B. Trade it may help, Society extend. P. But lures the Pyrate, and corrupts the Friend. 30 NOTES. Nor was he more fingular in the undeviating Pravity of his Manners, in Accumulating WEALTH, For, without TRADE OF PROFESSION, He was the only Perfon of his Time, When poffefs'd of TEN THOUSAND a Year, And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he did, Think not his Life ufelefs to Mankind A confpicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE, By his bestowing it on the moft UNWORTHY OF ALL This Gentleman was worth feven thousand pounds a year eftate in Land, and about one hundred thousand in Money, P. B. It raises Armies in a Nation's aid. P. But bribes a Senate, and the Land's betray'd. In vain may Heroes fight, and Patriots rave; NOTES. Mr WATERS, the third of thefe worthies, was a man no way resembling the former in his military, but extremely fo in his civil capacity; his great fortune having been rais'd by the like diligent attendance on the neceffities of others. But this gentleman's hiftory muft be deferred till his death, when his worth may be known more certainly. P. VER. 20.-Chartres and the Devil.] Alluding to the vulgar opinion, that all mines of metal and fubterraneous treasures are in the guard of the Devil: which feems to have taken its rife from the pagan fable of Plutus the God of Riches. VER. 33. and Patriots rave;] The character of modern Patriots was, in the | opinion of our poet, very equivocal; as the name was undiftinguishingly bestowed on every one in oppofition to the court; of whofe vir tues he gives a hint in 139. of this Epiftle. Agreeably to these fentiments, his predicate of them here is as equivocal, In vain—mayPatriots rave; which they may do either in earnest or in jest; and is a conduct, in the opinion of Sempronius in the Play, best fitted to hide their game. VER 35. - beneath the Patriot's cloak,] This is a true flory, which happened in the reign of William III. to an unfufpected old Patriot, who coming out at the back-door from having been clofeted by the King, And gingling down the back-stairs, told the crew, Or fhip off Senates to a distant shore ; A leaf, like Sibyl's, fcatter to and fro Our fates and fortunes, as the winds fhall blow: NOTES. where he had received a large bag of Guineas, the bursting of the bag difcovered his bufinefs there. P. VER. 42.-fetch or carry Kings ;] In our author's time, many Princes had been fent about the world, and great changes of Kings projected in Europe. The partition-treaty had difpofed of Spain; France had fet up a King for England, who was fent to Scotland, and back again; King Stanislaus was 40 45 fent to Poland, and back again; the Duke of Anjou was fent to Spain, and Don Carlos to Italy. P. VER. 44. Or fhip off Senates to fome diftant Shore ;] Alludes to feveral Minifters, Counsellors, and Patriots banifhed in our times to Siberia, and to that MORE GLORIOUS FATE of the PARLIAMENT of PARIS, banished to Pontoife in the year 1720. P. Oh! that fuch bulky Bribes as all might fee, Still, as of old, incumber'd Villainy! 50 Could France or Rome divert our brave defigns, With all their brandies or with all their wines? What could they more than Knights and Squires confound, Or water all the Quorum ten miles round? A Statesman's flumbers how this fpeech would fpoll! "Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oil; 56 "Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door; "A hundred oxen at your levee roar." Poor Avarice one torment more would find; Nor could Profufion squander all in kind. Aftride his cheese Sir Morgan might we meet; And Worldly crying coals from street to street, Whom with a wig fo wild, and mien fo maz'd, Pity mistakes for fome poor tradesman craz’d. VARIATIONS. After ✯ 50, in the MS. To break a trust were Peter brib'd with wine, NOTES. VER. 63. Some Mifers 60 of the coal-mines, had enof great wealth, proprietors tered at this time into an 66 Had Colepepper's whole wealth been hops and hogs, Or foft Adonis, fo perfum'd and fine, Drive to St James's a whole herd of swine? 70 Oh filthy check on all industrious skill, 75 To fpoil the nation's last great trade, Quadrille! Since then, my Lord, on fuch a World we fall, What fay you? B. Say? Why take it, Gold and all, VARIATIONS. VER. 77. Since then, &c.] In the former Edd. NOTES. affociation to keep up coals to an extravagant price, whereby the poor were re duced almoft to ftarve, till one of them taking the advantage of underfelling the | reft, defeated the defign. One of thefe Mifers was worth ten thousand, another Seven thousand a year. P. VER. 65. Colepepper] Sir WILLIAM COLE PEPPER, |