Hung filent down his never blushing head;
And all was hush'd, as Folly's felf lay dead.
Thus the foft gifts of Sleep conclude the day,
And stretch'd on bulks, as ufual, Poets lay.
Why fhould I fing, what bards the nightly Muse
Did flumb'ring vifit, and convey to stews:
Who prouder march'd with magiftrates in state,
To fome fam'd round-house, ever open gate!
How Henley lay infpir'd befide a sink,

And to mere mortals feem'd a Priest in drink :

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420

425

VER. 414 Morgan] A writer against Religion, distinguished no otherwife from the rabble of his tribe, than by the pompoufness of his Title; for having stolen his Morality from Tindal, and his Philofophy from Spinofa, he calls himself, by the courtesy of England, a Moral Philofopher.

Ibid. Mandevil] This writer, who prided himself as much im the Reputation of an Immoral Philofopher, was author of a famous book called the Fable of the Bees; written to prove, that Moral Virtue is the Invention of knaves, and Christian Virtue the Impofition of fools; and that Vice is neceffary, and alone fufficient to render Society flourishing and happy,

VER 415. Norton] Norton De Foe, offspring of the famous Daniel, Fortes creantur fortibus. One of the authors of the Flying Poft, in which well bred work Mr P. had sometime the honour to be abufed with his betters; and of many hired fourrilities and daily papers, to which he never fet his name.

VER 426 And to mere mortals feem'd a Prieft in drink :] This line prefents us with an excellent moral, that we are never to pass judgmeut merely by appearances; a leffon to all men, who may happen to see a reverend Perfon in the like fituation,

IMITATIONS.

VER. 418. And all was hufh'd, as Folly's felf lay dead.] AlJudes to Dryden's verfe in the Indian Emperor :

All things are hush'd, as Nature's felf lay dead.

While others, timely, to the neighb'ring Fleet (Haunt of the Muses) made their fafe retreat.

REMARK S.

not to determine too rafhly; fince not only the Poets frequently defcribe a Bard inspired in this posture,

[On Cam's fair bank, where Chaucer lay inspired,

and the like] but an eminent Cafuift tells us, that "if a Priest "be feen in any indecent action, we ought to account it a deception of fight, or an illusion of the Devil, who fometimes "takes upon him the shape of holy men on purpose to cause "fcandal."

VER. 427. Fleet] A prifon for infolvent Debtors on the bank of the Ditch.

The END of the SECOND BOOK.

PL.XIX.

N. v. Frankendaal Kulps.

Here strip my Children: here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick & thin.

Dunciad Book II.

THE

DUNCIAD:

BOOK the THIRD.

ARGUMENT.

After the other perfons are difpofed in their proper places of reft, the Goddefs tranfports the King to her Temple, and there lays him to flumber with his head on her lap ; a pofition of marvellous virtue, which caufes all the Vifions of wild enthufiafts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, caftie-builders, chemifts, and poets. He is immediately carried on the wings of Fancy, and led by a mad Poetical Sibyl, to the Elysian fhade; where, on the banks of Lethe, the fouls of the dull are dipped by Bavius, before their entrance into this world. There he is met by the ghost of Settle, and by him made acquainted with the wonders of the place, and with those which he himself is deftin'd to perform. He takes him to a Mount of Vision, from whence he fews him the past triumphs of the Empire of Dulness, then the prefent, and lafly the future: how small a part of