Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; Ibid. Sc. 3. But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!" Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free. Act ii. Sc. 4. The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2. What a monstrous tail our cat has got! The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1. Of all the girls that are so smart, I dearly love but one day, And that's the day that comes betwixt 1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly. Sally in our Alley. Ibid. SWIFT: Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet. 1 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1. Great families of yesterday we show, Ibid. TOM BROWN. 1663-1704. I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. Laconics. In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to 1 See Burton, page 192. 2 A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death: Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te (I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I de not love thee). - MARTIAL: Epigram i. 33. your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here." 1 Laconics. MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. All jargon of the schools.2 Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim I am that I am. An Ode. To the Hon. Charles Montague. From ignorance Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song ? Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. That if weak women went astray, Ibid. A Better Answer. An English Padlock. The end must justify the means. Hans Carvel. Ibid. Paulo Purganti. Upon a passage in the Scaligerana. That air and harmony of shape express, Henry and Emma. Who never mentions hell to ears polite. - POPE: Moral Essays, epistle iv. line 149. 2 Noisy jargon of the schools. - POMFRET: Reason. The sounding jargon of the schools. - COWPER: Truth, line 367. 3 But all the pleasure of the game Is afar off to view the flight. • See Davenant, page 217. Variations in a copy dated 1692. POPE: Moral Essays, epistle ii 5 See Jonson, page 180. Also Dryden, page 268. 6 Fine by defect, and delicately weak. line 43. Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, Nobles and heralds, by your leave, The Thief and the Cordelier. Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: 2 Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ?? Epitaph. Extempore. Soft And His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach. Charity. Alma. Canto ii. Line 7. Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, Abra was ready ere I called her name; Canto iii. Line 13. Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book i. Line 364 For hope is but the dream of those that wake.3 Book iii. Line 102 1 As men that be lothe to departe do often take their leff. [John Clerk to Wolsey.] ELLIS: Letters, third series, vol. i. p. 262. "A loth to depart" was the common term for a song, or a tune played, on taking leave of friends. TARLTON: News out of Purgatory (about 1689). CHAPMAN: Widow's Tears. MIDDLETON: The Old Law, act iv. sc. 1. BEAU MONT AND FLETCHER: Wit at Several Weapons, act ii. sc. 2. 2 The following epitaph was written long before the time of Prior: Johnnie Carnegie lais heer, Descendit of Adam and Eve. Gif ony con gang hieher, This thought is ascribed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laertius (Aristotle. v. xi.), who, when asked what hope is, answered, "The dream of a waking ." Menage, in his "Observations upon Laertius," says that Stobaus (Serm. cix.) ascribes it to Pindar, while Ælian (Var. Hist. xiii. 29) refers it man. to Plato. Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium (Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake). QUINTILIAN: vi. 2, 27. Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 240. A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.1 The Wandering Pilgrim. JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703. We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, Ibid. JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745. I've often wish'd that I had clear, Imitation of Horace. Book ii. Sat. 6. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, 8 Place elephants for want of towns. Poetry, a Rhapsody.. 1 A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. Works, vol. iv. p. 11. 2 See Dryden, page 277. As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. — PLUTARCH: Theseus. |