A captain, or fome pretty fellow,

May dangle with you at a rout;

Juft as they fish for falmon with a menow,

Or a red clout.

But when you walk with STREPHON arm in arm,
And feel all over new-milk warm,

Whilft he complains of penalties and pains;
You'll feem

Like an iced cream

If you have any brains.

Adam was weary of a fingle life,
And feeing Eve bafhful and nice,
He thought her fitter for a wife,
Than any beast in Paradise.

So when a 'fquire fees a maiden coy,

He makes a jointure ;

And in a fit of joy,

Prefers her to a pointer.

MILTON'S Delay *, it is no word of my inventing,

Lies in a point,

If you can hit the joint,

Between forbidding and confenting.
Cream

Juft like the cream of which you have been told,

Delicious, when 'tis not too cold.

All small delays are right,

They make folks keen,

Whether they mean

To play or fight.

So at a battle and a cocking,

The combatants, before they let them go,

Stand a little while and crow.

And when you throw the stocking,

After the bride and bridegroom's bedded;

The bride, encouraged by that pause,

Yields to the laws,

And is beheaded.

*And fweet reluctant amorous delay."

2

Paradife Loft. B. IV. L. 311.

A NOSE

YE

A

NOSEGAY AND A SIMILE

FOR THE

REVIEWERS.

1760.

E Overseers and Reviewers

Of all the Muses, Sinks, and Sewers,

Who dwell on high

Enthron'd amongst your peers

The Garetteers,

That border on the fky;

Who hear the mufic of the spheres,

You have fuch ears,

And live fo nigh!

I thank you for your criticism,

Which you have usher'd in

With a delightful witticism,

That taftes like rotten fruit preferv'd in gin;

And therefore marvel not that my two ballads,

Which are but like two fallads,

By

By no means fuit,

Like your fruit,

With your palates.

I do admire your dealings,

To fpeak according to your feelings;

And do believe, if you had wherewithall
You would drop honey,

And that you overflow with gall,

Eccaufe you do not overflow with money:
Hence all your spite

Against a poor conundrummite,

Whose only business is to watch
Where the conundrums lie,

And be upon the catch

As they go by;

To make a fimile in no one feature

Refembling the creature,

That he has in his eye;

Juft as a fifher fhoots an owl

Or a fea-fowl,

To make the likeness of a fly;

Juft

Juft as you look into a fire,
To look for any likeness you defire.

Simile making

Is an undertaking,

In which the undertaker
Refembles a match-maker,

A poor industrious man,
Who means no ill,

And does the best he can

With a quill;

In short, he does according to his skill.

If matters can be brought to bear

So as to tie the knot,

He does not care

Whether they are a happy pair,

Or not;

Though one may differ very wide,
And though another be deficient,
Provided he can get them ty'd

And lay them fide by fide,

It is fufficient;

And as I faid at first,

Nothing