Such, such a man extends his life's short space, THE TRANSLATOR. 1 ZELL, at Sanger's call, invoked his For who to sing for Sanger could His numbers such as Sanger's self might use. Reviving Perrault, murdering Boileau, he Slandered the ancients first, then Wycherley; Which yet not much that old bard's anger raised, Since those were slandered most, whom Ozell praised. Nor had the gentle satire caused complaining, Had not sage Rowe pronounced it entertaining: How great must be the judgment of that writer Who the Plain-Dealer damns, and prints the Biter!" 2 1 Sanger served his apprenticeship with Jacob Tonson, and succeeded Bernard Lintot in his shop at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street. Lintot printed Ozell's translation of Perrault's Characters, and Sanger his translation of Boileau's Lutrin, which was recommended by Rowe in 1709.-- Warton. See Dunciad, i. 286. 2 The Plain-Dealer " was the most popular of Wycherley's comedies; the “Biter ” an inferior play by Rowe. THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.1 F gentle Philips will I ever sing, With gentle Philips shall the valleys ring. My numbers too for ever will I vary, With gentle Budgell and with gentle Carey. Or if in ranging of the names I judge ill, With gentle Carey and with gentle Budgell : Oh! may all gentle bards together place ye, Men of good hearts, and men of delicacy. May satire ne'er befool ye, or beknave ye, And from all wits that have a knack, God save ye. 'Twas all the ambition his high soul could feel, Two of the shepherds are well enough known. The third would seem to be Henry Carey, the dramatist (author of "Sally in our Alley "); but there was also a John Carey, of New College, Oxford, a contributor to the Tatler and Spectator, and Walter Carey (Umbra).-Carruthers. 2 The person satirised is Ambrose Philips (16711749). 3 The borrowed play refers to Philips' "The Dis There he stopped short, nor since has writ a tittle, But has the wit to make the most of little : Like stunted hide-bound trees, that just have got Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot. Now he begs verse, and what he gets commends, Not of the wits his foes, but fools his friends. So some coarse country wench, almost decayed, Trudges to town, and first turns chambermaid; And strangely liked for her simplicity : To bawd for others, and go shares with Punk. UMBRA.' LOSE to the best known author The constant index to all Button's wits. "Who's here?" cries Umbra: "only John99 2" Oh! son, trest Mother," founded on Racine's Andromaque. John Crowne, a prolific dramatist, died about 1705. 1 Walter Carey, Warden of the Mint, and Clerk of the Privy Council. 2 Charles Johnson, a second-rate dramatist. Bowles. Your slave," and exit; but returns with Rowe : "Dear Rowe, let's sit and talk of tragedies: Ere long Pope enters, and to Pope he flies. Then up comes Steele he turns upon his heel, : And in a moment fastens upon Steele; 1 Fool! 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam; Know, sense, like charity begins at home. SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.2 YLVIA, my heart in wondrous wise alarmed, Awed without sense, and without But some odd graces and some flights she had, 1 Tickell. 2 Introduced, with some alterations, into the Second of the Moral Epistles, Of the Characters of Women. Now all agog for D 1 -y1at a ball: Now deep in Taylor, and the Book of Martyrs, Now drinking citron with his Grace and Chartres,2 Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake. Frail, feverish sex; their fit now chills, now burns: Atheism and superstition rule by turns; THE BASSET-TABLE.3 AN ECLOGUE. CARDELIA, SMILINDA. CARDELIA. HE Basset-table spread, the tallier come; Why stays Smilinda in the dressing-room? Rise, pensive nymph, the tallier waits for you: SMILINDA. Ah, madam, since my Sharper is untrue, I joyless make my once adored alpeu. 1 Colonel Disney.-Carruthers. 2 For the Duke of Wharton and Chartres, see Moral Essays, i. 179, iii. 20, &c. 3 One of the "Town Eclogues," published anonymously in 1716. They were parodies on the Pastorals of Pope and Philips, and were written, with the exception of the "Basset Table," by Lady M. W. Montagu. Basset was a card game resembling the modern "Faro." |