Verbatim from BOILEAU. Un Jour dit un Auteur, &c. NCE (fays our Author, where I need not say) Two Travellers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry, the difpute grew strong, While Scale in hand Dame Justice paft along. Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws, Explain'd the matter and would win the cause. Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right, Takes, opens, fwallows it, before their fight. The caufe of ftrife remov'd fo rarely well, There take (fays Justice) take ye each a Shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like 'Twas a fat Oyster-Live in peace-Adieu. you: ANSWER to the following Question of Mrs HowE. HAT is PRUDERY? WHAT 'Tis a Beldam, Seen with Wit and Beauty feldom. That rails at dear Lepell and You. Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace The Duke of BUCKINGHAM. USE, 'tis enough: at length thy labour ends, M And thou fhalt live, for Buckingham com mends. Let Crowds of Critics now my verse affail, A PROLOGUE By Mr POP E. To a Play for Mr DENNIS'S Benefit, in 1733, when he was old, blind, and in great diftrefs, a little before his Death. S when that Hero, who in each Campaign, A Had brav'd the Goth, and many a Vandal Α flain, Lay Fortune-ftruck, a fpectacle of Woe! 5 A defp'rate Bulwark, sturdy, firm, and fierce And be the Critic's, Briton's, Old-Man's Friend. 16 20 MACE R: A CHARACTER. 7HEN fimple Macer, now of high renown, WHEN First fought a Poet's Fortune in the Town, "Twas all th' Ambition his high foul could feel, To wear red stockings, and to dine with Steel. 5 Set up with these, he ventur'd on the Town, And with a borrow'd Play, out-did poor Crown. So fome coarse Country Wench, almost decay'd, In a tranflated Suit, then tries the Town, And in four Months a batter'd Harridan. Now nothing left, but wither'd, pale, and fhrunk, 10 14 20 24 |