Tho' ftill he travels on no bad pretence,

Or thofe foul copies of thy face and tongue, Veracious W -- and frontlefs Young; · Sagacious Bub, fo late a friend, and there So late a foe, yet more fagacious H - - - ? Hervey and Hervey's school, F - H--y, H-n, Yea, moral Ebor, or religious Winton. How! what can O -- w, what can D - - .

The wisdom of the one and other chair,

N --- laugh, or D-s fager,

Or thy dread truncheon M.'s mighty peer?
What help from J-s opiates canft thou draw,
Or H-k's quibbles voted into law?

C. that Roman in his nofe alone,

Who hears all caufes, B --, but thy own,

Or those proud fools whom nature, rank, and fate Made fit companions for the Sword of State.

Can the light packhorse, or the heavy steer,
The fowzing Prelate, or the sweating Peer,
Drag out with all its dirt and all its weight,
The lumb'ring carriage of thy broken State?
Alas! the people curfe, the carman fwears,
The drivers quarrel, and the master stares.

The plague is on thee, Britain, and who tries
To fave thee in th' infectious office dies.
The first firm P-- y foon refign'd his breath,
Brave Sw lov'd thee, and was ly'd to death.

Good M-mt's fate tore Pth from thy fide, And thy last sigh was heard when W - - m died.

Thy Nobles Sls, thy Ses bought with gold,

Thy Clergy perjur'd, thy whole People fold.

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An atheist a """'s ad.

Blotch thee all o'er, and fink

Alas! on one alone our all relies,

Let him be honest, and he must be wise,

Let him no trifler from his

school,

Be but a man! unminifter'd, alone,

And free at once the Senate and the Throne;
Esteem the public love his best supply,
A's true glory his integrity;

Affect no conquest, but endure no wrong.
Whatever his religion or his blood,

His public virtue makes his title good.
Europe's just balance and our own may stand,
And one man's honefty redeem the land.

THE

PLAN OF AN EPIC POEM,

TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN BLANK VERSE,

AND INTITled,

BRUTU S.

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THE

PLAN

OF ΑΝ

EPIC POEM.

S ENEAS was famed for his piety, fo his grandfon's characteristic was benevolence; this first predominant principle of his character, prompted his endeavours to redeem the remains of his countrymen, the defcendants from Troy, then captives in Greece, and to establish their freedom and felicity in a juft form of government.

He goes to Epirus; from thence he travels all over Greece; collects all the scattered Trojans; and redeems them with the treasures he brought from Italy.

Having collected his scattered countrymen, he consults the oracle of Dodona, and is promised a fettlement in an Island, which, from the defcription, appears to have been Britain. He then puts to fea, and enters the Atlantic Ocean.