[12] Creation, in seven books. [13] Redemption, in six books. [14] Translation of all the Psalms. [15] Canticles and Ecclesiastes. [16] Canticles of Moses, Deborah, &c. [17] The Lamentations. [18] The Whole Book of Job, in folio. Nor is this by any means a complete list of Sir Richard's works; for he was also a voluminous medical writer, and author of a "History of the Conspiracy against the Person and Government of King William the Third, of glorious memory, in the year 1695." Dryden, unable to clear himself of the charge of pandering for gain to the licentious tastes of the age, responded to his accuser by calling him an "ass," a "pedant," a "quack," and a "canting preacher." "Quack Maurus, though he never took degrees In either of our universities, Yet to be shown by some kind wit he looks, Because he play'd the fool, and writ three books. But if he would be worth a poet's pen, He must be more a fool, and write again; For all the former fustian stuff he wrote Was dead-born doggerel, or is quite forgot: His man of Uz, stript of his Hebrew robe, Is just the proverb, and 'as poor as Job.' One would have thought he could no longer jog; But Arthur was a level, Job's a bog. There though he crept, yet still he kept in sight; But here he founders in, and sinks downright. . . . . . At leisure hours in epic song he deals, Writes to the rumbling of his coach's wheels. . . . . . Well, let him go--'tis yet too early day To get himself a place in farce or play; We know not by what name we should arraign him, For no one category can contain him. A pedant, canting preacher, and a quack, Are load enough to break an ass's back. At last, grown wanton, he presumed to write, Traduced two kings, their kindness to requite; One made the doctor, and one dubbed the knight." The former of the kings alluded to is James the Second, Blackmore having obtained his fellowship of the College of Physicians, April 12, 1687, under the new charter granted to the college by that monarch; the latter being William the Third, who, in recognition of the doctor's zeal and influence as a Whig, not less than of his eminence in his profession, made him a physician of the household, and knighted him. Pope says:-- "The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles." The bard of Twickenham had of course a few ill words for Blackmore. In the Dunciad he says:-- "Ye critics, in whose heads, as equal scales, I weigh what author's heaviness prevails; Which most conduce to soothe the soul in slumbers, My H----ley's periods, or my Blackmore's numbers." Elsewhere, in the same poem, the little wasp of poetry continues his hissing song:--