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Epigrams.
ON BEING PRESENTED WITH AN APPLE BY A YOUNG LADY , AN apple caus'd our present state , And by ine \ 'itable fate Condemn'd us all to die ; But if that apple AA'as so fine , And came from such a hand as thine , Who from its charms could fly ?
HOAV can I then old Adam blame , When I myself had done the same , Had you the apple giv ' n ? I should , like him , without dispute , Have eaten the forbidden fruit , > . And lost , for you , a heav ' n .
THE TWO WATCHES . QUOTH Jack , Avhat ' s o ' clock ?—Says his namesake , 'tis two ; Jack replies , 'tis half past ; nay , I ' m sure of it too : Says his namesake , 'tis not , Sir ; no more of your fun ; My watch is quite right , for it goes by the Sun : Jack archly then said , that ' s no reason at all , My watch is a Christian , and goes by St . Paul .
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TO THE MEMORY OF A GENTLEMAN , WHO HAD THE HONOUR OF BEING DANCED TO DEATH BY A YOUNG LADY .
HERE rests a Avearied youth , by death reliey'd , Who , had he rested sooner , still had liv'd . Stung by a fair Tarantula , he hay'd , He figur'd in , he caper'd , frisk'd—and stray'd From the gay Ball to the Elysian shade . Compute by dances , and fourscore he pass'd , Man ' s utmost term ; Cat ' rina * Avas his last . Yet think notReaderthat he dares to blame
, , The beauteous cause from Avhence his ruin came . Too Avell the nymph had by experience found Her eyes as fatal , tho' more slow the Avound , So wav'd the triumph of a longer fight , And , from mere pity , kill'd him in one night .
Epitaph.
EPITAPH .
AT GUILDFORD . READER , pass on , ne ' er idly Avaste your time On bad biography , and bitter rhyme—For Avhat I AM this cumb ' rous clay ensures , And Avhat I AVAS is no affair of yours .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Epigrams.
ON BEING PRESENTED WITH AN APPLE BY A YOUNG LADY , AN apple caus'd our present state , And by ine \ 'itable fate Condemn'd us all to die ; But if that apple AA'as so fine , And came from such a hand as thine , Who from its charms could fly ?
HOAV can I then old Adam blame , When I myself had done the same , Had you the apple giv ' n ? I should , like him , without dispute , Have eaten the forbidden fruit , > . And lost , for you , a heav ' n .
THE TWO WATCHES . QUOTH Jack , Avhat ' s o ' clock ?—Says his namesake , 'tis two ; Jack replies , 'tis half past ; nay , I ' m sure of it too : Says his namesake , 'tis not , Sir ; no more of your fun ; My watch is quite right , for it goes by the Sun : Jack archly then said , that ' s no reason at all , My watch is a Christian , and goes by St . Paul .
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TO THE MEMORY OF A GENTLEMAN , WHO HAD THE HONOUR OF BEING DANCED TO DEATH BY A YOUNG LADY .
HERE rests a Avearied youth , by death reliey'd , Who , had he rested sooner , still had liv'd . Stung by a fair Tarantula , he hay'd , He figur'd in , he caper'd , frisk'd—and stray'd From the gay Ball to the Elysian shade . Compute by dances , and fourscore he pass'd , Man ' s utmost term ; Cat ' rina * Avas his last . Yet think notReaderthat he dares to blame
, , The beauteous cause from Avhence his ruin came . Too Avell the nymph had by experience found Her eyes as fatal , tho' more slow the Avound , So wav'd the triumph of a longer fight , And , from mere pity , kill'd him in one night .
Epitaph.
EPITAPH .
AT GUILDFORD . READER , pass on , ne ' er idly Avaste your time On bad biography , and bitter rhyme—For Avhat I AM this cumb ' rous clay ensures , And Avhat I AVAS is no affair of yours .