It's proper pow'r to hurt, each creature feels; Then, learned Sir! (to cut the matter short) Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Like Lee or Budgel, I will rhyme and print. d 85 90 95 100 F. Alas young man! your days can ne'er be long, In flow'r of age you perish for a fong! Plums and Directors, Shylock and his Wife, Will club their Tefters, now, to take your life! NOTES. verse-To wrap me in the univerfal fhade, has a languor and redundancy unusual with our author. VER. 97. Whether the darken'd room -Or whiten'd wall-] This is only a wanton joke upon the terms of his Original Quifquis erit vitae color. * E* Frigore te feriat. e H. Quid? cum eft Lucilius aufus Primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem, Famofifque Lupo cooperto verfibus? atqui Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim ; g Scilicet & UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMI CIS. NOTES. VER. 105.1 20. What? arm'd for Virtue, etc.] This is not only fuperior to any thing in Horace, but equal to any thing in himself. VER. 110. Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws? Becaufe juft Satire is an useful fupplement to the fanctions of Law and Religion; and has, therefore, a claim to the protection of those who prefide in the adminiftration of both. Ibid. Could penfion'd Boileau-Could Laureate Dryden] It was Horace's purpose to compliment the former times, and therefore he gives the virtuous examples of Scipio 106 P. What? arm'd for Virtue when I point the pen, Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws? 110 Unplac'd, unpenfion'd, no man's heir, or flave? I will, or perish in the gen'rous caufe: 115 Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'fcape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. 120 8 TO VIRTUE ONLY and HER FRIENDS A FRIEND, The World befide may murmur, or commend. NOTES. and Laelius; it was Mr. Pope's, to fatirize the prefent, and therefore he gives the vicious examples of Louis, Charles, and James. Either way the instances are equally pertinent; but in the latter they have rather greater force. Only the line, Uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis, lofes fomething of its fpirit in the imitation; for the amici, referred to, were Scipio and Laelius. h b Quin ubi fe a vulgo et scena in fecreta remorant Virtus Scipiadae et mitis fapientia Laeli, Nugari cum illo, et difcincti ludere, donec Decoqueretur olus, foliti. Quidquid fum ego, quamvis Infra Lucili cenfum, ingeniumque; tamen me * nifi quid tu, docte Trebati, Diffentis. T. Equidem nihil hinc diffingere poffum. Sed tamen ut monitus caveas, ne forte negoti Incutiat tibi quid fanctarum inscitia legum : m "Si mala condiderit in quem quis carmina, jus eft NOTES. VER. 129. And HE, whofe lightning, etc.] Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow, who in the year 1705 took Barcelona, and in the winter following with only 208 There, my retreat the best Companions grace, 125 And HE, whofe lightning pierc'd th' Iberian Lines, i Envy muft own, I live among the Great, No Pinp of pleasure, and no Spy of state, 131 With eyes This, all who know me, know; who love me, tell; This is my plea, on this I reft my cause * What faith my Council, learned in the laws? 1 F. Your Plea is good; but ftill I fay, beware! It ftands on record, that in Richard's times NOTES. 140 145 horfe and 900 foot enterprized and accomplished the Con queft of Valentia. P. |