Never wantonly face the mouth of a gun;
And, tam'd or untam'd, pray likewise beware,
Come not nigh to the heels of a horse or a mare.

OR THUS:

Approach not, I charge you, if danger you'd fhun, The heels of a horse, or the mouth of a gun.

TO A LADY,

WHO MISTOOK THE WORD

APOTHEGM FOR APOZEM.

An Apozem, madam, would make your child fick:
My Apothegm-fave him from many a kick.

THE

CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

THE SENTIMENTS

OF

A YOUNG LADY.

DON'T marry an old man, my father advises,
Το marry young man, mamma thinks unwife is:
An old man is jealous, will be peevish and teaze you,
A young man is fickle, and will not long please you.
That my choice of a husband may not be thought
wrong then,

I'll have nothing to do with old men or young men.
A middle-aged man comes nearest the truth,
With the wisdom of age and the ardour of youth.
With fuch a one only I ever will marry,

And my hope of true bliss can hardly miscarry.

with Force united my food heart he tonnes like legehedoated but like youth perform?

7

IN THE STYLE OF

MASTER THOMAS STERNHOLD,

TOUCHING CRITICKS.

I.

BLEST is the man, who, free from ftrife,

Can read and write at home!

Enjoy an unambitious life,

Nor vainly wish to roam

II.

Where finners ply the grey goofe-quill,

In Critical Reviews;

And verfe or profe, with dangerous skill,
Unfeelingly abuse.

IV.

But he who by his parlour fire
Right peaceably doth fit,
Nor ever proudly doth aspire
To tread the paths of wit;

V.

To criticks deaf as Scilly's rocks, "Their doings will deride,

“And make them all as mocking-stocks, "Throughout the world fo wide."

BY

ATTERBURY,

WHEN A

WESTMINSTER SCHOLAR.

On the figure of JUDAS in the Altar-Piece, faid to be taken from a well-known character.

FALLERIS hâc te qui pingi fub imagine, credis, Non fimilis Judas eft tibi-pænituit.*

TRANSLATED.

Think not by Judas thou art represented,
Though Judas was a thief-yet he repented.

* I cannot recollect a more fevere ftroke of fatire, conveyed in fo few words.