Let these prefer a levee's harmless talk, 65 That lay shall live, tho' Court and Grub-street figh, 70 75 Tho' not with Mason and with Goldsmith put, His modesty must think your judgment ftrange- If e'er he chance to wake on Newton's chair, Verse 76. And break the black afperity of fate.] ðz Tu Marcellus eris." VIRG. What Whate'er his fame or fate, on this depend→→→ If real danger threat fair Freedom's reign, Nor, e'er they give, ask how the fums were spent, If this they dare, the thunder of his fong, Rolling in deep-ton'd energy along, 95 100 Shall strike, with Truth's dead bolt, each mifcreant's name, Who, dead to duty, fenfelefs e'en to fhame, 105 ODE TO MR. PINCHBECK, UPON HIS NEWLY IN VENTED PATENT CANDLE SNUFFERS. BY MAL COLM M'GREGOR, ESQ; AUTHOR OF THE HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, AND THE HEROIC POSTSCRIPT. Quoufque ergo fruftrà pafcemus ignigenum iftum ? Apuleii Met. Lib. 7. Why should a Patent be granted to this Candle-Snuffer in vain ? I. ILLUSTRIOUS Pinchbeck! condescend, O may they prompt thee, ere too late, That burns a little blue. II. It ADVERTISEMENT. Ever fince my first publication, the curiofity, not to say anxiety, of the world concerning my name, has been fo great, that it has frequently given me pain to conceal what the world will now fee it was not poffible in my power to discover. In fhort, I had no name, till the royal favour lately restored my very antient and honourable clan to its priftine title and honours. I was therefore in the fame deplorable cafe with a certain nameless lady, whom I have long had the honour to call my neighbour, and who, I fincerely hope, will foon, by the fame favour, be restored to that IV. Come then, ingenious artist, come On thee alone our hopes depend, Thy King's, and eke thy Country's friend, V. But first we pray, for its relief, *While N- and M- fputter there, The melting of the fuet. VI. There's Twitcher too, that old he-witch, * These initials, like thofe in the Banns of Marriage publishcd between N, and M. may be fill'd up at the reader's plea fure. Vide Common Prayer Book. + And |