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PITT thinks his search at PARIS crown'd;
See the Gazette his proofs expound !

Yet who of looking there had thought

For EDEN's place!

No;-view yon frame with dirt embrown'd,

Some six feet rais'd above the ground,

Where rogues, exalted as they ought,

To peep through three round holes are brought,

There will the genuine spot be found

For EDEN's place.

EPIGRAMS

On the IMMACULATE BOY

THAT Master PITT seems

To be fond of extremes,
No longer is thought any riddle;
For sure we may say,

'Tis as plain as the day,

That he always kept clear of the middle.

ANOTHER.

'Tis true, indeed, we oft abuse him,
Because he bends to no man;

But Slander's self dares not accuse him
Of stiffness to a woman.

ANOTHER.

"No! no! for my virginity,

"When I lose that," quoth PITT, "I'll die;"

Cries WILBERFORCE," If not till then,

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*No! no! for my virginity,

"When I lose that," quoth ROSE," I'll die;"
"Behind the elms last night," quoth Dick,

"Rose, were you not extremely sick?"

PRIOR.

ANOTHER *.

On fair and equal terms to place

An union is thy care;

But trust me, Powrs, in this case

The equal should not please his Grace,
And PITT dislikes the fair.

ANOTHER.

The virulent fair,

Protest and declare,

This Ministry's not to their hearts;
For say what they will,

To them Master BILL

Has never discover'd his parts.

ANOTHER.

-Ex nibilo nil fit.

When PITT exclaim'd, " By measures I'll be tried,"
That false appeal all woman-kind denied.

ANOTHER.

Incautious Fox will oft repose

In fair one's bosom thoughts of worth;
But PITT his secrets keeps so close,

No female arts can draw them forth.

* A coalition between the DUKE OF PORTLAND and Mr. PITT, Was attempted to be formed by Mr. Powis, and the other Country Gentlemen. This endeavour, however, was defeated in consequence of Mr. PITT's construction of the terms fuir and equal.

ANOTHER.

Had PITT to his advice inclined,

SIR CECIL had undone us;

But he, a friend to womankind,
Would nothing lay upon us.

ANCILLA.

ANOTHER.

On Mr. PITT's Prudence.

Though PITT have to women told some things, no doubt
Yet his private affairs they have never found out.

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DELAVALIAD.

WHY, says an indignant poet, should Mr. ROLLE alone, of all the geniuses that distinguish the present period, be thought the only person of worth or talents enough to give birth and name to an immortal effusion of divine poesy? He questions not that great man's pretensions; far from it; he reveres his ancestors, adores his talents, and feels something hardly short of idolatry towards his manners and accomplishments.-But still, why such profusion of distinction towards one, to the exclusion of many other high characters? Our Poet professes to feel this injustice extremely, and has made the following attempt to rescue one deserving man from so unmerited an obloquy. The reader will perceive the measure to be an imitation of that which has been so deservedly admired in our immortal bard, in his play of "As You Like It."

From the East to the Western Inde
No Jewel is like Rosalind;

Her worth being mounted on the wind,

Thro' all the world bears Rofalind, &c. &c.

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