TRANSLATION.

A Bishop by his neighbours hated,
Has cause to wish himself translated:
But why should Hough desire translation,
Lov'd and esteem'd by all the nation?
Yet if it be the old man's case,

I'll lay my life, I know the place:

"Tis where God sends some that adore him, And whither Enoch went before him.

*Bishop of Worcester.

FROM THE GREEK.

A Blooming youth lies buried here,
Euphemius to his country dear:
Nature adorn'd his mind and face
With every muse, and every grace:
About the married state to prove,
But Death had quicker wings than Love.

TO ROSA.

A Captive thus to thee my girl,
How sweetly shall I pass my age,
Contented like the playful squirrel,
To wanton up and down thy cage.

When death shall envy joy like this,
And come to shade our sunny weather,

Be our last sigh the sigh of bliss,

And both our souls exhal'd together.

A NATURAL PREJUDICE.

A Cambridge soph, just freed from band and gown,

Went to the sermon, with his friend in town.
The doctor, not a Sherlock, I suppose,
Soon lull'd his audience to a sweet repose.

When now the slumberous charm was at an end,
Up starts Cantab and wakes his drowsy friend.

He rubb'd his eyes, and curs'd the stupid preacher,
And pray, says he, d'ye know this learned teacher?
No! cries the soph, but, ere the drone began,
I guess'd our fate-for he's an Oxford man.

HOW TO MAKE A MAN OF CONSEQUENCE,
A Brow austere, a circumspective eye,

A frequent shrug of the os humeri,
A nod significant, a stately gait,

A blustering manner, and a tone of weight,
A smile sarcastic, an expressive stare,-
Adopt all these, as time and place will bear:
Then rest assur'd that those of little sense,
Will deem you, sure, a man of consequence.

THE ROBBER ROBB'D.

A Certain priest had hoarded up

A mass of secret gold;

And where he might bestow it safe,
He knew not to be bold.

At last it came into his thought
To lock it in a chest,

Within the chancel; and he wrote
Thereon, Hic Deus est.

A merry grig, whose greedy mind
Did long for such a prey,
Respecting not the sacred words
That on the casket lay,

Took out the gold; and blotting out

The priest's inscript thereon, Wrote, Resurrexit, non est hic;

Your god is rose, and gone.

POETRY COUNTERACTING PASSION.

A Frigid rhymer, tho', an ardent lover;
The reason readily thou may'st discover,
That Phillis with thy passion is not pleas'd,
Thy verse puts out the spark thy love had rais'd..

A NATURAL TRANSITION.

A Doctor lately was a ca tain made:
It is a change of title, not of trade.

A GOOSE'S REASON.
A Goose, my graunum one day said,
Entering a barn pops down its head;

I begg'd her then the cause to show:
She told me she must wave the task,
For nothing but a goose would ask,

What nothing but a goose could know.

THE DOCTOR'S ARMS.
A Doctor, who, for want of skill,
Did sometimes cure and sometimes kill;
Contriv'd at length, by many a puff,
And many a bottle fill'd with stuff,
To raise his fortune, and his pride;
And in a coach, forsooth, must ride.
His family coat, long since worn out,
What arms to take was all the doubt.
A friend consulted on the case,
Thus answer'd with a sly grimace:
"Take some device in your own way,
"Neither too solemn nor too gay;

"Three Ducks, suppose: white, grey, or black; "And let your motto be Quack Quack!"

THE TOUCHSTONE.

A Fool and Knave, with different views

For Julia's hand apply;

The Knave to mend his fortuue sues,
The Fool to please his eye.

Ask you how Julia will behave?
Depend on't for a rule,

If she's a Fool, she'll wed the Knave
If she's a Knave, the Fool.

THE COMBAT.

A Chimney-sweep and baker went to fight;
The baker beat the chimney-sweeper white:
The chimney-sweep, tho' laid upon his back,
Took wind, and quickly beat the baker black.
In came a brickdust-man, with porter fed,
And beat both chimney-sweep and baker red.
Thus red, black, white, in clouds together lay,
And none could tell, which party had the day.

PRESENTS.

A Hamper I receiv'd of wine,

As good, Dick says, as e'er was tasted-
And Dick may be suppos'd to know,
For he contriv'd his matters so,

As every day with me to dine
Much longer than the liquor lasted:

If such are presents-while I live
Oh! let me not receive, but give.

A PROPER RETORT.

A Haughty courtier, meeting in the streets
A scholar, him thus insolently greets;
"Base men to take the wall I ne'er permit;"
The scholar said, 'I do;' and gave him it.

UNTAINTED HONOUR. A Late regulation requires that no stain

Taint the blood of the gentlemen pensioners train: This honour I doubt then will fall to the ground; For who, sprung from Adam, untainted is found?

ON A WORTHLESS FELLOW HAVING
ROTTEN TEETH.

A Mastiff's teeth are justly held in vogue,
They burnish paper, or they bite a rogue:
To neither use thy tusks contribute right,
Too rough to polish, and too blunt to bite.

RELATIONSHIP.-TWO OF A TRADE. A Lady sent lately for one Doctor Drug, To come in an instant and clyster poor pug. As the fair one commanded, he came at the word, And did the grand office in tye-wig and sword; The affair being ended, so sweet and so nice! He held out his hand with-"You know, Ma'am my price?"

Your price!' says the lady- Why, Sir, he's your brother,

'And Doctors must never take fees of each other."

MARTIAL-Lib. v. Epig. 9.

A Little languishing, thou sent'st to me

A hundred doctors, each expecting fee:

A hundred feel my pulse!

I know why;

I scarcely then was sick, but now am like to die!

IN STOLIDUM.

A Justice walking o'er the frozen Thames,

The ice about him round began to crack:
He said to his man, here is some danger, James;
I prithee help me over on thy back.

A PUN.

IMITATED FROM MARTIAL*.

A Landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum;
I ask'd him for punch, and the dog gave me mere rum.
* Callidus imposuit nuper mihi Caupo, Ravennæ ;
Cum peterem mixtum, vendid et ille merum.

THE ATTENTIVE CONGREGATION.

As a prim priest his sermon read,
This thought slipt in his reverend head:--
What grave respect, what silence deep,
All my admiring audience keep!
True, for they all were fast asleep.