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Thee, too, whene'er thy cash is spent,
She'll leave a slave in Love's dominions,
And with her all thy lands in Kent,

Shall wing their flight on parchment pinions.

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"TWAS winter's reign-" the witching time o'night!" When wizard-spells have pow'r to raise the dead, That, musing upon days of past delight,

I sat alone-when all were gone to bed.

rubebut;

Nec tainen est selite (assuete) tardius orta dies.

Ovid.

Upon the earth the dying embers fell,

Emblem of man, and emblem of his fate, And seem'd, tho' silent, this sad truth to tell,

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"And thus," I answer'd," sanguine boyhood glows,
His prospects brighter than yon glowing fire-
One moment Love a flame within him blows,
Which, quench'd by scorn, will in the next expire.

"And thus, some fair in youth and beauty blooms,
Attracting round her many a brilliant spark—
But when that youth and beauty Time consumes,
Love is extinguish'd too-and all is dark!

"And thus the proud one for a while may shine-
With glittering pomp the multitude controul-
pomp and glitter must he soon resign,

Yet

And turn to ashes like yon blacken'd coal !

"What then is man?-a vapour from his birth,

That lives by puffing-dies away in smoke.

And when the shovel lays him in the earth,

"The tongues of thousands give his deeds a poke !"

P. G.

THE SLIGHTED MAID.

'MONG briars, roses blossom wild,
The air around perfuming--
So Lilla blossom'd, Nature's child,

As sweet, and still more blooming,
But like, too like the rose was born!
For deep conceal'd there lay a thorn.

The thorn that fester'd in her heart,
Alas! was past relieving,
And oft unbidden tears would start-
And sighs her breast be heaving,

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As strong in the fist as a ditcher and hedger,
Tom lifts single-handed, a counting-house Ledger.

Says Dick, "That is mere slight of hand, it is plain,
You only can do it by Leger-de-main."

J.

TO MR. WARD.

A BROTHER BARD.

DESERTED DIDO fir'd the pyre, and died;
So, gentle WARD, did thy Circassian Bride.

PRO.

GUILDHALL QUIBBLE.

PEACOCK V. PEACOCK,

Two law-stationers quarrel'd and got into Chancery,
The son fil'd his bill, father his answer he.

Their trade and litigation, in little seem to vary,

Equity's so slow, it seems law-station-ary.

Guildhall, March 4, 1809.

J. P. S.

1809.

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MEMORANDA DRAMATICA,

DRURY-LANE.

Feb. 18. Man and Wife.-Unconscious Counterfeit. 20. Country Girl *.-Blue Beard.

21. Man and Wife.-Unconscious Counterfeit.

23. Circassian Bride +.-Fortune's Frolic.

24. ON THIS DAY THE THEATRE WAS UITERLY DESTROYED

BY FIRE.

* Catching something of the spirit of Macbeth, who determined to die with harness on his back, Mrs. Jordan seems resolved to die with a frock on her's. In certain parts her age and form combined, render her Miss Peggy most preposterous and unseemly; but it is said, that you need only mess with the Devil to get so used to him, as to see none of his defects; and stupid—no, honest Bull has messed so often with Mrs. Jordan and Peggy, that he can discover nothing of the sort. Constant John still sees all the charms that first captivated him, and she probably continues to figure in the character, for the same reason a strolling player of sixty, once gave for retaining the part of the school-boy-" I did it," said he, "forty years ago, and therefore think I have a right to do it now +."

† Another vehicle for music! Would it not be much better for poor Euterpe to go on foot, than to consent to ride in such miserable carriages? When the Vicar of Wakefield's family hinted the propriety of riding Dobbin to church, he answered that walking was a hundred times preferable to such a conveyance—they slighted his admonition, and were laughed at for their pains. Had the Circassian Bride seated herself in a concert-room, she would have been admired (for the music, by Bishop, is excellent); but aiming to mount the stage in the form of a drama, she has missed her step, and fallen so extremely lame, that it may be doubted whether she can ever walk again. Mrs. Mountain, as Rachael, laboured under a severe hoarseness, for which she made her own apology, previously to an excellent bravura song. Bannister, as Blunt, and Smith as Taffrel, were two British sailors: a race of men so interesting on their own element, and so insipid on the

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Dramatic Censor, Vol. i. p. 457. 1770.

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