She's dreft compleat from head to foot, So flies, when wintry seasons reign, Nor dare t'attempt the skies; MR. FOOTE'S ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. AFTER A PROSECUTION AGAINST HIM FOR A LIBEL. HUSH! let me fearch before I fpeak aloud With art laconic noting all that's faid, And roufe the clamorous legions of the bar! At Athens once, fair queen of arms and arts, There dwelt a citizen of mod'rate parts; Precife his manner, and demure his looks, His mind unletter'd tho' he dealt in books; Am'rous, tho' old; tho' dull, lov'd repartee; And penn'd a paragraph most daintily: He aim'd at purity in all he faid, And never once omitted eth or ed; In hath and doth was rarely known to fail, With wits and lords this man was much delighted, And once (it has been faid) was near being knighted. One Ariftophanes (a wicked wit Who never heeded grace in what he writ) Then Peter-Petrus was his claffic name, The The fee fecur'd, the lawyer ftrokes his band, "For rules of poetry a'n't rules of courts: it." A Grecian conftable took up the poet; ΤΗ A BAL LA D. HE fun was hot, the hay grew dry; The ruddy damfel ply'd the rake, The sturdy hind the fork. When underneath a spreading oak, Colin and Sylvia sat, View'd in repose the rural toil, Oft had the youth his fuit preferr'd, The maid as oft denied: A virgin's wishes rul'd her heart, Colin obferv'd her eyes, and then How fwectly, foftly fing, he cries, All nature fmiles, but I meet nought Tho' miles the earth, tho' fweetly fing My off ring is a faithful heart; A richer can I make? If love can afk, can wish for more, The richer off'ring take. These milk-white flocks, these lowing herds; All, all I have is thine; Much more than thefe fhould I poffefs, If I could call thee mine. Ceafe to be cruel, ftubborn maid; Hear and reward my truth. Ceafe foolish, foolish youth. 16 If nought but thefe complaining tales We virgins hear from men; 'Tis better e'en to wed at once, Than hear them o'er again. W. B AN INDIAN ANECDOTE. FROM BOSSU'S NOUVEAUX VOYAGES AUX INDES OCCIDENTALES. ΤΗ HE world has ever confidered with the higheft veneration, thofe who have devoted themselves to death, for the glory, or fafety of their country and friends." Regulus, Leonidas, the fix famous burghers of Calais, with other great examples which occur in hiftory, have in all ages been july admired, as difplaying the greatest nobleness of foul; whilft many particulars of their history have been efteemed fabulous by critics as beyond the powers of human refolution: and yet, in the hiftory of those people, whom we call favages, and whom we are too apt indifcriminately to treat with contempt, and confider as incapable of any fentiment above the level of the animal creation; in thefe we often find inftances of great |