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In a Pindarick Ode.

App, O! happy! is his fate, "Whose thoughts are always right; Whefe zeal the wicked can't abate; Whom no ill words delight: But who the law of God pursues, In all he thinks, in all he does, And, only earnest to obey,

flakes it his fludy night and day.

II.
Like fome fair tree a brook befide,
Whafe waters nourish as they glide,
And keep it ever green s
Which blooms cover in the fpring,
Which autumn's golden honours bring;
So fhall this man be feen.
III.

For God, in avhom he puts his trufts
Is ever good, is ever juft,
And will his righteous fervant give
Wherewith in peace and joy to live.

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With thee; alas! my tender years were train'd;
With thee, well pleas'd, I ev'ry toil fuftain'd;
With thee my youth in early friendship join'd,
Copy'd the virtues of thy op'ning mind.
But ah! can Friendship's tears appeafe the
tomb!

Relentless Death can Friendship's tears o'ercome!

Far from thy Country and thy Friends remov'd,
From all who lov'd you, and from all you lov'd,
A foreign tomb contains thy mould'ring frame,
And foreign characters exprefs thy name:
By ftrangers thy laft obfequies were paid;
By ftrangers in the grave thy Corfe was laid.
Was there no Friend, no weeping Parent nigh,
To ftretch thy limbs, and clofe thy fading eye;
To foothe the pangs of agonizing death,
Mark the last word, and catch the parting

breath?

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wings,

And Heav'ns glad choir fublimer numbers fings: There a fond Brother's Ghoft expects thy Shade,

And hails thee to the mansions of the dead. Ye kindred-fouls, fair victims to the tomb, Loft to your parents in your earliest bloom, There by dread Heav'n's tremendous King approv❜d,

Love in thofe regions-as on earth you lov'd! CEASE then, Fair NYMPH, let tears no longer flow,

Nor taint their pleasure with a Sifter's woe;
Favour'd of Heav'n, of Fate thou darling care,
Thou only Hope, and fole furviving Fair,
Thou fhalt a finking Family retrieve,
And both thy Brothers fhall in thee survive;
In thee a Parent find his last relief,
And, chear'd by thee, a Friend forget his grief:
On thee fhall Heav'n the choiceft bounties fhed,
And dart its influence on thy radiant head;
Joys in proportion to thy charms prepare,
And make you happy, as it made you fair.
Awake! thou beauteous MAID! thy tears
difpell,

And the loud tempeft in thy bofom quell;
Sufpend thy Grief-bid Sorrow cease to flow,
And let thy Beauty glad the House of Woe.

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The warbling linnet, gently cag'd, With thoughts of hard refraint exrag'd,

Flies to the fields to feek relief; But there is fure to find his death.

VII.

Ah! lovely Fair! let pity reign, Nor more appear upon the plain! If thousands by your looks you kill, You should in mercy thousands heal!

VIII.

Oh! that my plaint your breast might

move,

For fmile or frown, I still must love! The partive lamb, beneath the knife, Salutes the hand that takes his life.

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An ODE to WM P--T--Y, Esq; Enote from Liberty and Truth, By Fortune's crime, my early youth Drank Error's poifon'd springs, Taught by dark Creeds and Myftic Law, Wapt up in Reverential Awe,

I bow'd to Priefts and Kings.

Soon Reafon dawn'd, with troubled fight
I caught the glimpfe of painful light,
Afflicted and afraid:

Too weak it fhone to mark my way;
Enough, to tempt my steps to ftray
Along the dubious fhade.

Reftlefs I roam'd, when from afar,
LO, HOOKER fhines; the friendly ftar
Sends forth a fteady ray:
Thus chear'd, and eager to purfue,
mount, till, glorious to my view,
LOCKE fpreads the realms of day.
Now warm'd with noble SIDNEY's page,
I pant with all the Patriot's rage;

Now wrapt in PLATO's dream, WithMORE and HARRINGTON around, I tread fair Freedom's magic ground,

And trace the flatt'ring scheme,
But foon the beauteous vifion flies,
And hideous fpectres now arife,
Corruption's direful bane;
The partial Judge perverting Laws,
The Priests forfaking Virtue's caufe,
And Senates flaves to Gain.
Vainly the pious Artift's toil
Would rear to heav'n a mortal pile
On fome immortal plan;
Within a fure, tho' varying date,
Confin'd, alas! is ev'ry ftate,
Of Empire and of Man.

What tho'the Good, the Brave, the Wife,
With adverfe force undaunted rife,

To break th' eternal doom?
Tho' Cato bled, tho' Tully spoke,
Tho' Brutus dealt the godlike stroke,
Yet perish'd fated Rome.

To fwell fome future tyrant's pride,
Good FLEURY pours the golden tide
On Gallia's fmiling thores:
Once more her fields fhall thirft in vain
For wholfome ftreams of honest gain,
While Rapine wastes het stores,

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Serenely glorious George his favay

Conciliates to his crown our hearts And every law thofe hearts abey,

Proportion'd happiness imparts. To tell their wants, and ask relief, Is all the happy fubjects care; To grant the laws that heal the grief, Is more than Kings defpotick dare. RECIT. Say, myftick Fanus, whofe intentive eye, The vaft record of fate furveys; Thou haft feen the oldeft empires dye,

And infant wars new kingdoms raife: In all thy volumes from the world's age, Where happy flates are mark'd at large, Can't thou produce a fairer fmiling page, Than what recounts the reign of George?

AIR.
George the fceptre gently fwaying,
Makes his laws the land's delight;
Chearful fubjects laws obeying,

Guard and love the royal right..
Mutyal

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Mutual blefings thus endearing,
Reach the height of human joy;
George protecting, we revering,

What can Albion's weal annoy?

CHORUS.
Her whiter cliffs while feas fhall beat,
The furge repell'd shall roll the found
Of Albion's happiness compleat

To fhores of wond'ring worlds around.
Of mighty realms remote poffeft,
Defpatick Princes bence shall fee,
To make the Monarch great and bleft,
The happy fubject must be free.

To the author of the SCOTS MAGAZINE.
Sir,

S an wish

know never wrote more than fix or eight
lines at a time in my life: my octa-
feldom exceed-
fions for ink and paper
Madam, your
ing the length of
fighing Admirer, Adorer, or Slave (ac-
cording to the age of the Lady addrefs'd)
will gaze his eyes out to-night from the
fide-box in Drury Lane, or at the Opera.

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-That is well remember'd, the lofs of the ravishing Italians is the most moving fubject I could ftumble on. Reformation has long been cried for by my aunt and grandmother, though I cannot suppose them to have influenc'd an event of such moment; but, however it was accomplished, 'tis certain that Heidegger was reduced to the ne

As you infance of the fuccefs I wife ceffity of advertifing the Opera fubfcri

lent you this little compofition; which, as it has been admired by the few who have yet seen it, may not be difagree

able to your

Aberdeen, Jan. 17.

Readers.

I am, &c.

SONG.

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To the author of the SCOTS MAGAZINE.
Sir,

A! ha Split me if I can

ptions in the paultry news-papers, and that fatal prefage was followed by a notice of the fale of the furniture of the enchanting Signora Strada. Because this unexpected flight of the Italians is fomewhat difficult to account for, that rogue Harry Cary infifts, that they were driven from among us by the roaring of the Dragon of Wantley; and, on that prefumption, has given us a fecond part, which he calls Margery, or A worfe plague than the Dragon; which has been very coolly received, as is the conftant fate of More Laft Words of all kinds: and his boafted Lampe was no fooner lighted a second time, but out it went.

And what is worst of all for this facetious writer, he has, by this last attempt, forfeited the good-will of all the married Ladies, which he gained by his Honeft Yorkshire-Man; for; by calling More of Morehall's fpoufe a wore plague than the dragon, he has banish'd all hope of her being a comforter, friend and phyfician.

heard You have doubtless long ago of the hoftilities between us and the French at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket: Which had like to have been followed by a more general engagement in one of our Great Theatres: for Meff. Francifque and Le Sage, managers of the French company, having in an advertisement (begging leave to

Hgine what induced you to chufe at three nights in one of the patent

me for a correfpondent; who you must

theatres) affirm'd, that in February laft

they

they obtained leave to bring over a French company to perform in the Haymarket; fome of the rough curs who turn'd their backs on the French stage, when the curtain drew up, with a loud chorus of the Old English Roaft-Beef, had ill-nature enough to demand of the faid Frenchmen, previous to any indul gence from the publick, Who granted the leave they mentioned? Which que tion never being anfwered, the town joined in a negative to their request; and the matter of Covent-garden theatre affured the publick, that the liberty of his houfe was granted only on condition of a general approbation; and that he would fooner fee the French go without their benefits, than have his house empty the whole fucceeding feafon.

Pantomine entertainments please as much as ever; and the art of criticism on those performances increases beyond belief; nothing being more frequent now, than, inftead of Rival Hamlets, Cafars and Catos, to hear of contendr ing Harlequins, Columbines and Pierots; and you would be furprized to hear with what judgment fome of our fmarts will defcant on the thake of a head, hand, or foot.-Nay, fo far has this tafte prevailed, that Shakespear's felf has been made to comply with it in the very wort thing of this kind, called Robin Goodfellow; and I muft own that I was fhock'd at the name on fuch an occafion, as it feemed a violence to nature to introduce any character in which the is vifible along with Harlequin, Columbine, or Pierot.

youth, as must greatly redound to the honour of the Gentlemen who have occafion'd it,

The late Mourning kept us fo long in a livery, that our paffion for embroidery, lace, &c. runs fo high as to make our new cloaths, instead of an ornament, prove a burden to our fhoulders.-Muflin was becoming fashionable; but the encouragement due to the Irish manufactures in holland, cambrick, lawn, &c, has almoft already ftem'd the torrent.

Before I conclude, I would proteft against all manner of carping at my bad English, want of method; but my wrift is fo cramp'd that I am scarcely able to tell you how much I am Your bumble fervant,

London,
Jan. 2.

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S. TOUPEE,

EDINBURGH, January 1739. HE Directors of the Royal Infirmary elected the Lord Provoft of Edinburgh, the Lord Prefident of the Seffion, the Lords Minto and Elchies, the Lord Advocate, Mr. James Graham (of Airth) and Mr. Peter Wedderburn Advocates, Commiffioner George Drummond, Dr. Robert Lowis Prefident of the College of Phyficians, John Clerk, John Lermonth, Andrew Plummer, and Charles Aliton, Doctors of Phyfick, Alexander Monro Profeffor of Anatomy, Thomas Heriot late Dean of Gild, Mr. Patrick Cuming Minister, Ronald Dunbar Writer to the Signet, The adapting Pantomines to children, William Mitchel Surgeon, Deacon-conunder the name of Lilliputians, has met veener, George Cuningham and Wilwith more approbation than I at first liam Wardrop Surgeons, as Directors believed it would have been thought to for the year enfuing. deferve. To fee a little fellow, juft breech'd, take upon him the airs of his papa, leer, kifs, and ogle at a little poppet, who coquettes and intrigues with as much feeming delight as could be fuppofed to animate her mother on the fame occafion;-to fee a young rogue attain the theory of cuckoldom before his primer, and a girl the art of jilting before the has touch'd her fampler-gives fuch hope of the early improvement of

Publick corporations, as well as private perfons of all ranks, feem to vie with one another who fhall encourage this undertaking moft. The capital ftock is confiderably increafed. The contributers were erected into a corporation, with perpetual fucceffion, by his Majefty's royal charter, dated 25th Auguft 1736, by the name of THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH. By this charter the Infir

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