They never importune his grace,
Nor ever cringe to men in place;
Nor undertake a dirty job,

Nor draw the quill to write for Bob.
Fraught with invective they ne'er go
To folks at Paternoster-row;
No judges, fiddlers, dancing-masters,
No pickpockets, or poetasters,
Are known to honest quadrupeds;
No single brute his fellows leads;
Brutes never meet in bloody fray,
Nor cut each other's throats, for pay.
Of beasts, it is confess'd, the ape
Comes nearest us in human shape:
Like man he imitates each fashion,
And malice is his ruling passion;
But both in malice and grimaces,

A courtier any ape surpasses.
Behold him, humbly cringing, wait
Upon the minister of state;

View him soon after to inferiors
Aping the conduct of superiors:

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He promises with equal air,

And to perform takes equal care.
He in his turn finds imitators:

At court, the porters, lackeys, waiters,
Their masters' manners still contract

And footmen, lords, and dukes can act.

Thus at the court, both great and small

Behave alike for all ape all.

58

A MADRIGAL.'

WEEPING, murmuring, complaining,
Lost to every gay delight—

Myra, too sincere for feigning,

Fears the approaching bridal night.

Yet why impair thy bright perfection,
Or dim thy beauty with a tear?
Had Myra follow'd my direction,

She long had wanted cause of fear.

Printed in The Bee, 1759. No. 3. Anonymous. I have adopted the improved text of Mr. Evans, 1780.—This madrigal is imitated from the French of Saint-Pavin, whose name occurs in the writings of Boileau and Madame de Sévigné. His poems were collectively edited in 1759.

STANZAS

ON

THE TAKING OF QUEBEC.

AMID the clamor of exulting joys,

Which triumph forces from the patriot heart, Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice,

And quells the raptures which from pleasures start.

O Wolfe, to thee a streaming flood of woe,

Sighing we pay, and think e'en conquest dear; Quebec in vain shall teach our breast to glow,

While thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear.

Printed, says Mr. Prior, in The Busy-body, 1759. No. 7. I have adopted the text of Mr. Evans, 1780.-The action before Quebec took place on the 13th of September, 1759. The death of Wolfe, amid the shout of victory, was much lamented. Goldsmith observes on the event: "It is the misfortune of humanity, that we can never know true greatness till that moment when we are going to lose it."

Alive, the foe thy dreadful vigor fled,

And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes; Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead

Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise!