No judges, fiddlers, dancing-masters, No pickpockets, or poetasters, Are known to honest quadrupedes ; No single brute his fellow leads. Brutes never meet in bloody fray, Nor cut each other's throats for pay. Of beast, it is confess'd, the ape Comes nearest us in human shape; Like man, he imitates each fashion, And malice is his ruling passion: But both in malice and grimaces, A courtier any ape surpasses. Behold him humbly cringing wait Upon the minister of state: View him soon after to inferiors Aping the conduct of superiors: He promises with equal air,

And to perform takes equal care.

He in his turn finds imitators;

At court, the porters, lackeys, waiters,

Their masters' manners still contract,

And footmen, lords and dukes can act.
Thus at the court, both great and small,
Behave alike, for all ape all.

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ON

YOUTH

A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH

STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING.

IMITATED FROM THE SPANISH.

SURE 't was by Providence design'd,
Rather in pity, than in hate,

That he should be, like Cupid, blind,

To save him from Narcissus' fate.

A NEW SIMILE,

IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT.

LONG had I sought in vain to find
A likeness for the scribbling kind;
T'he modern scribbling kind, who write,
In wit, and sense, and nature's spite :
Till reading, I forget what day on,
A chapter out of Tooke's Pantheon,
I think I met with something there,
To suit my purpose to a hair;
But let us not proceed too furious,
First please to turn to God Mercurius ;
You'll find him pictur'd at full length
In book the second, page the tenth :
The stress of all my proofs on him I lay,
And now proceed we to our simile.

Imprimis, pray observe his hat,

Wings upon

either side-mark that.

Well! what is it from thence we gather?

Why, these denote a brain of feather.
A brain of feather! very right,

With wit that's flighty, learning light;
Such as to modern bard's decreed.
A just comparison-proceed.

In the next place, his feet peruse, Wings grow again from both his shoes; Design'd, no doubt, their part to bear, And waft his godship through the air; And here my simile unites,

For in a modern poet's flights,

I'm sure it may be justly said,

His feet are useful as his head.

Lastly, vouchsafe t'observe his hand, Fill'd with a snake-encircled wand ; By classic authors term'd caduceus, And highly fam'd for several uses. To wit-most wondrously endu'd, poppy water half so good;

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