Since (quoth the God) you've found your manners,
I may perchance defend your banners;
But ne'er will I, unless I'm tipsy,
When J OVE himself is not se ipse ,
Be bully'd by a female's tongue,
Tho' glib as J UNO'S it were hung.
I've patiently the business heard,
Which hath all this ill temper stirr'd,;
I feel your wrongs as much as you,
And we'll a just revenge pursue;
For, Girls, while you remain discreet,
Who dares slight you my wrath shall meet:
This truant, who so false a wretch is,
Shall shortly rue his prose and SKETCHES ;
We'll of his Temple soon bereave him,
Then see if N ATURE can relieve him;
He'll find her influence prove but vain,
And sue once more to join your train;
But 'twould not suit my laurell'd crown
With my own hand to dash it down.
Kings, when some dirty trick they try,
To dirtier ministers apply,
Who stand before them as a screen,
While they indulge their power or spleen;
Thus I'll destroy by slow degrees
Th' Apostate's pleasure and his ease,
And, better to attain this end,
I'll do it by his bosom friend ;
'Twill give a keener pang besides,
If wounded where he most confides .—
When T ROY was built, you recollect
I dabbled as an Architect ;
A very sorry one, you'll say,
But worse since then have come in play,
And of the art I've understood
Enough, to do more harm than good;
From better heads ideas stealing,
To plan a frieze, or form a cieling:
I'll hint the means while the work's doing,
To make his Edifice a ruin;
And he shall find his schemes defeated,
Before his building is compleated.
There is beside, in this great town,
A Dame of infamous renown,
Whose great delight is to embarrass,
Torment the weak, the manly harass,
And by her dark malignant arts
Aims to disturb ingenuous hearts;
Living the plague of half the nation,
Mischief her trade, her name V EXATION ;
In our own scheme her aid we'll join,
And thus compleat the great design.
I may perchance defend your banners;
But ne'er will I, unless I'm tipsy,
When J OVE himself is not se ipse ,
Be bully'd by a female's tongue,
Tho' glib as J UNO'S it were hung.
I've patiently the business heard,
Which hath all this ill temper stirr'd,;
I feel your wrongs as much as you,
And we'll a just revenge pursue;
For, Girls, while you remain discreet,
Who dares slight you my wrath shall meet:
This truant, who so false a wretch is,
Shall shortly rue his prose and SKETCHES ;
We'll of his Temple soon bereave him,
Then see if N ATURE can relieve him;
He'll find her influence prove but vain,
And sue once more to join your train;
But 'twould not suit my laurell'd crown
With my own hand to dash it down.
Kings, when some dirty trick they try,
To dirtier ministers apply,
Who stand before them as a screen,
While they indulge their power or spleen;
Thus I'll destroy by slow degrees
Th' Apostate's pleasure and his ease,
And, better to attain this end,
I'll do it by his bosom friend ;
'Twill give a keener pang besides,
If wounded where he most confides .—
When T ROY was built, you recollect
I dabbled as an Architect ;
A very sorry one, you'll say,
But worse since then have come in play,
And of the art I've understood
Enough, to do more harm than good;
From better heads ideas stealing,
To plan a frieze, or form a cieling:
I'll hint the means while the work's doing,
To make his Edifice a ruin;
And he shall find his schemes defeated,
Before his building is compleated.
There is beside, in this great town,
A Dame of infamous renown,
Whose great delight is to embarrass,
Torment the weak, the manly harass,
And by her dark malignant arts
Aims to disturb ingenuous hearts;
Living the plague of half the nation,
Mischief her trade, her name V EXATION ;
In our own scheme her aid we'll join,
And thus compleat the great design.