'Tis his the joys of wedded love

In innocence to fhare;

To prove a fai hful husband's worth, And father's tender care.

With him each manly virtue dwells, Each genious thought refin'd, Each trait of noble sentiment,

That warms the human mind.

Fair fcience marks him for her friend;
And arts their patron own;
And tafte and judgment both attend

To lead him to her throne.

Beneath his pencil's magic touch
He bids the canvas glow;
And from his fcientific pen

Hiftoric numbers flow.

ubject in their corporate capacities to the said tax; and that by this impoft alone, no inconfiderable fum would be raised. Be fure you make him fenfible, that upon the farmer in general this tax would be little or no hardship; for, whatever game he may at any time have killed, he has ufually fent it, if not to his worthy landlord, yet to his honest attorney; fo that the faid tax would bear upon the fhoulders of thofe who could beft fupport it; upon thofe, who are nine out of ten not licenfed fportfmen, but who yet give countenance, many of them, to the unlawful takers of game. You fee, Mr. Editor, how many reafons may be given to juftify a tax upon caters of game: I could advance many more, but I will content myself with adding a few words by way of conclufion, which are, that if there were no receivers there would be no thieves; and men, who are now engaged in the nightly and unlawful purfuits after game, which fo frequently tend to the ruin of themfelves and families, would, upon the faid tax taking place, and meeting with few employers, find poach-Nor may his councils and advice ing an unprofitable bufinefs, not worth the Nor may his councils and advice Be ever spent in vain. following; and confequently the game and themfelves would be preferved thereby.The Minister alfo would find himself poffeffed of a fum adequate to the pleafing talk of difburdening the public of fome You more galling and oppreffive tax. would, therefore, Mr. Editor, oblige me, and many other country gentlemen, licenfed to kill game, if would immediyou ately wait upon the Minister, and propofe that the principal head of every family fhould take out a licence for the purpose

But yet with diffidence he tries
His merit to conceal ;

And hides thofe talents from the world
Which friendship would reveal.
Bleft in his converfe may I learn

His virtues to attain ;

THE

CABINET.

A GENERAL TOAST.

In Imitation of the Song in the School for Scandal.

I.

ERE's to young Pitt, at the helm fo ferene,

IV.

Let them be clumfy, or let them be flim, Scots or English, I care not a feather; But fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, And here's to their fwinging together! Let the toaft país,

Drink to each afs,

And, zounds, never make a wry face at the glass.

For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. HOPE.

Ho

[OPE! what art thou?-what phantom of the
mind?

That plays within, and fpins the thread of life;
In every heart thou art a welcome guest,
Partner of joy, of mifery, and of love!
Each breaft without thee is a dreary waste-
A hollow cave-a dark recefs of woe:
Without thee life is but a frightful dream,
A ghaftly fhadow, grinning, and then gone;
A wreck indeed, without a pilot left
To waft her to the diftant port of death.
This firft of bleffings was by heaven decreed,
To be to man the anchor of his foul.
If this is hope-then what is happiness ?
The lovely emblem of her parent hope!
Can man be happy without future hopes?
Can he believe a God, and think of death?
And if the thoughts of death create a wish,
That wish is hope, that hope is happiness.
What are the pleafures that a crown can give,
Or all the coftly trappings of a court,
Devoid of hope?-

What are the statesman and the midnight fage,
But weary travellers inur'd to toil?
Did not this fpring of action spur them on,

men already licenfed to kill game excepted. I am, wifhing you good fuccefs with the Minifter, Mr. Editor, your very humble fervant,

A Licensed Sportsman.

P. S. If, Mr. Editor, you fucceed in

Here's to Lord Howe, at fighting so keen, And here's also to Richmond the thrifty.

CHORUS.

Let the toaft pafs,
Drink to each afs,

What crowns the victor with his laurel'd brow?
Or wins a battle ere a fword is drawn?
What ftirs the patriot when his country groans?
But hope to fave, or to prolong her fall.
Why fhrugs the doctor when his patient bleeds?

And what makes certain what uncertain is?

II.

For the COUNTY MAGAZINE.

THE

PRODIGAL SON-of a TAYLOR.

A

LONDON TAYLOR, as 'tis faid,

By buckram, canvas, tape, and thread,
Sleeve linings, pockets, filk, and twist,
And all the long expenfive lift

With which their uncouth bills abound,
(Though rarely in the garments found ;)
With thefe, and other arts in trade,
He foon a hand fome fortune made;
And did what few had ever done,-
Left thirty thousand to his fon.

The fon, a gay young fwaggering blade,
Abhorr'd the very name of trade;
And, left reflection fhould be thrown
On him, refolv'd to leave the town,
And travel where he was not known.
With gilded coach, and liveries gay,
To Oxford first he took his way;
The bucks and beaux his tafte admire,
His equipage and rich attire;
But nothing was so much ador'd
As his fine filver-hilted fword;

Tho' fhort and small, 'twas vaftly neat,
The fight was deem'd a perfect treat:
Beau Banter begg'd to have a look ;-
But when the word in hand he took,
He swore, by gad, it was an odd thing,
And look'd just like a Taylor's Bodkin.
His pride was hurt by this expreffion,
Thinking they knew his fire's profession;
Sheathing his fword he fneak'd away,
And drove for Glofter that fame day;
Where foon he found new cause for grief-
For, dining on fome fine roast beef,
They afk'd him which he did prefer-
Some Cabbage, or a Cucumber.

The pure-proud coxcomb took the hint,
Thought it severe reflection meant;
His ftomach turn'd, he could not eat,
So made an ungenteel retreat.
He then left Glofter in great wrath,
And bid his coachman drive to Bath:
There he suspected fresh abuse,
Because the dinner was Roaft Goose.
To Exeter he drove next day,
And went at night to fee a play;
But here again he was tormented-
To fee a Taylor represented :

For when poor Sneak came on the stage,
He left the fide-box in a rage.
To Plymouth next day took a trip,
And put up at the Royal Ship,
Which then was kept by Caleb Srip.
The hoft by name was often call'd,
At which his guest was fo much gall'd,
That he next morn, at break of day,
Towards Southampton took his way;
There with fome bucks he drank about,
Until he fear'd they'd found him out.
His glass not fill'd, as was his rule,
They faid 'twas not a Thimble-full. ·

The name of Thimble was enough,

He paid his reck'ning, and went off.
Next day to Cambridge he remov'd,
There, too, he unsuccessful prov'd;
For tho' he fill'd his glafs or cup,
He did not always drink it up.
The scholars mark'd how he behav'd,
And faid a Remnant fhould be fav'd:
The name of remnant seem'd fevere,
And he for York refolv'd to fteer;
There fill'd his bumper to the top,
And always fairly drank it up.
"Well done (fays Jack, a buck of York)
"You go thro' Stitch, Sir, with your work."
The name of stitch was fuch reproach,
He rang the bell, and call'd the coach;
But ere he went, enquiry made

By what means they found out his trade.
"You put the cap on, and it fits,"
(Replies one of the Yorkshire wits)
"Our words, in common acceptation,
"Could not point out your occupation:
"'Twas you yourself gave us the clue,
"To find out both your trade and you:
"Proud coxcombs and fantastic beaux,
"In every place themselves expose;
"They travel far, at vast expence,
"To fhew their wealth and want of sense;
"But take this for a ftanding rule-
"There's no difguife will screen a fool."

What more than mere toys, tho' of fuch high re

nown,

Are the Bishop's lawn fleeves, or the Judge's furr'd

gown;

What are coronets, mitres, wigs, patches, or wands;

What ribbands and medals, caps, taffels, and bands;

What all tinfel of state-jewels, garters, and ftrings

Which Kings can beftow, and which deck even Kings:

Yet thefe are the baubles that generate ftrife, Among children who pant for the Playthings of Life.

Hark, mortals! your paffion for gewgaws reprefs;
To few be attach'd, nor those few to excefs;
For excefs will to evil convert ev'ry good,
Your joy turn to anguish, to poifon your food;
While the choice made by prudence, by pru
dence confin'd,

Bids the body feel blifs, without paining the mind;
And thus wife to husband, and husband to wife,
Prove the best and most permanent Playthings for
Life.

To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE.

SIR,

AVING laft week occafion to tra

Hvel as far as Bath, I flept one night

in a certain inn on the road. My bedroom joined to that of a lady who was travelling, as I understood, from Bath to London.

"And thin partitions did the bounds divide.”

Juft as I was ftepping into bed, I heard a fhrill female voice calling to her tirewoman, I fuppofe, in thefe words :-Lay my Head on the top of the drawers-Put my Bottom on the chair, and the Hips above it-Take care of my Bofom and don't ruffle it-Lay this Eye into my drefl

makers.

Pray, Mr. Editor, what am I to underftand by all this? Suppofe I had been wickedly inclined to break into this lady's room in the night time, could an action lie againft me for ravishing an animal, whofe Head, Bottom, Hips, Eyes, and Shoulders, I might have previously thrown out at the win

dow?

Life.

STUDY OF NATURE. (Concluded from our laft, p. 164.) HE difference of fize in different animals THE muft ftrike us with no lefs aftonifhment, efpecially if we compare the huge whale with the almoft invifible mite; the former, whilft it fhakes the largest fhips with its bulky body, is itself a prey to the diminutive Onifci, and is obliged to have recourfe to marine birds, who, fitting on its back, free it from these vermin. We are as much amazed at the prodigious ftrength of the elephant and rhinoceros, as we are pleased with the flender deer of Guinea (Cervus guineenfis) and the fmall Afiatic goat (Mofchus pygmaeus), which are, in all their parts, like our deer, but fcarcely fo large as the fmalleft lap-dogs; natúre has, however, in the nimblenefs of their feet, abundantly compenfated them for the fmallnefs of their fize.

The great Oftriches of Arabia, whose wings are infufficient to raise their bulky bodies from the ground, excite no lefs admiration than the little Humming-birds of India, hard ly bigger than beetles, which feed on the honey of flowers, like bees and flies, and, like thofe animals, are the prey of ordinary spiders; between which and the large fpider of Brafil (Aranea avicularis) there is as much difference in fize as between the Humming-bird and the Oftrich. This great spider often attacks the largest birds, dropping on their backs, by means of its web, from the branches of trees; and while they vainly feek for fecurity in flight, it bites them, and fucks their juices in fuch a manner, that they not unfrequently fall lifeless to the ground.

The fingular figures of fome animals can. not fail to attract our notice. We wonder, with reafon, at the angular appendage to the nofe of the American bat: nor is the fhort and flender upper mandible of the woodpecker lefs remarkable; the form of the latter being as unufual among birds as is among fishes the figure of the American fishing frog (lophius hiftrio) which is furnished with feet, but cannot walk. Another kind of fish, however (filurus Callich. thys), when the rivulet which it inhabits becomes dry, has a power of travelling overland till it finds more copious ftreams.

The plaife, the fole, and many other fishes which conftitute the genus of pleuronecies, although the only animals which have both eyes on the fame fide of the head, do not, perhaps, aftonifh us fo much, being common fishes, as the horned frog of Virginia (rana cornuta), whofe head is furnished with a pair of horns, at the extremities of which its eyes are placed: its flern afpect cannot fail to ftrike with horror all who behold it. This animal is unable, however, to move its eyes in different directions at the fame time, like the Chamaleon, which appears to have a power of contem plating at once many diftant objects, and of at. tending equally to all: at leaft, it certainly does not live upon air, as many have reported, but on flies, which it follows with its piercing and sparkling cyes, till it has got fo near them, that by darting forth its long tongue they are inftantly brought into its mouth. While the flender ant bear (myrmecothaga) which has no teeth, and which the

That wifdom which deliberates on all future events, has covered the porcupine-fifh (diodon byftrix), like the hedgehog, on every fide with a strong guard of thorns; has beflowed on the Armadillo (dafypus), as on the Tortoife, a hard fhell, in which it rolls itself up, and bids defiance to its enemies; and has enveloped the loricaria, like the Canada pike (efox offeus), with a coat of mail.

The fame Almighty artift has given the flying fquirrel (fciurus volans) a power of extending the fkin on each fide of its body in fuch a manner, that being enabled to defcend by a precipitate flight from one branch to another, it eafily avoids its enemies. He has affixed wings to the fides of the little dragon (draco volans), with which, by the help of its feet, it fupports itfelf in the air in the manner of a bat. Thus alfo has he lengthened out the fins on the breaft of the flying fish, that it might feek for fafety in the air, when purfued by its enemies in the water and he has likewife formed an appendage to the tail of the great cuttlefish (epia loligo), by means of which it fprings out of the fea; at the fame fort of ink, with which it darkens the water, time being furnished with a bladder, full of a and eludes the fight of its puríuers.

tures, while they cannot well diftinguish the noxious ones from thofe which are innocent, fhun them all with equal care. We hudder with horror when we think of thefe cruel weapons. Whoever is wounded by the hooded ferpent (Coluber Naja) expires in a few minutes; nor can he efcape with life who is bitten by the Rattle-fnake (Crotalus borridus) in any part near a great vein. But the merciful God has diftinguished thefe pefts by peculiar figns, and has created them most inveterate enemies; for as he has appointed cats to deftroy mice, fo has he provided the ichneumon (viverra ichneumon) against the former ferpent, and the hog to perfecute the latter. He has moreover given the Crotalus a very flow motion, and has annexed a kind of rattle to its tail, by the motion of which it gives notice of its approach: but, left this flownefs fhould be too great a difadvantage to the animal itself, he has favoured it with a certain power of fafcinating fquirrels from high trees, and birds from the air into its throat, in the fame manner as flies are precipitated into the jaws of the lazy toad *.

On account of thefe and various other poifonous ferpents and worms of India, which crawl upon the ground, fwim in the waters, or twine among the branches of trees, we prefer our barren and craggy woods to the everblooming meadows and fruitful groves of Indian climes; and we had rather fuffer the inconveniences of our northern fnows, than enjoy their enviable luxuries. We fear no threatening fcorpions, which difturb the peace and reft of thofe who inhabit a warmer clithe fcolopendra, to guard against which fires mate; nor is our fweet fleep interrupted by are obliged to be carefully kept up all night in Other animals are preferved by means of India. Our waters are not infefted, like thofe their difmal cries, as the capuchin monkey of fome other countries; nor do they produce (fimia capucina), whofe horrid yellings are fish whose flesh is poifonous, like the hare intolerable to the ears; and the floth (Brady-globe-fifh (tetrodon lagocephalus) of the Chipus), whofe piercing voice puts all the wild nefe; nor any whofe bite is venomous, except beafts to flight, like horfes at the found of a the Murena Helena, a very rare fifh: neither rattle. The flow-paced maucauco (lemur tar- have we any that wounds with poisonous digradus), is fupplied with double ears, that prickles, except the Weever (Trachinus Drahe may betake himself to the trees in time to to), which we can easily avoid. Sharks, avoid danger; there he gathers the fruit in which difmember the inhabitants of the ealfafety, always firft tafting what he prefents to tern world, and devour them in the water, The Creator has indulged the are almost unknown on our fhores; as are opoffum with a retreat for her young in her Crocodiles, which afcend the fides of veffels own body, to which they betake them felves and take away men for their prey. The rain cafe of an alarm; and, left cruel hunger vages of the laft mentioned animal, however, fhould force them from this afylum, it is fur- the Creator has reftrained within very narrow nifhed with internal nipples, affording them a limits; not only by means of the cruelty with welcome nourishment. The torpedo, of all which it devours its own young, and of the animals the most tender and flow-paced, and bird which deftroys its eggs; but also by the therefore moft obnoxious to the attacks of striped Lizard (Lacerta monitor) which inothers, has received from its maker forms men of the approach of the Crocodile, denied to other creatures, of giving thofe who as the great butcher-bird (Lanius excubitor) approach it a fhock, of fuch a nature, that warns lefler birds of that of the hawk. Just in none of it enemies can bear it. the fame manner the human race are preferved from lions and tigers, by means of the little Lizard, called Gecko; which being alarmed for its own fafety, runs haftily to man, as its guardian angel, and acquaints him with his danger: thus alfo the Storm Finch warns mariners of an approaching tempeft.

his mate.

power

Truly formidable are the arms which the lord of nature has given to fome animals. Though he has left ferpents deftitute of feet, wings, and fins, like naked fishes, and has ordered them to crawl on the ground expofed to all kinds of injuries, yet he has armed them with dreadful envenomed weapons: but, that they may not do immoderate mifchief, he has only given these arms to about a tenth part of the various fpecies; at the fame time arraying them in fuch habits that they are not eafily diftinguishable from one another, as the reft of animals are; fo that men and other crea

This opinion of the fafcinating power of the Toad has been refuted, and the appearance which gave rife to it fully accounted for, by Mr. Pennart, Rattle-fnake's having a fimilar power might be in his British Zoology. Probably the ftory of the found equally falie, if enquired into with the fame degree of accuracy.

But the curious properties of exotic animals are fo many, that we have only room to mention a few more of the most remarkable. For example; the Surinam toad (Rana Pipa) nourifhes its young on its back, as cattle do the gad-fly. And this is more truly worthy of our admiration than the Salamander, which was believed by the ancients to live in the fire; or the frog-fith (Rana paradoxa), which was till very lately fuppofed to be transformed from a toad to a fifh. The black tortoifes always leave the receffes of the fea, to feek out the fhores of defart and defolate islands, in the fand of which they depofit their eggs: thus they fall a prey to failors, who refresh their fick with the delicate flesh of these animals; which is much more wholefome, although lefs delicious, than that of the Guana (Lacerta Iguana), the latter being prudently avoided by those who have been too incautious in their facrifices to Venus. Any one who happens to fee, in the Indian woods, the falling leaves of trees apparently become alive, and creep upon the ground, probably behold them with no lefs pleasure than he would the phosphorefcent fea pens, which cover the bottom of the ocean, and there caft fo ftrong a light, that it eafy fifhes and worms isely to count the fig them. The fucking; Eh (Echeneis Remora), which of itself could not without great difficulty fwim faft enough to fupply itself with food, has obtained from its Creator an inftrument not much unlike a faw, with which it affixes itfelf to fhips, and the larger kinds of fishes, and in this manner is tranfported gratis from one shore of the world to another. The fame divine artificer has given the fluggish fishing frog (Lophius pifcatrix) a kind of rod, furnished with a bait, by which it beguiles little fishes into its jaws +.

Thus he who views only the produce of his own country, may be faid to inhabit a fingle world; while thofe who fee and confider the productions of other climes, bring many worlds, as it were, in review before them.

Of these many wonderful animals travellers have told us much; all accounts of voyages mention them. We may gather knowledge from the accounts of others; but it is much more pleasant to fee things with our own eyes. In this Royal museum thefe aftonishing creatures are preferved, exhibiting, as nearly as poffible, the appearance which they made when living on the theatre of the world; a

The appearance here alluded to is caufed by the different fpecies of mantis, a kind of infects, whofe wings fo exactly refemble the leaves of many trees, both in texture and colour, that inaccurate obfervers, feing them fall from the branches, and immediately afterwards creep or fly away, conceived the idea of the wonderful and indeed impoflible transformation of a leaf into an animal; an idea which is ftill reruoufly fupported by many persons who are more ed to fee than to reflect on what they behold. Such friking appearances as the above were furely defigned to excite our curiofity, and they cannot fail to awaken that of the most inattentive. Many operations of nature, however, which are conftantly going on before our eyes, although lefs ftriking, are roles curious; nor ought we to fuffer our attention to be lofar engaged by the wonders of foreign counties, as, to neglect the productions of our own; which, beides being more cafily examined, are proFibly more likely to be ferviceable in the improvemiri of our domestic and rural economy. + See Pennant's British Zoology..

moft magnificent fpectacle to an admirer of | From thee the fage-whofe meditative mind the divine wisdom [

Man, ever defirous of knowledge, has already explored many things; but more and greater ftill remain concealed; perhaps referved for far diftant generations, who fhall profecute the examination of their Creator's works in remote countries, and make many difcoveries for the pleasure and convenience of life. Pofterity fhall fee its increasing mufeums, and the knowledge of the divine wisdom, flourish together; and at the fame time all the practical fciences, antiquities, hiftory, geography, natural philofophy, natural history, botany, mineralogy, dietetics, pathology, medicine, materia medica, œconomy, and the manual arts, fhall be enriched: for we cannot avoid thinking, that what we know of the divine works are much fewer than thofe of which we are ignorant.

A Poetic Epistle to a CURATE.

FROM A PAMPHLET, JUST PUBL ISHED

BY JOSIAH THOMAS, A. B.

neft and cultivated mind. Though the writer has the modefty to disclaim all expectation of diftinction as a poet, the following lines will give our readers no unfavourable impreffion both of his genius and taste :

HIS is the natural effufion of an ho

Retirement, hail !-thy hofpitable fhade, By blundering Pride injuriously pourtray'd, Demands my verfe-could Gratitude inspire The Sage's wifdom, or the Poet's fire, How would the Mufe th' immortal theme prolong,

And blefs thy fond encomiaft and the fong!

Retirement, hail ! though ridicul'd by Pride, Sublime th' affociates in thy bower abide. Sublime thy joys, however difavow'd

By inftinet's herd, the profligate and proud.

6

Though round thy bower no pompous
buildings ftare,

Not Tafte's capricious vanities be there;
Within the sweet recefs Truth loves to dwell;
And meek Simplicity adorns the cell:
Learning the volume of the world displays,
Blaz'ning the wonders of the Sire of Days:
Genius, with eye undazzled by the Sun,
Traces each footstep where old time has run :
Science the exhauftlefs univerfe explores,
Dives to the bottom, to the fummit foars;
There Contemplation by fage Wisdom led,
"Holds her high converfe with the mighty Dead."
While fair Content and Peace, congenial Powers,
Crown with delight the confecrated hours.

Retirement, hail ! beneath thy fostering care
The Mufe first gives her callow wing to air;
To thee the liberal arts their luftre owe,
Plants, that reward the foil wherein they grow.

From thee the Poet-whofe illumin'd

page

Glows, like the Sun, above the wrecks of age: A a z

Prefcribes the laws that civilize mankind:
From thee th' hiftorian-whofe fagacious pen
To man inculcates his first study, MEN:
From thee the keen philofopher-whose eye
Darts through the glooms that fhroud futurity:
From thee, retirement! ALL their glories claim
Thine the first triumphs in the fields of fame.

Bleft is his lot, from vice, from Folly free,
Whofe tranquil paffions are arrang'd by thee!
To him, through faction's discontented rout
Pronounce deftruction-while themfelves are out;
Though Counties, with endemic frenzy curs'd
Contend and war which cypher fhall be first,
To him the clamour but one forrow brings,
That men should madden for such idle things.-
When, darting radiance o'er the brightening
fky,

The fun renews his race: or while, on high
The dewy clouds involve the morning ray,
As loth to yield their station to the day,
How sweet the opening morn!-the genial hour,
Retirement calls thy votary from thy bower,

To me, while blue mits the lower vallies hide,

meet fair health upon the mountain's fide: There, while blue

Health and her rofe-lipt zephyrs meet, to pay
Their balmy fragrance to the new-born day.

• When evening hovers, in her noifelefs car, Upon the shadowy bofom of the air, What time the ftar, that bids the dews arife, Drinks the laft radiance of the western skies, And nature breathes refresh'd-quick let my feet,

Retirement! haften to thy lov'd retreat:
There, while each paflion calm'd, and with
refin'd,

Expand the heart, and elevate the mind,
Let fancy bear me to th' immortal clime,
Where Poefy, above the moon fublime,
With infpiration dwells-Or, let me hold
Converfe with fages of the years of old;
And gleaning ev'ry truth and mortal art,
Treasure the living harveft in my heart."

The couplet, When evening hovers,' &c. in the above quotation, is highly poetical. The author will, we hope, find fufficient inducement to perfevere in facrificing to the Mufes.

ODE TO DELIA.

DESCEND, ye Nine! infpire my lay,

Affift this arduous task of mine; And I each morn, each night, each day, Will pay devotions at your shrine.

I ftrive not to exalt my Mufe

On Saints, or heavenly things above; An humbler Theme I mean to use, To figh to Delia of my love. Could I but gain one gracious fimile,

One kind expreffion, tender word; How 'twou'd my lonefome hours beguile! What foothing comfort 'twou'd afford !

Oft have I wish'd, I ne'er had feen

Thofe eyes that with fuch luftre shine; That beauteous skin, majestic mein, Sound peace of mind had then been mine. Turn, Delia, turn, be kind and free,

And eafe me of this painful fmart; And thou fole miftrefs e'er fhall be, And reign triumphant o'er my heart.

L

The DYING BARD.

ONG has Disease, with rav'nous fibres, fed On the rich blood that swell'd with life the vein ;

And call'd her phantoms round th' indormant bed,

And rufh'd infuriate o'er the frantic brain. On my parch'd tongue, she dropt her venom'd dew, On my wan face, the left a livid ftroke; Prepare, ye fwains! your Poet's grave to strew,

With laurels faded, and with myrtles broke. Should a flight praise be mine, for many a song, Troul'd to the maid, to blefs the Lover's choice, Around my bier the grateful forrows throng,

My shade well pleas'd may liften to your voice. In lofty numbers to the mufes' feats,

Of Cœur de Lion did I raise the strain ; With gorgeous tournaments and knightly feats, Your fouls I kindled in the echoing plain. And were there one, whofe av'ice" fhut the door Against the houseless stranger," or a wretch, The poor made poorer, on his marbled floor Did Satire's arrows low the mifcreant stretch. 'Tis only Virtue makes the Poet's praife;

The orient frame that holds the tuneful wire; For weak the Poet's arm who cannot raise

The wreath of Virtue o'er the mufeful choir. Yon mould'ring Tow'r, a-down whofe fighing aifles,

No village hind may pass the awful gloom; My rapt foul kindled on the time-funk piles, At those whofe fame furvives the marble tomb. Yon bending bow'r, whose melancholy boughs, Seat of my youth! and foft repofe of age! Full oft have charm'd the anguish of my woes, In pleas'd attention on the letter'd page; Yon fhady walk that skirts the enamell'd meads, You lofty pines, that thunder o'er the hill, Bright with wild flow'rs, and sweet with fragrant

weeds,

Yet ere we part, the inftructive verfe I frame,
Attend, ye fhepherds, to the voice of Truth!
Be all your end to give a virtuous fame,

To make your age the brilliant crown of youth. Not on the Fair fix thou thy manly mind,

Enervate trifles of luxurious days! They give each folid virtue to the wind,

The gate of Danger opens with their praise. Their tongues breathe forth the music of the fpheres,

Their eyes are brighter than a mid day Sun, Fools fill their train, who are all eyes and ears, Lull'd by foft words, by painted forms undone. And when their ev'ry hand shall fix the chain, And the gay fetters bend the thoughtless flave, They like Alcina in the fraudful reign,

*

Shall plant their lovers an inglorious grave. But were there one, whofe well-watch'd fighs re

veal

The partial fondnefs of a maiden heart;
For thee that fondness! foon the union seal,
And prefs her bofom as thy better part.
Let labour meet thee with the gold-hair'd morn,
Up mountain steep, brown rock, and graffy
dale;

To tend thy flocks, or wind thy mellow horn,
And chafe the keen fox from thy fleecy vale.
To paftures fresh, and to pellucid streams,

On the foft turf where fportive lambkins reft, Where wanton ewes, own nature's genial flames, Lead thou thy woolly care, and be thou bleft! If Heav'n provides thee with a plenteous foil, And golden harvests wave thy green hills round; Ah! let no hoary age be seen to toil,

Or pick the refuse of the scanty ground. Be thou the orphan's fire, the widow's joy!

And give the fhepherd to the virgin's choice; He, for his food that having grief, muft die,

Ah! bid his fadden'd heart with life rejoice. So may your flocks increase, fo may your name Adorn'd with olives, not with wrathful (word, The od'rous incenfe of our praises claim,

A 1ural monarch, and a gen`rous Lord.
So fhall ye know, when all of life is vain,
All but the goodly acts that never fly,
When folly fickens, with her forr'wing train,
Like me, to lay ye gently down and die.

*Vide the 6th Book of the Orlando Furiofo, where Alcina is made to reprefent the criminal indulgencies of Love, and where Rogors, one of the great heroes of Ariofto, falls a victim to the inviting delufions of vice. It was her cuftom, after fhe had enjoyed her lovers, to put them to fome menial labours, or to enclofe them in trees. It is one of the beautiful parts of the Furiofo, where Ariofto does not trefpafs against a fuft taste and nature. Her perfon is most elaborately drawn, and exhibits one of the most delightful portraits in poetry.

Then shake off your flumbers, arife!

Blooming Health, fee! fhe tends on the morn; See the waves you; up, up, or the flies; Hark! she calls by her Herald the horn. Already in her airy cell

The nymph of mimic voice Awakes, and with refponfive fwell, Applauds the hunter's choice! Then up and away to the chace!

Blooming Health, fee! fhe tends on the morn; See; the fmiles with ineffable grace!

Hark! fhe fpeaks in the found of the horn!
The cry is up; the ardent hounds
Pursue the deftin'd prey ;

He yields; with fhouts the fields refound:
Let Friendship clofe the day.

But ftill let's be ready to meet

Blooming Health, as the tends on them orn Fill to Love! make life's pleasures complete; Sound! to joy found the echoing horn!

EPIGRAMS by Mr. POPE. On Mrs. TOFTS, who was handsome, and had a fine voice, but who was covetous and proud. Not printed in his works.

O bright is thy beauty, fo charming thy fong,
As had drawn both the beafts, and their

Orpheus along;

But fuch is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beafts must have ftarv'd, and the poet have died.

EPIGRAM.

On fome fnow melting in a lady's breaft.
The envious fnow defcended fast,

To prove her breast less fair;
But grieving to be far furpafs'd,
It melted to a tear.

ANECDOTE of the prefent Emperor of GERMANY, when laft at Paris.

"What

HIS great Prince amufed himself daily by mixing with the people, and often going into coffee houfes incog, at Paris, where foon after his arrival he met with a perfon with whom he played at chefs. The Emperor loft his game, and wifhed to play another; but the gentleman defired to be excused, faying, he must go to the opera to fee the Emperor. do you expect to fee in the Emperor (fays he); there is nothing worth feeing in him, I can affure you; he is just like any other man." "No matter (fays the gen tleman) I have long had an irrefiftible curiofity to fee him : he is a very great man, and I will not be difappointed. "And is that really your only motive (faid the Emperor) for going to the Opera?" "It really is,' (replied the gentleman.) “Well then, if that is the cafe (fays the Emperor) we may as well play another game now, for you fee him before you."