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Receiving from the Right Hon, the Lady

FRANCES SHIRLEY *

A STANDISH and Two PENS.

Defcend in all her fober charms; "And take (the said, and fmil'd ferene), Take at this hand celeftial arms:

Secure the radiant weapons wield;
This golden lance fhall guard Desert,
And if a Vice dares keep the field,

This steel shall stab it to the heart."

Aw'd, on my bended knees I fell,
Receiv'd the weapons of the fky;
And dipt them in the fable Well,
The fount of Fame or Infamy.

"What Well? what Weapon? (Flavia cries), A ftandish, fteel and golden pen!

It came from Bertrand's +, not the skies;

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it you to write again.

A lady whofe great merit Mr Pope took a real pleasure in celebrating.

† A famous toy-hop at Bath.

But

But, friend, take heed whom you attack;
You'll bring a House (I mean of Peers)
Red, blue, and green, nay white and black,
L----- and all about your ears,

You'd write as smooth again on glass,
And run, on ivory, fo glib,
As not to flick at fool or afs
Nor ftop at Flattery or Fibt.

Athenian Queen! and fober charms!
I tell ye, fool, there's nothing in't:
'Tis Venus, Venus gives these arms ‡;
In Dryden's Virgil fee the print,||.

Come, if you'll be a quiet foul,

That dares tell neither truth nor lies ¶,

I'll lift you in the harmless roll

Of those that fing of these poor eyes,'

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The Epiftle to Dr Arbuthnot.

Such toys being the ufual prefents from lovers to their miftreffes.

When the delivers Æneas a fuit of heavenly armour.

Tie. If you have neither the courage to write fatire, nor he application to attempt an epic poem.---He was then meditating on fuch a work.

MACER:

MACE R:

A CHARACTER.

HEN fimple Macer, now of high renown, First fought a poet's fortune in the town, 'Twas all th' ambition his high foul could feel, To wear red stockings, and to dine with Steel. Some ends of verfe his betters might afford, And gave the harmless fellow a good word. Set up with thefe, he ventur'd on the town, And, with a borrow'd play, outdid poor Crown. There he ftopp'd fhort, nor fince has writ a tittle, But has the wit to make the most of little: Like ftunted hide-bound trees, that just have got Sufficient fap at once to bear and rot.

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Now he begs verfe, and what he gets commends, Not of the wits his foes, but fools his friends.

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So fome coarfe country-wench, almoft decay'd, Trudges to town, and firft turns chambermaid; 16 Aukward and fupple, each devoir to pay; She flatters her good lady twice a-day; Thought wondrous honeft, though of mean degree, And ftrangely lik'd for her fimplicity: In a tranflated fuit, then tries the town, With borrow'd pins, and patches not her own; But just endur'd the winter fhe began, And in four months a batter'd hartidan. Now nothing left, but wither'd, pale, and flirúnk, To bawd for others, and go thaies with punk. 26

SONG,

SONG, by a PERSON of QUALITY,

FLU

Written in the Year MDCCXXXIII.

I.

'LUTT'RING fpread thy purple pinions,
Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart;

I a flave in thy dominions;

Nature must give way to Art.

II.

Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,
Nightly nodding o'er your flocks,

See my weary days confuming,
All beneath yon flow'ry rocks.

III.

Thus the Cyprian Goddefs weeping,
Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth:
Him the Boar, in filence creeping,
Gor'd with unrelenting tooth.

IV.

Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers;
Fair Difcretion, ftring the lyre;
Sooth my ever-waking flumbers:
Bright Apollo, lend thy choir.

V.

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Gloomy Pluto, King of Terrors,
Arm'd in adamantine chains,

Lead

Lead me to the cryftal mirrors,

Wat'ring foft Elyfian plains.

VI.

Mournful cyprefs, verdant willow,
Gilding my Aurelia's brows,
Morpheus hov'ring o'er my pillow,
Hear me pay my dying vows.

VII.

Melancholy fmooth Meander,
Swiftly purling in a round,

On the margin lovers wander,

With thy flow'ry chaplets crown'd.

VIII.

Thus when Philomela drooping,
Softly feeks her filent Mate,

See the bird of Juno stooping;
Melody refigns to Fate.

END OF VOLUME SECOND.

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