Rais'd ye in Life above your Peers,

And launch'd ye tow'rds the ftarry Spheres,
Then to those manfions "unanneal'd,"
Where unrepented fins are seal'd :

Say, wherefore in your days of flesh
Cut off, while yet your fins were fresh,
Ye vifit thus the realms of Day,
Shaking with fear our frames of Clay,
Still doom'd in penal Ink to linger,
And hover round a Pleader's finger,
Or on a Writ impal'd, and wedg'd,
For Plaintiff's Prosecution pledg'd,
Aid and abett the purpos'd ill,
And works of Enmity fulfil,

Sill doom'd to hitch in Declaration,

And drive your ancient Occupation?

While thus to you I raise

my Voice,

Methinks I fee the Ghosts rejoice

Of Lawyers erft in Fiction bold,
LEVINZ, and LUTWYCHE, Pleaders old,
With Writs and Entries round him spread,
See plodding SAUNDERS rears his head,

eyes

Lo! VENTRIS wakes! before mine
BROWN, LILLY, and BOHUN arise,
Each in his Parchment fhroud appears,
Some with their Quills behind their ears,
Flourish their velvet Caps on high,
Some wave their grizzel wigs, and cry
Hail happy Pair! the Glory, and the Boaft,
The Strength and Bulwark of the legal Hoft,
Like 'SAUL and JONATHAN in Friendship
tried,

Pleasant ye lived, and undivided died!

While Pillories fhall yawn, where erft ye ftood, And brav'd the torrent of o'erwhelming mud, While gaming Peers, and 'Dames of noble Race,

Shall ftrive to merit that exalted Place;

"Saul-"Saul and Jonathan were pleasant in their Lives, and in their Death they were not divided." 2d Samuel, C. 1. v. 23.

8 Dames-Mr. SURREBUTTER in this paffage feems to have contemplated the probability of certain Characters of both Sexes in the fashionable World, exhibiting their Per

While righteous Scriv'ners, who when Sun

day fhines,

Pore o'er their Bills, and turn their noughts

to nines,

(Their unpaid Bills, which long have learn'd to grow

Faster than Poplars on the banks of Po),
Freely fhall lend their charitable aid,

To young Profeffors of the gambling trade;
While Writs shall last, and Ufury shall thrive,
Your name, your honor, and your praise
fhall live:

Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefque manebunt.

VIRG.

fons in the Pillory for keeping public Gaming Tables. It is written in the true Spirit of Prophecy, and from a late Declaration of a learned and noble Judge, (no lefs diftinguished for his impartial and independent Spirit, than for his great zeal and earneftness for Juftice) the EDITOR very fincerely hopes Mr. SURREBUTTER'S Prophecy will be shortly fulfilled,

Jailers fhall fmile, and with Bumbailiffs

raise

Their iron voices to record your Praise, Whom Law united, nor the Grave can fever, "All hail JOHN DOE, and RICHARD ROE for ever."

END OF THE FIRST BOOK.