ckoo Note shall wake the Morn;
In Ease, and Avarice, and aukward State,
_The Fool of Fortune_, shalt thou hail thy Fate;
Slumbring in Quiet o'er Lampoons half writ,
Which, ripe in Malice, only wait for Wit.

So when _Vanessa_ yielded up her Charms,
The blest _Cadenus_ languish'd in her Arms;
High, on a Peg, his unbrush'd Beaver hung,
His Vest unbutton'd, and his God unsung;
Raptur'd he lies; Deans, Authors are forgot,
_Wood_'s Copper Pence, and _Atterbury_'s Plot;
For her he quits the Tythes of _Patrick_'s Fields,
And all the Levite to the Lover yields.

[Decoration]

[Decoration]

NOTES

On the Foregoing

POEM.

(a) _If Noble _B------m_,_

The late Duke of _Buckingham!_ who made that fine Alteration of the
Tragedy of _Julius Caesar_ from _Shakespeare_, and who is said by Mr.
_Pope_ to have bestow'd the finest Praise upon _Homer_ that he ever
received, in the following Lines;

Read _Homer_ once, and you need read no more;
For all Things else will be so mean and poor,
Verse will seem Prose: Yet often on him look,
And you will never need another Book.

D---- of B----'s Essay on Poetry.

He has also printed a Copy of Verses in Praise of _Pope_, which were
returned by another in Praise of his Grace. There is so great a
Similitude in the Stile of these Writers, that the Reader, I think, need
not doubt their Sincerity in admiring each other.

'Tis great Delight to laugh at some Mens Ways;
But 'tis much greater to give Merit Praise.

D---- of B----.

_Sheffield_ approves, consenting _Phoebus_ bends,
And I and Malice from this Hour, am Friends.

Pope.

(b) _Who _G------n_'s Dulness------_

_Charles Gildon_, dismiss'd from the D----'s Pension and Favour, on
Account of his Obstinacy in refusing to take the Oaths to _P--pe_'s
Supremacy.

(c) _Smooth dull Unity of Sound._

_P--pe_'s Reputation for versifying is a vulgar Error, founded only on
discreet Theft: Half a Line from Mr. _Dryden_'s _Conquest of Mexico_,
and another from his Translation of _Virgil_, have seemingly made
tolerable Music, when join'd in his Works; but Music of the _Morocco_
Kind, which has but one Note.

(d) _Who taught declining _Wycherley_------_

Mr. _Wycherley_ subscribed to a Compliment (some say, before his Death)
upon _P--pe_'s Pastorals, in which he says, his _Arcadia speaks the
Language of the Mall_, but does not explain, whether he means at Noon