TO LADY FIREBRACE.* AT BURY ASSIZES. Ar length must Suffolk's beauties shine in vain, So long renown'd in B n's deathless strain? Thy charms at least, fair Firebrace, might inspire Some zealous bard to wake the sleeping lyre; For such thy beauteous mind and lovely face, Thou seem'st at once, bright nymph, a Muse and Grace. TO LYCE, AN ELDERLY LADY. YE nymphs whom starry rays invest, Engross not all the beams on high, Let Lyce share the praise. Her silver locks display the moon, Strip'd rainbows round her eyes are seen, *This lady was Bridget, third daughter of Philip Bacon, Esq. of Ipswich, and relict of Philip Evers, Esq. of that town. She became the second wife of Sir Cordell Firebrace, the last Baronet of that name (to whom she brought a fortune of £25,000), July 26, 1737. Being again left a widow in 1759, she was a third time married, April 7, 1762, to William Campbell, Esq. uncle to the present Duke of Argyle, and died July 3, 1782. Her teeth the night with darkness dyes, But some Zelinda, while I sing, Yet, spite of fair Zelinda's eye, ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, Well try'd through many a varying year, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Nor letter'd arrogance deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, The pow'r of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, No summons mock'd by chill delay, His virtues walk'd their narrow round, The busy day-the peaceful night, Then, with no fiery throbbing pain, Death broke at once the vital chain, EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN.* PHILLIPS! whose touch harmonious could re move The pangs of guilty pow'r, and hapless love, EPITAPHIUM+ IN THOMAM HANMER, BARONETTUM. Honorabilis admodum THOMAS HANMER, Wilhelmi Hanmer armigeri, è Peregrinâ Henrici North De Mildenhall in Com. Suffolciæ Baronetti sorore et hærede, Johannis Hanmer de Hanmer Baronetti Antiquo gentis suæ et titulo et patrimonio successit. * These lines are among Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies: they are nevertheless recognised as Johnson's in a meme randum of his hand-writing, and were probably written at her request. Phillips was a travelling fidler up and down Wales, and was greatly celebrated for his performance. At Hanmer church, in Flintshire. Duas uxores sortitus est; Alteram Isabellam, honore à patre derivato, de Arlington comitissam, Deindè celsissimi principis ducis de Grafton viduam dotariam: Alteram Elizabetham Thomæ Foulkes de Barton in Inter humanitates studia felicitèr enutritus, Omnes liberalium artium disciplinas avidè arripuit, Quas morum suavitate haud leviter ornavit. Postquam excessit ex ephebis, Continuò inter populares suos famâ eminens, Et comitatûs sui legatus ad Parliamentum missus, Ad ardua regni negotia per annos prope triginta se accinxit: Cumque apud illos amplissimorum virorum ordines Sed probè perpensa disertè expromere, Non minus integritatis quam eloquentiæ laude commendatus, Equè omnium, utcunque inter se alioqui dissidentium, Aures atque animos attraxit. Annoque demum M.DCC.XIII. regnant e Cum nullo tempore non difficile, Et variis et lubricis et implicatis difficillimum, Honores alios, et omnia quæ sibi in lucrum cede |