writ,

On all degrees from courtier to the cit,
Such ftale dull jokes have been so often
[and wit.
That nothing can be new-but decency
Thus far our bard-l'he rest is mine to say,
I am his friend, fo, will attack his play.
How could his thoughtless head with any
truth

(If Spanish Dons are like our English youth) Make his wild rake to fink from upper life, To quit his miftrefs for a lawful wife! The author might have married him⚫ but then

He should have had his mistress back again. This is the fcheme our English Dons pursue, Tho' one's too much, there's tafte in hav ing two.

man

As for the lady-I diske her plan, With you, I'm fure, the had not pafs'd for [this freak, Had the with our young bloods contriv'd She had been blown and ruin'd in a week. And if of virtue they could not have trick'd her.

They'd damn'd her for a fool-perhaps have kick'd her.

But jeft apart-for all our bard has wrote, Our most alluring bait's the petticoat. Before that magick fhrine the proudeft fall, 'Tis that enchanting circle draws in all. Let fools fay what they will, experience reaches, [breeches. 'Tis best to marry first-then wear the

adorn:

Old Ocean's fons, tho' lately rich as brave, Can never learn that useful art-to fave.

Long o'er thy head O may the pendant play, [pay; Bleft with a joyous ward-room, and full, Yet he not thy difcarded friends forgor, Tho' hard your skipper's and your doctor's [guide,

lot; He who with skill a navy's helms could Now, a dull mafter's mate, confults the tide : [Auff, Condemn'd to blend, for men or horfes, I mix a bolus, or retail fome (nuff,

Vifit a patient on a worthlefs fteed, Draw teeth for fixpence, or for fixpence bleed.

'Tis hard (no mate the drudg'ry to purfue) To mix the clyfter and inject it too. My fady's parrot's filent, fquirrel ill, Or fav'rife jackoe feems to want a pill; Thefe I contrive to vifit at mid-day, Since often the kind lady afks to stay. 'Tis too well known, that those who serve the Nine,

And no-pay furgeons, cannot always dine. I, who in ward-room could direct the treat, Contrive the table, fee that all was neat ; Three dishes daily fmoaking on the board, With tart or pudding, that might feast a lord ;

My pride, alas! has met a dreadful fall, Sometimes I can't afford to dine at all. "Jack, bring the mess-bowl-quick the boy'd appear:

Alas! no meis-bowl now, no Jack is near All fly the houfe, where poverty's a clog, My houfe's temp`rance would not fuit the dog.

maid,

A wither'd dame, of fixty years or more, My only fervant, breathes within my door. You know I dare not keep a blooming [faid, For fear I fhould, at leaft it would be Three hundred pounds already gone! you'll fay. [pay! Three hundred pounds, almoft an age's Expenfive 'tis t'attend upon the great, But more expenfive on the fair to wait : You knew the widow, whom I won't t'dore,

Her I admir'd, her jointure greatly more During her reign, what poet can express Th' expence of fervants fees, of treats and drefs?

All was agreed-but by myself betray'd, Unhappy appetite-I kif'd her maid.

No fricaffees, then, now my table boasts, No wines by ftealth convey'd from Gallia's coafts; [boil'd, Yet I'll provide two dishes-roast and Thefe, cook'd with little art, are seldom fpoil'd;

more,

Stingo three bottles the kind juftice lends, Six bottles more the kinder butler fends Of wine two bottles, cyder halfa (core, Twelve lemons, fugar half a loaf or [store Brandy enough, but O! no rum in (Shall Gallia's fpirit the kind bow) difgrace) Prithee, Joe, bring one bottle from thy cafe. Bring with thee--happy in his loves, Bring Crocus, and whom else thy choice approves ;

But let him not, elate with full-pay pride, His broken brother's paultry shop deride. Two friends of mine will readily be there, And make amends for homely bill of fare

Harry

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form,

SIR,

D"

URING the run of GIL BLAS, we, out of chriftian love and charity, fufpended publishing our opinion of it," which is highly incumbent on us to do, in order to exprefs our refentment to, that infolent prerogative which all along contemptuously fhewed itself, by a bluftering fett of three-fhilling wits, and noily friends to the author; as alfo to check that vanity and fufficiency which he himself mistakenly ufurps in behalf of this unmeaning drama; and defire it may be printed accordingly.. "George's By order of the committee, Coffee-house, CENSOR.

Feb. 19, 1759.

A

FTER fuch mighty fufs and puff,

Was ever fuch confounded fluff!. There's nothing new, nor one thing bright; Nor any charakter polite.

The dialogue is all alike;

Nor scarce a fentiment to strike.

Vice fhines, but its reward is blotted:
And as for moral-he forgot it.

What think you, Hal faith, Tom! Í think,

'Twas wrote to get a little chink; And if it gains the author's ends, Then truly he may boaft fome friends.

Boaf, Hal! why he may boaft indeed!
But all the while, 'tis us that feed:
And fo perverted are the gains,
He feeds his belly, not his brains.

You know my wifhy-washy horse-
Not to improve, may turn out worse.
The hint needs no great explanation ;
We'll print it for his information.
'Tis then, th' opinion, and advice
Of Us, whom he's bamboozled twice,

That fhoud he make a third pretence'
To wit, or joke, or common fenfe ;
And treat Us-at our own expence :
We're not of beings to be cramm'd
It must-it will-it fhall be damn'd,
Refolv'd, by what we've heard before,
Of fuch like fenfe—to bave na MORE.
A, B, C, &c.

What shocking stuff after such puffing be. fore! [MORE If this you call writing, pray let's have no

Another.

Well, Tom ! what think you of GIL BLAS? Tom fakes his head and cries-alas !

P, Q

Hélas!

Encore. Jai vu GIL BLAS,

EPITAPH on on a GIN-DRINKER. ALF burnt alive, beneath this dung

HAL

hill lies

A wretch, whofe memory the fage despise. Her brain all tumult; ragged her attire ;. The port of boys when wallowing in the

mire.

Life did to her as a wild tempest seem ;,
And death as finking to a horrid dream.
Hence learn, ye brutes, who reel in
human shape,

To you, fuperior is the grinning ape:
For nature's wife impulfes he'll purfue,
Whilft each dread start of frenzy governs
you.

LABEL for a GIN-BOTTLE.

HEN fam'd Pandora to the clouds

WHEN withdrew,

From her dire box unnumber'd evils flew.
No jefs a curfe this vehicle contains :-
Fire to the mind, and poifon to the veins.
The THUNDERER,

The EVIL SPIRIT.
HERE lurks the fiend ?—In defart,

WHERE

cave, or bower.-The fpirit, feeking whom he may devour? See, in yon glafs, the author of all fina The devil himself, in a vile dram of gin.

To

Το

ARDELIA.

LEAK winter's gone, and fpring's re[plain; And fnow no more, but verdure decks the The frozen channel Phoebus now diffolves, In purling ftreams it once again revolves; The blushing cowlips grace the verdant field,

Burn'd again,

And azure hills a pleafing profpect yield; Sweetly the warblers tune their notes around,

And echo too repeats the joyful found; Amidst the fragrance of the flow'ry mead, The blooming primrose rears its velvet head! And fertile vales their vernal tributes bring, To welcome in the glad approach of fpring; The budding trees and fpringing flow'rs declare

The plenteous profpect of the rifing year.

Then, dear Ardelia, hafte and let's im

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What holds the good liquor with bouncing

good measure,

And fit for a mifer to put in his treasure ; But if to old founds you more reverence bear, Name the third where houses and cottages are ; [wide space, With the colour delighting thro' nature's And the whole is the name of a sweet rural place. Solution of the REBUS in Dec. laft, p. 567. HE Dorfetfhire ftream's diminutive THE DOT Wey

Which boafts neither structure nor strand; But intricately winding, flitteth away,

And runs thro' a good fertile-Land. On the frequent Repetition of the Words Devil and Devilish in the new Comedy of Gil Blas.

I

OWN, Gil Blas, 'tis ftrange to me,

That you're fo much with devil cramm'd; But ftranger ftill, that you should be So full of devil, and not damn'd.

fefs'd,

[join'd,

But conftancy and truth with honour The bleft affociates of a virtuous mind. Love fix'd on beauty, wrinkles may destroy, And age too foon effice the tranfient joy; But love like ours no time can e'er allay, Founded on reafon, it will ne'er decay; Increasing years shall feed the noble fire, And each fuccefive day augment defire.

Then to fome lonely cottage let's repair, Where free from noife and undisturb'd by

care,

Connubial rites fhall bind the union faft,
And focial harmony for ever lafk:
No envious jealousy, or factious ftrife,
Shall e'er difturh the quiet of our life;
Bleft in each other, we'll fecurely sleep,
While guardian angels fhall their vigils
keep.

Thee only I'll adore, my lovely fair; Gaze on thy charms, and be till death fincere :

Nor fhall our love ftop here its lafting course, For death, too, fhall behold its powerful force :

And tho' he shall destroy this mortal frame, Yet (hall our heav'n-born fouls be fill the

On Mr. R-- and his Followers.
holds forth, the giddy throng
With itching ear attends

To catch fome new thing from his tongue,
Which not the heart amends:
While reafon's ftill fmall voice, we find,
Condemned is unhead;

And dons of fober sense and mind

Are deem'd not worth regard.
Thus with phyficians does it fare,
When patients play fuch pranks,
As to commit their body's care
To quacks and mountebanks

As

The SUN and CLOUD, a Fable. S Phoebus once moft brightly fhone ('Twas in the month of May;) A cloud as black as e'er was known, Arofe from out the fea. At diflance long, with envious eyes, He view'd the radiant god; Then mounted higher in the fkies,

And tow'rds him bent his road. Urg'd on by spite, he aim'd to hide

Those beams that caus'd his grief; Vain wretch! his impotence and pride Met death and not relief.

Big with his hopes, he straight obfcures The furface of the fun;

But for a moment fcarce endures

The poft he thought he'd won. The god indignantly beheld

His weak opponent's (pleen,

And with a fmile the cloud difpell'd,
Which made the fky ferene.

MORA L.

N Tuesday, Jan. 29, his majefty continuing governor, Peter Burrell, Efq; was re-elected fub-governor, and John Bristow, Efq; deputy governor, of the South Sea company. And on the gift the following gentlemen were chofen directois of the faid company, viz. Richard Baker, Thomas le Blanc, Jonathan Collyer, Samuel Craghead, John Edwards, Francis Fauquier, Francis Gafhry, Jofeph Gulfton, jun. Richard Hall, Jofiah Hardy, Richard Jackfon, Thomas Lane, James Lock, Sydenham Malthus, Henry Muilman, Nathaniel Paice, John Phillipfon, Richard Salwey, Samuel Smith, John Warde, John Wenham, Robert Wylde, Thomas Coventrye, Brice Fisher, Tilman Henckell, John Smith, Thomas Strode, John Torriano, Walter Vane, and Lewis Way, Efqrs.

The laft eight in the room of Sir Charles Egleton, Knt. Jofeph Fawthorp, George Jennings, Roger Mainwaring, Robert Lovick, Efqrs. who went out by rotation; and Jof. Adams, John Coke, and Thomas Swayne, Efqrs. who are dead.

The fame day came on the election for a member to reprefent the university of Oxford in parliament, in the room of lord Cornbury, called up to the house of peers, when the numbers were, For Sir Roger Newdigate

184 126 67

The Hon. Robert Harley, Efq; Sir Edward Turner Whereupon Sir Roger Newdigate was declared duly elected.

From Vienna we had an account, that above three parts of the city Fiume had been fwallowed up by an earthquake, with most of the churches, convents, and warehouses, whereby the merchants and traders in Iftria were ruined. During the earthquake, the fea overflowed a little ifland near Fiume, and all the inhabitants perished: The next day, tho' the fea was very calm, not the leaft veftiges of that ifland could be feen; fo that they prefume its fubaqueous communication with the continent was broke off by the violence of the earthquake.

FRIDAY, Feb. 1.

Information having been given to justice Fielding of a number of people, who frequented a noted gaming-houfe in the Strand, he, this evening, fent for a party of foldiers (in number 40) from the Tiltyard, with a proper officer, who accordingly befet the houfe, but finding their

number infufficient to fecure them all, they were obliged to fend for a reinforcement from the Savoy and Somerset-house, which made up the number about 80. They then proceeded to buhness, when fix foldiers and a ferjeant entered the room, where the gamblers were affembled, with their bayonets fixed, and penned them up in a corner, till the reft came in and fecured them. The method the officer took, was this: Each prifoner was put into the cuftody of a foldier, and both their names were entered down, fo that the foldiers were each of them obliged to fee his man forth coming, and the remaining party guarded them before and behind; and in this manner they were carried before justice Fielding, who was till two o'clock the next morning examining them, when 30 were fent to the Gatehouse, and fix admitted to bail. During their march feveral of the prisoners offered the foldiers five guineas each to let them escape, but they were true to their truft, and not one got off. There were three tables broken to pieces, which coft near hol. a. piece, under each of which were found two iron rollers, and two private fprings, which those who were in the fecret could touch, and stop the turn-about whenever they had any youngsters to deal with, and by that means fleeced them of their money.

Letters from Dublin, of the ad inftant, bring advice, that the verdict and judgment obtained on the famous trial in the court of Exchequer by the Hon. James Annelley, Efq; against his uncle, Richard earl of Anglefey, was, on Jan. 28, affirmed in favour of Mr. Annesley, in the court of Exchequer chamber; and the writ of error brought by his lordship on that occafion fo long ago as Nov. 1741, to top further proceedings, was fet aside. (See a particular account of the trial in our Mag. for 1744, p. 304, &c. 486491.)

TUESDAY, 5.

A proclamation was published, offering the following rewards for the difcovery of the author, printers and publishers of the Conftitutional Queries, &c. to be paid on conviction, viz. for the author thereof 1cool. for each of the printers 2001. and for each of the publishers gol. for the payment of whick faid feveral rewards, his majesty gave neceffary orders to the lords commiffioners of his treafury. (See p. 43.). ...WEDNESDAY, 6.

Was held a general court of the SouthSea