Poetical ESSAYS in OCTOBER, 1751. 4. The mountains clad with purple bloom, 5. 469 Come, lovely Katie, come away, [dows; A COUNTRY DANCE. WILL-O'TH'WISP. Fift couple lead thro' the third couple, the fecond couple following, caft up and hands four round at top with the fecond couple; firft couple gallop down the middle, up again, and cast off, right and left at top. Poetical ESSAYS in OCTOBER, 1751. LIBERTY REGAINED: An Ode. After METASTASIO. TH To HANKS, Celia, to your artful wiles, At length I breathe again at eafe, At length, my better genius (miles, And grants, in pity, my release. I feel, I feel, with joy fupream, No longer now is but a dream. Your name I hear without alarms; While I furvey those dang'rous charms, Or feel of pleasure, or of pain. My wrongs to my remembrance rife, My awful fears are at an end: No more your empire I avow, And with my rival felf, I now Could talk of you, as with a friend. Arm all your looks with fierce difdain, Or gentle-kind, and foften'd, fhew; It matters not: Your fcorn is vain : And just as vain your favours too. Thofe lips of their defpotick (way Are now for ever difpoffeft, And to th' interior of this breaft, Thofe eyes no longer know their way. For now my good or evil days, Your fhare in caufing them difclaim: Am I in mirth? not yours the praise ; Nor if I'm fad, is yours the blame? The joys of town, the rural chear, Tho' you're not with me, can amufe, Nor wou'd a place, I shou'd not chufe, Difplease me lefs, tho' you were there. And let not truth too much offend, But which my fancy fince could mend. But for th' atchievement of a cure, To ease the tortures of one's breast, To difinthral a wretch oppreft, What is there one wou'd not endure ? Thus joys the warbler unconfin'd, When juft efcap'd the bird-lim'd spray; Some feathers may be left behind, But what to freedom's price are they? Thefe 470 Poetical ESSAYS in OCTOBER, 1751. Thofe feathers a few days repair; Mean while grown by experience wise, Away, at liberty, it flies, Nor tempts again the treach'rous (nare. I know you think these boasts are vain, That ftill unbated burns my flame, For that I can't thefe boafts refrain, Yet, Celia, is this more, at laft, To talk of dangers one has paft? For when the cruel conflict's done, 'Tis pleasure to recount one's pains : Thus proud of wounds in battle won, The barb'rous chains, that once he wore. I talk; but with a calm ferene, And careless quite of your belief. I talk; but nothing have in view, Or fpeak as cool, as I of you. But this I know; fo true a fwain, No fear of feeking long in vain. At me to peep, attending of my ewes ? Thou furely loves me ftill; did I not find wrote. No Mally elfe, but me, lives on our green. That he may take again, again I'll throw. not fair; Nor fhear the corn; nor milk the brindley A milking pail, a skimming dish, a churn, A cyprefs cheese-vat, fpinning-weel, tho' wed. Poetical ESSAYS in OCTOBER, 1751. Why fcorned I? ah me, why did I fcorn? A SOLILOQUY. By a Gentleman on bis BIRTH-DAY. He, who can temper nature's fprings, In earth, and air, and skies. Full ten times five revolving years, How like a vifion or a dream How vain from first to last ! Now tell me, O my conscious heart, 7. Or have my paffions oft prevail'd, Or decency tranfgrefs'd? To fuccour the distress'd? 8. Alas! tho' free from groffer crimes, I find great cause of shame; 9. My God, by whom I live and move, Indulgent ftill and kind; 471 Thy weak and guilty creature spare, 10. For all thy goodness heretofore, QUINQUAGENARIUS, A Farewel to CHLOE. WHY 544-) 1. HY, my deareft, all this anguish? In vain you fret, and pine, and languish ; With the hope of future joy; It is not lucre makes me leave you ; Of the company you prize. And reluctant I obey, Ceafe then, Chloe, ceafe your anguish; ANA KEONTIADES. On 472 Poetical ESSAYS in OCTOBER, 1751. On the DEATH of a favourite LINNET, Aug. 6, 1751. ILENT and cold beneath this mould, Salovely linnet lies, And now no more, as heretofore, Nor lord nor linnet spares ! FIDELIA. EPITAPH on an OLD MAID. ERE lies the body of Martha Dias, H Always noily, and not very pious; Who liv'd to the age of threefcore years and ten ; And then gave to the worms what she refus'd to men. CARE and GENEROSITY: A FABL E. LD Care, with industry and art, At length to well had play'd his part, He heap'd up such an ample store, That av'rice could not figh for more: Ten thousand flocks his fhepherd told, His coffers overflow'd with gold : The land all round him was his own, With corn his crouded granaries groan. In short, fo vaft his charge and gain, That to poffefs them was a pain; With happiness opprefs'd he lies, And much too prudent to be wife. Near him there liv'd a beauteous maid, With all the charms of youth array'd; Good, amiable, fincere and free, Her name was Generofity. 'Twas hers the largess to bestow On rich and poor, on friend and foe. Her doors to all were open'd wide, The pilgrim there might safe abide : For the hungry and the thirsty crew, The bread the broke, the drink she drew ; There fickness laid her aching head, And there diftrefs could find a bed.Each hour with an all-bounteous hand, Diffus'd fhe bleffings round the land: Her gifts and glory lafted long, And num'rous was the accepting throng. At length pale penury feiz'd the dame, And that he had not made one friend→→→ The bridal came-great was the feast, The FARMER and the HARE A TALE. Belonging to a farm ; to a garden get, Where the threw up the earth, and eat, The farmer cours'd her round and round, Pufs took a liking to the ground, And there refolv'd to stay. Well, quoth the fellow, in a fret, Since you are grown fo bold, I shall fome more affiftance get, Rode over all the grounds. They leapt, and broke the hedges down, At this the farmer tore his hair, Z-ds! What confounded work was here? Had fo much mischief done, • A fine Canary bird in the fame room, THE THE Monthly Chronologer. A BOUT the beginning of last month, the Hopewell, of Leith, Robert Burton maf ter, from Rotterdam, was unhappilycaftaway, whereby 10 perfons perished, among whom were Mr. Norman Mackenzie, brother to the late earl of Cromarty, and Mr. George Forbes, eldest fon to Sir Alexander Forbes, of Foveran, both officers in the Dutch fervice, and Mr. David Fordyce, profeffor of philofophy in the marthal college of Aberdeen, on his return from his travels in France and Italy. By the late act for the better fecuring the duties on tobacco, which took place on Michaelmas Day, every parcel of tobacco, or tobacco ftalks, weighing above 24 pounds, and every parcel of fnuff, weighing above 10 pounds, that shall be carried by land from the port or place of importation, without a certificate with the fame, is liable to be feized with whatever package it is in, and fo is the cart or waggon, &c. in which it is carried, and the carrier is to be committed to goal for a month. And every parcel of tobacco, or tobacco ftalks, weighing above 24 pounds, and every parcel of fnuff, weighing above to pounds, that fhall be carried from one place to another in Great Britain, without having the words tobacco, tobacco ftalks, or inuff, wrote in letters at least three inches long, upon the outfide of it, is liable to be feized. An order of council having been publifhed the 4th of September laft, commanding all ships and veffels that should arrive after that time from the Levant, to perform a quarantine of 40 days in Standgate Creek: And as fome doubts may arife concerning the extent of the Levant, the lords of his majefty's most hon. privycouncil judged it neceffary to declare and order, that the Levant be understood to extend itself eaftward from the Isle of Corfu, on the borders of Greece, in the Ionian fea, and from Cape Rufata on the coaft of Barca, in Africa. SUNDAY, O. 6. The court went into mourning for a week, for the late ele&refs of Bavaria, and the late prince of Modena. Henry Simons, a Polish Jew (who swore that Mr. Goddard, an innkeeper, at Cranford bridge, near Hounslow, robbed him of 554 ducats, at his own house, where the Jew lay on Aug 27, for which Mr. Goddard was tried laft feffions at the Old October, 1751, Bailey, and honourably acquitted, and the faid Simons was indicted for perjury) was this day met on the road to Harwich by Mr. Ashley of London, brandy-merchant, who knew him, and that he fo flood indicted, and that a warrant was iffued out by Mr. alderman Gascoyne, for the faid crime, and that fuch warrant was in the hands of Mr. Ford, deputy clerk of the peace of London': Mr. Ahley inftantly came poft for London, got the warrant from Mr. Ford, and returned with the utmost expedition, and took him fome miles fhort of Harwich, where he intended to take shipping for Holland; and putting him into the poffeffion of a conftable, he was carried to Chelmsford, in order to be examined before the bench of juftices, who were there fitting; and whilft waiting for a hearing, Simons contrived to put into the coat pocket of Mr. Ashley three ducats, and then earneftly preff.d to be heard by the juftices; before whom he declared, and defired to make oath, that Mr. Ashley was the perfon, who with the faid Mr. Goddard, had robbed him of the 554 ducats, and as a confirmation thereof, he was fure that Mr. Ashley had part of the faid ducats in his right-hand coat pocket; but it clearly appearing that the Jew put them in h mfelf, he was fent to London handcuff'd, with a proper guard, and carried before juftice Fielding, who committed him to New Prifon, in order to take his trial for the faid perjury. FRIDAY, 11, Was held a general court of the gover nors of Bridewell and Bethlem hofpitals, when John Sergeant, Efq; fole executor of the late Mr. alderman Arnold, fent a benefaction of 20cl. for the incurables of Bethlem hofpital, bequeathed by the faid deceased alderman. SUNDAY, 13. This day an exprefs arrived at his grace the duke of Newcastle's office, from Solo. mon Darolle, Efq; his majesty's refident at the ftates-general of the United Provinces, with an account, that on Friday the 11th instant, about two o'clock in the morning, his moft ferene highnefs William-CharlesHenry Frifo, prince of Orange and Nassau, hereditary ftadtholder, captain-general and admiral-general of the United Provinces of the Low-Counties, died after a very short illness, in the 41ft year of his age.→→ At night an exprefs arrived at Mynheer Hopp's, ambaffador here from the ftatesgeneral, confirming the above account. His |