THE CANDIDATE: OR, THE CAMBRIDGE COURTSHIP. This tart lampoon was written a short time previous to the election of a high-steward of the University of Cambridge, for which office the noble lord alluded to made an active canvass. WHEN Sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugg'd up his face, "Lord! sister," says Physic to Law, "I declare, Such a sheep-biting look, such a pick-pocket air! Not I for the Indies:-You know I'm no prude, But his name is a shame, and his eyes are so lewd! Then he shambles and straddles so oddly-I fearNo-at our time of life 'twould be silly, my dear." "I don't know," says Law, "but methinks for his look, 'Tis just like the picture in Rochester's book; w-g And all the town rings of his swearing and roaring! His lying and filching, and Newgate-bird tricks;— Not I-for a coronet, chariot and six.” Divinity heard, between waking and dozing, Her sisters denying, and Jemmy proposing: From table she rose, and with bumper in hand, She stroked up her belly, and stroked down her band -g: "What a pother is here about wenching and roaring! [To Jemmy] Never hang down your head, you poor penitent elf, Come buss me-I'll be Mrs. Twitcher myself." POEMATA. HYMENEAL ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. Printed in the Cambridge Collection, 1736. IGNARE nostrum mentes, et inertia corda, Scilicet ignorant lacrymas, sævosque dolores, Dura rudimenta, et violentæ exordia flammæ; Scilicet ignorant, quæ flumine tinxit amaro Tela Venus, cæcique armamentaria Divi, Irasque, insidiasque, et tacitum sub pectore vulnus; Namque sub ingressu, primoque in limine Amoris Tuque Oh! Angliacis, Princeps, spes optima regnis, Ne tantum, ne finge metum: quid imagine captus Hæres, et mentem pictura pascis inani? Umbram miraris: nec longum tempus, et ipsa Ibit in amplexus, thalamosque ornabit ovantes. Ille tamen tabulis inhians longum haurit amorem, Affatu fruitur tacito, auscultatque tacentem Immemor artificis calami, risumque, ruboremque Aspicit in fucis, pictæque in virgidis ore: Tanta Venus potuit; tantus tenet error amantes. Nascere, magna Dies, qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno Committat Pelago, patriamque relinquat amoenam ; Cujus in adventum jam nunc tria regna secundos Attolli in plausus, dulcique accensa furore Incipiunt agitare modos, et carmina dicunt: Ipse animo sedenim juvenis comitatur euntem Explorat ventos, atque auribus aëra captat, Atque auras, atque astra vocat crudelia; pectus Intentum exultat, surgitque arrecta cupido; Incusat spes ægra fretum, solitoque videtur Latior effundi pontus, fluctusque morantes. Nascere, Lux major, qua sese AUGUSTA Britanno Committat juveni totam, propriamque dicabit; At citius (precor) Oh! cedas melioribus astris: Nox finem pompæ, finemque imponere curis Possit, et in thalamos furtim deducere nuptam ; Sufficiat requiemque viris, et amantibus umbras: Adsit Hymen, et subridens cum matre Cupido Accedant sternantque toros, ignemque ministrent; Ilicet haud pictæ incandescit imagine formæ Ulterius juvenis, verumque agnoscit amorem. Sculptile sicut ebur, faciemque arsisse venustam Pygmaliona canunt: ante hanc suspiria ducit, Alloquiturque amens, flammamque et vulnera narrat ; Implorata Venus jussit cum vivere signum, Foemineam inspirans animam; quæ gaudia surgunt, Audiit ut primæ nascentia murmura linguæ, Luctari in vitam, et paulatim volvere ocellos Sedulus, aspexitque novâ splendescere flammâ; Corripit amplexu vivam, jamque oscula jungit Acria confestim, recipitque rapitque; prioris Immemor ardoris, Nymphæque oblitus eburneæ. THO. GRAY, Pet. Coll. |