With five and forty bowmans bold,

All chofen men of might,

Who knew full well in time of need,
To cringe and bow aright.

Thefe gallant heroes foon began
To gain the - ear;
At Christmas they great places got,
As plainly doth appear ;

And, ere the spring was o'er, they did

A thousand boons obtain,

Which once poffefs'd they shrewdly went To crave for more again.

The bowmans mufter'd at Whitehalf †, Their votes were all fecure;

And fixteen of the u-r h-e

Each day were guarded fure.

Wild Highlanders forfook their holds,

Proud offices to take;

And commiffaries from the dales,

Did princely fortunes make.

See Bowman in the farce of Lethe.

↑ The Cockpit.

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 moft,
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 shall prove his bane,
And lay him in the dust.
And should the Thane reply,
Then say proud Thane you lye.

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 domestic 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 beft compliments round the whole fhire:
A fteady old boy, and a young voluntier :
Tho' as fate I am fix'd, and refolv'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,

Grosvenor-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 my * friend on
my fide.

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 service to tell my Lord Bute.

Now tremble, coloniits! your time is come:
From matchless 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 ftate; 'Tis Botetourt, and he is fix'd as fate.

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 muse, yet hift'ry still remains,

And truth, to blush at fuch unmanly strains.

ON MR. YORKE's

TAKING A PATENT OF PRECEDENCE IN 1764.

YORKE's great humility, I own,

At first may seem 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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