Say with what eye along the distant down THE WALTZ; AN APOSTROPHIC HYMN. "Qualis in Eurotæ ripis, aut per juga Cynthi, Exercet Diana choros." VIRGIL. "Such on Eurota's banks, or Cynthia's height, DRYDEN'S VIRGIL. TO THE PUBLISHER. SIR, I AM a country gentleman of a midland county. I might have been a parliament-man for a certain borough, having had the offer of as many votes as General T. at the general election in 1812*. But I was all for domestic happiness; as, fifteen years ago, on a visit to London, I married a middle-aged maid of honour. We lived happily at Hornem Hall till last season, when my wife and I were invited by the Countess of Waltzaway (a distant relation of my spouse) to pass the winter in town. Thinking no harm, and our girls being come to a marriageable (or, as they call it, marketable) age, and having besides a Chancery suit inveterately entailed upon the family estate, we came up in our old chariot, of which, by the by, my wife grew so much ashamed in less than a week, that I was obliged to buy a second-hand barouche, of which I might mount the box, Mrs. H. says, if I could drive, but never see the inside-that place being reserved for the Honourable Augustus Tiptoe, her partner-general and opera-knight. Hear * State of the poll, (last day) 5. |