* * * * * Such our Barzillai; but Barzillai too, With Moses' fate does Moses' zeal pursue; Leads to that bliss which his own silver hairs Shall never reach, rich only to his heirs. Kind patriot, who, to plant us banks of flowers, With purling streams, cool shades, and summer bowers, His age's needful rest away does fling, Exhausts his autumn to adorn our spring; While his last hours in toils and storms are hurled, And only to enrich the inheriting world. Thus prodigally throws his life's short span, To play his country's generous pelican. The ungainly appearance, uncouth delivery, and versatile politics of the famous Duke of Lauderdale, are thus described: Let not that hideous bulk of honour 'scape, Nadab, that sets the gazing crowd agape; That old kirk-founder, whose coarse croak could sing The saints, the cause, no bishop, and no king; When greatness cleared his throat, and scoured his maw, Roared out succession, and the penal law. * * * * * To Absalom's side does his Old Covenant bring, With state razed out, and interlined with king. JEFFERIES. Of low-born tools we bawling Shimei saw, Jerusalem's late loud-tongued mouth of law; By blessings from almighty bounty given, Shimei, no common favourite of heaven, Whom, lest posterity should lose the breed, In five short moons indulgent heaven raised seed, Made happy in an early teeming bride, And laid a lovely heiress by her side.[433] But, as was reasonably to be expected, Settle has exerted his whole powers of satire and poetry in the description of his antagonist Dryden: And here let me remark, that almost all the adversaries of our author commence their attack, by an unwilling compliment to his poetical powers: