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As those who long have stood the Storms of

State,

Retire, yet still bemoan their Country's Fate.
Beware, and when you hear the Surges roar,
Avoid the Rocks on Britain's angry Shore:
They lye, alas! too eafy to be found,
For thee alone they lye the Island round,

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The Reverend Dr. DELANY,

And His EXCELLENCY

JOHN Lord CARTERET.

To Dr. Delany, occafion'd by his Epiftle to his Excellency John Lord

Carteret.

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Written in the Year 1729.

ELUDED Mortals, whom the Great

Chufe for Companions tete à tete;
Who at their Dinners, en famille,
Get Leave to fit whene'er you will;
Then, boasting tell us where you din'd,
And, how his Lordship was so kind;

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How many pleasant Things he spoke,

And, how you laugh'd at ev'ry Joke:
Swear, he's a moft facetious Man :
That you and he are Cup and Cann.
You travel with a heavy Load,

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SUPPOSE my Lord and you alone;
Hint the leaft Int'reft of your own;
His Vifage drops, he knits his Brow,
He cannot talk of Bus'nefs now:

Or, mention but a vacant Poft,
He'll turn it off with, Name your Toast.
Nor could the nicest Artist paint,

A Countenance with more Constraint.

FOR, as their Appetites to quench,
Lords keep a Pimp to bring a Wench;
So, Men of Wit are but a Kind
Of Pandars to a vicious Mind;
Who proper Objects must provide
To gratify their Luft of Pride,

When weary'd with Intrigues of State,

They find an idle Hour to prate.

Then,

Then, fhou'd you dare to ask a Place,
You forfeit all your Patron's Grace,
And disappoint the fole Defign,

For which he funimon'd you to dine.

THUS, Congreve spent, in writing Plays, And one poor Office, half his Days; While Mountague, who claim'd the Station To be Mecanas of the Nation,

For Poets open Table kept,

But ne'er confider'd where they flept:
Himself, as rich as Fifty Jews,

Was eafy, though they wanted Shoes;
And, crazy Congreve scarce cou'd fpare
A Shilling to discharge his Chair;
Till Prudence taught him to appeal
From Paan's Fire to Party Żeal;
Not owing to his happy Vein
The Fortunes of his latter Scene;
Took proper Principles to thrive;

And fo might ev'ry Dunce alive.

THUS, Steel who own'd what others writ,

And flourish'd by imputed Wit,

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From Perils of a Hundred Jayls,

Withdrew to ftarve, and die in Wales.

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THUS Gay, the Hare with many Friends,
Twice fev'n long Years the Court attends;
Who, under Tales conveying Truth,
To Virtue form'd a princely Youth:
Who paid his Courtship with the Croud,
As far as modeft Pride allow'd;
Rejects a fervile Uber's Place,
And leaves St. James's in Disgrace.

THUS Addifon, by Lords carefs't,
Was left in foreign Lands diftrefs't;
Forgot at home, became for Hire,
A trav❜lling Tutor to a Squire.
But, wifely left the Mufes Hill;
To Bus'nefs fhap'd the Poet's Quill,
Let all his barren Lawrels fade;

Took

up himself the Courtier's Trade:

And grown a Minifter of State,
Saw Poets at his Levee wait.

*See bis Fables.

HAIL!

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