At length, when banish’d _Pallas_ shall withdraw, And Wit’s made Treason by the _Popian_ Law; When minor Dunces cease, at length, their Strife, And own thy Patent to be dull for Life; By Tricks sustain’d, in Poet-craft compleat, Retire triumphant to thy _Twick’nam_ Seat; That Seat! the Work of (k) half-paid drudging _Br----me_, And call’d by joking _Tritons_, _Homer_’s Tomb: There to stale, stol’n, stum Crambo bid adieu, And sneer the Fops, that thought thy Crambo new; There, like the _Grecian_ Chief, on whom thy Song Has well reveng’d unhappy _Priam_’s Wrong; Waste, in thy hidden Cave, the Festive Day, With mock _Machaon_, and _Patroclus G----_ _Sleep_, (l) _Sleep in Peace_ the Works, for _Wapping_ born! No more thy Cuckoo Note shall wake the Morn; In Ease, and Avarice, and aukward State, _The Fool of Fortune_, shalt thou hail thy Fate; Slumbring in Quiet o’er Lampoons half writ, Which, ripe in Malice, only wait for Wit. So when _Vanessa_ yielded up her Charms, The blest _Cadenus_ languish’d in her Arms; High, on a Peg, his unbrush’d Beaver hung, His Vest unbutton’d, and his God unsung; Raptur’d he lies; Deans, Authors are forgot, _Wood_’s Copper Pence, and _Atterbury_’s Plot; For her he quits the Tythes of _Patrick_’s Fields, And all the Levite to the Lover yields. [Decoration] [Decoration] NOTES On the Foregoing POEM. (a) _If Noble _B------m_,_ The late Duke of _Buckingham!_ who made that fine Alteration of the Tragedy of _Julius Cæsar_ from _Shakespeare_, and who is said by Mr. _Pope_ to have bestow’d the finest Praise upon _Homer_ that he ever received, in the following Lines; Read _Homer_ once, and you need read no more; For all Things else will be so mean and poor, Verse will seem Prose: Yet often on him look, And you will never need another Book. D---- of B----’s Essay on Poetry. He has also printed a Copy of Verses in Praise of _Pope_, which were returned by another in Praise of his Grace. There is so great a Similitude in the Stile of these Writers, that the Reader, I think, need not doubt their Sincerity in admiring each other. ’Tis great Delight to laugh at some Mens Ways; But ’tis much greater to give Merit Praise. D---- of B----. _Sheffield_ approves, consenting _Phœbus_ bends, And I and Malice from this Hour, am Friends. Pope. (b) _Who _G------n_’s Dulness------_ _Charles Gildon_, dismiss’d from the D----’s Pension and Favour, on Account of his Obstinacy in refusing to take the Oaths to _P--pe_’s Supremacy. (c) _Smooth dull Unity of Sound._ _P--pe_’s Reputation for versifying is a vulgar Error, founded only on discreet Theft: Half a Line from Mr. _Dryden_’s _Conquest of Mexico_, and another from his Translation of _Virgil_, have seemingly made tolerable Music, when join’d in his Works; but Music of the _Morocco_ Kind, which has but one Note. (d) _Who taught declining _Wycherley_------_