es seldom fail out. ry'd, gadzooks! Jack How.t is no player, ner takes, of a chair, lds the stakes. in grave suspense sequents; f her pence, equents. putting cases, ord, aces, a third. --cast gown ne in, I. H. eroine of the preceding poem. thor's *Written by Lady Betty Be Germain. See the next poem. +Lady Betty Berkeley, findin 's room unfinished, wrote u which gave Counterfeit hand, as if a third p occasion to this bal The Cut-purse is a ballad st singer, in Ben Jonson's Barthol have been very popular, and the dies. See one upon an adventure Swift's Miscellanies, Vol. XIII. A BALLAD, TO THE TUNE OF, THE CUT-PURSE,+ WRITTEN IN AUGUST 1702. I. ONCE on a time, as old stories rehearse, A friar would need show his talent in Latin But was sorely put to't in the midst of a vers Because he could find no word to come pa Then all in the place He left a void space, And so went to bed in a desperate case: Written by Lady Betty Berkeley, afterwards La Germain. See the next poem. + Lady Betty Berkeley, finding the preceding verses i thor's room unfinished, wrote under them the concludin which gave occasion to this ballad, written by the aut counterfeit hand, as if a third person had done it.-Swi The Cut-purse is a ballad sung by Nightingale, th singer, in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair. The tune have been very popular, and the words the subject of ma dies. See one upon an adventure of Jonathan Wild, in Swift's Miscellanies, Vol. XIII. p. 365. ed it must be a sprite; he keyhole, or in at the - one that could both read -t know nd or foe, m above or below: angel or elf, ill'd it so well of himself. &c. I. ad puzzled his brains t was at a stand: th a great deal of pains, help from invisible hand. Doctor Swift, or the gift, n you were at a dead lift; ous young spirit did do't, and it had no cloven foot. &c. ley, chiefly from the influence Bush. The following lines, were the evidence of his res share in determining the ear dependent, by gratifying him sible.] FEEN wise Lord Berkele Statesmen and mob exp Till Το For thought to find so gre Ere a week past commit on a day cut out by fa When folks came thick Out slipt a mystery of stat give the town and co Now enters Bush† with n His lordship's premier and who, in all profound a Is held as needful as his With head reclining on his He deals and hears mys Bush. The following lines, among other satirical eff were the evidence of his resentment, and probably ha share in determining the earl to get rid of so untrac dependent, by gratifying him with a living so soon a sible.] WHEN wise Lord Berkeley first came here, When folks came thick to make their court Out slipt a mystery of state, To give the town and country sport. * To Ireland, as one of the lords justices.-H. + Bush, by some underhand insinuation, obtained the secretary, which had been promised to Swift.-H. Always taken before my lord went to council.-H. und, ing Ush, ground. red, head, te; design, w express, n; n't be less. and I, ut to spy e other weigh. cumflex, on all, retreats. s, wisely ran for❜t, ering kings of Brentford. Rehearsal."...H. DID ever problem thus pe Or more employ the fema sweet a passion, who w ore ever form'd to make The ladies vow and swear, Thether it be a truth or li Love's fire, it seems, like i Works in my lord by stool Which brings a stink from And from behind and from Yet what is wonderful to te Sone but the favourite nym But now, to solve the natur Br sober philosophic laws: Thether all passions, when Work out as anger does in when a weasel you torm To find his passion by his We read of kings, who, in a Though on a throne, would Beside all this, deep scholar That the main string of Cup Once on a time was an a w to a nobler office put, By favour or desert preferr m giving passage to a t |