FRAGMENTS. THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE'S EPISTLES. [This Satire on Lord Bolingbroke, and the praise bestowed on him in a letter to Mr. Richardson, where Mr. Pope says, "Their sons shall blush their fathers were thy foes," being so contradictory, probably occasioned the former to be suppressed. Warton. Mr. Bowles has omitted the following piece, because "he cannot think Pope would write the concluding lines on himself," v. Bowles's ed. vol. ii. p. 385, in which opinion the present editor perfectly agrees with him. But it may be observed, that this piece is as likely to be Pope's, both from the sentiment and the manner of its execution, as the Satire of One thousand seven hundred and forty, which Mr. Bowles has published, and is probably by the same author.] SAY, St. John, who alone peruse Ver. 1. Say, &c.] NOTES. AD ALBIUM TIBULLUM. "Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide judex, VOL. VI. 5 "Or shoots he folly as it flies? To you (the all-envied gift of heaven) What could a tender mother's care 10 15 A stock of health, and golden showers, 20 And graceful fluency of speech, Amidst thy various ebbs of fear, NOTES. Ver. 10. Does St. John Greenwich, &c.] "An tacitam silvas inter reptare salubres ?" Ver. 13. To you, &c.] "Di tibi formam, fruendi." Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque Ver. 17. What could, &c. "Quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno, Quam sapere, et fari posset quæ sentiat, et cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde, non deficiente crumena ?" Ver. 23. Amidst, &c.] "Inter spem, curamque, timores inter et iras." Yet let thy friend this truth impart, 25 30 In spite of fears, of mercy spite, My genius still must rail, and write. Haste to thy Twick'nham's safe retreat, And mingle with the grumbling great; There, half devour'd by spleen, you'll find 35 The rhyming bubbler of mankind; There (objects of our mutual hate) We'll ridicule both church and state. NOTES. Ver. 28. That every day, &c.] "Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. Me pinguem, et nitidum bene curatâ cute vises, Cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum." THE TRANSLATOR. [EGBERT SANGER served his apprenticeship with Jacob Tonson, and succeeded Bernard Lintot in his shop at Middle Temple Gate, Fleet-street. Lintot printed Ozell's Translation of Perrault's Characters, and Sanger his translation of Boileau's Lutrin, recommended by Mr. Rowe, anno 1709.] Warton. OZELL, at Sanger's call invoked his muse, |