Well, here let her lie, for by this time she knows
What it is such a father and king to depose;
Between vice and virtue she parted her life,
She was too bad a daughter, and too good a wife.

2.

Is Willy's wife now dead and gone?
I'm sorry he is left alone.

Oh, blundering Death! I do thee ban
That took the wife and left the man.
Come, Atropos, come with thy knife,
And take the man to his good wife;
And when thou'st rid us of the knave,
A thousand thanks then thou shalt have.

head of those whom he calls metaphysical poets, though sometimes sublime, always moral, and frequently witty, are somewhat tedious and affected.

29 Mary died of small pox of the most malignant type (1694). "That disease, over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories, was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death." To the fiercer zealots of the Jacobite party neither the house of mourning nor the grave was sacred; and some of the ejected priests pursued the queen to the grave with invectives and bitter lampoons; but "the public sorrow was great and general. For Mary's blameless life, her large charities, and her winning manners, had conquered the hearts of her people; and the mourning for her was more general than even the mourning for Charles II. had been." "Few of those who now gaze on Greenwich Hospital, the noblest of European hospitals, are aware that it is a memorial of the virtues of the good Queen Mary, of the love and sorrow of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue."Macaulay's History of England.

3.

THE queen deceased, the king so grieved,
As if the hero died, the woman lived;

Alas! we err'd i'the choice of our commanders,

He should have knotted, and she gone to Flanders.

ON QUEEN ANNE'S STATUE IN ST. PAUL'S
CHURCHYARD.30

HERE mighty Anna's statue placed we find,
Betwixt the darling passions of her mind;
A brandy-shop before-a church behind.
But why the back turned to that sacred place,
As thy unhappy father's was to grace?

Why, here like Tantalus, in torments placed,
To view those waters, which thou canst not taste?
Though by thy proffer'd globe we may perceive,
That for a dram thou the whole world would'st give.
Dr. Garth.

30 The above malignant epigrammatic epitaph was found one night appended to the statue soon after its erection, and attributed to Garth. "At the most, over indulgence in eating and drinking more rich food and strong wine than was wholesome for a person who had no great personal fatigue to endure, is all that can justly be laid to the charge of Queen Anne." Mary II. had much the same failing. They were both great eaters, which they appear to have inherited from their mother, Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon and first wife of James II. See Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England."

31 A thorough change from a Whig to a Tory ministry in 1710-11, induced the witty adherents of the former to hurl

ON THE TOMB OF QUEEN ANNE.

A QUEEN, who snatcht from Marlboro's hand
The bay-girt baton of command,

31

Lies here and courtiers now malign
The creature whom they call'd divine;
Yet none among them has denied
That she was sober when she died.

W. S. Landor.

their venom on Anne; and she who had been worshipped became to them an object of loathing and abhorrence. Her memory even, if we may judge from their satires, was maligned. The fall of the Whigs was caused, or at least greatly accelerated, by one of those "explosions of popular feeling peculiar to the English nation. Dr. Sacheverell, a man of but little talent or principle, roused the whole nation, and became himself elevated into a saint and martyr, by a single inflammatory sermon he preached, in which he held up the Whig party, which was then in power, to ridicule, and inculcated passive obedience to the regal authority." His trial by impeachment for it, which ended in his suspension for three years, attracted the public attention in a most extraordinary manner. His politics being much to the queen's taste, she presented him, as soon as that period expired, to the valuable living of St. Andrew, Holborn. In the meanwhile he was carried in procession through the land:

"Per Graiûm populos mediæque per Elidis urbem

Ibat ovans."

and wherever he appeared arose a popular spirit of aversion to the Whig administration, and all who favoured the DisThat incomparable English Classic, Dean Swift, feeling, too, his services had been slighted, turned also his

senters.

ON THE DEATH OF JOHN GRAHAM, VISCOUNT OF
DUNDEE (CLAVERHOUSE).32

OH, last and best of Scots! who didst maintain
Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign;
New people fill the land now thou art gone,
New gods the temples, and new kings the throne.
Scotland and thee did each in other live;
Nor would'st thou her, nor could she thee survive.
Farewell, who dying didst support the state,
And could'st not fall, but with thy country's fate.
Dryden.

brilliant talents against them. His zeal for a change of ministry, and his bitter implacable rancour against Godolphin, Marlborough, &c., were shown with a readiness and versatility almost inconceivable. Swift's popular poetry, and his various political pamphlets and lampoons, produced an amazing effect upon the public mind; and still continue to afford amusement to the reader by the raciness of their personal satire; though many of their inuendos are lost, and others can only be understood through the labour of the commentator. His "Conduct of the Allies," four editions of which were devoured by the public in the space of a week, and than which perhaps no production of the kind ever produced so strong an effect upon general opinion, and his "Remarks on the Barrier Treaty," reconciled the people to a peace; not such as might have been expected from the distinguished successes of Marlborough, but to such terms as France might be induced to yield from the dread of over-playing her own game, and so becoming the means of destroying the very administration on whose continuance in power the prospect of peace depended.

"These pieces were most judiciously adapted to the pre

ON YOUNG MR. ROGERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

OF gentle blood, his parents' only treasure,
Their lasting sorrow, and their vanish'd pleasure,
Adorn'd with features, virtues, wit, and grace,
A large provision for so short a race;

More moderate gifts might have prolong'd his date,
Too early fitted for a better state;

But, knowing heaven his home, to shun delay,
He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way.

Dryden.

judices of the English people. They listened with greedy ear to reasoning which assured them that the triumphs of English valour brought only honour to the country, while the Whig ministry at home exhausted the finances of Britain, and the Dutch and Germans abroad, by a train of gross encroachment and imposition, broke every article of the treaty, and treated England with insolence and contempt, at the very time she was gaining towns, provinces, and kingdoms for them, at the price of her own ruin and without the slightest prospect of national interest."

32 "Claverhouse was a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart. He has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. The tool of James II., in his efforts to trample on the liberties of the Scotch people, he goaded the peasantry of the western lowlands into madness. In his efforts to restore that monarch to power he fell at the head of his men at the battle of Killiecrankie, fought 17 July, 1689." See Macaulay's "History of England," and Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs," Ist vol.