pretty a flower I forgave him; but indeed he is grown more impudent fince, and just now told me, that Virgil defcribed our wedding night, by the following lines, which I made him write down.

* Telumque imbelle fine ictu

Conjecit rauco quod protinus ære repulfum Et fummo Clypei, nequicquam uinbone pedendit. I am fure there is fomething bad in them, for when I fhowed them to my husband, and beg'd him to tell me what they meant, he flew into a violent paffion, and has been cross ever since. Do, my dear Mr. Wagstaffe, translate them for me in the Batchelor, and you will particularly oblige,

your admirer and humble férvant,

PARTHENIA PINCHBECK.

The APOLOGY.

To Kitty's name, I tune my lays,
And praise the little maid,.
Whose jaunty shape, whofe curled phiz
Poor John's heart enslav’d.

His feeble palfy'd hand a javelin threw,
Which fainting feem'd to linger as it flew ;
Juft-and but barely to the mark it held,
And faintly tinkled on the brazen shield,

What

What charms fhe has I'll ftrive to fing
And decorate my fong;
A lovely profpect for a wife
Her fortune's--in her tongue.

A Tongue fo neat, so pliant glib,
Which fcorns to whine or flatter,

What pointed words fpring from those lips,
All ting'd with wit and fatire.

My pretty tiny, Chinese piece,
A Barrack room to grace;
In vinegar each feature fet,
So acid looks that face.

And have I pleas'd my Kitty too,
Has Kitty for me cares,

Grac'd with a foot of double fize

And ancles knob'd like chairs !

Or have my eyes, entrench'd fo deep,
My gentle Kitty charm'd ?
My tawney skin and Hounslow face

Her tender heart have warm'd.

In dancing too, my aukward cuts
No pains could ever fcreen;
"A Heaven-taught" dancer, certainly
For nought of art is seen.

Kitty

Kitty no more now boast your pow'r,
For all your art is vain;

Beauty and maiden charms combin'd
But gild the marriage chain.

The doctor thus who knows his trade,
And's fway'd by profit still,
The naufeous dofe but ill conceals.
By varnishing the pill.

But this you fay is common cant,
And often heard by you;
-Then Kitty, fince I know your taste,
I'll give you something new.

A harlot, faith! may drain the purse,
And into danger run one;

But foon as e'er the mifchief's done
The jade is fure to fhun one.

So fleas will bite, and then skip off,
And longer fcorn to ftick;
Conftant and true a wife remains,

And clings like any tick.

And when you rave, and rage, and curse,
She then will plague you more,

Like blifters of Iberian flies,

She makes and frets the fore..

Have you not feen a harmless dog
Run frighted thro' the street,
With shot in bladder ty'd behind,
Of marriage emblem meet !

In courtship, mifs refembles cat,
That purrs and smooths her paws;
But marry'd then, like angry pufs, -
That fpits and fhews her claws.

Two lovers, like two playful cats.
In dalliance foft unite,

But noos'd-like cats ty'd by the tail,
They wrangle, fcratch, and fight.

Courtship is pleasant, marriage four;
This plagues, but that delights;
So St. John's book tho' fweet to taste,
Yet fwallow'd gave the gripes.

As prefbyterians, pastors choose,
And fhew: their fenfe and skill
By keeping pow'r ftill in their hands,
To turn them off at will: 童

On terms like thefe a girl I'd love,
No wedlock noise or ftrife ;

Like church divines, wives faucy grow,

Because they hold for life.

Epigram

Epigram on the Ladies new fashioned TATES.
NSTEAD of hair, bright Cælia, wears a tete

IN

Of frowfy wool, to hide a fhaven pate; -As ftript of leaves, a beauteous plant becomes A dirty mop, and fhines with greafy thrums.

NUMBER XII.

To the Female COTERIE.

LADIES,

S

As your polite and honourable academy

feems chiefly calculated to propagate gaming and gallantry, I recommend the following effay to your patronage and protection.-Principles congenial to your own, induced me to step forth in your defence, and I have at least. the merit of being your firft voluntary champion. I always contemplate with peculiar pleasure an inftitution which will produce the moft beneficial effects to Society. That conftitutional coldnefs which you derive from a bleak nothern climate, will be meliorated and improved by gay converfation and sparkling champaign; for a tavern, like a green-house, will infufe an artificial heat, and naturalife plants, originally