Frighted, I quit the room, but leave it fo As men from Jails to execution go; For, hung with deadly fins, I fee the wall, And lin'd with Giants deadlier than 'em all: 275 Each man an Askapart, of strength to tofs For Quoits, both Temple-bar and Charing-crofs. Scar'd at the grizly forms, I fweat, I fly, And shake all o'er, like a discover'd spy. 279 Courts are too much for wits fo weak as mine: Charge them with Heav'n's Artill'ry, bold Divine! 'Tis mine to wash a few light stains, but theirs NOTES. 285 VER. 286. my Wit,] The private character of Donne was very amiable and interesting; particularly fo, on account of his fecret marriage with the daughter of Sir George More; of the difficul. ties he underwent on this marriage; of his conftant affection to his wife, his affliction at her death, and the fenfibility he difplayed towards all his friends and relations. WARTON. His life is written by Ifaac Walton. "He was born," fays Mr. Ellis, "at London in 1573, and educated at home till the eleventh year of his age. His academical residence then became divided between Oxford and Cambridge, and his ftudies between poetry and law. He accompanied the Earl of Effex in an expedition againft Cadiz, was fecretary fome time to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord keeper of the Great Seal; and having taken orders, was promoted to be King's Chaplain, preacher of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, and Dean of St. Paul's. He died in 1631 In fpeaking of the firft English Satirifts, Warton has faid nothing of Marston, who wrote the "Scourge of Villany." EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. IN TWO DIALOGUES, WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII. The following words of Quintilian might not be an improper motto for thefe Dialogues: "Ingenii plurimum eft in eo, et acerbitas mira, et urbanitas, et vis fumma; fed plus ftomacho, quam confilio dedit. Præterea ut amari fales, ita frequenter amaritudo ipfa ridicula eft." EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII. FR. NOT DIALOGUE I. twice a twelvemonth you appear in Print, And when it comes, the Court fee nothing in't. You VARIATIONS. After Ver. 2. in the MS. You don't, I hope, pretend to quit the trade, NOTES. VER. 1. Not twice a twelvemonth, &c.] These two lines are from Horace; and the only lines that are fo in the whole Poeme being meant to give a handle to that which follows in the chp, ter of an impertinent Cenf of the Ariofto; an account By long logarth. measure, 4 BAL truths he spoke. and |