick Bracher -has pointed out in a letter that Etherege was closely connected at this -time with the circle of the Duchesse de Mazarin. See James Thorpe's note -on "A Song on Basset," _The Poems of Sir George Etherege_ (Princeton, -1963), pp. 85-87. - -P. 22: 25. _Heroick C._ Elkanah Settle. - -P. 23: 7. _Cadem_----. William Cademan, Settle's principal publisher. - -P. 23: 23. _But if you speak one word of's Chumb._ Probably William -Buller Fyfe, an Oxford friend who had assisted Settle with his first -play, _Cambyses_. Fyfe was dead by the time the play reached the stage -and Settle was criticized for bringing it out under his own name only. - -P. 23: 26. _D. the brisk lack-latine Poet._ Thomas Shadwell. The -accusation that he knew no Latin was repeated by Dryden in _The -Vindication of the Duke of Guise_ (1683) and is denied with -characteristic stridency by Shadwell in _The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal_ -(1687). The accusation that his plays were partly written by others is -made by Dryden in _Mac Flecknoe_ ("But let no alien Sedley interpose") -and is present by implication in Rochester's reference in "Timon" to -"Shadwell's unassisted former Scenes...." Shadwell began his career as -the collaborator of the aged Duke of Newcastle and acknowledges Sedley's -help in his best comedy, _A True Widow_ (1678). He was on good terms -with Rochester, Dorset, and Buckingham and addressed dedications to the -two last. 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