When first in Publick we appear,

I'll lead the Van, keep you the Rear E

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 Stile,
When to look scornful; when to fmile, ".
Nor fputter out your Oaths fo fait,

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But keep your Swearing to the laft.
Then at your Leifure 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 re
refine,

I'll take you to fome Friends of mine,
Choice Spirits, who employ their Parts,"
To mend the World by uleful Arts,"
Some cleanfing hollow Tubes, to fpy
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 lafh the Lewdness of the Age;
Some for the publick Service go,
Perpetual Envoys to and fro;

Whofe

Whose able Heads fupport the Weight
Of twenty Mrs of State:
We fcorn, for want of Talk, to jabber
Of Parties o'er our Bonny-Clabber :
Nor are we studious to enquire,

Who Votes for Manours, who for Hire;
Our Care is to improve the Mind,
With what concerns all human Kind;
The various Scenes of mortal Life,
Who beats her Husband, who his Wife;
Or how the Bully at a Stroke

Knock'd 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,
Instructs us how to tame a Scold;
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 my felf intire to you,

Gd

the Whigs and Tories too.

*EPIT A PH.

HERE

ERE continueth to rot

The Body of FRAS CHIS; Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life,

PERSISTED,

In Spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES In the Practife of EVERY HUMANE 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 un-deviating Pravity of bis Manners, than fuccessful in Accumulating WEALTH.

For, without TRADE or PROFISSION,
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 cou'd CHEAT without the Mask of HONESTY,

Retain his Primæval MEANNESS when poffefs'd of TEN THOUSAND a Year,

And having daily deferv'd 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 conniv'd at his execrable Designs,

To give to After-AGES a confpicuous PROOF and
EXAMPLE

Of how fmall Eftimation is EXORBITANT
WEALTH in the Sight of GOD, by his be-
ftowing it on the moft UNWORTHY of ALL
MORTALS.

*Joannes jacet bic Mirandula

cætera norunt

Et Tagus & Ganges forfan & Antipodes.

HERE

Apply'd to F. C.

Be civil!

ERE Francis Cbs lies
The reft God knows-perhaps the Devil.

PEter

*E PIGRAM.

Eter complains, that God has given
To his poor Babe a Life fo short:

Confider Peter, he's in Heaven;

'Tis good to have a Friend at Court.

YOU

* Another.

'OU beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you pleafe, there's no body at home.

*

EPITAPH [of By-Words.]

ERE lies a round Woman, who thought

HR mighty odd

Every Word fhe e'er heard in this Church about God. To convince her of God the good Dean did endeavour,

But ftill in her Heart fhe held Nature more clever. Tho' he talk'd much of Virtue, her Head always run Upon fomething or other, she found better Fun,

For