Mason, William: An Heroic Epistle To Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of his Majesty's Works, And Author of a late Dissertation on Oriental Gardening: enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate Performance (London: Almon, 1773)

Does Envy doubt ? Witness ye chosen train ’
Who breathe the sweets of his Saturnian reign ;
Witness ye ye J*ns*ns, Sc*ts, S*bb*s,
Hark to my call, for some of you have ears. 20
Let D**d H*e, from the remotest North,
Tn see-sa w sceptic scruples hint his worth ;
D**d, who there supinely deigns to lye
The fattest Hog of Epicuru’s sty;
Tho’ drunk with Gallic wine, and Gallic praise, 25
D**d ssiall bless Old England’s halcyon days;
The mighty Home bemir’d in prose To long,
Again ihall stalk upon the stilts of song;
While bold Mac-Ossian, wont in ghosts to deal,
Bids candid Smollet from his coffin sheal; jo
Bids Mallock quit his sweet Elysian rest,
Sunk in his St. John’s philosophic breast,
And, like old Orpheus, make some strong effort
To come from Hell, and warble truth at Court.
There
NOTE.
Verse 34. [Truth at Court.] Vide (if it be extant) a poem under this title, for
which (or for the publication of Lord Bolingbroke’s philosophical writings) the person here
mentioned, received a considerable pension in the time of Lord B—te’s adjninistrat'on.