[ [220] Thus applied, more out of Humour, than an ill Opinion of a certain Person's Success:

Fortune, we yield to thy capricious Will: A Drop of Ward's can cure, a Drop of Water kill!

[ [221] Lib. VIII. Epig. 65.

[ [222] Lib. V. Epig. 75.

[ [223] This has since been done in a Book intituled, Carmina Quadragesimalia, printed at Oxford 1723, 8vo. reprinted at London 1741, 12mo.

[ [224] Too poetical often in another Sense, when they give Characters absolutely false; from whence the French have a witty Saying, Il ment comme une Epitaphe, He lies like an Epitaph.

[ [225] P. Bouhours, Entretiens d'Ariste & Eugene, Dial. ult.

[ [226] Geor. IV. 6.

[ [227] 83.

[ [228] Art. Poet. 77.