Who can omit the Queen's aufpicious smile,
The pride of the fair fex, the goddess of our ifsle?
Who can forget, what all admir'd of late,
Her fears for him, her prudence for the state ?
Disguising cares, she finooth'd her looks with grace,
Doubts in her heart, and pleasure in her face.
As danger did approach, her spirits rose,
And, putting on the king, dismay'd his foes.
Now, all in joy, she gilds the chearful court ;
In every glance defcending angels sport.
As on the hills of Cynthus, or the meads
Of cool Eurotas, when Diana leads

The chorus of her Nymphs, who there advance
A thousand shining maids, and form the dance;
The stately Goddess with a graceful pride,
Sweet and majestic, does the figure guide,
Treading in just and easy measures round;
The filver arrows on her shoulder found;
She walks above them all. Such is the scene
Of the bright circle, and the brighter Queen.

These subjects do, my Lord, your skill command, These none may touch with an unhallow'd hand : Tender the strokes must be, and nicely writ,

Disguis'd encomiums must be hid in wit,
Which modesty, like theirs, will e'er admit,
Who made no other steps to fuch a throne,
But to deferve, and to receive, the crown.

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Written at ALTHROP, in a blank Leaf of WALLER'S POEMS, upon seeing VAN DYKE'S Picture of the old Lady SUNDERLAND.

V

ANDYKE had colours, softness, fire, and art,
When the fair Sunderland inflam'd his heart.

Waller had numbers, fancy, wit, and fire,
And Sacharissa was his fond defire.

Why then at Althrop seems her charms to faint,
In these sweet numbers, and that glowing paint?
This happy feat a fairer mistress warms;

This shining offspring has eclips'd her charms :
The different beauties in one face we find;

Soft Amoret with brightest Sacharissa join'd.

As high as Nature reach'd, their art could foar;
But she ne'er made a finish'd piece before.

V

E R S E S,

Written for the TOASTING-GLASSES of the
KIT-CAT CLUB, 1703.

T

Duchess of ST. ALBANS.

HE line of Vere, so long renown'd in arms,
Concludes with lustre in St. Albans' charms.

Her conquering eyes have made their race compleat;
They rose in Valour, and in Beauty set.

Duchefs Duchess of BEAUFORT.

Offspring of a tuneful fire,

Bleft with more than mortal fire;
Likeness of a mother's face,

Bleft with more than mortal grace;
You with double charms furprize,
With his wit, and with her eyes.

Lady MARY CHURCHILL.

Fairest and latest of the beauteous race,

Bleft with your parents wit, and her first blooming face;
Born with our liberties in William's reign,
Your eyes alone that liberty reftrain.

Duchefs of RICHMOND.

Of two fair Richmonds different ages boaft,
Theirs was the first, and ours the brightest toaft;
Th' adorers offerings prove who's most divine,
They facrific'd in water, we in wine.

Lady SUNDERLAND.

All Nature's charms in Sunderland appear,
Bright as her eyes, and as her reason clear:
Yet still their force, to men not fafely known,
Seems undifcover'd to herself alone.

Mademoiselle SPANHEΙΜΕ.

Admir'd in Germany, ador'd in France,
Your charms to brighter glory here advance ;
The ftubborn Britons own your beauty's claim,
And with their native toaits enrol your name.

ON

COURAGE, dear Moll, and drive away defpair.
Mopsa, who in her youth was scarce thought fair,

In spite of age, experience, and decays,
Sets up for Charming, in her fading days;
Snuffs her dim eyes to give one parting blow,
Have at the heart of every ogling beau!
This goodly goofe, all feather'd like a jay,
So gravely vain, and so demurely gay,
Last night, t' adorn the court, did overload
Her bald buff forehead with a high commode=
Her steps were manag'd with such tender art,
As if each board had been a lover's heart.
In all her air, in every glance, was seen
A mixture strange, twixt fifty and fifteen.
Admiring fops about her crowding press;
Hambden himself delivers their address,
Which she, accepting with a nice disdain,
Owns them her subjects, and begins to reign
Fair Queen of Fopland is her royal style;
Fopland! the greatest part of this great ifle !
Nature did ne'er so equally divide
A female heart, 'twixt piety and pride:
Her waiting-maids prevent the peep of day,
And, all in order, on her toilet lay

PrayerPrayer-books, patch-boxes, fermon-notes, and paint, At once t' improve the finner and the saint.

Farewel, friend Moll: expect no more from me;

But if you would a full description see,
You'll find her somewhere in the Litany,
With Pride, Vain-glory, and Hypocrify.

ONORPHEUS

AND

SIGNORA FRANCISCA MARGARITA.

HAIL, tuneful pair! fay, by what wondrous charms,

'scap'd from hell, and one from Greber's arms? When the foft Thracian touch'd the trembling strings, The winds were hush'd, and curl'd their airy wings : And when the tawny Tuscan rais'd her ftrain, Rooke furls his fails, and dozes on the main. Treaties unfinish'd in the office fleep, And Shovel yawns for orders on the deep. Thus equal charms and equal conquests claim; To him high woods and bending timber came, To her shrub Hedges, and tall Nottingham.

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