1 Nor ftretch'd on rofes in the myrtle grove, Nor crowns his days with mirth, his nights with love, Feeds from the hedge, and flakes with ice his thirft. And fuch, to Ifrael's crown, the god-like David came. Yet Yet Ziloah's loyal labours so pevail'd That faction at the next election fail'd, KEY to AB SALOM and ACHITOPHEL. Abdael, Abethdin, { General Monk, Duke of Albe marle. S The name given, thro' this poem, The Earl of Shaftesbury. Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. SMr. Seymour, Speaker of the Sir Heneage Finch, Earl of Win- Duchefs of Monmouth. Sir William Waller. A Character drawn by Tate for Dryden, in the fecond Part of this Poem. Earl of Huntingdon. Barnet. Duke of Ormond. Duchefs of Fortfinouth. Mephibofbeth, Richard Cromwell. England. Thomas Thynne, Efq. Mr. Ferguson, a canting Teacher. Pordage. OR to whom can I dedicate this poem, with fo FOR much justice as to you? It is the representation of your own hero: it is the picture drawn at length, which you admire and prize fo much in little. None of your ornaments are wanting; neither the landfcape of your Tower, nor the rising fun; nor the Anno Domini of your new fovereign's coronation. This muft needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party: efpecially to thofe who have not been fo happy as to purchafe the original. I hear the graver has made a good market of it: all his kings are bought up already; or the value of the remainder fo inhanced, that many a pocr Polander, who would be glad to worship the image, is not able to go to the cost of him: but must be content to fee him here. I must confefs I am no great artift; but fign-pcft painting will ferve the turn to remember a friend by; especially when better is not to be had. Yet, for your comfort, the lincaments are true : and though he fat not five times to me, as he did to B. yet I have confulted hiftory; as the Italian painters do, when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula; though they |