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BOOK I. ODE X.

To MERCURY .
Grandson of Atlas, the most chaste
Reformer of the lewd and wicked,
Moulding green senators like paste,
By catches and decorous cricket.
Thee messenger of Jove I'll sing,
Professor of the crooked lyre,
Jocosely stealing to the spring,
Through every crooked dark desire.
Robb'd and betray'd, ungodly John ,
Threatning to shoot thee through the liver,
Laugh'd when he found his arrows gone,
And saw thee sporting with his quiver.
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Leaving the Whigs at thy persuasion,
Whilst Pelham's beacons blaz'd in vain,
Dives forgot his flaggellation ,
And turn'd a Cocobite again.
To pious souls, delightful benches,
Blest Lord! thy golden rod assigns,
And works great marvels on light wenches,
Grateful to princes and divines
 

Lord Sandwich grandson of the celebrated Wilmot Earl of Rochester.

Whoever heard besides this author, that Atlas the father of Maia was remarkable for chastity? Critical Review.

John Wilkes.

Alluding to a transaction of great notoriety, which happened to the Duke of Bedford at Litchfield.

Superis deorum gratus et imis
Grateful to princes and divines.

As the author has not sufficiently declared which of these personages are the superi deorum, we presume, that he leaves them at liberty to toss up for it. Monthly Review.

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