That both were good must be confess'd, The Lord of Oxford knows. TRANSLATION OF A PRAYER OF BRUTUS. 10 THE Rev. Aaron Thompson, of Queen's College, Oxon., translated the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He submitted the translation to Pope, 1717, who gave him the following lines, being a translation of a prayer of Brutus. G Carruthers. ODDESS of woods, tremendous in the chase, On thy third reign look down; disclose our fate, 5 In what new station shall we fix our seat? LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN'S BOOK ON COINS1. ["WROTE by Mr P. in a Volume of Evelyn on Coins presented to a painter by a parson." Gentleman's Magazine for 1735. "Wrote in Evelyn's Book of Coins given by Mr Wood to Kent." Notes and Queries, March 13, 1851, from a copy by Mason.] R OM WOOD of Chiswick, deep divine, TOM To painter Kent gave all this coin. 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN, ESIGN'D to live, prepar'd to die, 1 [Numismata: a Discourse on Medals; published at London in 1697.] 2 [Southern, the author of Oroonoko, according to Warton's expression, lived the longest and died one of the richest of all our poets.' He was born in 1660, and died in 1746. The date of the first production of Oroonoko is 1696, and it kept the stage till the third decade of the present century, a rare example of popularity attaching to a drama founded on a sensation novel; for Mrs Aphra Behn's Oroonoko was the Uncle Tom's Cabin of her day.] 3 A table] He was invited to dine on his birth-day with this Nobleman (Lord Orrery), who had prepared for him the entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. Warburton. [John Earl of Cork and Orrery was a friend of Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke, and in earlier days a member of the Brothers' Club. He died in 1762.] 4 Presents her harp] The Harp is generally wove on the Irish Linen; such as Table-cloths, &c. Warburton. PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER. [TRANSLATED from an Oratio a Sancto Xavierio composita, at the desire of a Catholic priest named Brown. Gentleman's Magazine, October, 1791, where the original is given commencing O Deus, ego amo te.'] THOU HOU art my God, sole object of my love; For me, and such as me, thou deign'st to bear 5 For me in tortures thou resignd'st thy breath, Embrac'd me on the cross, and sav'd me by thy death. 10 Such as then was, and is, thy love to me, The price of prologues and of plays,] This alludes to a story Mr Southern told about the same, to Mr P. and Mr W. of Dryden; who, when Southern first wrote for the stage, was so famous for his Prologues, that the players would act nothing without that decoration. His usual price till then had been four guineas: But when Southern came to him for the Prologue he had bespoke, Dryden told him he must have six guineas for it; "which (said he) young man, is out of no disrespect to you, but the Players have 15 had my goods too cheap." Warburton. [This was the regular tariff for prologues and epilogues. Later, Southern could tell Dryden (according to Warton) that he had cleared £700 by a single play, while Dryden never made more than a seventh of that sum by one drama.] [Bishop of Worcester. Deprived by James II. of the Presidentship of Magdalene College, Oxford; he afterwards successively held several sees, and died in 1743.] 1740. А РОЕМ. [THIS unfinished piece was communicated to Warton by Dr Wilson, formerly Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Dublin, to whom it had been lent by a grandson of Lord Chetwynd, 'an intimate friend of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, who gratified his curiosity by a box full of the rubbish and sweepings of Pope's study, whose executor he was, in conjunction with Lord Marchmont.' It is possible that Bowles' conjecture may be correct, according to which '1740' was to grow into the third Dialogue which Pope at one time intended to add to the Epilogue to the Satires. See the Verses on receiving from Lady Frances Shirley a Standish, &c. ante, p. 448]. Roscoe doubts whether so mediocre a production be Pope's: Carruthers also hesitates on the subject; and the piece is at most to be taken as a few rough jottings accidentally discovered.] WRETCHED B - jealous now of all, What God, what mortal, shall prevent thy fall? Through Clouds of Passion P--'s3 views are clear, Impatient sees his country bought and sold, 4 He finds himself companion with a thief. 5 10 To purge and let thee blood, with fire and sword, 15 Is all the help stern S-5 would afford. No more than of Sir Har-y8 or Sir P 9? 20 G- -r1o, C—m11, B- -t12, pay thee due regards, must needs Whose wit and Utter'd a speech, and ask'd their friends to dine; And treat with half the Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue, 12 13, Or thy dread truncheon, M.'s mighty peer15? What help from J- 's16 opiates canst thou draw, C. that Roman in his nose alone 18, 19 Fox, Henley, Hinton. Bowles. 30 35 40 45 50 55 бо 65 11 Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. Bowles. 12 Speaker Onslow and Lord Delaware, chairmen of committees of House of Lords. Bowles. 13 Duke of Newcastle. Bowles.. 14 Duke of Dorset. Bowles. 15 The (second)Duke of Marlborough. Bowles. 16 Sir Joseph Jekyll. Bowles. Probably; but he died in 1738. Carruthers. 17 Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Bowles. 18 Probably Sir John Cummins, C. J. of the Common Pleas. Bowles. Or Spencer Compton, Lord Wilmington, President of the Council. Carruthers. 1 Britain. Who hears all causes, B-1, but thy own, Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer, The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries Blotch thee all o'er, and sink Alas! on one alone our all relies7, school, Let him be honest, and he must be wise; Nor like his And free at once the Senate and the Throne; A 's true glory his integrity; Rich with his . . . in ... his strong, Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong. Bowles. 2 Sherlock. Carruthers. [Cf. Dunciad Bk. JI. v. 323, where 'his pond'rous grace' may correspond to 'the sweating peer' in this passage.] 3 Pulteney. Carruthers. 4 Earl of Scarborough (ow). Bowles. warth. Bowles. The former died in Jan. 1740. Carruthers. 6 Sir William Wyndham. Bowles. He died in June, 1740. Carruthers. 7 [Obviously the Pretender, concerning the intrigues with whom in this year see Chap. XXI. 5 Earl of Marchmont and his son, Lord Pol- of Lord Stanhope's Hist. of Engl.] THE END. |