EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack; AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, From those who spoke her praise. * This gentleman was educated at Trinity-college, Dublin; but having wasted his patrimony, he enlisted as a foot-soldier. Growing tired of that employment, he obtained his discharge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. He translated Vol. taire's Henriade. The needy seldom pass'd her door, And always found her kind; Who left a pledge behind. With manners wondrous winning; Unless when she was sinning. With hoop of monstrous size; But when she shut her eyes. By twenty beaux and more; When she has walk'd before. Her hangers-on cut short all : Her last disorder mortal. For Kent-street well may say, She bad not died to-day. A SONNET. W! Lost to every gay.delight; Fears th' approaching bridal night. Yet why impair thy bright perfection, Or dim thy beauty with a tear? Had Mira follow'd my direction, She long bad wanted cause of fear. FROM THE ORATORIO. OF THE CAPTIVITY. SONG. THE IE wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; Bids expectation rise. Adorns and cheers the way: Emits a brighter ray. SONG. O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain! Thou, like the world, the opprest oppressing, Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe? And he who wants each other blessing, In thee must ever find a foe. A PROLOGUE, Written and spoken by THE POET LABERIUS, A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CÆSAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE, Preserved by Macrobius.* WHAT! no way left to shun th’inglorious stage, And save from infamy my sinking age! * This translation was first printed in one of our author's earliest works, “The Present State of Learning in Europe,' 12mo. 1759. Here then at once I welcome every shame, IN these bold times, when Learning's sons ex. plore [Upper gallery. There mangroves spread, and larger than I've seen 'em (Pit. Here trees of stately, size, and billing turtles in 'em (Balconies. |