In the Rape of the Lock, Belinda and the Sun are very often said to be very much alike, which occasion’d two Lines in Praise of that Poem, written by a Friend of Mr. Pope;
Here, like the Sun, Belinda strikes the Swain,
In the same Page like the same Sun again.
Monsieur Boileau, speaking of the Poetasters of his Nation, in a Poem to the King, makes this Comparison the Consummation of Dulness;
Et enfin te compare au Solœil.
And in the End he compares your Majesty to the Sun.
[(k)] ———Half-paid drudging B——me.
The Reverend Mr. B——me, who translated a great Part of Homer, and construed the Rest: N.B. A half-paid Poet is oftentimes the Occasion of an unpaid Taylor.
[(l)] Sleep, Sleep in Peace———
These Lines are a Parody of a famous Passage in the Tragedy of Phædra and Hyppolitus.