'POETRT. 



The Siege of a Heart. 



Belinda studied man, and knew his folly, 



Srail'd with the gay, gloom'd with the melancholy, 



Lovers in crouds begg'd humbly her commands, 



And seem'd in heav'n when they might kifs her hands. 



First came Conceit, torn from his darling toilet, 



Drest in the various hues which deck the violet, • 



Gigled and ogled, talk'd of mutual blifs, 



Flutter'd like silk fly from the chrysalis. 



His drefs explained his wit could go no farther, 



But surley ladies, " this can do ?io murder. 



A city buck next strove to won the laurel, 



And bragg'd his belly was a huge wine barrel. 



A jocky blood with twenty thousand pound 



Appeared, and hop'd with victory to be crown'd. 



Bel heard impatient, " Thats your sorts" discourses, 



And all the leaps performed by his hoises, 



Till tir'dto death (lie bade him change his ground Sir. 



Artdwith his grooms go Tallio the hounds Sir; 



Next came, terrifickname, a man ofivar ; 



Bold were his looks, his oaths were bolder far ; 



This forward blade, Belinda blufli'd to tell it, 



Had got coramifsion'd ere he learnt to spell it. 



A poet next, with elegies and sonnets. 



On lapdogs dead, and fair Belinda's bonnets, 



Strove for the honour of the maid's alliance ; 



But all the muses were kept at defiance. 



A scholar too, wjuld try ; flie would not hear him. 



For all the talk on one side who could bear him. 



A modest fellow next began to stammer ; 



But both his jaws were nail'd by Cupid's hammer. 



Cherries and snow are ne'er found at one season ; 



More seldom love is seen conjoin'd with reason. 



A spouting playhouse lotnigcr claim'd a hearing 



But was discarded on his first appearing. 



A young man who all morning studied graces, 



The sport of fancy and of all new faces, 



Efsay'd to won her, then with joy elate, 



Turn'd on his heel, and Ihow'd a male cocquet. 



At length appear'd a firm and manly youth. 



Whose thoughts were honour, and whose words were truth, 



He lov'd the maiden, (lie approved the plan, 



And found that honour is a woman's man. 



PhOBNIX HuNTEfl. 



