When lady Luna is your neighbour,
She 'll help your wife when she's in labour;
Well skill'd in midwife artifices,

For she herself oft' falls in pieces.
There you shall fee a raree-fbew
Will make you scorn this world below,
When you behold the milky way,
As white as snow, as bright as day;
The glittering constellations roll
About the grinding Arctic pole;
The lovely tingling in your ears,
Wrought by the mufick of the spheres-
Your spouse shall then no longer hector,
You need not fear a curtain-lecture;
Nor fhall the think that she is undone
For quitting her beloved London.
When the's exalted in the skies,
She 'll never think of mutton-pies;
When you 're advanc'd'above dean Viz,
You'll never think of goody Griz.

But ever, ever, live at ease,

And strive, and strive, your wife to please;
In her you 'll centre all your joys,
And get ten thousand girls and boys :
Ten thousand girls and boys you'll get,
And they like stars shall rise and fet.
While you and spouse, transform'd, shall foon
Be a new fun and a new moon :
Nor shall you strive your horns to hide,
For then your horns thall be your pride.

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Fit

BY STELLA..

IF

be true, celestial Powers,

That you have form'd me fair,

And yet, in all my vainest hours,

My mind has been my care :
Then, in return, I beg this grace,
As you were ever kind,
What envious Time takes from my face,
Beftow upon my mind!

SAME*

JEALOUSY. BY THE SAM

0

Shield me from his rage, celeftial Powers; This tyrant, that embitters all my hours ! Ah, Love! you've poorly play'd the hero's part:.. You conquer'd, but you can't defend, my heart. When first I bent beneath your gentle reign, I thought this monster banish'd from your train : But you would raise him to fupport your throne; And now he claims your empire as his own. Or tell me, tyrants! have you both agreed, That where one reigns, the other shall succeed?

DR. DELANY'S VILLA.

WOULD you that Delville I describe!

Believe me, Sir, I will not gibe :

For who would be fatirical

Upon a thing so very small?

* On the publication of "Cadenus and Vanessa."

You

You scarce upon the borders enter,

Before you 're at the very centre.
A fingle crow can make it night,
When o'er your farm the takes her flight :
Yet, in this narrow compass, we

Observe a vast variety;

Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres,
Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs,
And hills and dales, and woods and fields,
And hay, and grafs, and corn, it yields;
All to your haggard brought so cheap in,
Without the mowing or the reaping:
A razor, though to say 't I 'm, loth,
Would shave you and your meadows both.

Though small 's the farm, yet here 's a house

Full large to entertain a mouse;
But where a rat is dreaded more
Than savage Caledonian boar;
For, if it's enter'd by a rat,
There is no room to bring a cat.

GIBLIOTECA

OF

A little rivulet feems to steal
Down through a thing you call a vale,
Like tears adown a wrinkled cheek,
Like rain along a blade of leek;
And this you call your sweet meander,
Which might be fuck'd up by a gander,..
Could he but force his nether bill
To fcoop the channel of the rill.
For fure you 'd make a mighty clutter,,
Were it as big as city-gutter.

Next come I to your kitchen-garden,
Where one poor mouse would fare but hard in;
And round this garden is a walk,
No longer than a taylor's chalk ;
Thus I compare what space is in it,
A fnail creeps round it in a minute.
One lettuce makes a shift to squeeze
Up through a tuft you call your trees :
And, once a year, a fingle rofe
Peeps from the bud, but never blows;
In vain then you expect its bloom!
It cannot blow, for want of room.
In short, in all your boafted feat,
There's nothing but yourself that's GREAT.

On one of the Windows at DELVILLE.

Bard, grown defirous of saving his pelf,

Built a house he was fure would hold none but

himself.

This enrag'd god' Apollo, who Mercury fent, And bid him go ask what his votary meant. "Some foe to my empire has been his adviser : ""Tis of dreadful portent when a poet turns mifer! "Tell him, Hermes, froin me, tell that subject of mine, " I have sworn by The Styx, to defeat his design; **"For wherever he lives, the Muses shall reign; "And the Muses, he knows, have a numerous train."

CARBERIÆ

CARBERIÆ

RUPES,

FIN COMITATU CORGAGENSI. 1723.

FCCE ingens fragmen scopuli, quod vertice summe
Desuper impendet, nullo fundamine nixum
Decidit in fluctus: maria undique & undique faxa
Horrisono stridore tonant, & ad æthera murmur
Erigitur; trepidatque suis Neptunus in undis.
Nam, longâ venti rabie, atque afpergine crebrâ
Æquorei laticis, specus imâ rupe cavatur :
Jam fulrura ruit, jam fumma cacumina nutant;
Jam cadit in præceps moles, & verberat undas.
Attonitus credas, hinc dejecisse Tonantem
Montibus impofitos montes, & Pelion altum
In capita anguipedum cœlo jaculâsse gigantum.

Sæpe etiam fpelunca immani aperitur hiatu
• Exesa è scopulis, & utrinque foramina pandit,
Hinc atque hinc a ponto ad pontum pervia Phœbo.
Cautibus enorme junctis laquearia tecti
Formantur; moles olim ruitura supernè.
Fornice fublimi nidos pofuere palumbes,
Inque imo stagni-posuere cubilia phocæ.

Sed, eum fævit hyems, & venti, carcere rupto,
Immensos volvunt fluctus ad culmina montis;
Non obsessæ arces, non fulmina vindice dextrâ
Missa Jovis, quoties inimicas sævit in urbes,
Exæquant sonitum undarum, veniente procellâ :
Littora littoribus reboant; vicinia latè,

Gees