IV.

They by her fav'rite prostrate lie;
Now guilt prevails and vice runs high,

Why sleep'st thou, Pope, awake;

As Rome of Brutus did before,
Redress of thee, we now implore,

Write for thy country's sake.

and familiars, the monks of the convent. I became a frequent guest at La Trappe, and passed a great deal of my time with him there; in London also; and occasionally in Dorsetshire; he was certainly one of the most extraordinary men of his time. I had opportunities of contemplating his character in all its various points of view: I went to Eastbury, the seat of Mr. Doddington in Dorsetshire. Our splendid host was excelled by no man in doing the honours of his house and table: to the ladies he had all the courtly and profound devotion of a Spaniard, with the ease and gaiety of a Frenchman towards the men: his mansion was magnificent, massy, and stretching out to a great extent of front, with an enormous portico of Doric columns, ascended by a stately flight of steps; there were turrets and wings that went I know not whither: they are now levelled to the ground, and gone to more ignoble uses. Vanbrugh, who constructed this superb edifice, seems to have had the plan of Blenheim in his thoughts; and the interior was as proud and splendid, as the exterior was bold and imposing; all this was exactly in unison with the taste of its magnificent

V.

All principles by passion sway'd,
Gold and ambition are obey'd,

Or disappointment guides;

These motives ev'ry change discover,
Hence, Bath and Cart'ret are come over;
Hence, Hervey has chang'd sides.

owner, who had gilt and furnished the apartments with a profusion of finery that kept no terms with simplicity, and not always with elegance or harmony of style. Whatever Mr. Doddington's income then was, he had the happy art of managing it with that regularity and œconomy, that, I believe, he made more display at less cost than any man in the kingdom but himself could have done. His two houses in Pall Mall, his villa at Hammersmith, and the mansion above described, were such establishments as few nobles in the nation were possessed of. When he passed from Pall Mall to La Trappe it was always in a coach with six unwieldy black horses, short docked, and of colossal dignity; nor was he less characteristic in apparel than in equipage. His bulk and corpulency gave full display to his rich and staring suits; he had an ornamental fancy and brilliant wit; he was an elegant Latin classic: his favourite prose writer was Tacitus. When he paid his court at St. James's to the late Queen, after her nuptials, he approached to kiss her hand, decked in an embroider'd suit of silk, with lilac waistcoat and breeches, the latter of which, in the act of kneeling

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VI.

That Hervey, who by favour grac'd,

Of late in high employment plac'd,

Despis'd each earthly thing,

But pow'r and courts; who ne'er was blest, But when by smiling Queens carest,

Or whisper'd by a king;

down, forgot their duty, and broke from their moorings in a very indecorous and uncourtly manner. Mr. Doddington was in nothing more remarkable than in ready perspicuity, and clear discernment of a subject thrown before him, on a sudden; take his first thoughts then, and he would charm you; give him time to ponder and refine, you would perceive the spirit of his sentiments and the vigor of his genius evaporate by the process; for though his first view of the question would be a wide one, and clear withal, when he came to exercise the subtlety of his disquisitorial powers upon it, he would so ingeniously dissect it into fractions, that, as an object when looked upon too intently for a length of time, grows misty and confused, so would the question under his discussion.

John, Lord Hervey, eldest son to the Earl of Bristol, was removed from the post of Lord Privy Seal to make way for Lord Gower in 1742; and took the place in Opposition which Lord Gower had left.-W.

VII.

In halting verse, in jingling prose,

Their praises he rehears'd, and rose
By flattery's fruitful showers;

Each speech he made, each word he said,
Wove chaplets for the royal head,

And deck'd it out with flowers.

VIII.

By Walpole in the palace set,

He felt the warmth, enjoy'd the heat,
And in the sunshine grew;

Till clouds that all our sky o'erspread,
Burst down on Walpole's fated head,
And crush'd this sapling too.

IX.

At once bereft of all he lov'd,

Of place depriv'd, from court remov'd;

In this sad chang'd condition, Forgetting all he'as done or said,

All pamphlets wrote all speeches made, He joins the Opposition.

X.

Hervey, in vain you strive t' inflame,
In vain 'gainst ministers declaim,

With well-feign'd warmth and zeal; Since ev❜n the dullest peer must see, The court had easily kept thee,

Could'st thou have kept the seal.

XI.

How different from this wretch is he

Whose only view is to be free,

Careless of all beside;

Nor in his most unguarded hour,
Courts popularity or power,

Thro' vanity or pride.

XII.

Such is the man, so just, so brave,

Neither the king's nor people's slave,