VIII. On feeing VER SE S written upon
WINDOWs at IN NS.

THE

HÉ fage, who faid he should be proud:
Of windows in his breast,

Because be ne'er a thought allow'd
That might not be confeft;

His window fcrawl'd by every rake,
His breast again would cover;
And fairly bid the devil take
The diamond and the lover.

IX. ANOTHER.

BY Satan taught, all conjurers know

Your mistress in a glass to show,

And you can do as much:

In this the devil and you agree :

None e'er made verfes worfe than he,

And thine I fwear are fuch.

X. ANOTHER.

HAT love is the devil, I'll prove when requir'd;

THAT

Thofe rhymers abundantly fhow it :

They fwear that they all by love are infpir'd,

And the devil's a damnable poet.

ΤΟ

TO JANUS, ON NEW-YEAR'S-DAY. TWO-fac'd Janus, god of Time 1

Be my Phoebus while I rhime;

To oblige your crony Swift,
Bring our dame a new-year's-gift:
She has got but half a face;"
Janus, fince thou hast a brace,
To my lady once be kind;
Give her half thy face behind.

God of Time, if you be wise,
Look not with your future eyes;
What imports thy forward fight
Well, if you could lofe it quite.
Can you take delight in viewing
This poor Ifle's approaching ruin,
When thy retrospection vast
Sees the glorious ages past?
Happy nation, were we blind,
Or had only eyes behind!

Drown your morals, madam cries,
I'll have none but forward eyes;
Prudes decay'd about may tack,
Strain their necks with looking back.
Give me Time when coming on:
Who regards him when he's gone?
By the Dean though gravely told,
New years help to make me old;
Yet I find a new year's lace
Burnishes an old year's face :
Give me velvet and quadrille,
I'll have youth and beauty fill.
* Ireland.

APAS

A PASTORAL DIALOGUE.

*

Written after the News of the King's Death.

The Duke of Ormond
After his exile, it was

RICHMOND-LODGE is a houfe with a fmall park belonging to the Crown. It was ufually granted by the Crown for a leafe of years. was the last who had it. given to the Prince of Wales by the King. The Prince and Princefs ufually paffed their fummer there. It is within a mile of Richmond.

MARBLE-HILL is a house built by Mrs. Howard, then of the bed-chamber, now countess of Suffolk, and groom of the ftole to the Queen. It is on the Middlefex fide, near Twickenham, where Mr. Pope lived, and about two miles from Richmond-lodge. Mr. Pope was the contriver of the gardens, Lord Herbert the architect, the Dean of St. Patrick's chief butler and keeper of the Ice-houfe. Upon King George's death, thefe two houses met, and had the following Dialogue.

N fpight of Pope, in fpight of Gay,

IN

And all that he or they can fay ;

Sing on I muft, and fing I will

Of Richmond-lodge and Marble-hill.

*George I. who died after a fhort fickness by eating a melon, at Ofnaburg, in his way to Hanover, June 11, 1727.-The poem was carried to court, and read to king George II. and queen Caroline.

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