Breath'd heavenly measures; And could not contain, While Thais was sitting beside him; Was for shaking the spheres, Such goods the kind gods did provide him. And cock'd up his shoulder, He sunk on her breast, And lay there as dead as a salmon. O had I a voice that was stronger than steel, With twice fifty tongues to express what I feel, And as many good mouths, yet I never could utter All the speeches my Lord made to Lady Bunbutter! So polite all the time, that he ne'er touch'd a bit, While she ate up his rolls and applauded his wit: For they tell me that men of true taste, when they Should talk a great deal, but they never should eat : E'en though I'd the honour of sitting between My Lady Stuff-damask and Peggy Moreen, Who both flew to Bath in the nightly machine. Cries Peggy," This place is enchantingly pretty; "We never can see such a thing in the city: "You may spend all your life-time in Cateaton-street, "And never so civil a gentleman meet; "You may talk what you please; you may search London through; "You may go to Carlisle's, and to Almanac's too: "And I'll give you my head if you find such a host, "For coffee, tea, chocolate, butter, and toast: "How he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, "And how civil to folk he ne'er saw in his life!""These horns," cries my Lady, "so tickle one's ear, “Lard! what would I give that Sir Simon was here! "To the next public breakfast Sir Simon shall go, "For I find here are, folks one may venture to know: "Sir Simon would gladly his Lordship attend, "And my Lord would be pleased with so cheerful a friend." So when we had wasted more bread at a breakfast Than the poor of our parish have ate for this week past, I saw, all at once, a prodigious great throng Come bustling, and rustling, and jostling along: For his Lordship was pleas'd that the company now To my Lady Bunbutter should curt'sy and bow: And my Lady was pleased too, and seem'd vastly proud At once to receive all the thanks of a crowd: And when, like Chaldeans, we all had ador'd Just to follow th' employments and calls of the day; Thus the feast was concluded, as far as I hear, SB-N-R-D. Bath, 1766. THE END. |