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ation, was effected, to the fatisfaction of both parties. And now 

 the Countefs de la Suz, Malherbe, andSarrazin, advanced againfr. 

 Waller, Cowley, and Gay ; the tender Waller however could 

 not be prevailed upon to engage any of the fair fex with weapons 

 that did not fuit their delicacy, and anfwered all the Countefs's 

 attacks with paffionate and melting couplets, which made fuch 

 an impreffion on the lady, that a mutual paffion prefently ba- 

 nifhed all national refentments. The difpute between Malherbe 

 and Cowley was infinitely more warm. Cowley's Pindaricks 

 attacked with great brilknefs, but their fire however was not 

 by any means regular, which indeed is agreed on by moft mas- 

 ters of military difcipline to be the propereffc method for thofe 

 kind of troops to charge. Malherbe however flood the mock 

 tolerably well, when Pindar prefented Cowley with a horfe that 

 had won a prize at the Olympic games ; this Cowley immediately 

 mounted, and at the fame time crying out, 



I'll cut through all, 



And march the Mufe's Hannibal. 



(Cowley's ift Ode.) 



He rufhed into the thickeft of the enemy, and bore down every 

 thing before him. Pope and Boileau were by this time engaged 

 in the left wing, in which every one on both fides feemed to 

 have forgot all animofities, while they were attending to the con- 

 telt of thefe two great men. The Rape of the Lock, and Efiay 

 on Criticifm, immediately fmgled out the Lutrin, and Art of 

 Poetry ; and notwithftanding the addrefs of each general, it was 

 difficult to determine on which fide the victory would incline. 

 The Satires of the French Poet at the fame time attacked thofe 

 of the English, which, being aflifted by the EfTay on Man, began 



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