(How I tremble to think of the blood it hath spilt!)

Then he low'rs down the point, and kiffes the hilt.

Your ladyship fmiles, and thus you begin; Pray, captain, be pleas'd to alight and walk in:

The captain falutes you with congee profound,

And your ladyship curtfies half way to the ground.

Kit, run to your mafter, and bid him

come to us.

I'm fure he'll be proud of the honour you do us:

And, captain, you'll do us the favour to ftay,

And take a fhort dinner here with us today:

You're heartily welcome: but as for good

chear,

You come in the very worst time of the year;

If I had expected fo worthy a guest:
Lord! madam! your ladyfhip fure is in

jeft:

You banter me, madam, the kingdom muft grant

You officers, captain, are so complaifant.

"Hift, huffy, I think I hear fome body coming

No, madam; tis only Sr Arthur a humming.

To fhorten my tale (for I hate a long ftory)

*

The captain at dinner appears in his glory; The dean and the doctor have humbled their pride,

For the captain's entreated to fit by your fide;

And, because he's their betters, you carve for him first;

The parfons for envy are ready to burst: The fervants amaz'd are fcarce ever able To keep off their eyes, as they wait at the table;

And Molly and I have thrust in our nose To peep at the captain in all his fine clo es:

Dear madam, be fure he's a fine-fpoken

man,

Do but hear on the clergy how glib his tongue ran;

“And, madam, says he, if fuch dinners you give,

"You'll never want parfons as long as you live;

"Ine'er knew a parfon without a good nose, "But the devil's as welcome wherever he

"G---d---me, they bid us reform and re

"But, z---s, by their looks they never ་ keep lent:

“Mister curate, for all your grave looks, "I'm afraid.

"You caft a fheep's eye on her ladyfhip's “maid,

"I wifh fhe wou'd lend you her pretty "white hand

"In mending your caffock, and fmooth❝ing your band

(For the dean was fo fhabby, and look d "like a ninny,

"That the captain fuppofs'd he was cu

rate to Jenny).

" When

"Whenever you see a caffock and gown, "A hundred to one but it covers a clown; "Obferve how a parfon comes into a room; "G---d---me, he hobbles as bad as my groom;

"A fcholard, when juft from his college "broke loose,

"Can hardly tell how to cry bo to a goose; Your* Noveds, and Bluturcks, and Omur's " and stuff,

By G- they don't fignify this pinch of "fnuff.

"To give a young gentleman right edu❝cation,

"The army's the only good fchool in the "nation;

My fchool-mafter call'd me a dunce and "a fool,

"But at cuffs I was always the cock of "the fchool;

"I never could take to my book for the "blood o'me,

"And the puppy confefs'd he expected no good o'me.

*Ovids, Plutarchs, Homers. See Effay on Modern Education,

"He

"He caught me one morning coquetting "his wife,

"But he maul'd me, I ne'er was fo maul'd " in my life:

"So I took to the road, and what's very "odd,

"The first man I robb'd was a parfon, by "G-.

"Now, madam, you'll think it a strange “ thing to say,

"But the fight of a book makes me fick "to this day."

Never fince I was born did I hear fo much wit,

And, madam, I laugh'd till I thought I fhould fplit.

So then you look'd scornful, and fnift at the dean,

As who fhou'd fay, now, am I * skinny and lean?

But he durft not fo much as once open his

lips,

And the doctor was plaguily down in the

hips.

* Nick-names for my lady.

Thus