I hurry me in hafte

away,

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Not thinking it is Levee-day;

And find his Honour in a Pound,

Hemm'd by a triple Circle round,

Chequer'd with Ribbons blue and green :
How should I thrust myself between ?
Some Wag obferves me thus perplext,

And smiling, whispers to the next,

"I thought the Dean had been too proud, "To justle here among a Croud."

Another in a furly fit,

Tells me I have more Zeal than Wit,

"So eager to express your love,

"You ne'er confider whom you shove,

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"But rudely press before a Duke."

I own, I'm pleas'd with this rebuke,

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And take it kindly meant to show

What I defire the World should know.
I get a Whisper, and withdraw:
When twenty Fools I never faw
Come with Petitions fairly penn'd,
Defiring I would stand their Friend.
This, humbly offers me his Cafe-
That, begs my int'reft for a Place-

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Rofcius orabat fibi adeffes ad Puteal cras.
De re communi fcribae magna atque nova te
Orabant hodie meminiffes, Quinte, reverti.
Imprimat his cura Maecenas figna tabellis.
Dixeris, Experiar: Si vis, potes, addit; et instat.
Septimus octavo propior jam fugerit annus,
Ex quo Maecenas me coepit habere fuorum
In numero: duntaxat ad hoc, quem tollere rheda
Vellet, iter faciens, et cui concredere nugas
Hoc genus, Hora quota eft? Threx eft Gallina
Syro par.

A hundred other Men's affairs,

Like bees, are humming in my ears.
"To-morrow my Appeal comes on,
"Without your help the Caufe is gone-
The Duke expects my Lord and you,

About fome great Affair, at Two

" Put my
"To get my Warrant quickly fign'd:
"Confider 'tis my first request."-

Lord Bolingbroke in mind,

Be fatisfy'd, I'll do best:

my

Then presently he falls to teize,

"You may for certain, if you please;

"I doubt not, if his Lordship knew—

and more,

And, Mr. Dean, one word from you”— 'Tis (let me fee) three (October next it will be four)

years

Since HARLEY bid me first attend,
And chofe me for an humble friend;

Would take me in his Coach to chat,

And question me of this and that

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As, "What's o'clock?" And, "How's the Wind?” "Who's Chariot's that we left behind ?” 90 Or gravely try to read the lines

Writ underneath the Country Signs;

Matutina parum cautos jam frigora mordent:
Et quae rimofa bene deponuntur in aure,

Per totum hoc tempus, fubjectior in diem et horam

Invidiae nofter. ludos fpectaverit una :
Luferit in campo: Fortunae filius, omnes.
Frigidus a Roftris manat per compita rumor:
Quicunque obvius eft, me confulit; O bone
(nam te

Scire, Deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet)
Num quid de Dacis audifti? Nil equidem. Ut tu
Semper eris derifor! At omnes Dî exagitent me,

Si quicquam. Quid? militibus promiffa Triquetra

Or, "Have you nothing new to-day

"From Pope, from Parnel, or from Gay?"

Such tattle often entertains

My Lord and me as far as Stains,
As once a week we travel down
To Windfor, and again to Town,
Where all that passes, inter nos,
Might be proclaim'd at Charing-Cross.

Yet fome I know with envy fwell,
Because they see me us'd so well:

"How think you of our Friend the Dean? "I wonder what fome people mean;

My Lord and he are grown so great,
Always together, tête à tête,

What, they admire him for his jokes"See but the fortune of fome Folks!"

There flies about a strange report

Of fome Express arriv'd at Court;
I'm stopp'd by all the fools I meet,
And catechis'd in ev'ry street.

"You, Mr. Dean, frequent the Great;
"Inform us, will the Emp'ror treat?
"Or do the Prints and Papers lie?”
Faith, Sir, you know as much as I.

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