The other tribe, aghaft, with fore dismay, And, from their fellow's hateful wounds, beware; Knowing, I wift, how each the fame may share; Till fear has taught them a performance meet, And to the well-known cheft the dame repair; Whence oft with fugar'd cates fhe doth 'em greet, And ginger-bread y-rare; now, certes, doubly fweet! See to their feats they hye with merry glee, His grievous wrong; his dame's unjust beheft; And fcorns her offer'd love, and fhuns to be carefs'd. His face befprent with liquid crystal shines, Yet hence the youth, and hence the flow'r, fhall claim, If so I deem aright, tranfcending worth and fame. Behind fome door, in melancholy thought, Mindlefs of food, he, dreary caitiff! pines; Ne for his fellow's joyaunce careth aught, But to the wind all merriment refigns; And deems it fhame, if he to peace inclines; And many a fullen look afcance is fent, Which for his dame's annoyance he defigns; And still the more to pleasure him she's bent, The more doth he, perverse, her haviour past resent. Ah me! how much I fear left pride it be ! But if that pride it be, which thus inspires, Beware, ye dames, with nice discernment fee, Ye quench not too the fparks of nobler fires : Ah! better far than all the mufes' lyres, All coward arts, is valour's gen'rous heat; The firm fixt breaft which fit and right requires, Like VERNON'S patriot foul; more justly great Than craft that pimps for ill, or flow'ry false deceit. Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazling fruits appear! Or bard fublime, if bard may e'er be so, And And this perhaps, who, cens'ring the design, And many an epic to his rage fhall yield; But now DAN PHOEBUS gains the middle skie, And liberty unbars her prifon-door; And like a rushing torrent out they fly, And now the graffy cirque han cover'd o'er With boist'rous revel-rout and wild uproar; A thousand ways in wanton rings they run, Heav'n fhield their fhort-liv'd paftimes, I implore! For well may freedom, erft fo dearly won, Appear to British elf more gladfome than the fun. Enjoy, poor imps! enjoy your fportive trade; But most in courts where proud ambition tow❜rs; Deluded wight! who weens fair peace can spring Beneath the pompous dome of kefar or of king. See in each sprite fome various bent appear! Those faunt'ring on the green, with jocund leer Some to the standing lake their courses bend, In pastry kings and queens th' allotted mite to spend. Here, as each feafon yields a different store, Each feafon's ftores in order ranged been; Apples with cabbage-net y-cover'd o'er, Galling full fore th' unmoney'd wight, are seen; And goofe-b'rie clad in liv'ry red or green; And here of lovely dye, the cath'rine pear, Fine pear! as lovely for thy juice, I ween; O may no wight e'er pennylefs come there, Left fmit with ardent love he pine with hopeless care! See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, penury betide. The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, Rend'ring thro' Britain's ifle Salopia's praises known.* SHREWSBURY cakes. Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride Her daughters lovely, and her striplings brave: CON |