Or with equal expression in HORTON combin'd,
Vivacity's dimples with reason refin'd.
REYNOLDS, haste to my aid, for a figure divine,
Where the pencil of GUIDO has yielded to thine;
Bear witness the canvas where SHERIDAN lives,
And with angels, the lovely competitor strives :-
While Earth claims her beauty, and Heaven her strain,
Be it mine to adore ev'ry link of the chain!
But new claimants appear ere the lyre is unstrung; Can PAYNE be pass'd by? shall not MILNER be sung ? See DELME and HOWARD, a favourite pair,
For grace of both classes, the zealous and fair:-
A verse for MORANT, like her wit may it please;
Another for BRADDYLL of elegant ease;
For BAMFYLDE a simile worthy her frame :-
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Not PARNASSUS in concert could answer the call,
Nor multiplied Muses do justice to all.
Then follow the throng where, with festal delight,
More pleasing than HEBE, CREWE opens the night,
Not the goblet nectareous of welcome and joy,
That DIDO prepar'd for the hero of TROY;
Not Fiction, describing the banquets above,
Where goddesses mix at the table of JOVE;
Could afford to the soul more ambrosial cheer
Than attends on the fairer associates here.
But CREWE, with a mortal's distinction content,
Bounds her claim to the rites of this happy event;
For the hero to twine civic garlands of fame,
With the laurel and rose interweaving his name,
And while lö Pæans his merits avow,
As the Queen of the feast, place the wreath on his brow.
For the DUKE OF RICHMOND'S Bust to the Memory of the late MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM.
HAIL, marble! happy in a double end!
Rais'd to departed principles and friend :
The friend once gone, no principles would stay:
For very grief, they wept themselves away!
Let no harsh censure such conjunction blame,
Since, join'd in life, their fates should be the same:
Therefore from death they feel a common sting,
And HEAV'N receives the one, and one the K-G.
Reason for Mr. Fox's avowed Contempt of one PIGOT'S Address to him.
WHO shall expect the country's friend,
The darling of the House,
Should for a moment condescend
To crack a PRISON LOUSE *?
The substantive in the marked part of this line has been long an established SYNONYME for Mr. PIGUT, and the PREDICATE, we are assured, is not at this time less just,
On one PIGOT's being called a Louse.
PIGOT is a Louse, they say;
But if you kick him, you will see, "Tis by much the truest way
To represent him as a FLEA,
For servile meanness to the great,
Let none hold PIGOT cheap;
Who can resist his destin'd fate?
A LOUSE must always CREEP,
PIGOT is sure a most courageous man,
"A word and blow" for ever is his plan;
And thus his friends explain the curious matter,
He gives the first, and then receives the latter.
THERE liv'd a man at BECKNAM, in KENT, Sir,
Who wanted a place to make him content, Sir;
Long had he sigh'd for BILLY PITT's protection,
When thus he gently courted his affection:
Will you give a place, my dearest BILLY PITT O!
If I can't have a whole one, O give a little bit O!
He pimp'd with GEORGE ROSE, he lied with the Dостов,
He flatter'd Mrs. HASTINGS till almost he had shock'd
got the ARCHBISHOP to write in his favour,
And when BILLY gets a beard, he swears he'll be his
Then give him a place, O dearest BILLY PITT O!
If he can't have a whole one, O give a little bit ()!
To all you young men who are famous for changing,
From party to party continually ranging,
I tell you the place of all places to breed in,
For maggots of corruption, 's the heart of BILLY EDEN.
Then give him a place, O dearest BILLY PITT O!
If he can't have a whole one, O give him a little bit O!
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