ON THE ASTROLOGERS. HE aftrologers did all alike prefage My uncle's dying in extreme old age; One only disagreed. But he was wife, And spoke not till he heard the funeral cries. ON FLATTERERS. O mifchief worthier of our fear Than friendship, in oftent fincere, But hollow and unfound. For lull'd into a dangerous dream We close infold a foe, Who ftrikes, when moft fecure we feem, The inevitable blow. ON A TRUE FRIEND. AST thou a friend? Thou haft indeed Treasure to serve your every need, ON THE SWALLOW. TTIC maid! with honey fed, Bear'ft thou to thy callow brood Ye have kindred voices clear, Ah, for pity drop the prize; ON LATE ACQUIRED WEALTH. OOR in my youth, and in life's later Rich to no end, I curfe my natal hour, Who nought enjoy'd while young, denied the means; And nought when old enjoy'd, denied the power. ON A BATH, BY PLATO. ID Cytherea to the skies From this pellucid lymph arise? When bathing here, that made it fuch? ON A FOWLER, BY ISIODORUS. ITH feeds and birdlime, from the defert air, Eumelus gather'd free, though fcanty, No lordly patron's hand he deign'd to kiss, ON NIOBE. HARON! receive a family on board Apollo and Diana, for a word By me too proudly fpoken, flew us all. ON A GOOD MAN. RAVELLER, regret not me; for thou fhalt find my decease, Juft caufe of forrow none in Who, dying, children's children left behind, And with one wife lived many a year in peace: Three virtuous youths efpoufed my daughters three, And oft their infants in my bofom lay, Nor faw I one, of all derived from me, Touch'd with disease, or torn by death away. Their duteous hands my funeral rites bestow'd, And me, by blameless manners fitted well To feek it, fent to the ferene abode Where fhades of pious men for ever dwell. ON A MISER. HEY call thee rich;-I deem thee poor, ANOTHER. MISER, traverfing his house, Brifkly inquifitive addrefs'd: "Tell me, my dear, to what cause is it ANOTHER. RT thou fome individual of a kind Thou haft excufe, and scarce canft heap too much. breaft This luft of treasure-folly at the best! For why shouldst thou go wafted to the tomb, |