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manners, as to give you what we fuppofe a juft defcrip- 

 tion of their feelings on that melancholy event. I am, 

 &c. 



Transforthaiius. 

 !%€ ohfervations in our ?text. 



Advice to the Bee. 



Miflrefs Bee, iVhen you hum, whether profe or loft 



lyrics, 

 Whether cynical fatires, or pufF'd panegyrics, 

 Pitch nor high, nor too low — Still avoid in your tones. 

 The ill-nature of wafps, and the dullnefs of drones. 



Aristaeus. 



j4 Sonnet. 



See, o'er the water's far extended plain. 

 Yon vcffel comes with all her canvas fpread j 

 Beats on the waves, and, rifing, falls again: 

 Still pafling on, Ihe flowly moves ahead. 



So man is tofs'd upon a fea of cares ; 

 Now rais'd to honour, wealth, and fhort-lived fame ; 

 Now funk in mifery's vale with fuUen fesrs ; 

 Still pafling to the land from which he came. 



Time hafteth on with drowfy wings, while fad ; 

 Juft fo yon fhip, when adverfe gales arife : 

 But when the hour of pleafure is furvey'd. 

 As darting fun-beams, the feducer flies. 

 Ah that 1- warn'd might be from this fad truth ; 

 Nor fplit on pleafure's rocks, and wreck my youth. 



Q, D. C, 



