Think on the mifchiefs which from hence have fprung! It arms with curfes dire the wrathful tongue; 95 And prompts the mem'ry with injurious words. Methinks I fee him in his hall appear, 100 ON THE SETTING UP MR. BUTLER'S MONU MENT IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. BY SAMUEL WESLEY.* WHILE BUTLER, needy wretch! was yet alive, The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He afk'd for bread, and he receiv'd a stone. 5 EPIGRAM, FROM THE GREEK. BY THE SAME. A BLOOMING youth lies buried here, Born 1690; dyed 1739. 5 THE INVITATION. BY WILLIAM HINCHLIFFE. O COME, Lavinia, lovely maid, Said Dion, ftretch'd at ease, Beneath the walnut's fragrant shade, A sweet retreat! by nature made With elegance to please. O leave the court's deceitful glare, Loath'd pageantry and pride; Come taste our folid pleasures here, Which angels need not blush to share, And with blefs'd men divide. What raptures were it in these bow'rs, Fair virgin, chaste and wise, With thee to lose the learned hours, 5 And note the beauties in these flowers, Conceal'd from vulgar eyes! For thee my gaudy garden blooms, And richly colour'd glows; Above the pomp of royal rooms, Or purpled works of Perfian looms, Proud palaces disclose. Born 1692; dyed 1742. 15 Hafte, nymph, nor let me figh in vain, Each Grace attends on thee; Exalt my blifs, and point my ftrain, For Love and Truth are of thy train, Content and Harmony. IN Decet hæc dare dona novercam. Ov. MET. IN gayer hours, when high my fancy ran, The mufe, exulting, thus her lay began. Bleft be the Baftard's birth! thro' wond'rous ways, He fhines eccentric like a comet's blaze! No fickly fruit of faint compliance He! 5 His daring hope, no fire's example bounds; * Born 1698; dyed 1743. |