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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2n«« S. v. m, June 26. '68. 



antagonist than Pope entered the field against 

 hitn. 



In the Grub Street Journal of Nov. 29, 1733, 

 there will be found the following lines, which 

 Budgell firmly believed to have been written by 

 Pope ; an opinion in which we think many of our 

 readers will coincide : — 



"MemoricB Sacrum D.M.T.E.B. §• L.P. 

 " Great Tindall *s gone, the Lord knows How, or 

 whither ; 



To Heaven we hope. 'Tis said Budge sends him. 

 thither. 



To veiid his Wit. How so ? The Bee by this, 



Will prove the Doctor's Apotheosis. 



Thus canonized hj Budge, sure all Men must 



Confess he dy'd like Socrates the Just. 



Fair Lucia she attests — she saw him rise, 



Bj' G — d, by Bees transported to the Skies. 



The Fact, the Phj'z, the name in Gold shall shine*, 



Th' Athenians thus stamp'd Socrates divine. 



The Oath and Emblem 'sjust; Rome's Senate thus, 



Made Gods of C^ssar and of Romulus." 



In The Bee (vol. iv. p. 162.), where these lines 

 are reprinted, Budgell, after calling the writer 

 villain, and pointing out "how the poet, we may 

 add the villain, tells his readers that Dr. Tindall 

 is gone into another world the Lord knows How :" 

 — "that it was reported Budgell (whom he calls 

 Budge) had sent him thither" — " that the Athe- 

 nians had made Socrates divine thus — that the 

 Senate of Rome had made Gods of Caesar and 

 Romulus thus, that is, in the same manner that 

 Mr. Budgell had made a God of Dr. Tindall;" 

 " explains to his unlearned Readers," that the 

 Athenians actually murdered Socrates before they 

 made him a God, and that " Caesar and Romulus 

 were both of them actually assassinated by the 

 Senate of Rome before they made Gods of them." 



Not content with vindicating Budgell in prose. 

 The Bee employed verse in his defence, and a 

 poem in Praise of Adoption was the form which 

 it assumed. With what success will be shown by 

 the following extract from The Grub Street Jour- 

 nal oiS&rx. 31, 1733: — 



" From the Pegasus in Grub Street. 



" In a Poem in Praise of Adoption, occasioned by the 

 last Will of the late great Dr. Tindall, are these four 

 verses \_Bee, No. 37.] : — 



" ' An ass may be an heir by Nature's rule. 

 And the philosopher transmit the fool. 

 On Reason's basis, Budgell founds his claim. 

 And Tindall still survives, but in his name.' 



" Which occasioned the following lines : — 



" 'Ye Revelation-mongers, 1 must tell Ye, 

 Reason presides, as pope, in each man's belh' ; 

 She points out Nature's Laws, and well explains 'em : 



But as for Revelation's she disdains 'em. 



Betwixt those two unnatural strife to raise, 

 Why tries this bard? — To reconcile's my praise. 



[* Medals of Tindal, in gold and silver, had been of- 

 fered as prizes by The Bee for " the best copies of Latin 

 or English verses upon the death, or in honour of the 

 memory, of this extraordinary man." — Ed. " N. & Q."3 



" Since Nature's laws, as old as the creation. 



Work stronger than Reveal'd in propagation ; 



In Budgell's name how Tindall may survive, 

 My Muse will humbly her conjecture give. 



" Some act perhaps that god-like man had done. 



Might make this more than his adopted son. 



Philosopher and fool thus, two in name ; 



Reason's and Nature's heir may shine the same. 



" ' Dactyl.' " 



These lines Budgell attributed to Pope ; and 

 No. LIV. of The Bee (from March 2 to 9, 

 1733-4) opens with " A Seasonable Admoni- 

 tion to Mr. Pope the Poet," which serves as an 

 introduction to a copy of verses addressed " To 

 Mr. Budgell upon his being so often libelled by 

 Pope in the Grub Street Journal" and which com- 

 mences 



" Budgell ! we view thee with a generous Pride 

 In Wit and Blood to Addison ally'd ; " 



and in the course of which Budgell is consolingly 



informed 



" The very Wretch, that only Wretch, whose Pen 

 Libell'd great Addison, with Hell- born Spleen; 

 With equal Truth to his Relation pays 

 This genuine Tribute of inverted Praise." 



The lines conclude — 



" Henceforth we Budgell good and great proclaim, 

 Since Nature's Foe does Homage to his Name ; 

 Enjo}' this Harvest of the utmost Hope — 

 Fix'd is thy Glory, since defam'd bj' Pope." 



From the " Seasonable Admonition " we learn 

 that soon after The Bee made its appearance a 

 most severe satire against Mr. Pope was sent (o 

 the Editor by a Person of Quality, in which Mr. 

 Pope was most severely lashed as a man whose 

 mind was no less ugly and deformed than his 

 body ; but that though six booksellers who heard 

 It read voted unanimously for inserting it, as its 

 publication would considerably raise the sale of 

 The Bee, Mr. Budgell, "the only member of our 

 little society whom Mr. Pope had personally in- 

 jured, was the only person who opposed the print- 

 ing of this satire upon him." 



We are then told "that it is not a mighty secret 

 that Mr. Pope is Parson Russel's assistant in 

 writing the Grid) Street Journal,"' and after show- 

 ing how that journal had charged Budgell with 

 the murder of Dr. Tindal and slandered his mo- 

 ther, the article proceeds to suggest that it would 

 be no unnatural inquiry, whether "Mr. Pope's own 

 person is the most amiable figure a man can cast 

 his eyes on ? whether Mr. Pope's father was a 

 gentleman or a tradesman ? by whom Mr. Pope 

 was maintained when he first came up to town ? 

 and whether the money he now has was producied 

 by any paternal estate, or by a generous contribu- 

 tion of the public?" 



But we must draw our Notes to an end. The 

 quarrel raged for some time longer : Tindal's 

 sister, " Mrs. Anne Parre," who was " no house- 

 keeper, but lodged somewhere in Holborn with her 



