And Midas now neglected stands, With Affes Ears, and dirty Hands. The FAGGOT. Written in the Year 1713, when the Queen's Minifters were quarrelling among themselves, Ο BSERVE the dying Father speak: Try Lads, can you this Bundle break; THIS Tale may be apply'd in few Words While While wife Men think they ought to fight Should come, and make the Clatt'ring ceafe; IN History we never found * The Conful's Fafces were unbound: Thofe Romans were too wife to think on't, COME Courtiers: Every Man his Stick: + Lord Treasurer; for once be quick : And, that they may the clofer cling, Take your blue Ribbon for a String. Come trimming § Harcourt; bring your Mace; And squeeze it in, or quit your Place: Difpatch, or elfe that Rafcal || Northey, Will undertake to do it for thee: And, * A Bundle of Rods, of small Sticks, carried before the Confuls at Rome. ROBERT, Earl of OXFORD. $ Lord Chancellor. Sir EDWARD NORTHEY, Attorney.General, brought in by the Lord HARCOURT; yet very defirous of the Great Seal. And, be affur'd, the Court will find him To make the Bundle ftrong and safe, Lord SOMERS, who had been, at different Times, Lord Chancellor, and Prefident of the Council. + Who hath fince been Secretary of State. The great Minister who was in chief Power a very longTime. HORACE. Epiftle VII. Book I. Imitated, and addressed to the Earl of OXFORD, in the Year 1713. HARLEY, the Nation's great Support, Returning home one Day from Court; (His Mind with publick Cares poffeft, All Europe's Bus❜ness in his Breast) 1 Strenuus & fortis, caufifque Philippus agendis Clarus, ab officiis octavam circiter horam Dum redit. I Obferv'd Obferv'd a Parson near Whitehall, LEWIS his Patron's Humour knows, Away upon his Errand goes; And quickly did the Matter fift: 25 A Clergyman, of fpecial Note, For fhunning those of his own Coat; Confpexit, aut aiunt, Adrafum quendam vacuâ tonforis in umbrâ Accipiebat) abi, quære, & refer: Unde domo, quis, Which 23, 25. Et, redit, & narrat; Volteium nomine Mænam. ୮ Which made his Brethren of the Gown, No Libertine, nor over nice; Addicted to no Sort of Vice; Went where he pleas'd, faid what he thought; In State-Opinions A-la-mode; 30 3.5 He hated Wharton like a Toad; Had giv❜n the Faction many a Wound, And libell'd all the Junta round : Kept Company with Men of Wit, 40 His Works were hawk'd in ev'ry Street, Did very Of late, indeed, the Paper-Stamp much his Genius cramp: And, fince he could not spend his Fire, 45 SAID Harley, I defire to know From his own Mouth, if this be fo: Step to the Doctor ftraight, and fay, I'd have him dine with me to Day, 50 St feem'd to wonder what he meant, Nor would believe my Lord had fent; G 31. -Tenui cenfu, fine crimine notum, Et properare loco, & ceffare, & quærere, & uti, 47. Scitari libet ex ipfo quodcunque refers. Dic Ad cœnam veniat. Non fane credere Mana; Mirare fecum tacitus. 1 |