On cares like these if length of days attend,
May heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend,
Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene,
And just as rich as when he served a queen.
A. Whether that blessing be denied or given,
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heaven.
[198] Ambrose Philips translated a book called the Persian Tales.
[199] Nahum Tate, the joint-author with Brady of the version of the Psalms.
[200] Addison.
[201] Hopkins, in the 104th Psalm.
[202] Lord Halifax.
[203] Sir William Yonge.
[204] Bubb Dodington.
[205] Meaning the man who would have persuaded the Duke of Chandos that Pope meant to ridicule him in the Epistle on Taste.
[206] Lord Hervey.
[XXXVIII.] EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES.
The following piece represents the first dialogue in the Epilogue to the Satires. Huggins mentioned in the poem was the jailer of the Fleet Prison, who had enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. Jekyl was Sir Joseph Jekyl, Master of the Rolls, a man of great probity, who, though a Whig, frequently voted against the Court, which drew on him the laugh here described. Lyttleton was George Lyttleton, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, distinguished for his writings in the cause of liberty. Written in 1738, and first published in the following year.
Fr[iend]. Not twice a twelvemonth you appear in print,