they did it in Profe, as he does in Verfe, where perhaps 'tis the more allowable. As for the next Poem (which is the most liable to cenfure) tho' the World bas given it the Name of a Satyr against Vertue, he declares 'twas never defigned to that intent, how apt foever fome may be to wreft it. And this appears by what is faid after it, and is difcernable enough to all, that have the fenfe to understand it: 'Twas meant to abufe thofe, who valued themselves upon their Wit and Parts, in praifing Vice; and to fhew that others of fober Principles, if they would take the fame Liberty in Poetry, could ftrain as high Rants in Prophaneness as they. At first be intended it not for the Publick, nor to pass beyond the Privacy of two or three Friends; but Seeing it had the Fate to feal abroad in Manufcript, and afterwards in Print, without his knowledge; he now thinks it a Fuftice due to his own Reputation, to have it come forth withont thofe faults, which it has fuffered from Tranfcribers, and the Prefs hitherto, and which make it a worfe Satyr upon himSelf, than upon what it was defign'd. Something fhould be faid too of the last Trifle, if it were worth it. Twas occafioned upon reading the late Tranflations of Ovid's Epiftles, which gave him a mind to try what he could do upon a like Subject. Those being already forestall'd, he thought fit to make choice of the fame Poet, whereon perhaps he has taken too much Liberty. Had he feen Mr. Sandys bis Tranflation before he began, he never durft have ventured: Since he has, and finds reafon enough to defpair of his undertaking. But now 'tis done, he is loth to burn it, and choofes rather to give fome body elfe the trouble. The Reader may do as he pleafes, either like it, or put it to the use of Mr. Jordan's Words. 'Tis the first attempt he ever made in this kind, and like enough to be the laft, his Vein (if he may be thought to have any) lying another way. SATYRS UPON THE JESUITS: Written in the YEAR 1679. And fome other PIECES By the fame HAND. LONDON, Printed for Dan. Brown, John Nicholson, Benj. BOOK I. Rologue to the Satyr upon the Jefuits PRO Folio. p. I The firft Satyr. Garnet's Ghoft addreffing to the Jefuits The Fourth Satyr. S. Ignatius's Image brought in, difco- vering the Rogueries of the Jefuits, and ridiculous Su- An Apology for the foregoing Ode by way of Epilog.p.100 The Paffion of Byblis out of Ovid's Metamorphofis imi- An Imitation of Horace. Book I. Satyr 9. Paraphrafe upon Horace. Book I. Ode 31. Paraphrafe upon Horace. Book II. Ode 14. The Praise of Homer. Pindarique Ode Bion. A Paftoral in Imitation of the Greek of wailing the Death of the Earl of Rochester The Lamentation for Adonis imitated out of the Greek of Paraphrafe upon the 137 Pfalm. Pindarique Ode p. 227 Paraphrafe upon the Hymn of S. Ambrofe.Pindar.Ode.p.235 A Letter out of the Country to a Friend in Town, giving an account of the Author's inclination to Poetry p. 245 Monfieur Boileau's Satyr upon Man imitated David's Lamentation for the Death of Saul and The Ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace,imitated.p.344 Upon a Lady, who by overturning of a Coach had her The Fourth Elegy of the Second Book of Ovid's Amours, The Fifth Elegy of the fame Book, imitated The Tenth Elegy of the fame Book, imitated |