WRITTEN MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY; BY WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, ESQ; POET, LAUREAT, AND PERFORMED AT ST. JAMES'S ON THE FOURTH OF JUNE, 1776, BY HIS MAJESTY'S BAND OF MUSICIANS. YE western gales, whofe genial breath One verdant livery wears : You footh the fultry heats of noon, This is your feafon, lovely gales, Why therefore, in yon dubious sky, "Sits expectation in the air.", Sufpend fome great event? Can Britain fail?-the thought were vain ; www. But But ftrives to fmooth th' unruly flood While yet, ye winds, your breezy balm Propitious gales, O wing your way! A BALLAD, WRITTEN, OR RATHER SPOKEN, BY A GENTLEMAN, AT COMING INTO A COFFEEHOUSE, FROM THE ABOVE MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. SAY no more of the breezes-fome wine and tobacco, * A plague on his weft, 'tis an arrant firocco; As I live the damn'd poet has brought 'em to gether, To warble of winds and to fing of the weather. Then he talk'd, filly fellow, of tumult and war, And he fet expectation aloft in the air, Like a witch on her broom looking out of the north, To fee if the storm fhe had rais'd was gone forth, Time was, that a laureat fweetly would fing Of the virtue, or valour, or wit of the king. That time is no more, and we now cannot hear, Any praise of our monarch once in a year. But * A peftilential fouth-west wind. "A fouth-west blow on ye And blifter you all o'er' Caliban, Tempeft, Se&. IV, But has he forgot it, or has he not known, What his queen to the world of her bounty hath shown ? And how the great folk went to see it, and kifs it? What an op'ning there was, zounds how could he mifs it! Here's his majesty's health; if his course he can keep, he'll Be father, as well as be king of his people: For he shall beget him a nation of princes, When this shall be flain, to fubdue his provinces. Here's health to the king; to his queen more of her dues; To his poet more wit to difplay his best virtues; To his council more wisdom (may heaven foon fend it) And freedom to those who have hearts to defend it. D E, WRITTEN AT HOLLAND HOUSE, SEPTEMBER, 1776. OFT to thefe walls the pilgrim grey, With labour'd travel worn; Has haften'd at the parting day, And shelter'd till the morn. The The poor way farer, diftant bound, His feeble limbs lefs toil'd wou'd find, No longer echoes round the hall; Hope droops! whilft o'er each gothic room, And pity mourns the ruin'd feat Old hofpitality is fled, And northern FAMINE in his stead, Here, fixes her retreat. Back fly reflection-truth fevere ! Let fancy for a while, ; To + PEMBROKE lend a fcornful fneer, Behold! + The bufts of Lord Pembroke and Mr. Winnington, the minifter, in the parlour; remarkable for fuch countenances. |