At last he mounts, and to his mouth, Split me cries be, Iv'e fed, methinks, Like any country vicar. Thank you dear friend,-and then he bow'd, For this your plenteous treat; Pray, come to town, my dear, and see How we at London eat. Soon after Hob to London went, Roast beef, boiled fowl, and rich minced pies, But in the height of all their mirth, A broker with a sour phiz, And interrupts their talking. Lord! Sir, says he, we're all undone ! Last Saturday's gazette will prove 3 Your *York is under twenty, Sir, And South-sea but two hundred : Then farewell all my future hopes! S'death, I am broke, I'm plunder'd! A thousand frantick tricks he play'd; Is this, says Hob, your city treat, A little plain but wholesome food, Grant me, ye Gods! a life sedate, Is but a glorious hell. ✦ The author had engaged large sums in the York-building Company. The Dog and the Shadow; or Æsop in Change-alley. In days of yore, a farmer's dog,- And squinted, east, west, north, and south, To find out something for his mouth : But now I've got, thinks he, my booty, Lest Joan should scold, or John should shoot me, For preservation's sake 'tis better To dine to-day across the water. Now here 'tis proper to be noted, That Towser's master's house was moated. So in he jumps with his tit-bit, And long'd on t'other side to get, 3 The famed Leander could not more But as the moat was smooth and clear, Bless me, quoth he, here's noble luck! MORAL. Was ever senseless dog so bit; Had ever whelp so little wit? For a mere shadow, a mere bubble. EVAN LLOYD. 1734-1776. Oh! pleasing Poet, friend for ever dear, J. WILKES. This Epitaph is inscribed upon the tomb of this Poet in Llanyhill church, on the banks of Bala Lake. It is some honour to have been praised by Wilkes, even in such verses as these. Evan Lloyd was of Jesus College, Oxford; he published, 1. The Powers of the Pen. 2. The Curate. 3. The Methodist. 4. Conversation. 5. An Epistle to David Garrick. 6. An Ode on opening the new exhibition room of the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain; each seperately in quarto. |