Besides, it spews a filthy froth (Whether through rage or love, or both) Which, happening on the skin to light, By age and claps grown cold as snow, She soon would find the same effects, Her tainted carcase to pursue, "Then I'll appeal to each by-stander, TO THE EARL OF PETERBOROUGH, WHO COMMANDED THE BRITISH FORCES IN SPAIN. MORDANTO fills the trump of fame, In journies he outrides the post, up Sits till midnight with his host, Knows Knows every prince in Europe's face, Flies like a squib from place to place, And travels not, but runs a race. From Paris gazette a-la-main, This day arriv'd, without his train, Mordanto in a week from Spain. A messenger comes all a-reek Mordanto at Madrid to seek; He left the town above a week. Next day the postboy winds his horn, And rides through Dover in the morn: Mordanto's landed from Leghorn. Mordanto gallops on alone, The roads are with his followers strown, His body active as his mind, A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, So wonderful his expedition, Shines in all climates like a star; Heroic actions early bred in, On ON THE UNION. THE queen has lately lost a part Like a rich coat, with skirts of frize: Should bundle thistles up Who ever yet a union saw with roses. Of kingdoms without faith or law? Which, just like ours, new rigg'd and mann'd, By change of wind to leeward side, *The motto on queen Anne's coronation medal. N. ΤΟ TO MRS. BIDDY FLOYD; * OR, THE RECEIPT TO FORM A BEAUTY, 1708. WHEN Cupid did his grandsire Jove intreat To form some Beauty by a new receipt, Jove sent, and found, far in a country scene, Truth, innocence, good nature, look serene: From which ingredients first the dextrous boy Pick'd the demure, the awkward, and the coy. *The following elegant Latin version of this "Receipt" was first printed in the sixth volume of Dryden's Miscellanies: IN LYDIAM. Orabat precibus Cupido blandis, Almus misit avus, Fidemque nudam Et vultum placidum, Indolemque suavem : Dextrâ, quæ, facili Puer peritus Temperat meliore, Lydiamque . Inde appellat opus, stupens, superbum. The The Graces, from the court did next provide APOLLO OUTWITTED. * TO THE HONOURABLE MRS. FINCH,* UNDER HER NAME OF ARDELIA. PHOEBUS, now shortening every shade, The god laid down his feeble rays, Under those sacred leaves, secure The nymph, who oft had read in books Soon knew Apollo by his looks, And guess'd his business ere he spoke. * Afterward countess of Winchelsea. N. VOL. XVI. F He, |