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To the Earl of P----B▬▬▬w.

Written in the Year 1726.

MORDANTO

JORDANTO fills the Trump of Fame,
The Christian World his Deeds proclaim,

And Prints are crouded with his Name.

IN Journeys he out-rides the Poft, Sits up till Midnight with his Hoft, Talks Politicks, and gives the Toast.

KNOWS ev'ry Prince in Europe's Face, Flies like a Squib from Place to Place, And travels not, but runs a Race.

FROM Paris Gazette A-la-main, This Day arriv'd without his Train, Mordanto in a Week from Spain.

A MESSENGER comes all a-reek, Mordanto at Madrid to feek:

He left the Town above a Week.

NEXT Day the Poft-boy winds his Horn, And rides through Dover in the Morn : Mordanto's landed from Leghorn.

MORDANTO gallops on alone,

The Roads are with his Foll'wers ftrown,
This breaks a Girth, and that a Bone.

His Body active as his Mind,
Returning found in Limb and Wind,
Except fome Leather loft behind.

A SKELETON in outward Figure,
His meagre Corps, though full of Vigour,
Would halt behind him were it bigger.

So wonderful his Expedition,
When you have not the leaft Sufpicion,
He's with you like an Apparition.

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SHINES in all Climates like a Star:
In Senates bold, and fierce in War,
A Land-Commander, and a Tarr.
HEROICK Actions early bred in,
Ne'er to be match'd in modern Reading,
But by his Name-fake Charles of Sweden.

ADVICE to the Grub-street VerfeWriters.

YE

Written in the Year 1726.

E Poets ragged and forlorn,
Down from your Garrets hafte,
Ye Rhimers, dead as foon as born,

Not yet confign'd to Pafte;

I know a Trick to make you thrive s
O, 'tis a quaint Device:

Your ftill-born Poems fhall revive,
And fcorn to wrap up Spice.

Get

Get all your Verfes printed fair,

Then let them well be dry'd ;
And, Curl must have a special Care
To leave the Margin wide.
Lend thefe to Paper-fparing Pope;
And, when he fits to write,
No Letter with an Envelope

Could give him more Delight.

When Pope has fill'd the Margins round,
Why, then recall your Loan;

Sell them to Curl for Fifty Pound,
And fwear they are your own.

Q

The DOG and THIEF.

Written in the Year 1726.

UOTH the Thief to the Dog; let me into

your Door,

And I'll give you these delicate Bits:

Quoth the Dog, I should then be more Villain than you're,

And befides must be out of my Wits: Your delicate Bits will not ferve me a Meal, But my Master each Day gives me Bread;

You'll fly when you get what you come here to steal, And I must be hang'd in your Stead.

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The Stock-jobber thus, from Change-Alley goes down, And tips you the Freeman a Wink;

Let me have but your Vote to ferve for the Town, And here is a Guinea to drink.

Said the Freeman, your Guinea To-night would be spent,

Your Offers of Bribery cease ;

I'll vote for my Landlord, to whom I

Or elfe, I may forfeit my Lease.

pay Rent,

From London they come, filly People to choufe, Their Lands and their Faces unknown; Who'd vote a Rogue into the Parliament-house, That would turn a Man out of his own?

Dr. ST to Mr. POPE, while he was writing the Dunciad.

Written in the Year 1726.

POPE has the Talent well to speak,

But not to reach the Ear,

His loudeft Voice is low and weak,

The Dean too deaf to hear.

VOL. II.

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A while they on each other look,
Then diff'rent Studies chufe;
The Dean fits plodding on a Book,
Pope walks, and courts the Muse.

Now Backs of Letters, though defign'd
For thofe, who more will need 'em,
Are fill'd with Hints, and interlin'd,
Himself can hardly read 'em.

Each Atom by fome other ftruck,
All Turns and Motions tries;
Till in a Lump together stuck,
Behold a Poem rife!

Yet to the Dean his Share allot;
He claims it by a Canon ;
That without which a Thing is not,
Is, caufa fine quâ non.

Thus, Pope, in vain you boast

For, had our deaf Divine

Been for your Converfation fit,

You had not writ a Line.

your Wit;

Of * Sherlock thus, for Preaching fam'd,

The Sexton reason'd well,.

And justly half the Merit claim'd,

Because he rang the Bell.

STELLA's

*N.B. Not the prefent Bishop of BANGOR, but his Father, who was Dean of St. Paul's; the Son being only famous for his en*ing Speech in the H- of L

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