WHAT! no way left to fhun th' inglorious stage, . And fave from infamy my finking age! Scarce half-alive, opprefs'd with many a year, * This translation was first printed in one of our Author's earliest works, "The Prefent State of Learning in "Europe." 12mo. 1759. But this vile hour difperfes all my ftore, THE DOUBLE THE TRANSFORMATION. AT AL E.· SECLUDED from domestic strife, Made him the happiest man alive; Such pleasures, unallay'd with care, O! But let exclamation cease, Mifs frown'd, and blush'd, and then was-married. Need we expofe to vulgar fight The raptures of the bridal night? The honey-moon like light'ning flew, Skill'd in no other arts was she, But dreffing, patching, repartee; And, juft as humour rofe or fell, By turns a flattern or a belle ; "Tis |