contained a censure on the House of Commons, for not enabling King William to prosecute the war. The House resenting the insult offered them by the petitioners, committed the five deputies to the Gatehouse.

ibid. Whoe'er harangues before he gives his vote,

Should send sweet language from a tuneful throat.]

Non satis est pulchra esse Poemata: dulcia sunto,

Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adflent

Humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est

Primum ipsi tibi: tunc tua me infortunia laedent,
Telephe vel Peleu, male si mandata loqueris,
Aut dormitabo, aut ridebo.

ibid. Pultney the coldest breast with zeal can fire,] Afterward Earl of Bath.

ibid. Can men their inward faculties control?]

Format enim Natura prius nos intus ad omnem
Fortunarum habitum : &c.

Si dicentis erunt fortunis absona dicta,

Romani tollent equites peditesque cachinnum.

102. For land, or trade, not the same notions fire The city-merchant, and the country-'squire ;] Intererit multum Davusne loquatur, an Heros:

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Mercatorne vagus, cultorne virentis agelli;

Colchus, an Assyrius; Thebis nutritus an Argis. ibid. To likelihood your characters confine:]

Aut famam sequere, aut sibi convenientia finge,
Scriptor. Homereum si forte reponis Achillem;
Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer,
Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis.
Sit Medea ferox invictaque, flebilis Ino,

Perfidus Ixion, Io vaga, tristis Orestes.

ibid. Give Maidstone wit, and elegance refin'd;] George Finch, afterward earl of Winchelsea.

ibid. To both the Pelhams give the Scipio's mind;] Thomas, duke of Newcastle, and Henry, his brother.

ibid. To Cart'ret learning, eloquence, and parts;] John, lord Carteret; afterward earl Granville. ibid. Sometimes fresh names in politics produce,] Si quid inexpertum scenae committis, et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.

ibid. To speak is free, no member is debarr'd;

Difficile est proprie communia dicere: tuque
Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus,
Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus.
Publica materies privati juris erit, si

Nec circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem,
Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus
Interpres ; nec desilies imitator in arctum,
Unde pedem referre pudor vetet aut operis lex.

103. With art and modesty your part maintain; And talk like Col'nel Titus,

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Nec sic incipies, ut scriptor Cyclicus olim,
"Fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum."

Quanto rectius hic qui nil molitur inepte :
"Dic mihi Musa virum, captae post tempora Troiae,
66 Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes."

ibid.

-not like Lane.] Sir Richard,

who represented Worcester.

ibid. But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,

When the exclusion-bill was in suspence, &c.] Colonel Titus, in a debate on the exclusion bill, January 7, 1680, observed:-" If a lion was in the lobby, and we were to consider which way to secure ourselves from him, and conclude it is best to shut the door and keep him out," "No, says another, let us chain him and let him come in, but I should be loth to put the chain on. Should the nomination of the judges, and all other preferments, be in your hands, what a kind of government would you have, without feet or claws? As such a king cannot hurt you, so he cannot protect you. It has been said by another, “Let us establish a good council about the king. But I never knew a king and his council of a different opinion. A wise king has, and also makes a

wise council, but a wise council does not always make a wise king, &c." Grey's Debates.

103. Some mighty blusterers impeach with noise,
And call their private cry, the public voice.]

Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem
Cogitat

ibid. From folios of accounts they take their handles, And the whole balance proves a pound of candles ;]

Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu ?
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

ibid. Some Rufus, some the Conqueror bring in,]
Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri,

Nec gemino bellum Troianum orditur ab ovo.

Desperat tractata nitescere posse, relinquit:
Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet,
Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.

104. if when you speak, you'd hear a needle fall, &c.] Tu, quid ego, et Populus mecum desideret, audi.

Si plausoris eges aulaea manentis, et usque
Sessuri, donec cantor, "Vos plaudite," dicat;
Aetatis cujusque notandi sunt tibi mores,

Mobilibusque decor naturis dandus et annis.

ibid. When babes can speak, babes should be taught

to say

King George the second's health, huzza, huzza!]

Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo
Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram

Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas.

104. Boys should learn Latin for Prince William's sake,

And girls Louisa their example make.] The Duke of Cumberland-The youngest daughter of George the second, afterward Queen of Denmark.

ibid. More loves the youth, just come to his estate, the fields, than in the house debate ;]

To range

Imberbus juvenis, tandem custode remoto,
Gaudet equis canibusque, et aprici gramine campi
Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper,
Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris,

Sublimis cupidusque, et amata relinquere pernix.

ibid. Than in Will Shippen, or Sir William Yonge:] These Orators were always in opposition to each other. The former was celebrated for the bluntness of his manners; the latter for his never failing promptitude and volubility of expres

sion.

105. We take a different turn at twenty-six, &c.]

Conversis studiis, aetas animusque virilis
Quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori;
Commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret.

ibid. In bags the old man lets his treasure rust, &c.]

Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda ; vel quod
Quaerit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti:

Dilator, spe longus, iners, pavidusque futuri,