Unlucky madam left in tears,
(Who now again Quadrille forfwears)
With empty purfe, and aching head,
Steals to her fleeping spouse to bed.

THE COUNTRY LIFE.

Part of a fummer fpent at the house of George Rochfort, efq;

THALIA, tell in fober lays

How George, Nim, Dan, Dean
pass their days.

Begin, my mufe: firft from our bow'rs
We fally forth at diff'rent hours;
At feven the dean in night-gown dreft
Goes round the house to wake the reft;
At nine grave Nim and George facetious
Go to the dean to read Lucretius;
At ten my lady comes and hectors,
And kiffes George, and ends our lectures,
And when she has him by the neck fast,
Hauls him, and fcolds us down to breakfast.
We fquander there an hour or more,
And then all hands, boys, to the oar,

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All, heteroclite Dan except,
Who neither time nor order kept,
But by peculiar whimsies drawn,
Peeps in the ponds to look for spawn;
O'erfees the work, or Dragon * rows,
Or marrs a text, or mends his hofe;
Or - but proceed we in our journal ---
At two, or after, we return all:
From the four elements affembling,
Warn'd by the bell, all folks come trèm-
bling:

From airy garrets fome defcend,
Some from the lake's remotest end :
My lord and dean the fire forfake,
Dan leaves the earthly spade and rake :
The loit'rers quake, no corner hides them,
And lady Betty foundly chides them.
Now water's brought, and dinner's done:
With church and king the lady's gone;
(Not reck'ning half an hour we pafs
In talking o'er a moderate glass.)
Dan, growing drowsy, like a thief
Steals off to dofe away his beef;
And this must pass for reading Hammond---
While George and Dean go to back-gammon.

* My lord chief-baron's fmaller boat.

George, Nim, and Dean fet out at four,
And then again, boys, to the oar.
But, when the fun goes to the deep,
(Not to disturb him in his fleep,
Or make a rumbling o'er his head,
His candle out, and he a-bed)
We watch his motions to a minute,
And leave the flood, when he goes in it.
Now ftinted in the short'ning day,
We go to pray'rs, and then to play.
Till fupper comes; and after that
We fit an hour to drink and chat.
'Tis late--- the old and younger pairs
By * Adam lighted walk up ftairs.

The weary
Dean goes to his chamber;
And Nim and Dan to garret clamber :
So, when the circle we have run,
The curtain falls, and all is done.

I might have mention'd fev'ral facts
Like episodes between the acts;
And tell who lofes, and who wins,
Who gets a cold, who breaks his fhins;
How Dan caught nothing in his net,
And how the boat was over-fet :
For brevity I have retrench'd

How in the lake the dean was drench'd:

* The butler.