THE GARDEN PLOT. 1709.

WHEN Naboth's vineyard look'd so fine,
The king cried out, "Would this were mine!"
And yet no reason could prevail,
To bring the owners to a sale;
Jezabel saw, with haughty pride,
How Ahab griev'd to be denied:
And thus accosted him with scorn,
"Shall Naboth make a monarch mourn?

A king, and weep! The ground's your own:
I'll vest the garden in the crown."
With that she hatch'd a plot, and made
Poor Naboth answer with his head.
And when his harmless blood was spilt,
The ground became the forfeit of his guilt.
Poor Hall, renown'd for comely hair,
Whose hands perhaps were not so fair,
Yet had a Jezabel as near.
Hall, of small scripture-conversation,
Yet howe'er Hungerford's quotation,
By some strange accident had got
The story of this garden plot;
Wisely foresaw he might have reason
To dread a modern bill of treason,
If Jezabel should please to want
His small addition to her grant;
Therefore resolv'd in humble sort
To begin first, and make his court;
And, seeing nothing else would do,
Gave a third part, to save the other two.

EPISTLE TO MR. GODDARD';

WRITTEN BY DR. KING,

IN THE CHARACTER OF THE REVIEW. To Windsor Canon, his well-chosen friend, The just Review does kindest greeting send, I've found the man by Nature's gift design'd To please my ear and captivate my mind, By sympathy the eager passions move, And strike my soul with wonder and with love! Happy that place, where much less care is had To save the virtuous, than protect the bad;

Taken from an admirable banter of our author's, entituled, Two Friendly Letters from honest Tom Boggy, to the rev. Mr. Goddard, Canon of Windsor, very proper to be tacked to the canon's sermon; first printed in 8vo, 1710. This sermon (full of high treason against high-church, hereditary right, and Sacheverell) was entituled, The Guilt, Mischief, and Aggravation of Censure; set forth in a Sermon preached in St. George's Chapel within her Majesty's Castle of Windsor, on Sunday the 25th of June, 1710. By Thomas Goddard, A. M. Canon of Windsor. London, printed for B. Lintot, 1710.-Mr. Goddard was

Where pastors must their stubborn flock obey,
Or that be thought a scandal which they say:
For, should a sin, by some grand soul belov'd,
Chance with an aukward zeal to be reprov'd,
And tender conscience meet the fatal curse,
Of hardening by reproof, and growing worse:
When things to such extremities are brought,
'Tis not the sinner's, but the teacher's, fault.
With great men's wickedness, then, rest content,
And give them their own leisure to repent;
Whilst their own head-strong will alone must curb
them,

And nothing vex, or venture to disturb them,
Lest they should lose their favour in the court,
And no one but themselves be sorry for 't.
Were I in panegyric vers'd like you,
I'd bring whole offerings to your merit due.
You've gain'd the conquest; and I freely own,
Dissenters may by churchmen be out-done.
Though once we seem'd to be at such a distance,
Yet both concentre in divine resistance:
Both teach what kings must do when subjects fight,
And both disclaim hereditary right.

By Jove's command, two eagles took their flight,
One from the east, the source of infant light,
The other from the west, that bed of night.
The birds of thunder both at Delphi meet,
The centre of the world, and Wisdom's seat.
So, by a power not decent here to name,
To one fixt point our various notions came,
Your thoughts from Oxford and from Windsor
flew,
[Review'.
Whilst shop and meeting-house brought forth
Your brains fierce eloquence and logic tried,
My humbler strain choice socks and stockings
Yet in our common principles we meet, [cried;
You sinking from the head, I rising from the feet.
Pardon a hasty Muse, ambitious grown,
Textol a merit far beyond his own.
For, though a moderate painter can't command
The stroke of Titian's or of Raphael's hand:
Yet their transcendent works his fancy raise;
And there's some skill in knowing what to praise.

installed canon May 26, 1707, and was also rector of St. Bennet Finch, London. He published a 30th of January sermon, in 4to, 1703; and The Mercy of God to this Church and Kingdom, exemplified in the several Instances of it, from the Beginning of the Reformation down to the present Time. A Sermon preached in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, on Tuesday the 7th of November, the Day of Thanksgiving, 1710, 8vo. They were all reprinted in 1715, with three others, under the title of Six Sermons on several Occasions, 8vo. N.

2 A well-known political paper by De Foe, in which Mr. Goddard's sermon was immoderately commended. See a long account of this writer, and of Ridpath and Tutchin his associates, in the Supplement to Swift. N.

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