LEVITIES;

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PIECES of HUMOUR.

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Wit, by learning well refin'd,

A beau, but of the rural kind,

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TO SILVIA made pretences;

They both profefs'd an equal love:
Yet hop'd, by different means, to move
Her judgment, or her senses.

Young sprightly FLIRT, of blooming mien,
Watch'd the best minutes to be feen;
Went-when his glass advis'd him :
While meagre PHIL of books enquir'd;
A wight, for wit and parts admir'd;

And witty ladies-priz'd him,

SILVIA had wit, had spirits too;
To hear the one, the other view,
Sufpended held the scales:

Her wit, her youth too claim'd its share,
Let none the preference declare,

But turn up-heads or tails.

STANZAS to the Memory of an agreeable LADY, buried in Marriage to a Perfon undeferving her.

Tי

WAS always held, and ever will,
By fage mankind, difcreeter

T'anticipate a leffer ill,

Than undergo a greater.

When mortals dread difeafes, pain,
And languishing conditions;
Who don't the leffer ills fuftain
Of phyfic-and physicians?

Rather than lofe his whole eftate,

He that but little wife is,

Full gladly pays four

parts in eight

To taxes and excifes.

Our

Our merchants Spain has near undone
For loft fhips not requiting:

This bears our noble k- to fhun
The lofs of blood-in fighting!

With num❜rous ills, in fingle life,
The bachelor's attended:

Such to avoid, he takes a wife-
And much the cafe is mended!

Poor GRATIA, in her twentieth year,
Fore-feeing future woe,

Chose to attend a monkey here,
Before an ape below.

COLEMIRA.

A Culinary ECLOGUE.

Nec tantum Veneris, quantum ftudiofa culinæ.

Night's fable clouds had half the globe o'erfpread,

And filence reign'd, and folks were gone to bed:

When love, which gentle fleep can ne'er inspire,
Had feated DAMON by the kitchen fire,

Penfive he lay, extended on the ground; The little lares kept their vigils round;

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