Another REASONABLE AFFLICTION. FROM her own native France as old Alifon paft, She reproach'd English Nell with neglect or with That the flattern had left, in the hurry and hafte, ANOTHER. HER eye-brow-box one morning loft, (The best of folks are ofteneft croft), Sad Helen thus to Jenny faid (Her carelefs but afflicted maid), Put me to bed then, wretched Jane; I can behold no mortal now: For what's an eye without a brow ON THE SAME SUBJECT. Na dark corner of the house IN Poor Helen fits, and fobs, and cries; She will not fee her loving spouse, ON ON THE SAME. HELEN was juft flipt into bed: Her eye-brows on the toilet lay: For this misfortune careless Jane, Affure yourself, was loudly rated: And madam, getting up again, With her own hand the mouse-trap baited. On little things, as fages write, Depends our human joy or forrow: If we don't catch a mouse to-night, Atas no eye-brows for to-morrow. PHYLLIS'S AGE. How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task : For she has really two ages. Stiff in brocade, and pinch'd in ftays, And Phyllis is but twenty-one. Paint, patches, jewels laid afide, WH FORMA BONUM FRAGILE. HAT a frail thing is Beauty, fays baron Le Cras, And scarcely had he spoke it; When the more confus'd, as more angry she grew, A N EPIGRAM. Written to the Duke de NoAILLES. AIN the concern which you exprefs, VAIN That uncall'd Alard will poffefs Your house and coach, both day and night, By Banquo's restless spright. With fifteen thousand pounds a year, 3 Lend Lend him but fifty Louis-d'or; EPILOGUE to SMITH'S PHEDRA and HIPPOLYTUS, Spoken by Mrs. OLDFIELD, who acted ISMENA. LADIES, to-night your pity I implore For one, who never troubled you before If that be all, said I, e’en burn your play : But, as it is, fix flouncing Flanders mares Now of the buftle you have seen to-day, Something Something at least in justice should be said ; But when he came, what needed he to know, There was no harm, you fee; or, grant there were, She might want conduct; but he wanted care. But, if these gay reflections come too late, your more ferious judgement must condemn The dire effects of her unhappy flame : Yet, ye A CRI |