Ne'er hold my peace, and ne'er stand still:
I ft with twenty ladies by;

They call me beast, and what care I?
I bravely call the Tories, Jacks,

And fons of whores behind their backs.
But could you bring me once to think,
That when I ftrut, and ftare, and stink,
Revile, and flander, fume and storm,
Betray, make oath, impeach, inform,
With fuch a conftant loyal zeal,
To ferve myself and common-weal,
And fret the Tories fouls to death,
I did but lofe my precious breath,
And when I damn my foul to plague 'em,
Am, as you tell me, but their may-game;
Confume my vitals! they shall know,
I am not to be treated fo;

I'd rather hang myself by half,
Than give those rafcals caufe to laugh.
But how, my friend, can I endure,
Once fo renown'd, to live obscure?
No little boys and girls to cry
There's nimble Tim a passing by.

No more my dear delightful way trade,

Of keeping up a party-hatred.

Will none the Tory-dog's pursue,

When thro' the ftreets I cry hollooe?

Muft all my D--mce's, blood and wounds,
Pass only now for empty founds?
Shall Tory rafcals be elected,
Although I fwear them difaffected?
And when I rore, a plot, a plot,
Will our own party mind me not?

So

So qualified to fwear and lie,
Will they not truft me for a spy?

Dear Mullinix, your good advice
I beg you fee the cafe is nice:
O, were I equal in renown,

Like thee, to please this thankless town!
Or blefs'd with fuch engaging parts,
To win the truant school-boys hearts!
Thy virtues meet their just reward,
Attended by the Sable-guard.
Charm'd by thy voice the 'prentice drops
The fnow ball deftin'd at thy chops.
Thy graceful steps, and col'nel's air,
Allure the cinder-picking fair.

M. No more-In mark of true affection,
I take thee under my protection:
Thy parts are good, 'tis not deny'd,
I wish they had been well apply'd.
But now obferve my counfel (viz.)
Adapt your habit to your phyz;
You must no longer thus equip ye,
As Horace fays, optat ephippia;
(There's Latin too, that you may
How much improv'd by Dr.)

fee

I have a coat at home, that you may try,
"Tis juft like this, which hangs by geometry,
My hat has much the nicer air,
Your block will fit it to a hair:

That wig, I would not for the world
Have it fo formal, and fo curl'd,
"Twill be fo oily, and fo fleek

When I have lain in it a week!

You'll

E e

You'll find it well prepar'd, to take
The figure of toupee or fake.
Thus dress'd alike from top to toe,
That which is which 'tis hard to know,
When first in publick we appear,
I'll lead the van, keep you the rear:
Be careful as you walk behind ;
Ufe all the talents of your mind,
Be ftudious well to imitate

My portly motion, mein and gate;
Mark my address, and learn my ftyle,
When to look fcornful, when to smile,
Nor fputter out your oaths fo falt,
But keep your fwearing to the laft.
Then at your leisure we'll be witty,
And in the streets divert the city:
The Ladies from the windows gaping,
The children all our motions aping.
Your converfation to refine,

I'll take you to fome friends of mine,
Choice Spirits, who employ their parts,
To mend the world by useful arts;
Some cleanfing hollow tubes, to spy
Direct the zenith of the sky;
Some have the city in their care,
From noxious steams to purge the air;
Some teach us in thefe dang'rous days,
How to walk upright in our ways;
Some, whose reforming hands engage,
To lash the lewdness of the age;
Some for the publick service go,
Perpetual envoys to and fro;
Whose able heads fupport the weight
Of twenty Mrs of state :

We

We fcorn, for want of talk, to jabber
Of parties o'er our bonny-clabber;
Nor are we ftudious to inquire,
Who votes for manours, who for hire
Our care is to improve the mind,
With what concerns all human kind;
The various fcenes of mortal life,
Who beats her husband, who his wife;
Or how the bully at a stroke,

Knock down the boy, the lanthorn broke;
One tells the rife of cheese and oatmeal,
Another when he got a hot meal;
One gives advice in proverbs old,
Inftructs us how to tame a fcold;
Or how by almanacks 'tis clear,
That herrings will be cheap this year.
T. Dear Mullinix, I now lament
My precious time fo long mifpent,
By nature meant for nobler ends,
O, introduce me to your friends!
For whom, by birth, I was defign'd,
"Till politicks debas'd my mind:
I give myself entire to you,

Gd

-the Whigs and Tories too.

EPITAPH.

HERE continueth to rot

The body of FRA-S CHIS, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY and INI MITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED

In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES,

In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE;

Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY. His infatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first,

His matchlefs IMPUDENCE from the fecond. Nor was he more fingular in the undeviating pravity of his manners, than fuccefsful in accumulating WEALTH.

For, without TRADE or PROFESSION,
Without TRUST of PUBLICK MONEY,
And without BRIBE-WORTHY SERVICE,
He acquired, or more properly created,
A MINISTERIAL ESTATE.

He was the only perfon of his time,

Who could CHEAT without the MASK of HONESTY, retain his primæval meanness when poffeffed of

TEN THOUSAND a year,

And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he did,

Was at laft condemn'd to it for what he could not do. Oh indignant reader!

Think not his life ufelefs to mankind!

PROVIDENCE Connived at his execrable designs, To give to after AGES a confpicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE

Of how fmall eftimation is ExORBITANT WEALTH in the fight of GOD, by his beftowing it on the moft UNWORTHY of ALL MORTALS.

Johannes jacet hic mirandula—cætera norunt
Tagus & Ganges-forfan & antipodes.

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