To thee afflicted empires fly for aid,
Where'er tyrannic standards are display'd,

From the wrong'd Iber to the threaten'd Rhine.
Thee, where the golden-fanded Tagus flows.
Beneath fair Ulyfippo's walls,

The frighted Lufitanian calls;

Thee, they who drink the Seine, with those
Who plow Iberian fields, implore,

To give the lab'ring world repofe,
And univerfal peace restore :

Thee, Gallia, mournful to survive the fate
Of her fall'n grandeur and departed state;
By fad experience taught to own,
That virtue is a noble way to rise,
A furer paffage to the skies,
Than Pelion upon Offa thrown:
For they, who impiously prefume

To grafp at heav'n, by Jove's eternal doom,
A prey to thunder fhall become;

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.
"Yet COQUETILLA's artifice prevails,
"When all my merit and my duty fails:

"That COQUETILLA, whofe deluding airs

Corrupts our virgins, and our youth enfnares;
"So funk her character, so lost her fame,
"Scarce vifited before your highness came:
"Yet for the bed-chamber 'tis her you chuse,
"When Zeal and Fame and Virtue you refule.
"Ah! worthy choice! not one of all your train
"Whom cenfure blasts not, and dishonours stain.
"Let the nice hind now fuckle dirty pigs,

"And the proud pea-hen hatch the cuckoo's eggs!
"Let IRIS leave her paint and own her age,
"And grave SUFFOLKA wed a giddy page!
"A greater miracle is daily view'd,

"A virtuous princess with a court fo lewd.

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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
"To cheat our hopes, and yet to gain our hearts!
"Large lovely bribes are the great statesman's aim ;
"And the neglected patriot follows fame.

"The prince is ogled; fome the king pursue;
ROXANA only follows You.

"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,
Hear how too lovers boastingly contend :
Like thee fuccessful, fuch their bloomy youth,
Renown'd alike for gallantry and truth.

St. JAMES'S