VERSE S, OCCASIONED BY A COMPARISON WHICH WAS MADE BETWEEN A YOUNG † LADY OF QUALITY, OF DISTINGUISHED BEAUTY AND MERIT, AND MISS LAWRENCE. ASPASIA, Laura, lovely pair! Each with love's fires the bofom warm, Afpafia, birth and titles grace, Yet is the humble, mild and free; While Laura's ftem no heralds trace, Yet every look has majesty. When blushes paint Afpafia's face, When awful grace and dignity, True grace and greatnefs are confin'd. Ꭰ Afpafia, Lady D. S-- Afpafia, every tongue muft own, Though blefs'd with ev'ry charm and grace, A lowly maid, in mind and face, And, Laura, thou this leffon hear, Whom pomp and vanity furround. THE NAIAD OF BATH. TO COLONEL S-----. EAR col'nel, you enjoin'd the task, As eafy me to grant; 'Tis very easy to agree, To feek what both we want. You bid me fing a hymn to health, Without her favours bleft? Come, Come, goddess, come, propitious hear, And lull our pains to rest. I fung;-the goddess heard my prayer, -But, oh! ye invalids beware How you approach the pump! for there There, while her hands deal health around, And kills us through her eyes. But what kind caution e'er could fave, Which wounded you quite through the heart, A NEW TALE GRAFTED ON AN OLD STORY. THRO' Moorfields, at the peep of day, A ranting, purfc-proud, thoughtless throng, And bright fpring fpurs, and jemmy boots; A bedlamite, by chance let out, No, he's our 'fquire (reply'd the other) But loves me better than a brother: And And well he may, for ne'er a man And fhews more fenfe, if I may fay't, 66 "Well (faid the firft) and pray what hire "May you have yearly from the 'fquire ?” A fcore (faid he) of yellow boys, A waistcoat lac'd, unfoil'd and clever, Tempts him to throw me half an ounce ; "Has he a fon ?" rejoin'd the fool! Ay, but he's boarded out at fchool. "What has his tutor by the " As much as I, or very near. D 3 year "Is |