The same appropriation of thought will attach to the following lines of Tickell:
While the charm'd reader with thy thought complies,
And views thy Rosamond with Henry's eyes.
TICKELL to ADDISON.
Evidently from the French Horace:
En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue;
Tout Paris, pour Chimene, a les yeux de Rodrigue.
BOILEAU.
Oldham, the satirist, says in his satires upon the Jesuits, that had Cain been of this black fraternity, he had not been content with a quarter of mankind.
Had he been Jesuit, had he but put on
Their savage cruelty, the rest had gone!
Satire ii.
Doubtless at that moment echoed in his poetical ear the energetic and caustic epigram of Andrew Marvel, against Blood stealing the crown dressed in a parson's cassock, and sparing the life of the keeper:
With the Priest's vestment had he but put on
The Prelate's cruelty—the Crown had gone!
The following passages seem echoes to each other, and it is but justice due to Oldham, the satirist, to acknowledge him as the parent of this antithesis:
On Butler who can think without just rage,
The glory and the scandal of the age?
Satire against Poetry.