Note 12 — YORKSHIRE DIP.
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Footnote 12
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The Poet has drawn his Jupiter according to the Homeric Model, in it's least divine features. Yet I wish he had not. The Yorkshire Dip (the mixture of sweet and sour) might have remained a type of Life, temper'd in like manner: not by the wrath but by the benevolence of Jupiter.
... Who hath will'd That Pleasure be co-mate of Toil and Pain, Lest Joy should sink in listless apathy. ... Curit acuens mortalia corda, Nec torpere gravi passus fua Regna Veterno.
GEORG. I.
And accordingly the next Poem. C.L.