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POETRY.

Her heart all love, her foul all truth,
That none her fears or flight difcover.
Poor Peg, in guife a comely youth,
Follow'd to the field her lover;
Directed by the fife and drum

To where the work of death was doing ;
Where of brave hearts the time was come,
Who, feeking honour, grasp at ruin.—
Her very foul was chill'd with woe;
New horror came with ev'ry found,
And whisper'd death had laid him low
On the cold ground.

With mute affliction as fhe ftood,

And while her woman's fears confound her,

(With terror all her foul fubdu'd,)

A mourning train came thronging round her,

The plaintive fife and muffled drum

The martial obfequies discover :
His name she heard and cry'd, "I come,
Faithful to meet my murder'd lover ;"
Then heart-rent by a figh of woe,

Fell, to the grief of all around,
Where death had laid her lover low
On the cold ground.

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POETRY.

Our Author chufes to prepare the way, With lines at least fuggefted by his Play, Caught from the Gothic treafures of ro

mance,

He frames his work, and lays the scene in France.

The word, I fee alarms-it vibrates here, And Feeling marks it impulfe with a tear, It brings to thought, a people once refin'd,

Who led fupreme the manners of mankind;

Deprav'd by cruelty, by pride inflam'd,
By traitors madden'd and by fophifts

fham'd.

Grufhing that freedom, which, with gentle fway,

Courted their evolution's infant day.
Ere giant Vanity, with impious hand,
Affail'd the facred Temples of the land.

Fallin is that Land beneath oppreffion's · flood;

Its pureft fun has fet, alas, in blood! The milder planet drew from him her light,

And when H& rofe no more, foon funk in night:

The regal fource of order, once destroy'd, Anarchy made the fair creation void.

Britons, to you, by temperate freedom
crown'd,

For ev'ry manly fentiment renown'd,
The Stage can have no motive to enforce
The principles, that guide your glorious
cayfe;

Proceed triumphant--'mid the world's applause,

Firm to your King, your Altars, and your

Laws.

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But Sir, I cry'd, your eulogy apart, Which flows from mine, indeed from every heart.

You mean to fan&tion then your own pale fprite,

By his "that did ufurp this time of "night;"

"I do, (he answered,) and I beg you'll "fpare

"My "Why should your terror lay my proudest "boaft,

injur'd phantom ev'ry red-fea "pray'r;

"Madam, I die, if I give up the ghost.” The jeft which burfted from his motley mind,

Anxious as it must be, has made me kind;
I come his advocate, if there be need,.
And give him abfolution for the deed.
You'll not deny my fpiritual power,
But let me rule at least one little hour!
Be your's the feeptre every future day,
And mine the tranfport humbly to obey.

INVITATION.

TO THE FEATHERED RACE.

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SPORTING MAGAZINE;

O R,

MONTHLY CALENDAR

Of the Transactions of the TURF, the CHASE, and every
other Diverfion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure,
Enterprize, and Spirit,
MAY,

CONTAINING

1794.

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Pedigree and Performance of that cele-
brated Horfe Dubskelper
Curious Particulars of the Horfes of
this Country in antient times.
Hiftorical Effay on the Chafe
Defcription of the Sloptzi

- of a Trap to catch Sables

Method of taking the Whale
Further Account of Big Ben

Digeft of the Laws concerning Game
Sporting Review

Manner of taking the Elephant in the

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Beautifully decorated with 1. A Trap called the Sloptzi to catch Gelinottes, Hares, &c. 2. A Trap to catch Sables.

3. An admirable Representation of an extraordinary Fox Chafe, by the DUKE of BEAUFORT'S Hounds, beautifully engraved by Cook.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS:

And Sold by J. WHEBLE, No. 18, Warwick Square, near St. Paul's at WILLIAM BURREL'S Circulating Library, Newmarket; and by every Bookfeller and Stationer in Great Britain and Ireland.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

DESCRIPTION of a Modern Bull-fight at Madrid; tranflated from the French of the Chevalier de Bourgoanne, is received, and fhall be attended to.

The Laws relating to Angling and Fresh-water Fish are also come. to hand.

The Natural History of the Buftard is well adapted to our Work, and demands our beft Acknowledgements.

If Probus had confidered the Complexion of our Mifcellany, he would naturally have concluded that his Remarks on the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus A&t could not obtain a Place in it: we thank him, however, for his Favour, and lament that fo valuable an Article fhould be loft upon us.

The Monody on the Death of Benjamin Bryant, commonly called Big Ben, poffeffes much Merit, and of courfe claims the particular Attention of the Editors of the Sporting Magazine.

Further Particulars refpecting Edward Wortley Montague, Efq. in our Next.

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We are extremely Obliged to our Correfpondent W for the Favour of his Communications, and have procured Engravings from the Drawings he has been fo Polite as to fend us: thefe appear with the Article in the prefent Number, and we hope to the Satisfaction of our numerous Readers, as well as to himself.

Cymon B. will perceive his Ode inferted in our prefent Number; his other Pieces, for want of room, are deferred till our next.

We are extremely obliged to M. B. for his Hint; but it was our Intention, previous to the receipt of his Favour, to give a Complete Syftem of Farriery, with Anatomical Plates, a part of which we fhall prefent our Readers in No. XXI.

THE

Sporting Magazine

For MAY, 1794.

EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA

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DEMY, 1794.

HE feceffion of Mr. Stubbs from the royal academy, is certainly a fubtraction of fome confequence, from the general eftimate to be formed of the pictures in the prefent exhibition, and particularly fo to the fporting

connoiffeur. This, however, leads us not to any of thofe croaking fentiments, fo much in fashion when a great man dies or quits his profeffion, with

"We ne'er shall fee his like again." and fuch kind of mournful expreffions; oftener calculated to leffen the abilities of a rifing genius, than to deplore the lofs of thofe of a departed one.-Befides, Mr. Stubbs is not gone, but, as most of the fporting world know, has an exhibition of his

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