With powder'd rump and back and side,
You cannot blanch his tawny hide;
For 'tis beyond the power of meal
The gipsy visage to conceal;

For, as he shakes his wainscot chops,
Down every mealy atom drops,
And leaves the tartar phiz in show,
Like a fresh t-d just dropt on snow.

CLAD ALL IN BROWN. TO DICK. *

FOULEST brute that stinks below,

Why in this brown dost thou appear? For would'st thou make a fouler show, Thou must go naked all the year. Fresh from the mud, a wallowing sow Would then be not so brown as thou.

'Tis not the coat that looks so dun, His hide emits a foulness out; Not one jot better looks the sun

Seen from behind a dirty clout.

So tds within a glass enclose,
The glass will seem as brown as those.

Thou now one heap of foulness art,

All outward and within is foul;

Condensed filth in every part,

Thy body's clothed like thy soul:

*This is a parody on the tenth poem of Cowley's "Mistress," entitled, "Clad all in White."

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 would'st be pelted worse than they're.

Yet, when we see thee thus array'd,
The neighbours think it is but just,
That thou should'st take an honest trade,
And weekly carry out the dust.

Of cleanly houses who will doubt,
When Dick cries "Dust to carry out!"

DICK'S VARIETY.

DULL uniformity in fools
I hate, you gape and sneer by rules;
You, Mullinix, and slobbering C
Who every day and hour the same are;
That vulgar talent I despise

Of pissing in the rabble's eyes.
And when I listen to the noise
Of idiots roaring to the boys;
To better judgment still submitting,
I own I see but little wit in:

Such pastimes, when our taste is nice,
Can please at most but once or twice.

But then consider Dick, you'll find
His genius of superior kind;
He never muddles in the dirt,

Nor scours the streets without a shirt;
Though Dick, I dare presume to say,
Could do such feats as well as they.
Dick I could venture everywhere,
Let the boys pelt him if they dare,
He'd have them tried at the assizes
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;
Now scolding at my lady Eustace,
Or thrashing Baby in her new stays.
Presto! begone, with t'other hop
He's powdering in a barber's shop;
Now at the antichamber thrusting
His nose to get the circle just in;
And damns his blood that in the rear
He sees a single Tory there :

Then woe be to my lord lieutenant
Again he'll tell him, and again on't. ↑

Tighe, it is said, used to beat his wife.

There are allusions

to his matrimonial discipline, in Swift's Journal to Stella. + 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 charac ter, capable of being represented as a coxcomb or fine gentleman, as should suit the purpose of the writer who was disposed to immortalize him.

Sir, Dedications are the only fashions in the world that are more disliked for being universal; and the reason is, that they very seldom fit the persons they were made for; but I hope to avoid the common obloquy in this address, by laying aside the poet in every thing but the dramatic decorum in suiting my character to the person.

"From the part of Mirabel in this play, and another character in one of my former, people are willing to compliment my performance in drawing a gay, splendid, generous, easy, fine young gentleman. My genius, I must confess, has a bent to that kind of description; and my veneration for you, Sir, may pass for unquestionable, since, in all these happy accomplishments, you come so near to my darling character, abating his inconstancy.

"What an unspeakable blessing is youth and fortune, when a happy understanding comes in, to moderate the desires of the first, and to refine upon the advantages of the latter; when a gentlcman is master of all pleasures, but a slave to none; who has tra velled, not for the curiosity of the sight, but for the improvement of the mind's eye; and who returns full of every thing but himself. An author might say a great deal more, but a friend, Sir, nay, an enemy, must allow you this.

I shall here, Sir, meet with two obstacles, your modesty and your sense; the first as a censor upon the subject, the second as a critic upon the style; but I am obstinate in my purpose, and will maintain what I say to the last drop of my pen; which I may the more boldly undertake, having all the world on my side; nay, I have your very self against you, for, by declining to hear your own merit, your friends are authorized the more to pro. claim it.

"Your generosity and easiness of temper, is not only obvious in your common affairs and conversation, but more plainly evident in your darling amusement, that opener and dilater of the mind, music;-from your affection to this delightful study we may deduce the pleasing harmony that is apparent in all your actions; and be assured, Sir, that a person must be of a very divine soul, who is so much in love with the entertainment of angels.

"From your encouragement of music, if there be any poetry here, it has a claim, by the right of kindred, to your favour and affection. You were pleased to honour the representation of this play with your appearance at several times, which flattered my hopes that there might be something in it which your good-nature might excuse. With the honour I here intend for myself, I like. wise consult the interest of my nation, by showing a person is so much a reputation and credit to my country. Besides all

that

TRAULUS. PARTI.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TOM AND ROBIN.

1730.

[The Dean in his speech to the Corporation of Dublin complains of the strictures passed upon him by Lord Allen. His lord. ship's allegations that Swift was disaffected, produced the following severe retort. See Vol. VII. pages 467, 473, 482.]^

Tом. Say, Robin, what can Traulus† mean
By bellowing thus against the Dean?
Why does he call him paltry scribbler,
Papist, and jacobite, and libeller,

Yet cannot prove a single fact?

ROBIN. Forgive him, Tom: his head is crackt. T. What mischief can the Dean have done him, That Traulus calls for vengeance on him? Why must he sputter, sprawl, and slaver it In vain against the people's favourite?' Revile that nation-saving paper,

Which gave the Dean the name of Drapier?

this, I was willing to make a handsome compliment to the place of my pupillage, by informing the world that so fine a gentleman had the seeds of his education in the same university, and at the same time with, Sir, your most faithful, and most humble servant, GEORGE FARQUHAR."

Son of Dr Charles Leslie. + Joshua Lord Allen.-F.