POETRY. 419 



Poetical remonstrance to a young heir just coming of age, by Dr. Johnson-, 

 from Mrs. Piozxi's British Synonomy. 



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ONG pxpected one-and-twenty, 

 ..„_^ Ling'ring year at length is flown, 

 Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty. 

 Great ******* are now your own. 



Loasen'd from the minor's tether, 



Free to mortage, or to sell ; 

 Wild as wind and light as leather. 



Bid the sons of thrift farewell. 



Call the Betseys, Kates and Jenneys, 

 All the names that banish care ; 



Lavish of your grandsire's guineas. 

 Shew the spirit of an heir. 



All that prey on vice and folly, 



Joy to see their quarry fly ; 

 There the gamester light and jolly. 



There the lender grave and sly. 



Wealth, ray lad, was made to wander. 



Let it wander as it will ; 

 Call the jockey, call the pander. 



Bid them come and take their fill. 



When the bonny blade carouses. 

 Pockets full and spirits high; 



What are acres ? what are houses ? 

 Only dirt, or wet, or dry. 



Should the guardian, friend, or mother, 

 Tell the woes of wilful waste j 



Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother. 

 You can hang, or drown at last. 



On reading Mr. Howard^^count of Lazarettos, from Poems by the Reu. 



W. L. Bowles, A. M. 



BE the sad scene disclosed ; — fearless unfold , 



The grating door — the inmost cell behold ! 

 Thought shrinks from the dread sight ; the paly latnp 

 Tiurns faint amid the^nfectious vapour's damp > 



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