'ENTLY touch the warbling lyre,

GE

Chloe feems inclin❜d to rest,

Fill her foul with fond desire,
Softeft notes will footh her breast.
Pleasing dreams affist in love,
Let them all propitious prove.

II.

On the moffy bank she lies,
(Nature's verdant velvet bed),
Beauteous flowers meet her eyes,
Forming pillows for her head.
Zephyrs waft their odours round,
And indulging whispers found.

GENTLY ftir and blow the fire,

Lay the mutton down to roast,

Get me, quick, 'tis my defire,
In the dreeping-pan a toast:
That my hunger may remove;
Mutton is the meat I love.

II.

On the dreffer fee it lies:

O the charming white and red!
Finer meat ne'er met my eyes,
On the sweetest grass it fed!
Swiftly make the jack go round,
Let me have it nicely brown'd.

III.

On the table spread the cloth,

Let the knives be sharp and clean; Pickles get of every sort,

And a falad crisp and green :

Then with small beer and sparkling wine, O ye gods! how I shall dine!

The happy Beggars.

Queen of the Beggars.

OW blefs'd are beggar-laffes,

HOW

Who never toil for treasure !

Who know no care, but how to share

Each day fucceffive pleasure ! Drink away, let's be gay,

Beggars ftill with blifs abound,

Mirth and joy ne'er can cloy,

Whilst the sparkling glass goes round.

First Woman.

A fig for gaudy fashions,

No want of cloaths oppreffes; We live at ease with rags and fleas,

We value not our dreffes.

Drink away, &c.

Second Woman.

We fcorn all ladies' washes,

With which they spoil each feature, No patch or paint our beauties want, We live in fimple nature.

Drink away, &c.

Third Woman.

No cholic, fpleen, or vapours,
At morn, or evening tease us;
We drink no tea, or ratafia;
When fick, a dram can ease us.
Drink away, &c.

Fourth Woman.

That ladies act in private,

By nature's foft compliance;

We think no crime, when in our prime, To kifs without a licence.

Drink away, &c.

Fifth Woman.

We know no shame or scandal,

The beggars law befriends us;

We all agree in liberty,

And poverty defends us.

Drink away, &c.

Sixth Woman.

Like jolly beggar wenches,

Thus, thus we drown all forrow;

We live to-day, and ne'er delay
Our pleasure till to-morrow.
Drink away, &c.

OF

LUCY and COLIN.

I.

F Leifter, fam'd for maidens fair,
Bright Lucy was the grace;

Nor e'er did Liffy's limpid stream
Reflect so sweet a face :

Till luckless love and pining care
Impaired her rofy hue,

Her coral lips and damask cheeks,
And eyes of gloffy blue.

II.

Oh! have you seen a lily pale,
When beating rains defcend?
So droop'd the flow-consuming maid,
Her life was near an end.

By Lucy warn'd, of flattering swains
Take heed, ye easy fair,

Of vengeance due to broken vows
Ye perjur'd fwains, beware,

III.

Three times, all in the dead of night, A bell was heard to ring;

And shrieking at her window thrice,
The raven flapp'd his wing:

Too well the love-lorn maiden knew
The folemn boding found,
And thus in dying words bespoke,
The virgins weeping round :

IV.

"I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which fays I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot fee,
Which beckons me away.

By a false heart and broken vows,
In early youth I die;

Was I to blame, because his bride

Was thrice as rich as I?

V.

"Ah Colin! give not her thy vows, Vows due to me alone;

Nor thou, fond maid, receive his kiss, Nor think him all thy own.