If fond Narciffus in the Chrystal Flood, A Form like thine, O lovely Infant, view'd, Well wight the Flames the pining Youth destroy; Excess of Beauty justify'd the Boy. On the Marriage of an Old Maid. By R. F. HLOE, a Coquet in her Prime, CH The vainest fickleft Thing alive; Behold the strange Effects of Time! Marries and doats at forty five, Thus Weathercocks, who for a while Have turn'd about with every Blaft, Grown old and deftitute of Oil, Rust to a Point, and fix at last. 'im Char N 3 Charlettus Percivallo fuo. 'ORA dum nondum fonuit fecunda, HOR Nec puer nigras tepefecit undas, Acer ad notos calamus labores Sponte recurrit. Quid priùs noftris potiùfve chartis Sole depulfam redeunte Scriptor Tu meis chartis, bone Percivalle, Tu quoque Scriptor. Detulit rumor (mihi multa defert Furibus Percivallus Charletto fuo. Q Ualis ambabus capiendus ulnis Limen attingit tibi gratus hofpes, i Quum facras primum fubit aut relinquit Ifidis arces, Qualis exultat tibi pars mamillæ Cornua, chartas, Tale per noftrum jecur & medullas Gaudium fluxit, fimul ac reclufis Vinculis vidi benè litterati Nomen amici. Obvios fures, uti fama verax Rettulit, fenfi pavidus tremensque; Furibus prædam, mediumque belli im pune ftetiffe. Saucius num vivit adhuc Caballus Anne? Ierneis potiora Gazis, An, tua vitâ Tibi chariora, Scripta fuperfunt? Cui legis noftras, relegifque chartas? Quem meis verbis, mea nefcientem, Mane falutas? Scribe Securus, quid agit Senatus, Quid caput ftertit grave Lambethanum, viq ol Quid Comes Guildford, quid habent novorum: Dawksque Dyerque.cr7 Me meus, quondam tuus, e popinis Jenny jam vifit, lacrimanfque narrat, Dum molit fucos, fubito peremptum? Funere Rixon. Narrat Sed fui, fumque, excipias timorem, Scire fi fylvam cupias periclim. Confulas lentè tabulas parantėm Te duce Colum. Flebilis legi miseranda docti Fata pictoris, fed & hôc iniqua Damna confolor, fupereft perempto Rixone Wildgoofe. Quæ tamen mitram mulier labantem Fulciet? munus vetulæ parentis, Anna præftabit, nifi fors' Ierni Hofpita Cygni.· Lætus accepi celeres vigere Pricketi plantas, fimùl ambulanti Plaudo Sherwino, pueroque Davo Mitto falutem. Jenny, |