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The ladies were with rage provok'd
To fee her fo refpected:

The men look'd arch, as Nelly ftrok'd,
And pufs her tail erected.

But not a man did look employ,
Except on pretty Nelly:
Then faid the duke de Villeroy,
Ah! qu'elle eft bien jolie!

But who's that grave philofopher,
That carefully looks a'ter?
By his concern it fhou'd appear,
The fair one is his daughter.
May foy! (quoth then a courtier fly,)
He on his child does leer too:
I wish he has no mind to try
What fome papas will here do.

The courtiers all with one accord
Broke out in Nelly's praises,
Admir'd her rofe, and lys fans farde,
(Which are your termes francoifes.)
Then might you fee a painted ring
Of dames that ftood by Nelly;
She like the pride of all the spring,
And they like fleurs de palais.

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In Marli's gardens, and St. Clou,
I saw this charming Nelly,
Where fhameless nymphs, expos'd to view,
Stand naked in each alley:

But Venus had a brazen face,
Both at Verfailles and Meudon,
Or else she had refign'd her place,
And left the ftone fhe ftood on.

Were Nelly's figure mounted there,
'Twould put down all th' Italian :
Lord! how thofe foreigners would stare!
But I fhould turn Pygmalion
For fpite of lips, and eyes and mien,
Me nothing can delight fo,
As does that part that lies between
Her left toe, and her right toe.

*ODE,

On the LONGITUDE.

RECITATIVO.

THE longitude mifs'd on
By wicked Will. Whiston;

And not better hit on

By good mafter Ditton.

RITORNELLO.

So Ditton and Whiston
May both be bep-st on;
And Whifton and Ditton
May both be besh-t on.

Sing Ditton,

Besh-t on;
And Whiston,
Bep-ft on.

Sing Ditton and Whifton,
And Whiston and Ditton,

Befh-t and bep-ft on,
Bep-ft and besh-t on.

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Handel and Bononcini.

TRANGE! all this difference fhould

STRANGE!

"Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee!

* 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
Cato's fate,

Still with dry eyes the tory Celia fate :
But, while her pride forbids her tears to flow,
The gushing waters find a vent below:
Tho' fecret, yet with copious grief she

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

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