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"England. His political writings will probably "be little read on any other account than for the dignity and energy of his style; but his Dic"tionary, his moral essays, and his productions in polite literature, will convey useful instruction "and elegant entertainment, as long as the language in which they are written shall be under"stood, and give him a just claim to a distinguish. "ed rank among the best and ablest writers that "England has produced."

LONDON:

A POEM:

IN IMITATION OF THE

THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL.

Written in 1738.

-Quis ineptæ

Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se? Juv.

'THO' grief and fondness in my breast rebel,
When injur'd THALES bids the town farewell,
Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend,
I praise the hermit, but regret the friend,
Resolv'd at length, from vice and LONDON far,
To breathe in distant fields a purer air,
And, fix'd on Cambria's solitary shore,
Give to St David one true Briton more.

2 For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?

JUV. Sat. III.

Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici;
Laudo, tamen, vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis
Destinet, atque unum civem donare Sibyllæ.

2 Ego vel Prochytam præpono Suburræ,
Nam quid tam miserum, tam solum vidimus, ut non
Deterius credas horrere incendia, lapsus
Tectorum assiduos, & mille pericula sæva
Urbis, & Augusto recitantes mense poetas ?

There none are swept by sudden fate away,
But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay:
Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire,
And now a rabble rages, now a fire;
Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay,
And here the fell attorney prowls for prey;
Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female Atheist talks you dead.

3 While THALES waits the wherry that contains
Of dissipated wealth the small remains,
On Thames's banks, in silent thought we stood
Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood;
Struck with the seat that gave ELIZA* birth,
We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth;
In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
And call Britannia's glories back to view;
Behold her cross triumphant on the main,
The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain,
Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd,
Or English honour grew a standing jest.

A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for a moment lull the sense of woe. At length awaking, with contemptuous frown, Indignant THALES eyes the neighb'ring town. 4 Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of empty praise;

3 Sed, dum tota domus rhedâ componitur urâ, Substitit ad veteres arcus.

4 Hic tunc Umbritius: Quando artibus, inquit, honestis Nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum,

Res hodie minor est, heri quam fuit, atque eadem cras
Deteret exiguis alliquid: proponimus uc

Ire, fatigatas ubi Dædalus exuit alas;

Dum nova canities.

# Queen Elizabeth, born at Greenwich