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, The leapings, the akings, return all again. 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, For when as Nelly came to France, The The ladies were with rage provok'd. The men look'd arch, as Nelly ftrok'd, But not a man did look employ, Except on pretty Nelly: But who's that grave philofopher, He on his child does leer too: The courtiers all with one accord In Marli's gardens, and St. Clou, Where shameless nymphs, expos'd to view, 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, As does that part that lies between *ODE, On the LONGITUDE. RECITATIVO. THE longitude mifs'd on And not better hit on By good mafter Ditton. RITORNELLO. So Ditton and Whifton Sing Ditton, Besh-t on; Sing Ditton and Whifton, Befh-t and bep-ft on, DA CAPO. L 4 *EPIGRAM |