Magdalens, and Lumber Troop, with many Others; all which acknowledge the Affinity they bear to their paternal Society, by celebrating their Evening Mysteries with a Song and a Sentiment.

The Choice Spirits have ever been famous for their Talents as Musical Artists. They usually met at the harvest-homes of Grape-gathering: There exhilarated by the pressings of the Vintage, they were wont to sing Songs, tell Stories, and shew Tricks, from their first emerging, until their Perihelion under the Presidentship of Mr. George Alexander Stevens, Ballad-Laureat to the Society of Choice Spirits, and who appeared at Ranelagh in the Character of Comus, supported by those Droles of merry Me

mory.

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Unparalleled were their performances, as first Fists upon the Salt-Box, and inimitable the variations they would twang

upon the forte and piano Jews Harp. Excellent was Howard in the Chin Concerto; whose Nose also supplied the melodious Tones of the Bagpipe.-Upon the Sticcado Matt. Skeggs remains still unrivalled. And we cannot now boast of one real Genius upon the genuine Hurdy Gurdy.

Alas! these Stars are all extinguished; and the remains of ancient British Harmony is now confined to the manly Mu-sic of Marrow-Bones and Cleavers.

Every thing must sink into Oblivion "Corn now grows where Troy Town stood."-Ranelagh may be metamorpho

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sed into a Methodist's Meeting-House! Vaux-Hall cut into Skittle-Alleys! the two Theatres converted into AuctionRooms; and the New Pantheon become the stately Habitation of some Jew PawnBroker:-Nay, the Sons of Liberty them