CA LADY CARLISLE. ARLISLE's a name can every Mufe infpire; To Carlile fill the glafs, and tune the lyre. With his lov'd bays the God of Day shall crown A wit and luftre equal to his own. THE SAME. AT once the Sun and Carlisle took their way, LADY ESSEX. THE braveft hero, and the brightest dame, THE SAME. To Effex fill the fprightly wine; LADY HYDE. THE God of Wine grows jealous of his art, ON LADY HYDE IN CHILD-BED. HYDE, though in agonies, her graces keeps, A thousand charms the nymph's complaints adorn; In tears of dew fo mild Aurora weeps, But her bright offspring is the chearful morn. LADY WHARTON. WHEN Jove to Ida did the gods invite, PROLOGUE T PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR TAMERLAN E. O-DAY a mighty hero comes, to warm Your curdling blood, and bid you, Britons, arm. He ftrains no texts, nor makes dragoons perfuade; His fword deftroys lefs than his mercy faves, Britons, for fhame! your factious feuds decline, He shows you your lost honour to retrieve; Our troops will fight, when once the fenate give.. At worst, he 'll find some Cornish borough here. PR 0 LOGUE TO THE MUSICK-MEETING IN YORK-BUILDINGS. WHERE mufick and more powerful beauties reign, Who can fupport the pleasure, and the pain? Here their foft magick those two Syrens try, And if we liften, or but look, we die. Why fhould we then the wondrous tales admire, How mountains mov'd, and rapid ftreams ftood still! The wonder greater, and the fiction lefs. To worship thofe bright altars where we bleed. No No faction homage to the fair denies; That empire's fix'd, that 's founded in defire; PROLOGUE то THE CORNISH SQUIRE, W A COMEDY. HO dares not plot in this good-natur'd age ?Each place is privileg'd except the stage; There the dread phalanx of reformers come, Sworn foes to wit, as Carthage was to Rome; Their ears fo fanctify'd, no fcenes can pleafe, But heavy hymns, or penfive homilies: Truths, plainly told, their tender nature wound,' · Young rakes muft, like old patriarchs, expound; The painted punk the profelyte must play, And bawds, like fille-devotes, procure and How nature is inverted! foon you'll fee Senates unanimous, and fects agree, Jews at extortion rail, and Monks at mystery. Let characters be reprefented true, pray. An airy Sinner makes an aukward Prue, } |