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When no Security before was found. 



But now [ look so scandalous and poor 



The Neighbours swear they'll take my Word no more. 



In vain you may my further Aifl invoke, 



I am so mean that all Men think I'm broke 



For Shame, ungrateful Town, thy Crimes bewail, 



And Jet these iSighs, these sad Complaints prevail. 



Let every Couns'lor, Alderman and May'r, 



Relent with Pity to a restless Prayer ; 



Discharge the Debt of Honour so long due, 



That I may shine as well as t'other Two. 



This said the waking Cocks began to Crow 



And warn'd the Spirit back to Shades below. 

 The two Upstart Princes mention'd in the POEM are Cobx and Edgar, 

 whose Images are in the Front of the Guildhall. Soon after the publica- 

 tion of this Satire the Corporation set up a Statue not much better than 

 the former, which looks more like a Scold in a Ducking-Stool than a 

 Prince on a Throne. But I am inform'd that the whole Gate is soon 

 to be pulled down ; and that there is a Subscription on Foot among the 

 Inhabitants to have a Marble Statue of the Founder of the Baths made 

 by an eminent Statuary of this City, from whose Works that I have 

 seen and studied there is great Prospect of having a Statue by an 

 English sculptor not inferior to any in the Florentine Gallery. The 

 other three gates are so mean that they can hardly be called Gates, 

 and therefore shall not describe them but conclude myself, 



Dear Sir, 



Your faithful Servant, 



Like many interesting things in the present day, he thus breaks 

 off wherf we are most anxious to hear more, with the tantalising 

 words " to be continued," and as I have not been able to find 

 that continuation, he brings to an abrupt conclusion what I have 

 to say about the Old City Walls. 



