To express the great Swift in a compass so small?
Faith, Vertue shall do it, I'm pleased at the thought,
Be the cost what it will-the copper is bought."
Apollo o'erheard, (who as some people guess,
Had a hand in the work, and corrected the press ;)
And pleased, he replied, "Honest George, you are
right,

The thought was my own, howsoe'er you came by't. For though both the wit and the style is my gift, 'Tis VERTUE alone can design us a SWIFT."

EPIGRAM

ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS ON SWIFT'S LIFE

AND WRITINGS.

A SORE disease this scribbling itch is!
His Lordship, in his Pliny seen,'
Turns Madam Pilkington in breeches,
And now attacks our Patriot Dean.

What! libel his friend when laid in ground:
Nay, good sir, you may spare your hints,
His parallel at last is found,

For what he writes George Faulkner prints.

Had Swift provoked to this behaviour,
Yet after death resentment cools,
Sure his last act bespoke his favour,

He built an hospital-for fools.

Lord Orrery translated the letters of the younger Pliny.---Scott.

TO DOCTOR DELANY,

66

ON HIS BOOK ENTITLED OBSERVATIONS ON

LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS."

DELANY, to escape your friend the Dean,
And prove all false that Orrery had writ,
You kindly own his Gulliver profane,

Yet make his puns and riddles sterling wit.
But if for wrongs to Swift you would atone,
And please the world, one way you may succeed,
Collect Boyle's writings and your own,
And serve them as you served the deed.

EPIGRAM

ON Faulkner's displaying in his shop the Dean's bust in marble, (now placed in the great aisle of St. Patrick's church), while he was publishing Lord Orrery's Remarks.

FAULKNER! for once you have some judgment

shown,

By representing Swift transform'd to stone;
For could he thy ingratitude have known,
Astonishment itself the work had done!

AN INSCRIPTION,

INTENDED for a compartment in Dr. Swift's monument, designed by Cunningham, on College Green, Dublin.

SAY, to the Drapier's vast unbounded fame, What added honours can the sculptor give? None. 'Tis a sanction from the Drapier's name Must bid the sculptor and his marble live.

June 4, 1765.

AN EPIGRAM.

OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION.

WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend;
And each asserts her poet, patriot, friend:
Her mitre jealous Britain may deny;

That loss Ierne's laurel shall supply;

Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him