I know the swing of sinful hack, Then why to courts should I repair, Alas! like Schutz I cannot pun, Like Grafton court the Germans; To court ambitious men may roam, In truth, by what I can discern, 4 Ireland. 5 Mentioned before in the verses to Mrs. Howe. At Leicester-Fields, a house full high, With door all painted green, Where ribbons wave upon the tie (A milliner I mean), There may you meet us three to three, For Gay can well make two of me. With a fa, la, la. But should you catch the prudish itch And each become a coward, Bring sometimes with you lady Rich, And thus, fair maids, my ballad ends; God send the king safe landing; And make all honest ladies friends 6 To armies that are standing; Preserve the limits of those nations, And take off ladies' limitations. With a fa, la, la. 6 This Ballad was written anno 1717. THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS. 1 Or gentle Philips 1 will I ever sing, With gentle Philips shall the valleys ring. 4 EPIGRAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. I AM His Highness's dog at Kew; 1 Ambrose Philips. 8 Henry Carey. 2 Eustace Budgell. 4 Curll said, that in prose he was equal to Pope, but that in verse Pope had merely a particular knack. THE TRANSLATOR. OZELL,1 at Sanger's call, invoked his Muse, 8 THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS. PULTENEY.4 WITH Scornful mien, and various toss of air, She looks ambition, and she moves disdain. 1 Egbert Sanger was apprentice to Jacob Tonson, and successor to Bernard Lintot. Lintot published Ozell's transla tion of Perrault's Characters, and Sanger his translation of Boileau's Lutrin, commended by Rowe. 2 A comedy by Wycherley. 8 A comedy by Rowe. 4 The daughter of John Gumley of Isleworth, who acquired his fortune by a glass manufactory. Far other carriage grac'd her virgin life, And this conjunction swells at least her mind. AN EPISTLE TO HENRY CROMWELL, ESQ.1 DEAR MR. Cromwell, May it please ye, Just while your coffee stands a cooling. Since your acquaintance with one Brocas,2 And both with mouth and hand recite; 1 See an account of him in Memoir prefixed to these volumes, p. xxi. 2 Commonly called Beau Brocas. |