But, if the case must be so hard, Let critics censure, what care I? Faces are free from injury. You MR. ROCHFORT'S REPLY. say your face is better hung Than ours-by what? by nose or tongue? to us, sir. Because we thus must state the case, But yet be not cast down: I see of noose, sir. with many: And then the ladies, I suppose, dear Danny. Thus will the fair of every age of love, sir: All All their religion will be spent You the fam'd idol will become, O happy Dan! thrice happy sure! to Jove, sir. of night: at sight. So far I thought it was my duty To that part where you carry on A man of reasoning so profound As things so different to confound in answer How can, sir, t' our senses? Except you judg'd them by the knock convinces. Then might you be, by dint of reason, is granted: Therefore Therefore to thy superior wit, we wanted. In one assertion you're to blame, refin'd, sir: You'll see most grossly you mistook, S, H, E, she-and R, I, ri, Both put together make Sherry, Dan is but one, and Sherri two, you'll find, sir; syllables; Then, sir, your choice will never do; the tables, DR. DELANY'S REPLY. ASSIST me, my Muse, while I labour to limn him: Credite, Pisones, isti tabulæ persimilem. You look and you write with so different a grace, That I envy your verse, though I did not your face. And to him that thinks rightly, there's reason enough, 'Cause one is as smooth, as the other is rough. VOL. XVI. But But much I'm amaz'd you should think myy design Was to rhyme down your nose, or your harlequin grin, Which you yourself wonder the de'el should malign. And if 'tis so strange, that your monstership's crany Should be envy'd by him, much less by Delany; Though I own to you, when I consider it stricter, envy the painter, although not the picture. I And justly she's envy'd, since a fiend of Hell inspir'd, Tho' perhaps it might justly 've been said w were fir'd. As to the division of words in your staves, Like my countryman's horn comb, into three halves, I meddle not with 't, but presume to make merry, You call'd Dan one half, and t'other half Sherry: Now if Dan's a half, as you call't o'er and o'er, Then it can't be deny'd that Sherry's two more. For pray give me leave to say, sir, for all you, That Sherry's at least of double the value. But perhaps, sir, you did it to fill up the verse: So crowds in a concert (like actors in a farce) Play two parts in one, when scrapers are scarce. But be that as 'twill, you'll know more anon, sir, When Sheridan sends to Merry Dan answer. SHERIDAN'S SHERIDAN'S REPLY. THREE merry lads you own we are; 'Tis very true, and free from care, But envious we cannot bear, believe, sir: For, were all forms of beauty thine, or grieve, sir. Then know from us, most beauteous Dan, and taper; And all your trifling beaux and fops, mere vapour. We know your morning hours you pass Forbear it : Those loads of paint upon your toilet, Drink claret. Your cheeks, by sleeking, are so lean, |