Her Husband; firft more loudly bauling,
And afterwards more foftly calling

A perfon not of the best fame,

And Miftrefs Cooler was her name.

"Now, Goffip, why fhould the come thither?
"But that they might be naught together?"
When Cris heard all, her colour turn'd,
And though her heart within her burn'd,
And eyeballs fent forth sudden flashes,
Her cheeks and lips were pale as ashes.
Then, "Woe the day that she was born !"
The nightrail innocent was torn :

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Many a thump was given the breast,

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"And fhe, oh, fhe fhould never rest!

"She strait would heigh her to the wood,

"And he'd repent it-that he fhould."

With eager hafte away fhe moves,

Never regarding scarf or gloves:

Into the grotto foon the creeps,
And into every thicket peeps,

eyes

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And to her there did appear

Two prints of bodies-that was clear: "And now. (fhe cries) I plainly fee

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"How time and place, and all agree:

"But here's a covert, where I'll lie,

"And I fhall have them by and by."

'Twas noon; and Cephalus, as last time,

Heated and ruffled with his paftime,

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Came to the very felf-fame place
Where he was us'd to wash his face;

And

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And then he fung, and then he hum'd,
And on his knee with fingers thrum'd.
When Criffy found all matters fair,
And that he only wanted Air,

Saw what device was took to fool her,
And no fuch one as Miftrefs Cooler;
Miftrufting then no future harms,
She would have rufh'd into his arms;
But, as the leaves began to ruftle,

He thought fome beast had made the bustle.
He fhot, then cried, "I've kill'd my Deer."-
Ay, fo
you have," (fays Cris) "I fear."-
"Why, Criffy, pray what made you
"By Goflip Trot, I underflood

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here :"

"You kept a fmall Girl in this wood."

Quoth Ceph, ""Tis pity thou fhould'st die
"For this thy foolish jealousy :

For 'tis a paffion that does move

"Too often from excefs of love."

But, when they fought for wound full fore,

The petticoat was only tore,

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And she had got a lufty thump,

Which in fome measure bruis'd her rump.
Then home moft lovingly they went :

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Neither had reafon to repent.

Their following years pafs'd in content;

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And Criffy made him the best wife

For the remainder of his life.

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The Mufe has done, nor will more laws obtrude,

Left fhe, by being tedious,. fhould be rude.

Unbrace

Unbrace Love's fwans, let them unharness'd stray,
And eat Ambrofia through the milky way.

Give liberty to every Paphian Dove,

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And let them freely with the Cupids rove.

But, when the Amazonian trophies rife

With monuments of their paft victories;

With what difcretion and what art they fought;
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An

An incomparable ODE of MALHERBE's, written by him when the Marriage was on foot between the King of FRANCE † and ANNE of AUSTRIA.

Tranflated by a great Admirer of the Eafinefs of French Poetry.

Cette Anne fi belle,
Qu'on vante fi fort,
Pourquoy ne vient elle?
Vrayment, elle a tort!
Son Louis foupire
Apres fes appas:
Que veut elle dire,
Que elle ne vient pas?
Si il ne la poffede,
Il s'en va mourir ;
Donnons y reméde,
Allons la querir.

This Anna fo fair,

So talk'd of by fame,
Why don't the appear?

Indeed, fhe's to blame!
Lewis fighs for the fake

Of her charms, as they fay; What excufe can fhe make

For not coming away? If he does not poffefs,

He dies with despair; Let's give him redress, And go find out the Fair.

*The Tranflator proposed to turn this Ode with all imaginable exactnefs; and he hopes he has been pretty juft to Malherbe: only in the fixth line he has made a fmall addition of thefe three words, " as they fay;" which he thinks is excufable, if we confider the French Poet there talks a little too familiarly of the king's paffion, as if the king himself had owned it to him. The Tranflator thinks it unore mannerly and refpectful in Malherbe to pretend to have the account of it only by hearfay. KING.

+ Lewis the Fourteenth.

THE

THE FURMETARY;

A VERY INNOCENT AND HARMLESS POEM*,

IN THREE CANTO'S.

First printed in 1699.

PREFACE.

HE Author of the following Poem may be thought

THE

to write for fame, and the applause of the town: but he wholly difowns it; for he writes only for the public good, the benefit of his country, and the manu、 facture of England. It is well known, that grave Senators have often, at the Palace-yard, refreshed themfelves with Barley-broth in a morning, which has had a very folid influence on their counfels; it is therefore hoped that other perfons may use it with the like. fuccefs. No man can be ignorant, how of late years Coffee and Tea in a morning has prevailed; nay, Cold

Written to please a Gentleman, who thought nothing fmooth or lofty could be written upon a mean fubject; but had no intent of making any reflection upon "The Difpenfary," which has defervedly gained a lafting reputation. KING.

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