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Birds are perch'd on every fpray,
Warbling their notes, to praife the day;
A thousand herbs their fragrance yield,
While cow lips cover all the field.

Sure 'tis time, that now we flee,
London, from thy fmoak and thee:
Welcome joys, more pure and true;
Drums and routs, adieu, adieu.

On WOMA N.

ER Eve was made the father of

Emankind

Survey'd his Eden with a penfive mind,
With wand'ring fteps the beauteous place
explor'd,
[plor'd;

And with fad heart his lonely ftate de-
Tho' all combin'd to entertain the fight,
And fruits delicious did the taste invite,
Tho' trees and flowers, with richest odours,
grow,

And all luxuriant nature could bestow,
His being alone did all delight destroy,
Nor could, till woman came, once tafte a
[the fame,

joy ;
Then raptures fill'd his mind, nought was
And Eden now a Paradife became.

Woman ftill fmooths the anxious brow of care,

And fooths our paffions, with a pleafing air; Without her men were wretched to excess, She heightens joy, and makesour forrow lefs. Aremakable Epitaph on Mr. Alexander Rofs, buried near the Communion Table, at Everfley, in the County of Hants.

OSPES, fifte gradum, cinerefque hos [ero: Quid fum; quid fuerat; quidque futurus Ros fueram; nunc fum pulvis; mox umbra futurus;

Hadfpice; difces,

Ros abut; pulvis fpargitur; umbra fugit. Quid tule es, difce hinc ; quid cuncta humana; quid audi, [nihil. Sunt quod ego; pulvis, ros, cinis, umbra,

Had an exemption been to worth divine, That right, of course, great Frederick! had been thine.

CRITO.

Solution of the Rebus in February last, 89. By G. Rollos.

P.

HE garment is New, which hath not been put on;

TH

And an INN has a fign at the door : Good liquor is often contain'd in a Tor, In which mifers may hoard up their store, And then to enliven, and brighten the fcene, [GREEN? What colour fo charming, as is the gay

ANOTHER.

Garment not wore, fure, is New,

A house with a fign is an INN;

Good measure to hold is a TON,
And the fields in their beauty are GREEN.
On the SUPREME BEING.
Mmenfe thy power! thro' all preceding
[ublime.
Thou reign't Jehovah, king of kings,
E'er lofty mountains rear'd their tow'ring
head,
[ípread,

time

Or the bright arch of heav'n o'er all was
Thou waft the Father of the world to come,
Wrapt in thy will all nature, as a womb.
As grafs, frail man now blooms, and now
decays,
[thy ways?

For, who can bound thy power, or know
Th' extent of time in all its circling round,
A point, an atom in thy reck'ning found.
The hero's glory, and the facred bust,
With all the glare of pride, must fink to
duft:

Titles and crowns and fcepters be no more,
Like praife that's writ upon a fandy shore.
Th eternal pow'rs of heav'n itself mult
shake,

And all creation to the centre quake.
How can man's arrogance refift thy ire?
When nations, kingdoms, nature, all ex-
pire.

On feeing in Manufcript the Poem, intitled,
The Morning Walk, or Benefit of Ex-
ercife.

Ros in English fignifies dew.

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To wander, and imbibe the vernal breeze, Impregnate with the balm of bloffom'd trees!

YE

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Will ne'er divide. But who enjoys the one,
Muft find the other ere the setting fun.

Then where? Ah where do these fair
fifters fly?

Beneath the northern or the fouthern sky ?
Courts do they love? the fenate, or the
town,
[down?

Or the ftill village and the healthful
Say, do they like Humilo's humble vest,
Or the gay diamonds on Belinda's breast?
To none of thefe, alas! are they confin'd,
But the ftill bofom and the virtuous mind.

See Giaro feated on his gilded car, [war,
Whofe ftubborn paffions wage continual
Who cannot call that ravaged heart his own,
Where vice and virtue struggle for the
throne.

See rage appearing in that hoftile frown:
Now fears diftract him, and now plea.
fures drown,

Now turns to heav'n with repentant tears :
But the next hour at his chaplain (neers :
This day a beaft, the next a reasoning man;
Behold him right, then envy, if you can.
Pale Livia too-who pants beneath the
weight

Of irkfom jewels and afflicting state;
Whofe glass and pillow do her time divide,
At once opprefs'd with fickness and with
pride.

The shapely stays her aking ribs confine,
And in her ears the fparkling pendents shine.
Yet not a joy the tortur'd wretch can feel,
Beyond Ixon on his rolling wheel.

See reftlefs Chloe, fond to be admir'd,
Of joy impatient and as quickly tir'd;
When firft her eye-lids open on the day,
With eager hafte the gobbles down her tea,
And to the park commands her rolling
wheels,

Yet fighs and wishes for the rural fields:
Then back to cards and company the flies,
Then for the charms of melting mufick dies.
At eve the play, affembly, or the ball;
She hates them fingly, yet would grafp 'em

all:

With languid fpirits and appal'd defires,
She to her clofet and her book retires.
But folitude offends the sprightly fair;
Reading the loaths, and thought he cannot
bear.
[fles,

Then to her chamber and her couch the
Where gilded chariots swim before her eyes.

"Is this man bleft?-He may be fo "But when?

"Why, when his thousands rife to num "ber ten,

"[hold,

"From ten to twenty, and from twenty"To one round million of bright sterling "gold;"

Not there we ftop, for avarice will crave Till it fhall meet with its grand cure, the grave.

Lavinia's bleft with all that man defires, With eyes that charm, and reason that infpires; [thining days, Youth, wealth, and friends, to gild her The poor man's bleifing, and the rich man's praise ; [extreme, With judgment found, and touch'd by no Speech gently flowing, and a foul ferene ; For ever pleafing, and for ever true, By all admir'd, envy'd by a few: "Then he is happy, tho' beneath the sky, "Hold, not fo hafty :-Let her husband " die."

Then who are happy, 'twill be hard to

fay,

Since undisturb'd it feldom lafts a day:
For who in fmiles beholds the morning fun,
May weep before his fhort-liv'd journey's
done.

All pleasures fatiate, and all objects cloy;
We crave, we grafp, but loath the tafted
joy:
[tune's smile,

Nor wealth nor beauty, friends nor for-
Can blefs our moments, tho' they may
beguile :

Nor wit with happiness can often grow,
A helpless friend, if not an errant foe.
Where then? O where fhall happiness

be found?

[round,

Say, fhall we fearch the rolling world a-
On borrow'd pinions travel thro' the sky,
Or to the centre drive our piercing eye?
Ceafe, bufy fool: Is happiness thy care?
Pierce thy own breast, and thou wilt find
it there :
[expel,
Drive thence the paffions, and the guilt
And call fair virtue to the polish'd cell;
Call foft content with all her smiling train;
Peace for thy health, and patience for thy
pain :
[know
Then, not till then, O man, thy heart shall
Blifs fo ador'd, but feldom found below.
N E L L Y.
DORN'D with grace, wit, fenfe, and
[pleafe;

In vain for fleep the folds her weary arms; A

Who wou'd be Chloe to enjoy her charms?

In yonder path Sir Thrifty we behold,
With beaver drooping, and with garments

old;
Whofe dirty linen fhews no mark of pride,
Nor fparkling laces deck his flender fide;
Whofe heavy foul, a faucy wit would swear,
Was made exactly to his eafy chair.
Whofe taftelefs fenfes aik for nothing new,
Whofe meals are tem'prate, and whose
pleasures few :

Sparkling ease,
Each charm to conquer, and each art to
In manners modeft, and with wisdom gay;
In converfe chearful, or intent at play;
Exempt from pride, tho' in the bloom of
youth;

A foe to wrangling, with a zeal for truth:
Crown'd with each gift of nature and of art,
That can allure the fenfe or touch the heart:
Averfe to cenfure, gentle in debate ;
Perfect the feems, and delicately great.

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Monthly Chronologer.

N Saturday, March 30, came on the election for a member of parliament for Newark upon Trent, in the room of Job Staunton Charlton, who accepted of place, (fee p. 141.) when on the conclufion of the poll the numbers flood thus, viz. for Mr. Charlton 280, and for Mr. Cracroft 276; fo that the former was rechofen.

TUESDAY, April 2.

At the affizes at Kingston, for the county of Surrey, the feven following criminals received fentence of death, viz. Thomas Stanley, for robbing justice Clark on the highway, of a watch and half a guinea; William Nifbet, for robbing Caffel Mellersh on the highway, of a horfe, faddle, bridle and whip, and twelve shillings; Jofeph Fisher, for robbing Jane Friend on the highway, of a handkerchief, a pound of fugar, and a quantity of worsted; Jofeph Chambers, for robbing Sir Thomas Hankey of a gold watch, and two guineas and a half; James Moufer, for robbing Richard Solly and John Croft in a poft-chaife; Robert Cheeseman, for robbing John LangTey on the highway, of 325. 5d. and Peter Matthews, for murdering an oyster woman at Croydon. Nifbet, Chambers, Cheeseman, and Matthews, were, on the 24th, executed on Kennington-Common.

THURSDAY, 4.

Was held a general court of the SouthSea company, in which a motion was made, That, as the company's term of trade with Spain was determined by the late treaty of peace between this crown and that of Spain, it is the opinion of this general court, that 15 directors, with a governor, fub-governor, and deputy-governor, are fufficient to manage the affairs of that company; and that in all future elections of directors, 15 only fhall be chofen. And the question being put, it paffed in the negative, Whereupon a divifion was demanded, and the numbers stood thus: Against the queftion 71. For the question 49. But a ballot was demanded, to be taken on the 18th.

Derby Hurley, Francis Conner, and George Steed, for feveral robberies on the highway.

A gang of the most notorious villains, who have for many years paft been concerned in robbing the merchants of this city of their goods and merchandize upon the river Thames, and feveral buyers and receivers of the fame, have been difcovered by the information of one Jofeph Hopkins, and feveral perfons have been apprehended upon the fame, and committed to the New Goal, Southwark, by William Hammond, Efq.

FRIDAY, 12.

A fine and curious hearfe, covered and lined with black velvet, and adorned with a crown and fix ducal coronets, was drawn by fix horfes, covered with velvet hoods and tails, to Leicester-house, where the corpfe of his royal highness was put in between 1 and 12 o'clock, twelve of his highness's fervants attending the hearfe, in deep mourning, and carried to the Prince's Chamber adjoining to the houfe of peers, attended by four of his highnefs's coaches, drawn by fix horfes, in mourning. In the first were his grace the duke of Chandos, groom of the stole to his highness, and the earl of Middlesex, master of the horse, with the urn that contained the bowels of his royal highnefs. In the fecond, the duke of Queensbury and the lord North and Guildford. In the third, Sir John Rufhout, Bart. and George Doddington, Efq; his highness's treafurer. In the laft, Henry Drax, Efq; his highnefs's fecretary, and John Evelyn, Efq; followed by the remainder of his fervants. All the horfes in the feveral coaches were likewife covered with black velvet hoods, and their tails alfo covered with black velvet.

SATURDAY, 13.

This morning, at half an hour after one o'clock, the bowels of his late royal highnefs were carried from the Prince's Chamber by four yeomen to Henry the VIIth's chapel, attended by the dukes of Chandos and Queensbury, the earl of Middlefex, the lord North and Guildford, Sir John Rufhout, Bart. Gearge Doddington, Henry Drax, and John Evelyn, Efqrs. and there interred. And at nine o'clock at night the royal corpfe was depofited in the fame vault. The proceffion began at half an hour after eight, and paffed thro' the Old Palace-yard to the fouth-eaft door of Westminster-abbey, and fo directly to

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the fteps leading to Henry the VII h's chapel. The ceremonial was as follows, viz. knights maithal's men, with black staves, two and two. Gentlemen fervants to his royal highness, two and two, viz. pages of the prefence. Gentlemen ufhers, quarter waiters, two and two. Pages of honour. Gentlemen ushers, daily waiters. Phyficians, Dr. Wilmot, and Dr. Lee. Houthold chaplains, clerk of the closet, 'Rev. Dr. Ayscough. Equerries, two and two. Clerks of the houfhold or greencloth, James Douglafs, Efq; and Sir John Cuft, Bart. Mafter of the houthold, lord Gage. Solicitor-general, auditor, and attorney-general, Paul Joddrell, Efq; Charles Montague, Efq; Hon. Henry Bathurst, Efq; Secretary, Henry Drax, Efq; Comptroller and treasurer to his royal highness, Robert Nugent, Efq; and the earl of Scarborough, with their white ftaves. Steward and chamberlain, with their white ftaves. Chancellor to his royal highness, Sir Thomas Bootle. An officer of arms. The master of the horfe, earl of Middlefex. Clarencieux king at arms, Stephen Martin Leake, Efq; bearing the coronet upon a black velvet cushion; with a gentleman usher on each hand. The body, "covered with a black velvet pall, adorned Iwith eight efcutcheons, and fupported by fix carls, viz. Earls of Portmore, Fitzwilliams, Bristol, Macclesfield, Stanhope, and Jerfey; under a canopy of black velvet, borne by eight of his royal highness's gentlemen. Garter king at arms, John Anftis, Efq; with a gentleman ufher on each hand. The chief mourner, duke of Somerfet, with two fupporters, viz. duke of Rutlind, duke of Devonshire; his train borne by a baronet, Sir Thomas Robinson. Affiftants to the chief mourner, marquis of Tweedale, marquis of Lothian, earls of Berkeley, Peterborough, Northampton, Cardigan, Winchelfea, Carlifle, Murray, and Morton. The gentleman ufher of his royal highness's privy-chamber, Edmund Bramfton, Efq; The groom of the stole, duke of Chandos. The lords of the bedchamber to his royal highness, lord North and Guildford, duke of Queensbury, earl of Inchiquin, earl of Egmont, lord Robert Sutton, earl Bute, two and two.

The

mafter of the robes, John Schutz, Efq; The grooms of the bedchamber, John Evelyn, Samuel Masham, Thomas Bludworth, Efqrs. Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart. Daniel Boone, William Bretton, Martin Madden, William Trevanion, Efqrs. and Col. Powlet, two and two. Yeomen of guard to close the proceffion.

The corpfe of his royal highness was met at the church door by the dean and prebendaries, attended by the gentlemen of the shoir and king's scholars, who fell into

April

the proceffion immediately before the offi-
cer of arms, with wax tapers in their
hands, and propefly habited, and began
the common burial fervice (no anthem be-
ing compofed on this occafion) two drums
beating a dead march during the fervice.
Upon entering the chapel, the royal body
was placed on treffels, the crown and
cufhion at the head, and the canopy held
over, the fupporters of the pall standing
by
; the chief mourner and his two fup-
porters feated in chairs at the head of the
corpfe; the lords affiftants, master of the
horse, groom of the ftole, and lords of
the bedchamber on both fides; the four
white-ftaff officers at the feet, the others
feating themselves in the falls on each fide
the chapel; the bishop of Rochester, dean
of Westminster, then read the first part of
the burial fervice; after which the corp'e
was carried to the vault, preceded by the
white-staff officers, the master of the
horfe, chief mourner, his fupporters and
affiftants, garter king at arms going before
them. When they had placed themselves
near the vault, the corpfe being laid up
on a machine even with the pavement of
the chapel, was by degrees let down into
the vault, when the bishop of Rochester
went on with the fervice; which being
ended, garter proclaimed his late royal
highness's titles in the following manner :

Thus it bath pleafed Almighty God to take
out of this tranfitory life, to bis divine mercy,
the moft illuftrious Frederick, Prince of Wales,
&c. &c.

The nobility and attendants returned in the fame order they proceeded, at half an hour after nine; fo that the whole cerémony lafted an hour.

There was the utmoft decorum obferved; and what is remarkable, tho' the populace were extremely noify before the proceffion began, there was during the whole, a filence, that, if poffible, added to the folemnity of so awful a fight.

The guards each of them held two lighted flambeaux during the whole time.

As foon as the proceffion began to move,
two rockets were fired off in Old Palace-
yard, as a fignal for the guns in the Park to
fire, which was followed by those of the
Tower; during which time the great bells
of Westminster and St. Paul's cathedral
tolled, as did those of most of the churches
in London.

The following Infeription was engraved on a
Silver Plate, and offixed to the Coffin of bis
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

DEPOSITUM
Illuftriffimi principis Frederici Ludovici princi.
pis Wallis, principis electoralis & bæredi
tarii Brunfvici Lunenbergis ducis Cornu-

bie,