What means the bag-wig, and the foldier-like air, Sure Sabbaths were meant for retirement and pray'r The youth, to whom battles and dangers belong, Lace, blufter, and oaths, and a sword an ell long, But you, on whom London indulgently fmiles, Old Gresham, whofe ftatue adorns the Exchange, And filently frowns at a conduct so strange, Then learn from his gesture, grave, decent, and plain, For Frugality's garb will conceal your vaft gain, The ease of a court, and the air of a camp, Monfieur Jourdain ftill plods in the Spitalfields tramp, Nor can Hart† the grown aukwardness cure: * Vide Moliere's Gentleman Citizen. A dancing mafter in the city. Thus Thus if, apes of the fashion, St. James's you croud, The Mall you may fill, and be airy and loud, ON THE TEMPLARS. As by the Templars holds you go, In emblematic figures fhew The merits of their trade. The client may infer from thence, O happy Britons, happy ifle! Where you get Juftice without guile, THE THE ANSWER. DELUDED men, these holds forego, 'Tis all a trick, thefe are all fhams, Nor let the thoughts of no delay, To these their courts mifguide you ; 'Tis you're the showy horfe, and they The jockyes that will ride you. A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON. HOUSES, churches, mixt together, Gates, a bridge, the Thames irriguous. Gaudy things enough to tempt ye, Showy outfides, infides empty; Bubbles, Bubbles, trades, mechanic arts, Warrants, bailiffs, bills unpaid, Rogues that nightly rob and fhoot men, Lawyers, poets, priefs, phyficians, Worth, beneath a thread-bare cover, Women, black, red, fair, and grey, Some that will not-more that will. Many a beau without a fhilling, DESCRIPTION OF DUBLIN. MASS-HOUSES, churches, mixt together; The The church, the four courts, and hell contiguous; Caftle, College-green, and Custom-house gibbous. Few things here are to tempt ye, Five theatres, little trade, and jobbing arts, Warrants, bailiffs, bills unpaid, Masters of their fervants afraid; Rogues that daily rob and cut men, Lawyers, revenue-officers, priests, physicians, Women lazy, dirty, drunken, loofe, Men in labour flow, of wine profufe ; A SKETCH OF PARIS. LADIES, whofe drefs, wit, fprightlinefs, and air, Charm, till their plaister'd cheeks like spectres fcare; Men, |