Expect no favour, no remiffion,

Hear me, ye Trimmers, great and small,

By virtue of St. John's commiffion,

I do condemn you one and all.

Prepare yourselves for execution,
When the evacuation's o'er,
Like Jonas, take a refolution,
Refolve to be fpew'd out no more.

MA

MAKARONY FABLES;

WITH THE

NEW FABLE OF THE BEES.

IN TWO CANTOS.

ADDRESSED TO THE SOCIETY.

BY COSMO, MYTHOGELASTICK,

PROFESSOR, AND F.M.S.

Beati non numerant boras,

Ars longa vita brevis.

Written in the year 1767.

TO THE

READER.

THAT you may understand the propriety of the motto to these Fables, which is the motto of the Society of the Makaronies, to whom they are addreffed

-know, vacant Reader, that the Francifcan Maka

ronies of Medenham *, and the brethren of Pall Mall, make use, like many other schools and colleges, of a Latin of their own manufacture-that, in Medenham and Makaroni Latin, Hora has two acceptations; thus accurately defined in the Makaroni Crufca.

First, it fignifies that limited portion of time, which, being divided into small parts, called Minutes, is fubdivided into as many particles called Seconds.

Now our idea of time being acquired by obferving the fucceffion of our ideas, when that fucceffion

* See a description of this place in Wilkes's Letters, p. 34.

ceafes,

ceases, or cannot be distinguished, our perception of time, or of graduated duration, ceafes alfo: as is the cafe when we fit up all night gaming or drinking; for in thofe fituations we neither know nor care how time goes.

The other meaning of hora, according to their definition, is thus fcholaftically described-Ens infinite divifibile—An exiftence capable of infinite divifion, or that may be divided ad infinitum. Our Saxon anceftors called this exiftence a Hure, a term that ftill prevails in Scotland-Nothus, in Saxon, fays the Crufca, is Hures funnu, or son of a Hure.

Beatitude, or Makaroniship, confifts in the rapid and imperceptible fucceffion of hora, taken as parts of time, restrictively and finally divided; and likewife in the rapid and imperceptible fucceffion of horæ, in the fenfe of thofe infinitely divifible entities above mentioned fo that the Beati continually enjoy both, without taking any account of either.

Beati non numerant horas.

And