68 An humble Imitation of the Imitations of Yorick. the right hand I like not yon gloomy "Peace! (faid fomething within me) -I believe it was Humanity) "Peace! perhaps he frowns on Fortune." Very like (replied I to Humanity) but 'tis much more like that Fortune frowns on him-If that is the cafe (and that it is, I believe with all my foul) he's not in Fortune's debt-he's is not obliged to her two-pence. THE INTERRUPTION. -- BUT this affair, broke off in the middle. Crack----crack--- crack · went the Coachman's lafh, as he drove away from the Inn-gate, and broke my feverie off in the middle. THE HEIGH HO! CRACK-crack --crack---went the Coachman's lah again--and Heigh ho-heigh-ho-heigh-ho!-faid the young woman on my left hand. She anfwered every crack with a heigh-ho and had the Coachman cracked till Doomfday, I believe he would have given him a heigh-ho for every one of them. THE QUERIES. MY dear, (faid I to her, laying my four fingers upon her ivory hand, and creeping clofer to her) my dear, this heigh-ho is but a forry ditty at the beft, and fet to very wretched music—It is true, it breathes very much of the piano in its compofition; but were it tuned with a little more of the vivace, methinks you might warble forth the fweeteft modulation that ever pierced the hearing of Yorick.It is indeed a forry ditty, my dear-I have an ear always open to Mifery-Tell me why it įs to. THE LOOK. felf. Nor will this do," faid I to my THE CONJECTURES. NOW would I give a great deal to know what's the matter with her, and what the bufinefs is that affects this girl. Perhaps it may be occasioned by the old woman who fits oppofite to herOr perhaps the may be in love. Or perhaps fhe is left deftitute in the world, without a friend to chear her forrow's. Thus reasoned my Lady Curiofity; but the foon met with. A CHECK. WHAT can be the meaning (faid Dame Reafon) that you are fo folicitous about the matter? What concern is it of your's, to trouble yourself about the young woman's forrows, or why the is filent? Will you never leave prying into the affairs of others, and adding to all the anxieties of life that moft ridiculous one for the knowledge of other people's bufinefs? Never believe it poffible with fuch a temper to be happy. THE BILLET. THUS Reafon fpoke, and Curiosity food checked, when the young woman pulled out of her bofom a paper folded up in the form of a billet. She read it-and turned pale. She read it a fecond time-and turned paler. She read it a third time-and turned very pale. COMPASSION. THIS billet (faid I to myfelf) is the deuce of a billet-it is the fountain from whence all her forrows flow. At length, fnatching it into her boSHE looked at me, 'and' answered fom, the vented fuch a copious tricknothing. THE SECOND ATTEMPT. THIS will not do, faid I to myself. I'll try her another way. Surely (continued I, addreffing her, and creeping closer to her) thy countenance is not a kin to Sorrow-That face was not made to wear the livery of Grief, nor that hazel eye to be the mother of tears. Tell me then why they are engaged in fo unnatural a bu̟finefs. She turned her face away entirely. hing of tears as convinced me they. gurgled directly from the channels of the heart. This was too much-and as I could not apply any balm of comfort to alleviate her forrows, I was resolved to share them with her-and burf into a flood of tears. At this time I believe looked very foolish, and this occafioned the rest of the company to burit into A LOUD LAUGH. Could Watkin Lewes Esqpresenting the Addresses from the Counties of Pembroke. Carmarthen, & Cardigan, to the Lord Mayor Alderman Wilkes, & Alderman Oliver in the Tower Carmarthen Cardigan Pembroke Thus Ancient Britons genrous, bold & free, Ancient British Patriotifm. Could they be fo favage as to take a pleasure in the misfortune of their fellow-creature? I hope not. Now whether it was the ridicule, or the fuddennefs of the thing, that struck them, I know not-but true it is that I blufhed exceffively. Yet perhaps my blush was as unreafonable as their laughter. As the motive of my crying was a good one, what had I to be ashamed of? But this did not last long-for the violent agitations into which my feel-, ings were thrown, foon exhaufted my fpirits, and foon lulled me into fleep, by which I enjoyed every comfort of A SWEET REPOSE. SUCH it was (at least to me) as that which the labourer enjoys when he returns from the field, when his toil is ended. O Sleep! thou valuable gift of bounteous Nature! What bleffings do we not owe to thee? How doft thou hufh our cares, and foothe our fouls with fancied pleasures! Balmy reftorer 69 ANCIENT BRITISH PATRIOTISM. (With an elegant Copper-Plate annexed.) To the Right Hon. BRASS CROSBY, Efq; Lord Mayor of the City of London, RICHARD OLIVER, Efq; and JOHN WILKES, Efq; Aldermen of the City of London. My Lord and Gentlemen, E, the Sheriff and Grand Jury the Affizes held the 9th of April, 1771, beg leave to exprefs our concern for your Lordship's and Mr. Alderman Oliver's fituation. We are the more concerned, that by fuch an injudicious and unconftitutional resolution, not only your Liberties are taken away, but ours alfo are attacked; and we beg leave to affure you that we will not fail to inftruct our reprefentative to ufe his endeavours to procure your enlargement with all the honour you are entitled to. We, in the mean time, beg your acceptance of our thanks, as a teftimony of our approbation and higheft esteem for your upright behaviour as intrepid conduct in fupport of the Rights and Privileges of the Subject. T. Lloyd, Sheriff, Wm. Ford, Foreman, John Owen, Thomas Skyrme, J. Smith, George Vaughan, Francis Skyrme, James James, Cæfar Matthias fen. John Jones, Cæfar Matthias, Evan Williams, Vaughan Thomas, Thomas Lewis, Roger Davids, Thomas Colby, Watkin Lewes, Thomas Lloyd, James Bowen, John Harries, George Roch, John Toker, Nicholas Roch John Poyer, W. W. Bowen, Evan Griffith, Barret, B. Gordon, George Harries, Wm. Phillips, Thomas Williams, and C. Williams, Efqrs. The The Grand Jury, &c. of the County of Cardigan, commiffioned WATKIN LEWES, Efq; to attend the Lord Mayor, and Mr. OLIVER, with the following Addrefs. . To the Right Hon. BRASS CROSBY, Efq; Lord Mayor of the City of London, and RICHARD OLIVER, Efq; Reprefentative and Alderman of the City of London. AY it pleafe your Lordship, and Intelligence from Brighthelmflone. M Mr. Alderman Oliver, We, the the number of people which Grand Jury of the County of Cardi-You would be furprized to fee gan, at the Affizes held the 14th of April, 1771, with concern hear of your Lordthip's and Mr. Alderman Oliver's confinement. in the Tower; we cannot but exprefs fill greater concern, that having acted agreeable to the dictates of your confcience, and under the obligation of your oaths, you fhould fuffer fuch a punishment. We therefore beg your acceptance of our thanks, as a testimony of our approbation, and highest esteem for your upright behaviour as magiftrates, and your firm, manly, and intrepid conduct, in the fupport of the Rights and Privileges of the Subject. The Grand Jury of the County of the Carmarthen, alfo commiflioned Watkin Lewes, Efq; to addrefs the favourites of the people in the following manner, WE E, the Grand Jury of the County of Carmarthen, at the Affizes held the 7th of April 1771, beg leave to express our concern for your Lordship's and Mr. Oliver's fituation; we are the more concerned when we confider that that fituation has been the reward of merit. We, therefore, beg your acceptance of our thanks as a teftimony of our approbation, and higheft efteem of your upright heba viour as magiftrates, and your firm, manly, and intrepid conduct, in fupport of the Rights and Privileges of the Subject. threng down to this place to wath themfelves infide and out with faltwater. I have entertained myself during my refidence here, with enquiring into the diforder which has brought each perfon I meet to fubmit voluntarily to the ducking and drenching of a Pickpocket. Lord C-m- because he has not. yet been fufficiently dipped. Lord L-g-r for a diforder in the head. Lady L-g-r for a cooler. Lady Gln to get rid of a dead weight at her Stomach. Several young Ladies of fashionfor a dropfy. Several married Ladies an heir. Marq-of R-k-m -to fecure for a re ftorative. terative. Several Aermen geftion. Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver -for the benefit of the Air. Some Members of the Coterie, by adjournment from the hot to the col Bath Others for night fweats. for, a com Lord S-d—h plication of Disorders. Lord C-ve and H-1 for an emetic. Lord P -m-t, from Cracktpate Hall, by advice of Dr. Monrofor a Disorder in his head. Wilkes and Horne-for the heartburn. Several Members of the Bill of Rights for a languor of fpirits. C-Houfe Junto for a cleanfer. Some Leaders of the Administration —as an healer of old wounds, and a fauncher of fresh ones. Mr. Bellasas a fweetner. RE |