Dear Madam, try to take a Nap But now they hear a Foot-Man's Rap: THE Table, Cards, and Counters set, How can the Muse her Aid impart, In In vain, alas! her Hope is fed; She draws an Ace, and fees it red. In ready Counters never pays, But pawns her Snuff Box, Rings, and Keys. Tries twenty Charms to mend her Luck. 66 This Morning when the Parfon came, "I faid, I fhould not win a Game. "This odious Chair how came I ftuck in't, "I think I never had good Luck in't. I'm fo uneafy in my Stays; "Your Fan, a Moment, if you please. "Nay, Madam, give me Leave to fay, "And I know whom you mean to teach, "Becaufe "Because you held the King of Hearts; "Fie, Madam, leave these little Arts. Her Chair to call the King of Clubs, "Madam, you have no Cause to flounce, A Child may know it in the Dark; I wish fome Folks would pare their Nails WHILE thus they rail, and scold, and storm, It paffes but for common Form; And conscious that they all speak true, Or makes 'em fenfible of Shame.. THE Time too precious now to waste, And Supper gobbled up in hafte; Again a-fresh to Cards they run, As if they had but just begun. How oft they squabble, fnarl and cheat. The Chair-Men are not to be found, them gone: Now, all in hafte they huddle on Their Hoods, and Cloaks, and get But first, the Winner must invite The Company to-morrow Night. UNLUCKY Madam left in Tears, ΤΟ The Grand Question debated. WHETHER * Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt-House. T The Preface to the English Edition. HE Author of the following Poem, is faid to be Dr. J. S. D. S. P. D. who writ it, as well as feveral other Copies of Verfes of the like Kind, by Way of Amusement, in the Family of an bonourable Gentleman in the North of Ireland, where befpent a Summer about two or three Years ago. A certain very great Perfon, then in that Kingdom, having beard much of this Poem, obtained a Copy from the Gentleman, or, as fome say, the Lady, in whofe House it was written, from whence, I know not by what Accident, feveral other Copies were tranfcribed, full of Errors. As I have a great Refpect for the fuppofed Author, I have procured a true Copy of the Poem, the Publication whereof can do him lefs Injury than printing any of thofe incorrect ones which run about in Manufcript, and would infallibly be foon in the Prefs, if not thus vented. pre Some Expreffions being peculiar to Ireland, I have prevailed on a Gentleman of that Kingdom to explain them, and I have put the feveral Explanations in their proper Places. A BAWN was a Place near the Houfe, inclofed with Mud or Stone-Walls, to keep the Cattle from being stolen in the Night. They are now little used. The |