Or, in a mortgage, prove a Lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir; Or in pure f equity (the cafe not clear) my 179 own.' The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year : b Let lands and houses have what lords they will, 175 180 tation, in the concluding part, obliged him to diverfify the fentiment. They are equally noble: but Horace's is expreffed with the greater force. EPISTOLA I. RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena, PRIMA b Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaeris, Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo. C Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. Veianius, armis h Nunc itaque et 1 verfus, et caetera ludicra pono : VER. 16. You limp, like Blackmore on a Lord Mayor's bort.] The fame of this heavy Poet, however problematical elfewhere, was universally received in the City of London. His verfification is here exactly defcribed: ftiff, and not Why b will you break the Sabbath of my days? Public too long, ah let me hide my Age! 5 II Nore fond of bleeding, ev'n in BRUNSWICK's caufe. f A voice there is, that whispers in my ear, ('Tis Reason's voice, which fometimes one can hear) "Friend Pope! be prudent, let your "breath, "And never gallop Pegasus to death; Mufe take "Left stiff, and stately, void of fire or force, 15 "You limp, like Blackmore on a Lord Mayor's "horfe." Farewell then h Verfe and Love, and ev'ry Toy, The Rhymes and Rattles of the Man or Boy; strong; stately and yet dull, like the fober and flow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor; and therefore here humorously opposed to Pegasus, |