Shall lick no more their ladies br--, See Bounce, like Berecynthia crown'd A third majestically stalks (Happiest of dogs!) in Cobham's walks: Wait for my infants yet unborn. And, O would fate the bliss decree To keep off flatterers, spies and panders, * Virgil, Eneid 8. To let no noble slave come near, Then Bounce ('tis all that Bounce can crave) Shall wag her tail within the grave. And though no doctors, whig or tory ones, Το any beast but Dryden's hind:* ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER. PALLAS grew vap'rish once and odd; Either for goddess or for god, Nor work, nor play, nor paint, nor sing. "A milk white hind, immortal and unchang'd." Hind and Panther, ver. 1. Jove frown'd, and "Use (he cried) those eyes This vexing him who gave her birth, Pallas, you give yourself strange airs; Alas! one bad example shown, How quickly all the sex pursue! See, madam, see the arts o'erthrown Between John Overton and you! ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. BY MR POPE. I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon, (Envy be silent, and attend!) I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warp'd by passion, aw'd by rumour, An equal mixture of good humour, "Has she no faults, then (Envy says) Sir?" * Equal in elegance to any compliment that Waller has paid to Sacharissa, especially the last stanza, and the answer to Envy. The lady addressed was Mrs Howard of Marble-hill, bed-chamberwoman to Queen Caroline, and afterwards Countess of Suffolk.Thus far Warton. 66 Lady Suffolk was early affected with deafness. Cheselden the surgeon, then in favour at court, persuaded her that he had hopes of being able to cure deafness by some operation on the drum of the ear, and offered to try the experiment on a condemned convict then in Newgate, who was deaf. If the man could be pardoned, he would try it, and if he succeeded, would practise the same cure on her ladyship. She obtained the man's pardon, who was cousin to Cheselden, who had feigned that pretended discovery to save his relation, and no more was heard of the experiment. The man saved his ear too, but Cheselden was disgraced at court." Lord Orford's Reminiscences, apud Works, IV. 303, |