Honour and fame alike we will partake,

So well I'll eat what you so richly make.

HIS

UPON A GIANT'S ANGLING.

is Angle-rod made of a sturdy oak,
His Line a cable which in ftorms ne'er broke,
His Hook he baited with a dragon's tail,
And fat upon a rock and bobb'd for whale.

UPON THE

DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S

HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.

Atria longe patent; fed nec cœnantibus ufqum,
Nec fomno locus eft; quam bene non habites?

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MART. Epig.

SEE, Sir, fee here is the grand approach;
This way is for his Grace's coach:

There lies the bridge, and here is the clock;
Obferve the lion and the cock,

The spacious court, the colonade,

And mark how wide the hall is made.
The chimnies are fo well defign'd
They never smoke in any wind.
This gall'ry is contriv'd for walking,
The windows to retire and talk in;
The council chamber for debate,
And all the reft are rooms of state.

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Thanks, Sir, cry'd I; it is very fine;
But where d'ye fleep, or where d' ye dine?

I find by all you have been telling

That it is a house but not a dwelling.

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.

OLD Paddy Scot, with none of the best faces,
Had a most knotty pate at folving cases;
In any point could tell you to a hair
When was a grain of honesty to spare.

Paul, "ar

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It happen'd after pray'rs one certain night,f fome far
At home he had occafion for al lighte

well To turn Socinus, Leffius, Efcobar,

Fam'd Covarruvias, and the great Navarre;
And therefore as he from the chapel came
Extinguishing a yellow taper's flame,
By which just now he had devoutly pray'd,
The useful remnant to his fleeve convey'd,
There happen'd a physician to be by
Who thither came but only as a spy
To find out others' faults, but let alone
Repentance for the crimes that were his own.
This doctor follow'd Paddy; said “He lack'd
"To know what made a facrilegious fact.”
Paddy with ftudious gravity replies,
"That is as the place or as the matter lies.
"If from a place unfacred you should take
"A facred thing, this facrilege would make;

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"Or an unfacred thing from facred place, "There would be nothing diff'rent in the case; "But if both thing and place should sacred be "Twere height of facrilege, as doctors all agre "Then," fays the Doctor, "for more light inve "To put a special cafe were not amifs.

Suppose a man should take a Common Pray's "Out of a chapel where there is fome to fpare? "A Common Pray'r!" fays Paddy; "that woun "A facrilege of an intense degree."

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"Sppofe that one should in these holydays: "Take thence a bunch of rosemary, or bays?" -"I'd not be too cenforious in that cafe, "But 't would be facrilege till from the place. "What if a man should from the chapel take "A taper's end? fhould he a fcruple make, "If homeward to his chambers he should go, "Whether it were theft or facrilege or no?” The fly infinuation was perceiv'd: Says Paddy, "Doctor, you may be deceiv'd “Unless in cafes you distinguish right; "But this may be refolv'd at the first fight. "As to the taper it could be no theft, "For it had done its duty and was left; "And facrilege in having it is none, "Because that in my fleeve I now have one.'

“ Hold, not so fast,” cries he: "pray pardon me ;

“ Maids with huge gaping wide mouths must have

three."

Betty diftorts her face with hideoussquall,
And mouth of a foot wide begins to bawl,

"Oh ho! is it so? The cafe is alter'd, Paul.
"Is that the point? I wish the three were ten;
"I warrant I find Mouth if they 'll find men.”

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HOLD FAST BELOW.

THERE was a lad, th' unluckiest of his crew,
Was ftill contriving fomething bad but new:
His comrades all obedience to him paid
In executing what designs he laid:

'Twas they should rob the orchard hẹ 'd retire ;
His foot was fafe whilft theirs was in the fire.
He kept them in the dark to that degree
None fhould prefume to be so wife as he;
But being at the top of all affairs

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The profit was his own, the mifchief theirs.

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There fell fome words made him begin to doubt The rogues would grow fo wife to find him out: He was not pleas'd with this, and so next day He cries to them, as going just to play,.. "What a rare jackdaw's neft is there! look up, 15 "You fee it is almoft at the fteeple's top." "Ah!" fays another, "we can have no hope "Of getting thither to it without a rope." Says then the flcering fpark, with courteous grin, By which he drew his infant cullies in,

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