THIS fool had got a lucky bit, Which he could neither gild, nor hide. AND now the virtue of his hands THIS tale inclines the gentle reader, To think upon a certain leader; As t'other Midas did before? NONE NONE e'er did modern Midas chufe Nor will exchange his * plumbs for bays: And there's the jeft, for Pan is ALL: BESIDES, it plainly now appears, Our Midas too hath asses ears.; ; Bur gold defiles with frequent touch; There's nothing fouls the hands so much : And scholars give it for the cause Of British Midas' dirty paws; Which while the Senate ftrove to fcowr, They wafht away the Chymick pow'r. * A cant word for 100,000 1. VOL. II. G By By their own weight, funk to the bottom Much good may't do 'em, that have caught 'um. With affes ears, and dirty bands. The FAGGOT. Written in the Year 1713, when the Queen's Minifters were quarrelling among themselves. Ο BSERVE the dying father speak: Try lads, can you this bundle break; Then bids the youngest of the fix. Were much too strong for all their hands. THIS tale may be apply'd in few words Net Not firmly join'd to keep their ground, While wife men think they ought to fight Should come, and make the clatt'ring cease In history we never found The Confuls fafces were unbound; COME Courtiers: Every man his stick: + Lord Treasurer; for once be quick : And that they may the closer cling, Take your blue ribbon for a string. Come trimming Harcourt, bring your mace; A bundle of rods, or small sticks, carried before the Confuls at Rome. ROBERT Earl of OXFORD. Lord Chancellor. Sir EDWARD NORTHEY, Attorney General brought in by the Lord HARCOURT; yet very defirous of the Great Seal. G 2 And, And, be affur'd, the court will find him To make the bundle ftrong and safe, Great Ormond lend thy gen'ral's staff: And, if the Crofier could be cramm'd in, A Fig for Lechmere, King and Hambden ; You'll then defy the strongest Whig, With both his hands to bend a twig; Though with united ftrength they all pull: From Somers down to ‡ Craggs and Walpole. JAMES BUTLER, Duke of ORMOND, then Captain-General, who left England in the year 1714, and lived at Avignon in France, where he died without iffue in 1746. His corpfe was brought to England, and interred in Westminster-Abbey. + Lord SOMERS, who had been, at different times, Lord Chancellor and Prefident of the council. JAMES CRAGGS, who hath since been Secretary of State. S ROBERT WALPOLE, Efq; Prime Minifter of State, for above 20 years, to King GEORGE I. and II. Imade Knight of the Bath May 1725, and Knight of the Garter May 1726, created Earl of ORFORD 1742, and died 1745. HORACE |