to croak out fome encomiums on you, at the little theatre in Stafford-ftreet.

Your patron, the political Punch, who, like myself, teazes and diverts all parties alternately, is a man after my own heart: he never brings a face of business, or an air of importance into places dedicated to relaxation and merriment.

The delight he, his children, and the beautiful young lady, who, I am told, is shortly to become his JOAN, expreffed at my last exhibition, has made fuch an impreffion on me in his favour, that I have taken fome pains to compose a few rhymes for his amusement, on a fubject, of which I am as competent a judge as my name-fake Sir Toby, who I hear intends fhortly to talk about it in serious profe, at a rival theatre in College-green.

I am ever, dear Wagstaffe,

Sancho's friend and yours,

Stafford-street, 3d. Feb.

PUNCH,

OME all ye lovers of the dance,

COM

Brought of late from sprightly France,

Many a jig perhaps you've known,

But none like our Cotillion.

Patriots,

Patriots, Courtiers, mingled fee,
Some in dumps and fome in glee;
These rejoice, while thofe look on,
At this merry Cotillion.

Sancho bids the pipe play up,
Yet fwears before the dance he'll fup;
"Since the dye at last is thrown,
"Why not dance a Cotillion ?”

Rufty O-bne leads the band,
Link'd with Mafon hand in hand;
B--r-d next, from Boston flown,
Joins this motly Cotillion.

W-ll-r too, that courtly beau,
(With him by Hill-b--h ta'en in tow)
Tells them all his cares are gone,
And friíks about in Cotillion.

Flood indignant roars aloud, (Idol of the gaping crowd)

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Whilft they frolic, let us groan, "And interrupt this Cotillion.

See Sir George arriving late,
Calls it a faux pas of state,
Yet as ufual, en bon ton,

Recommends this Cotillion.

Ponsonby with feign'd furprize,

Damns both the customs and excife;
Since his dancing days are gone,
He trys to mar this Cotillion.

H-1 who loves nor dance nor fong,
Takes his place amidst the throng,
And crys, "I'm pleas'd at this I own,
"That Shannon hates the Cotillion."

Ands in a jovial mood,
Swears 'tis for the country's good;
Tho' his rump with fat's o'er grown,
He'll join in ev'ry Cotillion.

The Marquifs in a witty speech,
Lord Sancho threatens to impeach,
And vows that nothing fhall atone
For this unlawful Cotillion.

Scowling Brownlow views the groupe,
Mad as Bacchanalian troupe,
And prefers the bagpipe's drone

To this Caftle Cotillion.

Lucius, bufy, dull, and proud,
Sneering at the fervile croud;

Swears he'll shake the chair alone,
If it joins the Cotillion.

Father

Father John in dismal tune,

Whines, "We fhall be beggar'd foon;"
The mitre from his fon is thrown,
Which makes him curse this Cotillion.

He late defied Hibernia's foes,
But Jeffys led him by the nose,
And bid him preach to his old crone,
Nor fpoil his little Cotillion.

D-ly next bewails our fate,

And paints the country's ruin'd state;
Swears we'll want another loan,
To fupport this Cotillion.

Sage Malone with downcaft brow,
Shakes his wig, and wonders how
The Common's vote fhould be o'er thrown,
By crafty Sancho's Cotillion.

Mount--r--s, B--la--m--nt, and M--ne,

Oh were they but here again,

They'd work old Sancho to the bone,

For calling up this Cotillion.

When this horrid plot was told,
How the country's bought and fold,
Lord Shannon met my Lord Tyrone,
And then they danc'd a Cotillion.

Feb. 4th. 1772.

NUM

NUMBER XIX.

Whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a ftrict univerfal refemblance between the natural and political body, can there be any thing more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved, and the diseases cured by the fame perscription? It is allowed, that fenates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with ftrong convulfions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and finews in both hands, but especially in the right; with Spleen, flatus, vertigoes, and deliriums; with fcorphulous tumours, full of fœtid purulent matter; with fower, frothy ructations; with canine appetites, and crudeness of digeftion; befides many others need. lefs to mention. This Doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of a fenate, certain physicians fhould attend at the three first days of their fitting, and at the close of each day's debate, feel the pulfe of every senator; and prescribe as their feveral cafes required, &c. GULLIVER's Travels.

To JEOFFRY WAGSTAFFE, Efq.

SIR,

IH

HEARTILY wish the fcheme proposed by the Laputan projector, was adopted, as it would be extremely beneficial to the public. There are fome peculiar diseases,

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