XXXIV. See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, With thread fo white in tempting pofies ty'd, Scatt'ring like blooming maid their glances round, With pamper'd look draw little eyes afide; And must be bought though penury betide. The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, And here each season, do those cakes abide, Whofe honour'd names th' inventive city own, Rend'ring thro' Britain's isle Salopia's praises known. ■ XXXV. Admir'd Salopia! that with venial pride grave, Eyes her bright form in Severn's ambient wave, Fam'd for her loyal cares in perils tried, Her daughters lovely, and her ftriplings brave; Ah! 'midft the reft, may flowers adorn his Whofe art did first these dulcet cates display! A motive fair to Learning's imps he gave, Who cheerless o'er her darkling region stray; "Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. b Shrewsbury cakes. THE THE ART of POLITICKS, In Imitation of HORACE's ART of POETRY. I By the Reverend Mr. BRAMSTON. F to an human face fir James fhou'd draw A horfe's mane, and feathers of maccaw, A lady's bofom, and a tail of cod, Who could help laughing at a fight fo odd? Juft fuch a monfter, Sirs, pray think before ye, a Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Painters, Painters, you'll fay, may their own fancies ufe, And free-born Britons may their party chufe: That's true, I own: but can one piece be drawn For dove and dragon, elephant and fawn? } 'Speakers profefs'd, who gravity pretend, With motly fentiments their speeches blend; Begin like patriots, and like courtiers end. Some love to roar, the conftitution's broke, And others on the nation's debts to joke; Some rail, (they hate a commonwealth so much,) Whate'er the subject be, against the Dutch; While others, with more fashionable fury, Begin with turnpikes, and conclude with Fleury. Some, when th' affair was Blenheim's glorious battle, Declaim'd against importing Irish cattle: But you, from whate'er fide you take your name, Like Anna's motto, always be the fame. Quilibet audendi femper fuit æqua poteftas ; Denique fit quidvis, fimplex duntaxat & unum. R Outfides • Outfides deceive, 'tis hard the truth to know, Parties from quaint denominations flow, As Scotch and Irish antiquaries show. } Whales in Change-alley paints: in Fifh-ftreet bears. Thefe peep in hats, while thofe with buttons play, There knights haranguing hug a neighb'ring post, Sooner than thus my want of fense expose, C Decipimus fpecie recti; brevis effe laboro, Deficiunt animique; profeffus grandia, turget, } } Nay, Nay, I would fooner have thy phyz, I'fwear, * Ye weekly writers of feditious news, Saving fome double meaning in referve; *All Mr. Heydegger's letters come directed to him from abroad, A Monfieur, Monfieur Heydegger, furintendant des plaifirs d'Angleterre. • Sumite materiam veftris, qui fcribitis aquam |