What clothes you made! how fine you drest! What Dresden china for her feast! But I'll no longer teaze you; Yet 'tis a truth you can't deny, Tho' lady Caroline is nigh, And does not look quite easy. But careful Heaven design'd her Grace On stronger parts depending; Nature indeed denies them sense, Which to accomplish, Hussey came, His honourable trenches; Nor of rebukes or frowns afraid, He push'd his way (he knew his trade) Look down, St. Patrick, with success, And still preserve their breed the same, To comfort English widows! ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE CONQUERED DUTCHESS. IN ANSWER TO THAT CELEBRATED PERFORMANCE. BY EARL NUGENT. WHAT clamour's here about a dame, A widow should pursue. She's better sure than Scudamore, Who, while a Dutchess, play'd the whore, As all the world has heard; Wiser than Lady Harriet too, Whose foolish match made such ado, And ruin'd her and Beard. Yet she's as gay as Lady Vane, Who, should she list her am'rous train, Might fairly man a fleet; Sprightly as Orford's Countess, she, For she had patience first to wed There was, Sir Knight, there was a time, How Sandys, in sense, and person queer, Jump'd from a patriot to a peer, No mortal yet knows why; How Pulteney truck'd the fairest fame For a Right Honourable name To call his vixen by: How Compton rose when Walpole fell, 'Twas you, and only you could tell, And all the scene disclos'd; How Vane and Rushout, Bathurst, Gower, Were curs'd and stigmatiz'd by power, And rais'd to be expos'd. To heights like these your Muse should fly, To others leave the middle sky, Whose wings are weak and flaggy ; Leave these to some young Foppington, Who takes your leavings, Woffington, And tunes his odes to Peggy. For you, who know the sex so well, Still fooling, or befool'd Scheme upon scheme must still succeed, The Dutchess and the Hussey. ODE III. THE RURAL REFLECTIONS OF A WELCH POET. STOP, Stop, my steed! hail, Cambria, hail, Bar, bar the doors, exclude e'en Fear, Here shall my hurried soul repose, Thus Flaccus, at Philippi's fields, And sculk'd in Sabine cavern: Had I not wrote that cursed ode, The jest of every tavern. |