LEVITIES;

OR

PIECES of HUMOUR.

04.

FLIRT and PHIL;

A Decifion for the LADIES.

A Wit, by learning well refin’d,

A beau, but of the rural kind,

TO SILVIA made pretences;
They both profefs'd an equal love:
Yet hop'd, by different means, to move
Her judgment, or her fenfes,

Young sprightly FLIRT, of blooming mien,
Watch'd the best minutes to be seen;
Went-when his glass advis'd him:
While meagre PHIL of books enquir'd;
A wight, for wit and parts admir'd;

And witty ladies priz'd him.

SILVIA

SILVIA had wit, had fpirits too;

To hear the one, the other view,
Sufpended held the fcales:

Her wit, her youth too claim'd its share,
Let none the preference declare,

But turn up-heads or tails.

STANZAS to the Memory of an agreeable LADY, buried in Marriage to a Perfon undeferving her.

"TWA

WAS always held, and ever will,
By fage mankind, difcreeter

T'anticipate a leffer ill,

Than undergo a greater.

When mortals dread difeafes, pain,
And languishing conditions;
Who do❜n't the leffer ills fuftain
Of phyfic-and physicians?

Rather than lose his whole eftate,
He that but little wife is,

Full gladly pays four parts in eight

To taxes and excises.

Our

Our merchants Spain has near undone
For loft ships not requiting :
This bears our noble k— to fhun
The lofs of blood-in fighting!

With num❜rous ills, in fingle life,
The bachelor's attended:

Such to avoid, he takes a wife-
And much the cafe is mended!

Poor GRATIA, in her twentieth

Fore-feeing future woe,

Chofe to attend a monkey here,
Before an ape below.

year,

COLEMIR A.

A Culinary ECLOGUE.

Nec tantum Veneris, quantum ftudiofa culine.

Night's fable clouds had half the globe o'erspread,

And filence reign'd, and folks were gone to bed: When love, which gentle fleep can neʼer inspire, Had feated DAMON by the kitchen fire.

Penfive he lay, extended on the ground;

The little lares kept their vigils round;

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