Excerpt from Boileau's Lutrin: A Mock-Heroic Poem; In Six Canto's; Render'd Into English Verse

Chanter's Seat, and fir hloeh him up.] f it trite, and that's all. There/l is mer from the Beginning to the End and a f in it are not only invented, hat 1 drawn quite oopofite to the true Chara iliinijler: of that Church, who for the rt, ejlbeeza/l] the Canons, are Menof great Virtue and a; inut Wit There'; one mong/h 'ern, who/3 O pinion I would a} willingly hive npon iny'pehfor mantef, a: of a great man] Gentlemen of the A cademy. 'tzs not therefore to he wonder'd, that no Bod] tool: Ofence at this xpoem, finte_ no'body a: attat/g'd h] A Spendthrft ifnot troahleol to'fee a'mifer ekfox'd Nor foe} lzgzoas Perfon refint the ridiculing of a Rake. I [ha/l not mention how I was engag'ol' in this upon a hineh of a jocular Challenge made me, late Monfiear Lamoignon, whom I paint the Name of Atifius. A particular Nar ration of this amatter, does not fienz at all netejfary. Bill I fhonld think I felf a great deal 'of-ariang, to temit} of informihg thoft who are tg hom trench I was honoar'd With that great Man's' Friend/hip, daring hi: Life. I hegan' to he know to him at the Time when my Satyr: made the. Greate/h Not/e; and the ohligihg Aeeef: he gaw' me into [915 ill/{firtons Family, was antageoiis Apology in in} _beha who were minded to area]? Me ofih' Morals. He wasa 'man of an amazing ycnow ledge, Lend a pa/fionate Admirer of all the g Books 'of Antiquity, and this was what made 6 'woihs the more tolerahle to him; fdflcjzfig he percew'd infem fame Tafle of the Ancients. Hts ety was unfetgn'd, and yet had nothing in it that 'was jitfi ohtrouhlcfome. 'he was not at all frighten'd at the Title of my W orles, Satjrs, where in Truth he found only V erfes and Authors expos'd. He was pleas'd often to commend me for ha'ctng purg'd this Sort of Poetry from that Ohfcenity and Filth, which till then, had heen as it were, peculiar to it. Thus I had the good Fortune not to he difizgreeahle to him. He let me into all his Pleafures and Di werfions, that is to fa], his Studies and Retire ments. He favour'd me [omettmes wen with his Confidence, and open'd to me the inmojl Re of his Soul. And what did not fee there! T a ur rim Trea ureo Pro II] and u ice! What ah ihehgitjlihleff'unj of Piety andgtgeal Tho' the outward Lujlre of his Vertue was exceed ing great, it was infinitely brighter within and 'twas wfihle how carefully he temper'd the Rays of it, not to wound the Eyes of an Age fo corrupt as ours. I was fincerel} jlruch with fo many admirahle Quali ties; and-as he always dtfizosuered a great deal of Kindnefi for me, fo I ever return'd it with the firongejl Devotion for him. The Refoeiis I paid him were not mixt with any Mer Leven of fe'lf-intere/t, and I made it more to A 3 profitprofit by his conner/jinan, than his Credit at Court. He died at the Time when this Friend/hip was in its higheji Paint of Perfeliion, and the Rememhrance great a Lofi afiliiis m are fo worth] to live.

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