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If POPE, the prince of poets, fick a-bed,
O'er fteaming coffee bends his aching head,
The fools in public o'er the fragrant draught
Incline thofe heads, that never ach'd or thought,
This must provoke his mirth or his disdain,
Cure his complaint,—or make him fick again.
I too, like them, the poet's path pursue,
And keep great FLACCUS ever in my view;
But in a distant view-yet what I write,
In these loose sheets, muft never fee the light;
Epiftles, odes, and twenty trifles more,
Things that are born and die in half an hour.
What! you muft dedicate, fays fneering SPENCE,
This year fome new performance to the prince:
Tho' money is your fcorn, no doubt in time,
You hope to gain some vacant stall by rhyme;
Like other poets, were the truth but known,
You too admire whatever is your own.
These wife remarks my modefty confound,
While the laugh rifes, and the mirth goes round;
Vext at the jest, yet glad to fhun a fray,

I whisk into my coach, and drive away.

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The Author apologizes to a Lady, for his being a little man. Natura nufquam magis, quam in minimis tota eft. PLINY.

By Mr. L U N.

I.

YES, contumelious fair, you scorn

The amorous dwarf, that courts you to his arms,

But ere you leave him quite forlorn,

And to fome youth gigantic yield your charms,
Hear him--oh! hear him, if you will not try,
And let your judgment check th' ambition of your eye.

Say,

II.

Say, is it carnage makes the man?
Is to be monftrous really to be great?
Say, is it wife or just to scan

Your lover's worth by quantity, or weight?
Ask your mamma, and nurse, if it be fo;
Nurfe and mamma, I ween, fhall jointly answer, no.

III.

The lefs the body to the view,

The foul (like fprings in clofer durance pent)
Is all exertion, ever new,

Unceafing, unextinguish'd, and unspent ;
Still pouring forth executive defire,

As bright, as brisk, as lasting, as the vestal fire.

IV.

Does thy young bofom pant for fame ;
Woud'st thou be of pofterity the toaft?
The poets fhall enfure thy name,
Who magnitude of mind, not body boast.
Laurels on bulky bards as rarely grow,
As on the sturdy oak the virtuous misletoe.

ง.

Look in the glass, survey that cheek-
Where FLORA has with all her rofes blufh'd;

The shape so tender,-looks fo meek,-
The breafts made to be prefs'd, not to be crufh'd
Then turn to me,-turn with obliging eyes,
Nor longer nature's works, in miniature, despise.

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VI.

Young AMMON did the world fubdue,
Yet had not more external man than I;

Ah! charmer, fhould I conquer you,

With him in fame, as well as fize, I'll vie.
Then, fcornful nymph, come forth to yonder grove,
Where I defy, and challenge, all thy utmost love.

The DECISION.

Μ

By the fame.

I.

Y FLORIO, wildeft of his fex,

M (Which fure the verieft faint wou'd vex)

From beauty roves to beauty;

Yet tho' abroad the wanton roam,

Whene'er he deigns to stay at home,
He always minds his duty.

II.

Something to every charming fhe,

In thoughtless prodigality,

He's granting ftill and granting;

To PHYLLIS that, to CHLOE this,

And every madam, every mifs,

Yet I find nothing wanting.

III.

If haply I his will displease,
Tempeftuous as th' autumnal feas,

He foams and rages ever!

But when he ceafes from his ire;
I cry, fuch spirit, and fuch fire,
Is, furely, wondrous clever.

A

I.ne'er

IV.

I ne'er want reafon to complain,
But fweet is pleasure after pain,

And ev'ry joy grows greater;

Then trust me, damfels, whilft I tell,
I fhou'd not like him half fo well,

If I cou'd make him better.

An EXTEMPORE E PIGRAM.

On CLARISSA.

N foft CLARISSA's form united shine

IN

Such female ease and majefty divine,

That each beholder muft with awe declare
APELLES' VENUS was not half so fair;

But when the ftores of judgment, wit and sense
Her lips with graceful diffidence dispense,
Each hearer owns, with pleasure and surprise,
That HOMER'S PALLAS was not half fo wife:
Thefe diff'rent charms fuch different paffions move,
Who fees must reverence, but who hears must love.

GRANTICOLA.

An Epistle from Mr. ALSOP to Dr. KEIL,

D

On his MARRIAGE.

I.

EAR JOHN, if you are not bely'd,
You've chang'd your courfe of life;

You that so many nymphs have try'd,

To take, good Gods, a wife!

Of

II.

Of all the numerous female fcum,

What jade, the devil take her, Could thus bewitch thee to become Cuckold, from cuckold-maker.

III.

Since thou art in-for't now, old friend,
And fetter'd paft retreating;
Give me, a husband, leave to fend
To thee, a husband, greeting.

IV.

I who, hard fate! am forc'd to rove,
True to my nuptial vows,

And leave my country out of love,
An exile for my spouse.

V.

But I, by heav'ns decree, remain
Bleft on a foreign fhore ;

And hourly fuch delights obtain,
I need not wifh for more.

VI.

Me a kind wife's embraces chear,
A lovely creature she;
Nor can the fun find out a pair

More hap'ly join'd than we.

VII.

Fain would I hear the jefts that pass,

The mirth that's made on me;

Fain would partake the circling glass,
And vent my wit on thee.

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