In a costly palace, when the brave gallants dine, They have store of good venison, with old canary wine.

With singing and music to heighten the cheer; Coarse bits, with grudging, are the pauper's best fare.

In a costly palace Youth is still carest

By a train of attendants which laugh at my young Lord's jest ;

In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails; Does Age begin to prattle ?—no man hearkeneth to his tales.

In a costly palace if the child with a pin

Do but chance to prick a finger, straight the doctor is called in;

In a wretched workhouse men are left to perish For want of proper cordials, which their old age might cherish.

In a costly palace Youth enjoys his lust;

In a wretched workhouse Age, in corners thrust, Thinks upon the former days, when he was well to do, Had children to stand by him, both friends and kinsmen too.

In a costly palace Youth his temples hides

With a new-devised peruke that reaches to his sides;

In a wretched workhouse Age's crown is bare,
With a few thin locks just to fence out the cold air.

In peace, as in war, 'tis our young gallants' pride,
To walk, each one i' the streets, with a rapier by his
side,

That none to do them injury may have pretence;
Wretched Age, in poverty, must brook offence.

HYPOCHONDRIACUS.

By myself walking,
To myself talking,
When as I ruminate

On my untoward fate,
Scarcely seem I

Alone sufficiently,

Black thoughts continually
Crowding my privacy;
They come unbidden,
Like foes at a wedding,
Thrusting their faces
In better guests' places,
Peevish and malcontent,
Clownish, impertinent,
Dashing the merriment;

So in like fashions

Dim cogitations

Follow and haunt me,
Striving to daunt me,

In my heart festering,
In my ears whispering,
"Thy friends are treacherous,
Thy foes are dangerous,

Thy dreams ominous."

Fierce Anthropophagi,
Spectra, Diaboli,

What sacred St. Anthony,

Hobgoblins, Lemures,

Dreams of Antipodes,
Night-riding Incubi
Troubling the fantasy,
All dire illusions

Causing confusions;

Figments heretical,

Scruples fantastical,
Doubts diabolical;

Abaddon vexeth me,

Mahu perplexeth me,

Lucifer teareth me

Jesu! Maria! liberate nos ab his diris tentationibus

Inimici.

A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO.

MAY the Babylonish curse

Straight confound my stammering verse,

If I can a passage see

In this word perplexity,
Or a fit expression find,

Or a language to my mind,

(Still the phrase is wide or scant)

To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT!
Or in any terms relate

Half my love, or half my hate:
For I hate, yet love, thee so,

That, whichever thing I show,

The plain truth will seem to be,
A constrained hyperbole,

And the passion to proceed

More from a mistress than a weed.

Sooty retainer to the vine,
Bacchus' black servant, negro fine;
Sorcerer, that makest us dote upon
Thy begrimed complexion,
And, for thy pernicious sake,
More and greater oaths to break

Than reclaimed lovers take

'Gainst women: thou thy siege dost lay
Much too in the female way,

While thou suckest the labouring breath
Faster than kisses or than death.

Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,

That our worst foes cannot find us,

And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;

While each man, through thy heightening steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem,

And all about us does express

(Fancy and wit in richest dress)

A Sicilian fruitlessness.

Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us,
And, for those allowed features,

Due to reasonable creatures,
Likenest us to fell Chimeras,
Monsters that, who see us, fear us;
Worse than Cerberus or Geryon,
Or, who first loved a cloud, Ixion.

Bacchus we know, and we allow
His tipsy rites. But what art thou,
That but by reflex canst show
What his deity can do,