Thus will the fair of every age From all parts make their pilgrimage, Worship thy nose with pious rage of love, Sir. All their religion will be spent About thy woven monument, And not one orifon be fent to Jove, Sir. You the fam'd idol will become, O happy Dan! thrice happy fure! of night. at fight. So far I thought it was my duty in answer To that part where you carry on How can, Sir, A man of reasoning fo profound So ftupidly be run aground, As things fo differently to confound t' our fenfes ? Except you judg'd them by the knock Such an experimental stroke 14 convinces. Then might you be, by dint of reason, Therefore to thy fuperior wit, Who made the trial, we fubmit; "Thy head to prove the truth of it we wanted. In one affertion you're to blame, refin'd, Sir. You'll fee moft grofsly you mistook, you'll find, Sir, S, H, E, fbe- and R, I, ri, Dan is but one, and Sherri two, Then, Sir, your choice will never do ; the tables. DR. DR. DELANY'S REPLY. ASSIST me, my Mufe, whilst I labour to limn himes -Credite, Pifones, ifti tabulæ perfimilem: You, look and you write with fo different a grace, face... That I envy your verse, though I did not your But much I'm amaz'd you should think my design tell us is true, Like my countryman's horn-comb, into three halves, R For For pray give me leave to fay, Sir, for all you, SHERIDAN'S REPLY. THRE HREE merry lads you own we are; But envious we cannot bear, } believe, Sir. For, were all forms of beauty thine, Were you like Nereus foft and fine, or grieve, Sir. Then know from us, most beauteous Dan, and taper. And all your trifling beaux and fops, meer vapour. We know your morning-hours you pass To cull and gather out a face; Is this the way you take your glass ? Forbear it. Thoft Thofe loads of paint upon your toilet, Drink claret. Your cheeks, by fleeking, are fo lean, See what by drinking you have done: or pullet. t' your gullet A REJOINDER, BY THE DEAN, IN JACKSON'S NAME. WEA EARIED with faying grace and But your fair lines fo grofsly flatter, It must be fo! what else, alas R 2 prayer, reply to 't. Ah! fly-boot! and box-comb? But |