Tell artes they have no foundness,
But vary by esteeminge;
Tell skollers lack profoundness,

And ftand too much on feeminge.
If artes and skollers replye,
Give artes and skollers the lye.

Tell faith its fled the cittye;

Tell how the country errethe;
Tell manhood fhakes of pytie;
Tell virtue leaft preferreth.
And if they do replye,
Spare not to give the lye.

So when thou haft, as I

Commanded thee, done blabbing; Althoughe to give the lye

Deferves no less than ftabbing;

Yet ftab at thee who will,

No ftab the foul can kill.

A PARODY ON THE FOREGOING.

WRITTEN IN 1764.

Go, truth, unwelcome gueft!

Upon a thankless errant;

Fear not to touch the best,

For truth is a fafe warrant. Go, fince thou needs must die, And give them all the lye,

Go,

Go, tell the Tory faction,
Now in their noontide hour,
England won't bear an action
Of an arbitrary power.
If Tories fhould reply,

Give Tories all the lye.

Go, tell th' ennobled thief,
While cares opprefs him most,
He ne'er fhall tafte relief

From guilt-from Ayliffe's ghoft.
And if the thief reply,

Then give the thief the lye.

Go, tell the Scottish Thane,
Rais'd high by r——— luft,
That luft fhall prove his bane,
And lay him in the duft.
And should the Thane reply,
Then say proud Thane you Iye.

Go, tell the immortal Pitt,
Author of England's glory,

He fhall recorded fit

Foremost in future ftory.

Cætera defunt.

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SAY when will England be from faction freed?
When will domeftic quarrels cease?

Ne'er till that wish'd-for epitaph we read,
"Here lies the man that made the peace." E. G.

A SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT VERSIFIED. TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS

OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER

A Courtier profefs'd, much efteem'd by the great,
As a weather-cock fixt to a point, or as fate,
I fend my best compliments round the whole fhire:
A steady old boy, and a young voluntier :
Tho' as fate I am fix'd, and resolv'd to abide,
In turns, as it happens, by this or that fide;

To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the county of Gloucefter.

GENTLEMEN,

THOUGH I am fixed as fate, to abide by the determination of the general meeting of the 13th inftant, permit me to declare my wishes that Lord Coleraine may be the object of your choice, as I know him to be a man of honour and principle, and moft obnoxiousto the late convention of the 28th of March. I have the honour to be,

Grofvenor-ftreet,
April 4, 1763

Gentlemen,

Your obliged and devoted fervant,

N. BERKLEY.

Permit me, good people, to now recommend
This very good lord, and my very good friend;
Pray let him have yours, as I give him my voice,
And make this choice object your object of choice.
I know him-that's all—he will stick to his plan,
Like a harmless, obnoxious, pretty fort of a man.
My merits you know, and you'll thank me, I'm clear,
For thinking fo much of your cyder this year :
In behalf of which tax I'd be proud to divide,
Tho' the whole house oppos'd, with
* friend on

my fide.

my

Obnoxious I am, and obnoxious is he,

And obnoxious this lord-fo obnoxious all three.
I rely on your favours-fo grant me this fuit,
And depend on my fervice to tell my Lord Bute.

ON LORD BOTE TOURT's

BEING

APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, IN THE ROOM OF SIR JEFFERY AMHERST,

DISMISSED.

Now tremble, colonists! your time is come:
From matchlefs genius wait your fettled doom.
C-nw-y no more shall weave your filken chains;
Play with your bit, or trifle with your reins.
Fame fends his fon to curb your flaming state;
'Tis Botetourt, and he is fix'd as fate.

* Sir J— Dd.

L. V.

ON

ON A CERTAIN LAWYER's

TAKING A PATENT OF PRECEDENCE IN 1764 *.
SEE! from his colours turncoat Yorke retreat!
And humbly caft himself at Grenville's feet;
Warm from his heart, in copious mufic now,
Prerogative's melodious accents flow;

While tame fervility, with longing eyes,

Courts, and would hope, a Henley's feal the prize +.

Why lives not Churchill's fpirit to rehearse

Such proftitution in immortal verse;

And, on the strong foundation of such shame,

Erect a monument to Norton's fame?

Tho' dead the mufe, yet hift'ry still remains,

And truth, to blush at such unmanly strains.

ON MR. YORK E's

TAKING A PATENT OF PRECEDENCE IN 1764.

YORKE's great humility, I own,

At first may feem a ftretcher;

He takes a patent from the crown,

To fit

below Sir Fletcher +.

The late Hon. Charles Yorke.

+ Lord Henley, afterwards Earl of Northington, was at that time Lord Chancellor.

Norton, afterwards Lord Grantley.

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