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DE FE N C Est/re.

Poem, or Pamphlet publiﬂied in
this Kingdom without a Name,
will not long want one, if the
Paper makes any Noife.

There is a certain Perfan of

,Diﬁiné’tion among us, who is conjeé’cured to V

have written many Thin 3, both in Profe and
Verfe, for the Service 0 the Nation, which,
undoubtedly, were publiihed with his own Con»
fent. It is alfo believed, that he hath compofed
others occaﬁonally, for the Amufement of himn
{elf and a few intimate Friends; which by the
Indifcretion of others, were, from ﬂolen and
uncorreét C0pies, dragged into Light.

But, I hold it for certain, that a much greater

Number have, by the BOldnefs of Printers, and
the Want of Judgment in Readers, been charged

upon that Author, wherein» he never‘had the
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fmalleﬂ Finger, as I am aflui‘ed he hath often
Héclared ;’ and, which is remarkable, was as free
in difoiVning fome Writings charged upon him,

of iwhich he had no Reafbn to be aihamecl, as

he edulcl'be of the meaneﬂ: Produé’eions of Hz?
Enema” Grub-ﬁrm: Of which I 1hall initance
only one Pamphlet, which hath been very well

received, as it jul’cly deferved. It is entitled,

.ﬂn Infallz‘ﬁle Scheme to pay the Nation’s

Debzgs, by a Tax upon Vice; which he difclaimed

any Share in, at’ the fame Time giving it dire

Praifes. And, I ﬁnd, the true ﬂat/90;” of that:

'Bainphlet lyes yet concealed; which is a Hap-_
pinefs' that few Writers of any Diﬁiné‘cion can

:ai‘rive at, Whether by their own Indifcretion, or

Lthatof their Friends I [hall not determine.

As , to thOfe fdml V 67%“ called the Lady’s
Drying—Room, which have {9 highly inﬂamed
the whole Sex, (except a Very t'eW of better
Judgment) as I can by no Meanﬁjuﬁify the vul-
-- at Opinion, that feems to ﬁx it: upon a Perfon,
go well ‘known for :Works of a very different
Nature; 10 I cannot but lament the prevailing
ill Taf’ce athong us, which is not able to difcover
that'ufeful Satyr running through every Line,
and the Matter as decently wrapp’d up, as it is ,
p‘oﬂible the Subje€t could bear.

Gledﬁliﬂqﬂf hath, in all polite Ages and Na:
tions; been ei’teemed the chief“ corporeal Perfec—
tion in Mme”, as it is well known to thofe who
ate; converfant with the antient Poem. And To

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it is Ptill among the young People of Judgment
and Sobriety, when they are difpofed tomarry.
And I do not doubt, but that there is a great
Number of young Ladies in this Town and
Kingdom, who in reading that Poem, ﬁnd great
Complacency in their own Minds, from a Con--
fciouﬁtefs that the Satyrical Part in the Lady’s
Brewing—Room, does not. in the leal’c aﬁ‘eél: them.

Wherefore it is manifeﬂ, that no Poem was
ever written with a better Delion for the Service
of the Sex: Wherein our ﬂutbar hath obferved
to a Tittle, the Precepts of his hdaf’cer Horace;
or, indeed, rather hath gone very far beyond
him, in the Article of Decency.

That great Poet, inllruéting us what Aé’cions
are fitteﬂ: to be produced openly upon the Scene,
and which are molt proper to be only related to
the Audience, ooes many Lengths beyond the
ﬂat/{Jar of the Lady’s Dreﬂﬁg—Room ; for at the
fame Irritant when he fays, lbme Ae‘tions ﬂiould
not appear as done upon the Stage, he allows,
they may be recited with Pleat/are and E/cgmce;
and y:t when he comes to Particulars, his Re«
cital is extreamly grofs, and {0 are his very Pre—a
zepts which forbid the Aé’cions: That if our infb
nitely morennodeﬁ ﬂat/907* had imitated his Mae
ﬂcr’s Stile, the whole World might with great
Appearance of Keaton, have been up in Arms
againﬂ: him.

Therefore, to let thefe two Poets in a true
Light, I have ventured, for the Satisfa-i’cion of

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“Both Sexes, to tranﬂate, as literally as I could, ten
Lines in Horace, upon the very fame Subjeék,‘
which our ﬂat/oar hath handled with a Decency
{0 far fuperior to his Roma; Maﬁer. '1'
To juﬁify the Truth of my Tranﬂation, I de— a
ﬁre all ﬁne Gentlemen and Ladies will appeal
from me to the Information of the Learned, that
I may be wholly clear from the leaf: Cenfure of
miﬁ‘eprefenting f0 great an Authority; for, in-
deed, if I have been guilty of any Fault. it is in
palliating the grofs Expreﬂions in the Original,
and foft’ning them very much to the Politenq/Zv
of the pwfent ﬂga. ‘

The Latin is Word for Word as follows.

JIM agitur was in fcem's, aut aﬁa rcfertur.
Segm‘m irritant animus demijlk per amem,
QM?” guts ﬁmt oculz's fubjeﬁaﬁdchém, 8 9M£
{pfeﬂbz‘ tradit fpeﬁator. [Von Mmen intus
ngmgerz' promes iii fcemms Multaq; talles-
Ex ova/2's, gum max narretfawndia praefem.
Nee pmros comm populo Medea trucidet;
ﬂat {Gamma palam cog/um extra nefarius Atreus;
ﬂat in amm‘l’rogne vertemr, Cadmus in angmm,
andcuﬂq; oﬂmdi: mihiﬁc, imredulm 047.

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The literal Tranﬂation whereof is thus.

Some Ladies do their Need before your Face;
Some only tell the Alli-07¢, and the Place.
Our Mindmis lefs provok’d by what it hears,
Than whei the Fat? before our Eyes appears.
In Clofet dark, your Cedar—50x be hid;
Not in a Parlour {hown Without the Lid.
Some Aﬁlom mui’c be always, out of Sight,
Yet elegantly told, may give Delight.

' Nurfe muPc not hold the Child, and cry Eee, Her,

When Madam and her Friends are o’er their Terr“

Arrows, with Ladies by, miﬁakes his Wit,

In new—born T---s to run a red-hot Spit.

Mifs Progrze muﬁ not cry, a Bird, 62 Bird.’

Before good Company, and Ihew a -——--. ,

Cezdmm, who voids out Wrorms of monf’t’rous

‘ Size,

In mere good Manners {hould deceive our Eyes;

Muf’t do his dirty Work behind the Scene,

And e’er he {hews the Vermin, Wipe them Clean.

To bring fuch odious Obje&s full in View,

Though 11:00]: may laugh, will make a wife Mam
pew.

I deﬁre the Reader will compare the leaﬂ: ex~
ceptionable Lines in the Lady’s Dreﬂiﬂg—Room
with the leaﬂ: oﬁ'enﬁve of thefe in Harare ; ale-
though purged by me, as much as could conﬁit
with preferving the true Settle of the Original ;

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Yet this Was the great [Lid/Z21” qf Polite/’14.} 1n the
1307722274 Empire, at the Time it ﬂmirifhed 111011:
in 1122‘: and ﬂims. .

Horace, you fee, makes Uf e of the 1121111 110»
venly VV’ordS. which our decent. Iri J Poet me
duﬁrieuﬂy avoids 211111 skins 0V: 1 .1 Hundred
dirty lllaces,witho11t fawling his Shoes. Horace,
on thec contrary, p laimly calls a Soar/2,21 Spade,
when the1e was not the leaﬂ: Neceﬁity , and
When, with equal E 1e :15 well as S1gniﬁcancy,
he mioht have exp1e1s cl his 1111221111119: “111 comely
Terms ﬁt for the meelt Ears of 21313122222 or a
Drinks/‘5

I do, thereiere, pelitively (1291211: 111 tavour of
our Hiuemiam 3212!, upon the Artie 1e 01 D22
22226)); and am reac1y to 11efencl my E’fenoﬁtion
agamﬁ all Man1111... that 111 the ten Lines of
Horace, here faitl11’7*1:ly 21111 1211011121th 11.111112:
ted, there are ten limes more/1011122151 Exp12f~
922.,1 than 111 the whale P022723 (32111-311 the Lady 5

D22ﬂizig Room; ancl tor the Truth of this Pro-
petition: 1 am ready to appeal to all the young
Ladies of the K111 darn, or to fuch a Committee
as my very Advertaries {hall appoint.

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