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But foon his rhetorick forfook him,

When he the folemn hall had feen;

A fudden fit of ague fhook him, He stood as mute as poor Macleane.

Yet fomething he was heard to mutter, "How in the park beneath an old-tree "(Without defign to hurt the butter, "Or any malice to the poultry,)

"He once or twice had penn'd a fonnet;

"Yet hop'd; that he might fave his bacon:

"Numbers would give their oaths upon it,

"He ne'er was for a conj'rer taken."

The

A famous highwayman hang'd the week before,

The ghoftly Prudes with hagged face

Already had condemn'd the finner.

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She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner.

"Jefu-Maria! Madam Bridget,

"Why, what can the Viscountess mean
(Cry'd the fquare Hoods in woeful fidget)
"The times are alter'd quite and clean!

Decorum's turn'd to mere civility; Her air and all her manners fhew it. "Condemn'd me to her affability! "Speak to a Commoner and Poet!”

[Here 500 Stanzas are loft.]· And

And fo, God fave our noble King,

And guard us from long-winded Lubbers,

That to eternity would fing,

And keep my Lady from her Rubbers.

HYMN

HYMN

ΤΟ

ADVERSITY,

Ζήνα

Τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ

σαντα, τῶ πάθει μαθων
Θέντα κυρίως εχειν.

ESCHYLUS, in Agamemnone.

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