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Thus accus'd, the wild thing gave this fober

reply:

See the heart without motion, though Celia pafs by !

Not the beauty she has, or the wit that she borrows,

Gives the eye any joys, or the heart any forrows.

When our Sappho appears, fhe whose wit's fo refin'd,

I am forc'd to applaud with the rest of mankind;

Whatever she says, is with spirit and fire; Ev'ry word I attend; but I only admire.

Prudentia as vainly would put in her claim, Ever gazing on heaven, tho' man is her aim: 'Tis love, not devotion, that turns up her

eyes;

Thofe ftars of this world are too good for the skies.

But Cloe fo lively, fo eafy, fo fair,
Her wit fo genteel, without art, without care;
When she comes in my way, the motion,
the pain,

The leapings, the akings, return all again.

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O wonderful creature! a woman of reafon! Never grave out of pride, never gay out of season!

When fo eafy to guefs who this angel should : be,

Would one think Mrs. Howard ne'er dreamt it was fhe?

OF

* BALL A D.

F all the girls that e'er were seen, There's none fo fine as Nelly, For charming face, and fhape, and mien,

And what's not fit to tell

ye:

Oh! the turn'd neck and fmooth white skin

Of lovely dearest Nelly!

For many a fwain it well had been,
Had the ne'er pass'd by Calai-.

For when as Nelly came to France,
(Invited by her cousins)
Acrofs the Tuilleries each glance
Kill'd Frenchmen by whole dozens :
The king, as he at dinner sate,
Did beckon to his buffar,
And bid him bring his tabby-cat,
For charming Nell to bufs her.

The

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 rose, and lys fans farde,
(Which are your termes francoifes.)
Then might you fee a painted ring
Of dames that stood by Nelly;
She like the pride of all the spring,
And they like fleurs de palais.

In Marli's gardens, and St. Clou,
I saw this charming Nelly,

Where shameless nymphs, expos'd to view,
Stand naked in each alley:

But Venus had a brazen face,

Both at Verfailles and Meudon, Or elfe fhe 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 those foreigners would stare!
But I should turn Pygmalion :
For fpite of lips, and eyes and mien,
Me nothing can delight so,

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

Sing Ditton,

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

Sing Ditton and Whifton,
And Whifton and Ditton,

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

DA CAPO.

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