Points out the Place of either Tem ;
Here Baucis, there Philemon grew.
Till once, a Parfon of our Town,
To mend his Barn, cut Baucis down
Af which, 'tis hard to be believ❜d,
How much the other Tree was griev❜d,
Grew Scrubby, dy'd a-top, was stunted:
So, the next Parfon ftab'd and burnt it.

(treat,

WHE
HEN Cupid did his Grandfire Jove in-

To form fome Beauty by a new Receit,

Jove fent and found far in a Country Scene, Truth, Innocence, Good Nature, Look ferene; From which Ingredients, First the dextrous Boy Pickt the Demure, the Aukward, and the Coy ; The Graces from the Court did next provide Breeding,and Wit, and Air, and decent Pride; Thefe Venus cleans'd from ev'ry fpurious Grain Of Nice, Coquet, Affected, Pert, and Vain. Jove mix'd up all, and his best Clay imploy'd; Then call'd the happy Compofition, Floyd.

THE

THE

HISTORY

O F

V-------'s House.

WHE

Anno 1708.

A

HEN Mother Clud had rofe from Play,
And call'd to take the Cards away;
VSaw, but feem'd not to regard,
How Mifs pickt ev'ry Painted Card;
And Bufie both with Hand and Eye,
Soon Rear❜d a House two Story high;

V's Genius without Thought or Lecture,
Is hugely turn'd to Architecture:

He view'd the Edifice, and smil'd,
Vow'd it was pretty for a Child

It was so perfect in its Kind,

He kept the Model in his Mind.

Cc 3

BUT

BUT when he found the Boys at Play,
And faw them dabling in their Clay 5
He food behind a Stall fo lurk,

And mark the Progrefs of their Work;
With true Delight observ'd 'em All
Raking up Mud to build a Wall;
The Plan he much admir'd, and took

The Model in his Table-Book;

now exactly skill'd,

Thought himself now

And fo refolv'd a Houfe to build;
da

A real House, with Rooms and Stairs,
Five Times at least as big as theirs

Taller than Miss's by two Yards Euro
Not a fham Thing of Clay, or Cards;

And fo he did: For in a while,

He built

up

fuch a monstrous Pile,

That no two Chair-men cou'd be found.

Able to lift it from the Ground;

Still at White-Hall it Stands in View,
Juft in the Place where first it grew;
There all the little School-Boys run,
Envying to fee themselves out-done.

FROM fuch deep Rudiments as these,
is become by due Degrees,

Vis

For Building Fam'd, and justly Reckon'd
At Court, Vitruvius the Second:

No wonder, fince wife Authors fhow,
That Beft Foundations must be Low;
And now the Duke has wifely ta'en him
To be his Architect at Blenheim:
But Raillery for once apart,

If this Rule holds in ev'ry Art ;

Or if his Grace were no more Skill'd in
The Art of Battering Walls, than Building,
We might expect to fee next Year,

A Monfe-trap Man, Chief Engineer.