Alive, the foe thy dreadful vigor fled, And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: * First printed in The Bee, 1759. The original is in "Ménagiana," tom. iv. p. 200: "ÉTRENNE À IRIS. "Pour témoignage de ma flamme, Iris, du meilleur de mon âme, Quoi donc ? Attendez, je vous donne, O fille plus belle que bonne! Qui m'avez toujours refusé Je vous donne-ah! le puis-je dire? First printed in The Bee, 1759: "The elegy on Madam Blaize, and the better part of that on the Death of a Mad Dog,' are closely imitated from a wellknown French string of absurdities called 'La Chanson du Fameux La Galisse;' one of many versions of which may be found in the 'Ménagiana,' tom. iii. p. 29: "Messieurs, vous plaît-il d'ouir L'air du fameux La Galisse? Il pourra vous rejouir Pourvu qu'il vous divertissc. The needy seldom pass'd her door, She strove the neighborhood to please, At church, in silks and satins new, Her love was sought, I do aver, But now, her wealth and finery fled, Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent Street' well may say, That had she liv'd a twelvemonth more She had not died to-day. "On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caressé des belles Qui le suivirent toujours Tant qu'il marcha devant elles. "Il fut, par un triste sort, Blessé d'une main cruelle; On croit, puisqu'il est mort Que la plaie était mortelle."-CROKER. 'See note on Essay v. of Collected Essays, printed in Vol. III. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER.' WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way The rusty grate unconscious of a fire; With beer and milk arrears' the frieze was scor'd, A cap by night-a stocking all the day! 1 First printed in The Citizen of the World, Letter xxx.; and afterwards inserted, with a few variations, in "The Deserted Village," 1770. On this subject Goldsmith had projected an heroi-comic poem, as appears by one of his letters to his brother. 2 Viz.: "1. Urge no healths; 2. Profane no divine ordinances; 3. Touch no State matters; 4. Reveal no secrets; 5. Pick no quarrels; 6. Make no comparisons; 7. Maintain no ill opinions; 8. Keep no bad company; 9. Encourage no vice; 10. Make no long meals; 11. Repeat no grievances; 12. Lay no wagers." * William, Duke of Cumberland, the hero of Culloden, d. 1765. "And now imagine, after his soliloquy, the landlord to make his appearance, in order to dun him for the reckoning: "Not with that face, so servile and so gay, That welcomes every stranger that can pay; Then pull'd his breeches tight, and thus began,' etc. "All this is taken, you see, from nature. It is a good remark of Montaigne's, THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION. A TALE,1 SECLUDED from domestic strife, Made him the happiest man alive; He drank his glass and crack'd his joke, Such pleasures, unalloy'd with care, Could Cupid's shaft at length transfix Oh had the Archer ne'er come down that the wisest men often have friends with whom they do not care how much they play the fool. Take my present follies as instances of regard. Poetry is a much easier and more agreeable species of composition than prose; and could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."-GOLDSMITH, Letter to his Brother. See Letters, vol. iv. 1 First printed as Essay 26 in "Essays by Mr. Goldsmith," 1765, 12 mo. 2 Here followed, in the first edition: "Without politeness, aim'd at breeding, 3 Here followed, in the first edition : "Our alter'd parson now began |