EPISTLE To the fame, On her leaving the Town after the CORONATION *. ,་ S fome fond Virgin, whom her mother's care Juft when she learns to roll a melting eye, Yet takes one kifs before she parts for ever: Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the flow Clock, and dine exact at noon; There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n. 5 ΙΟ 15 20 25 Whose Whose laughs are hearty, tho' his jests are coarse, In fome fair evening, on your elbow laid, 30 35 Of Lords, and Earls, and Dukes, and garter'd Knights, Thus vanish fceptres, coronets, and balls, 140 a (Not plagu'd with head-aches, or the want of rhyme)" Stands in the ftreets, abftracted from the crew, And while he seems to ftudy, thinks of you; Juft when his fancy points your sprightly eyes, 45 Or fees the blush of soft Parthenia rise, Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite,e THE THE Baffet-Table fpread, the Tallier come; Why ftays SMILINDA in the Dreffing-Room? Rife, penfive Nymph, the Tallier waits for you: SMILIND A... Ah, Madam, fince my SHARPER is untrue, I faw him ftand behind OMBRELIA's Chair, And those feign'd fighs which cheat the lift'ning Fair. CARDEL I A. Is this the caufe of your romantic ftrains? SMILIND A. Is that the grief which you compare with mine? With ease, the fmiles of Fortune 1 refign: 10 * Only this of all the Town Eclogues was Mr. Pope's; and is here printed from a copy corrected by his own hand.---The humour of it lies in this, that the one is in love with the Game, and the other with the Sharper. Would all my gold in one bad Deal were gone; CARDELIA. A Lover loft, is but a common care; And prudent Nymphs against that change prepare: 15 The KNAVE OF CLUBS thrice loft: Oh! who could guess This fatal ftroke, this unforeseen Distress? SMILIND A. See BETTY LOVET! very à propos, She all the cares of Love and Play does know : LOVET. Tell, tell your griefs; attentive will I stay, Tho' time is precious, and I want fome Tea. CARDELIA. Behold this Equipage, by Mathers wrought, SMILIND A. 20 25 33 35 This Snuff-box,-once the pledge of SHARPER's love, When rival beauties for the Prefent ftrove; At Corticelli's he the Raffle won; Then firft his Paffion was in public shown.: 50 HAZARDIA HAZARDIA blush'd, and turn'd her head afide, This Snuff-box-on the Hinge fee Brilliants fhine: CARDELIA. Alas! far leffer loffes than I bear, 45 Have made a Soldier figh, a Lover fwear. And oh! what makes the disappointment hard, SMILIND A. 50 But ah! what aggravates the killing smart, The cruel thought, that stabs me to the heart; This curs'd OMBRELIA, this undoing Fair, 55 By whose vile arts this heavy grief I bear; She, at whofe name I fhed thefe fpiteful tears, An aukward Thing, when firft fhe came to Town; Her fhape unfashion'd, and her Face unknown: 60 She was my friend; I taught her first to spread I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays; CARDELIA. Wretch that I was, how often have I fwore, 3 65 70 SMILINDA. |