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LETTERS TO AND FROM
HUMOUROUS LINES BY LORD TREASURER OXFORD, SENT TO DR. SWIFT, DR. ARBUTHNOT, MR. POPE, AND MR. GAY.
April 14, 1714. Back Stairs, past eight.
GAY,
IN a summons so large, which all clergy contains,
I must turn Dismal's[1] convert, or part with my brains,
Should I scruple to quit the back stairs for your blind ones,
Or refuse your true juncto[2] for one of
Let not the whigs our tory club rebuke;
Give us our earl[3], the devil take their duke[4]
Quædam quæ attinent ad Scriblerum,
Want your assistance now to clear 'em.
One day it will be no disgrace,
In Scribler to have had a place,
Come then, my lord, and take your part in
The important history of Martin.
- ↑ Dismal was lord Nottingham.
- ↑ Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay, were writing the history of Martinus Scriblerus; and these four wits, in conjunction, are styled by lord treasurer a juncto.
- ↑ Of Oxford.
- ↑ Of Marlborough.
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