EPIGRAM ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS.

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EPIGRAM

ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS ON SWIFT'S LIFE AND

WRITINGS.

A sore disease this scribbling itch is!
His Lord, in his Pliny seen,*
Turns Madam Pilkington in breeches,
And now attacks our Patriot Dean.

What! libel his friend when laid in ground:
Nay, good Sir, you may spare your hints,
His parallel at last is found,

For what he writes George Faulkner prints.

Had Swift provoked to this behaviour,
Yet after death resentment cools,
Sure his last act bespoke his favour,
He built an hospital-for fools."

TO DOCTOR DELANY,

ON HIS BOOK ENTITLED

OBSERVATIONS ON LORD

ORRERY'S REMARKS.

Delany, to escape your friend the Dean,
And prove all false that Orrery had writ,

* Lord Orrery translated the letters of the younger Pliny.

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You kindly own his Gulliver profane,
Yet make his puns and riddles sterling wit.

But if for wrongs to Swift

you would atone,

And please the world, one way you may suc

ceed,

Collect Boyle's writings and your own,

And serve them as you served THE DEED.

EPIGRAM

On Faulkner's displaying in his shop the Dean's bust in marble, (now placed in the great aisle of St Patricks church) while he was publishing Lord Orrery's Remarks.

FAULKNER! for once you have some judgment shewn,

By representing Swift transformed to stone;
For could he thy ingratitude have known,
Astonishment itself the work had done!

AN INSCRIPTION,

Intended for a compartment in Dr Swift's monument, designed by Cunningham, on College Green, Dublin.

SAY, to the Drapier's vast unbounded fame, What added honours can the sculptor give? None. 'Tis a sanction from the Drapier's name Must bid the sculptor and his marble live. June 4, 1765.

AN EPIGRAM.

OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION.

WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend;
And each asserts her poet, patriot, friend:
Her mitre jealous Britain may deny;
That loss Ïërne's laurel shall supply:

Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him bread;
Her vocal stones shall vindicate him dead.

1766.

W. B. J. N.

SWIFT'S

EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE.