If clergymen, to show their wit, If law be such a partial whore, To spare the rich, and plague the poor: THE DOG AND THIEF. 1726. QUOTH the thief to the dog, let me into your door, And I'll give you these delicate bits. Quoth the dog, I shall then be more villain than And besides must be out of my wits. [you're, Your delicate bits will not serve me a meal, The stockjobber thus from 'Change Alley goes down, Let me have but your vote to serve for the town, And here is a guinea to drink. Says the freeman, your guinea to-night would be I'll vote for my landlord to whom I may forfeit my lease. [spent! pay rent, From London they come, silly people to chouse, Their lands and their faces unknown: Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament-house, That would turn a man out of his own? A DIALOGUE' BETWEEN MAD MULLINIX AND TIMOTHY. 1728. M. I own, 'tis not my bread and butter, When if you search the kingdom round, This is a severe satire upon Richard Tighe, Esq., whom the Dean regarded as the officious informer against Sheridan, in the matter of the choice of a text for the accession of George I. Swift had faithfully promised to revenge the cause of his friend, and has certainly fully redeemed his pledge, in this and the following pasquinades. Mad Mullinix, or Molyneux, was a sort of crazy beggar, a Tory politician in his madness, who haunted the streets of Dublin about this time. In a paper subscribed Dr. Anthony, apparently a mountebank of somewhat the same description, the doctor is made to vindicate his loyalty and regard for the present constitution in church and state, by declaring that he always acted contrary to the politics of Captain John Molyneux. The immediate occasion for publication is assigned in the Intelligencer, in which paper the dialogue first appeared.---Scott. Having lately had an account, that a certain person of some distinction swore in a public coffee-house, that party There's hardly twenty to be found; No, not among the priests and friars— T. 'Twixt you and me, G―d d—n the liars! To our illustrious house of Hanover; From all their conduct this is plain; T. G―d d―n the liars again! Our whole accounts of public debts? M. Lord, how this frothy coxcomb frets! [Aside. This dangerous horrid motion dish up should never die while he lived, (although it has been the endeavour of the best and wisest among us, to abolish the ridiculous appellations of Whig and Tory, and entirely to turn our thoughts to the good of our prince and constitution in church and state,) I hope those who are well-wishers to our country, will think my labour not ill-bestowed, in giving this gentleman's principles the proper embellishments which they deserve; and since Mad Mullinix is the only Tory now remaining, who dares own himself to be so, I hope I may not be censured by those of his party, for making him hold a dialogue with one of less consequence on the other side. I shall not venture so far as to give the Christian nick-name of the person chiefly concerned, lest I should give offence, for which reason I shall call him Timothy, and leave the rest to the conjecture of the world."---Intelligencer, No. viii. Proving the earl a grand offender; M. These wrangling jars of Whig and Tory, To rattle in their ears your drum : 1 A character in one of Dryden's comedies.---H. Thy busy never-meaning face, Thy screw'd-up front, thy state grimace, T. My good friend Mullinix, forbear; 1 blood! I took advice, except my own, I'll sputter, swagger, curse, and rail, 1 King William III.---H. |