+ WHILE you, my Lord, great Drury's weal sustain,

Light ev'ry walk, and open all the lane,

With strength of arm plead Black-boy Alley's cause,

Adorn with manners, and improve with laws;

*This burlesque Poem was written at the close of the Duke of NEWCASTLE'S Administration, and first published in the year 1767.

+ Vide HoR. Epist. I. Lib. 2. Cum tot sustineas, &c.

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Much would the public suffer from the song

That dar'd, O BUCKHORSE, to detain thee long.

When Alba's warlike sons of yore,

Held

sage debate on Tyber's shore,

A patriot captain of banditti

Was made their chairman of committee,

And plann'd great Rome's imperial city:

Where now, inshrin'd among

the gods,

With joy he views, from Heav'n's abodes,

Meek cardinals and holy friars,

For learning fam'd, and chaste desires,

Season the tender minds of youth

With virtue, liberty, and truth:
Like him consign'd to glorious rest
Amid the regions of the blest,

No less, in these degen'rate days,
A pious knight demands our praise,
Who, from an ardent love of knowledge,
Bequeath'd his wealth to found a college.
And much we wish, my Lord, that you
Such bright examples would pursue,

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Build here some noble rich foundation,

And form a plan of education

To mend the morals of the nation;

Visit yourself your own asylum,

Statutes and wholsome laws, compile 'em,
Nor suffer bishops to embroil 'em ;
Correct their manners, not so gently

As Fame reports of Doctor B-NTL-Y,
But at th' election of their stewards,
Accept, my Lord, my thoughts in few words:
If some important dull logician,

Smit by the dæmon of ambition,
In pedant politics officious

For Machiavel quits Burgersdicius;
Or like the great men's nomenclator,

TOM TURBULENT, that meddling prater,

With pertness, pride, and meanness join'd

To vacant head, and restless mind,

O'er these calm realms, whence science springs,

Bids Discord wave her baleful wings,

These blest abodes in ferment puts

Give him a driver in the guts,

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And make such factious, ill-bred chuckles,
Revere the influence of your knuckles;

Thus all their feuds and tumults quell,
And peace restore to Israel:

So may the swans of Camus raise

Their tuneful throats to chaunt thy praise,

* Granta her list of worthies crowning
With names of BUCKHORSE and of DoWNING.

+ BACCHUS, when India was o'ercome,

And war compos'd by wine and rum,
(Which, you'll confess yourself, my Lord,

Is better far than fire and sword)

*Vide Commem. Benefact.

+ The passage from which this allegory is taken is in DYONYSIUS De situ orbis, line 1155. The character contemplated under the name of BACCHUS is not remembered at this day; and perhaps the Editor will be excused, considering this Poem has been written above forty years, if he should not now for the first time introduce to public notice, in the form of a note, the real persons who, he has either heard, or imagined, were intended to be pourtrayed under the fictitious names and the many classical allusions and anecdotes interwoven with the subject; to do this with sufficient interest and effect, and at the same time with that precision and accuracy which the subject demands, would be a matter of considerable difficulty; it would be liable also to many objections of another kind. This observation applies with equal propriety to the subject of the New Bath Guide. EDIT.

To Egypt went, as rich as those

Who've seiz'd a Nabob by the nose;

And there, as ancient bards relate,

Purchas'd a ruin'd 'Squire's estate;

Rubb'd up the family château,

Whose front three window-lights could shew-
-The rest were dark'ned long ago:

There soon, by jollity and bounty,
Gain'd int'rest both in town and county;
Cur'd an old May'r of drinking water,
Sung catches with his wife and daughter,

Sent ven'son, which was kindly taken,

*And woodcocks, which they boil'd with bacon; Created honorary freemen,

Gave toasts, and swallow'd more than three men,

Granted, from fatherly affection,

To ev'ry voter his protection,

Got drunk, and carry'd his election;

A work, my Lord, which all the world, next year,

Expect from

you, and many a patriot peer.

* Quæq; ipse miserrima vidi. VIRG.