And Dan shall be with us, with nose aquiline. If you do not come back, we fhall weep out our eyne: Or may your gown never be good Lutherine. The beef you have got, I hear, is a chine: But, if too many come, your madam will whine; A PORTRAIT FROM THE LIFE. COME fit by my fide, while this picture I draw: In chattering, a magpie, in pride a jackdaw; A temper the devil himself could not bridle; Impertinent mixture of bufy and idle ; As rude as a bear, no mule half fo crabbed ; She fwills like a fow, and fhe breeds like a rabbit: A house-wife in bed, at table a flattern; For all an example, for no one a pattern. Now tell me, friend Thomas, Ford †, Grattan ‡, and merry Dan |, Has this any likeness to good madam Sheridan ? *Dr. Thomas Sheridan. + Charles Ford of Woodpark, Efq; Reverend John Grattan. Reverend Daniel Jackton, UPON UPON STEALING A CROWN WHEN THE DEAN WAS ASLEEP. BY DR. SHERIDAN. DEAR Dean, fince you in fleepy wife Have op'd your mouth, and clos'd your eyes; Like ghoft, I glide along your floor, And foftly shut the parlour-door : For fhould I break your fweet repofe, Who knows what money you might lose; A dream has given ten thousand pound? THE DEAN'S ANSWER. So, about twelve at night, the punk Steals from the cully when he 's drunk; Without her privilege to cheat. * My twelve thirteens and fix-pence ha'penny. * A fhilling paffeth for thirteen pence in Ireland. A a 2 To To eat my meat, and drink my medlicot, For this I will not dine with Agmondisham †, THE MINERVA'S STOR M; ΡΕΤΙΤΙΟ Ν. PALLAS, a goddefs chafte and wife, To Neptune went, and begg'd in form A form, to drown that rafcal Horte, The god, who favour'd her request, Affur'd her he would do his best: *Lady Montcafhel. + Agmondifham Vefey efq; a very worthy gentleman, for whom the Dean had a great esteem. And And had enlarg'd her empire wide; At fea or land, if e'er you found him And, fince her birth the ocean gave her, Said he "Great fovereign of the main,, Afterwards archbishop of Cafhell. "I found: "I found you did it, by your grinning; For never were you seen at court. "You foon fhall fee him foundly toft. "(And every moment take a dram) "His ghaftly visage with an air "Of reprobation and despair = "Or elfe fome hiding-hole he seeks, Or elfe he raves, and roars, and fwears, 46 Relaxing downwards in a stink? Dr. George Berkeley, dean of Derry, and afterwards bishop of Cloyne. + Brigadier Fitzpatrick was drowned in one of the packet-boats in the bay of Dublin, in a great storm. "If |