Why should we then to London run, For bufinefs, dirt, and smoke? Care climbs proud fhips of mightiest force, * A man, when once he's fafely chofe, Nor think of future evil; Each good has its attendant ill; A feat is no bad thing, but ftill Its gifts, with hand impartial, Heav'n To die in full-blown glory; Purfu'd by Whig and Tory. 15 25 35 * General Cope, in the year 1745, had made a very precipitate retreat, before the rebel army, from Prefton Panno to' Haddington,' The gods to you with bounteous hand Have granted feats, and parks, and land; With claret and ragouts you treat, Six neighing fteeds, with nimble feet, To me they've giv'n a small retreat, With broad-cloth on my shoulders, A foul that scorns a dirty job, Loves a good rhyme, and hates a mob, I mean who a' n't freeholders. THE WAY TO BE WISE. IMITATED FROM LA FONTAINE. BY THE SAME. POOR OR Jenny, am'rous, young, and gay, Having by man been led aftray, To nunn'ry dark retir'd; There liv'd, and look'd fo like a maid, So feldom eat, fo often pray'd, She was by all admir'd. The lady Abbefs oft would cry, Or prov'd an idle flattern; pert young flut at length replies, Experience, madam, makes folks wife, 'Tis that has made her fuch; And we, poor fouls, no doubt fhou'd be 15 As pious, and as wife, as fhe, If we had feen as much. PIPE OF TOBACCO: IN IMITATION OF SIX SEVERAL AUTHORS BY ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE, ESQ. IMITATION I. [COLLEY CIBBER, POET LAUREAT.} Laudes egregii Cæfaris Culpá deterere ingení. A NEW YEAR'S ODE. RECITATIVO.' OLD Battle-array, big with horror, is filed, HOR. And olive-rob'd Peace again lifts up her head. Sing, ye Mufes, TOBACCO, the bleffing of peace; Was ever a nation fo bleffed as this? * Born 1705; dyed 1760% AIR. When fummer funs grow red with heat, RECITATIVO. ΤΟ Like NEPTUNE, CAESAR guards VIRGINIA fleets, Fraught with TOBACCO's balmy sweets: Old Ocean trembles at BRITANNIA's pow', And Boreas is afraid to roar. AIR. Happy mortal! he who knows 15 Pleafure which a PIPE bestows; Curling eddies climb the room, Wafting round a mild perfume. RECITATIVO. Let foreign climes the vine and orange boat, While waftes of war deform the teeming coaft; 20 BRITANNIA, distant from each hoftile found, Enjoys a PIPE, with eafe and freedom crown'd E'en reftlefs Faction finds itself most free, Or if a flave, a flave to Liberty. |