So when the grandson of his grandsire For as he shakes his wainscot chops, CLAD ALL IN BROWN. TO DICK.1 FOULEST brute that stinks below, Why in this brown dost thou appear? 'Tis not the coat that looks so dun, Seen from behind a dirty clout. So t-ds within a glass enclose, 1 This is a parody on the tenth poem of Cowley's "Mistress," entitled, "Clad all in White."---Scott. Thou now one heap of foulness art, Thy body's clothed like thy soul: Thy soul, which through thy hide of buff Scarce glimmers like a dying snuff. Old carted bawds such garments wear, When pelted all with dirt they shine; Such their exalted bodies are, As shrivell'd and as black as thine. If thou wert in a cart, I fear Thou wouldst be pelted worse than they're. Yet, when we see thee thus array'd, Of cleanly houses who will doubt, DICK'S VARIETY. DULL uniformity in fools I hate, who gape and sneer by rules; Who every day and hour the same are; Of pissing in the rabble's eyes. And when I listen to the noise Such pastimes, when our taste is nice, Nor scours the streets without a shirt; For priests and jesuits in disguises; Swear they were with the Swedes at Bender, And listing troops for the Pretender. But Dick can f-t, and dance, and frisk, No other monkey half so brisk; Now has the speaker by his ears, Next moment in the House of Peers; 1 Tighe, it is said, used to beat his wife. There are allusions to his matrimonial discipline, in Swift's Journal to Stella.---Scott. His nose, to get the circle just in; TRAULUS. PART I. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TOM AND ROBIN.3 1730. Tом. Say, Robin, what can Traulus mean ROBIN. Forgive him, Tom: his head is crackt. T. What mischief can the Dean have done him, That Traulus calls for vengeance on him? 1 Farquhar, who inscribed his play of the "Inconstant " to Richard Tighe, has painted him in very different colours from those of the Dean's satirical pencil. Yet there may be discerned, even in that dedication, the outlines of a light mercurial character, capable of being represented as a coxcomb or fine gentleman, as should suit the purpose of the writer who was disposed to immortalize him.---Scott. 2 The Dean in his speech to the Corporation of Dublin, complains of the strictures passed upon him by Lord Allen. His lordship's allegations that Swift was disaffected, produced the following severe retort.---Scott. 3 Son of Dr. Charles Leslie.---Scott. 4 Joshua Lord Allen.---F. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it Which gave the Dean the name of Drapier? T. Yet many a wretch in Bedlam knows R. Why, Tom, the man has lost his wits. T. Agreed and yet, when Towzer snaps At people's heels, with frothy chaps, Hangs down his head, and drops his tail, say he's mad will not avail; Το |