Ready alike on rich and poor to wait ;
I fuit myself to every different state.

With prieft in whitifh drefs array'd I fhine,
Emblem of purity and truth divine.

His folemn face the doctor owes to me,
His folemn face, to which he owes his fee.
At bench, or bar, I add a dignity
To th' upright fentence, or rhetorick plea;
Hence without me no judge explains the laws,
Nor coifed council pleads the puzling caufe :
In fullest floods my bounty showers on them
Profufe, defcending to the garment's hem.
Gorgeous in filken garb I grace the beau ;
And all around ambrofial fragrance throw;
Nor lefs decorous, tho' with duft o'erfpread,
When to the camp the valiant warriors lead,
Gorgonian terrors to each mien I add,

And ftill their weakeft part with care I shade.

RIDDLE.

RLD D L E.

By the Same.

Y fize is large, my fhape's uncouth,

MY

I have neither limb nor feature;

Mens hands have form'd my fkin fo fmooth;

My guts were made by nature.

You'll fcarce believe my troth;

For when I've told you all my tricks
You'll fwear 'tmuft needs be both.

For oft my mafter lies with me,

His wife I oft enjoy ;

Yet fhe's no whore, no cuckold he,

And true to both am I.

My cloaths nor women fit, nor men,
They're neither coat nor gown;
Yet oft both men and maidens, when
They're naked, have them on.

When

When I'm upon my legs, I lie,
Yet legs in truth I've none;
And never am I seen fo high
To rife as when I'm down.

What's oft my belly, is oft my back,

And what

feet, my my

head;

And though I'm up, I have a knack
Of being still a bed.

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Audivere, Lyce, &c. HOR. Book

L

2

IMITATED.

By the Same.

YCE, at length my vows are heard,
My vows so oft to heaven preferr'd j
Welcome, thy filver'd hairs!

In vain thy affectation gay

To hide the manifest decay,

In vain thy youthful airs.

If ftill thy cheeks preferve a blush,

With b heat of wine, not youth they flash, c Unamiable stain!

If ftill thou warbleft, harsh the note

When d trembling age shakes in the throat
Th' involuntary ftrain.

Think'ft thou can these my love prolong?
(Ungrateful blush! untuneful fong !).
Or rival Hebe's charms?

Hebe melodious, Hebe fair,

For judgment fwells her rapt'rous air,
For f youth her blushes warms.

The rofy cheek, the forehead smooth,
Those native ornaments of youth,

Once loft, are loft for

aye.

No art can smooth, no paint repair

The furrow'd face; h no diamond's glare
Give luftre to decay.

et b bibis impudens.

Cantu a tremulo b pota Cupidinem

c Lentum folicitas

f virentis et

e Docte pfallere Chia

Pulchris excubat in genis.

Nec & Coa referunt jam tibi purpuræ,
Nec h clari lapides, tempora quæ femel

Notis condita faftis

Inclufit volucris dies.

What

What now of all which once was thine,

i Feature, k Complexion, Mien divine,
Remains the fenfe to charm?

m Why now command they not my love?
Once could they-n even tho' Cloe strove
Their empire to disarm.

Cloe!-alas, thou much-lov'd name!
• Thou, full of beauty, full of fame,
Found'ft an untimely urn!

p While Lyce, reft of every grace

T'enrich the mind, t' adorn the face,

Still lives, the public fcorn. 9

Quoi Venus fugit, ah!

1

quo k color decens,

Quo motus? quid habes illius
Quæ fpirabat amores ?

m Qua me furpuerat mihi ?

n Felix poft Cynaram.

• fed Cynara breves

Annos fata dedere

Servatura diu P parem

Cornicis vetulæ temporibus Lycen.

૧ The contemptuous fatyr at the conclufion of the original, is preferved in the English, but a graver turn is given to it, inftead of the more ludicrous one of Horace. Whether judiciously or no, may be better determined by any body, than by the author.

A SON