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145 From the strong fate of drams if thou get free,^{[I 1]}
Another Durfey, Ward! shall sing in thee.
Thee shall each ale-house, thee each gill-house mourn,^{[I 2]}
And answ'ring gin-shops sowrer sighs return.
Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,^{[R 1]}
150 Nor less revere him, blunderbuss of Law.^{[R 2][I 3]}

Remarks

1. Ver. 149. Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,] "This Gentleman is son of a considerable Maltster of Romsey in Southamptonshire, and bred to the Law under a very eminent Attorney: Who, between his more laborious studies, has diverted himself with Poetry. He is a great admirer of Poets and their works, which has occasion'd him to try his genius that way.—He has writ in prose the Lives of the Poets, Essays, and a great many Law-Books, The Accomplish'd Conveyancer, Modern Justice, &c." Giles Jacob of himself, Lives of Poets, vol. i. He very grossly, and unprovok'd, abused in that book the Author's Friend, Mr. Gay.
2. Ver. 149, 150. Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe;
   Nor less revere him, blunderbuss of Law.]
   There may seem some error in these verses, Mr. Jacob having proved our author to have a Respect for him, by this undeniable argument. "He had once a Regard for my Judgment; otherwise he would never have subscribed Two Guineas to me, for one small Book in octavo." Jacob's Letter to Dennis,

Imitations

1. Ver. 145. From the strong fate of drams if thou get free,]
   ———si qua fata aspera rumpas,
   Tu Marcellus eris!——— Virg. Æn. vi.
2. Ver. 147. Thee shall each ale-house, &c.]
   Te nemus Angitiæ, vitrea te Fucinus unda,
   Te liquidi flevere lacus.Virg. Æn. viii.
   Virgil again, Ecl. x.
   Illum etiam lauri, illum flevere myricæ, &c.
3. Ver. 150. Virg. Æn. vi.———duo fulmina belli
   Scipiadas, cladem Libyæ!