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MEMOIRS OF

" Necessity, thou tyrant conscience of the great,

Say, why the church is still led blindfold by the state ;

Why should the first be ruin ' d and laid waste

To mend dilapidations in the last ?

And yet the world, whose eyes are on our mighty prince,

Thinks Heaven has cancelled all our sins,

And that his subjects share his happy influence ;

Follow the model close, for so I ' m sure they should,

But wicked kings draw more examples than the good. "

I admire that your Smiglesian under-

Standing, should make so great a blunder,

As roundly to aver subjectio

Wern ' t cousin-german to proteclio :

Nay more, they ' re relatives, unless 1

Mistake Tom Hobs ' s secundum esse.

I ' ve hopes that you have slyly taken

The oaths elsewhere, to save your bacon.

So spark, by country clap half undone,

Takes coach and steals a cure at London.

In the " Anthologia Hibernica, " for December 1794, Vol. IV.

Mercier, Dublin, page 457, there occurs the following

EPIGRAM ON DR SHERLOCK.

" Regibus obsequium dum binis obligat unum,

Jurat utroque unam, prodit utroque fidem.

Quid mirum ? Si sit semper jurare paratus ;

Cum per quos jurat tres habet ille Deos. "

Translated.

" The same allegiance to two kings he pays,

Swears the same faith to both, and both betrays.

No wonder, if to swear he ' s always free,

That has two Gods to swear by more than we. "