No meretricious garb she wore,--

Had Durham's Prelate seen her,
He would have giv'n her credit for
Her dress and good demeanour;

An upper seat she never sought
For irreligious ends,

And was so civil, she was deem'd
The Hare with many Friends.

Yet ah! what will not Pride attempt?
Or fell Ambition do?

A Dame---a Groundling of the Church
Long'd for this Gallery Pew:

From humble station lately rais'd
To share a Doctor's bed,

No wonder 'bove her fellows she

Should wish to hold her head.

[From humble Station lately raised, &c.]

This lady was never known before to have violated the laws of civility or hospitality: indeed she had a very good opportunity of studying those laws before she married the Doctor, as she was for some time domesticated with her sisters, who kept a very hospitable and reputable lodging or boarding house in Southampton Row.-EDITOR.

A Head!--

A Head !---with feathers high adorn'd,
Half veil'd with costly lace,
Whilst auburn tresses careless play'd

In ringlets round her face:

Ringlets! more bright, than that sweet lock
Which caus'd Belinda's care,

Ah! Willain! happier than Sir Plume!

To boast such growing hair.

Ye Dames! who see with rivals' eyes,
Or swell with envy big,

Oh! talk not here of borrow'd plumes,
And call her Hair---a Wig:

Not Berenice's golden locks

With Willain's could compare,

Though to a Constellation rais'd
T'attend the greater Bear.

Her arms were to her shoulders nude,
Her neck no kerchief cross'd,

So gifted she---that unadorn'd

She seem'd adorn'd the most.

[So gifted she, that unadorn'd, &c.]

"But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.---Thompson's Lavinia.

The Doctor often puns upon his Lady's Name, which was Scot, and in an endearing way calls her his Queen of Scots, his Delescot, and his Scot and Lot.---EDIT.

Medici.---This it seems is the Doctor's pronunciation of the word Medici, which I do not approve of, except for the Rhyme sake.---Roscoe.

That

That cou'd not be, to eject her thence

Were an illegal Sin,

her

And---as she cou'd not drive out,

She vow'd she'd pen her in.

The Governors---at large I mean---
Were passing wise and just,
From them---Committee-men grew out
Excrescents of the Trust:

The Governors at large I say,

Were Worthies---nine in ten;

But Blacks will be among the Wheat,
Rooks---'mong Committee-men.

[But Blacks will be amongst the Wheat,]

Smutty or tainted ears of corn are so called: this line was first written, "But Weeds will be among the Wheat;"--- Infelix lolium et steriles dominantur avena.'---Virg.

[Rooks 'mongst Committee-men.]

'And Rooks, Committee-men, and Trustees.'---Butler's Hud.

The Chairman was above the rest

In merit and degree,

"In Court ne'er sat an Abethdin

"With hands more pure than he.”

To him were join'd, in Church Affairs,
Men of inferior credit,

With these a Lawyer Dowling sat
Yclep'd Attorney

And next to him one B------d, who

A specious wily wight is,

This---the Ulysses of the Trust,

And that---the loud Thersites.

[The Chairman was above the rest

In Merit and Degree,]

Tho. Everitt, Esq. perpetual chairman of the Committees, a very respectable, active, and intelligent member of the Trust.--- O si sic omnes!'

[In Court ne'er sat an Abethdin]

'In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin

• With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean.'---Dryden's Absal. and Achitophell.

[Men of inferior Credit,]

Polybonta, Medontaque, Thersilocumque.---EDIT.

[This the Ulysses of the Trust,]

For the propriety of this Appellation see Post Note.

Thus