*Sir Gy Pe T.

Will you buy any tape, or lace for your cape,

My dai ty duck, my dear-a?
dainty

Any filk, any thread, any toys for your head,
Of the newest and fineft wear-a ?

Winter's Tale.

Mifs M-D-N.

She was belov'd; fhe loved, fhe is and doth; But fill fweet love is food for fortune's tooth.

Troilus and Creffida.

Lord K-Y.

I can tell you one thing, my Lord,

And which I hear from common rumours,

That his eftate rinks from him.

Timon of Abens.

Mr. P-TT-R,

A marvellous witty fellow I affure you.

Troilus and Creffida.

* This gentleman is fo bountiful and good natured, that the venders of the worst pictures and and erranteft baubles, are extremely obliged to him for his money and his bad taste.

L-d

L-d SCH.

He that stands upon a flippery place, Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Raife me this beggar and denude that Lord: The fenator fhall bear centempt hereditary, The Beggar native honour.

Timon of Athens.

The finishing or last polish of a young Nobleman's educetion is referved for the Turf and the Gaming-table.-What morals he can acquire amongst rooks and black legs, fharpers and dunes he picks up: If he is not reftrained by the goodnefs of his own heart, he gains, amongst his noble and honourable companions, a love of prodigality and boundless profufion, with abandoned princiciples. His eftate is either entirely loft or deeply mortgaged. His honour is forfeited, and his character is blafted; ftill he has flock enough left to become a Minifter of State, and is fuppofed to be qualified to ferve his King and Country. L-d S-ch, many people pretend to fay, is a p-fl-te character. He is certainly endowed with confiderable abilities, and acknowledged to be a moft engaging and lively companion. With all his faults, he is a much better, as well as abler, man, than fome delicate and plausible Minifters, whofe characters fland fairer with the public.

Mr. SHE-DAN.

The Poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from Heav'n to earth, from earth to

Heav'n,

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airing nothing, A local habitation and a name.

Midfummer Night's Dream.

AY ST.

If I could have remember'd a gilt counterfeit, thou wouldst not have flipt out of my contemplation, but it is no matter, thyself upon thyfelf.Heaven bless thee from a Tutor and difcipline come not near thee!

* Since Shakespeare's days, we have had no fuch promife of a great and truly dramatick genius as Mr. Sh-n. What the Players faid of their friend the old Bard, may juftly be applied to the modern Poet, that he wrote with fuch ease, he had no neceffity to correct what he wrote.

B-P

Bp of O- -D.
-You Lord Bishop,

Whofe Sce is by a civil peace maintain'd,

Whofe learning and good letters, peace hath tu tor'd;

Whole white inveftments figure innocence,

The Dove and very bleffed fpirit of Peace,
Wherefore do you fo ill tranflate yourself
Out of the speech of peace, that bears fuch grace,
Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war?

Hen. 4th. 2d. Part.

The AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS.

Let us like Merchants fhew our fouleft wares,
And think perchance they'll fell-if not
The luftre of the better yet to shew,

Men in his way should be moft liberal,

They're fent here for examples.

Henry 8th.

Duke of M

GH.

Free from grofs paffion, or of mirth or anger,
Conftant in fpirit, not fwerving with the blood,
Garnish'd and deck'd in modeft compliment,
Not working with the eye without the ear,
And but in purged judgment trufting nothing:
Such and fo finely bolted doft thou seem.

Henry 5th,

4

Lady CPE.

A wife,

Whose beauty did aftonish the furvey

Of richeft eyes, whose words all ears took captive,
Whofe dear perfection, hearts, that fcorn'd to

ferve

Humbly call'd miftrefs.

All's Well, &c.

Lord