The Learn'd themselves we Book-worms name, The Blockhead is a Slow-worm ; The Fops are painted Butterflies, First from a Worm they take their rife, And in a Worm decay. The Flatterer an Earwig grows; Thus Worms fuit all conditions; Mifers are Muck-worms, Silk-worms Beaus, And Death-watches Physicians. That Statesmen have the Worm, is feen Their Confcience is a Worm within, Ah Moore! thy fkill were well employ'd, If thou could't make the Courtier void O learned Friend of Abchurch-Lane, Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Ev'n Button's Wits to Worms fhall turn, SONG, by a Perfon of Quality. Written in the Year 1733. I. FLUTT'RING fpread thy purple Pinions, I a Slave in thy Dominions; II. Mild Arcadians, ever blooming, III. Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping, IV. Cynthia, tune harmonious Numbers; V. Gloomy Pluto, King of Terrors, VI. Mournful Cypress, verdant Willow, VII. Melancholy smooth Maander, With thy flow'ry Chaplets crown'd. VIII. Thus when Philomela, drooping, On a certain LADY at Court. I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy be filent, and attend!) I know a reasonable Woman, Handfome and witty, yet a Friend. Not warp'd by Paffion, aw'd by Rumour, Not grave thro' Pride, nor gay thro' Folly, An equal Mixture of good Humour, And fenfible foft Melancholy. "Has fhe no faults then (Envy fays) Sir?" When all the World confpires to praise her, On his GROTTO at Twickenham, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, and MINERALS. THOU wave 5 Shines a broad Mirror thro' the shadowy Cave; After ver. 6. in the MS. VARIATIONS. You fee that Ifland's wealth, where, only free, e. Britain is the only place on the globe which feels not Tyranny even to its very entrails. Alluding to the condemnation of Criminals to the Mines, one of the inflictions of civil justice in most Countries. The thought was exceeding natural and proper in this place, where the Poet was defcribing a Grotto incrufted and adorned with all forts of Minerals, collected, by the means of commerce, from the four quarters of the Globe." VER. 11. Where British fighs from dying Wyndham ftole,] In his MS. it was thus, To Wyndham's breaft the patriot paffions stole, which made the whole allude to a certain Anecdote of not much confequence to any but the parties concerned. -NOTES. On bis Grotto.] The improving and finishing his Grotto was the favourite amufement of his declining Years; and the beauty of his poetic genius, in the difpofition and ornaments of this romantic recefs, appears to as much advantage as in his best contrived Poems. VER. 9. Egerian Grott,] Alluding to Numa's projecting his fyftem of Politics in this Grott, affifted, as he gave out, by the Goddess Ægeria. Where British fighs from dying WYNDHAM ftole, Let fuch, fuch only, tread this facred Floor, To Mrs. M. B. on her BIRTH-DAY. H be thou bleft with all that Heav'n can fend, Not with those Toys the female world admire, Riches that vex, and Vanities that tire.. Let Joy or Eafe, let Affluence or Content, VARIATIONS. VER. 15. Originally thus in the MS. And oh fince Death must that fair frame deftroy, Die, by fome fudden Ecftafy of Joy; In fome foft dream may thy mild foul remove, 10 15 20 |