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The Political Padlock, and the English Key. A Fable. Translated from the _Italian_ of Father M----r _S----ini_, who is now under Confinement for the same in _Naples_, by Order of Don _Carlos_. With Explanatory Notes.

_I grant all_ Courses _are in vain, Unless we can_ get in _again: The only Way that's left us now, But all the Difficulty's_ How?

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VERBAL and PRACTICAL VIRTUE.

_Dicendi Virtus, nisi ei, qui dicit, ea, de quibus dicit, percepta sint, extare non potest._ CIC.

WITH A Prefatory Epistle from Mr. _C--b--r_ to Mr. _P._

_Sic ulciscar genera singula, quemadmodum a quibus sum provocatus._

CIC. post Redit. ad Quir.

_LONDON_: Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_. MDCCXLII.

Mr. _C--b--r_ to Mr. _P._

Have at you again, Sir. I gave you fair Warning that I would have the last Word; and by ---- (I will not swear in Print) you shall find me no Lyar. I own, I am greatly elate on the Laurels the Town has bestow'd upon me for my Victory over you in my Prose Combat; and, encouraged by that Triumph, I now resolve to fight you on your own Dunghil of Poetry, and with your own jingling Weapons of Rhyme and Metre. I confess I have had some Help; but what then? since the greatest Princes are rather proud than asham'd of Allies and Auxiliaries when they make War in the Field, why should I decline such Assistance when I make War in the Press? And since you thought most unrighteously and unjustly to fall upon me and crush me, only because you imagin'd your Self strong and Me weak, as _France_ fell upon the Queen of _Hungary_; if I like her (_si parva licet componere magnis_) by first striking a bold and desperate Stroke myself with a little Success, have encouraged such a Friend to me, as _England_ has been to her, to espouse my Cause, and turn all the Weight of the War upon you, till you wish you had never begun it; with what reasonable and equitable Pleasure may I not pursue my Blow till I make you repent, by laying you on your Back, the ungrateful Returns you have made me for saving you from Destruction when you laid yourself on your Belly. I am, Sir, not your humble, but your devoted Servant; for I will follow you as long as I live; and as _Terence_ says in the _Eunuch_, _Ego pol te pro istis dictis & factis, scelus, ulciscar, ut ne impune in nos illus eris_.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Verbal and Practical VIRTUE EXEMPLIFY'D,

In some Eminent Instances both Ancient and Modern.

What awkard Judgments must they make of Men, Who think their Hearts are pictur'd by their Pen; That _this_ observes the Rules which _that_ approves, And what one praises, that the other loves. Few Authors tread the Paths they recommend, Or when they shew the Road, pursue the End: Few give Examples, whilst they give Advice, Or tho' they scourge the vicious, shun the Vice; But lash the Times as Swimmers do the Tide, And kick and cuff the Stream on which they ride.

His tuneful Lyre when polish'd _Horace_ strung, [a]And all the Sweets of calm Retirement sung, In Practice still his courtly Conduct show'd His Joy was Luxury, and Power his God; [b]With great _Maecenas_ meanly proud to dine, [c]And fond to load _Augustus_ flatter'd Shrine; [d]And whilst he rail'd at _Menas_ ill-got Sway, [e]His numerous Train that choak'd the _Appian_ Way, His Talents still to Perfidy apply'd, Three Times a Friend and Foe to either Side. _Horace_ forgot, or hop'd his Readers would, [f]His Safety on the same Foundation stood. That he who once had own'd his Country's Cause, Now kiss'd the Feet that trampled on her Laws: That till the Havock of _Philippi_'s Field, Where Right to Force, by Fate was taught to yield, He follow'd _Brutus_, and then hail'd the Sword, Which gave Mankind, whom _Brutus_ freed, a Lord: Nor to the Guilt of a Deserter's Name, } Like _Menas_ great (tho' with dishonest Fame) } Added the Glory, tho' he shar'd the Shame. } For whilst with Fleets and Armies _Menas_ warr'd, Courage his Leader, Policy his Guard, Poor _Horace_ only follow'd with a Verse That Fate the Freedman balanc'd, to rehearse; Singing the Victor for whom _Menas_ fought, And following Triumph which the other brought.

[g]Thus graver _Seneca_, in canting Strains, Talk'd of fair Virtue's Charms and Vice's Stains, And said the happy were the chaste and poor; } Whilst plunder'd Provinces supply'd his Store, } And _Rome_'s Imperial Mistress was his Whore. } But tho' he rail'd at Flattery's dangerous Smile, A _Claudius_, and a _Nero_, all the while, With every Vice that reigns in Youth or Age, } The Gilding of his venal Pen engage, } And fill the slavish Fable of each Page. }

See _Sallust_ too, whose Energy divine Lashes a vicious Age in ev'ry Line: With Horror painting the flagitious Times, The profligate, profuse, rapacious Crimes, That reign'd in the degenerate Sons of _Rome_, And made them first deserve, then caus'd their Doom; With all the Merit of his virtuous Pen, Leagu'd with the worst of these corrupted Men; The Day in Riot and Excess to waste, The Night in Taverns and in Brothels past: [h]And when the _Censors_, by their high Controll, Struck him, indignant, from the _Senate_'s Roll, From Justice he appeal'd to _Caesar_'s Sword, [i]And by Law exil'd, was by Force restor'd. [k]What follow'd let _Numidia_'s Sons declare, Harrass'd in Peace with Ills surpassing War; Each Purse by Peculate and Rapine drain'd, Each House by Murder and Adult'ries stain'd: Till _Africk_ Slaves, gall'd by the Chains of _Rome_, Wish'd their own Tyrants as a milder Doom.

If then we turn our Eyes from Words to Fact, Comparing how Men write, with how they act, How many Authors of this Contrast kind In ev'ry Age, and ev'ry Clime we find. Thus scribbling _P----_ who _Peter_ never spares, Feeds on extortious Interest from young Heirs: And whilst he made Old _S--lkerk_'s Bows his Sport, Dawb'd minor Courtiers, of a minor Court. If _Sallust_, _Horace_, _Seneca_, and _He_ Thus in their Morals then so well agree; By what Ingredient is the Difference known? } The Difference only in their Wit is shown, } For all their Cant and Falshood is his own. } He rails at Lies, and yet for half a Crown, Coins and disperses Lies thro' all the Town: Of his own Crimes the Innocent accuses, And those who clubb'd to make him eat, abuses. But whilst such Features in his Works we trace, And Gifts like these his happy Genius grace; Let none his haggard Face, or Mountain Back, The Object of mistaken Satire make; Faults which the best of Men, by Nature curs'd, May chance to share in common with the worst. In Vengeance for his Insults on Mankind, } Let those who blame, some truer Blemish find, } And lash that worse Deformity, his Mind. } Like prudent Foes attack some weaker Part, And make the War upon his Head or Heart. Prove his late Works dishonest as they're dull; } That try'd by Moral or Poetic Rule, } The Verdict must be either Knave or Fool. } [l]Whilst his false _English_, and false Facts combin'd, Betray the double Darkness of his Mind; [m]That Mind so suited to its vile Abode, The Temple so adapted to the God, It seems the Counterpart by Heav'n design'd A Symbol and a Warning to Mankind: As at some Door we find hung out a Sign, Type of the Monster to be found within. From his own Words this Scoundrel let 'em prove Unjust in Hate, incapable of Love; For all the Taste he ever has of Joy, } Is like some yelping Mungril to annoy } And teaze that Passenger he can't destroy. } To cast a Shadow o'er the spotless Fame, Or dye the Cheek of Innocence with Shame; To swell the Breast of Modesty with Care, Or force from Beauty's Eye a secret Tear; And, not by Decency or Honour sway'd, Libel the Living, and asperse the Dead: Prone where he ne'er receiv'd to give Offence, But most averse to Merit and to Sense; Base to his Foe, but baser to his Friend, Lying to blame, and sneering to commend: Defaming those whom all but he must love, And praising those whom none but he approve. Then let him boast that honourable Crime, Of making those who fear not God, fear him; When the great Honour of that Boast is such That Hornets and Mad Dogs may boast as much. Such is th' Injustice of his daily Theme, And such the Lust that breaks his nightly Dream; That vestal Fire of undecaying Hate, Which Time's cold Tide itself can ne'er abate, But like _Domitian_, with a murd'rous Will, Rather than nothing, Flies he likes to kill. And in his Closet stabs some obscure Name, [n]Brought by this Hangman first to Light and Shame. Such now his Works to all the World are known, Who undeceiv'd, their former Error own; Whilst not one Man who likes his rhyming Art, Allows him Genius, or defends his Heart: But thus from Triumph snatch'd, and giv'n to Shame Lash'd _into_ Penitence, and _out_ of Fame. Since all Mankind these certain Truths allow, And speak so freely what so well they know; No wonder doom'd such Treatment to receive, That he _can_ feel, and that he _can't_ forgive. Were I dispos'd to curse the Man I hate, Such would I wish his miserable Fate. Thus striving to inflict, to meet Disgrace, And wasted to the Ghost of what he was; And like all Ghosts which Men of Sense despise, Only the Dread of Folly's coward Eyes. Thus would I have him despicably live, Himself, his Friends, and Credit to survive, Into Contempt from Reputation hurl'd, His own Detractor thro' a scoffing World.

_FINIS._

Footnotes:

[a] Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, &c. Epod. 2. Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebirur usque invidia. _Sat. 1. Lib. 2._

[b] Nunc quia Maecenas tibi sum convictor. _Sat. 6. Lib. 1._

----Tu pulses omne quod obstat Ad Maecenatem memori si mente recurras. Hoc juvat, & melli est; ne mentiar. _Sat. 6. Lib. 2._

[c] All his Works are full of Examples of Flattery to _Augustus_.

[d] Epod. 4. _Maenas_ was a Freedman of _Pompey_ the younger; and he deserted from him to _Augustus_, then back from _Augustus_ to _Pompey_, and then from _Pompey_ to _Augustus_ again. This is in all the Histories. _Appian. Dion._

[e] Et Appiam mannis terit. _Epod. 4._

[f]

O saepe mecum tempus in ultimum Deducte, Bruto militiae Duce.---- Tecum Philippos & celerem fugam Sensi, relicta non bene parmula Cum fracta virtus, & minaces Turpe solum tetigere mento. HOR. _Ode. 7. B. 2._

[g] In his Seneca reus factus est multorum scelerum, sed praesertim quod cum Agrippina rem haberet, nec enim in hac re solum, sed in plerisque aliis contra facere visus est quam Philosophabatur. Quum enim Tyrannidem improbaret, Tyranni praeceptor erat: quumque insultaret iis qui cum principibus versarentur, ipse a Palatio non discedebat. Assentatores detestabatur, quum ipse Reginas coleret & libertos, ac Laudationes quorundam componeret. Reprehendebat divites is, cujus facultates erant ter millies sestertium: quique luxum aliorum damnabat quingentes tripodas habuit de ligno cedrino, pedibus eburneis, similes & pares inter se, in quibus coenabat. Ex quibus omnibus ea quae sunt his consentanea, quaeque ipse libidinose fecit, facile intelligi possunt. Nuptias enim cum nobilissima atque illustrissima foemina contraxit. Delectabatur exoletis, idque Neronem facere docuerat etsi antea tanta fuerat in morum severitate ut ab eo peteret, ne se oscularetur, neve una secum coenandi causa discumberet.

Vid. _Dion. Excerpta per Xiphilinum, Lib. 61._

[h] Collegae tamen, multos Nobilium, atque inter eos Crispum etiam Sallustium, eum, qui historiam conscripsit, Senatu ejicienti non repugnavit. DION. _Lib. 40._

[i] Ab his Sallustius (qui ut Senatoriam dignitatem recupararet tum Praetor factus erat) propemodum occisus. DION. _Lib. 42._

[k] Numidas quoque in suam potestarem Caesar accepit, iisque Sallustium praefecit. Sallustius & pecuniae captae & compilatae provinciae accusatus, summam infamiam reportavit, quod quum ejusmodi libros composuisset, in quibus multis acerbisque verbis eos, qui ex provinciis quaestum facerent, notasset, nequaquam suis scriptis in agendo sterisset. Itaque etsi a Caesare absolutus fuit, tamen suis ipsius verbis proprium crimen abunde quasi in tabula propositum divulgavit. DION. _L. 43._

[l] See at least a hundred and fifty Places in his late Works.

[m] In quo deformitas corporis cum turpitudine cerrabat ingenii; adco ut animus eius dignissimo domicilio inclusus videretur. VEL. PAT. _L. 2. B. 69._

[n] See the Dunciad.

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17. Nicholas Rowe, _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_ (1709).

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118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).

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