08 MEMOIRS OF 



are diverted with the burlefque, in the 

 Critic, of the death of Hotfpur, and of 

 Eve's beautiful proteft to Adam* 



Sweet is the breath of morn, &c. 



On the fubjecl of this fatire, Dr. Dar- 

 win wanted prefence of mind. Inftead of 

 pretending, as he did, never to have feen or 

 heard of the Loves of the Triangles, when 

 queftioned on the fubject, he mould volun* 

 tarily have mentioned that fatire every 

 where, and praifed it's wit and ingenuity, 

 He ought to have triumphed in a juft con- 

 fcioufnefs, that his poem could lofe none 

 of it's charms with the few, whofe praife 

 is fame, by the artful refemblance of this 

 falfe Florimel ; fecure that it's mock graces, 

 brilliant as they are, would foon melt away, 

 like the Nymph of Snow in the Fairie 

 Queen, while the genuine charms of his 

 rnufe muil endure fo long as the Englifh 



language 



