"Whence Gay was banished in disgrace,
Where Pope will never show his face,
Where Y---- must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."

That Y---- means Young seems clear from four other lines in the same
poem:--

"Attend, ye Popes, and Youngs, and Gays,
And tune your harps and strew your bays;
Your panegyrics here provide;
You cannot err on flattery's side."

Yet who shall say with certainty that Young was a pensioner? In all
modern periods of this country, have not the writers on one side
been regularly called Hirelings, and on the other Patriots?

Of the dedication the complexion is clearly political. It speaks in
the highest terms of the late peace; it gives her Majesty praise
indeed for her victories, but says that the author is more pleased
to see her rise from this lower world, soaring above the clouds,
passing the first and second heavens, and leaving the fixed stars
behind her; nor will he lose her there, he says, but keep her still
in view through the boundless spaces on the other side of creation,
in her journey towards eternal bliss, till he behold the heaven of
heavens open, and angels receiving and conveying her still onward
from the stretch of his imagination, which tires in her pursuit, and
falls back again to earth.

The queen was soon called away from this lower world, to a place