But I, whom no fuch fools can awe, Who mind not all they fay a ftraw, Rather than with their praise be cram'd, Should deem it honour to be damn'd: For what fo keenly ridicules As the puff flummery of fools? But if their feeble lash you fear, And will not by this compass steer, Once more I'll aid you, frank and free, With counfel, and without a fee: Exert the whole of your ill-nature, And invocate the mufe of fatire; Prove undeniably at once Ralph Gs both a knave and dunce: Afcanius may fupply one proof Think you that piece too ftale and common? CANCER. CON The picture, Epitaph on herself, The hours of love, four elegies. Elegy I. Elegy II. Elegy III. Elegy IV. Page 88 89 90 92 95 The genius of Britain, Friendship and love, A fong, Infcription for an oak, Ode for the king's birth-day, Infcription for gen. Wolfe's monument, Song in praife of woman, Cloe's foliloquy, The Devil-Painter, Further advice to an author, END OF VOL. VI. |