FROM
HEINSIUS—HUYGENIUS, &c.
1st.
On a man always shaking his head. |
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You shake your head!—a bottle too
Requires the same each minute;
Whilst the poor thirsty toper doubts,
If there is ought within it!
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2d. Aulus in Office.
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Aulus
in office, thinks it is propitious |
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To
shew his office—and to be officious!
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3d. On the iron coins of J. Caesar.
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With
future names—be any metal grac’d,
But Caesar’s stamps on nought
but iron plac’d!
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4th. On a fine picture of a Girl.
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With
raptur’d hearts, the blooming girl we
view,
Who boasts, tho’ painted, natures
colors too!
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5th. On a great man envied.
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What
wonder envy should devolve on you,
Whom all feet trample on,
but none pursue!
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6th. With a set of prayers to his brother—By
HUYGENIUS.
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The
prayers you ask, are here, my brother given;
O! be my words your passport into Heaven!
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7th. On a sick Drunkard.
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Oemilius
bids the various physic |
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Which
his Doctor sends be c——st;
Fearing
lest the self—same doses,
With
his pain should cure his thirst!
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8th. On Gustavus of Sweden.
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Ages
hereafter, when the earth may quake,
Shall say, “the ashes of Gustavus wake!”
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9th. On a talkative girl—who had lost
her teeth.
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What
wonder that the beauteous Anna’s
Lately splendid teeth should fail,
Whilst her tongue’s incessant hammer,
Dares those splendid teeth assail?
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10th. The gouty debtor.
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In
vain the gouty debtor tries, |
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Th’
evasive force of wit;
“He
cannot to his promise stand!”
No!—but
he sure can sit!
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11th. On a pauper who had fallen into a ditch.
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The
pitying strangers haste with generous fear,
To lift the pauper from the pit of mud;
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“O!
cease, (he cries) and let me flumber here,
“My bed at home is not one half so
good!”
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12th. On a father surrounded by his children.
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Lines
from circle to its centre
Each
to each must equal prove; [Page 46]
Equal
to his circling children
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Is
a gen’rous parent’s love! |
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13th. On Women.
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What
is lighter than a feather?
Dust:—than Dust?—the changing wind:
Than the wind?—than all together?
Nothing—but a woman’s mind!
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14th. On a beautiful boy and his mother each
blind of one eye.
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Oh!
let your eye, sweet Boy,
Your mother’s socket fill;
And thus be Cupid blind,
Whilst she is Venus still!
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16. Imitated from the French—on a man
who had unjustly been refused a College fellowship.
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lies a wretch—who had so little knowledge, |
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| He was
not ev’n a fellow of a College! |
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