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DIALOGUE. II.
A. Stop! stop!
B. Must Satire, then, nor rise, nor fall?
Speak out, and bid me blame no Rogues at all.
A. Yes, strike that Wild, I'll justify the blow.
B. Strike? why the man was hang'd ten years ago:
Who now that obsolete Example fears?
Ev'n Peter trembles only for his Ears.
A. What always Peter? Peter thinks you mad,
You make men desp'rate if they once are bad:
Else might he take to Virtue some years hence—
B. As S———k, if he lives, will love the Prince.
A. Strange spleen to S———k!
B. Do I wrong the Man?
God knows, I praise a Courtier where I can.
When I confess, there is who feels for Fame,
And melts to Goodness, need I Scarbrow name?
Pleas'd let me own, in Esher's peaceful Grove[1]
(Where Kent and Nature vye for Pelham's Love)
The Scene, the Master, opening to my view,
I sit and dream I see my Crags anew!
B. Must Satire, then, nor rise, nor fall?
Speak out, and bid me blame no Rogues at all.
A. Yes, strike that Wild, I'll justify the blow.
B. Strike? why the man was hang'd ten years ago:
Who now that obsolete Example fears?
Ev'n Peter trembles only for his Ears.
A. What always Peter? Peter thinks you mad,
You make men desp'rate if they once are bad:
Else might he take to Virtue some years hence—
B. As S———k, if he lives, will love the Prince.
A. Strange spleen to S———k!
B. Do I wrong the Man?
God knows, I praise a Courtier where I can.
When I confess, there is who feels for Fame,
And melts to Goodness, need I Scarbrow name?
Pleas'd let me own, in Esher's peaceful Grove[1]
(Where Kent and Nature vye for Pelham's Love)
The Scene, the Master, opening to my view,
I sit and dream I see my Crags anew!
Ev'n
- ↑ The House and Gardens of Esher in Surrey, design'd by Mr. Kent.
