Ye ladies, too, draw forth your pen; Since you have brains as well as men, As witness Lady Wortley. Now, Tonson, list thy forces all, A metamorphosis more strange Than all his books can vapour"To what (quoth 'squire) shall Ovid change?" Quoth Sandys, " To waste paper." UMBRA.' CLOSE to the best known author Umbra sits, The constant index to old Button's wits, "Who's here?" cries Umbra: "Only Johnson." -"O! "2 Your slave," and exit; but returns with Rowe : 1 Intended, it is said, for Ambrose Philips, But cries as soon, "Dear Dick, I must be gone, SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.1 SYLVIA my heart in wondrous wise alarm'd, Now deep in Taylor, and the Book of Martyrs, Introduced, with some alterations, into the Second of the Moral Epistles, Of the Characters of Women Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman's in her soul a rake. Frail, feverish sex; their fit now chills, now burns: Is still a sad good Christian at her heart. IMPROMPTU, TO LADY WINCHELSEA.1 OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. IN vain you boast poetic names of yore, And cite those Sapphos we admire no more: Fate doom'd the fall of every female wit; But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ. Of all examples by the world confess'd, I knew Ardelia could not quote the best; Who, like her mistress on Britannia's throne, Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own. To write their praise you but in vain essay; E'en while you write, you take that praise away: Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, But shines himself till they are seen no more. Authoress of a volume of poems, some of which possess very great merit. EPIGRAM. A BISHOP by his neighbours hated I'll lay my life I know the place: 'Tis where God sent some that adore him, And whither Enoch went before him. EPIGRAM, ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI. STRANGE! all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee! ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanc'd, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales. EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY. HERE lies Lord Coningsby-be civil! EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. SIR, I admit your general rule, But you yourself may serve to show it, WELL then, poor G EPITAPH. lies under ground! So there's an end of honest Jack. So little justice here he found, 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. |