XXXVI.

"Bleft be my fons, and eke all those
"Who on her praises dwell;
"She conquer'd Britain's fierces foes,
"She did all queens excel.

XXXVII.

"All princes, kings, and potentates, "Ambaffadors did fend;

“All nations, provinces, and states, Sought Anna for their friend.

XXXVIII.

"In Anna they did all confide,

"For Anna they could trust;

"Her royal faith they all had try'd, "For Anna till was juft.

XXXIX.

"Truth, mercy, justice, did furround

"Her awful judgment-feat;

"In her the Graces all were found,

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"In Anna all complete.

"Confummate wifdom, meekness, all

"Adorn'd the words fhe fpoke,

"When they from her fair lips did fall, "And fweet her lovely look.

XLIII.

"Ten thousand glorious deeds to crown, "She caus'd dire war to ceafe;

A greater emprefs ne'er was known, "She fix'd the world in peace.

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XLIV.

"This laft and godlike act achiev'd,
"To heav'n fhe wing'd her flight;
"Her lofs with tears all Europe griev'd,
"Their strength and dear delight.

XLV.

"Leave we in bliss this heav'nly faint, Revere, ye juft, her urn;

"Her virtues high and excellent,

"Aftrea gone we mourn.

XLVI.

"Commemorate, my fons, the day
"Which gave great Anna birth;
Keep it for ever and for aye,
"And annual be your mirth."

XLVII.

Illuftrious George now fills the throne,

Our wife benign good king;

Who can his wondrous deeds make known,

Or his bright actions sing?

XLVIII.

Thee, fav'rite Nero, he has deign'd

To raise to high degree!

Well thou thy honours haft fuftain'd,

XLIX.

Well vouch'd thy ancestry.

But país-Thefe honours on thee laid,

Can they e'er make thee white?

Don't Gaphny's blood, which thou hast shed,

Thy guilty foul affright ?

L.

Can nought change thy obdurate mind?

Wilt thou for ever rail?

The prophet on thee well refin'd,

And fet thy wit to fale.

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LII.

How thou art loft to sense and shame
Three countries witnefs be;

Thy conduct all just men do blame,

Lib'ra nos Domine.

LIII.

Dame Juftice waits thee, well I ween,
Her fword is brandish'd high;

Nought can thee from her vengeance screen,
Nor can'ft thou from her fly.

"King John and the Abbot of Canterbury."

Written in the Year 1715.

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SING not old Jafon who travell'd thro' Greece To kiss the fair maids and poffefs the rich fleece, Nor fing I Æneas, who, led by his mother, Got rid of one wife and went far for another.

Derry down, down, hey derry down.

II.

Nor him who thro' Afia and Europe did roam,
Ulyffes by name, who ne'er car'd to go home,
But rather defir'd to fee cities and men

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Than return to his farms and converfe with old Pen. 8 Derry down, &c.

III.

Hang Homer and Virgil; their meaning to seek,
A man must have pok'd into Latin and Greek;
Thofe who love their own tongue, we have reafon to
Have read them tranflated by Dryden and Pope. [hope,
Derry down, &c.

IV.

But I fing of exploits that have lately been done
By two British heroes call'd Matthew and John,*
And how they rid friendly from fine London town,
Fair Effex to fee, and a place they call Down.

Derry down, &c.

V.

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Now ere they went out, you may rightly suppose
How much they difcours'd both in prudence and profe:
For before this great journey was thoroughly concerted,
Full often they met, and as often they parted.

Derry down, &c.

VI.

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And thus Matthew faid, Look you here my friend John, I fairly have traveli'd years thirty and one,

And though I still carry'd my Sovereign's warrants, I only have gone upon other folks errands.

Derry down, &c.

VII.

And now in this journey of life I would have

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A place where to bait 'twixt the court and the grave,
Where joyful to live, not unwilling to die-
Gadzooks, I had just a place in my eye.

Derry down, &c.

VIII.

There are gardens fo ftately, and arbours so thick,
A portal of tone, and a fabric of brick;

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The matter next week fhall be all in your pow'r;
But the money, Gadzooks, must be paid in an hour. 32
Derry down, &c.

Matthew Prior, Efq. and John Morley of Halftead in Effex, Efq. bred butcher, (but was accounted one of the greateft land jobbers in England) and, in honour of his profeffion annually killed a hog in the public market, and took a groat for it. He died 1732.

IX.

For things in this world must by law be made certain; We both must repair unto Oliver Martin,

For he is a lawyer of worthy renown,

I'll bring you to see he must fix you at Down,
Derry down, &c.

X.

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Quoth Matthew, I know that from Berwick to Dover You've fold all our premifes over and over;

And now if your buyers and seliers agree

You may throw all our acres into the South-fea.
Derry down, &c.

XI.

But a word to the purpose; to-morrow, dear friend,
We'll fee what to-night you fo highly commend,
And if with a garden and houfe I am bleft,
Let the devil and Coninfby* go with the rest.
Derry down, &c.

XII.

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Then anfwer'd Squire Morley, pray get a calash,
That in fummer may burn in winter may splash;
I love dirt and duft; and 'tis always my pleasure
To take with me much of the foil that I measure. 48
Derry down, &c.

XIII.

But Matthew thought better, for Matthew thought And hired a chariot fo trim and fo tight, [right, That extremes both of winter and summer might pass, For one window was canvas, the other was glass. 52 Derry down, &c.

XIV.

Draw up, quoth friend Matthew; pull down, quoth We fhall be both hotter and colder anon: [friend John; Thus talking and fcolding they forward did speed, And Ralpho pac'd by under Newman the Swede. 56 Derry down, &c.

XV.

Into an old inn did this equipage roll,

At a town they call Hodfdon, the fign of the Bull,

Lord Coninfby, with whom he ha differed,