The Poetical Works - 2 Author:Alexander Pope Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: D. A. Borrenstein Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com ... more »where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 187 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES, IN TWO DIALOGUES. DIALOGUE X. Fr. Nor twice a twelvemonth you appear in print, And when it comes the court sees nothing in'l. You grow correct, that once with rapture writ, And are besides, too moral for a wit. Decay of parts, alas! we all must feel -- Why now, this moment, don't I see you steal? 'Tis all from Horace ; Florace long before ye Said, Tories call'd him Whig, and Whigs a Tory; And taught his Romans in much better metre, ' To laugh at fools who put their trust in Peter. But Horace, sir, was delicate, was nice; Subo observes, helash'd no sort of vice: Horace would say, Sir Billy served the crown, Blunt could do business, Higgins knew the town; In Sappho touch the failings of the sex, In reverend bishops note some small neglects, And own the Spaniards did a waggish thing, Who cropp'dour ears, and sent, them to the king. His sly, polite insiuuating style Could please at court, and make Augustus smile : An artful manager, that crept between His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen. But faith your very friends will soon be sore ; Patriots there are, who wish you'd jest no more -- Voe. If. Sb And whcre's the glory ? 'twill be only thought The great man never offer'd you a groat. Go see Sir Robert -- P. See Sir Robert! -- hum -- And never laugh -- for all my life to come ? Seen him I have, but in his happier hoar Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power; Seen him, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would h...« less