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III.

Some foe to his upright intent

Finds out his weaker part,

Virtue engages his affent,
But pleasure wins his heart.

IV.

"Tis here the folly of the wife

Through all his art we view,

And while his tongue the charge denies,
His confcience owns it true.

ง.

Bound on a voyage of great length

And dangers little known,

A ftranger to superior strength,

Man vainly trufts his own..

VI.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail

To reach the diftant coaft,

The breath of heav'n muft fwell the fail,
Or all the toil is loft.

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REBELLION is my theme all day,
I only wish 'twould come

(As who knows but perhaps it may)
A little nearer home.

II.

Yon roaring boys who rave and fight
On t'other fide the Atlantic,

I always held them in the right,
But most fo when most frantic.

III.

When lawlefs mobs infult the court,
That man fhall be my toaft,

If breaking windows be the fport:
Who bravely breaks the most..

IV.

But oh! for him my fancy culls
The choiceft flow'rs fhe bears,

Who conftitutionally pulls

Your house about your ears.

V. Such

V.

Such civil broils are my delight,,
Tho' fome folks can't endure 'em,.
Who fay the mob are mad outright,,
And that a rope muft cure 'em.

VI.

A rope! I wish we patriots had
Such ftrings for all who need 'em-
What! hang a man for going mad??
Then farewell Britifh freedom.

On obferving fome Names of little Note recorded in the BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA.

OH fond attempt to give a deathless lot.
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!
In vain recorded in historic page,.

They court the notice of a future age,
Those twinkling tiny luftres of the land,
Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand;,
Lethean gulphs receive them as they fall,

And dark oblivion foon absorbs them all.

So

So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extin&, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the fquire, There goes the parfon, oh! illuftrious spark, And there, scarce lefs illustrious, goes the clerk.

REPORT

Of an adjudged Cafe not to be found in any of the

Books.

I.

BETWEEN Nofe and Eyes a strange conteft arofe,

The spectacles fet them unhappily wrong;

The point in difpute was, as all the world knows, To which the faid fpectacles ought to belong.

II.

So the tongue was the lawyer and argued the cause With a great deal of fkill, and a wig full of learn

ing,

While chief baron Ear fat to balance the laws,

So fam'd for his talent in nicely discerning.

III.

In behalf of the Nofe, it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had fpectacles always in wear, Which amounts to poffeffion time out of mind.

IV.

Then holding the spectacles up to the court-
Your lordship observes they are made with a ftrad-

dle,

As wide as the ridge of the Nofe is, in short,
Defign'd to fit close to it, just like a faddle.

V.

Again, would your lordship a moment, fuppofe ("Tis a case that has happen'd and may be again) That the vifage or countenance had not a Nose, Pray who wou'd or who cou'd wear spectacles then?

VI.

On the whole it appears, and my argument fhows With a reasoning the court could never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.

VII. Then

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