To thee afflicted empires fly for aid, From the wrong'd Iber to the threaten'd Rhine. The frighted Lufitanian calls; Thee, they who drink the Seine, with those To give the lab'ring world repofe, Thee, Gallia, mournful to survive the fate To grafp at heav'n, by Jove's eternal doom, Or, sent in 1Ætna's fiery caves to groan, Gain but an higher fall, a mountain for their tomb. The old name of Lisbon, faid to be built by Ulyffes. 1 One of the mountains where Jupiter lodged the giants. SIX ROXANA, or, the Drawing-Room." ROXANA 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 roses wear, "For this new-fet the jewels for my hair? VOL. I. G "Ah! "Ah! princefs! with what zeal have I purfu'd! "Almost forgot the duty of a prude. "Thinking I never could attend too foon, "I've miss'd my prayers, to get me dress'd by noon. "For thee, ah! what for thee did I refign? "My pleasures, paffions, all that e'er was mine. "I facrific'd both modesty and ease, "Left operas, and went to filthy plays; "Double entendres fhock'd my tender ear, "Yet even this for thee I chose to bear. "In glowing youth, when nature bids be gay, "And every joy of life before me lay, By honour prompted, and by pride restrain'd, "The pleafures of my foul the young difdain'd: "Sermons I fought, and with a mien severe "Cenfur'd my neighbours, and faid daily prayʼr. "Alas! how chang'd!-with the fame fermon-mien "That once I pray'd, the What-d'ye-callt I've feen. "Ah! cruel princess, for thy fake I've lost "That reputation which fo dear had cost: "I, who avoided every public place, "When bloom and beauty bade me fhow my face; "Now near thee conftant every night abide "With never-failing duty by thy fide, "Myself "Myfelf and daughters standing on a row, "To all the foreigners a goodly fhów ! "Oft had your drawing-room been fadly thin, "And merchants' wives close by the chair been seen; "Had not I amply fill'd the empty space, "And fav'd your highnefs from the dire difgrace. "That COQUETILLA, whofe deluding airs Corrupts our virgins, and our youth enfnares; "And the proud pea-hen hatch the cuckoo's eggs! "A virtuous princess with a court fo lewd. 66 I know thee, Court! with all thy treach❜rous wiles, "Thy falfe careffes and undoing fmiles! "Ah! princefs, learn'd in all the courtly arts "The prince is ogled; fome the king pursue; "But your Defpis'd ROXANA, cease, and try to find "Some other, fince the princess proves unkind; "Perhaps it is not hard to find at court, "If not a greater, a more firm fupport. TUESDAY. St. JAMES's Coffee-Houfe. SILLIANDER and PATCH. HOU, who fo many favours haft receiv'd, TH Wondrous to tell, and hard to be believ❜d, Oh! HD, to my lays attention lend, St. JAMES'S |