CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE DATE DUE «PfB^ t^s^ ^ InMife ^apptoai T Ml ^^-"^"^ -^^Mt CAVLORD ^RINTEOINO.S.A. Cornell University Library PR3404.P11 1700a The pacificator; a poem. 3 1924 013 177 864 The original of tiiis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013177864 THE WRITING TITLE THE PACIFICATOt? . LIBRARY BM. UNIVERSITY REMAX HOUSE A DANIEL DEFOE V MOORE NO. 23 1 = : 1 1 ' - DATE 1700. )FILMS LIMITED PLACE LONDON WCl [4] -•- II I n I III! r F> The Pacificator. HAT Effgl/pi Min, without Concern, can fee The Approach of Bleeding Britain's Deftiny > That Glorious Und which Juftly did Prefide, For Wit and Wealth, o'r all the World befide } In vain Viftorious NASSAU did Advance His Conquering Arms againft the Power of Franct^ Since from thofe Conquefts he is hardly come, But here's a Qvil War broke out at Home : Britanttias Warlike Sons difturb the Ifle, Delighting one another to Difpoil, Enur'd to Difcord, Envy, and Debate, Hereditary Frenzies of the State. > The Fruits of Ten Years War they now prevent. By Civil Feuds, and Private DifcoDtent. The Peace We Gain'd ! Does it fp Cheap appcaf. To Prize fo LoWj what We have bought fp Dear > The Blood, the Treafure, which has been Deftroy'd ! Methinks We (hou'd with War and Wounds be Clpy'd, But 'twill not be, We cannot hope to find That in the Birth which ii not io the l^ind : For Pride, and Strifcy are Native? of our Soil, Freeholdert bortt^ and have Pofl'e&'d the \{k Long before JhUhs Cxfar Landed here. Or P;^/, or Painted Brittons did appear> A ftubborn People, Barbarous and Rude 5 Who, like the KentiJhMen, were ne'r Subd^'tl. Fierce Eng^Jh Men, in Bipod and Wounds dclighs For want pf Wars, with one another fight ; Nothing's Nothing's fo dingcrous to them as Peace, To feed the Flame, and nourifli the Difeafe 5 No Law s can this Contentious hfiniour Cdrbl Their Charter's Inch, they will themfelves Difturb, O Jiil/an^ Julian, who begun the Cry Againft our Safety, for bur Liberty, Who wou'd no_Mercenary Troops allow, Wou'd you Disband our Standing Army now ? Behold a Civil War is juftat hand, I'th' very bowels of your Native Land ; The ftrong Contention's grown to fuch a hight, The Pen's already drawn, and has begun the fight. The Pen's the certain Herald of a War, And Points it out like any Blazing Star : Men Quarrel firfr, and Skirmilh with ill Words, And when they're heated then they draw their Swords j As little Bawling Curs begin to Bark, And bring the Maftive on you in the Dark. We had feme Jealoufies of this laft Year, Both fides rais'd Forces, both-in'Arrris appear j Bat fome Sage Doftors did them both Advife, To make it up without Hoftilities : But the deep Quarrel's now of fuch a Nature,' As Magna Chrta fights with Alma Mater 5 Th'e Doctors fight, and who (hall heal the Matter > " The Dreadful Armies are Drawn out to fight, Encamp'd at large in one anothers fight 5 Their Standards are the Red Rofe and the Wkite. Nothing but dire Deftruftion does Impend, And who knows where the fatal Strife will end? The Men ofSe pfe again ft the Men of Wit, Eternal fighting muft determine it. Great AHw does tht Men of Senfe Command, Prince ifrtA«r Trailes a Pike at his Rieht Hand 1 Heroic [3 J Heroic Nol^or made the firfl: Attack, And threw Draff/matkkJVit upon its Back ; Sixteen BattaHons of Old Brittons ftatid, Enrlch'd with Conqueft from the Neufinaa Strand, Ready to Charge when he the Signal makes ; And thus the Bloody Combat undertakes. HisSence was good, but fee what Fate Decrees ? His hafty Talent threw him on his Knees, A Srormof Words the Hero overtook, Diforder'd all his Lines, and all his Squadrons broke. The adverfe Troops pour'd in their Light Dragoons^ Charg'd him with Forty thoufand Armd Lampoons ; Tfie~Shock furpriz'd him into a Retreat, And Wits Gazette Proclaim'd a huge Defeat 5 Printed a Lift of Wounded and of Slain, And bragg'd he ne'r cou'd Rally up again. YtOtNokpr, like a Prudent General, Refum'd new Courage from a feeming Foil, The fame Campagne again in Arms appear'd. And what the Pri«« had loft, thtKing repair'd ; ApoUo Knighted him upon the fpot. With other Royal Bounties I've forgot. The Wits Commanders tho' they did retreat, Will not allow it to be a Defeat ; Tlieir Troops, they fay, foon made a ftand again, Befides they loft but Thirteen thoufand Men. C r came next in order to the Charge, His Squadrons thin, altho' his Front was large, A modeft Soldier, refolute and ftout, Arm'd with a Coat of Senfe from head to foot 5 No more than need,~f6r he was hard put to't. He Charg'd the ftrongeft Troops of all the Foes, And gave them feveral fignal Overthrows, B But But over- power'd by multitudes of Wits^ By Number, not by Force opprefs'd, retreats , So Seufe,' to Noife and Nonftnce\ ojl fubfftiti. C — r^r's a calm and fteady Combatant, And pufh'd the forward Troops with brave Intent, Modefi^ a Fault not known among his Tribe, Andi'hpoe^ too, too honeft for a Bribe ; The Wits wou dfain ha bought his fury off. And proffer'd him Apflanfe^ and Gold enough, But 'twou'd not do, he boldly Charg'd again, And by Ten thoufand Wounds at laft was (lain. Some fay he was by his own Men betray'd. And bafely left alive among the Dead, But I cannot underftand how that can be. For how can Treachery and Senfe agree ? In Honours Trucl^e-Bed the Hero lies, ■Till Senfe again, the Lord knows whea, (hall rife^ M" — «, a Renegade from Wit, came on And madea falfe Attack, arid next to none 5 The Hypocrite, in Senfe, could not conceal What Pride, and want of Brains, oblig'd him to reveal In him the Critick's ruin'd by the Poe^ And Wr^/7 gives his Teftimony to itj The Troops of Wit were fo enrag'd to fee. •This Prieft Invade his own Fraternity, They fent a Party out, by Silence led. And without Anfwer (hot the Turn-Coat Dead. The Prieft, the Rake, the Wit, ftrove all ia vain, For there, alas, he lies among the (lain. Memento Mori j fee the Confequence, When Rakes and Wits fet up for Men of Senfe. But Sciifc ftill fuffer'd, and the (hock was rude. ' For what can Valour do to Multitude } rh The General fent for help both far and near, To Cowley, Milton, Ratcliff, Rochejier, Waller, Rofcommon, Howiird, and to Bhcu, T-heJ3oubtful Fight the better to maintain j Giarttt thefe were of Wit and Senfe together, But they were dead and gone the Lord knows trbctha- The fwift Exprefs he then Commands to fly, To D , M , and N , To fend their Aid, and fave him from Defeat. But their United Council was Retreat, Referve your Fortunes for a better Djy 5 So Sailors, when the Ship's a finking, Pray. Thefe are the Sages who Prefide'o'r Senfe, AndLavvs to all the Common-wealth Difpence, But Wealth and Eafe anticipates our fite, And makes our Heroes all -degenerate^ The Mufes high Preferments they poflefs, And now their Pay's fo great their Pains decreafe j So i? — — fought, fo H too fell on, Till Lords of ^ made and T , And now the Wits their Viftory Proclaim, Lc-.dcn v'/ith Spoils of Senfe, and fwell'd with Fame Their Plunder firft they carefully beftow, And then to fpread their ConqUeft farther, go, Their Trocpj divide, their Terror to extend, And God knows whe're their Ravages will end, D— — — J Commanded the Forlorn of Wit, A ftiff Politifh Critick, very fit The open Country to over-run, And find out all Mens Errors but his own 5 His Stony-Stratford Mijirefs read his Fate, A Slovens Fancy, and an Empty Pate. M rn Rat now Coramiflion'd by the Jingling Train, He has his Thoufands, and Ten Thoufands flain : flcj like the Tartars, who fore-run the Tnrlit, Eafie to be diftinguilh'd by his Works, With equal Havock, and deftruftive Hate, Leaves all the I and he treads on Defolate j He roots up Senfe, -, This bloody liattel has im done us all, ^ Wit from its Glorious b'a/.iiig Throne vviil fail. For all .the Flov/er of Gallantry, and Wit, Was li(Ved_here,- and overthrown in it. The Florid G /j was General of [;■ r;V, And lolt his Life and Fame too, which was wo;;. The Credit of this new Commander brought, With hopes of Plunder, Tnany a Cov/ard our. Who hitherto had very wifely chofc, The Name of Wits, but had decliii'd tiv: !iIo v.v 'Twas difmal to behold theFiidd of V/ar, What Dcfolation Wit has futler'd there. Whole Squadrons of Fp/ck Horfi appt-'arr;, Trod down by his Heroic CairalTicrs, ~*" G h loft his Darlln;; Satvrick Dragoi.ns, Andjwo Brigades of Li.'.ht Horfe, cUi'd L.iK/yns, Old Soldiers all, well beaten to the Wars, Rnown by their B.oughiicp^ Vgl'mcfs^ and Sr.-ri ^ Fellows, the like Were never heard nor rcn 1 of, " Jf Odd bite fonict'iiucs, Cftonnh to Lite one's [Jrr-! nfj- Nor coii'd their fwiftnefs their Efcape procure. For Nokpr's Fury nothing cou'd en'dure : Enrag'd with former Lofles he fell on, Rfefolv'd to Conquer, or be quite undone, C Whole. [8 1 Wh^JVV5ngs_gf Foreign Troops he overthrew, Whom G h from Franct to Witsaffiftance drew, Somrthing the Matter was thofe Troops betraid 'em. He ill Procur'd them, or he had not Paid 'em ; Twas a dull fancy in hioi to think fit, Topolilh Englifh Senfe with Foreign Wit. Among the Foot the Battel was fevere. For Wits beft Troops were wifely planted there, Led up by old Experienc'd Commanders, As D «, C c, A tt and S /. The Granadiers were known by their Blue Bonnets, For they had been in Scotland making Sonnets ; Pun-Mafter-General D y led them on, And with his Chattering Tunes the fight began. His Orders were to Charge, and then retire, And^give the Body liberty to fire ; Ten Regiments of Plays ftood on the Right, Led on by General D » to the Fight ; The Tragedies had made fome fmall pretence To Mutiny, and fo Revolt to Senfe. For D— i« had fome^Senfe, till he thought fii To Dote, and lately Deviate Into Wit ; The Reafon's plain, and he has found it true, Ue fellow A Wit which did too fa(i furfue. - The Left was form'd of fcvcn large Brigades, Of Farces^ Operas, znd Majqnerades^ With feveral little Bands of Dogrel Wit, To Scowre the Ways, and Line the Hedg|| fit. Between thefe mighty Wings was rang'din fight, A folid Phalanx of Compounded Wit j Ten thoufand Lyick^Foot, all Gallant Beaus, Arra'd with>/i Sighs, with Songs^ »nd BUlet-Doux. I There was Eight thoufand EUgiack. Toot, By Briny Tears and Sullen Grief made (lout. 5 Five Paftoral Bands, lately bred up in Arm?, By Chanting Gbriana's Mighty Charms, And Thund'ring out King If'/LL/^M's loud Alarrrs. ) Pindarick. Legions., feven t think appear'd Like Brandenhiirgherj^ with the Enchanted Beard, For Lions Skins, and Whisker's latefo fear'd. Thefe were led up by able old Cofnmanders, As C e, H J, Soldiers Bred in FLvjlars, With ^)^^r, D y, T /r, Dull M— r, B ", ^y y^ P /, Fop and Bemts, Dull T ^, and Pious i?—/, Old T- — :. Gr—^n^ Tom B—-^n, and many a Subaltern 5 Some Flying Troops jvere plac'd in Ambufcaflc, Moci-Wts, Beau-Wits, and Wits in Mafquefade, Some AtftttLonitin Troops of Female Wit, ^ For Ofteritation, not for Combat fit ; The Witty D -t appear'd there too, Whofe Wits in Profe, but all Incognltg. There was one Caledonian Voluntier, With fome Hibernian Wits brought up ihe FvC-ir i The whole, as by the Mafters may be feen, Was Ninety feven thoufand Fighting Men, All thefe drawn up, and readyTo Engage, Old General D — -», with a Pious Rage, That the Great Work might with fuccefs go oil, Firft Sacrific'd to the Emperor tU Moon •-, The Poet and the Prieft alike In Fame, *» For Priefts of all Religions are the fame. When JNTffV's Conquering Troops began t* appear, they found a very warm Reception here. ik He had Invok-d the Gods of Wit before, . And vow'd to make their Altars fmoke once more, With Bloody Hecatombs of Witty Core. Swifter than Lightning at their Hoft he flew, His Word was D , D , M , His Squadrons in Poeticfc Terror flione. And whifper d Death ta Wit as they came on : The ftrong Brigades of his Heroic Horfe, Dreadful tor Senfe, for Pointed Satyr worfe, Wing'd with Revenge, in fiery Raptures flew, And dipt in Poifon'd Gall the Darts they threw ^ Nothing cou'd Nokpr's furious Troops withftand. Nor cou'd he check them with his own Command- The Troops of Wit, Diforder'd, and O'r-run, -Are Slain, DUpercM, Difgrac'd, and Overthrown 5 The Shouts-of Triumph reach the diftant Sky, And Nokor lies Encamp'd in the Field of ViElory. Thefe are the doubtful dark Events of War, But who BritaHftia's'Loffes (hall Repair ? For as when States in Civil Wars Engage,. Their Private Feuds and Pafllons to aflwage. The Publick fufFers, harmlefs Subjects bear The Plagues, and Famines, which attend the War. So if we this Defcruftive War permit, ' Britain will find the Confequence" of it, A Dearth of Senfe, or elfe a Plague of Wit 5 For Wit, by thefe Misfortunel^defperate, Begins to arm^t an unufual rate. Levies new Fqrces, gives Comraiflions.out, For fevcral Regiments of Horfe and Foot, Recruits from every fide come in amain, jTom Oxford, Cambridge, mil\ zn^WarwickcUne, The fcatter'd Troops too, from the iaft Defeat, Begin to Halt, and check their fwift Retreat : In In numerous Parties V^^it appears again. Talks of another Battel this Campagne, Their ftrong Detachments o'r Parnafut range, And meditate on nothing but Revenge. To whom fhall we Apply, what Powers Invoke^ To depreate the near impending ftroke > Te Gods of Wit and Arts, their Minds infpire With Thoughts of Peace, from your Pacifick Fire 5 Engage fome Neighbouring Powers to undertake To Mediate Peace, for Deur BritanniAS fake ; Pity the Mother rifl'd of her Charms, And make her Sons lay down Inteftine Arm?. Preliminary Treaties firft begin, And may fliort Truce a lafting Peace let in, Limits to Wits Unbounded Ocean place. To which it may, and may i\o farther pafs 5 Fathom the unknown Depths of fullen Senfc, And Purge it from its Pride, and Infolence, Your fecret Influences interpofc. And make them all difpatch their Pknipos ^ Appoint Vtrnaffus for a Place to meet. Where all the Potentates of Wit may Treat, Around the Hill let Troops of Mufesftand, To keep the Peace, and Guard theSaaed Land ; There let the high Pretcnfions be difcufs'd. And Heaven the fatal Differences ad juft. Let either fide abate of their Deiunds; And both fubrait to Reafon's high Commands, for which way ere the Conqueft (hall encline, The lofs BritMnU will at laftbe thine. Jf ri2 J f'Vit^ like a hafty Flood, may over-ran us, And too much Senfe has oftentimes undone its : Wit isa Fltix, a Looferiefs of the Brain, fyadSenfe-alfjirti& his too much Prid^ to Reign i lVit-uncottc(til is the Extreme of Sloth, "And too much ^eJife is the Extreme of both , AbfiraBed-mt 'tis own'd is a Difeafe, But Se/ifi-abJlraSed has no ?qv/ct to pleafe : For Senfe like Water is bitt Wit condenfe^ Ana Wit liiif Air is rarifyd from Senfe : Meer Senfe is fullen, ftiff, and unpolitc, Aleer Wit is apoplectick, thin, and light i W/t is a King without a Parliament, And Senfe i Democratick Cfqvernment ; IF//, like the French^ where e'r it reigns Deftroys, AnA^ Senfe advartc'd is apt to Tyrannize : Wit without Senfe is like the Laughing-Evil, And Senfe unmix'd with Fancy is the D—^, Wit is a Standing Army Government, And Senfe a fullen ftubborn P -t ; Wit by its hafte anticipated its Fate, And fo does Senfe by being obftinate : WH without Senfe in Verfi is all but Farce^ Senfe without Wit in P'erfe is all mi/te A . Wit, like the FrcwA, Performs before it Thinks, .And Thoughtful Senfe without Perfonnance links ; Senfe without Wit is flegmatick and pal^ .. And is all Head, forfooth, without aTail: Wit without &»/« is cholerick ipdre^y _ - Has Tail enough indeed, biithas no Head,. Wit, Vikc the Jangling Chimes. Rings all in One, Till Senfe, the Artift, fets them into Tune : ; Wit, like the Belly, if it be not Fed, Will ftarvc the Members, and diftiaft the Head. Jfif 1 13 1 J» // IS the Fruitful IVdrab where Thoughts Conceive, Senfc is the Fitd Heat which L'ifc ancT FcJfni nlult give : Wit is the Teeming Slot her brings them forth, Sctife is the J^/wFrf/Acr gives^ them Worth. Z/«/7W .• H'7/ and vJcwyt',. makes Science thrive, Divided : neither Uit mnSiif/fc can live j ' Fcr while the Parties eagerly ci ntend, The Mortal Strife mud in their Mutual Ruin end. Lifteh, ye Powe^s, lo /.tj/Z /?r/>.zw«/Vs Prayer, And either fide to yielding. Terms Prepare ^ And if their Cafes long Debates admit. As how much Condcfcention fliall be ft, How (ar Wits Jurifdiifbion Qiall extend, And where the ftatcd Bounds of Senfc fhall end, -Let them to fome known Head that ftrife fubmit. Some Judge Infallible, [omc Pope iu Wit, His Triple Seat place on Parnajfut Hill, And frorti his Sentence fufFer no Appeal : Let the Great Balance in his Cenfure be, And of the Treaty make him Guarantee, Let him be the Dtreftor of the State, And what he fays, let both fides take for Fate: Apollo s Pafioral Charge to him commit. And make him Grand inquiptor of Wif, Let him to each his proper Talent fliow, And tell them what they can, or cannot do, That each may chufe the Part he can do well, And let the Snrife be only to Excel : To their own Province lefhim all confine, Dodors to Heal, to Preaching the Divine 5 D — ^« to Tragedy, let C — ^^li Tranllate, B— — y nuke Ballads, Pfalms and Hymns for T*— •« : Let P — "T Flatter Kings in Panegyricic, R f Burlcfquc, and IV j be Lyr'-"- • Lei \ LetC c write the Comlck» F-~^ Lampoon, IV Ij the Banter, M .a thcBufFoon, And the Tranfgreffing Mufe receive tht Fate r- Of Contumacy, Excommunicate. Such as with Railing Spirits are poflefs'd, Tie Mttfes henzy^ let them be fupprefs'd, TVJlow no Satyrs which receive their Date From jf«»tf's Academy, Bil/wfgate j No Banters, no Invcftive lines admit. Where want of Manners, makes up want of Wit. Such as are hardned in Poetick Crimes, Let him give up to their own foolifh Rhimes ; Let thofe Eternal Poets be Condemn'd, To be Eternal Poets to the end : Let D— / ftill continue unpolite. And no Man read what Dull A/— — x fliall write. Reduce him to his Letter-Cafe and Whore, Let all Men (hun him as they did before. LetM" ft talk for what he can't Defend, And Banter Firgil which he ne'r. cou'd Mend ; Xet'allthe little Fry of Wit-?rofanert ' Reft as they are, with neither Senfe, nor Manners, Forlaken of Apollo^s Influence, With want of Language, and with want of Pencg : What Fools Indite^ let none but Blockheads Read,. And may they write in vain, who write for Bread : No Banters on the SaaedTcxt admit. Nor Btmdji Unes, that Blaffhemj of Wit : To Standard Rules of Government Confine, The Rate of every Bard, and Worth of every Line, And let the Rays of their Ambition bum, Thofe Phaeton-Wits who this Subjeaion fcom : • If theiy afpire to Invade the Government, Bring them before t}^er^kfet Partiametttf x; No Univerfal Monarchy admit, t i:' siy 27 . V*- uv, .1.^ *-!«•— "—nt for Wit* N / S. X ■v,^