257 promise, that as the Mufe began with her, fo it fhall end with her: Likewise, reflecting with Pleasure upon Sir Fopling's Perriwig; for the firft vifible Cause of the Paffion of the Town for Bays, was a fair flaxen full-bottomed Perriwig, which he tells us, he wore in his firft Play of the Fool in Fashion: It attracted, in a particular Manner, the Friendfhip of Colonel Brett, who wanted to purchase it: "What"ever Contempt (fays he) Philofophers may have " for a fine Perriwig, my Friend, who was not to "defpife the World, but to live in it, knew very "well, that fo material an Article of Drefs, upon "the Head of a Man of Senfe, if it became him, "could never fail of drawing a more particular Re"gard and Benevolence, than could poffibly be hop'd "for, inan ill made one. This, perhaps, may foften "the grave Censure which fo youthful a Purchase "might otherwise have laid upon him. In a Word, " he made his Attack upon this Perriwig, as your "young Fellows generally do upon a Lady of Plea"fure, firft by a few familiar Praises of her Perfon, "and then a civil Enquiry into the Price of it; and "we finished our Bargain over a Bottle." See his Life, Octavo, Page 303. This remarkable Perriwig ufually made its Entrance upon the Stage in a Sedan, brought in by two Chairmen, with infinite Approbation of the Audience. This important Wig is now handed down to everlafting Fame, which was endeavoured at before by the Laureat himself, in his Apology for his own Life. In the last Edition of the Dunciad, there are several other Alterations and Additions in Augmentation of his Character. Mr. Bays, under that or some other Name, will often occur to us, fo that for the Remainder of this VOL. I. S firft firft Book, we defire the Reader to obferve, in what Manner he came by his Elafticity and Fire; that he was once thought to have wrote a reafonable Play to obferve a general Character given of his Verfe, and Profe, and in what Manner his Converfation was extenfive and useful; that he was once defigned for the Church, where he fhould have been a Bifhop; fince became inclined to write for the Minister of State, but determines to ftick to his other Talents. -Still, ftill, remain Cibberian Forehead, and Cibberian Brain; He is reprefented at the End of this Book as actually enthron'd; the first Book concludes thus : The Goddess then, o'er his anointed Head With Mystick Words, the facred Opium shed. And lo! her Bird, a Monster of a Fowl! Something betwixt a Heideggre and Owl, Perch'd on his Crown. All hail! and hail again, My Son! the promis'd Land expects thy Reign. Know, Eufden thirfts no more for Sack or Praise, He fleeps among the Dull of antient Days Safe, where no Critick's damn, no Duns moleft, Where wretched Withers, Ward, and Gildon reft, And high born Howard, more majestick Sire, Impatient waits 'till Hy grace the Choir, Yet, yet, a While at Court my Hy stay! Sec, Cibber enters, hafte and turn the Key. Lift up your Gates, ye Princes, fee him come ! And all be Sleep, as at an Ode of thine. * Gaming and Grub-Street, fkulk behind the King. She When the Statute againft Gaming was drawn up, it was reprefented, that the King, by antient Custom, plays at Hazard one Night in the Year; and therefore a Claufe was inferted, with an Exception, as to that Particular. Under this Pretence, the Groom Porter had a Room appropriated to Gaming all the Summer the Court was at Kenfington, which his Majefty being accidentally acquainted of, with a juft Indignation, prohibited, it is reported; the fame Practice is yet continued, wherever the Court refides, and the Hazard Table there, open to all the profefs'd Gamesters in Town. Greatest and jufteft SOVEREIGN ! know you this? She ceas'd: Then fwells the Chapel Royal Throat, God fave King Gibber mounts in every Note: Familiar White's God fave King Colley cries; And God fave Colley Drury-Lane replies. To Needham's quick the Voice triumphal rode, But pious Needham dropp'd the Name of God; Back to the Devil the last Ecchoes roll, And Coll! each Butcher roars at Hockley-Hole. So when Jove's Block defcended from on high, (As fings thy great Fore-father Ogilby) Look, Thunder to the Bottom fhook the Bog, Why Mr. Pope reflects on Mr. Eufden * (who never, that I heard of, had given him any Caufe of Offence, I cannot tell) but am apt to think it was feeing the Lawrel beftow'd on a Man, who was neither a Scholar nor a Poet. Mr. Cooke, in his Battle of the Poets, faith of him: Eufden, a lawrell'd Bard, by Fortune rais'd, If he had any Beauty of Mind, he darken'd it by Hard-drinking; and having done a great Wrong to a Family of no obfcure Name, left behind him a Character of fuch a Nature, that it had better be forgot than remember'd. Mr. Pope gives him a Lash or two, allowing him and Daniel De Foe a Diftich between them in one Place; which was tacking two Perfons together of very different Talents, for Daniel De Foe had Parts; but he distinguishes them very juftly, comparing De Foe to Mr. Pryn, and Mr. Eufden to Sir Richard Blackmore, a little to the Injury of the latter. He speaks of Dulness: * She faw old Pryn in restless Daniel shine, This Mr. Eufden was a Clergyman. Mr. |