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advantages of RHYMING. By Dr S. Being a fupplement to his fatires. TIIV. 506. 618, 75. xxvi. 40. 95.] Ould you detain men from the ftews? Let them have commerce with the Mufe. pallions, that no limits know, ever have fome stated flow; nt at all, a trifling care,

anner how, or when, or where. ps from rocks fecur'd by cables, ep mankind from gaming-tables, aften with poetic fetters, from the alphabet of letters. hat one almost daily views s committed on the Mufe; aight bid adieu to life,

, ruthlefs, by his brother's knife; ery roofs fecure no more, moft chambers ftain'd with gore. at the altar force the Muse, your modeft fuit refuse;

hall our wives and daughters be
Four attempts unhallow'd free.
robbers may our roads defert,
om our houfes thieves depart;
tals all their cunning ufe,
ry to purloin from the Mufe:
, on purpose to conceal,
, is from herfelf to steal.
aking here, unknown they give,
tater, as they strive to live.
aiming to be more than frog,
the fam'd monarch of the bog.
tel ftrength from the magnet gains,
magnet fill its pow'r retains.
Som ftill remains unfoil'd,
haply, of its honey spoil'd.

the harmlefs art of rhyming,
would be ftill offending Hymen;
and accus'd (fuch Wilkes's ufe is)
foul capital abuses;

the face of law and reason,

ry of herefy or treason;
thin Britain's annals we

y dire examples fee);

es on the public road,
por mifers of their load;

ch their brethren —with a knife,
all the miferies of life;
their fellow-mortals be
exalted-on a tree.

e on then, mortals; for in numbers
ve of mischief often slumbers;
kicked thought oft melts away,
orded in a roundelay.
nd T-, harmless now,
ken, elfe, fome plighted vow;
om fome too kind virgin more
ry again could e'er restore.
then, the Mufe, ye lordly brothers,
ag aunts, and tender mothers;
no fair friend meets a difafter,
not the man, but poetafter.

Rhyme on then, mortals; and in verfe
Your thoughts to climes remote difperfe;
(To climes remote? Sir, you mistake;
A neighb'ring fair, or country-wake):
For, were they not abroad to roam,
What mischief might they do at home!
Had Wilkes thus, whofe far other lafs is,
But woo'd the Mufe upon Parnaffus;
He had preferv'd his wits and fense still,
Undamn'd by Hogarth's mighty pencil.
To fhow what lengths the human heart
May, ah! from rectitude depart;
Doom'd to the fcorpion lafh of fame,
Nor burst with consciousness and shame;
God faid, in vengeance to his foes,
Let Wilkes arife, and Wilkes arose.
Rhyme on then, mortals; better rhyme,
Than fuffer for fome horrid crime.
Better lines meet, and jingle too,
Than muffled bells ding dang for you.
Better to chain a few poor letters,
Than you be clapt in iron fetters.
Better the Mule and you― forgot,
Than in a dungeon you fhould rot.
Thus had not Churchill spent his ire,
And timely flash'd away his fire,
This felf-fame Churchill might have been
A robber on the highway feen;
A cut-throat, muffled up in gloom,
In fome dark corner of a room:
Efcaping thus thofe dreadful pangs,
He feels who by his gullet hangs.

Forgive him then, thrice noble B~;
Newgate had claim'd a Churchill mute.
Thee he revil'd, elfe, with his fellows,
Satan had fent him to the gallows.
Thee he mistook, but not himself,
A very cunning wary elf:
Self-prefervation is a rule

First taught us in wife Nature's school;
Thus, from the halter to be free,
He drew his pen, and libel'd thee;
And, of two evils both accurft,
He thus rejected but the worft;
Cenfure too from his pen we find,
Turn'd into praife by all mankind:
Forgive him then, thrice noble B--;
Thou but half-prais'd had he been mute.
Rhyme on then, mortals; better rhyme,
Altho' you reach not the fublime,
Than at temptation's mercy lie,
And feel all ills beneath the sky;
Tofs'd to and fro, howe'er
you frive,
As whim, caprice, and paffion drive.
Such ills had happen'd Churchill, and ✪
The mighty genius of Redondo,
Had they not thus themfelves amus'd,
And all their gall in rhyme effus'd.
Like ale in bottles they fermented,
Fate long their bursting kind prevented;
But, ah! too hot politics grew,
Out cork and froth abruptly flew.
But happy this rude ftorm's o'erblown,
Nought but the cork itfelf o'erthrown.

Churchill mounts Pegafus, and frives
To prove how faft the d-1 drives;
Drives on, fuch S-n's plan to mend all,
Thro' flander, obloquy, and scandal.
Grofs wits fierce elements engage,
A deep dark PITT confines their rage:
What devaftations elfe had been
In womens fair inclosures seen!

True; no exception here fhould be,
Let the fame cenfure light on -- me.
Thanks to the Mufe, fo little fame
Can fport malicious with my name,
That, thro' life's crouded path below,
I almost unobferv'd can go;
Tho' fcarce for good diftinguish'd, ftill
Not once remarkable for ill.
Tho' not, by infinite, fo good,
As God and Reafon meant I should;
Yet am I not, my confcience clear,
Worfe than to mankind I appear.
Thefe, in the fame proportion true,
Comprise my fhame and glory too.
But, reader, left you should declare
Against the prim confeffor's chair;
No more, fo your chagrin fufpend,
Shall the pert egotist offend.
Yet, haply, men well-pleas'd may fee
Their own apt characters in me.
For look with moral eye about,
All's mediocrity throughout;
Save, where we only it fhould find,
When fierce difputes diftract mankind;
When W wields his fell pen
O'er a ftrict fet of harmless men;
Who puffs, with rage-inflated cheek,
And forms, to prove the fpirit meek.
Rhyme on then, mortals; better rhyme,
Than wafte in idlene's your time;
Or, which is worfe, from difcontent,
Your rage and spite on others vent.
Could H employ his pen,
That most sloth-overcome of men;
Did not the chafte and virtuous Mufe
To him her vifit kind refufe;
Would he be late and early found
A conftant plague to all around?

The tons of metre too may boast,
And claiming this they claim the most,
That they, indeed, do all they can,
To help a worthy fet of men;
Who, elfe, in home-fpun ruffet clad,
Might handle fpades for daily bread.
In mines poctic all fuch hewers
Cut ample work out for reviewers.
Such take the ready way to ftarve
Themfelves, their-betters to preserve.
For mercy's fake, ye critics, then
Spare, fpare fuch charitable men!
O! graciously our fpirits raife,
And throw us out a little praise,
On which our famifl'd fouls may live!
Elefied are they that freely give!

Alluding to Rodondo.

And gratitude demands it too;
You should feed us, for feeding you.
Good beef and pudding we afford,
And wines, to decorate your board;
Surely, you should return as good,
Fame, that light elemental food.
Thus, mutual giv'n, fhall mutual last
The eleemofory repast.

But this fublime existence gives,
Who eats with faith immortal lives;
Thofe grant, with much inteftine strife,
Only a temporary life;

And ah! that life oft fhorten'd too,
(Paufe, critics, paufe, while you review),
By thofe e, ential means ordain'd,
By which itself should be fuitain'd.
Surely we need then no director,
To tell, who's most the benefactor.
What complicated good the Muse
Loves thro' creation to diffufe!
Not ills alone would fhe prevent,
To her philanthropy's extent;
But alfo, to all ranks below,
Would bleflings pofitive beftow!
Kings might their drawing-rooms decline
To pay their visits to the Nine.
Commence for once (unfcepter'd) men,
And wield in harmless glee their pen.
Such only, then, would murder time,
With monarchs, fure, a fimple crime;
Not, for a feather or a gem,
Slay millions, nor once pity them:
Millions, fprung from the felf-fame clay
Not lefs divinely form'd than they!
To gratify their whim or spleen,
Oft meaner than their fcullions feen;
Rule mankind with an iron road,
And perfonate all things but-God!
The royal fons of Freedom here
Like gods in human form appear.
GEORGE fills Eritannia's throne, to fho
Heav'n one anointed boasts below.

Rhyme on then, mortals; for by met Our tafte of life becomes the fweeter; Each hour, on downy pinion, hence Brings fome new rapture to the fenfe. Objects around we can arrange Thro' one eternal joyous change; Within our cloicts worlds explore, And act all mankind o'er and o'er ; Extend life's poor contracted span, Beyond the common bounds of man; From fleep's ignoble periods take, And more than vulgarly awake. For want of fomething elfe to do, Some plan of action to purfuc; How many doze away their time, Nor think they perpetrate a crime ! With bare exiftence, ah! content, Behold their years and luftrums spent ! If you no glaring fins commit, Thank not youricives, but flecp, for it Stocks too and fiones might merit claim, Were you here to contend for fame.

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