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Such, fuch emotions fhould in Britons rife,
When prefs'd by want and weakness DENNIS lies
Dennis, who long had warr'd with modern Huns,
Their Quibbles routed, and defy'd their Puns
A defp'rate Bulwark, sturdy, firm, and fierce
Against the Gothic Sons of frozen verse :
How chang'd from him who made the boxes groan,
And fhook the stage with Thunders all his own!
Stood up to dafh each vain PRETENDER's hope,
Maul the French Tyrant, or pull down the PoPE!
If there's a Briton then, true bred and born,
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Who holds Dragoons and wooden fhoes in fcorn;
If there's a Critic of diftinguifh'd rage;
If there's a Senior, who contemns this age;
Let him to night his juft affiftance lend,

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MACE R:

A

CHARACTER.

WHEN

HEN fimple Macer, now of high renown,
Firft fought a Poet's Fortune in the Town,
'Twas all th' Ambition his high foul could feel,
To wear red ftockings, and to dine with Steel.
Some Ends of verse his Betters might afford,
And gave the harmless fellow a good word.
Set up with thefe, he ventur'd on the Town,
And with a borrow'd Play, out-did poor Crown.
There he ftop'd fhort, nor fince has writ a tittle,
But has the wit to make the most of little:
Like ftunted hide-bound Trees, that just have got
Sufficient fap at once to bear and rot.

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Now he begs Verfe, and what he gets commends,
Not of the Wits his foes, but Fools his friends. 14

So fome coarse Country Wench, almost decay'd, his Trudges to town, and first turns Chambermaid;

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Aukward and fupple, each devoir to pay;

She flatters her good Lady twice a day;

Thought wond'rous honeft, tho' of mean degree,
And strangely lik'd for her Simplicity:

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In a tranflated Suit, then tries the Town,
With borrow'd Pins, and Patches not her own:
But juft endur'd the winter she began,

And in four months a batter'd Harridan.

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Now nothing left, but wither'd, pale, and fhrunk,
To bawd for others, and go fhares with Punk.

To

To Mr. JOHN MOORE,

AUTHOR of the celebrated WOR MPOWDER.

WOW much, egregious Moore, are we

H Deceiv'd by fhews and forms!

Whate'er we think, whate'er we fee,
All Humankind are Worms,

Man is a very Worm by birth,
Vile, Reptile, weak, and vain!
A while he crawls upon the earth,
Then fhrinks to earth again.

That Woman is a Worm, we find
E're fince our Grandame's evil?
She first convers'd with her own kind,
That ancient Worm, the Devil.

The Learn'd themselves we Book-worms name,
The Blockhead is a Slow-worm;

The Nymph whose tail is all on flame,

Is aptly term'd a Glow-worm:

The Fops are painted Butterflies,

That flutter for a day;

Firft from a Worm they take their rife,

And in a Worm decay.

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The Flatterer an Earwig grows;
Thus Worms fuit all conditions;

Mifers are Muck-worms, Silk-worms Beaus,

And Death-watches Phyficians.

That Statesmen have the Worm, is feen,

By all their winding-play;

Their Conscience is a Worm within,

That gnaws them night and day.

Ah Moore! thy skill were well employ'd,
And greater gain would rife,

If thou could'ft make the Courtier void
The Worm that never dies!

O learned Friend of Abchurch-Lane,
Who fett'ft our entrails free ?
Vain is thy Art, thy Powder vain,
Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee,

Our Fate thou only can'st adjourn

Some few short years, no more!! Ev'n Button's Wits to Worms fhall turn, Who Maggots were before.

SONG

SONG, by a Person of Quality.

Written in the Year 1733.

I.

Gentle Cupid, o'er my Heart;

I a Slave in thy Dominions;
Nature must give Way to Art.

II.

Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,
Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks,
See my weary Days confuming,
All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks,

III.

Thus the Cyprian Goddefs weeping,
Mourn'd Adonis, darling Youth:
Him the Boar in Silence creeping,
Gor'd with unrelenting Tooth,

IV.

Cynthia, tune harmonious Numbers;
Fair Difcretion, fring the Lyre;
Sooth my ever-waking Slumbers:
Bright Apollo, lend thy Choir.

V. Gloomy