III.

My trembling muse can ne'er aspire
To tune an ode with Whitehead's fire,
Or fing these glorious days :

Befides, your ears, my Lord, are nice,
They shrink from flattery in a trice,
And scarce bear modest praise.

IV.

Elfe fhould I hail this lucky hour,
Lo, SAYRE Committed to the Tower!
Britain fhall Peans fing:

A meal-tub plot young Oates fhall prove,
Since Kate Macaulay bafely ftrove

To ravish George our King * !

V.

Can I describe the Atlantick fea,
Green as a leek with India's tea,
Dire caufe of civil rage?

Mr. Richardfon, (the witness against Sayre, and therefore the Titus Oates of the Court) will produce undoubted evidence t prove this extraordinary fact.—The Lord Mayor ele&, Mr. Sawbridge, encouraged his fifter to this atrocious attempt, unparalle ed even in her own hiftory.-Mr. Wilkes is alfo ftrongly fufpected.

The

And should they fall, with hopes elate,
Still Pharoah-like they'll lie in ftate,

All coffin'd in their coaches *.

Who but GERMAIN could e'er divine,

Of algebraick head,

That as nine taylors make a man,
Three wounded Heffians, on this plan,
Are equal to one § dead?

XII.

Is this the way, most valorous lord, deftine rebels to the cord,"

To

Or conquer at Quebec ?

Thefe lineal defcendants of Hengift have laid in a large stock of old hock, and refufed (though.tranfports are scarce) to fail without their coaches, as they have fome thoughts of fettling in America. Lord MANSFIELD fays, their claims by hereditary right are unquestionable. The argument ftands thus ;-England being the mother country, Heffe is the grandmother; as the English (I appeal to Mr. MACPHERSON) can only be confidered as codonifed Heffians.

"By the Heffian treaty, three wounded men fhall be reckoned as one killed, and paid for accordingly."

See the Parliamentary Register.

In spite of every witty boast *,
How E fails along a barren coast,
He could not fave his neck!

XIII.

These glorious triumphs you may tell,
No doubt they'll have a magick spell,
And make 'Squire Boobies willing

To grant fupplies at every check;
-Give them the plunder of a wreck 1,
They'll vote another fhilling.

XIV.

Unfit to wield the martial blade,
You chose the state affaffin's trade,

*In one of General Howe's letters, his excellency makes a defperate attempt to be witty;-but neck-or-nothing feems to be his military maxim for wit as well as war, "The rebels, (fays he) are hors du danger, if their necks are as fafe as mine," viz. Bofton Neck. But as this is his firft bon-mot, perhaps he will improve in the courfe of the campaign.

Mr. BURKE's humane bill, the purport of which was to levy on the inhabitants of the coaft the value of a hip wrecked and plundered, was thrown out by the country gentlemen, (thofe great fupporters of the American war) who were determined to prefirve their tenants right to all deodands.

VOL. II.

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Your

Your country to undo:

As copper, tho' no warlike mettal,
Can poison the domestick kettle,
And fo resembles you.

OMIAH: AN OD E.

ADDRESSED TO CHARLOTTE HAYES.

BY THE SAME.

O Venus, regina, Cnidi Paphique,
Sperne dilectam Cypron, et vocantis
Thure te multo Glycera decoram
Transfer in adem.

HOR. Lib. I. Ode 30.

OF statesmens' wiles I fcorn to fing;
Who flatter, to betray, the king,
Can fcarce deferve my praise :

O Venus, thy own bard infpire,
In pleafing notes to wake the lyre
For buxom CHARLOTTE HAYES.

Nor let Parnaffian maids be coy,
My train is chaste, though tun'd to joy;

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