Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on re

fining,

And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining;

Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate unemploy'd, or in place, Sir,

To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. GOLDSMITH.

On Mr. Cumberland*.

Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts,
The Terence of England, the mender of hearts;
A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they

are.

His gallants are all faultless, his women divine, And comedy wonders at being so fine:

Mr. Richard Cumberland, author of the West Indian, Fashionable Lover, the Brothers, and other dramatic pieces.

Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out,
Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.

His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd
Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud;
And coxcombs alike in their tailings alone,
Adopting his portraits are pleas'd with their own.
Say, where has our poet this malady caught?
Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault?
Say, was it that vainly directing his view

To find out men's virtues, and finding them few,
Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf,
He grew lazy at last, and drew from himself?

GOLDSMITH.

On Mr. Garrick.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can,
An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man;
As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine:
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line:

Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart,

The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.

Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red.

On

On the stage he was nauural, simple, affecting;
"Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting..
With no reason on earth to go out of his way,
He turn'd and he varied fuil ten times a-day;
Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly

sick,

If they were not his own by finessing and trick:
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle
them back.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grew callous, almost to disease,
Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please.
But let us be candid, and speak out our mind,
If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind.
Ye Kenricks, ye Kellys, and Woodfalls so grave,
What a commerce was yours, while you got and
you gave!

How did Grub-street re-echo the shouts that you rais'd,

While he was be-roscius'd, and you were be

But

prais'd!

peace to his spirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the skies:

Those

Those poets, who owe their best fame to his skill,
Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will.
Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and
with love;

And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.

GOLDSMITH

On Nell Bachelor, the Oxford Pye-woman.

Here, into the dust

The mouldering crust

Of Elener Batchelor's shoven,

Well vers'd in the arts

Of pies, custards, and tarts,

And the lucrative skill of the oven.

When she'd liv'd long enough,
She made her last puff-

A puff by her husband much prais'd:

Now here she doth lie,

And makes a dirt pie,

In hopes that her crust shall be rais'd.

An

An Epitaph on the Death of a favourite Parrot that was found in a Necessary House.

Here safe lie interr'd the remains of a bird,
Who submits to all conquering fate,
Whose master took care to teach it to swear,
As his mistress had taught it to prate.

If complaint should be made of the place where he's laid,

Poor Betty is only in fault;

Poor Betty, to save the expence of a grave,
Thought proper to choose it a vault.

Το

preserve its dear fame, for time without name, His mistress, still kinder and kinder,

Declar'd with a tear, she'd never come here,
Without leaving something behind her.

G. Woodfall, Printer,
Paternoster-row.

THE END.