To please a Mistress one aspers'd his life;
He lashed him not, but let her be his wife.
Let Budgel charge low Grubstreet on his quill,
And write whate'er he pleas'd, except his Will;
Let the two Curls of Town and Court, abuse
His father, mother, body, soul, and muse.
Yet why? that Father held it for a rule,
It was a sin to call our neighbor fool:

380

Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore!

385

also publish'd that he libel'd the Duke of Chandos; with whom (it was added) that he had lived in familiarity, and received from him a present of five hundred pounds; the falsehood of both which is known to his Grace. Mr. P. never received any present, farther than the subscription for Homer, from him, or from Any great Man whatsoever.-Pope. Compare Dunciad, ii. vv.

207-210.

378. Let Budgel. Budgel, in a weekly pamphlet called the Bee, bestowed much abuse on him, in the imagination that he writ some things about the Last Will of Dr. Tindal, in the Grubstreet Journal; a paper wherein he never had the least hand, direction, or supervisal, nor the least knowledge of its Author.-Pope.

379 Except his will. Alluding to Tindal's Will: by which, and other indirect practices, Budgel to the exclusion of the next heir, a nephew, got to himself almost the whole fortune of a man entirely unrelated to him.-Pope. It was said that Budgel forged a bill in the name of Dr. Tindal, author of Christianity as old as Creation.

380. Two Curls. Pope refers to Curll, the publisher of many libelous pamphlets, and Lord Hervey, whom he couples with him as a second Curl.

381. His father, mother, etc. In some of Curll's and other pamphlets, Mr. Pope's father was said to be a Mechanic, a Hatter, a Farmer, nay a Bankrupt. But, what is stranger, a Nobleman (if such a Reflection could be thought to come from a Nobleman) had dropt an allusion to that pitiful untruth, in a paper called an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity: And the following line,

Hard as thy Heart, and as thy Birth obscure,

had fallen from a like Courtly pen, in certain Verses to the Imitator of Horace. Mr. Pope's Father was of a Gentleman's Family in Oxfordshire, the head of which was the Earl of Downe, whose sole heiress married the Earl of Lindsey. His mother was the daughter of William Turnor, Esq., of York: she had three brothers, one whom was killed, another died in the service of King Charles; the eldest following his fortunes, and becoming a general officer in Spain, left her what estate remained after the sequestrations and forfeitures of her family. Mr. Pope died in 1717, aged 75; and she in 1733, aged 93, a very few weeks after this poem was finished. The following inscription was placed by their son on their Monument in the parish of Twickenham, in Middlesex.

D. O. M.

ALEXANDRO. POPE. VIRO. INNOCVO. PROBO. PIO.
QUI. VIXIT. ANNOS. LXXV. OB. MDCCXVII.

ET. EDITHAE. CONIVGI. INCULPABILI.
PIENTISSIMAE. QUAE. VIXIT. ANNOS.
XCIII. OB. MDCCXXXIII.

PARENTIBVS. BENEMERENTIBVS. FILIVS. FECIT.
ET. SIBI-Pope.

Unspotted names, and memorable long!

If there be force in Virtue, or in Song.

Of gentle blood (part shed in Honor's cause,

While yet in Britain Honor had applause)

Each parent sprung-A. What fortune, pray?-P. Their

own,

390

And better got, than Bestia's from the throne.
Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife,
Nor marrying Discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,

The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age.
Nor Courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dar'd an Oath, nor hazarded a Lie.
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,

395

400

No language, but the language of the heart.
By Nature honest, by Experience wise,
Healthy by temp'rance, and by exercise;
His life, tho' long, to sickness past unknown,
His death was instant, and without a groan.
O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die!
Who sprung from Kings shall know less joy than I.
O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine!

Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine:
Me, let the tender office long engage,

405

To rock the cradle of reposing Age,

With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath,

410

Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death,

Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,

And keep a while one parent from the sky!
On cares like these if length of days attend,

May Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend,

415

388. Part shed in Honor's cause. See note to 381.

391. L. Calpurnius Bestia was a Roman proconsul, bribed by Jugurtha into a dishonorable peace.

393. Alluding to Addison's marriage with the Countess of Warwick, and Dryden's with Lady Elizabeth Howard.-Carruthers.

397. He was a nonjuror, and would not take the oath of allegiance or supremacy, or the oath against the Pope.-Bowles.

409. Rock the cradle of reposing Age. Pope's filial affection and tender care of his parents were perhaps his most admirable qualities.

Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene,
And just so rich as when he serv'd a Queen.
A. Whether that blessing be deny'd or giv'n,
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to Heav'n.

417. Queen. An honest compliment to his friend's real and unaffected disinterestedness, when he was the favorite physician of Queen Anne.- Warburton.

88 Lamb's Essays of Elia. (Selected.)
89 Cowper's Task, Book II.

90 Wordsworth's Selected Poems.

91 Tennyson's The Holy Grail, and
Galahad.

92 Addison's Cato.

93 Irving's Westminster
Christmas Sketches.

94-95 Macaulay's

Second Essay.

Abbey,

Earl of

96 Early English Ballads.

154-155 Defoe's Journal of the Plague.
(Condensed.)

156-157 More's Utopia. (Condensed.)
Sir 158-159 Lamb's Essays. (Selections.)
160-161 Burke's Reflections on
French Revolution.

the

and 162-163 Macaulay's History of England,
Chapter I.

Chatham. 164-165-166 Prescott's Conquest of Mexi-
co. (Condensed.)

97 Skelton, Wyatt, and Surrey. (Selected
Poems.)

98 Edwin Arnold. (Selected Poems.)
99 Caxton and Daniel. (Selections.)
100 Fuller and Hooker. (Selections.)
101 Marlowe's Jew of Malta. (Condensed.)
102-103 Macaulay's Essay on Milton.
104-105 Macaulay's Essay on Addison.
106 Macaulay's Essay on Boswell's Johnson
107 Mandeville's Travels and Wycliffe's
Bible. (Selections.)

108-109 Macaulay's Essay on Frederick
the Great.

110-111 Milton's Samson Agonistes.
112-113-114 Franklin's Autobiography.
115-116 Herodetus's Stories of Croesus,
Cyrus, and Babylon.

117 Irving's Alhambra.

(Selected.)
118 Burke's Present Discontents.
119 Burke's Speech on Conciliation with
American Colonies.

120 Macaulay's Essay on Byron.
121-122 Motley's Peter the Great.
123 Emerson's American Scholar.
124 Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum.
125-126 Longfellow's Evangeline.
127 Andersen's

(Selected.)

Danish Fairy Tales.

128 Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur,
and The Passing of Arthur.
129 Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal,
and other Poems.

130 Whittier's Songs of Labor, and other
Poems.

131 Words of Abraham Lincoln.
132 Grimm's German Fairy Tales.
lected.)

133 Esop's Fables. (Selected.)

167 Longfellow's Voices of the Night,
and other Poems,

168 Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Selected

187 Curtis's The Public Duty of Educated
Men.

188-189 Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales.
(Selected.)

190-191 Chesterfield's Letters to His Son.
192 English and American Sonnets.
193 Emerson's Self-Reliance.
194 Emerson's Compensation.
195-196 Tennyson's The Princess.
197-198 Pope's Homer's Iliad. Books I.,
VI., XXII., and XXIV.
199 Plato's Crito.

200 A Dog of Flanders. By LOUISE DE
LA RAMÉE.

(Se- 201-202 Dryden's Palamon and Arcite.
203 Hawthorne's Snow-Image, The Great
Stone Face, Little Daffydowndilly.

134 Arabian Nights: Aladdin, or the 204 Poe's Gold Bug.
Wonderful Lamp.

135-36 The Psalter.

137-38 Scott's Ivanhoe. (Condensed.)

205 Holmes's Poenis. Selected.
206-207 Kingsley's Water-Babies.
208 Thomas Hood's Poems. Selected.

139-40 Scott's Kenilworth. (Condensed.) 209 Tennyson's Palace of Art, and other
141-42 Scott's The Talisman. (Condensed.)

Poems.

143 Gods and Heroes of the North. 210 Browning's Saul, and other Poems.
144-45 Pope's Iliad of Homer. (Selec- 211 Matthew Arnold's Poems. Selected.

tions from Books I.-VIII.)

212-213 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel.
214 Paul's Trip with the Moon. By E.
W. WEAVER.

146 Four Medieval Chroniclers.
147 Dante's Inferno. (Condensed.)
148-49 The Book of Job. (Revised Version.) 215
150 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew. By GEOR-216
GIANA M. CRAIK.

Craik's Little Lame Prince.
Speeches of Lincoln and Douglas in
1858.

151 The Nurnberg Stove. By LOUISE DE 217 Hawthorne's Two Tanglewood Tales.
LA RAMÉE.

(Selected.)

152 Hayne's Speech. To which Webster 218-219 Longfellow's Hiawatha.
replied.

153 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
(Condensed.) By LEWIS CARROLL.

220 Dante Gabriel
(Selected.)

Rossetti's Poems.

221-222 Burke's Speech on Conciliat

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