XIV.

Thro' Nature we may fearch in vain :

Where can this fond Chimera be,

This Vifion of the waking Brain,
This Idol Independancy?

XV.

The larger half of all Mankind,

Not yet to Years of Reason grown,

By God and Nature are affign'd;

Nor Will, nor Freedom of their own.

XVI.

Woman, a Goddess to the Fool,

Without ufurping cannot sway.

By what Commiffion fhall fhe rule,
Sworn, nay created, to obey!

XVII.

Subjects with fworn Allegiance bow

To Sov'reigns, Heav'n's peculiar Care!

And

And just Degrees of Duty owe

To all that Cafar's Image bear.

XVIII.

Nay, tho' th' unworthiest of the Crowd
Above their Fellows Heads fhould foar,
To Them, the learn'd, the wise, the good,
May bow respectful, when in Pow'r.

XIX.

If ought our Brother's Fall may cause,
The Scandal giv'n we must remove;
Enjoyn'd by Christ, if not by Laws,

To veil our Dignity to Love.

XX.

At Charity's Almighty Call,

Down, down is human Grandeur thrown.

We then must give Account to all.

And thus accountable to none !

XXI. The

XXI.

The greatest Sov'reign of the Ball,

High rais'd on his Imperial Throne, In Love must give Account to all.

In Law accountable to none.

XXII.

To Friends and Foes, to Great and Small,

Our Country's Servants, nay our own, We all must give Account to all.

And thus accountable to none !

XXIII.

But grant that, far from Human-kind,

Obliging and oblig'd by none,

We

graze like Anchorites, refign'd

To Confcience and to God alone:

XXIV.

Tho' the first Thought perhaps may rove,

As if from Awe of all we ran:

Se

Severely will the second prove

That Pride was never made for Man.

XXV.

If all we think, and do, and say,

To Men and Angels will be shown; What boots it for an Hour, or Day,

To lurk, accountable to none?

Prefented to a Young Lady, with Advice to a

Daughter.

Dvice, Cofmelia, by the Wife is lov'd,

A

And, where 'tis wanted leaft, is most

ap

[prov❜d:

What thơ it teach but how you now behave,
A Friend may offer what a Father gave!
What tho' you need it not, yet kindly take
And read it oft and oft for others' fake!

In faireft Light their Duty then they'll view,
The Precept this, the bright Example You.

On

On the Dispute before the Parliament about building a Bridge at Westminster.

O

LD London, great and wealthy grown,

Will have no Bridge besides her own:

While Westminster pleads Equity,
To have a Bridge as well as She.
Each to the House her Pray'r prefers;
And She that Hers, and She that Hers,
Infists, is, to a Demonstration,

Most for the Service of the Nation.

The House refolv'd, with one Confent,
For foon they smok'd the Argument,
That All, from the Land's-End to Dover,
Will praise the Bridge that they go over,

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