The Learn'd themfelves we Book-worms name, Is aptly term'd a Glow worm: The Fops are painted Butterflies, First from a Worm they take their rise, And in a Worm decay. The Flatterer an Earwig grows ; Thus Worms fuit all conditions; Mifers are Muck-worms, Silk-worms Beaus, And Death-watches Physicians. That Statefinen have the Worm, is feen By all their winding play; Their Confcience is a Worm within, Ah Moore! thy skill were well employ'd, If thou could't make the Courtier void O learned friend of Abchurch-Lane, Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Ev'n Button's Wits to Worms shall turn, SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY. Written in the Year 1733. I. FLUTT'RING Spread thy purple pinions, Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart; I a flave in thy dominions; Nature must give way to art. II. Mild Arcadians, ever blooming, I I I. Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping, Him the boar, in filence creeping, I V. Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers: Bright Apollo, lend thy choir. V. Gloomy Pluto, King of terrors, Lead me to the crystal mirrors, V I. * Mournful Cyprefs, verdant Willow, VII. Melancholy fmooth Maander, VIII. Thus when Philomela, drooping, See the bird of Juno stooping; ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy be filent, and attend!) I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a frien Not warp'd by paffion, aw'd by rumour, » Has she no faults then (Envy says ) Sir? « When all the world confpires to praise her. ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM COMPOSED OF Marbles, Spars, Gemms, Ores, and Minerals. THOU Wh HOU who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent · wave Shines a broad mirror thro' the shadowy cave; Where ling'ring drops from min'ral roofs diftil, And pointed cryftals break the sparkling rill, Who dare to love their country, and be poor. TO Mrs. M. B. ON HER BIRTH-DA Y. Он H be thou bleft with all that Heav'n ean fend, Long health, long youth, long pleasure, and a friend: Not with those toys the female world admire, With added years if life bring nothing new, Let joy or cafe, let affluence or content, |