Up to her godly garret after fev'n," 25 There ftarve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n. You dream of Triumphs in the rural fhade; Before you pass th' imaginary fights 35 Of Lords, and Earls, and Dukes, and garter'd Knights, While the fpread fan o'erfhades your clofing eyes; And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls !40% And while he seems to ftudy, thinks of you; Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite, Streets, Chairs, and Coxcombs rush upon my fight; Vex'd to be still in town, I knit my brow, Look four, and hum a Tune, as you may now. 50 THE THE BASSET-TABLE ΑΝ ECLOGUE. CARDELIA. SMILINDA TH CARDELIÄ. HE Baffet-Table Spread, the Tallier come; Why stays SMIL NDA in the Dreffing-Room? Rife, penfive Nymph, the Tallier waits for you: SMILINDA. Ah, Madam, fince my SHARPER is untrue, And those feign'd fighs which cheat the lift'ning CARDELIA. Is this the cause of your Romantick strains? A mightier grief my heavy heart fuftains. NOTES. 10 The Baffet Table. Only this of all the Town Eclogues was Mr. Pope's; and is here printed from a copy corrected by his own hand. The humour of it confifts in this, that the one is in love with the Game, and the other with the Sharper. As As You by Love, fo I by Fortune crofs't; SMILIND A. Is that the grief, which you compare with mine? With ease, the smiles of Fortune I refign: Would all my gold in one bad Deal were gone; 15 Were lovely SHARPER mine, and mine alone. CARDELIA. A Lover loft, is but a common care ; And prudent Nymphs against that change prepare: The KNAVE OF CLUBS thrice loft: Oh! who could guefs This fatal ftroke, this unforeseen Diftrefs! SMILIND A., See BETTY LOVET! very à propos, LOVET. Tell, tell your griefs; attentive will T ftay, Tho' time is precious, and I want fome Tea. CARDELIA. 20 25 Behold this Equipage, by Mathers wrought, With Fifty Guineas (a great Pen'worth) bought. 31 See on the Tooth-pick, Mars and Cupid strive; And both the struggling figures feem alive. Upon Upon the bottom fhines the Queen's bright Face; :S MILIND A This Snuff-Box,-- once the pledge of SHARPER'S love, When rival beauties for the Prefent ftrove; At Corticelli's he the Raffle won; Then firft his Paffion was in public shown: HAZARDIA blufh'd, and turn'd her Head afide, 40 This Snuff-Box,- on the Hinge fee Brilliants fhine: This Snuff-Box will I ftake; the Prize is mine. CARDELIA. Alas! far leffer loffes than I bear, Have made a Soldier figh, a Lover fwear. SMILINDA. But ah! what aggravates the killing fmart, The cruel thought, that ftabs me to the heart; This curs'd OMBRELIA, this undoing Fair, By whofe vile arts this heavy grief I bear; She, at whofe name I fhed thefe fpiteful tears, 45 50 55 She owes to me the very charms the wears. An An aukward Thing, when firft the came to Town; I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays; CARDELIA. Wretch that I was, how often have I fwore, When WINNALL tally'd, I would punt no more? I know the Bite, yet to my Ruin run; And fee the Folly, which I cannot fhun. SMILIND A. 66 70 How many Maids have SHARPER'S vows deceiv'd? How many curs'd the moment they believ'd? CARDELIA. But of what marble muft that breaft be form'd, 75 To gaze on Baffet, and remain unwarm'd ? When Kings, Queens, Knaves, are fet in decent rank; Expos'd in glorious heaps the tempting Bank, They ftrike the Soul, and glitter in the Eye. |