If with difcretion you these costs employ
They quicken appetite, if not they cloy.

Next in your mind this maxim firmly root,
"Never o'ercharge your Pie with costly fruit."
Oft' let your bodkin thro' the lid be fent
To give the kind imprifon'd treasure vent,
Let the fermenting liquor, closely prest,
Infenfibly by constant fretting waste,
And o'erinform your tenement of paste.
To chuse your baker think and think again,
(You'll scarce one honeft baker find in ten:)
Aduft and bruis'd I've often feen a Pie
In rich disguise and costly ruin lie,
While penfive crust beheld its form o'erthrown,
Exhaufted Apples griev'd their moistureflown, 65
And firup from the fides ran trickling down.

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O be not, be not tempted, lovely Nell!
While the hot-piping odours strongly smell,
While the delicious fume creates a gust,
To lick the o'erflowing juice or bite the crust.
You 'll rather stay (if my advice may rule)
Until the hot is corrected by the cool;

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Till you've infus'd the luscious store of cream,

And chang'd the purple for a filver stream;
Till that fmooth viand its mild force produce,

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And give a softness to the tarter juice.

Then shalt thou pleas'd the noble fabrick view,

And have a flice into the bargain too;

Honour and fame alike we will partake,
So well I'll eat what you so richly make.

UPON A GIANT'S ANGLING.

His Angle-rod made of a sturdy oak,
His Line a cable which in storms ne'er broke,
His Hook he baited with a dragon's tail,
And fat upon a rock and bobb'd for whale.

UPON THE

DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S

HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.

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Atria longe patent; fed nec cœnantibus usqum,
Nec fomno locus eft; quam bene non habites?

MART. Epig.

SEE, Sir, see here is the grand approach;
This way is for his Grace's coach:
There lies the bridge, and here is the clock;

Observe the lion and the cock,

The spacious court, the colonade,
And mark how wide the hall is made.

The chimnies are so well design'd
They never smoke in any wind.
This gall'ry is contriv'd for walking,
The windows to retire and talk in;
The council chamber for debate,
And all the rest are rooms of state.

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Thanks, Sir, cry'd I; it is very fine;
But where d' ye fleep, or where d' ye dine?
I find by all you have been telling
That it is a house but not a dwelling.

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.

OLD Paddy Scot, with none of the best faces,
Had a most knotty pate at solving cafes;
In any point could tell you to a hair
When was a grain of honesty to spare.
It happen'd after pray'rs one certain night
At home he had occafion for a light
To turn Socinus, Leffius, Escobar,
Fam'd Covarruvias, and the great Navarre;
And therefore as he from the chapel came
Extinguishing a yellow taper's flame,
By which just now he had devoutly pray'd,
The useful remnant to his sleeve convey'd,
There happen'd a physician to be by
Who thither came but only as a spy
To find out others' faults, but let alone
Repentance for the crimes that were his own.

This doctor follow'd Paddy; faid " He lack'd
"To know what made a facrilegious fact."
Paddy with studious gravity replies,
"That is as the place or as the matter lies.
" If from a place unsacred you should take
"A facred thing, this facrilege would make;

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"Or an unfacred thing from facred place, "There would be nothing diff'rent in the cafe; "But if both thing and place should facred be "Twere height of facrilege, as doctors all agree."

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"Then," says the Doctor, "for more light in this, "To put a fpecial cafe were not amifs. "Suppofe a man should take a Common Pray'r "Out of a chapel where there is fome to fpare?" 30 "A Comnion Pray'r!" says Paddy; "that would be "A facrilege of an intense degree."

Suppose that one should in these holydays "Take thence a bunch of rosemary or bays?" "I'd not be too cenforious in that cafe, "But 't would be facrilege still from the place." "What if a man should from the chapel take "A taper's end? should he a fcruple make, "If homeward to his chambers he should go, "Whether it were theft or facrilege or no?" The fly infinuation was perceiv'd:

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Says Paddy, "Doctor, you may be deceiv'd
"Unless in cafes you diftinguish right;
"But this may be refolv'd at the first fight.

"As to the taper it could be no theft, "For it had done its duty and was left;

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"And facrilege in having it is none,

"Because that in my fleeve I now have one."

48 LITTLE MOUTHS.

FROM London Paul the carrier coming down
To Wantage meets a beauty of the Town:
They both accost with falutation pretty,

As, "How dost, Paul?"-" Thank you; and how "doft, Betty?"

"Didst see our Jack nor sister? No; you've seen 5 "I warrant none but those who saw the queen."

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"I came from Windfor*; and if fome folks knew "As much as I it might be well for you." "Lord, Paul! what is it?"" Why, give me fonte

"thing for 't;

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"This kiss, and this. The matter then is short: "The Parliament have made a proclamation, " Which will this week be sent all round the nation, "That maids with Little Mouths do all prepare "On Sunday next to come before the Mayor, "And that all bachelors be likewife there; "For maids with Little Mouths shall if they please "From out of these young men chuse two apiece."

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Betty with bridled chin extends her face, And then contracts her lips with fimp'ring grace; 20 Cries "Hem! pray what must all the huge ones do "For husbands when we Little Mouths have two?"

* Where Queen Anne and her court frequently refided. Volume II.

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