Beneath thy roof, Argyle, are bred Such thoughts as prompt the brave to lie Such flames as high in patriots burn, THE CHALLENGE. A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND,' ETC. To one fair lady out of court, And two fair ladies in, Who think the Turk1 and Pope 2 a sport, And wit and love no sin; Come these soft lines, with nothing stiff in, What passes in the dark third row, 1 Ulrick, the little Turk. 2 The Author. 8 Ladies of the Court of the Princess Caroline. I know the swing of sinful hack, Then why to courts should I repair, And rashly blame the realm of Blunderland.1 Alas! like Schutz I cannot pun, Like Grafton court the Germans; To court ambitious men may roam, In truth, by what I can discern, 4 Ireland. 5 Mentioned before in the verses to Mrs. Howe. At Leicester-Fields, a house full high, There may you meet us three to three, But should you catch the prudish itch And thus, fair maids, my ballad ends; God send the king safe landing; And make all honest ladies friends 6 To armies that are standing; Preserve the limits of those nations, And take off ladies' limitations. With a fa, la, la. 6 This Ballad was written anno 1717. THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS. Or gentle Philips will I ever sing, 2 With gentle Budgell, and with gentle Carey. EPIGRAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. I AM His Highness's dog at Kew; 1 Ambrose Philips. 8 Henry Carey. 2 Eustace Budgell. 4 Curll said, that in prose he was equal to Pope, but that in verse Pope had merely a particular knack. THE TRANSLATOR. ÖZELL, at Sanger's call, invoked his Muse, THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS. PULTENEY.4 WITH Scornful mien, and various toss of air, She looks ambition, and she moves disdain. 1 Egbert Sanger was apprentice to Jacob Tonson, and successor to Bernard Lintot. Lintot published Ozell's transla tion of Perrault's Characters, and Sanger his translation of Boileau's Lutrin, commended by Rowe. 2 A comedy by Wycherley. 8 A comedy by Rowe. 4 The daughter of John Gumley of Isleworth, who acquired his fortune by a glass manufactory. |