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Think on the mifchiefs which from hence have

fprung!

It arms with curfes dire the wrathful tongue;
Foul scandal to the lying lip affords,

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And prompts the mem'ry with injurious words.
O where is wisdom when by this o'erpower'd?
The ftate is cenfur'd, and the maid deflower'd!
And wilt thou ftill, O Squire, brew ale so strong?
Hear then the dictates of prophetic fong.

Methinks I fee him in his hall appear,
Where the long table floats in clammy beer,
'Midft mugs and glaffes fhatter'd o'er the floor,
Dead-drunk, his fervile crew fupinely fnore;
Triumphant o'er the proftrate brutes he stands,
The mighty bumper trembles in his hands;
Boldly he drinks, and, like his glorious Sires,
In copious gulps of potent ale expires.

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ON THE SETTING UP MR. BUTLER'S MONU

MENT IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY.

BY SAMUEL WESLEY.*

WHILE BUTLER, needy wretch! was yet alive,
No gen'rous patron would a dinner give:
See him, when starv'd to death and turn'd to duft,
Prefented with a monumental bust!

The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,

He afk'd for bread, and he receiv'd a stone.

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EPIGRAM, FROM THE GREEK.

BY THE SAME.

A

BLOOMING youth lies buried here,
EUPHEMIUS, to his country dear:
Nature adorn'd his mind and face
With ev'ry mufe, and ev'ry grace:
About the marriage ftate to prove,
But DEATH had quicker wings than LOVE.

Born 1690; dyed 1739.

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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.

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raptures were it in these bow'rs, Fair virgin, chaste and wise,

With thee to lose the learned hours,

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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.

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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.

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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!
He! ftampt in nature's mint of ecstasy!
He lives to build, not boast a generous race:
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

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His daring hope, no fire's example bounds;
His firft-born lights, no prejudice confounds. 10

* Born 1698; dyed 1743.

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