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AN ESSAY ON SATIRE.

T' Exalt the Soul, or make the Heart sincere, To arm our Lives with honesty severe, To shake the wretch beyond the reach of Law, Deter the young, and touch the bold with awe, To raise the fal'n, to hear the sufferer's cries, And sanctify the virtues of the wise, Old Satire rose from Probity of mind, The noblest Ethicks to reform mankind.

Next see the Master-piece of Flatt'ry rise, Th' anointed Son of Dulness and of Lies: Whose softest Whisper fills a Patron's Ear, Who smiles unpleas'd, and mourns without a tear. Persuasive, tho' a woful Blockhead he: Truth dies before his shadowy Sophistry. For well he knows the Vices of the Town, The Schemes of State, and Int'rest of the Gown; Immoral Afternoons, indecent Nights, Enflaming Wines, and second Appetites.

Footnotes:

Margites.

Aristophanes.

Ennius.

Compositum jus fasq; animi, sanctiq; recessus, Mentis, & incoctum generoso pectus honesto.

Juvenal.

Three Booksellers.

Pompeius, tenui jugulos aperire susurro. Juv. S. 4. Flet, si lacrymas aspexit amici, Nec dolet. S. 3.

Le Pere Gerasse Sommes Theol. L. 2.

A DISCOURSE OF SATIRES

So true it is that the right of blaming bad Authors, is an ancient Right, pass'd into a Custom, among all the Satirists, and allow'd in all ages.

Just publish'd, The SECOND EDITION of the DUNCIAD Variorum, 8? with some additional NOTES and EPIGRAMS.

M. HIERONYMI VIDAE OPERA OMNIA POETICA, quibus adjicitur ejusdem de dignitate Rei-publicae recensione. Dialogus. R. Russel, A. M. Two Toms, 12?.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Compedibus Metricorum numerorum solutus: In usum Tyronum. Opera & Studio N. Bailey.

A few remaining Copies of Dr. Hickes's Thesaurus Ling. Vett. Septentrionalium. Three Toms, Folio. Printed at Oxford.

The History of the COUNCIL of CONSTANCE. Written in French by James Lenfant. Done into English from the last Edition, printed at Amsterdam 1727. Adorned with twenty Copper Plates, curiously Engraven by the best Hands. Two Vols, 4to.

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Transcriber's note:

The elongated "s" has been modernized. Footnote marker placement has been made consistent. Misprint "oe r" was corrected to "oe'r" . Extra line spacing is intentional to represent both the end of a quote and the beginning of a new paragraph as presented in the original.

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