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POETICAL ESSAYS.

TRIUMPH,

By AMBROSIA.

IS faid a story never loses,

'T'

Which to rehearse no one refuses;

Or when (fays Pope) from north to fouth,
It propagates from mouth to mouth;
For as it goes-it always varies,
And from th'original mifcarries:
For inftance now-the fate of Dido,
Of Daphne too-and Paftor Fido;
The angry moods of jealous Juno,
The loves of Proferpine and Pluto;
The amours of the mighty Jove,
With Juno, Calisto, above,
Afteria, Antiope below,
Are juft what fables pleafe to fhow:
They show how this one gain'd a lover,
And how that Goddess loft another;
How Venus from the waters fprung,
How mufical a Syren's tongue;
How Jupiter (as they depute)
To win Europa turn'd a brute;
Ægina, Danae, Leda won,
By strange difguifes putting on;

In short, defcribe the forms of Heav'n,

To which and which most pow'r was given.
Such ftories then if you believe,
And all the Poets do conceive,

You may believe-(that's if you please)
Juno a justice and the moon a cheefe.
However for romance's glory,
I'll tell you-what?I'll tell a ftory.
A ftory fhould (fays Sancho Panza)
Begin with fome old Latin ftanza,
Or faying of the cenfor Cato,
Demofthenes, Cicero, or Plato;

Now fuch as this" He that feeks evil,"
(So Sancho fays)- May meet the Devil."
But this, and all their fcraps of Greek,
To me appears but self-conceit;

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Mere vanity; an outward show,

Of what they would be thought to know:
However it appears like learning,
To thofe who are not fo difcerning,
And raifes in the public eye,
A name of no fmall prodigy;
A good device-for thofe that can't
Derive the requifites they want;
So by fuch authors as they quote,
They hope to gain a name of note:
For fure that man which takes from Ovid
A line or two, can be no blockhead;
Certainly no ;-(preferve my patience)
We say that man knows all the ancients;
And all who Greek or Latin ufes,
We fay are favoured by the mufes;
And in right form the fentence places,
We fay that man has all the graces.-

'Tis fo these seeming wife ones raise
A name of learning and of praise.
On others fame they build their own,
And live on vanity alone.

But to proceed-I'll tell my ftory

In plainer terms than those before me,
Yet like a fabulift of yore be.

I mean by this expreffion,-you
Muft (like the fuppofitious crew,)
Believe my fable to be true.

You'll fay that's wrong,-'tis why I quote it,
Because I thought fo when I wrote it;
'Tis rather foolish-and I know it,
But my excufe is-I'm a poet:
For poets have a prior claim,
To many faults that I could name;
Which are alledged by fome to be
Superior tafte in poetry;
Invention, fancy and the plot-
But this as poet I've forgot;
For 'ftead of telling Pluto's tale,
I've written quite fatyrical.

I fay no more-the proem's ended,
And if I've gave offence-'twas not intended.

When

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When Pluto from the dark abodes,
Afcended to his brother Gods,
He fought among the heav'nly race,
A Goddefs worthy his embrace:
And as he wish'd to meet fuccefs,
(That nought fhould make his merit lefs)
To all he made a handfome prefent,
To this a peacock, that a pheasant,
And manag'd matters pretty decent.
But yet (oh ftrange !) he was neglected,
And by (which little he expected)
Celeftial Goddeffes rejected.-
Stung to the heart with this reproach,
He order'd inflantly his coach.
"Here drive me to the Enna fields,*
I'll try (quoth he) what Enna yields;
A bachelor to rove and range,
Is as ridiculous as ftrange."

Sated of Heav'n away was drove,
And gained at Enna, Proferpine his love.

A Defcription of Modern Coxcombs. WOW wife is nature to difpenfe

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An eftate, to cover want of fenfe!
Now coxcombs ftrut in various ways,
To fhew them elves, their heads and tails;
Their fhining baubles, canes and cravat,
And other things for folks to laugh at ;
Their fhoes and buckles fo transform'd
From what they were in days of old;
Their ftockings clock'd fo fine and bezuifh,
Their large bouquets to fcent their nose with;
Their coats and beavers are curtail'd,
And other things, now mode prevails,
Their ruffles, powder and pomatum,
Their pretty felves, pray how do you like 'em?
The men are fools, but that's no matter,
For they are wits with thofe that flatter.
Fine gemm'en-with their spying glafs,
That views the ladies as they pals;
Thefe fops, thefe filly maccaronies,
Thefe trifiers and thefe lumpkin tonies;
Thefe upftarts, infolent in their place,
Remind us of their vulgar race;
So empty of all fenfe and rule,
So brainless and fo very dull;
So flight, fo flin.fey, likewife fo prim,
So rakifh and fo much in trim;
So fine and fuch affected beaus,
'Tis pity they're not fet in fatu quo;
Fy on fuch felf-conceited elves,
Fit company for nobody but themselves;
Their efrantic ftrut and monkeys ftare,
I do deteft fuch beings I declare;
No man of fenfe that's ere fo wife,
With fpanie's nofe and eagles eyes;
Would ever reason with a fop,
That neither fear nor fhame has got ;
Not all the wealth that they inherit,
Nor fortune, which they never merit,

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Can alter fhallow understandings
And give them fenfe with proper meaning,
Though fashion forms them to their pride,
And all their wants are well fupply'd:
Fashion, a word which fools do ufe,
Their fhame and folly to excufe;
To copy fanions, vain pretence,
To copy faults, thews want of fenfe.

PRO L. OGUE, Written for the opening of DRURY-LANE THEATRE, and introduced in the PRELUDE of NEW BROOMS.

Spoken by Mr. King.

CRIBBLERS

are sportsmen, and as

sportsmen are,

Some hit, fome mits, fome poach, and fome beat fair;

This wounds a fraggling bird; that often [eyes:

tries,

But never kills; he shoots and huts both
Like our train'd bands, the mark he never

hits,

He fcorns to fee the murder he commits:
Some will whole covies take, nineteen in

twenty!

[plenty.
And then you fmack your lips -for game is
In short, by you their merits must be try'd--
And woe to them who are not qualify's !
Another fimile we mean to broach,

A new one too!-the frage is a stage coach.-
A flage coach!-why?-I'll tell you if you
afk it-
[basket 1.

Here fome take places, and fome mount the
Our cattle too, that draw the ftage along,
Are of all forts and Sizes-weak and Atrong,
Brown, grey, black, bay, brifk, tame, blind,

ieme, fat, lean, old and young.
If as we're jogging on, we fometimes flop,
Some fcold within, and feme afleep will
drop,

While failors and their doxies fing and roar a'top!

The coachman manager will fometimes please ye, [fqueeze ye, Bat fhou'd he fluff the coach too full, and You then begin to fwear-" zounds, fhut the door, [more, We're cram'd already-here's no room for You're fo damn'd fat-a little farther, Sir! Your elbow's in my stomach-I can't stir.' Hoit! hoit! the coachman then drives on a apace,

* The Enna Fields was a beautiful place in the middle of the Ifland of Sicily, therefore called Umbilicus Siciliæ: Here Pluto firft alighted after bis rejection in Heaven, whore feeing a company of beautiful virgins gathering flowers, Proferpine, who was one, pleafea bin jo mub above the reft, as fbe excelled them in beauty, that be carried her away with him, and made ber bis wife.

POETICAL ESSAYS in NOVEMBER, 1776.

Now firft, now laft, now jolted, crack! we

For if you fuc her, and make love to her,
Howe'er you-woo her, she'll break your

POETICAL ESSAYS in NOVEMBER, 1776.

The following are some of the SONGS in the

THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

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kingdoms, and indeed to the prefent fyftem of
all Europe. One great advantage, however,
will be derived from the object of the rebels
being openly avowed, and clearly underfood:
we shall have unanimity at home, founded
in the general conviction of the juftice and
neceffity of our measures.

The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

I am happy to inform you, that, by the bleffing of Divine Providence on the good conduct and valour of my officers and forces by fea and land, and on the zeal and bravery of the auxiliary troops in my fervice, Canada is recovered; and although, from unavoidable delays, the operations at New-York could not begin before the month of Auguft, the fuccefs in that province has been fo important as to give the strongest hopes of the moft decifive good confequences: But, notwithstanding this fair profpect, we muft, at ail events, prepare for another campaign.

I continue to receive affurances of amity from the feveral courts of Europe; and am ufing my utmost endeavours to conciliate unhappy differences between two neighbouring powers; and I fill hope, that all misunderftandings may be removed, and Europe continue to enjoy the ineflimable bleffings of peace: I think nevertheless, that, in the efent fituation of affairs, it is expedient that we should be in a refpectable flate of

Getence at home.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I will order the efiimates for the enfuing year to be laid before you. It is matter of real concern to me, that the important confiderations which I have ftated to you must neceffarily be followed by great expence: I doubt not, however, but that my faithful Commons will readily and chearfully grant me fuch fupplies, as the maintenance of the honour of my crown, the vindication of the juft rights of parliament, and the public welfare fhall be found to require.

My Lords, and Gentlemen,

In this arduous contest I can have no other object but to promote the true interefts of all my fubjes. No people ever enjoyed more happinets, or lived under a milder government, than thefe now revolted provinces: the improvements in every art, of which they boaft, declare it: their numbers, their wealth, their firength by fea and land, which they think fufficient to enable them to make head against the whole power of the mother country, are irrefragable proofs of it. My defire is to restore to them the bleffings of law and liberty, equally enjoyed by every British fubje&t, which they have fatally and defperately exchanged for all the calamities of war, and the arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs."

WEDNESDAY, 6.
His Majefly in Council has been pleafed

to order that a General Faft fhould be ob
ferved throughout the kingdom of Ireland,
upon Friday the 13th day of December next,

Nov.

being the day appointed for the Faft in England; and to that end his Majesty hath thought proper to direct the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to caufe a proclamation to be forthwith published in that kingdom. The faft is likewife ordered to be obferved in Scotland on the 12th of the fame month.

MONDAY, II.

On Saturday Sir Thomas Hallifax, the new Lord Mayor, accompanied by Aldermen Alfop, Bull, Efdaile, Kennett, Rawlinfon, Smith, Clarke, Newnham, Wooldridge, the two Sheriffs, Chamberlain, and other City Officers, went in their carriages to the Three Cranes, and from thence proceeded in the City barge, attended by the different Companies in their barges to Westminster-Hall, and took the oaths appointed for the office, at the Exchequer-Bar; after which they returned in the fame manner by water to Black-Friars, and proceeded to Guildhall, where a magnificent entertainment was provided, at which the Lord Chancellor, four of the Judges, Serjeants at Law, &c. were prefent. The whole was conducted with great order.

WEDNESDAY, 13.

The Lord Mayor has given orders to the City Marshals to go with proper affiflants, and fearch the publick houses in the city and its liberties, to take into custody all loose and diforderly men, and bring them before him, when, if they cannot give a good account of themselves, he will fend them on board a tender to ferve his Majefty; as his lordship is of opinion, that by fuch means a fufficient number may be got without preffing, he being determined not to back any prefs-warrants. WEDNESDAY, 20.

On Monday night Mr. Clay, high conftable for Middlefex, affifted by a number of petty officers, made a general prefs throughout the parish of St. Giles's, when near 80 men were taken, the greater part of whom of livelihood. way were perfons in no vifible The fame night Mr. Lucas, high conftable for the City and Liberty, of Westminster, by the affiftance of other peace officers, made a general prefs throughout his divifion, when near 100 men were fecured.

SATURDAY, 23.

A copy of the Marquis de Grimaldi's letter to the governor of Bilboa is handed about, in the Spanish language, relative to the Ame rican Corfair, which had taken five English fhips, and was detained at Bilboa, at the requeft of the English Vice Conful, the fubftance of which letter is nearly as follows:"That having received advice from the governor of Bilboa refpe&ting the detention of an American fhip, named the Hawke, Capt. John Lee, and the feveral atteftations of the perfons concerned, which had been laid before his majefty, he had been pleased to declare, that in confequence of the amity fubfifting between his Catholick Majefty and

the