Lady Frances is dressed in a Turkish habit, probably introduced by Lady M. W. Montagu to England at the time, as fhe lived at Twickenham. The drefs is beautiful, and gives great effect to the attitude and countenance. The sketch of Earl Ferrers' House and Gardens is in the back ground.

I fhall here present the Reader with a valuable Literary Curio. fity, a Fragment of an unpublished Satire of Pope, intitled, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY; communicated to me by the kindness of the learned and worthy Dr. Wilfon, formerly fellow and librarian of Trinity College, Dublin; who fpeaks of the Fragment in the following terms:

"This Poem I transcribed from a rough draft in Pope's own hand. He left many blanks for fear of the Argus Eye of those who, if they cannot find, can fabricate treason; yet, spite of his precaution, it fell into the hands of his enemies. To the hieroglyphics, there are direct allusions, I think in fome of the notes on the Dunciad. It was lent me by a grandfon of Lord Chetwynd, an intimate friend of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, who gratified his curiofity by a boxful of the rubbish and sweepings of Pope's study, whose executor he was, in conjunction with Lord Marchmont." WARTON.

1740.

A POEM.

What God, what mortal, fhall prevent thy fall? Turn, turn thy eyes from wicked men in place, And fee what fuccour from the Patriot Race.

C.

'C---, his own proud dupe, thinks Monarchs things Made juft for him, as other fools for Kings;

Controls, decides, infults thee every hour,
And antedates the hatred due to Pow'r.

Thro' Clouds of Paffion P --'s views are clear,

He foams a Patriot to fubfide a Peer;

Impatient fees his country bought and fold,

And damns the market where he takes no gold.

NOTES.

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Grave,

VER. I. O wretched B ,] There is no doubt but that this interefting fragment was the beginning of the very Satire to which Warburton alludes in the laft Poem.

Pope was afraid to go on in his career of perfonal acrimony, Paul Whitehead, having thrown out an indecent farcasm against Dr. Sherlock, was threatened with a profecution. This was meant as a hint to Pope; and it is very plain his fatiric progrefs was interrupted, for his alarm evidently appears. In this Poem, (which certainly was part of his plan, as a continuation of the Epilogue,) he feems,

"Willing to wound, and yet afraid to ftrike." I have added fome explanatory names.

Grave, righteous S - joggs on till, past belief, He finds himself companion with a thief.

Το purge and let thee blood, with fire and fword, Is all the help ftern S - - wou'd afford.

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That those who bind and rob thee, would not kill,

e

Good Chopes, and candidly fits still,

Of 'Ch-s W -- who speaks at all,

No more than of Sir Har-y or Sir P - - .

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Whofe names once up, they thought it was not wrong To lie in bed, but fure they lay too long.

1 G - - r, C - m, B - t, pay thee due regards, Unlefs the ladies bid them mind their cards.

with wit that must

And 'Cd who speaks fo well and writes,
Whom (faving W.) every S. harper bites,

muft needs

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Whose wit and

equally provoke one,

Finds thee, at best, the butt to crack his joke on.
As for the rest, each winter up they run,

And all are clear, that fomething must be done. 30
Then urg'd by Ct, or by C-t stopt,

k

Inflam'd by 'P

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and by P dropt;

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They follow rev'rently each wond'rous wight,
Amaz'd that one can read, that one can write :

• Sandys.

So

■ Shippen. Perhaps the Earl of Carlisle,

f Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Sir Henry Oxenden and Sir Paul Methuen.

h Lords Gower, Cobham, and Bathurst.

1 Lord Chefterfield.

k Lord Carteret.

1 William Pulteney, created in 1742 Earl of Bath.