Silence he cannot bear, noife is distraction, Noife kills with bustle, filence with reflection; No want he feels, -what has he to pursue ? To him 'tis less to suffer, than to do. The busy world's a fool, the learn'd a fot, Wealth is procur'd with toil, and kept with fear, And all engagements vain fince null❜d by death; Faithful now and stedfast prove, Sees the day-spring from on high. H K K K K K K K K HJFFFFFJKKKK On the Invention of LETTERS. 'ELL me what Genius did the art invent, The lively image of the voice to paint; Who firft the fecret how to colour sound, Who Who taught the hand to speak, the eye to hear Whose softeft noise outftrips loud thunder's found, T The ANSWER. HE noble art to Cadmus owes its rife, Of painting words, and speaking to the eyes; He firft in wond'rous magic fetters bound The airy voice, and ftop'd the flying found: On W IT. RUE wit is like the brilliant stone TRUS Dug from the Indian mine; Which boasts two various powers in one To cut as well as shine. Genius, like that, if polish'd right, With the fame gifts abounds; A On a SPIDE R. RTIST, who underneath table Thy curious texture haft difplay'd; Who, if we may believe the fable, Wert once a fair ingenious maid : Infidious, restless, watchful fpider, And spread thy banners round my room. Swept from the rich man's coftly ceiling, Whilft I thy wond'rous, fabric stare at, And as from out thy tortur'd body So does he labour, like a noddy, To spin materials from his brain. He He for fome fluttering tawdry creature, Than thine o'er captive butterfly. Thus far 'tis plain we both agree, 'Tis ten to one but penury Ends both the spider and the poet. K betetetet etetet The PLAY-THING chang'd. Kitty tunes her pipe in vain, With airs moft languishing and dying; Calls me falfe ungrateful swain, Nancy with refistless art, Always humourous, gay, and witty; Has talk'd herself into my heart, And quite excluded tuneful Kitty. Ah Kitty! Love, a wanton boy, Now pleas'd with fong, and now with prattle, Still longing for the newest toy, Has chang'd his whistle for a rattle. |