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Now frame new lies, now scrutinize thy brain,
And bring th' inconstant to these arms again!

Next of the Yankeys' fraud the master told,
And GRENVILLE's fondness for Hesperian gold;
And GRENVILLE's friends, conspicuous from afar,
In mossy down incas'd, and bitter tar..

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SIR CECIL next adorn'd the pompous song; Led by his CALIA through th' admiring throng, All CELIA's sisters hail'd the prince of hards, Reforming sailors bow'd, and patriot guards: While thus SIR JOSEPH (his stupendous head Crown'd with green-groc'ry, and with flow'rs o'erspread)

IMITATIONS.

Ver. 106. Tum canit Hesperidum miratam mala puellamt,
Ver. 108. Tum Phaëtontiadas musco circumdat amaræ
Corticis, atque solo proceras erigit alnos,

Ver. 109. Tum canit errantem-- -Gallum,

Aonas in montes ut duxerit una sororum,

Utque viro Phabi chorus assurrexerit omnis;
Ut Linus hæc illi divino carmine pastor,

Floribus atque apio crines ornatus amaro,

Dixerit: Hos tibi dant calamos, en accipe, musæ,

Ascræo quos ante seni, quibus ille solebat

Cantando rigidas deducere montibus ornos, &e, &c. &¢.

NOTES.

Ver. 106. Hesperian gold.] The American revenue, which the late Mr. Grenville was to have raised by his celebrated Stamp Act. Mr. Jene kinson, who was himself the author of that act, here delicately touches on the true origin of the American war; a measure in which, however unsuccessful, we doubt not, he will ever be ready to glory.

Ver, 110. SIR CECIL's poems to Calia are well known; and we are persuaded will live to preserve the fame of his talents, when his admirable letter to the Scottish reformers, and his pamphlet on the Westminster Election, shall be forgotten,

From the high hustings spoke-" This pipe be thine, 115 "This pipe, the fav'rite present of the Nine,

"On which WILL WHITEHEAD play'd those powerful

airs,

"Which to ST. JAMES's drew reluctant May'rs, "And forc'd stiff-jointed Aldermen to bend ;

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Sing thou on this thy SAL'SBURY, sing thy friend;
Long may he live in thy protecting strains,
"And HATFIELD vie with TEMPE's fabled plains!"
Why should I tell th' election's horrid tale,
That scene of libels, riots, blood, and ale?
There of SAM HOUSE the horrid form appear'd;
Round his white apron howling monsters rear'd
Their angry clubs; 'mid broken heads they poll'd;
And HooD's best sailors in the kennel roll'd!
Ah! why MAHON's disastrous fate record?
Alas! how fear can change the fiercest lord!
See the sad sequel of the Grocers' treat—
Behold him darting up St. James's Street,
Pelted, and scar'd by BROOKES's hellish sprites,

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And vainly fluttering round the door of WHITE's!

All this, and more, he told, and every word
With silent awe th' attentive striplings heard,

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When, bursting on their ear, stern PEARSON's note

Proclaim'd the question put, and call'd them forth to vote.

Ver. 127. Quid loquar-Scyllam, quam fama secuta est,

Candida succinctam latrantibus inguina inonstris

-gurgite in alto

Ah! timidos nautas canibus lacerasse marinis.

Ver. 132. Aut ut mutatos Terei narraverit artus;

Quas illi Philomela dapes, quæ dona parârit;
Quo cursu deserta petiverit, & quibus ante
Infelix sua tecta supervolitaverit alis.

JEKYLL.

-miserabile Carmen

Integrat, & moestis latè loca questibus implet.-VIRGIL

JEKYLL, the wag of law, the scribblers' pride,

Calne to the Senate sent-when TOWNSHEND died.
So LANSDOWNE will'd:-the old hoarse rook at rest,
A jackdaw phoenix chatters from his nest.

Statesman and lawyer now, with clashing cares,

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Th' important youth roams through the Temple squares ;
Yet stays his step, where, with congenial play,
The well-known fountain babbles day by day:
The little fountain-whose restricted course,
In low faint essays, owns its shallow source.
There, to the tinkling jet he tun'd his tongue,
While LANSDOWNE's fame, and LANSDOWNE's fall, he

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"Where were our friends, when the remorseless crew "Of felon Whigs great LANSDOWNE's pow'r o'erthrew? "For neither then, within St. Stephen's wall, "Obedient WESTCOTE hail'd the Treasury-call;. "Nor treachery then had branded EDEN's fame, "Or taught mankind the miscreant MINCHIN's name; "Joyful no more (though TOMMY spoke so long) "Was high-born HOWARD'S cry, or PoWNEY's prattling

tongue.

"Vain was thy roar, MAHON !-though loud and deep; 21 "Not our own GILBERT could be rous'd from sleep. "No bargain yet the tribe of PHIPPS had made: "LANSDOWNE! you sought in vain e'en MULGRAVE'S

aid;

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"MULGRAVE at whose harsh scream, in wild surprise, "The speechless Speaker lifts his drowsy eyes. "Ah! hapless day! still as thy hours return, "Let Jesuits, Jews, and sad Dissenters mourn! "Each quack and sympathizing juggler groan,

"While bankrupt brokers echo moan for moan. "O much-lov'd peer!-my patron!-model!-friend! "How does thy alter'd state my bosom rend!

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"Alas! the ways of courts are strange and dark! "PITT scarce would make thee now-a Treasury-clerk!"

Stung with the maddening thought, his griefs, his fears Dissolve the plaintive counsellor in tears.

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"How oft," he cries, "has wretched LANSDOWNE said, "Curs'd be the toilsome hours by statesmen led!

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"O! had kind Heaven ordain'd my

humbler fate

"A country gentleman's-of small estate→→→

"With Price and Priestley in some distant grove, "Blest I had led the lowly life I love.

"Thou, Price, hadst deign'd to calculate my flocks!

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"Thou, Priestley, sav'd them from the lightning shocks! "Unknown the storms and tempests of the state

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Unfelt the mean ambition to be great; "In Bowood's shade had pass'd my peaceful days, "Far from the town and its delusive ways; "The crystal brook my beverage-and my food "Hips, cornels, haws, and berries of the wood." "Blest Peer! eternal wreaths adorn thy brow! "Thou CINCINNATUS of the British plough!

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**But rouse again thy talents and thy zeal!
"Thy Sovereign, sure, must wish thee Privy-seal.
"Or, what if from the seals thou art debarr'd?

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CHANDOS, at least, he might for thee discard. "Come, LANSDOWNE! come-thy life no more thy

own,

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"O! brave again the smoke and noise of town; "For Britain's sake the weight of greatness bear, "And suffer honours thou art doom'd to wear. "To thee her Princes, lo! where India sends ! "All BENFIELD's here and there all HASTINGS' friends; "MACPHERSON WRAXALL-SULLIVAN-behold!

"CALL-BARWell-MiddletON—with heaps of gold! "Rajahs-Nabobs-from Oude-Tanjore-Arcot→ 65 "And see!(nor O! disdain him!)-MAJOR SCOTT. “Ah! give the Major but one gracious nod: "E'en PITT himself once deign'd to court the squad. "O! be it theirs, with more than patriot heat, "To snatch thy virtues from their lov❜d retreat ; "Drag thee reluctant to the haunts of men, "And make thee minister-O God!-but when!"

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Thus mourn'd the youth-till, sunk in pensive grief, He woo'd his handkerchief for soft relief.

In either pocket either hand he threw;

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When, lo!—from each, a precious tablet flew :

This his sage patron's wondrous speech on trade;
That-his own book of sarcasms ready-made.
Tremendous book!-thou motley magazine
Of stale severities, and pilfer'd spleen!
O! rich in ill!-within thy leaves entwin'd,
What glittering adders lurk to sting the mind.
Satire's Museum!-with SIR ASHTON's lore,
The naturalist of malice eyes thy store:

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