And ftanding council 'gainst the church and state Than all our artificial pipes and counterfeits. All laws of heaven and earth can break, IX. But when his painful gifts h' employs 180 The groans, with which he piously destroys 185 130 And grows fo loud, as if he meant to force Can be made out of what he means: 135 But, as the ancient Pagans were precife 190 105 And fwallow oaths, and blood, and rapine eafy, T' allow the largest meature to his paltry ware, And vet is fo infirm and weak, 'Twill not endure the gentleft check, But at the flightest nicety grows queafy; Who makes it free as thought at home, A flave and villain to become, To ferve its interefts abroad: And, though no Pharifce was e'er fo cunning No dull idolater was e'er fo flat In things of deep and folid weight; Pretends to charity and holiness, And out of tenderness grows obftinate. 140 X. The ancient churches, and the best, 145 That dare his church's growth oppose, 150 And, though the zeal of God's houfe ate a prince 156 Would eat up God's houfe, and devour it at a meal. More fafe and powerful ways by far: To be held forth and carry'd on by war; XI. For, as a Turk, that is to act fome crime 160 Against his Prophet's holy law, Is wont to bid his foul withdraw, 200 205 210 215 220 Against him the breach of Covenants, Two felf-admirers, that combine On one another, like the choice Of Perfian princes, by one horse's voice: And yet may be divulged and fam’d, Each other but a Knight o' the Post, As falfe as fuborn'd perjurers, That vouch away all right they have to their ow cars. IV. But, when all other courfes fail, There is one eafy artifice, That feldom has been known to mifs To cry all mankind down, and rail; 15 Like fcatter'd fhot, and pafs with fome for wit. Who would not rather make himself a judge, And boldly ufurp the chair, For he whom all men do contemn, To outface reafon, wit, and fenfe, 10 Though e'er fo noble, great, and good, In which there was no gold in ufe at all; 90 So we plant glory and renown That spends his fting on what he cannot hurt; 95 Like o'ergrown finners, that in whipping take Invades the reputation of all thofe And, if he chance to make a difference, Upon thofe hands that ufe fair play, 100 Upon the flurs and cunning tricks of ableft cheats. VI. Nor does he vex himself much less Falls fick of other men's excefs, Is humbled only at their pride, And wretched at their happiness; Revenges on himfelf the wrong Which his vain malice and loofe tongue, To thofe that feel it not, have done, Where it was ne'er deferv'd nor known, behind. 20 25 Who, though born falfe, may be made true, Unmention'd in his filent cheft, He, like a pious man, fome years before 305 Not for his own, but public interest. The arrival of his fatal hour, Made every day he had to live 110 And whips and fpurs himself because he is out To his last minute a preparative; Taught the wild Arabs on the road To act in a more gentle mode; Take prizes more obligingly than those 35 And how to hang in a more graceful fashion nation. MOST RENOWNED DU-VAL. upon him in what is called his Remains, was pub 'T' A PINDARIC ODI*. IS true, to compliment the dead lihed by the Author himself, under his own name, in the year 1671, in three fheets 4to; and, agreeable to this, I find it in his own hand-writing among his manufcripts, with fome little addition, and a few verbal alterations, as the reader may obferve, in comparing it with the copy already printed. 152 In this great academy of mankind Where all men are fo ingeniously inclin'd, Improve untaught, before they are aware, As if they fuck'd their breeding from the air, 60 of 65 Might in return from him receive his fatal doom, To all a deep and folid confidence; 70 A virtue of that precious ufe, That he whom bounteous Heaven endues But with a moderate fhare of it, Can want no worth, abilities, or wit, In all the deep Hermetic arts 75 (For fo of late the learned call All tricks, if ftrange and myftical). He had improv'd his natural parts, As lawful weft and ftray, And after, by the caftom, kept it as his own. V. From thefe first rudiments he grew VII. He would have starv'd this mighty Town And, like a wife and valiant chief, Made many a fierce affault Upon all ammunition-carts, And those that bring up cheefe, or malt, No convoy e'er so strong with food Of all profeffions, rauks, and trades, He had the chief command, and led them on; Of others' lives, until he has made it known Might prove too cunning for their chains a them, And break through all their locks, and bolts, a wards; Had both his legs by charms committed That neither might be fet at large, Kept under locks with greater case So he was in ftone walls, and chains, and grates. IX. Thither came ladies from all part, To offer up clefe prifonce their hearts; Never did bold knight, to relieve Diftreffed dames, fuch dreadful feats atchieve 185 As feeble damfels, for his fake, Would have been proud to undertake; Strove who should have the honour to lay down But, finding all their hopes in vain To move his fixt determin'd fate, As if it were an infamy To live when he was doom'd to die 191 195 To lefs hard-hearted grates and stones; Sat yefty Pride, With his dagger and his fling; He was the pertinent'st peer, Of all that were there, T'advife with fuch a king. A great philofopher Had a goofe for his lover, That follow'd him day and night: If it be a true story, Or but an allegory; It may be both ways right Strickland and his fon, Both caft into one, Were meant for a fingle baron; But when they came to fit, There was not wit Enough in them both to serve for one. 25 3 BALLAD |