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They'll fell to my Grief

As cheap as Neck-beef,

For Counters at Cards to your Wife:
And every Day

Your Children may play
Span-farthing or Tofs on the Knife.

Come hither and try,

I'll teach you to buy
A Fot of good Ale for a Farthing:
Come; Three-pence a Score,
I ask you no more,

And a Fig for the Drapier and * Harding.

When Tradefmen have Gold,

The Thief will be bold,

By Day and by Night for to rob him:
My Copper is fuch,

No Robber will touch,
And, fo you may daintily bob him.

The little Black-guard

Who gets very hard

His Halfpence for cleaning your Shoes:
When his Pockets are cramm'd
With mine, and be d—'d,

He may swear he has nothing to lose.

* The Drapier's Printer.

Here's

Here's Halfpence in Plenty,

For one you'll have twenty,
Tho' Thousands are not worth a Pudden:
Your Neighbours will think,
When your Pocket cries Chink,
You are grown plaguy rich on a fudden.

You will be my Thankers,

I'll make you my Bankers,
As good as * Ben Burton or Fade:
For nothing shall pass,

But my pretty Brass,

And then you'll be all of a Trade.

I'm a Son of a Whore,

If I have a Word more

To say in this wretched Condition:
If my Coin will not pass,

I muft die like an Afs,
And fo I conclude my Petition.

An EPIGRAM on Wood's Brafs-Money.

+CART

ARTERET was welcom'd on the Shore,
First with the brazen Cannons Roar:

Two famous Bankers.

+ Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

VOL. VIII.

To

1

To meet him next, the Soldier comes
With brazen Trumps and brazen Drums:
Approaching near the Town, he hears
The brazen Bells falute his Ears:

But when Wood's Brass began to found,

Guns, Trumpets, Drums, and Bells were drown'd.

An EPIGRAM on the D-e of CS.

-s B--dg-s was the Dean's familiar Friend,

J-s grows a D-e; their Friendship

here muft end.

Surely the Dean deserves a fore Rebuke,
From knowing James, to fay he knows a D-e.

G

An EPIGRAM on SCOLDING.

;

REAT Folks are of a finer Mold
Lord! how politely they can fcold:
While a coarse English Tongue will itch,
For Whore and Rogue, and Dog and Bitch.

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CATULLUS de LESBIA.

ESBIA mi dicit femper male; nec tacet

unquam

De me; Lesbia me, difpeream, nifi amat.

Quo figno? Quia funt totidem mea: Deprecor

illam

Affiduè; verum, difpeream, nifi amo.

In English.

LESBIA for ever on me rails,

To talk of me she never fails.
Now, hang me, but for all her Art,
I find, that I have gain'd her Heart.
My Proof is thus: I plainly fee,
The Cafe is juft the fame with me;
I curfe her every Hour fincerely,
Yet, hang me, but I love her dearly.

Mr. Jafon Haard, a Woollen-Drapier in Dublin, put up the Sign of the GOLDEN FLEECE, and defired a Motto in Verfe.

JASON

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ASON, the valiant Prince of Greece,
From Colchos brought the Golden Fleece:
We comb the Wool, refine the Stuff,
For modern Jafons, that's enuff.
Oh! could we tame yon watchful Dragon,
Old Fafon would have less to brag on.

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The AUTHOR'S Manner of Living.

N rainy Days alone I dine,

Upon a Chick and Pint of Wine.
On rainy Days I dine alone,

And pick my Chicken to the Bone:
But this Servants much enrages,

my

No Scraps remain to fave Board-wages.
In Weather fine I nothing spend,
But often fpunge upon a Friend:
Yet where he's not fo rich as I,

fo

I pay my Club, and so GoD b'y'.

VERSES cut by two of the DEAN'S Friends upon a Pane of Glass in one of his Parlours.

A

BARD on whom Phebus his Spirit bestow'd,

Refolving t'acknowledge the Bounty he ow'd, Found out a new Method at once of confeffing, And making the most of so mighty a Bleffing; To the God he'd be grateful, but Mortals he'd choufe,

By making his Patron prefide in his House, And wifely forefaw his Advantage from thence, That the God wou'd in Honour bear most of

th' Expence :

So,

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