News from St. James's. Mary Barber Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 pp. 111-113. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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News from St. James's . A courtier , summon'd hence of late , Was call'd to Minos' Judgment Seat . The Cretan Sage began the Charge , Recounted all his Crimes at large ; His Insincerity , and Pride , His Hundred evil Arts beside ; Arts , thinly veil'd with Virtue's Guise , The modern Statesmens Scheme to rise . He , cringing , owns his Guilt , with Shame ; Yet from himself would shift the Blame ; Insists , that since the World began , Kings seldom rais'd the virtuous Man : ( Some Instances must be allow'd , Tho' almost lost in such a Croud ) That Courts were other Things of late , Than when he rul'd the Cretan State : That those who breathe in them , will find , The tainted Air corrupts the Mind . Courtier , the Judge reply'd , beware — Theander has resided there ; The third of an accomplish'd Race , Who fill'd successively one Place : Yet see the Stream of Virtue run , Untainted down from Sire to Son : Humane their Hearts , enlarg'd , refin'd , With ev'ry Gift to bless their Kind ; In Friendship's noblest Zeal sincere ; In Honour amiably severe ; Steady to Faith , and Truth , and Right ; With open Honesty , polite ; With no Disguise in Speech , or Spirit , But Modesty , the Mask of Merit . True , Minos — yet you must agree , These Instances conclude for me . They uncorrupt have brearh'd that Air ; But how have they succeeded there ?