many hands and no ufe, or purblind Argus, all

eyes and no fight.

Troilus and Crefida.

Earl of CH-HAM.

O he fits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richeft Alchymy,

Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

This is a flight unmeritable man,

Meet to be fent on errands

And though we lay thefe honours on him.
To eafe our felves of divers flanderous loads,
He shall but bear them as the afs bears gold,

This worthy Gentleman has for above twenty-five or thirty years paft figured in all the Adminiftrations during that time. He thinks or calls himself at leaft a neceffary peg to keep an administration firm and compact.-Though the nation's enemy, he is always termed the King's friend.

To groan and sweat under the business,
Or led or driven as we point the way :

Then take we down his load, and turn him off
To graze in Commons.

Julius Cæfar.

Lord ADV-TE for Sc--D.

He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go forth; A barren fpirited fellow, one that feeds

On abject orts and imitations,

Which out of use and ftaled by other men,

Virginity breeds mites much like a cheese, Confumes itself to the very paring, and fo dies with feeding its own ftomach: Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of felf love, which is the most prohibited fin in the Canon. Keep it not, you cannot chufe but lofe by it.

All's Well, Sc.

Lady

Lady Dowager H-E to Lord G—————- G

-He has ftruck more blows for his country Than thou haft utter'd words.I wou'd my fon Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him, his Good fword in his hand

Duke of DV-SHIRE.

Be thou bleft, and fucceed thy father

In manners as in fhape, thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy birth-right.

All's Well, &c.

The abilities of Mr. Bte are as unqueftionable as his courage. He is firm to his connections, and will go great lengths to ferve a friend.

Col. BA-EE.

What cannoneer begot this lufty blood?
He speaks plain cannon-fire, and fmoke and bounce,
He gives the baftinado with his tongue;

Our ears are cudgel'd; not a word of his,
But buffets better than a fift of France.

King John.

HSTLY to Lord N-TH.

The fwallow follows not fummer more willingly than I your Lordship.

Timon of Athens.

A

DEGENERACY of the TIMES.

Fear and Piety,

Religion to the Gods, peace, juftice, truth,
Domeftick awe, night reft, and neighbourhood,
Inftruction, manners, myfteries, and trade,
Degrees obfervances, cuftoms, and laws,
Decline to their confounding contraries.

Timon of Athens.

Mrs.

Mrs. AB

GTIN.

O happy fair!

Your eyes are loadftones, and your tongue's fweet

air,

More tuneable than lark to fhepherd's ear.

O teach me how you look, and with what art
You fway the motion of your lover's heart.

Midfummer Night's Dream.

Mrs. Ab-g-n is a most agreeable and accomplished actress: Though Nature has formed her perfon with great elegance, yet her chief power of pleafing is derived from the excellence of her understanding, and the goodness of her tafte.Her voice in its original tone is neither melodious nor pleafing, but the has the art of tuning it so mufically, that every fyllable fhe utters is not only well articulated, bnt delivered fo as to give pleafure to the hearers. She reprefents a variety of parts with great kill. The high bred lady would have been loft to the ftage, if Mrs. Ab-g-n's graceful deportment, eafy action, and elegance in drefs, of which fhe is perhaps the greatest mistress now living, had not thrown a new life and spirit unto all the fashionable female characters in our best comedies.