120 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



An honest courtier, and a patriot, too ; 

 Just to his prince, and to his country true. 

 All these were joined in one, yet fail'd to save 

 The wise, the learn'd, the virtuous from the grave. 

 Ye few whom better genius does inspire, 

 Exalted souls informed with purer fire ! 

 Go, now, learn all vast science can impart ; 

 Go, fall'n nature, take the heights of art. 

 Rise higher yet ; learn even yourselves to know, 

 Nay, to yourselves alone that knowledge owe. 

 Then, when you seem above mankind to soar, 

 Look on this marble and be vain no more." 



Elwin's Pope Letters to Caryll, Vol. VI., p. 156. 



* It may be doubted whether, if the following clever Jacobite 

 verses, sent to Lady Holt by one James Tooker, had been 

 divulged, a little more would not have been wrung out of West 

 Harting Estate. 



Fable. 



" In jEsop's Tales an honest wretch we find 

 Whose years and comforts equally declin'd. 

 He in two wives had two domestic ills, 

 For different age they had and different wills. 

 One pluck't his black hairs out and one his grey, 

 The man for quietness would both obey 

 Till all the parish saw his head quite bare, 

 And said he wanted brains as well as haire." 



The Moral. 



" The Parties, henpeckt William, are thy wives, 

 The hairs they pluck are thy prerogatives ; 

 Tories thy person hate and Whigs thy power, 

 Tho' thou much yieldest, yet they tug for more ; 

 Till this poor man and thou alike art shown, 

 He without hair, and thou without a crown." 



London, April gth. 



Caryll Correspondence I., p. 472. 



