ON PHRINE. PH Hrine, as odious as Youth well can be, Met with a buggering Mafs, that cou'd not fee; His Blindness fhe, and that excus'd her Face. Where the not ugly, fhe wou'd him despise; Nor wou'd he marry her, if he had Eyes. To their Defects, they're for the Match in debt, And, but for Faults on both fides, ne'er had met. ΤΟ ΤΟ BASSA "Hat I ne'er faw thee in a Coach with That Man Nor thy chaft Name in wanton Satyr met; That from thy Sex thy liking never ran, So as to fuffer a Male-fervant yet. I thought thee the Lucretia of our time: But, Baffa, thou the while a Tribas wert, And clafhing, with a prodigious Crime, Didft act of Man th' inimitable part. What Odipus this Riddle can untye? Without a Male, there was Adultery. OT TO ΤΟ SCILLA Torm not, brave Friend, that thou hadft never yet Miftrefs nor Wife that others did not----, But, like a Chriftian, pardon and forget, For thy own Pox will thy Revenge contrive. Ο Ν SEXTUS WHen I had purchaft a fresh Whore or Coat, For which I knew not how to pay, So as he knew I cou'd not chufe but hear Nor had one Farthing in his trufty Chest: If I had ask'd, I knew he wou'd not lend; 'Tis new, before-hand, to deny a Friend. THE The Happy PAIR: OR, A POEM Ο Ν MATRIMONY. WHen firft the World from the black Chaos rofe, And Infant Beauty did the Frame compofe; When Heav'n and Man poffefs'd one itate of Mind, And the pure Globe,like its CREATOR, fhin'd: When free from Sin the noble Mortal ftrove Torival God in his return of Love. When damning PRIDE, that Architect of Hell, Made not, as yet, his tempted Soul rebel. When plunging Avarice no Birth had found, Nortore the precious Entrails of the Ground; Then, then, the new Inhabitant was bleft, Eafe watch'd his Heart, and Peace fecur'd his Breaft: |