Of Holland, Germany, and Flanders! To know that S-per's chose for Hants? Sarum, for beauties ever famed, Decreed to be by all beloved. Ccks, to whose celestial dower I gave all beauties in my power; To form whose lovely minds and faces, I stripp'd half heaven of its graces. 'The middle part of this poem (which was written when the author was very young) was filled with the names of several young ladies, who might perhaps be uneasy at seeing themselves in print, that part therefore is left out; the rather, as some freedoms, though gentle ones, were taken with little foibles in the amiable sex, whom to affront in print, is, we conceive, mean in any man, and scandalous in a gentleman. Oh let them bear an equal sway, A PARODY FROM THE FIRST ÆNEID DIXIT; et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, She said; and turning, show'd her wrinkled neck, In scales and colour like a roach's back. Forth from her greasy locks such odours flow, As those who've smelt Dutch coffee-houses know. To her mid-leg her petticoat was rear'd, And the true slattern in her dress appear'd. A SIMILE FROM SILIUS ITALICUS AUT ubi cecropius formidine nubis aquosæ OR when th' Hymettian shepherd, struck with fear Of wat❜ry clouds thick gather'd in the air, Collects to waxen cells the scatter'd bees Home from the sweetest flowers, and verdant trees; Loaded with honey to the hive they fly, And humming murmurs buzz along the sky. TO EUTHALIA WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1728 BURNING with love, tormented with despair In Locke's or Newton's page her learning glows; The various beauties of her perfect mind. Each sparkling glass recalls my charming toast. Engage the young, the witty, and the fair. |