See in each sprite fome various bent appear! Those faunt'ring on the green, with jocund leer Some builden fragile tenements of clay; Some to the standing lake their courses bend, With pebbles smooth at duck and drake to play; Thilk to the huxter's fav'ry cottage tend, In pastry kings and queens th' allotted mite to spend, Here, as each season yields a different store, Each feafon's ftores in order ranged been; Apples with cabbage-net y-cover'd o'er, Galling full fore th' unmoney'd wight, are seen; And goofe-b'rie clad in liv'ry red or green; And here of lovely dye, the cath'rine pear, Fine pear! as lovely for thy juice, I ween: O may no wight e'er pennylefs come there, Left fmit with ardent love he pine with hopeless care! See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, Rend'ring thro' Britain's ifle Salopia's praises known. SHREWSBURY cakes, Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride Her daughters lovely, and her striplings brave: CON He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes 12 He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Meliffa his friend. 23 EL E- |