EPIGRAM ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS. 213 EPIGRAM ON LORD ORRERY'S REMARKS ON SWIFT'S LIFE AND WRITINGS. A sore disease this scribbling itch is ! What! libel his friend when laid in ground : For what he writes George Faulkner prints. Had Swift provoked to this behaviour, 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. 3 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, 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, AN EPIGRAM. OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION. WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend; Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him bread; Her vocal stones shall vindicate him dead. 1766. W. B. J. N. |