Poetical ESSAYS in MAY, 1753. Your audience are courtiers, fine ladies You make half your audience that hear you your foes; [your pains, And tho' two white sleeves you expect for You must live on content with your beaver and rose. Against your own intereft you foolishly If his ribbon is red, or his garter is blue. Of more than enough if you fill are Four guineas each Sunday you have for [are unbleft. a mufe, a text, And the fault is your own, if you still Tho' a mitre you mifs, yet you still have [fawn; Too upright to flatter, too honeft to And a genius like yours, much fooner fhould chufe [with the lawn. To be crown'd with a laurel than grac'd Then in fhades and retirement your moments employ, [must look ; Where all the wife few for contentment And whatever your fancy, 'twill give you more joy, [a duke. To fup with a yeoman than dine with A chop once a day, and your pint at a meal, [petite lacks ; Will feast you with all that your apMuch better than feeding on widgeon and teal, [at Pontacks, Tho' fwimming in fauce, and ferv'd up If your church is but fmall, and your hearers but few, [of the bell, When you tie on your band at the found Tho' you boast of no verger to open your pew [well! Your clark, or your fexton will do it as With velvet, gold toffells your cushion a`dorn'd, [difplay; Muft greatly affift you, your parts to No longer from blifs by your vanity drawn, 237 In your study at five, on your nag just at feven, [mix, While reading and leifure you learnedly By thefe helps you may fooner be carry'd to heaven, [dau and fix, Than thofe who mount up in a lanWhile half the wild world grows mad with the crowd, [your hall You think in your grotto, or mufe in And fcorning vain mortals, of coronets proud, [them all. Keep close in your closet, and laugh at To Mifs L, en ber B12TH-DAY, April 25, O. S. LL nature now looks blith and gay, A The birds are warbling, lambking play, The trees new leaves and bloffoms bring And compliment my dear Mifs L-. When all things round him thus confpire, Parnaffus I ne'er dreamt upon, Not 238 Poetical EssAY's in MAY, 1753. Not that I think it a reflection, PHILARCHA10S. TR RUST not again so soon a foreign shore, Your health's return'd, nature can add [no more, Her lavish hand has dealt you every grace, The easy manner, the engaging face; Your form high finish'd by her hand divine, The graceful air, and gentleft looks are [thine : Nor ftopt the here beneficent and kind, With all her skill and care the form'd your mind, [guile, Gave you good nature, banish'd art and And o're your face diffus'd th' obliging fmile: Pleas'd with her work, and perfecting the [whole, With love of virtue, then the fir'd your foul: Sincere your heart, above all mean dif[guife, Speaks in your words, or more expreffive eyes: vain : Your tongue is eloquent in honour's caufe, Your actions guided by her ftricteft laws; Your fenfe refin'd, from affectation free, Or the dull rules of awkard pedantry : Your converfation fure to entertain, Polite, not trifling; chearful, but not Your heaven-born foul with gen'rous [friendship glows, And feels compaffion for a stranger's woes. Say why you go, why leave your native home, To vifit burning mounts, and antique [stone ? Friends, confcious of your worth, your abfence mourn, And joyless wait, till you again return, To hail you welcome to Britannia's land, ftand, While in fweet founds you tell what has Or what in Italy gave most delight, Where mufick, painting, fculpture, all To charm each sense, and gratify defire. Guard him, ye facred powers, from foreign And fafe conduct him to a parent's arms. LOVE. An ODE. 1. INCE Peggy's charms, divinely fair, if fuch the mournful moments prove, 2. meet my fondest friend with pain, Tho' friendship us'd to warm my foul: Tho' nature's volume open lies, Which once with wonder I have read ; No beauties o'er the earth are spread. 4. Ev'n poetry's ambrofial dews With joy no longer feed my mind, My foul is dumb, and deaf, and blind. 5. But fhould the yielding virgin smile, Drefs'd in her fpotless marriage robes, The bufinefs of my future days, My ev'ry thought, my ev'ry pray'r, 7. * Swallowed up by an earthquake 1600 years ago, where feveral curiofities and fine pieces of antiquity bave been lately found under ground. (See our Magazine for 1759, p. 545.) Poetical ESSAYS in MAY, 1753. O'er the world's ftage,how wild its tumults Behold the place, where meets each wanton gueft, [jeft; Flows the wide bowl, and rings the empty Whence fober modefty with blushes flies, And juftice frowning claims again her fkies: Here link'd in vileft chains of fin agree The modern wit, and hell-bred debauchee; Vile daring oaths difgrace fair virtue's rules, the blade, And pure religion is the mock of fools. There thick with blood rafh murder points [mad. Rich gluttons furfeit, and the drunkard's Turn round the eye, the wid'ning scene behold, A mifer hovers o'er his bags of gold: On pride elate a thousand flaves attend : her aim, weeps; Thrice happy he (few fuch, alas! are found) [around; Who walks ferene, and views the ftorm Bleft in reflection filent treads the shore, Calm, tho' wild billows lafh, rough. tore. rents roar ; [toil, And when retir'd, fafe from each worldly Can talk with Tully, or converfe with Boyle; bonds of night, breath; 239 Then ravish'd thought breaks thro' the An ODE of HORACE imitated. To Colonel WARBURTON. Won barren rocks in frozen climes, HEN glory Warburton detain'd Did not his native foil intrude A tender with ? * Was known to give. Nor honours nor appointments large Can the fell tumults of the mind Remove, and cares that always wait On high command. Why croud we with prefumptuous views Our span of life? why climates change? Fell care afcends the gilded ships Yet think not thy brave labours loft, Cape Breton's dreadful fogs improve The charms of Winnington, and raise Thy future joys. Unruffled you, in every clime; A virtuous mind is its own place; With felf applause each ev'ning blefs'd. "To day I've liv'd." To morrow whether heav'n difpenfe Sun-fhine or clouds, in all events The pleasures of a well spent life Are quite your own. •Ifle of Wight. 240 Poetical ESSAYS in But as the fun, refulgent globe of light, By mifts obfcur'd, may thine more dimly bright; Or by fome fable cloud its luftre veil'd, Lie hid in darkness from the world conceal'd; Soevery joy which mortals here can know, is damp'd by forrow, or is mix'd with woe: Pleasure entire, from all affaults fecure, TELL me, Hamilla, tell me why To no one's granted, no one can enfure. rife, That friendship's felf oft falls a facrifice; Off from the flock they to a distance ftray, Pretence is gone,, in earnest they engage. Differ for caufes trivial as thefe ; Their ftrict agreeing harmony again! As thus diffolv'd in sympathy fhe lay, I come to minifter the fought relief: Their fouls, receptive of my aid, I'll fill, She faid-prophetick, boldly then I dare feas, The failor, fafe from their late threat- Thou doft from him that loves thes Why from his fond embraces fly, Ceafe then, dear wildness, ceafe to toy, But hafte all rivals to outshine, And grown mature, and ripe for joy, Leave mama's arms, and come to mine, SONG. By the fame. γε E fhepherds and nymphs that adorn the gay plain, [my ftrain; Approach from your fports, and attend to Amongst all your number a lover so true, Was ne'er fo undone, with fuch blifs in [mine? his view. Was ever a nymph fo hard-hearted as She knows me fincere, and the fees how I pine; [her wrath, She does not difdain me, nor frown in But calmly and mildly refigns me to death. She calls me her friend, but her lover denies : [my fighs. She fmiles when I'm chearful but hears not A bofom fo flinty, fo gentle an air, Infpires me with hope, and yet bids me [tears: despair! I fall at her feet and implore her with Her anfwer confounds, while her manner endears; When foftly the tells me to hope no relief, My trembling lips blefs her in fpite of my [with care, grief. By night, while I flumber, ftill haunted I start up in anguish, and figh for the fair: The fair fleeps in peace, may the ever do fo! And only when dreaming imagine my woe. Then gaze at a distance, nor farther afpire; [admire; Nor think the thould love, whom she cannot Hush all thy complaining, and dying her [grave, flave, Commend her to heaven, and thyfelf to the THB THE Monthly Chronologer. ON April 28, governor Trelawney, late governor of Jamaica, and his lady, arrived in town from the Ile of Wight, where they were with great difficulty put on thore from on board the Assurance man of war, which was loft off the Needles ; but the officers, crew and passengers were, 'all faved. On the 30th, a fire happened at the town of Tarvin in Chefhire, which burnt down above 40 dwelling houses, besides barns and other out buildings, with feveral ftacks of corn and hay. MONDAY, 7. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when the eight following malefactors received fentence of death, viz, Charles Neale, for ftealing a mare; George Ro binfon, for robbing Mr. James Holland of a hat and wig in Goodman's-fields; Daniel Tagg, for stealing a mare, a lamb, a faddle and a bridle; David Berkley, for ftealing goods and money in a dwelling houfe; Thomas Morris, for ftealing a gelding; Thomas Jones, alias Ruffle Jones, for forging aed publishing a falfe order for the delivery of goods; Nicholas Lawrence for a highway robbery; and John Fish, for robbing Thomas Lampley, In Darkhoufe-lane. May, 1753 THURSDAY, 10, Was held the annual feast of the fons of the clergy at merchant taylors hall. The collections at St. Paul's on the reherfal and feast days, and at the hall, amounted to rogzł. Irs. A philofophical account, communicated to Mr. Bond, was read before the Royal Society, of a remarkable spring, iffuing from a copper mine in the county of Wicklow in Ireland, into which thick iron bars being put, in 3 or 4 months are intirely confumed, and a quantity of copper greater than that of the iron is found, generally in the form of coarse fand, in the bottom of the pits in which the iron bars lay. This effect has been commonly mistaken for a real tranfmu tation of the iron into copper: But the doctor, by a chemical analysis of the water, found, that the copper is defolved by a Atrong mineral acid, and mixed with the water paffing thro' the copper ore in the mine, by which means the copper remains fufpended in the water till it meets with the iron bars in the pits contrived for that purpose, where the acid being more strongly attracted by the iron than by the copper, the latter neceffarily falls to the bottom, or is precipitated, while the former metal is gradually corroded or dissolved by the fame acid, and carried off in the stream constantly flowing from the spring. FRIDAY, II. A court martial was held on board the Tyger at Portsmouth, rear-admiral Bofcawen prefident, to enquire into the lofs of the Affurance man of war, a fhip of 40 guns, when Mr. Patterson the master, under whofe charge the fhip was, was fentenced to three months imprisonment in the Marshalfea, but was neither broke nor muleted. He acknowledged the captain offered him a pilot, but he thought there was no occafion ; and three pilots of the Isle of Wight fwore they never knew there was a thoal where the was wreck'd; and one of thein fwore, that at the time the struck, there was a counter tide fet in very strong, which might have deceived any person. TUESDAY, 15. A great number of Jew merchants attended the Houfe of Commons, about their naturalization bill, which had paffed the lords, and was then depending there. His majefty went with the ufual state to the house of peers, and gave the royal affent to the following bilis, viz. An act for more effectually punishing perfons Hh who |