Like man, he imitates each fashion,

And malice is his ruling paffion:

But both in malice and grimaces,
A courtier any ape furpaffes.
Behold him, humbly cringing, wait
Upon the minifter of state:

View him foon after to inferiors,
Aping the conduct of fuperiors:
He promifes, with equal air,
And to perform takes equal care,
He, in his turn, finds imitators,

At court, the porters, lacqueys, waiters,
Their mafter's manners ftill contract,

And footmen, lords and dukes can act.
Thus at the court, both great and small

Behave alike, for all ape

all.

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DR. PARNEL.

tomb, infcrib'd to gentle PARNEL's name, speak our gratitude, but not his fame. but feels his fweetly-moral lay,

o truth through pleasure's flowery way? nes confefs'd his tuneful aid,

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that lent him genius, was repaid: im the tribute we bestow,

-y breath of fame below:
rapture from his works fhall rife,
rts thank their poet in the skies.

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FROM THE ORATORIO OF THE CAPTIVITY.

HE wretch, condemn'd with life to part,

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Still, ftill on hope relies ;

And ev'ry pang that rends the heart,

Bids expectation rife!

Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light,

Adorns and cheers the way;

And ftill, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

SONG.

MEMORY! thou fond deceiver,

Still importunate and vain;

To former joys, recurring ever,

And turning all the paft to pain.

Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppreffing,
Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe;

And he who wants each other bleffing,

In thee must ever find a foe.

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CLOWN's REPLY.

JOHN TROTT was defired by two witty peers,

To tell them the reafon why affes had ears?

"An't please you," quoth John, "I'm not given "letters,

"Nor dare I pretend to know more than my betters: "Howe'er, from this time, I shall ne'er fee your graces, "As I hope to be fav'd! without thinking on affes."

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ΕΡΙΤΑΡΗ

ON

EDWARD PURDON.*

ERE lies poor NED PURDON, from mifery freed,
Who long was a bookseller's hack;

He led fuch a damnable life in this world,

I don't think he'll with to come back.

*Who tranflated Voltaire's HENRIADE.

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