Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Here mouldering fanes and battlements arise, 15 "Ah!" said the sighing peer, "had B-te been true, 20 "Purg'd by the sword, and purified by fire, Var. V. 11. Could] Cannot. Ms. V. 12. Horrors] Terrors. Nich. V. 13. Here] Now. Ms. V. 14. Turrets and arches] Arches and turrets. Ms. V. 17. B-te] Bute. Ms. V. 18. M-'s, R-'s, B-'s] Shelburne's, Rigby's, Nor C-'s, nor B-d's promises been vain. Nich. which. N. V. 21. Purified] Beautified. Ms. V. 23. Would] Might. мs. Should. N. Horrors V. 18. These initials stand for "Mungo's, Rigby's, Bradshaw's." See Heroic Epistle, v. 95; and Verses by Lord Holland in returning from Italy, 1767, in Asylum for Fug. Pieces, ii. p. 10: But, Rigby, what did I for thee endure, THE CANDIDATE : OR, THE CAMBRIDGE COURTSHIP. * [See character of Lord Sandwich in" Chrysal." See Scott's Lives of the Novelists, i. p. 169; Davies. Biog. and Lit. Anecdotes; Churchill's Verses on Lord Sandwich in Candidate and Duellist; "From his youth upwards," &c. Cradock's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 117. 148. vol. iv. p. 163. 223; Miss Hawkins's Anecdotes, p. 239; Bell's Fugitive Poetry, v. xvi. p. 93. 172; Wilkes. Letters, i. p. 211. ii. p. 220; Walpole. Letters to Lord Hertford, p. 5165. 102. by which it appears that Warburton had dedicated his Sermons to Lord Sandwich, but expunged his name for Pitt's. I have seen "A letter of advice from Alma Mater to her beloved son, Jemmy Twitcher, 1764."] WHEN sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugg'd up his face, With a lick of court white-wash, and pious grimace, "Lord! sister," says Physic to Law, "I declare, Such a sheep-biting look, such a pick-pocket air! Not I for the Indies :-You know I'm no prude,But his nose is a shame,—and his eyes are so lewd! Thy serpent's tooth admitted of no lure : Shelburne and Calcraft! O! the holy band See, see, with Gower caballing where they stand," &c. These verses were written a short time previous to the election of a high-steward of the University of Cambridge, for which office the noble lord alluded to (Lord Sandwich) made an active canvass. V. 8. Nose] In all editions printed by mistake "Name." Then he shambles and straddles so oddly-I fearNo-at our time of life 'twould be silly, my dear." "I don't know," says Law, "but methinks for his look, 'Tis just like the picture in Rochester's book; Then his character, Phyzzy,-his morals-his life 11 When she died, I can't tell, but he once had a wife. They say he's no Christian, loves drinking and W -g, 15 And all the town rings of his swearing and roaring! His lying and filching, and Newgate-bird tricks;Not I-for a coronet, chariot and six." 20 Divinity heard, between waking and dozing, Her sisters denying, and Jemmy proposing: From table she rose, and with bumper in hand, She strok'd up her belly, and strok'd down her band -g: 25 "What a pother is here about wenching and roaring! V. 9. "That babe of grace Who ne'er before at sermon show'd his face, Heroic Epistle, 125, note. See Hurd. Obs. on this word, in Cradock. Memoirs, vol. i. V. 16. But see Cradock. Memoirs, vol. iv. 166. To reject him for such peccadillos, were odd; Besides, he repents-for he talks about G**[To Jemmy] 'Never hang down your head, you poor penitent elf, Come buss me— -I'll be Mrs. Twitcher myself."" [The concluding couplet is too gross to give. ED.] "From recollection I am sure Lord Sandwich was aware ef Gray, for about the time he offered himself as high steward, contrary to his usual maxim of not seeing an enemy on public occasions, he once said to me, I have my private reasons for knowing his absolute inveteracy." Cradock. iv. 223. EXTRACTS. PROPERTIUS, LIB. III. ELEG. V. v. 19. "Me juvat in primâ coluisse Helicona juventâ," &c. IMITATED. LONG as of youth the joyous hours remain, Or roused by sprightly sounds from out the trance, 10 20 And wi.en, our flames commission'd to destroy, 25 How the rude surge its sandy bounds control; Who measured out the year, and bade the seasons roll; If realms beneath those fabled torments know, Pangs without respite, fires that ever glow, 40 |