This Snuff-box,- CARDELIA. Alas! far leffer loffes than I bear, Have made a Soldier figh, a Lover swear. SMILINDA. But ah! what aggravates the killing smart, The cruel thought, that ftabs me to the heart; This curs'd Ombrelia, this undoing Fair, 4-5 50 55 By whofe vile arts this heavy grief I bear; She, at whofe name I shed these spiteful tears, She owes to me the very charms she wears. An awkward Thing, when first she came to Town; Her Shape unfashion'd, and her Face unknown: 60 She was my friend; I taught her first to spread I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays; CARDELIA. Wretch that I was, how often have I swore, 65 70 SMILINDA. SMILINDA. How many Maids have Sharper's vows deceiv'd! How many curs'd the moment they believ'd! Yet his known Falsehoods could no Warning prove: Ah! what is Warning to a Maid in Love? CARDELIA. ; But of what marble must that breast be form'd, 75 My Paffions rife, and will not bear the rein, What more than marble must that heart compose, 80 85 90 95 Think Think of that moment, you who Prudence boast; CARDELIA. At the Groom-Porter's, batter'd Bullies play, SMILINDA. Soft Simplicetta doats upon a Beau; Prudina likes a Man, and laughs at Show. Their feveral graces in my Sharper meet; Strong as the Footman, as the Master sweet. LOVET. Cease your contention, which has been too long; I grow impatient, and the Tea's too strong. VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, &c. NCE (fays an Author, where I need not fay) ONC Two Travellers found an Oyster in their way; Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws, ANSWER to the following Queftion of Mrs. HowE. HAT IS PRUDERY? WHAT Seen with Wit and Beauty feldom. 'Tis a fear that starts at fhadows. 'Tis a Beldam, 'Tis (no, 'tis'nt) like Miss Meadows. 'Tis a Virgin hard of Feature, Occafioned Occafioned by fome Verses of his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. MUSE, 'tis enough: at length thy labour ends, And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends. Let Crowds of Critics now my verse assail, Let Dennis write, and nameless numbers rail: This more than pays whole years of thankless pain, Time, health, and fortune, are not loft in vain. Sheffield approves, confenting Phoebus bends, And I and Malice from this hour are friends. A PROLOGUE BY MR. POPE, To a Play for Mr. DENNIS's Benefit, in 1733, when he was old, blind, and in great Distress, a little before his Death. AS S when that Hero, who in each Campaign, Had brav'd the Goth, and many a Vandal flain, Lay Fortune-struck, a spectacle of Woe! Wept by each Friend, forgiv'n by every Foe: But pitied Belifarius old and blind? 5 Was there a Chief but melted at the Sight? A common Soldier, but who clubb'd his Mite? Such |