s one mouth full of praise.

To avoid this disaster, while Congreve reforms,
His muse and his morals fly to Bracegirdle's arms;
Let Vanbrugh no more plotless plays e'er impose,
Stuft with satire and smut to ruin the house;
Let Rowe, if he means to maintain his applause,
Write no more such lewd plays as his Penitent was.
O Satire! from errors instruct the wild bard,
Bestow thy advice to reclaim each lewd bard;
Bid the Laureat sincerely reflect on the matter;
Bid Dennis drink less, but bid him write better;
Bid Durfey cease scribbling, that libelling song-ster;
Bid Gildon and C----n be Deists no longer;
Bid B----t and C----r, those wits of the age,
Ne'er expose a dull coxcomb, but just on the stage;
Bid Farquhar (tho' bit) to his consort be just,
And Motteux in his office be true to his trust;
Bid Duffet and Cowper no longer be mad,
But Parsons and Lawyers mind each their own trade.
To Grubster and others, bold satire advance;
Bid Ayliffe talk little, and P----s talk sense;
Bid K----n leave stealing as well as the rest;
When this can be done, they may hope to be blest.

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The Revd. Mr. JOHN POMFRET.

This Gentleman's works are held in very great esteem by the common
readers of poetry; it is thought as unfashionable amongst people of
inferior life, not to be possessed of the poems of Pomfret, as amongst
persons of taste not to have the works of Pope in their libraries. The
subjects upon which Pomfret wrote were popular, his versification is far
from being unmusical, and as there is little force of thinking in his
writings, they are level to the capacities of those who admire them.

Our author was son of the rev. Mr. Pomfret, rector of Luton in
Bedfordshire, and he himself was preferred to the living of Malden in
the same county. He was liberally educated at an eminent grammar school
in the country, from whence he was sent to the university of Cambridge,
but to what college is not certain. There he wrote most of his poetical
pieces, took the degree of master of arts, and very early accomplished
himself in most kinds of polite literature. A gentleman who writes under
the name of Philalethes, and who was an intimate friend of Pomfret's,
has cleared his reputation from the charge of fanaticism, which some
of his malicious enemies brought against him. It was shortly after his
leaving the university, that he was preferred to the livin