38 Poetical ESSAYS in JANUARY, 1755. CHORUS. Such a period of glory fince the first Nor man king, [we fing, Such a period, &c. AIR. By Mr. SAVAGE. Such a period of glory, &c. Be joyful! let the grateful world acclaim, name. ASONG, written by a Bridegroom above an bundred Years ago. From the Letters concerning Tafte. AWAY, let nought to love displeasing, My Winifreda, move thy fear, With pompous titles grace our blood, And that's the only life to live. How should I love the pretty creatures, Whilft round my knees they fondly clung, To fee 'em look their mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue! To WILLIAM LYTTLETON, Esq; youngest O, gentle youth to diftant climes A British fenate has applauding hung, Already fame to bind thy brows prepares And fondly courts thee to the Indian shore. If life be lengthen'd to experienc'd age. great, Form'd by his culture to adorn the state; Blefs'd foil, blefs'd cultor, ever pleas'd to find The patriot virtues rifing in thy mind; Tranfplanted fair to Carolina's plains. Be this in India, as in Britain, known And Carolina blefs thy patriot-name. To a LADY that fings a very good Song. 1. And all the great ones much shall wonder,HEN Polly deigns to raise her How they admire fuch little folk. Through youth and age, in love excelling, We'll hand in hand together tread ; Sweet fmiling peace shall crown our dwelling, [bed. And babes, fweet fmiling babes our voice, The Sirens fong I deem but noife, And call them all but jarring choir : Not 'merry Whilft here beneath the boxen tree I fing by it infpir'd the wherry, Sing hey down derry! Oh, the rumbling, bubling wherry! Your Frontin'ack, Champaign or Sherry: None like the golden flood that comes, Mellow and fparkling from the wherry. Oh the, &c. Thofe foreign bowls with poifon flow, And fend you foon to Charon's ferry; But no'er the fooner will you go, By good October from the wherry. Your Ganges and Patolian tide, Not half to precious liquors carry, Nor with fuch golden currents glide As does the clear enriching wherry. Oh the, &c. No fifhy Naid foils the flood, Since its fweet current thus can cheer ye: But fome fuperior pow'r bestow'd Immortal nectar on the wherry. Oh the, &c. But barley mellow'd by the wherry. As of the Nilus Egypt boafts to 39 PROLOGUE TO HERMINIUS and ESPASIA*, a Tragedy, as it was acted at the Theatre in Edinburgh. By a FRIEND. WHEN learning firft diffus'd her flow; light [night; Around our ifle, and chas'd the Gothick The tragick mufe appear'd, in awful woe, Conftrain'd the figh to rife, the tear to [heart, With touch of paffion, pierc'd the flinty And polish'd rude Barbarians by her art. In happy England, matchless Shakespear fhone, [his own. Who charm'd the mind with magick all To rage he rous'd, to pity thrill'd the foul, [to pole. And glanc'd with fancy's eye from pole Him Dryden, Otway, follow'd, in the race Of genius, but with far unequal pace : fame, her caufe; The best, the fairest judges of her claim, The bufkin'd Scotian mufe now brings [plaufe! In tears the pleads, the fues for your apA wand'rer long, with transport the re[burns! turns, And, for your dearer praife, her bosom Our bard the fends, foft pity to infufe; To pity, hapless love the foul fubdues! This night for him, let her not fue in vain, [ftrain! She'll fill your ears with yet a loftier The mufe once cherish'd, happier bards fhall rife, [thern skies! And future Shakefpears light our nor See our Mag, for luft year, p. 407. 40 Poetical ESSAYS in JANUARY, 1755. O if to-night your breafts were taught to With thrilling pity, wak'd by tender woe! pains, Who counts your generous tears, her no- On feeing Mifs ISABELLA WILKINSON fer- From fo much Beauty, So much Art, LOW to believe, ftrong prejudice my SLO Fort, At first I gave no credit to report ; I then could scarce give credit to my eyes. Anfower to the ENIGMA in our Mag, Spoken Extempore, upon facing a Man die raving mad, that bad lately been bit by a Mad-Dog. [clofe; PLAGU'D he the man with more than OME Alecto, and lend me thy torch, To Mr. Town, on bis excellent Paper an T name, HE dupes of fashion, to preferve a [(word; Aim'd at each other's breasts the tilting Till STEELE the phantom honour laugh'd to fhame, An airy nothing, and an empty word! So when the wretch with rash and defperate hand. [cord; Falls by the fteel, the bullet, or the The murderer of himfelf thou dar'ft to brand, [a lord. The gamefter and the bankrupt, though With wit like thine the Tatler charm'd our isle ; [page. Like thine, the chafte Spectator's moral Shame of his country, St. John's vaunted ftile to age. Shall perish they hall live from age Thee too pofterity with fame fhall crown, And join with ADDISON the name of Town. common woes; That doth on dogs a heavy tax oppofe! Keep us, O fave us from their deadly rage, F. T. Wrote at the End of the Fifth Volume of the late Lord BOLINGBROKE's Works. SUCE UCH are th' alluring ftrains of St. At once an honour and reproach to men! name! GRANTICOLA. N. N. . THE • This Skelton (who was the merry post-laureat to Henry the 7th and 8tb) died the 21st of June, Anno 1529. and was buried by John Churchyard the poet. In the Tatler, Vide Lord Bolingbreke's Works, Vol. III. p. 485, 6, 7, 8. Vol. IV. p. 379. THE Monthly Chronologer. a IN the 11th of last month, about three in the afternoon, there was violent flash of lightning, accompanied with a furprizing clap of thunder, at Newton-Juxta Tattenhall, in Cheshire, by which one Pritchard, a farmer in that neighbourhood, and his horfe, were killed. There was a hole in his hat thro' which a man's hand might pafs; part of the ribband of his wig was taken away; upon his fore. head, above the right temple, was a wound above an inch in length, as if made by an edged inftrument; upon his breaft and neck were fome large spots of á red inflammatory colour, and the kin the was taken off in two or three places; buttons were ftruck off his coat, his gloves fhattered, and his breeches, upon the infide of the right thigh, were much torn, as was his right boot from the top to the fole; above his right knee, and from thence to the calf of his leg, the flesh was difcoloured, and in fome places the skin off. A yearly bill of mortality for the city and fuburbs of Dublin, ending the 22d of December, 1754Males buried Females buried Total buried 932 965 1897 72 Increased in burials this year Males baptized 850 Females baptized 922 THURSDAY, 9. A circumftantial relation of the late eruption of Mount Vefuvius, fent by Mr, Jemineau, the British conful at Naples, and read this day before the Royal Society, makes it more terrible than the ac count given from Paris. The lava (or burning matter thrown out *) was a mile in breadth, had extended five miles, and it was feared, that the confequences thereof would prove much more fatal than thofe of any eruption that has happened fince Herculaneum was destroyed. WEDNESDAY, 15. This morning, about one o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. Hurlton's, hairmerchant, in Hand-Court, Holborn, which burnt with fuch violence, that a printer's materials in the fame house were entirely confumed, and confiderable da. mage done to the adjacent houses. This day was held a court of commoncouncil, when the committee appointed to enquire, whether the conftruction of a new bridge might any ways prejudice the navigation, prefented a report, fetting forth, that it would greatly obftru&t the fame, and be very prejudicial to the commerce of this city. Whereupon a motion was made, that the court should agree to the faid report; but that being oppofed, a debate arofe,, which continued near three hours, and the question being put for agreeing to the report, it was car ried in the negative: A divifion was then defired, and the lord-mayor appointing tellers, there appeared, For agreeing to the report, 10 MONDAY, Jan. 6. On Monday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the ftables belonging to the Right Hon. the dowager lady Carpenter, in Lee's Mews, North-AudleyAtreet, which burnt down two ftables, burnt the coachman's child to death, and two horses. The lords commiffioners of the Treafury having been informed, that an Irish fcheme is now on foot for a duplicate on the Utrecht lottery, have given directions to their follicitor to profecute, with the utmoft feverity of the law, all fuch as fhall be any ways concerned in publishing any fuch schemes, or buying or felling any fuch chances or tickets. January, 1755. According to the chemifts, who have analysed this matter, it confifts of iron, lead, tin, filver, and fulphur, but chiefly earth. When it is cold, it cuts almost like marble, and is applied 10 feveral ufes. Mcft of the fireets of Naples are paved with it. |