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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,
Dear mercenary beauty,

What annual off'ring fhall I make,
Expreffive of my duty.

My

My heart, a victim to thine eyes,
Should I at once deliver,

Say, would the angry fair one prize
The gift, who flights the giver?

A bill, a jewel, watch, or toy,
My rivals give and let 'em.

If gems, or gold, impart a joy,
I'll give them

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;
I'll give thee to the devil,

AN

G

AN ELEGY

ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX,

MRS. MARY BLAIZE.

BY THE SAME.

OOD people all, with one accord,
Lament for madam Blaize,

Who never wanted a good word-
From those who spoke her praise.

The needy feldom pass'd her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor,-
Who left a pledge behind.

She ftrove the neighbourhood to please,
With manners wond'rous winning,
And never follow'd wicked ways,
Unless when he was finning,

At church, in filks and fattins new,
With hoop of monftrous fize,
She never flumber'd in her pew,-

But when he but her eyes.

Her

Her love was fought, I do aver,
By twenty beaus and more;
The king himself has follow'd her,-
When he has walk'd before.

But now her wealth and fin'ry fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all;

The doctors found, when the was dead,
Her laft diforder mortal.

Let us lament, in forrow fore,

For Kent-Street well may fay,

That had fhe liv'd a twelve-month more,-
She had not dy'd to day.

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

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