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Poetry.
POETRY .
PROLOGUE - TO THE NEW C & MEDY OF WIVES AS THEY WERE . AND MAIDS AS THEX ARE .
I COME not to announce a bashful maid 'Who ne'er has try'd the drama ' s doubtful trade , frise , Who sees with flutt ' rihg hope the curtain And jeans with timid glance your critic eyes ; My client is amore experiene'd dame , Tlio' not a Veteran , not unknown to Fame , Who thinks favours are an honest
your boast , Yet fears to forfeit what she values most ; Who has , she trusts , some character to lose , E ' en tho' the woman did not aid the Muse ; Who courts with modest aim the public smile , That stamp of merit , and that meed of toil . At Athens once ( our author has been told )
The Comic Muse , irregularly bold , With living calumny profan'd Iter stage , And forg'd the frailties of the faultless sage . Such daring ribaldry you need not fear , We have no Socrates to libel here . Ours are the follies of an humbler flight , Offspring of manners volatile and light ; Our l satire keeps more knaves inatve
genera . , Our court of conscience comes in aid pi" law . Here , scourg'd by wit , and pilloried bv fun , Ten thousand coxcombs blush instead of one . If scenes like these could make the guilty shrink . Could teach unfcelling Folly how to think , Check Affectation ' s volublecareer , [ tear , And Iron , cold Fashion force the struggling
Our author would your loudest praise forego , Contain ib feel v . iihjii ' what passes show . ' ' But since' ( she says ) ' such hopes cannot be mine , Such bold pretensions I must reeds resign , 'fell ihe . e great judges of dramatic laws , Their rel ' oi illation were my best applause : Yel if the hear my proud appeal withstands . I ask tlie humbler iuiTrageof their hni . di . '
Epilogue To The Same.
EPILOGUE TO THE SAME .
WRITTEN BY J 011 X TAYLOR , KSQ . WEIL , female critics , what ' s the sentence , say-Can you wi'Ii kinrfr . ess treat thi £ « aucy jlay , VOL , VIII .
Epilogue To The Same.
That gives to ancient dames the wreath of praise , And boldly censures those of modern days t Bring us good husbands first , and , on my life , Eor every one we'll shew as good a wife ; Whate'er the errors in the nuptial State , Man sets th' le to his passive mate
examp ; While all the virtues the proud sex can claim ffiame . From female influence caught the gen ' rous Nay , though our gallant rulers of the main With force resistless crush the prideofSpain ; 'Tis WOMAN triumphs—that inspiring charm With tenfold vi nerves the hero ' sarm :
gour For KING and COUNTRY though they nobly bleed , The smile of BEAUTY is their dearest meed > And valiant tars should still be Beauty ' s care , Since 'tis * the brave alone deserves the fair /
The Changes Of Nature.
THE CHANGES OF NATURE .
WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF A _\ KA . HTBQUA } Ltt ' . AT MESSINA : - Wit AT cheqtter'd fates uncertain blencU Decreed , by Heav ' ns eternal doom . On man ' s frail being to attend , E'en from the cradle to the tomb ! As blooming flow ' rets fragrant rise ,
Ere long lo wither and decay ; As shine the clouds in sunpner skies , With changing winds to fleet away : In health , in youth , in beauty ' s price ; . How vain the transient race are lb una ; While life pours full the purple tide . And gaudy prospects glitter rouim ! But ( fickle lot of human stale !)
That purple tide must cease lb flbiv ; And sioiv , but all-resistless Fate , Strikes sure , at length ; the mortal blew ! Dost thou repine?—Alas ! behold Where cities , empires , once the bor . st Of mighty kings , and warriors bold , lit sLrl- oblivion ' s gulph are lost ! Where Tyre , among the princes sat ,
Where Nineveh held scepler'd sway ; Where Babylon , in matchlesSs s : ate , Once taught the nations to obey ! There , now , the owl and bittern mourn , Th' insidious serpent rolls his train : Slo ! v pours i- ' . uphnites , from his urn , The fiocd that laves a dssart plain , 1 -1
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Poetry.
POETRY .
PROLOGUE - TO THE NEW C & MEDY OF WIVES AS THEY WERE . AND MAIDS AS THEX ARE .
I COME not to announce a bashful maid 'Who ne'er has try'd the drama ' s doubtful trade , frise , Who sees with flutt ' rihg hope the curtain And jeans with timid glance your critic eyes ; My client is amore experiene'd dame , Tlio' not a Veteran , not unknown to Fame , Who thinks favours are an honest
your boast , Yet fears to forfeit what she values most ; Who has , she trusts , some character to lose , E ' en tho' the woman did not aid the Muse ; Who courts with modest aim the public smile , That stamp of merit , and that meed of toil . At Athens once ( our author has been told )
The Comic Muse , irregularly bold , With living calumny profan'd Iter stage , And forg'd the frailties of the faultless sage . Such daring ribaldry you need not fear , We have no Socrates to libel here . Ours are the follies of an humbler flight , Offspring of manners volatile and light ; Our l satire keeps more knaves inatve
genera . , Our court of conscience comes in aid pi" law . Here , scourg'd by wit , and pilloried bv fun , Ten thousand coxcombs blush instead of one . If scenes like these could make the guilty shrink . Could teach unfcelling Folly how to think , Check Affectation ' s volublecareer , [ tear , And Iron , cold Fashion force the struggling
Our author would your loudest praise forego , Contain ib feel v . iihjii ' what passes show . ' ' But since' ( she says ) ' such hopes cannot be mine , Such bold pretensions I must reeds resign , 'fell ihe . e great judges of dramatic laws , Their rel ' oi illation were my best applause : Yel if the hear my proud appeal withstands . I ask tlie humbler iuiTrageof their hni . di . '
Epilogue To The Same.
EPILOGUE TO THE SAME .
WRITTEN BY J 011 X TAYLOR , KSQ . WEIL , female critics , what ' s the sentence , say-Can you wi'Ii kinrfr . ess treat thi £ « aucy jlay , VOL , VIII .
Epilogue To The Same.
That gives to ancient dames the wreath of praise , And boldly censures those of modern days t Bring us good husbands first , and , on my life , Eor every one we'll shew as good a wife ; Whate'er the errors in the nuptial State , Man sets th' le to his passive mate
examp ; While all the virtues the proud sex can claim ffiame . From female influence caught the gen ' rous Nay , though our gallant rulers of the main With force resistless crush the prideofSpain ; 'Tis WOMAN triumphs—that inspiring charm With tenfold vi nerves the hero ' sarm :
gour For KING and COUNTRY though they nobly bleed , The smile of BEAUTY is their dearest meed > And valiant tars should still be Beauty ' s care , Since 'tis * the brave alone deserves the fair /
The Changes Of Nature.
THE CHANGES OF NATURE .
WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF A _\ KA . HTBQUA } Ltt ' . AT MESSINA : - Wit AT cheqtter'd fates uncertain blencU Decreed , by Heav ' ns eternal doom . On man ' s frail being to attend , E'en from the cradle to the tomb ! As blooming flow ' rets fragrant rise ,
Ere long lo wither and decay ; As shine the clouds in sunpner skies , With changing winds to fleet away : In health , in youth , in beauty ' s price ; . How vain the transient race are lb una ; While life pours full the purple tide . And gaudy prospects glitter rouim ! But ( fickle lot of human stale !)
That purple tide must cease lb flbiv ; And sioiv , but all-resistless Fate , Strikes sure , at length ; the mortal blew ! Dost thou repine?—Alas ! behold Where cities , empires , once the bor . st Of mighty kings , and warriors bold , lit sLrl- oblivion ' s gulph are lost ! Where Tyre , among the princes sat ,
Where Nineveh held scepler'd sway ; Where Babylon , in matchlesSs s : ate , Once taught the nations to obey ! There , now , the owl and bittern mourn , Th' insidious serpent rolls his train : Slo ! v pours i- ' . uphnites , from his urn , The fiocd that laves a dssart plain , 1 -1