Written at ALTH ROP, in a blank Leaf of WALLER'S POEMS, upon feeing VAN DYKE'S Picture of the old Lady SUNDERLAND.
ANDYKE had colours, foftnefs, fire, and art,
When the fair Sunderland inflam'd his heart.
Waller had numbers, fancy, wit, and fire,
And Sachariffa was his fond defire.
Why then at Althrop seems her charms to faint,
In these sweet numbers, and that glowing paint?
This happy feat a fairer mistress warms;
This fhining offspring has eclips'd her charms :
The different beauties in one face we find;
Soft Amoret with brightest Sacharissa join'd.
As high as Nature reach'd, their art could foar;
But she ne'er made a finish'd piece before.
Duchefs of ST. ALBANS.
HE line of Vere, fo long renown'd in arms,
Concludes with luftre in St. Albans' charms. Her conquering eyes have made their race compleat; They rofe in Valour, and in Beauty fet.
Offspring of a tuneful fire,
Bleft with more than mortal fire;
Likonefs of a mother's face,
Bleft with more than mortal grace;
You with double charms furprize,
With his wit, and with her eyes.
Lady MARY CHURCHILL.
Faireft and lateft of the beauteous race,
Bleft with your parents wit, and her firft blooming face ;
Born with our liberties in William's reign,
Your eyes alone that liberty reftrain.
Duchefs of RICHMOND.
Of two fair Richmonds different ages boaft,
Theirs was the firft, and ours the brightest toast;
Th' adorers offerings prove who's most divine,
They facrific'd in water, we in wine.
All Nature's charms in Sunderland appear,
Bright as her eyes, and as her reafon clear:
Yet ftill their force, to men not fafely known,
Scems undifcover'd to herself alone.
Mademoiselle SPANHEIME.
Admir'd in Germany, ador'd in France,
Your charms to brighter glory here advance;
The stubborn Britons own your beauty's claim,
And with their native toafts enrol your name.
OUR AGE, dear Moll, and drive away despair. Mopfa, who in her youth was fcarce thought fair, In fpite of age, experience, and decays,
Sets up for Charming, in her fading days;
Snuffs her dim eyes to give one parting blow,
Have at the heart of every ogling beau!
This goodly goofe, all feather'd like a jay,
So gravely vain, and fo demurely gay,
Last night, t' adorn the court, did overload
Her bald buff forehead with a high commode :
Her fteps were manag'd with fuch tender art,
As if each board had been a lover's heart.
In all her air, in every glance, was seen
A mixture ftrange, twixt fifty and fifteen.
Admiring fops about her crowding prefs;
Hambden him felf delivers their addrefs,
Which she, accepting with a nice disdain,
Owns them her fubjects, and begins to reign:
Fair Queen of Fopland is her royal style;
Fopland the greatest part of this great ifle!
Nature did ne'er fo equally divide
A female heart, 'twixt piety and pride:
Her waiting-maids prevent the peep
And, all in order, on her toilet lay
Prayer-books, patch-boxes, fermon-notes, and paint,
At once t' improve the finner and the faint.
Farewel, friend Moll: expect no more from me;
But if you would a full defcription see,
You'll find her fomewhere in the Litany,
With Pride, Vain-glory, and Hypocrify.
SIGNORA FRANCISCA MARGARITA.
AIL, tuneful pair! say, by what wondrous charms,
One 'fcap'd from hell, and one from Greber's arms?
When the foft Thracian touch'd the trembling ftrings,
The winds were hufh'd, and curl'd their airy wings :
And when the tawny Tufcan rais'd her strain,
Rooke furls his fails, and dozes on the main.
Treaties unfinish'd in the office fleep,
And Shovel yawns for orders on the deep.
Thus equal charms and equal conquests claim ;
To him high woods and bending timber came,
To her fhrub Hedges, and tall Nottingham.
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