A SUBURBIAN PREACHMENT.

A

Reverend doctor, preaching in the suburbs, About whofe debts arofe fome plaguy hubbubs, Thus, for his text, these pleafing words let fall, "Have patience with me, and I'll pay you all" With joy-pricktears the rough Burroughnians ftand, And deem'd the day of ballancing at hand: On his first Head his reasons were so strong,.. They fat with patience, tho' he preach'd fo long: "And now, fays he, I come to "

pay you all""Great is your patience, and my merit fmall"T'abufe that noble virtue were a crime"So I'll defer it to

another time."

TO THE MEMORY

OF THE LATE DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER, MDCCXLVIII.

P

BY N. COTTON, M. D. OF ST. ALBAN'S.

Atient to hear, and bounteous to bestow,

A mind that melted at another's woe;
Studious to act the felf-approving part,
That midnight mufic of the honeft heart;
Thefe filent joys th' illuftrious youth poffeft,
This cloudlefs funfhine of th' unfullied breaft:
From pride of peerage, and from folly free;
Life's early morn fair Virtue gave to thee.
The tear no longer stole from Sorrow's eye,
And Poverty rejoic'd, when he was nigh;
Like Titus, knew the value of a day,
And Want went fmiling from his gates away.
Titles and rank are borrow'd from the throne:
Thefe honours, Egerton, were all thy own.

EPI

EPITAPH ON

KING THEODORE BARON NEUHOFF,

IN ST. ANN'S CHURCH-YARD, WESTMINSTER.

Near this place is interr'd
Theodore, king of Corfica,
Who died in this parish, Dec. 11, 1756.
Immediately after

Leaving the King's Bench prifon,
By the benefit of the act of infolvency:
In confequence of which

He refigned his kingdom of Corfica
For the ufe of his creditors.

ΤΗ

HE grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-flaves and kings ; But Theodore this moral learn'd, ere dead; Fate pour'd its leffons on his living head, Beftow'd a kingdom, but denied him bread.

CON

88

Fire, water, and reputation,

Dialogue in the fenate-house at Cambridge,

On the death of Dr. Morgan,

92

98

On the nuptials of lord Grey and lady Bentinck,

116

THE

POETICAL CALENDAR.

VOL. X.

FOR OCTOBER.