Think on the mifchiefs which from hence have Sprung! It arms with curfes dire the wrathful tongue; 95 And prompts the mem'ry with injurious words. Methinks I fee him in his hall appear, 100 ON THE SETTING up mr. BUTLER'S MONU MENT IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. BY SAMUEL WESLEY.* WHILE BUTLER, needy wretch! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give: See him, when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust, Prefented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He afk'd for bread, and he receiv'd a stone. 5 EPIGRAM, FROM THE GREEK. BY THE SAME. A BLOOMING youth lies buried here, * Born 1690; dyed 1739 5 THE INVITATION. BY WILLIAM HINCHLIFFE. COME, Lavinia, lovely maid, O leave the court's deceitful glåre, What raptures were it in these bow'rs, Fair virgin, chaste and wife, With thee to lose the learned hours, 5 10 And note the beauties in these flowers, Conceal'd from vulgar eyes! For thee my gaudy garden blooms, And richly colour'd glows; Above the pomp of royal rooms, Or purpled works of Perfian looms, Born 1692; dyed 1742. 15 20 Hafte, nymph, nor let me figh in vain, Each Grace attends on thee; Exalt my blifs, and point my ftrain, THE BASTAR D. INSCRIBED, WITH ALL DUE REVERENCE, TO MRS. BRETT, ONCE COUNTESS OF MACCLESFIELD. IN BY RICHARD SAVAGE.* Decet hæc dare dona novercam. OV. MET. N gayer hours, when high my fancy ran, The mufe, exulting, thus her lay began. Bleft be the Baftard's birth! thro' wond'rous ways, He shines eccentric like a comet's blaze! No fickly fruit of faint compliance He! He! ftampt in nature's mint of ecstasy! 5 His daring hope, no fire's example bounds; Born 1698; dyed 1743. |