"read over * Barclay in vain, and find after a Stroke "given to the left, I cannot offer the right Cheek

for another Blow: All I can bring myself to, is "to bear Mortification from the fair Sex with Pa<< tience."

This Apology was dedicated to King Charles the Second, and in the Dedication was this remarkable Paffage. Thou haft tafted of Profperity and Ad

verfity; thou knoweft what it is to be banish'd "thy native Country; to be over-rul'd as well as to "rule, and fit upon the Throne, and being op "prefs'd, thou haft Reafon to know how hateful the "Oppreffor is both to God and Man: If after all

thefe Warnings and Advertisements, thou dost "not turn unto the Lord with all thy Heart; but "forget him who remember'd thee in thy Diftrefs, " and give thyfelf up to follow LUST and VANITY, furely great will be thy Condemnation."?

We believe there is not any modern Example of fuch Plainness and Couragioufnefs of Addrefs to any Prince in Europe, this excepted. Of this Book Mr. Pope was profeffedly an Admirer, which he often declar'd breath'd forth the Spirit of primitive Chriftianity, and Mr. Norris Rector of Bemerton near Sa.. lifbury, declares:

"He cannot think Quakerifm inconfiderable, as "the Principles of it are laid down and manag'd by Mr. Barclay.

"That great and general Contempt they lie un"der, does not hinder him from thinking the Sect "of the Quakers to be far the moft confiderable of 66 any that divide from the Church: In cafe the Qua"kerism that is generally held, be the fame with that "which

Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.

which Mr. Barclay has delivered to the World as fuch; whom he takes to be fo great a Man, that he profeffes freely, that he had rather en66 gage against an hundred Bellarmins, Hardings, and Stapletons, than with one Barclay."

Another ingenious Writer and much applauded, fcruples not to fay:

"He is not afham'd to own, that he hath with great Pleasure read over Mr. Barclay's Apology for Quakerifm, and doth really think it to be the "moft mafterly, charitable, and reasonable System "that he hath ever feen: It folves (fays he) the nu"merous Difficulties rais'd by the other Sects, "and by Turns thrown at one another: He fhews (fays he) all Parts of Scripture to be uniform and "confiftent.

"And comprehends every Thing which has been "fince faid by the best Writers for Liberty of Con"fcience, and against all Sort of religious Impofi❝tions, with as much Wit, happy Turn, and ma

fterly Expreffions, as is confiftent with the Plain"nefs and Simplicity affected by thofe of his Sect, "and for the most Part used in holy Writings."

Though had their Way of Thinking as to religious Matters been what it would, Mr. Pope often faid before he infpected into their Matter of Faith, that their quiet, peaceable, and unambitious Lives, recommended them fufficiently to the Efteem of wise Men; for they incapacitate themselves by refufing Oaths and the Sacraments, to fill up any Places either of Honour or Profit.

But to return to our Satire: The Goddefs Dulnefs confers Titles on all her Sons of different Degrees, and gives them her Bleffing:

Next, bidding all draw near on bended Knees,
The Queen confers her Titles and Degrees.
Her Children firft of more diftinguifh'd Sort,
Who ftudy Shakespear at the Inns of Court,
Impale a Glow-worm, or Vertú profess,
Shine in the Dignity of F. R. S.

Some, deep Free-Mafons, join the filent Race
Worthy to fill Pythagoras's Place:
Some Botanifts, or Florifts at the least,
Or iffue Members of an annual Feaft.
Nor paft the Meaneft unregarded, one
Rofe a Gregorian, one a Gormogon.
The laft, not least in Honour or Applaufe,
Ifis and Cam made Doctors of her Laws.

Then, bleffing all, Go Children of my Care!
To Practice now from Theory repair.
All my Commands are eafy, fhort, and full:
My Sons; be proud, be felfifh, and be dull.
Guard my Prerogative, affert my Throne :
This Nod confirms each Privilege your own.
The Cap and Switch be facred to his Grace:
With Staff and Pumps the Marquis leads the Race:
From Stage to Stage the licens'd Earl may run,
Pair'd with his Fellow-Charioteer, the Sun:
The learned Baron Butterflies defign,

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Or draw to Silk Arachne's fubtle Line:
The Judge to dance his Brother Serjeant call;
The Senator at Cricket urge the Ball:
The Bishop ftowe (Pontifick Luxury!)
An hundred Souls of Turkies in a Pye :
The fturdy Squire to Gallick Masters stoop,
And drown his Lands and Manors in a Soupe,
Others import yet nobler Arts from France,
Teach Kings to fiddle, and make Senates dance,

Perhaps

Perhaps more high fome daring Son may foar,
Strive to my Lift to add one Monarch more---
Perhaps

-But here the ftops, the yawns, the nods: What Mortal can refift the Yawn of Gods?

The Poet always expreffes a very particular Regard for filent Dunces, and has here provided, that in cafe they will not waken or open to a HummingBird, or a Cockle-fhell, yet, at worft they may be Free Masons, where Taciturnity is the only effential Qualification.

It must be obferved, that Mr. Pope always kept in Memory his Enmity to Mr. Cibber, for he did not eafily forgive or forget any Injuries done to him, or by him imagin'd to be done, and juft before the Election for the Laureat, he wrote, and made it

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Appendix to the DUNCIAD.

HE Time of the Election of a Poet Laureat being now at Hand, it may be proper to give, fome Account of the Rites and Ceremonies antiently used at that Solemnity, and only difcontinued through the Neglect and Degeneracy of later Times. These we have extracted from an Hiftorian of undoubted Credit, a reverend Bishop, the learned Paulus Jovius; and are the fame that were practised under the Pontificate of Leo X, the great Reftorer of Learning.

As we now fee an Age and a Court, that for the Encouragement of Poetry rivals, if not exceeds, that of this famous Pope; we cannot but wish a Re

ftoration

ftoration of all its Honours to Poefy; the rather, fince there are so many parallel Circumftances in the Perfox who was then honour'd with the Laurel, and in him, who (in all Probability) is now to wear it.

I fhall tranflate my Author exactly as I find it in the 82d Chapter of his Elogia Vir. Doct. He begins with the Character of the Poet himfelf, who was the Original and Father of all Laureats, and called Camillo. He was a plain Country-man of Apulia, (whether a Shepherd or Thresher, is not material.) "This Man (fays Jovius) excited by the Fame of "the great Encouragement given to Poets at Court,

and the high Honour in which they were held, "came to the City, bringing a strange Kind of Lyre "in his Hand, and at leaft fome twenty thousand "Verfes. All the Wits and Criticks of the Court "flock'd about him, delighted to fee a Clown, with "a ruddy, hale Complexion, and in his own long "Hair, fo top-full of Poetry; and at the first Sight "of him, all agreed, he was born to be Poet Lau<reat.* He had a moft hearty Welcome, in an "Ifland of the River Tyber (an agreeable Place, "not unlike our Richmond) where he was firft made "to eat and drink plentifully, and to repeat his Verfes "to every Body. Then they adorn'd him with a new " and elegant Garland, compofed of Vine-Leaves "Laurel, and Braffica (a Sort of Cabbage) fo compofed, fays my Author emblematically, ut tam fales, quàm lepidè ejus Temulentia Brafficæ remedia << cohibendi notaretur. He was then faluted by com"mon Confent with the Title of Archi-poeta, or Arch-Poet, in the Stile of thofe Days, in ours, "Poet Laureat. This Honour the This Honour the poor Man re"ceiv'd

*Appulus prepingui vultu alacer, & prolixe comatus,

omnino dignus fefta Laurea videretur.