SONNET, TO A LADY. BY THE SAME. ACCEPT, fair patriot! from the mufe's hand This, ftretch'd on yonder cliff, thy poet weav'd Nor thou reject, however rudely twin'd, Nor fcorn the verfe which honeft warmth infpires; When Freedom animates, and Beauty fires. EPIGRAM. EPIGRAM WRITTEN IN A SEAT IN MR. BAMPFYLDE'S WOODS AT HESTER COMBE, NEAR TAUNTON, SOMERSET, CALLED THE WITCHES' PARLOUR, AND WHICH COMMANDED THE PROSPECT OF HIS PLEASURE GROUNDS.. BY THE LATE REV. DR. LANGHORNE. O'ER Bampfylde's wood by Nature's beauties grac'd, A Witch prefides-but then that Witch is TASTE, OBSERVATION OF AN INDIAN, ON SEEING A VERY YOUNG MISS WITH A HOOP PETTICOAT. AN artlefs Indian through the town, EPIGRAM. ON MR. PITT'S BEING PELTED BY THE MOB ON LORD MAYOR'S DAY, 1785. THE city feast inverted here we find, For Pitt had his DESERT before he DIN'D. ON READING DR. JOHNSON'S PRAYERS AND MEDI VIEW'D in the full meridian blaze, Johnson feems more than common: We fee him goffop, cant and whine, The Doctor's an Old Woman. Sunt lachrymæ rarum. ON A BALLOON PURSE. To make purfes Balloons-is undoubtedly right CUPID's BOW STRING. I. WITH filken cords the bards of old, The little Urchin's bow have ftrung; 11. In filken bonds, the maid, 'tis faid, III. When maids in filken locks are dreffed, IV. But if with rougher hair they're found, Dulce eft decipere in leco. F 4 Z. IMPROMPTU. IMPROMPTU. BY BISHOP ATTERBURY, ON A CHALLENGE TO THE BISHOP TO DICTATE SOMETHING IN PRAISE OF A GOOSE QUILL; FROM THE WORDS, DESPISE NOT THE WORTH OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SMALL." "The words of the wife man thus preach'd to us all, "Defpife not the worth of thofe things that are fmall." THE quill of the Goofe is a very flight thing, Make |