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Quam fapere, et ringi. Fuit haud ignobilis Argis,
Qui fe credebat miros audire tragœdos,
In vacuo lætus feffor plausorque theatro :
Cætera qui vitæ fervaret muhia recto
More; bonus fane vicinus, amabilis hofpes,
Comis in uxorem; poffet qui ignofcere fervis,
Et figno la fo non infanire lagenæ :
Poffet qui rupem, et puteum vitare patentem.
Hic ubi cognatorum opibus curifque refectus,
Expulit elleboro morbum bilemque meraco,
Et redit ad fefe: Pol me occidiftis, amici,
Non fervâftis, ait; cui fic extorta voluptas,
Et demptus per vim mentis gratiffimus error.

NOTES.

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man; he feems to think with the Apothecaries, that Album Grecum is better than an ordinary fool. He himself was never swelling or pompous and if ever he inclined to hardness, it was not from attempting to fay a common thing with magnificence, but from including a great deal in a little room. WARBURTON.

In point of correctnefs, of perfpicuity of ftyle, and propriety of fentiment, there cannot be, on the whole, any comparison betwixt Pope and Young. But the ftrokes of the true fublime in the Night Thoughts, the fallies of wit in the Univerfal Paffion, and the strong character of Zanga in the Revenge, are fufficient to preferve Young from the contempt flung upon him in this note of Dr. Warburton. WARTON.

VER. 184. There liv'd in primo] Much of the grace and propriety of this ftory of the Madman at Argos is loft, by transferring the fcene from the theatre to the parliament house, from poetry to politics. The original ftory of this fort of madness is mentioned by Ariftotle, and alfo by Elian. Var. Hift. c. xxv. 1. 4. of a madman, named Thrafyllus, who ufed to go down to Piræum, and thought all the fhips that arrived in that port were his own. Horace judicioufly laid the fcene of this infanity in the theatre. Pope's ftory was entirely fiction, and unfuited to the fubject,

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Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors. May 1.1807.

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lately in the Marquis of Buckinghams Collection at Stowe,

now at Carleton House.

Published by Cadell & Davies. Strand, and the other Proprietors, May 1.1807.

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