[2] I cannot here with-hold my particular acknowledgments to my virtuous young friend, Mr. Pitt, for the noble manner in which he contended, on the subject of my reversion, that the most religious observance must be paid to the Royal promise. As I am personally the more obliged to him, as in the case of the Auditors of the Imprest the other day, he did not think it necessary to shew any regard whatever to a Royal Patent.
[3] I originally wrote this line,
But Hervey frowning, as she hears, &c.
It was altered as it now standsj by my d—mn’d Bishop of a brother,
for the sake of an allusion to Virgil.
———Cynthius aurem
Velit, et admonuit.
[4] I am told, that a scoundrel of a Potter, one Mr. Wedgewood, is making 10,000 vile utensils, with a figure of Mr. Pitt in the bottom; round the head is to be a motto, We will spit, On Mr. Pitt, And other such d—mn’d ryhmes, suited to the uses of the different vessels.
NUMBER XVII.
IRREGULAR ODE FOR MUSIC,
BY THE REV. DR. PRETTYMAN.
The Notes (except those wherein Latin is concerned) by JOHN ROBINSON, Esq.
RECITATIVE, by Double Voices.
[1]Hail to the LYAR! whose all-persuasive strain,
Wak’d by the master-touch of art,
And prompted by th’ inventive brain,
[2]Winds its sly way into the easy heart.
SOLO.
[3]Hark! do I hear the golden tone?—
Responsive now! and now alone!
Or does my fancy rove?
Reason-born Conviction, hence!
[4]And phrenzy-rapt be ev’ry sense,
With the Untruth I love.
Propitious Fiction aid the song;
Poet and Priest to thee belong.
SEMI-CHORUS.
[5]By thee inspir’d, ere yet the tongue was glib,
The cradled infant lisp’d the nurs’ry fib;
Thy vot’ry in maturer youth,
Pleas’d, he renounc’d the name of truth;
And often dar’d the specious to defy,
Proud of th’ expansive, bold, uncover’d lie.