For when a Shin in Fight is cropt,
The Knee with one of Timber's propt;
Efteem'd more Honourable than the other,
And takes Place, tho' the younger Brother.
Next march'd brave Orfin, famous for
Wife Conduct, and Succefs in War:
A fkilful Leader, flout, fevere,
Now Marshal to the Champion Bear,
With Truncheon tipp'd with Iron Head,
The Warrior to the Lifts he led
With folemn March, and ftately Pace,
But far more grave and folemn Face:
Grave as the Emperor of Pegu,
Or Spanish Potentate Don Diego.
This Leader was of Knowledge great,
Either for Charge, or for Retreat.
He knew when to fall on Pell-mell,
To fall back and retreat as well.
So Lawyers, left the Bear Defendant,
And Plantiff Dog fhould make an end on't,
Do ftave and tail with Writs of Error,
Reverse of Judgment, and Demurrer,
To let them breath a while, and then?
Cry whoop, and fet them on agen.
As Romulus a Wolf did rear,
So he was dry-nurs'd by a Bear,
That fed him with the purchas'd Prey
Of many a fierce and bloudy Fray;
up, where Discipline most rare is,
In Military Golden Paris.
For Soldiers heretofore did grow
In Gardens, juft as Weeds do now;
Until fome fplay-foot Politicians
T' Apollo offer'd up Petitions,
For licensing a new Invention
Th' ad found out, of an Antique Engine,
To root out all the Weeds that grow
In publick Gardens at a Blow,
And leave th' Herbs ftanding. Quoth Sir Sun,
My Friends, that is not to be done.
Not done? quo' Statefmen; yes, an't please ye,
When 'tis once known, you'll fay 'tis eafie.
Why then let's know it, quoth Apollo;
We'll beat a Drum, and they'll all follow."
A Drum (quoth Phœbus) troth that's true,
A pretty Invention quaint and new.
But though of Voice and Inftrument
We are th' undoubted Prefident;
We fuch loud Mufick do not profefs,
The Devil's Mafter of that Office,
Where it must pass, if't be a Drum,
He'll fign it with Cler. Parl. Dom. Com,
To him apply your felves, and he
Will foon dispatch you for his Fee.
They did fo, but it prov'd fo ill,
Th' had better have let 'em grow there ftill,
But to refume what we difcourfing
Were on before, that is, ftout Orfin:
That which fo oft by fundry Writers
Has been apply'd t' almost all Fighters,
More juftly may b' afcrib'd to this,
Than any other Warrior (viz.)
None ever acted both Parts holder,
Both of a Chieftain and a Soldier.
He was of great Defcent, and high,
For Splendor and Antiquity,
And from Celestial Origine
Deriv'd himself in a right Line.
Not as the antient Heroes did,
Who, that their base Births might be hid,
Knowing they were of doubtful Gender,
And that they came in at a Windore)
Made Jupiter himself, and others
O' th' Gods, Gallants to their own Mothers,
To get on them a Race of Champions,
Of which old Homer first made Lampoons)
Artophylax in Northern Sphere
Was his undoubted Ancestor :
From him his Great Fore-fathers came,
And in all Ages bore his Name.
Learned he was in Med'c'nal Lore,
For by his Side a Pouch he wore,
Replete with ftrange Hermetick Powder,
ThatWounds 9 Miles point-blank would folder. By fkilful Chymift with great Coft
Extracted from a Rotten Poft;
But of a Heav'nlier Influence
Than that which Mountebanks difpenfe;
Though by Promethean Fire made,
As they do quack that drive that Trade.
For as when Slovens do amifs,
At others Doors by Stool or Pifs,
The Learned write, a Red-hot Spit
B'ing prudently apply'd to it,
Will convey mischief from the Dung
Unto the part that did the wrong:
So this did healing, and as fure
As that did mischief, this would cure.
Thus virtuous Orfin was endu'd
With Learning, Conduct, Fortitude,
Incomparable: and as the Prince
Of Poets, Homer, fung long fince,
A fkilful Leech is better far
Than half a hundred Men of War;
So he appear'd, and by his fkill,
No lefs than Dint of Sword could kill.
The Gallant Bruin march'd next him,
With Vifage formidably grim,
And rugged as a Saracen,
Or Turk of Mahomet's own Kin
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