Advantage of what brought him grist, he
Might have been as rich as Christie ;-
But somehow when thy midnight bell, Bow,
Sounded along Cheapside its knell,
Our spark was busy in Pall-mall

Shaking his elbow, -
Marking, with paw upon his mazzard,
The turns of hazard;

Or rattling in a box the dice,

Which seem'd as if a grudge they bore
To Stubbs: for often in a trice,
Down on the nail he was compell'd to pay
All that his hammer brought him in the day,
And sometimes more.

Thus, like a male Penelope, our wight,
What he had done by day undid by night:
No wonder, therefore, if, like her,

He was beset by clamorous brutes,
Who crowded round him to prefer
Their several suits.

One Mr. Snipps, the tailor, had the longest
Bill for many suits of raiment,

And naturally thought he had the strongest
Claim for payment.

But debts of honour must be paid,
Whate'er becomes of debts of trade;

And so our stilish auctioneer,
From month to month throughout the year,
Excuses, falsehoods, pleas alleges,
Or flatteries, compliments, and pledges.
When in the latter mood one day,
He squeezed his hand, and swore to pay.-
" But when?"-" Next month.- You may depend on't,
My dearest Snipps, before the end on't ;-
Your face proclaims in every feature,
You wouldn't harm a fellow-creature-

PETER

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This said, he bade A special writ, Serve it on Stu Up with the utm

This lawyer was This is to say, In a civic way Where business

For where the m Damon leaves Pylades and C And Alexander

But when our m Tenfold politen

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So crying He kroc

VOL. 1.

The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger.

IN Broad-street Buildings, on a winter night,
Snug by his parlour fire a gouty wight
Sate all alone, with one hand rubbin

His leg roll'd up in fleecy hose,
While t'other held beneath his nose

The Public Ledger, in whose columns grubbing,
He noted all the sales of hops,

Ships, shops, and slops,

Gum, galls and groceries, ginger, gin,
Tar, tallow, turmerick, turpentine, and tin.

When, lo! a decent personage in black
Enter'd, and most politely said,-
"Your footman, Sir, has gone his nightly track,
To the King's Head,

And left your door ajar, which I

Observed in passing by,

And thought it neighbourly to give you notice."

"Ten thousand thanks-how very few get, In time of danger,

Such kind attentions from a stranger!

Assuredly that fellow's throat is
Doom'd to a final drop at Newgate.
He knows, too, the unconscionable elf,
That there's no soul at home except myself."

"Indeed!" replied the stranger, looking grave;
"Then he's a double knave.

He knows that rogues and thieves by scores
Nightly beset unguarded doors;
And see how easily might one
Of these domestic foes,

Even beneath your very nose,

PASSING through Calabria last year, on my return from Greece, I found myself near the site of the ancient Apollonia, in whose neighbourhood, according to Plutarch, a sleeping Satyr was once caught, and brought to Sylla as he returned from the Mithridatic war; but as his inarticulate voice, partaking both of the neighing of a horse and the bleating of a goat, prevented him from making any intelligible answer to interrogatories, the Roman spurned from him a creature which seemed to partake more of the bestial than of the human nature. As caves and grottos seldom

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the entrance of the cav with a profound horro prevail upon him to hand, being in sooth ditti, though perfectly pernatural adversarie into the mouth of the From the appeara jecture it to have ser pious hermit of the out of the rock, and nels communicating son to read in any through a narrow p porch I entered a se ment, I beheld a y earnestly upon a l pale, and her dark and falling on eac vered a high and ed brow, which thought. So muc she did not obser portion of the lig without expressin towards me, and a stranger; why as was the que make, stammer I had no excus cited by the ma