Fair to no purpose, artful to no end; Young without lovers, old without a friend ; LET joy, or eafe, let affluence, or content, * SONG by a perfon of quality. Said to my heart, between fleeping and waking, Thou wild thing, that always art leaping or aking, What black, brown, or fair, in what clime, in what nation, By turns has not taught thee a pit—a—patation ? Thus accus'd, the wild thing gave this fober reply: 5 See the heart without motion, tho' Celia pafs by! Not the beauty fhe has, or the wit that fhe borrows, Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any forrows. When our Sappho appears, she whofe wit's fo refin'd, I am forc'd to applaud with the reft of mankind; 10 Whatever the fays, is with spirit and fire; Ev'ry word I attend; but I only admire. Prudentia as vainly would put in her claim, 'Tis love, not devotion, that turns up her eyes; Those stars of this world are too good for the skies. But Cloe fo lively, so easy, so fair, Her wit fo genteel, without art, without care; 15 20 O wonderful creature! a woman of reafon ! *BAL L A D. OF all the girls that e'er were seen, There's none fo fine as Nelly, For charming face, and shape, and mien, Oh! the turn'd neck and fmooth white skin Of lovely dearest Nelly! The ladies were with rage provok'd To fee her fo refpected: The men look'd arch, as Nelly ftrok'd, 20 But not a man did look employ, Except on pretty Nelly: Then faid the Duke de Villeroy, But who's that grave philofopher What fome pappas will here do. The courtiers all with one accord, Broke out in Nelly's praises, Admir'd her role, and lys fans farde, (Which are your termes Françoifes). Then might you see a painted ring Of dames that ftood by Nelly; She like the pride of all the fpring, And they like fleurs de palais. In Marli's gardens, and St Clou, I saw this charming Nelly, Where fhameless nymphs, expos'd to view, Stand naked in each alley: But Venus had a brazen face, Both at Verfailles and Meudon, Or else she had refign'd her place, 25 30 35 40 45 Were Nelly's figure mounted there, "Twould put down all th' Italian: Lord! how thofe foreigners would stare! For spite of lips, and eyes, and mien, Me nothing can delight fo, Her left toe and her right toe. *O DE, FOR MUSIC. On the LONGITUDE. RECITATIVO. 55 *EPIGRAM on the feuds about HANDEL and BONONCINI. STRANGE! all this difference should be 'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee ! On * On MRS T OF T S. O bright is thy beauty, fo charming thy fong, along : But fuch is thy av'rice, and fuch is thy pride, That the beasts must have stary'd, and the poet have dy'd. TWO OR THREE; OR, A Receipt to make a CUCKOLD. WO or three vifits, and two or three bows, Two Two or three civil things, two or three vows, Two or three squeezes, and two or three towzes, 5 Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses. * On a LADY who pt at the tragedy of CATO; occafioned by an epigram on a Lady who wept at it. WH HILE maudlin Whigs deplor'd their Cato's fate, Still with dry eyes the Tory Celia fate: But, while her pride forbids her tears to flow, The gushing waters find a vent below: Tho' fecret, yet with copious grief she mourns, Like twenty river-gods with all their urns. 5 |