Champing his foam, and bounding on the plain,
    Arch his high neck, and graceful spread his mane.

Now as to the intrepidity, the calm courage, the constant application of the hero, it is not necessary to take that upon yourself; you may, in the lump, bid him you employ raise him as high as he can, and if he does it not, let him answer for disobeying orders: 

    Let fame and victory in inferior sky,
    Hover with ballanced wings, and smiling fly
    Above his head, &c.

A whole poem of this kind may be ready against an ensuing campaign, as well as a space left in the canvas of a piece of tapestry for the principal figure, while the underparts are working:  so that in effect, the adviser copies after the man he pretends to direct.  This method should, methinks, encourage young beginners:  for the invention is so fitted to all capacities, that by the help of it a man may make a receipt for a poem.  A young man may observe, that the jig[91] of the thing is, as I said, finding out all that can be said of his way [whom] you employ to set forth your worthy.  Waller and Denham had worn out the expedient of “Advice to a Painter."[92] This author has transferred the work, and sent his advice to the Poets; that is to say, to the turners of verse, as he calls them.  Well, that thought is worn out also, therefore he directs his genius to the loom, and will have a new set of hangings in honour of the last year in Flanders.  I must own to you, I approve extremely this invention, and it might be improved for the benefit of manufactory:  as, suppose an ingenious gentleman should write a poem of advice to a calico-printer:  do you think there is a girl in England, that would wear anything but the taking of Lille, or the Battle of Oudenarde?  They would certainly be all the fashion, till the heroes abroad had cut out some more patterns.  I should fancy small skirmishes might do for under-petticoats, provided they had a siege for the upper.  If our adviser were well imitated, many industrious people might be put to work.  Little Mr. Dactile, now in the room, who formerly writ a song and a half, is a week gone in a very pretty work upon this hint:  he is writing an epigram to a young virgin who knits very well (’tis a thousand pities he is a Jacobite); but his epigram is by way of advice to this damsel, to knit all the actions of the Pretender and the Duke of Burgundy last campaign in the clock of a stocking.  It were endless to enumerate the many hands and trades that may be employed by poets, of so useful a turn as this adviser’s.  I shall think of it; and in this time of taxes, shall consult a great critic employed in the custom-house, in order to propose what tax may be proper to put upon knives, seals, rings, hangings, wrought-beds, gowns and petticoats, where any of those commodities bear mottoes, or are worked upon poetical grounds.

St. James’s Coffee-house, April 15.