O *BALLA D. F all the Girls that e'er were feen, There's none fo fine as Nelly, For charming Face, and Shape, and Mien, And what's not fit to tell ye : Oh! the turn'd Neck, and fmooth white Skin, Of lovely dearest Nelly! For many a Swain it well had been Had the ne'er palt by Calai-. For when as Nelly came to France, (Invited by her Coufins) Acrofs the Tuilleries each Glance Kill'd Frenchmen by whole Dozens. The King, as he at Dinner fate, The Ladies were with Rage provok'd, The Men look'd arch, as Nelly ftrok'd, But not a Man did Look employ, Except on pretty Nelly, But But who's that grave Philofopher, The Fair one is his Daughter. i May foy! (quoth then a Courtier sly,) I wish he has no Mind to try The Courtiers all with one Accord, In Marli's Gardens, and St. Clou, But Venus had a brazen Face, Both at Versailles and Meudon, Or else he had refign'd her Place, And left the Stone fhe flood on. Where Were Nelly's Figure mounted there, Me, nothing can delight fo, As does that Part that lies between *ODE, for Mufick. On the LON GITUDE, K RECITATIVO. HE Longitude mist on THE By wicked Will. Whiston 3· And not better hit on By good Mafter Ditton. RITORNELLO. So Ditton and Whiffon VOL. IV. L Sing STR 'Twixt Tweedle-Dum, and Tweedle-Dee! * On Mrs. T§. So bright is thy Beauty, fo charming thy Song, As had drawn both the Beasts and their Orpheus along : But But fuch is thy Av'rice, and fuch is thy Pride, That the Beasts must have starv'd, and the Poet have dy'd. *TWO OR THREE; or a Receipt to make a Cuckold. Two or three civil Things, two or three WO or three Vifits, and two or three Bows, Vows, Two or three Kiffes, with two or three Sighs, Two or three Squeezes, and two or three Towzes, Can never fail Cuckolding two or three Spouses. |