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LOVE of FAME, Sat. I.

Instructive Satire, true to Virtue's cause!

Thou shining supplement of publick laws !

When flatter'd crimes of a licentious age

Reproach our silence, and demand our rage;

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W hen purcha j d follies from each distant land,Like Arts, improve in Britain s skilful hand;When the Law fliews her teeth, but dares not bite,And South-Sea treasures are not brought to light;When Churchmen Scripture for the Classics quit,Polite Apostates from God’s grace to wit;

When men grow great from their revenue ftent ,And sty from BaylifTs into Parliament;

When dying Sinners, to blot out their score,Bequeath the church the leavings of a whore ;

To chafe our spleen when Themes like theseincrease,

Shall panegyrick reign, and censure cease ?

Sh*ll

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