One ushers friends to Bathurst's door; And, O would fate the bliss decree To keep off flatterers, spies and panders, And scare Lord Fannys from his ear; A treasure which, of royal kind, Then Bounce ('tis all that Bounce can crave) Shall wag her tail within the grave, And though no doctors, whig or tory ones, Have immortality assign'd To any beast but Dryden's hind:† Yet master Pope, whom Truth and Sense *Virgil, Eneid 8. "A milk white hind, immortal and unchang'd." Hind and Panther, ver, I. ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER. PALLAS grew vap'rish once and odd; Nor work, nor play, nor paint, nor sing. 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. 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, "Has she no faults, then (Envy says) sir ?” Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear. |