try; every little neighbour, defirous of reaping profit from his eafinefs of temper, laid fome pretended claim to his lands, and he had twenty law-fuits on his hands in confequence of his endeavouring to avoid one. fold his eftate; but here he To remedy this he was in another error.— He knew not what to do with his money.-He was advised to venture it in purchasing a share in a valuable mine.—The manager of the affair was a man of gaiety and address; he trufted his money in his hands; but all that gaiety, all that address, preserved him not from breaking in a twelve-month's time.-This event ruined Mondor; he saw the infignificancy of all fublunary things; he fled to a melancholy retirement, where he pined away and died with mere vexation. This was his greatest and laft of errors. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. BY DR. GOLDSMITH, SAY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, What annual off'ring fhall I make, My My heart, a victim to thine eyes, Say, would the angry fair one prize A bill, a jewel, watch, or toy, If gems, or gold, impart a joy, when I get 'em, I'll give but not the full-blown rofe, Or rofe-bud more in fashion; Such fhort-liv'd off'rings but difclofe A tranfitory paffion. I'll give thee fomething yet unpaid, Not lefs fincere, than civil: I'll give thee-Ah! too charming maid; AN G AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. BY THE SAME. OOD people all, with one accord, Who never wanted a good word- The needy feldom pass'd her door, She ftrove the neighbourhood to please, At church, in filks and fattins new, But when he but her eyes. Her Her love was fought, I do aver, But now her wealth and fin'ry fled, The doctors found, when the was dead, Let us lament, in forrow fore, For Kent-Street well may fay, That had fhe liv'd a twelve-month more,- OLI SABINUS AND OLINDA. BY THE SAME. IN a fair, rich and flourishing country, whose cliffs are washed by the German ocean, lived Sabinus, a youth formed by nature to make a conqueft wherever he thought proper; but the conftancy of his difpofition fixed him only with Olinda. He was, indeed, fuperior to her in fortune, but that defect on her fide was so amply fupplied by her merit, that none was thought more worthy of his regards than fhe. He loved her, he was beloved by her; and, in a fhort time time, by joining hands publickly, they avowed the union of their hearts. But, alas! none, however fortunate, however happy, are exempt from the fhafts of envy, and the malignant effects of ungoverned appetite. How unsafe, how deteftable, are they, who have this fury for their guide. How certainly will it lead them from themselves, and plunge them in errors they would have shuddered at, even in apprehenfion. Ariana, à lady of many amiable qualities, very nearly allied to Sabinus, and highly esteemed by him, imagined herself flighted, and injuriously treated, fince his marriage with Olinda. By uncautiously suffering this jealousy to corrode in her breast, she began to give a loose to paffion; fhe forgot those many virtues, for which fhe had been fo long, and fo juftly applauded. Caufelefs fufpicion, and mistaken resentment, betrayed her, into all the gloom of discontent; fhe fighed without ceasing; the happiness of others gave her intolerable pain; fhe thought of nothing but revenge. How unlike what she was, the cheerful, the prudent, the compaffionate Ariana! She continually laboured to disturb an union fo firmly, so affectionately founded, and planned every scheme which she thought most likely to difturb it. Fortune feemed willing to promote her unjust intentions; the circumftances of Sabinus had been |