But how? refides fuch virtue in that air
As must create an appetite for pray'r ?
And will it breathe into him all the zeal

That candidates for fuch a prize should feel,
To take the lead and be the foremost still

In all true worth and literary fkill?

"Ah blind to bright futurity, untaught

"The knowledge of the world, and dull of thought! "Church-ladders are not always mounted best By learned Clerks and Latinifts profess'd. "Th' exalted prize demands an upward look, "Not to be found by poring on a book. "Small skill in Latin, and still lefs in Greek, "Is more than adequate to all I feek; "Let erudition grace him or not grace, "I give the bawble but the fecond place, "His wealth, fame, honors, all that I intend, "Subfift and center in one point-a friend. "A friend, whate'er he ftudies or neglects, "Shall give him confequence, heal all defects,

• His

"His intercourfe with peers, and fons of

peers

"There dawns the fplendour of his future years,

"In that bright quarter his propitious skies
"Shall blush betimes, and there his glory rise.
"Your Lordship, and your Grace! what school can teach
"A rhet'ric equal to thofe parts of speech?
"What need of Homer's verfe or Tully's profe,
"Sweet interjections! if he learn but thofe ?

"Let rev'rend churls his ignorance rebuke,
"Who starve upon a dog's-ear'd Pentateuch,
"The parfon knows enough who knows a Duke.".
Egregious purpose ! worthily begun

In barb'rous prostitution of your fon,

Prefs'd on his part by means that would difgrace
A fcriv'ner's clerk or footman out of place,
And ending, if at laft its end be gain'd,
In facrilege, in God's own house profan'd.
It may fucceed; and if his fins fhould call
For more than common punishment, it shall;

The

The wretch fhall rife, and be the thing on earth
Leaft qualified in honor, learning, worth,
To occupy a facred, awful post,

In which the best and worthieft tremble most.

The royal letters are a thing of course,

A king that would, might recommend his horfe,
And Deans, no doubt, and Chapters, with one voice,

As bound in duty, would confirm the choice.
Behold your Bishop! well he plays his part,
Christian in name, and Infidel in heart,
Ghoftly in office, earthly in his plan,

A flave at court, elsewhere a lady's man,
Dumb as a fenator, and as a priest

A piece of mere church-furniture at best;
To live eftrang'd from God his total scope,
And his end fure, without one glimpse of hope.
But fair although and feasible it seem,

Depend not much upon your golden dream;
For Providence, that feems concern'd t' exempt

The hallow'd bench from abfolute contempt,

In spite of all the wrigglers into place,

Still keeps a feat or two for worth and grace;
And therefore 'tis, that, though the fight be rare,
We sometimes fee a Lowth or Bagot there.
Befides, fchool-friendships are not always found,
Though fair in promife, permanent and found;
The most difint'refted and virtuous minds
In early years connected, time unbinds;
New fituations give a diff'rent caft

Of habit, inclination, temper, taste,

And he that feem'd our counterpart at first,

Soon shows the strong fimilitude revers'd.

Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm, And make mistakes for manhood to reform.

Boys are at beft but pretty buds unblown,

Whofe fcent and hues are rather guefs'd than known; Each dreams that each is juft what he appears,

But learns his error in maturer years,

When difpofition, like a fail unfurl'd,

Shows all its rents and patches to the world.

If therefore, ev'n when honeft in defign, A boyish friendship may fo foon decline, 'Twere wiser fure t' infpire a little heart With just abhorrence of fo mean a part, Than fet your fon to work at a vile trade fo unlikely to be paid.

For wages

Our public hives of puerile refort,
That are of chief and most approv'd report,

To fuch bafe hopes, in many a fordid soul,
Owe their
repute in part, but not the whole.

A principle, whose proud pretenfions pafs
Unqueftion'd, though the jewel be but glass
That with a world, not often over-nice,
Ranks as a virtue, and is yet a vice;
Or rather a grofs compound, juftly tried,
Of envy, hatred, jealousy, and pride—

Contributes moft perhaps t' inhance their fame,
And Emulation is its fpecious name,

Boys