506 POEMS. 



We will not allow you to do as you ehuse ; 

 To give or give not : to comply or refuse : 

 But will certainly take from it's hinges the door ; 

 Or bear-off the good dame, as she sits on the floor ; 

 She is little and light ; we can manage her sure. . 

 Open, open the door to the swallow for we 

 Are playful young children, not men you may see. 



(Carol preserved by AthenEeus.) 



ON THE LATE ARMAMENT, 1787. 



So have I seen at country fair 



A sturdy swain, well warmed with ale, 

 Strip into buff, and stamp and swear, 



With choler and resentment pale ; 

 But finding no antagonist 



Whereon to vent his high disdain, 

 Cool by degrees, friends interpose, 



Then put on shirt and frock again. 



ON A BAD ROAD, ILL MENDED. 



Cramm'd up with furze, with faggots, and huge stones, 

 What a rough road of glass, hards, flints, and bones ! 

 Blockheads are always busy'd in the wrong; 

 Mend not at all and one might get along. 



A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE. 



With different years a different whimsey takes ; 

 Mechanic Harborough 1 mends his tenants' rakes ; 

 Dress'd in blue sleeves, and all the butcher's gear, 

 Burleigh 2 with glee hacks up the bleeding deer : 

 Leicester 3 makes leathern breeches ; you must cry 

 How neat they fit the clean " mercurial thigh." 



1 Bennett, Earl of Harborough. 



2 John, Earl of Exeter. 



3 Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, see ' Cbrysal.' 



