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Handel and Bononcini.

TRANGE! all this difference fhould

STRA

"Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee!

* ON MRS. TOFT S.

O bright is thy beauty, fo charming

S thy fong,

As had drawn both the beafts and their Orpheus along :

But fuch is thy av rice, and fuch is thy pride, That the beafts muft have ftarv'd, and the poet have dy'd.

* TWO OR THREE;

OR, A

Receipt to make a CUCKOLD.

TWO or thee vifits, and two or three

Τ

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 thousand pound lost 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 whig's 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 the

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 of

art;

For that road leads directly to the heart.

* EPIGRAM

In a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Took.

HEN

WHEN

Ifrael's daughters mourn'd their past offences,

They dealt in fackcloth, and turn'd cinderwenches:

But Richmond's fair ones never spoil their locks;

They use white powder, and wear holland fmocks.

O comely church! where females find clean linen

As decent to repent in, as to fin in.

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EPIGRA M.

S Thomas was cudgell'd one day by his wife,

He took to the ftreet, and fled for his life: Tom's three dearest friends came by in the fquabble,

And fav'd him at once from the fhrew and the rabble;

Then ventur'd to give him fome fober advice

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But Tom is a person of honour so nice,

Too

Too wife to take counfel, too proud to take

warning,

That he sent to all three a challenge next morning:

Three duels he fought, thrice ventur'd his life;

Went home, and was cudgell'd again by his wife.

* The Balance of Europe.

NOW Europe's balanc'd, neither fide

prevails;

For nothing's left in either of the scales.

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MR. THOMAS SNOW,

Goldfmith, near Temple-bar;

Occafion'd by bis buying and felling the third SouthSea fubfcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a thousand per cent *.

D

ISDAIN not, Snow, my humble
verfe to hear;

Stick thy black pen a while behind thy ear..
Whether thy compter fhine with fums un-

told,

And thy wide-grafping hand grows black
with gold;

Whether thy mien erect, and fable locks,
In crowds of brokers over-awe the stocks;
Suspend the worldly bus'nefs of the day,
And, to enrich thy mind, attend my lay.

* In the year 1720 the South-Sea company, under pretence of paying the publick debt, obtained an act of parliament for enlarging their capital, by taking into it all the debts of the nation incurred before the year 1716, amountto 31,664,5517. Part of this fum was fubfcribed into their

capital at three fubscriptions; the firft at 300l. per cent. the fecond at 400 l. and a third at 1000. Such was the infatuation of the time, that these fubfcriptions were bought and fold at exorbitant premiums, fo that 100l. South-Sea stock fubfcribed at 1000l. was fold for 12007, in Exchange-alley.

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