were written. For these internal notes of time we should not have referred, in vain. The first Satire laments that "Guilt's chief foe in Addison is fled." The second, addressing himself, asks,
Thou unambitious fool, at this late time?
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
The Satires were originally published separately in folio, under the title of "The Universal Passion." These passages fix the appearance of the first to about 1725, the time at which it came out. As Young seldom suffered his pen to dry, after he had once dipped it in poetry, we may conclude that he began his Satires soon after he had written the "Paraphrase on Job." The last Satire was certainly finished in the beginning of the year 1726. In December 1725 the King, in his passage from Helvoetsluys, escaped with great difficulty from a storm by landing at Rye; and the conclusion of the Satire turns the escape into a miracle, in such an encomiastick strain of compliment as poetry too often seeks to pay to royalty.
From the sixth of these poems we learn,
Glow'd with the love of virtue and of art:
