"the Public demands that I should not only make you 66 my acknowledgments for what you have done, but if "the task be a pleasing one to you, request that you will "take charge of the enclosed continuation of my ballad. "It may be proper to inform you, in order to justify "myself for obtruding more of this Brawl upon the public eye, that the Committee have proceeded in the 66 66 same line of insult and wrong towards the tenant of "their pew, in which they first set out, and to complete "their work, have by a vote very lately confirmed the "order which disposed of her seat to the Doctor, and "have offered her one in the body of the Chapel:-to this "offer she has answered; that as they have without any 66 ground whatever, taken from her the seat which she "then rented, and given it to the person who in an un 66 manly ruffian-like manner insulted her there, she "would not condescend to accept of a seat in any part "of the Chapel from a set of Committee-men, whose "acts in this instance were so contrary to Justice and Propriety.---The consequence is, that she is no longer even the nominal tenant of part of a pew for which she paid rent to Christmas last, but which she has not ven"tured to occupy since Easter-day, when she was in 66 66 66 "sulted "sulted there; and the Doctor and his Lady have now "taken possession of the whole pew. "Give me leave, Sir, to express my approbation of the “addition which you made to my MS. by your very 66 66 ingenious and classical notes, and to request in the language of the law, that you will again take upon you "the office of a notary and attorney, and whatsoever you shall do or cause to be done in the premises I will "confirm. 66 "I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your obedient humble Servant, "The AUTHOR of the BALLAD." I think it is now only necessary for me in my editorial and notarial capacity to say, that I have presumed to take some liberty with my author's text, as my readers will observe in the breaks in several parts of the sequel of the ballad; but that his manuscript, with which I have taken such liberty, and which contained some curious matter which I did not chuse to print, may be seen unmutilated, and examined by curious critical autograph searchers, searchers, I intend with the Author's approbation as soon as the press shall have been set, to deposit it for the space of one month at the Green Grocer's near the Foundling Hospital gate, for public inspection, before it be made an envelope for cheese, butter, eggs, brick-dust, and other green grocery. The EDITOR. THE THE FOUNDLING-CHAPEL BRAWL, A NON-HEROIC BALLAD. PART II. "Hic totus volo lugeat libellus.-Martial. O Muse! who erst with lyric aid, So shall my Foundling-Chapel Lay And Printer's choir in tristful strains FORTH from the Chapel tow'rd their home And as she mov'd ungenial gales Mix'd with the ambient air; [N.B. Printer's choir] Mr. Printer is the first singer at the Chapel. Ah! Ah! what a change, that she, who late Shou'd, when again she pass'd the gate, Less grateful plants o'erspread the ground, At home arriv'd, she rang the bell, Who, from their lady's quick return, So Fadladinida, 'twas said, Went indispos'd from court: [Ah! what a change, that she who late Smell'd sweet as Sharon's rose,] I am inclined to read Henry's rose, instead of Sharon's, on account of the allusion to the epitaph on fair Rosamond—— "Hic jacet in tumba, Rosa mundi non Rosa munda, Non redolet sed olet, quæ redolere solet." [So Fadladinida, &c.] Vide the Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos. So |