Who hir'd a subterraneous friend
To take his iron by the end:

But which excell'd was never found,
The man above or under ground.
The moral is so plain to hit,
That, had I been the god of wit,

Then, in a sawpit and wet weather,

Should Young and Philips drudge together.*

UPON CARTHY'S + THREATENING TO

t

TRANSLATE PINDAR.

YOU have undone Horace,-what should hinder

Thy Muse from falling upon Pindar?
But ere you mount his fiery steed,
Beware, O Bard, how you proceed:
For should you give him once the reins,
High up in air he'll turn your brains;
And if you should his fury check,
'Tis ten to one he breaks your neck.

This is to be understood as a censure only of the poetical character of those gentlemen. As men, the Dean esteemed them both; and on Philips in particular conferred many signal acts of friendship. N.

+ Carthy, a scribbling schoolmaster, wrote some severe lines on Dr. Swift and his friends. F.

DR.

DR. SWIFT WROTE THE FOLLOWING EPIGRAM ON ONE DELA COURT'S COMPLIMENTING CARTHY, A SCHOOL

MASTER, ON HIS POETRY.

EPIGRAM.

CARTHY, you say, writes well—his genius true, You pawn your word for him-he'll vouch for

you.

So two poor knaves, who find their credit fail,
To cheat the world, become each other's bail.

CANTATA.

* See a remark on this Cantata by Dr. Beattie, in vol. XIV. p. 191, N.

boping, hoping, hoping hearts of lovers akeing: Fly, fly,

ling gambling,

Hall