sorrow be supprest,
Nor seem to envy my approaching rest."
Then, turning to the ministers of fate,
She, smiling, says, "My victory complete:
And tell your queen, I thank her for the blow,
And grieve my gratitude I cannot show:
A poor return I leave in England's crown,
For everlasting pleasure, and renown:
Her guilt alone allays this happy hour;
Her guilt,--the only vengeance in her power."
Not Rome, untouch'd with sorrow, heard her fate;
And fierce Maria pitied her too late.

LOVE OF FAME, THE UNIVERSAL PASSION.

In Seven Characteristical Satires.

----Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru.
Non minus ignotos generosis.

--HOR.

Preface.

These satires have been favourably received at home and abroad. I am not
conscious of the least malevolence to any particular person through all
the characters; though some persons may be so selfish, as to engross a
general application to themselves. A writer in polite letters should be
content with reputation; the private amusement he finds in his
compositions; the good influence they have on his severer studies; that
admission they give him to his superiors; and the possible good effect
they may have on the public; or else he should join to his politeness some
more lucrative qualification.

But it is possible, that satire may not do much good: men may rise in
their affections to their follies, as they do to their friends, when they
are abused by others: it is much to be feared, that misconduct will never
be chased out of the world by satire; all therefore that is to be said for
it is, that misconduct will certainly be never chased out of the world by
satire, if no satires are written: nor is that term unapplicable to graver
compositions. Ethics, heathen and Christian, and the Scriptures
themselves, are, in a great measure, a satire on the weakness and iniquity
of men; and some part of that satire is in verse too: nay, in the first
ages, philosophy and poetry were the same thing; wisdom wore no other
dress: so that, I hope, these satires will be the more easily pardoned
that misfortune by the severe. Nay, historians themselves may be
considered as satirists, and satirists most severe; since such are most
human actions, that to relate, is to expose them.

No man can converse much in