2'"i S. N» 37., Sew. 13. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



203 



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For still 'tis one of Truth's unerring Rules 



No Sage can rise without a Host of Fools. 



Coxcombs, (by whose Eternal Din o'ercome, 



The Wise, in just revenge, might wish them Dumb.') 



Say, on the World Your Dumbness you impose, 



And give You Organs they deserve to lose. 



Impose, indeed, on all the World you would. 



If You but held your Tongue, because you could ; 



'Tis hard to say, if keeping Silence still. 



In one, who, could he speak, would speak with Skill 



Is worse, or Talk in These, who Talk so ill 



Why on that Tongue, should purposed Silence dwell 



Whence every Word would drop an Oracle ? 



More Fools of thy known Foresight make a Jest, 



For all hate greatest Gifts, who share the least 



(As Pope calls Dryden often to the Test.*) 



Such from thy Pen, should Irwin's Sentence f wait 



And at the Gallows, own the Judge of Fate, 



Or, while with feeble Impotence they rail 



Write Wonders on, and with the JVise prevail. 



" Sooner shall Denham cease to be renown'd, 

 Or Pope for Deiihain'a Sense quit empty Sound, 

 To Addison's Immortal heights shall rise. 

 Or the Dwarf reach him in his native Skies. 

 Sooner shall real Gypsies grow most fair. 

 Or false ones, mighty Truths, like thine, declare, 

 Than these poor Scandal-Mongers hit their Aim, 

 And blemish Thine, or Cukll's acknowledg'd Fame, 



" Great Nostradamus thus, hii Age advis'd. 

 The Mob his Counsels jeer'd, some Bards% despis'd 

 Him still, neglecting these, his Genius fir'd, 

 A King encourag'd, and the World admir'd; 

 Greater (as Times great Tide increas'd) He grew, 

 When distant Ages prov'd what Truths he knew ; 

 Thy nobler Book, a greater King§ receiv'd. 

 Whence I predict, and Claim to be believ'd, 

 That bj" Posterity, less Fame shall be, 

 To Nostradamus granted, than to Thee ; 

 Thee ! whom the best of Kings does so defend 

 And (My self Bamng) the best Bards commend. 



"H. Stanhope. 

 "White-Hall 



June 6. 1720." 



Who this H. Stanhope was I leave to some one 

 more familiar than I am with the writers of that 

 age to decide. 



From the following passage from The Curliad 

 it might be inferred that H. Stanhope was a name 

 assumed by Bond; if so, probably the satire alluded 

 to is this Progress of Dulness. 



" Thou callest my Affirmation in question concerning 

 Mr. Bond, and most impertinently enquirest where his 

 Satire against Mr. Pope is to be found? Enquire but of 

 One, who (thou say'st in thy Coll. of Test., p. 18.) takes 

 the name of H. Stanhope and thou may'st know further ; 

 for the Verses thou hast cited in the said 18th page will 

 like a faithful Fescue, point thee some others, in the 

 same copy, of a different nature. Thou also askest. Where 

 was such a writer as Bond ever heard of? Take this 

 Answer, he hath published an additional (Ninth) Volume 

 to the Spectator — a New Version of Tasso hath he at- 

 tempted — An original Poem called Buckingham House 



* See, many Places of his Notes on Homer. 

 + See Mr. tampbelPs Life. pag. 140. 

 ; Alluding to this Verse, sed cum falsa Damus, nil nisi 

 Nostra Damus. 



§ King George the 1st. 



(after the manner of Cooper's Hill), did he inscribe to the 

 late Duke, who told him, that the said Poem would last 

 much longer than the Building it praised." 



But perhaps the Dedication and continual re- 

 ferences to '■'■ Duncan Campbell" may throw some 

 light on the authorship. Both the Defoes, father 

 and son, had been hit hard in The Dunciad ; and 

 the father was fond of verse making, ami the Pro- 

 gress of Dulness may have been a specimen of his 

 art. While on the other hand, thcae continual al- 

 lusions may have only been a trick for brinjring 

 under public notice the recently published Life of 

 Campbell, of which Defoe was the writer, and Curll 

 the publisher. 



But to proceed with our description of this 

 Tract. The poem occupies the first eight pages of 

 the work, and is followed by twenty-one pages of 

 " Observations on Windsor Forest, the Temple of 

 Fame, and The Rape of the Lock," &c. Pp. 30, 

 31. are filled with " Verses presented to the 

 Countess of Warwick, occasioned by Mr. Pope's 

 impudent Satire on Mr. Addison," which are 

 signed " J. Markland." 



" DuNciADiANA. Vcrses to be inserted in the 

 next Edition of the Dunciad," is the title of the 

 next division, which occupies only two pages ; and 

 as the verses are short, it would be a pity to omit 

 them. 



" Homer describing the divine Abodes, 

 Mingled a crippled Vulcan with his Gods. 

 And the same Bard, when he his Heroes sings, 

 Crouds a Thersites in, among his Kings, 

 A crooked, petulant, malicious Wight, 

 Unfit for Converse, Friendship, Love, or Fight ; 

 The Scum and Shame of Greece, whose Mother Nature, 

 Impress'd the Scoundrel strong on ev'rg Feature. 



" Should Homer now revive, and sing agen, 

 Of Gods immortal, and of God-like Men, 

 As a strong Foil, he'd make his Murd'rer Pope, 

 The Vulcan and Thersites of the Group. 



" The Evidence summ'd up. 



" Nor Rhimer is Theobald, nor Critic is Pope, 

 Nor does Gay for a Conjurer pass ; 

 Arbuthnott and Swift may join Forces, I hope. 

 And 'tis easy to find out the Ass." 



And this last quatrain is followed by an Adver- 

 tisement in the following lines : 



"The Impatience of the Publick for this Work, has 

 obliged Us to divide it into two Parts. The last of which 

 shall be published soon after the Holydays, under tlic 

 Title of the Popeiad. Printed for 'E. Curll in the 

 Strand. 



"A. P. 



" Twickenham, 



Whitsun-Eve, 



1728." 



J. S. 



J. G." 



The work concludes on the thirty-fourth page 

 with the very curious narrative about Mr. Cm 11 

 and Mr. Lewis's Keys to The Dunciad, which I 

 formerly laid before the readers of " N. & Q." 

 (1" S. xii. 161.) 



