There's a Pasty "-" a Pasty!" repeated the Jew, "I don't care if I keep a corner for't too." "What the De'il, mon, a Pasty!" re-echo'd the Scot, But we quickly found out,-for who could mistake her?— (1) [Lord Clare was a man of parts, a poet, and a facetious companion. Almon observes, that his poems breathe the true Horation fire, but are more than half unknown. A volume of them was published anonymously by Dodsley in 1739, entitled “Odes and Epistles." Several other poems of his Lordship are printed in Dodsley's Collection, and in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit. His only daughter married the first Marquis of Buckingham, on whose second son the title of Baron Nugent devolved. He died in 1788.-See Nichols, Lit. Anec, vol. viii. p. 2, and Croker's Boswell, vol. ii. p. 123.] THE CAPTIVITY; AN ORATORIO. (1) - (1) [Written in 1764, and now printed from the original manuscript, in Goldsmith's hand-writing, in the possession of Mr. Murray. See LIFE, ch. xiv.] THE PERSONS. FIRST JEWISH PROPHET. SECOND JEWISH PROPHET. ISRAELITISH WOMAN. FIRST CHALDEAN PRIEST. SECOND CHALDEAN PRIEST, CHALDEAN WOMAN. CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS. SCENE.-The Banks of the River Euphrates, near Babylon. THE CAPTIVITY, AN ORATORIO. ACT I.-SCENE I. ISRAELITES sitting on the Banks of the Euphrates. First PROPHET. Recitative. Ye captive tribes, that hourly work and weep, VOL. IV. First PROPHET. Air. Our God is all we boast below, To him we turn our eyes; And every added weight of woe G |