To Hanover, to Brunswick's fecond grace, Of fame, which he in arms fhall get, The purchase of an honeft sweat, Shall fafe in stormy feas Britannia's veffel guide.. Britannia's veffel, which in ANNA's reign, And prudent pilotry, enjoys The tempest which the world deftroys, And rides triumphant o'er the subject main. O may fhe foon a quiet harbour gain! And And fure the promis'd hour is come, Shall still the trumpet and the drum, Shall play what gods and men defire, And ftrike Bellona's mufic dumb: When War, by parents curs'd, fhall quit the field, His weary'd limbs, fit on his idle fhield, And forc'd th'unwilling fkies to act the last ungrateful part: His famifh'd defolated realm And all the fons of Pharamond in vain (Who with dishonest envy see The sweet forbidden fruits of diftant liberty) Shall curfe their Salic law, and wish a female reign. XIV. A female reign like thine, To To thee afflicted empires fly for aid, From the wrong'd Iber to the threaten'd Rhine. k Beneath fair Ulyfippo's walls, The frighted Lufitanian calls; Thee, they who drink the Seine, with those To give the lab'ring world repofe, Thee, Gallia, mournful to furvive the fate To grasp at heav'n, by Jove's eternal doom, Or, fent in Ætna's fiery caves to groan, Gain but an higher fall, a mountain for their tomb. The old name of Lifbon, faid to be built by Ulyffes. 1 One of the mountains where Jupiter lodged the giants. SIX SIX TOWN ECLOGUE S. By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. R MONDAY. ROXANA, or, the Drawing-Room. OXANA from the court retiring late, Sigh'd her foft forrows at St. JAMES's gate. Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast, Not her own chairmen with more weight opprefs'd; They groan the cruel load they're doom'd to bear; She in these gentle founds exprefs'd her care. "Was it for this that I these rofes wear, "For this new-set the jewels for my hair? VOL. I. G "Ah! "Ah! princefs! with what zeal have I pursu❜d! "Almost forgot the duty of a prude. 66 Thinking I never could attend too soon, "I've mifs'd my prayers, to get me drefs'd by noor 66 Left operas, and went to filthy plays; 66 By honour prompted, and by pride restrain'd, "The pleasures of my foul the young difdain'd: "Sermons I fought, and with a mien severe "Cenfur'd my neighbours, and said daily prayʼr. "Alas! how chang'd!-with the fame fermon-mien "That once I pray'd, the What-d'ye-call't I've seen. "Ah! cruel princefs, for thy fake I've loft "That reputation which fo dear had coft: "I, who avoided every public place, "When bloom and beauty bade me show my face; "Now near thee constant every night abide "With never-failing duty by thy fide, "Myfelf |