Fate yet forbids; nor circumfcribes alone Their growing Virtues, but their Crimes confines Forbids in Freedom's Veil t'infult the Throne, Beneath her Mafk to hide the worst defigns, To fill the madding Crowd's perverted Mind With "Penfions, Taxes, Marriages, and Jews;" Or fhut the Gates of Heav'n on lost Mankind, And wreft their darling Hopes, their future Views, Far from the giddy Town's tumultuous Strife, Their Wishes, yet have never learn'd to stray; Content and happy in a fingle Life They keep the noiseless Tenor of their Way. E'en now their Books from Cobwebs to protect, Oft are the Authors, Names, tho' richly bound, For who, to thoughtlefs Ignorance a prey, Reports Reports attract the Lawyer's parting Eyes, For thee, who mindful of thy lov'd Compeers Haply fome Friend may shake his hoary Head, • There in the Arms of that lethargic Chair, "Which rears it's moth-devoured Back so high, At noon he quaff'd three Glaffes to the Fair, And por❜d upon the News with curious Eye. Now by the Fire, engag'd in ferious Talk 'Or mirthful Converfe, would he loit'ring stand; Then in the Garden chose a funny walk, • Or launch'd the polish'd Bowl with steady Hand • One Morn we mifs'd him at the Hour of Pray'r, Befide the Fire, and on his fav'rite Green; Another came, nor yet within the Chair, Nor yet at Bowls, nor Chapel was he feen. • The 'The next we heard that in a neighb'ring Shire A Nymph whose snowy Vest and maiden Fear Now by his Patron's bounteous Care remov'd, He roves enraptur'd through the Fields of Kent: ⚫ Yet ever mindful of the Place he lov'd, • Read here the Letter which he lately fent.' The LETTER. "In rural Innocence secure I dwell, "Alike to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Approving Confcience chears my humble Cell, "And focial Quiet marks me for her own. "Next to the Bleffings of religious Truth Two Gifts endless Gratitude engage; my "A Wife, the Joy and Tranfport of my Youth, "Now, with a Son, the comfort of my Age. "Seek not to draw me from this kind Retreat, "In loftier Spheres unfit, untaught to move; "Content with calm, domeftic Life, where meet "The Smiles of Friendship, and the Sweets of Love. The The PHAETON, A AND THE ONE HORSE CHAIR, T Balgrave's once upon a Time, Unfullied by the dusty Road It's Wheels with recent Crimson glow'd; * And whirl o'er Campsfield's tempting Plains! A ONE HORSE CHAIR had took it's Stand To fneer the luckless Chaise and One. "How could my Mafter place me here Within thy vulgar Atmosphere ? From claffic Ground pray shift thy Station, Your homely Make, believe me, Man, Is quite upon the Gothic Plan; ; And Well known at Oxford for letting out Carriages, 1763. And you, and all your clumfy Kind, Or, haply to fome Chriftening gay, To fragant Hampstead's fylvan scene. Can't thou to Schemes invite the Gown? Mean |