The true motive and occasion b lau Love infpires his daily fcheme; HAFIZ. *** EPIGRAMS. book and gBY OLD NICK. \? · hela ; COURTSHIP," <*** Exigua pars eft vite, quam nos vivimus, exterum omne fpatium non vita, fed tempus eft.-SENECA de Brev. Vit. 2. SMALL's the part of life we live, Kiffing fweet in amrous ftrife, That, ah! Nancy, that is life. E MARRIAGE. Diu vivendo multa, quæ non vis, vides. CICERO in Catone. LIVING long, you'll furely find Temple. Punifh'd for fome early crime, EPIGRAM. COUNSELLOR DOUBLE FEE. SLY Quillet from each fide receiv'd a retainer, And a brother confulted as to his demeanour. 46 Keep them both," said the friend, "and ceafe all your pother; You'll be Counsel for one, and of use to the other." THE IMPERIAL PURPLE [From the Oracle.] ECCE SIGNUM! IF pining maids the weeping willow wear, 'T is known they 're flighted for fome happier fair; Shepherds, depicted in the rural fcene, The poets drefs in correfponding green; Emblem of Innocence, white long has food, While purple images the ftreaming blood! How ft Napoleon fhould be thus array'd, And wear the Purple, fymbol of his trade! Brompton. EPITAPH. HERE lie the bones of an old Hag, To cool ber youthful fires; CIVIS, A NATIONAL A NATIONAL BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY TO THE LADIES. COURTED long a pretty maid, On cushions furely pins fhould ftick- I've felt the truth of what I write, I never stole a kifs, no never, But her brafs fwords were there for ever Then, when my fingers with a trill That fwarms of Frenchmen are at handi Whose name makes fuch a roar :) I'd place my Judie on the beach; Then, ere the storm increases, He'd feize the first within his reach, M 3 MIDGE. HOGARTH, HOGARTH, CHURCHILL, AND LLOYD. ONE AN ANECDOTE. NE night, after the play, during the time that Churchill and Hogarth were extremely intimate, they retired to a tavern under the Piazza, to fpend the remainder of the evening over a bottle. To make the party complete, they refolved to fend for Lloyd, one of their constant jovial companions. The only meffenger that, at that late hour, could be procured, was Poor Cafey," the well-known link-boy of the Piazza, who prefented himfelf before them, more like one of the Devil's imps, than a human creature. Churchill vowed that their meflenger would frighten poor Lloyd out of his fenfes, unless they fent fome account of him with the note, to fatisfy their friend that Cafey was really not an imp of the infernal regions. The hint was too good to escape Hogarth. At the top of the note he sketched with his pen a moft ludicrous caricature of Cafey, with his link; and Churchill wrote the following extempore lines underneath, which have never been published: To rakes who revel late at night, If oft I 've paddled with my link, To light ye home all drench'd with drink; Or a new cull ve ever wanted, I the best of houses haunted; Shoes and stockings ne'er kept me warm, Your bounty only did me harm, Put me in picture and in rhyme, And Bridewell mourn'd the thirteenth time, EPIGRAM EPIGRAM ON AN EMINENT SINGER, WHO SWORE BY HIS SOUL, THAT HIS BROGUE WAS NO MORE THAN A BIT OF A HOWL. 1 [From the Morning Chronicle.] DID ID Pat learu to fing in his own native bogs? Θέλω λεγειν Ατρείδας. [From the Morning Chronicle.] BRITAIN's navy I would fing, Nelfon's name thould wake the ftring; When I fought to fing of kings, O'er my lyre again I hung, H. IT BULLS. T was obferved by an Irish gentleman, a few days ago, while fpeaking of a certain regiment, that for three weeks he never faw any regiment improve fo little in his life; " for do you know," added he," they grow worse and worse every day." The fame gentleman having been at a ball at Tun M 4 bridge, |