EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. DIALOGUE I. FR. NOT twice a twelvemonth you appear in print, You grow correct that once with rapture writ, Decay of parts, alas! we all must feel— 5 Said, "Tories call'd him Whig, and Whigs a Tory:" And taught his Romans, in much better metre, "To laugh at fools who put their trust in Peter." After ver. 2 in the MS. You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade, But But Horace, Sir, was delicate, was nice; Bubo observes, he lash'd no sort of vice: Horace would say, Sir Billy serv'd the crown, In rev'rend bishops note some small neglects, 21 Could please at court, and make AUGUSTUS smile : Go VER. 12. Bubo observes,] Bubo is said to mean Mr. Doddington, afterward Lord Melcombe. VER. 14. Huggins] Formerly gaoler of the Fleet prison, en riched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. VER. 15. In Sappho touch] In former editions, Sir George of some slight gallantries suspect. VER. 18. Who cropt our ears,] Said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, a captain of an English one. He cut off his ears, and bid him carry them to the King his master. After ver. 26 in the MS. There's honest Tacitus * once talk'd as big, But is he now an independant Whig? Mr. Thomas Gordon, who was bought off by a place at court. |