EPIGRAM.

OBUTE! If, inftead of contempt, and of odium, You'd wish to obtain univerfal elogium,

From your breaft to your gullet transfer the blue ftring,

Our hearts are all yours at the very first swing.

ODE TO COLONEL L

Quis novus hic noftris fucceffit fedibus hofpes?
Quo fefe ore ferens! quam forti pectore & armis!
O THOU, whom adverse fates ordain
To rivet faft Britannia's chain,

And bend her to controul;
Firm as Alcides tho' thou ftand,
The curses of an injur'd land

Shall shake thy guilty foul.

Tho' high enroll'd thy name appears
With hireling Commoners and peers,
Curs'd guardians of a throne!
Tho' jockey Grafton, who can spark it
In Britain's fenate or Newmarket,

Adopt thee for his own :

Yet spite of all the venal tribe,

Tho' Md plead, or Hd bribe,

Thou holy fpirit, power divine,
Do thou for France's glory deign
On this new minister to shine,

And lighten up his clouded brain.

Of twelve unlearn'd thou heretofore
Didft raise
up miracles to thee;
Renew thofe miracles once more,
By giving fense to poor Bernis.

His bofom with thy flames poffefs;
On him the love of heaven pour,
That he may kifs the ladies lefs,

And leaft of all-La Pompadour.

Bernis, invested with the rank of a minifter, and decked out with a blue ribbon, could not, doubtlefs, but appear more agreeable in the eyes of his protectrefs; and fhe, never eafy, day and night, out of his company, looked upon his athletic conftitution, and confummate knowledge in the art of love, to be fuch fuperior talents, as made him extremely capable of unravelling the moft knotty, and conducting the most arduous affairs of state; imagining with great reason, that in the course of an adminiftration, which fhe alone had put into his hands, he would certainly take no step without firft confulting her.

EPIGRAM.

OBUTE! If, inftead of contempt, and of odium, You'd wish to obtain universal elogium,

From your breaft to your gullet transfer the blue ftring,

Our hearts are all yours at the very first swing.

ODE TO COLONEL L.

Quis novus hic noftris fucceffit fedibus hofpes?
Quo fefe ore ferens! quam forti pectore & armis!
OTHOU, whom adverfe fates ordain
To rivet faft Britannia's chain,

And bend her to controul;

Firm as Alcides tho' thou ftand,
The curfes of an injur'd land
Shall shake thy guilty foul.

Tho' high enroll'd thy name appears
With hireling Commoners and peers,
Curs'd guardians of a throne!
Tho' jockey Grafton, who can spark it
In Britain's fenate or Newmarket,

Adopt thee for his own :

Yet spite of all the venal tribe,

Tho' Md plead, or Hd bribe,

Thou holy fpirit, power divine,
Do thou for France's glory deign
On this new minister to shine,

And lighten up his clouded brain.

Of twelve unlearn'd thou heretofore
Didft raise
up miracles to thee;
Renew thofe miracles once more,
By giving fenfe to poor Bernis.

His bofom with thy flames poffefs;
On him the love of heaven pour,
That he may kifs the ladies lefs,

And leaft of all-La Pompadour.

Bernis, invested with the rank of a minifter, and decked out with a blue ribbon, could not, doubtlefs, but appear more agreeable in the eyes of his protectress; and fhe, never eafy, day and night, out of his company, looked upon his athletic conftitution, and confummate knowledge in the art of love, to be fuch fuperior talents, as made him extremely capable of unravelling the most knotty, and conducting the most arduous affairs of ftate; imagining with great reafon, that in the courfe of an administration, which fhe alone had put into his hands, he would certainly take no step without firft confulting her.

EPIGRAM.

OBUTE! If, inftead of contempt, and of odium, You'd wish to obtain univerfal elogium,

From your breaft to your gullet transfer the blue

ftring,

Our hearts are all yours at the

very first swing.

ODE TO COLONEL L

Quis novus hic noftris fucceffit fedibus hofpes?
Quo fefe ore ferens! quam forti pectore & armis!
O THOU, whom adverfe fates ordain
To rivet faft Britannia's chain,

And bend her to controul;
Firm as Alcides tho' thou ftand,
The curfes of an injur'd land

Shall shake thy guilty foul.

Tho' high enroll'd thy name appears
With hireling Commoners and peers,
Curs'd guardians of a throne!
Tho' jockey Grafton, who can spark it
In Britain's fenate or Newmarket,

Adopt thee for his own :

Yet fpite of all the venal tribe,

Tho' Md plead, or Hd bribe,