2^^ THE BEE, 0& Feb. 9, 



Befits fo hideous a picture ! — 



Next, as to your mufe irritant, 



Her rage is juft ; but then her cant, 



'Bout Hecate fell, and fraught her diclion 



With fuch combuftible like fiction ; 



And Lethe's funnes, that 't would make a fi ranger, 



To read it, think his life in danger : 



And ftill the author feems to jump — 



As in the vacuum of an air pump ; 



Scorns Nature, and tliinks of creating 



A world's of's own out of a nothing. — 



Your linnet fings a little better, 



Though colour'd fcarce to common nature. — 



Now, if you deem us poets fools. 



We tliink you chemifts ilatefmen's tools, 



Nor are our brains fo very addie, 



But we can turn on you the table : 



Would not two grains of Peter Pindar, 



Yonr motely menftruiim of wonder. 



And dull, pedantic, pond'rous metal, 



Amply precipitate and fettle ? — 



Though di'ead you need not fublimation: 



But now I've wrote to faturstion ; — 



So farewell to your firft ; I propound 



Next to addrefs me to your lecond. 



Th' mufe your threats being io amioy'd at, 



Will juft devour it as you void it. 



P. S. Print this, and let the great world fee.' 

 That you are an impartiyl Bee*'. 



T. 



• The editor returtis thanlis to Mr. T. for the above lines, vvhicli, 

 though not poflefiing all the merit he c..uld wifh, have ftill one merit, — 

 SfrigLttinefs, which he is forty to fay, is a very rare one among his cor- 

 jefpondcnts. As he has not one grain of that quality in his own com- 

 pofition, he wifhes very much to find it among his corrcfpondcnts, and 

 will pay a particular attention to thofe compofitions, either in prole or 

 Verfe, where it is difcoverable, when natural, and not uffeded. 



But though with him, cheerfulnei's, like charity, will cover a 

 multitude of faults, it will not aloric be fufficient to attonc for e*e- ^ 

 ry defeft. He obferves that C1auJ:ro cf facctitus memory, in an intro- * 



