TO DOCTOR ** Who took much pains to quarrel with the Reverend Bella per æmathios plufquam civilia campos. LUCAN. HIST! hift! noble Doctor; pray be not fo warm: What offends was perhaps no intentional harm ; Think often and well, ere you fpar with a priest, A THOUGHT FROM MARTIAL. WHAT luck! cries Dick: Seven wives, and all now dead! I wish you'd take my vixen to your bed! AN With Heav'n it refts the virtuous will to bless. A good intention, each learn'd cafuift says, *The above lines were occafioned by a paragraph in a letter from a friend to the author in these words "You must then take the will for "the deed," and as near an Impromptu as most of what are said to be so ; though I have been told that in very costive habits, one of this kind has not been produced in lefs than three weeks or a month, and even then not without great labour and difficulty. THE INVITATION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF BERKELEY. WHEN pomp, parade, and splendor cloy, Bliss on a smaller scale enjoy With me, within an humble cell, Where Peace and cheap Contentment dwell. No niceties can I beftow; But if I had them-well I know For more would look fo like-your own- When a hedge-parfon is your hoft, If If then your Ladyfhip will come, Spruc'd up, each Muse fhall be at home; On BERKELEY!-oh, how proud to tend! the Mufe's guardian friend! BERKELEY To be in future ages fung As HER- whence lively CRAVENt fprung, On whom has bland THALIA fmil'd, And taken for her fav'rite child; Muft as their fource recur to you. Whence BERKELEY'S Earl, well known to prove "A father in a brother's love:" Paternally who draws his blood From Chiefs that figur'd near the Flood: But virtue needs no aid from birth, Nobility's beft title's Worth: And thus to worth the honours due Reach as their diftant fource to you. Whence HE, who with impatience glows Vengeance to pour on Britain's foes; † Right Honourable Lady Craven, highly diftinguished for her Theatrical taste, and literary compofitions of various kinds. Honourable George Berkeley, Captain of the Veftal frigate; a moft promifing officer, who is loft on the Newfoundland station, through pique in the first Lord of the Ad-rty. Too gallant much to truft for fame Tho' thence no mean, no niggard claim; This tribute due to worth excufe, Now fhould your Ladyship agree To flatter thus my vanity, O with you bring the lovely lass,|| This faid, what now remains to fay? } Lady Louifa, youngest daughter of Lady Berkeley. Qught |