On a Passage in Pope

"P.C.S.S.," who is old-fashioned enough to admire and to study Pope, would feel greatly obliged if any of your correspondents could help him to the interpretation of the following lines, in the "Imitation" of Horace's *Epistle to Augustus*:— "The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles, Which made old Ben, and sturdy Dennis swear, *No Lord's Annointed, but a Russian bear!*" The passage in Horace, of which this purports to be an "Imitation," is the well-known "Boeotum in crasso jurares äere natum," and it is clear enough that Pope meant to represe…