POETRY. 
A TENEMENT TO BE LET., By * * * *** Esq. 
Ovez!—This is that all may learn, 
Whom it may. happen to concern, 
To any lady, not a wife, 
Upon a lease to last for life, 
By auction will be let this day, 
And enter’d on some time in May, 
A vacant heart,—not ornamented 
On plans by Chesterfield invented ; 
A plain, old fafhion’d habitation, 
Substantial, without decoration; 
Large, and with room for friends to spare, 
Well situate, and in good repair. 
Atso the furniture; as sighs, ; 
Hopes, fears, oaths, pray’rs, and some few lies } 
Odes, sonnets, elegies, and songs, 
With all that to th’above belongs. 
Axso,—what some might have been glad, 
Though in a sep’rate lot t” have had, 
A good rich soil of hopeful nature, 
Six measur’d acres, (feet) of stature. 
Likewise another lot,—an heap 
Of tatter’d modesty, quite theap. 
This with the rest would have been sold, 
But that by sev’ral we were told, 
If put up with the heart, the price 
Of that it much might prejudice. 
Note well.—Th’ estate, if manag’d ably; 
May be improv’d consid’rably : 
Love is our money, to be paid 
Whenever entry fhall be made, 
And therefore have we fix’d the day 
For ent’ring in the month of May ; 
But if the buyer of th’ above, 
Can on the spot, pay ready love. 
Hereby the owner makes profefsion, 
She instantly fhall have pofsefsion ; 
The highest bidder be the buyer: 
You may know farther of—THE cRYER. - 
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IMITATION OF CATULLUS, BY THE SAME, 
Way will my wanton maid inquire, 
How many kifses I desire? 
Go count the conscious ‘stars that’see 
How fond I nightly steal to thee; 
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