On the first marching of the troops, So rumour says: (who will, believe.) Short was his joy. He little knew The words too eager to unriddle, The poet felt a strange disorder; Transparent bird-lime form'd the middle, And chains invisible the border. So cunning was the apparatus, The powerful pot-hooks did so move him, That, will he, nill he, to the great house He went, as if the devil drove him. Yet on his way (no sign of grace, And begg'd his aid that dreadful day. The godhead would have back'd his quarrel; Own'd that his quiver and his laurel 'Gainst four such eyes were no protection. The court was sate, the culprit there, Forth from their gloomy mansions creeping, The lady Janes and Joans repair, And from the gallery stand peeping: Such as in silence of the night Come (sweep) along some winding entry, (Styack has often seen the sight) Or at the chapel-door stand sentry: In peaked hoods and mantles tarnish'd, The peeress comes. The audience stare, To all the people of condition. V. 103. Styack] The housekeeper. G. 90 95 100 105 110 The bard, with many an artful fib, And all that Groom could urge against him. But soon his rhetoric forsook him, He stood as mute as poor Macleane. Yet something he was heard to mutter, "He once or twice had penn'd a sonnet; Var. V. 116. Might. Ms. 115 120 125 V. 115. Squib] Groom of the chamber. G. James Squibb was the son of Dr. Arthur Squibb, the descendant of an ancient and respectable family, whose pedigree is traced in the herald's visitations of Dorsetshire, to John Squibb of Whitchurch in that county, in the 17th Edw. IV. 1477. Dr. Squibb matriculated at Oxford in 1656, took his degree of M.A. in November, 1662; was chaplain to Colonel Bellasis's regiment about 1685, and died in 1697. As he was in distressed circumstances towards the end of his life, his son, James Squibb, was left almost destitute, and was consequently apprenticed to an upholder in 1712. In that situation he attracted the notice of Lord Cobham, in whose service he con The ghostly prudes with hagged face She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner. "Jesu-Maria! Madam Bridget, Why, what can the Viscountess mean?" (Cried the square-hoods in woful fidget) "The times are alter'd quite and clean! "Decorum's turn'd to mere civility; Her air and all her manners show it. [Here five hundred stanzas are lost.] And so God save our noble king, And guard us from long-winded lubbers, That to eternity would sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers. 130 135 140 tinued for many years, and died at Stowe, in June, 1762. His son, James Squibb, who settled in Saville Row, London, was grandfather of George James Squibb, Esq. of Orchard Street, Portman Square, who is the present representative of this branch of the family. Nicolas. V. 116. Groom] The steward. G. V. 120. Macleane] A famous highwayman hanged the week before. G. See a Sequel to the Long Story in Hakewill's History of Windsor, by John Penn, Esq. and a farther Sequel to that, by the late Laureate, H. J. Pye, Esq. POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS. ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE. Left unfinished by Gray. With additions by Mason, distinguished by inverted commas. (I have read something that Mason has done in finishing a half-written ode of Gray. I find he will never get the better of that glare of colouring, that dazzling blaze of song,' an expression of his own, and ridiculous enough, which disfigures half his writings. V. Langhorne's Lett. to H. More, i. 23.) See Musæ Etonenses, ii. p. 176. Now the golden morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, 66 V. 1. Sophocl. Antig. v. 103, xpvσéas ȧμépas ẞhépapov; and Dyer. Fleece, lib. iii. morn ascends." Luke. Grey dawn appears, the golden V. 3. " Vermeil cheek," see Milton. Comus, v. 749. Luke. V. 4. "Rorifera mulcens aura, Zephyrus vernas evocat herbas." Senec. Hipp. i. 11. Luke. V. 8. "Half rob'd appears the hawthorn hedge, See Mant's note on the passage. Warton. First of April, i. 180. p. 36. V. 9. Quæ Veris teneri pingit amoenitas." "Hinc nova proles, Artubus infirmis teneras lasciva per herbas |