Oft, oft have I with rapture glow'd,
At what from thy round mouth hath flow'd;
Oft, too, when finking with thy fill,
Haft thou, my friend, food by me STILL;
Oh! I would fooner cease to be,
Than lofe one fingle drop † of thee!
Thy love I'll drink ‡, and never stop
Until I've fuck'd § thy latest drop-
Alas! too foon, too foon 't will come,
And I must pine without my rum:
How deep my grief, of thee bereft,
He beft can tell, who hath no fpirits left!

TW

THE BRUSH-MAKERS.

BY THE SAME.

Κοτέει και τεκτονι τεκτων - Hysiop.
"Two of a trade never agree."

WO brush-makers of small renown,
Long had been rivals in the town :-
Whate'er Wilkes afk'd you for a sweeper,
Old Dellman straight would fell you cheaper:
This conduct ftrange fo much opprefs'd him,
That, meeting once, he thus address'd him :
"I fteals the ftuff, to fave my pelf,
And then I makes 'em up myself;
So cannot think, though oft I try,
How you can cheaper fell than I?”

"I'll tell you, friend," old Dellman faid

"I fteals my brushes ready made!".

*It appears that our Toper's Bottle enjoyed the fame advantage as the ancient Greeks

"Lofe not a drop of the immortal man.'
."-DRYDEN.

"Ex de WIN TOY &para."-Bion's Epit.

"Suck my laft breath, and catch my flying foul."

POPE'S Abelard.

THE SALISBURY CHANTER.

[From the General Evening Poft.]
IN Sal'fbury cathedral, fam'd,
A wight, belonging to the choir,
The congregation oft would tire,
With lungs, as if of leather fram'd;
For, being proud

Of finging loud,

He fet at nought all modulation;
And, though the delicate of ear
His braying talent ftruck with fear,
He felt, at least, felf-approbation.
Up to the London stage he goes,
His vocal service to propose;
And by the manager was heard,
Who thus obferv'd: "Upon my word,
I would advise you to go home,
And never quit the facred dome ;
The L-d is merciful and kind;
No better mafter you can find.

In pity you'll be heard the while you pray;
But quit the church, and you'll be d-'d next day."
Carey Street.

LEANDER.

ON THE CANAL CUT BY THE SIDE OF THE SOUTHAMPTON WATER,

SOUTHAMPTON's wife fons found their river fo large, Though 't would carry a fhip, 't would not carry a barge;

So wifely determin'd to cut by its fide

A ftinking canal, where fmall veffels might glide:
Like the man, who contriving a hole in his wall
To admit his two cats-the one large, t' other fmall-
When a great hole was cut for the first to go through,
Would a little one have for his little cat too!

INNS

INNS FOR BALLOON PASSENGERS.

BY JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ.

[From the European Magazine.]

WE E have often heard of caftles in the air: probably many of my readers may have been fpeculators in these kind of buildings, which feem to poffefs advantages not always concomitant to more fubftantial erections, as they are not, in the first instance, attended with the rifk and expenfe of thofe whofe foundations are upon the earth; and, fecondly, every man is his own architect, and, confequently, avoids the trouble and litigation which, in former ages (for I would by no means infinuate that fuch things ever happen in the prefent), have been known to arife from the active zeal, and difinterested affiduity, of persons to whom the execution of great and elegant defigns hath been delegated. The ingenious fect of caftle-builders have therefore, from the time of Ariftophanes (how long preceding him it is not material to inquire), been extremely numerous; and, while terreftrial materials are fo dear, as, in contradiftinction to other builders, they work cheap, I intended to have patriotically propofed, that they should, in the modern jargon, have been fyftematized, organized, and made a part of fome national inftitute, perhaps in petto, which, I conceive, would have been as ufeful as fome other branches of a Society of that nature actually in existence; but upon looking at fome late Tranfactions, I found that many of these foaring geniufes have anticipated me, and have it now in contemplation to defcend from their fublime altitudes, and to place their, at prefent,"cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces" upon terra firma, to the great improvement of the metropolis.

Leaving them, therefore, to the execution of their great defigns, which, I have a prefentiment, will, like noble and virtuous actions, bring with them their own

rewards,

rewards, I would only juft hint, that when in confequence they do remove the hofpital for lunatics from its prefent fite, which may now, for reafons too obvious to need explanation, be deemed claffic ground, they alfo improve, i. e. enlarge, the building; because I forefee, if the other schemes of improvement which are fuggefted are carried into effect, fuch a receptacle may, in the end, be found the most useful part of them.

Having, with fome degree of anxiety, hinted the coalition which I conceive has taken place betwixt the aërial and terreftrial architects of the prefent day, it may be cafily imagined that anxiety was increafed by the reflection that, now the buildings that have adorned the clouds are likely to be drawn downwards, the immenfe space above us, which is not fubject to any ground-rent, will be entirely unoccupied, for no better reafon than because accefs to it has been deemed rather difficult.

While I was puzzling betwixt eagles and baskets, pendent bridges and inclined planes, in order to facilitate the elevation of bodies, I was at once relieved and comforted to find, that ingenuity, ever on the wing, had fmoothed the way to the regions above, and that a method to "elevate and furprife" had, after it had lain dormant almoft twenty years, been revived with fuccefs; fo that I fhould little wonder to fee the travelling in air-balloons, the method alluded to, as regularly fyftematized as that in mail-coaches, to which, indeed, they seem to poffefs advantages infinitely fuperior.

This invention, unless we admit the claims of fome artifts of remote antiquity, whicb, perhaps, it would be wifer to drop, it is faid, originated among our ingenious neighbours the French; a nation whofe inventions and executions have, within thefe laft dozen years, aftonifhed the world; but as it has been often obferved, that, although they have the moft brilliant,

or, according to modern phrafeology, in which I delight, the most luminous, ideas, we, in our John Bull or John Trot ways (who, entre nous, are perfons of exceeding good fenfe), generally make improvements upon them, which renders useful what probably was before only curious or ornamental. To elucidate this propofition, two inventions, very oppofite and appofite, have been quoted, viz. the application of the experiments on the contraction and expanfion of metals by cold and heat, to time-keepers, with a view to facilitate the difcovery of the longitude, and the Small addition of a fhirt to a ruffle. Now as we have fucceeded in these two inftances, and in two thousand others, I think we have a right to fuppofe that we fhall be equally fortunate with refpect to the balloon fyftem, which an eminent and ingenious Gallic philofopher, of whom the pickpockets fay that "he has deferved well of this country," had the goodness laft fummer to revive, upon the fame principle which had enabled many of his countrymen, in a former age, to fee what was doing above; and although the English fon of Phoebus, who attempted to rival him, failed; and his balloon, from being hawked about till it became a drug, was confidered as a large bolus, which the public mouth would not open wide enough to fwallow; as an immenfe glyfter, which would not produce one motion; as a vehicle which it was impoffible to fill even with puffing; as a receptacle for gafconade rather than gas; yet I do think it likely, that, in the course of this fummer, we shall find among our own countrymen fome capable of rectifying the errors that were too apparent in the former experiments, of volatilizing the etherial fpirit, which, perhaps, the interested malice of foreign emiffaries had condenfed, and very poffibly by its powerful medium of elevating even a metallic or cryftalline orb, enduing them, or either of them, with the ideal property of poetry, fuch as has formerly