EPIGRAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 1 AM his Highness' dog at Kew; INSCRIPTION ON A PUNCH-BOWL, IN THE SOUTH-SEA YEAR, FOR A CLUB, CHASED WITH JUPITER PLACING CALLISTO IN THE SKIES, AND EUROPA WITH THE BULL. OME, fill the South Sea goblet full; The gods shall of our stock take care; Europa pleased accepts the Bull, And Jove with joy puts off the Bear. VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. NCE (says an author; where, I need Two travellers found an oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry, the dispute grew strong, 1 Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of George III. 2 This is taken from Sir William Temple's Heads designed for an Essay on Conversation. "Mr. Grantam's fool's reply to a great man that asked whose fool he was,- I am Mr. Grantam's fool-pray tell me whose fool are you?""-Roscoe. While scale in hand Dame Justice passed along. Before her each with clamour pleads the laws, Explained the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice, weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well, There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a 66 shell. We thrive at Westminster on fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster-live in peace—Adieu.” BISHOP HOUGH.1 BISHOP, by his neighbours hated, Loved and esteemed by all the nation? I'll lay my life I know the place: 'Tis where God sent some that adore him, And whither Enoch went before him. EPIGRAM. Y Lord' complains that Pope, stark mad with gardens, M Has cut three trees, the value of three farthings. "But he's my neighbour," cries the peer polite : "And if he visit me, I'll waive the right." What! on compulsion, and against my will, Let him file his bill! A lord's acquaintance? 1 See Epilogue to Satires, ii. 240. EPIGRAM.1 ES! 'tis the time (I cried), impose the chain, Destined and due to wretches selfenslaved; But when I saw such charity remain, I half could wish this people should be saved. Faith lost, and Hope, our Charity begins; Aud 'tis a wise design in pitying Heaven, If this can cover multitude of sins, To take the only way to be forgiven. ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING HAT is PRUDERY ? 'Tis a beldam, Seen with wit and beauty seldom, 'Tis a fear that starts at shadows, 'Tis (no, 'tisn't) like Miss Meadows. 1 The Countess of Hertford, in a letter to the Countess of Pomfret, dated Feb. 20, 1740, says: "The severity of the weather has occasioned greater sums of money to be given in charity than was heard of before. Mr. Pope has written two stanzas on the occasion." 2 Mary Howe, daughter of Viscount Howe and Maid of Honour to Princess Caroline. She married Lord Pembroke, and afterwards John Mordaunt, brother to the Earl of Peterborough. "A prude would never have had any charms for Mr. Pope, to whom Mrs. Howe said one day, 'You men call us strange names; some of them I don't understand. Coquetry, indeed, I guess at; but prudery,-for Heaven's sake, make me know thoroughly what that prudery is.' Mr. Pope wrote her an answer in the leaf of an ivory book.”—AYRE's Life of Pope, vol. ii. p. 48. 'Tis a virgin hard of feature, That rails at dear Lepell, and you.' ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.2 颗 KNOW the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy, be silent, and attend!) I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warped by passion, awed by rumour, And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then (Envy says), sir ?" When all the world conspires to praise her, 1 Miss Meadows and Mary Lepell were also Maids of Honour to Princess Caroline. See "The Challenge," vv. 6, 25. 2 Mrs. Howard, afterwards Countess of Suffolk. LINES TO LORD BATHURST.1 WOOD!" quoth Lewis, and with that He laughed, and shook his sides of His tongue, with eye that marked his cunning, To call things woods for what grows under 'em, Can only constitute a coppice. But if you will not take my word, See anno quint. of Richard Third; And that's a coppice called, when docked, If this a wood you will maintain, 3 An honest man, because not hanged." 1 Sent in a letter to Lord Bathurst, July 5, 1718, but first published by Mr. Mitford in his edition of Gray's correspondence (1843). 2 Erasmus Lewis. See Imitations of Horace, Sat. i. 64. 3 Thomas, the first Lord Coningsby, a zealous promoter of the Revolution of 1688.-Carruthers. III. |