The ladies were with rage provok'd The men look'd arch, as Nelly ftrok'd, But not a man did look employ, But who's that grave philofopher, The courtiers all with one accord 1 In Marli's gardens, and St. Clou, But Venus had a brazen face, Were Nelly's figure mounted there, *ODE, On the LONGITUDE. RECITATIVO. THE longitude mifs'd on And not better hit on By good mafter Ditton. RITORNELLO. So Ditton and Whiston Sing Ditton, Besh-t on; Sing Ditton and Whifton, Befh-t and bep-ft on, Handel and Bononcini. TRANGE! all this difference fhould STRANGE! "Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee! S° * ON MRS. TOFTS. O bright is thy beauty, fo charming thy song, As had drawn both the beafts and their Orpheus along: But fuch is thy av'rice, and fuch is thy pride, That the beafts must have ftarv'd, and the poet have dy'd. * TWO OR THREE; OR, A Receipt to make a CUCKOLD. TW WO or thee vifits, and two or three bows, Two or three civil things, two or three Vows, Two or three kiffes, with two or three fighs, Two or three Jefuffes and let-me-die's, Two Two or three squeezes, and two or three towzes, (With two or three thoufand pound loft! at their houses) Can never fail cuckolding two or three fpouses. * On a LADY who p---t at the Tragedy of Cato; occafioned by an Epigram on a Lady who wept at it. WHILE maudlin WHILE maudlin whigs deplor'd their Still with dry eyes the tory Celia fate : mourns, Like twenty river-gods with all their urns. Let others fcrew their hypocritick face, She fhews her grief in a fincerer place: There nature reigns, and paffion void af art; For that road leads directly to the heart. * EPIGRAM |