To say such things is most provoking! And fo, I hope you were but joking. So Delicate and Chafte a Mufe; She's clear, fhe's fweet, fhe's pure, she's Terfe, Sound in her Senfe, and smooth her Verfe. At once the Langushes and Shines. Prefent my Love to Griffy Beven, Tell them, if they to Piccadilly Once more, think not before you write, That fhould fear it! ftirs my Rage; For if this Age does stand corrected, Who Who pass your Curious well-fpent Time In high-fwell'd Verfe, and Modern Rhyme. Of Garth and Philips is, I own, In Stile Correct, and Manner New, And thus you'll give your Friend fuch Ease. I know you, Sir, you've too good Senfe * To trust at all to Providence; And therefore like a Man of Wisdom, Would rather truft to mine than his Dome: Depend upon it. Sir, I'll dish-up Your Worship to a Dean or Bishop. The Meaning of this depends upon a private Story. POST Y POSTCRIPT. OU tell me, Smed, that you'll withdraw You cannot, must not, Sir, be Wife, And finoak your Pipe and draw your Tythes, EPI F Thus Imitated. OR ev'ry Prince that hit my Fancy, (For Inftance, Charles, and James, and Nancy) I had by Turns a Share of Zeal; But was Old DoG at Publick Weal. I've had my Doubts, as all Men should, What comes, when we refign our Breath, For what fome fond Enthusiasts make him, In GOD alone I put my Trust, Because he's Merciful, and Just. Of all things Great, thou great Beginner, Take Pity on a Garter'd SINNER! 電 And |