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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.
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