SEE

who ne'er was nor will be half read:

Who firft fang (1) Arthur, then fang (2) Alfred;
- Prais'd great (3) Eliza in God's anger,
Till all true Englishmen cry'd, Hang her!
Made William's virtues wipe the bare a-
And hang'd-up Marlborough in (4) arras ;

(1) Two Heroic Poems, in folio, twenty books.
(2) Heroic Poem, in twelve books.

(3) Heroic Poem, in folio, ten books.

(4) Inftructions to Vanderbank, a tapestry-weaver.

Then,

Then, hifs'd from earth, grew heavenly quite :
Made every reader curse the (5) light:
Maul'd human wit in one thick (6) fatire,
Next in three books spoil'd (7) human nature,
Undid (8) creation at a jirk,

And of (9) redemption made damn'd work.
Then took his Mufe at once and dipt her
Full in the middle of the Scripture.

What wonders there the man, grown old, did!
Sternhold himself he out-Sternholded,

Made (10) David feem fo mad and freakish,
All thought him just what thought king Achifh.
No mortal read his (11) Solomon,
But judg'd Re'boam his own fon.
Mofes he ferv'd as Mofes Pharaoh,
And Deborah (12), as the Sife-rah :
Made (13) Jeremy full fore to cry,
And (14) Job himself curfe God and die.
What punishment all this must follow?
Shall Arthur ufe him like King Tollo?

(5) Hymn to the light.

(6) Satire against wit.

(7) of the nature of man.

(8) Creation, a Poem, in seven books.

(9) Redemption, another Heroic Poem, in fix books.

(10) Translation of all the Pfalms.

(11) Canticles and Ecclefiaftes.

(12) Paraphrase of the Canticles of Moses and Deborah, &c. (13) The Lamentations.

(14) The whole Book of Job, a Poem.

Shall

Shall David as Uriah flay him?
Or dext'rous Deborah Sifera-him?
Or fhall Eliza lay a plot,

To treat him like her fifter Scot?

Shall William dub his better end *,
Or Marlborough ferve him like a friend?
No!-none of these !-Heaven spare his life!
But fend him, honeft Job, thy wife!

A RECEIPT FOR STEWING VEAL.

WITH NOTES BY THE

AUTHOR.

TAKE a knuckle of veal;

You may buy it or steal.

In a few pieces cut it :
In a stewing-pan put it.
Salt, pepper, and mace

Muft feafon this knuckle;
Then what's join'd to a place
With other herbs muckle;
That which killed king + Will;
And what never || stands still.
Some ffprigs of that bed

Where children are bred,

* Kick him on the breech, not knight him on the shoulder.

+ Vulgo, falary.

Suppofed forrel.

This is by Dr. Bentley thought to be time, or thyme.

Parsley. Vide Chamberlayne.

E

Which much you will mend, if

Both spinnage and endive,

And lettuce, and beet,
With marygold meet.
Put no water at all;
For it maketh things fmall,
Which, left it should happen,
A close cover clap on.

Put this pot of * Wood's metal
In a hot boiling kettle,
And there let it be

(Mark the doctrine I teach)
About-let me fee-

Thrice as long as you preach † :
So fkimming the fat off,

Say grace with your hat off.
O, then! with what rapture

Will it fill dean and chapter!

Of this compofition, fee the Works of the Copper-farthing Dean.

+ Which we fuppofe to be near four hours.

VOL. XXXVI.

A CIS

A rural profpect, diverfified with rocks, groves, and a river. Acis and Galatea feated by a fountain. Chorus of nymphs and fhepherds, distributed about the landscape; and Polyphemus difcovered fitting upon a mountain.

CHOR US.

THE pleasure of the plains!
Happy nymphs and happy fwains
(Harmless, merry, free, and gay)
Dance and sport the hours away.

For us the zephyr blows,

For us diftils the dew,

For us unfolds the rofe,

And flowers difplay their hue;

For