The house, the name to BILLY will I show, Come, BILLY, come. For you each rising day 160 Dear Mrs. Rose her needle shall employ, 165 To 'broider a fine waistcoat for my boy; In gay design shall blend with skilful toil, 170 175 My SHELBURNE's speech so gracious from the throne. By JOHNSON how esteem'd, let BOSWELL tell 180 IMITATIONS. Huc ades, O formose puer. Tibi lilia plenis Ipse ego cana legam tenerà lanugine mala, And you, Committee labours of DUNDAS, And you, Together bound-for sweetly thus you blend. ROSE, you're a blockhead! Let no factious scribe 185 Hear such a thought, that BILLY heeds a bribe: Or grant th' Immaculate, not proof to pelf, Has STEELE a soul less liberal than yourself? -Zounds! what a blunder! worse than when I made A FRENCH arrêt, the guard of BRITISH trade. Ah! foolish boy, whom fly you ?-Once a week The KING from Windsor deigns these scenes to seek. 190 IMITATIONS. Addam ceroa pruna; honos erit huic quoque pomo Et vos, O lauri carpam, et te, proxima myrtus Sic positæ, quoniam suaves miscetis odores. Rusticus es, Corydon! nec munera eurat Alexis Nec, si muneribus certes, concedat Iolas. Eheu quid volui misero mihi? Floribus Austrum Perditus, et liquidis immisi fontibus apros. Quem fugis, ah! demens? habitârunt Di quoque sylvas, Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas, quas condidit, arces Ipse colat: Nobis placeant ante omnia sylvæ. NOTES. Ver. 181. The orders of the Board of Controul, relative to the debts of the Nabob of Arcot, certainly appear diametrically opposite to Mr. Dundas's Reports, and to an express clause of Mr. Pitt's bill. Our author, however, like Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas, roundly asserts the consistency of the whole. Ver. 189. This unfortunate slip of the Honourable Secretary's constitutional logic happened in a debate on the Irish Propositions. Among the many wild chimeras of faction on that memorable occasion, one objection was, that the produce of the French West-Indian Islands might be legally smuggled through Ireland into this country. To which Mr. Rose replied, "That we might repeal all our acts in perfect security, because the French King had lately issued an arrêt which would prevent this smuggling." 195 Young GALLOWAY too is here, in waiting still. Yet, fasting, here I linger to complain. 205 210 Ah! ROSE, GEORGE ROSE! what phrenzy fires your brain! IMITATIONS. Torva leæna lupum sequitur lupus ipse capellam, Te Corydon, O Alexi: trahit sua quemque voluptas. Et sol crescentes discendens duplicat umbras : Quin tu aliquid saltem, potius quorum indiget usus, With pointless paragraphs the POST runs wild; 215 Our vouchers lie half-vamp'd, and without end He ceas'd, went home, ate, drank his fill, and then 220 224 NOTES. Ver. 216. We flattered ourselves that this line might have enabled us to ascertain the precise time when this eclogue was written, We were, however, disappointed, as on examining the file of Morning Posts for 1784, we could not find a single week in which Mr. Fox is absolutely without some attack or other. We suppose therefore our author here speaks with the allowed latitude of poetry, THE LYARS. ARGUMENT. This Eclogue is principally an Imitation of the third Bucolic of Virgil, which, as is observed by Dr. Joseph Warton, the Brother of our incomparable Laureat, is of that Species called Amœboa, where the Characters introduced contend in alternate Verse; the second always endeavouring to surpass the first Speaker in an equal number of Lines. As this was in point of Time the first of our Author's Pastoral Attempts, he has taken rather more Latitude than he afterwards allow ed himself in the rest, and has interspersed one or two occa sional Imitations from other Eclogues of the Roman Poet. IN Downing-street, the breakfast duly set, AS BANKS and PRETTYMAN one inorn were met, His skill superior each essay'd to prove I. verse alternate-which the Muses love! And heard them boast, how loudly both had ly'd: IMITATIONS. Ver. 6. Amant alterna Camenæ. Ver. 10. Hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrŝis. 5 ΤΟ |