ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. PERHAPS BY MR. POPE'. RESPECT to Dryden, Sheffield justly paid, 1 Mr. Pope, in one of the prints from Scheemaker's monument of Shakspeare in Westminster Abbey, has sufficiently shown his contempt of Alderman Barber, by the following couplet, which is substituted in the place of "The cloudcapp'd towers, &c." Thus Britain loved me; and preserved my fame, Clear from a Barber's or a Benson's name. A. POPE. Pope might probably have suppressed his satire on the alderman, because he was one of Swift's acquaintances and correspondents; though in the fourth book of the Dunciad he has an anonymous stroke at him : So by each bard an alderman shall sit, END OF VOL. XXXVI. C. Chittingham, College House, Chiswick. |