XX 
MEMOIR OF 
“ As youth is the most favourable time to establish 
a man’s good fortune iu the world, and as his success in 
life depends, in a great measure, on his prudent endeavours, 
and unwearied perseverance, I have resolved to make one 
bold push for the united interests of ])ack and poems. 
Nor can any one justly blame me for it, since experience 
has now convinced me, that the merit I am possessed of 
(which is certainly considerable) might lie for ever buried 
in obscurity, without such an attempt. I have, therefore, 
fitted up a proper budget, consisting of silks, muslins, 
prints, &c. for the accommodation of those good people 
who may prove my customers, — a sufficient quantity of 
proposals for my poetical friends ; and, to prevent those 
tedious harangues, which othcnvise I would be obliged to 
deliver at every threshold, I have, according to the custom 
of the most polite pedlars, committed the contents of my 
pack to a handbill, though in a style somewhat remote 
from any I have yet seen. 
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. 
Fair ladies, T pray, for one moment to stay. 
Until with submission I tell you. 
What muslins so curious, for uses so various, 
A poet has here brought to sell you. 
Here’s handkerchiefs charming ; hook-muslins like ermine. 
Brocaded, striped, cordeil, and cheik'd ; 
Sweet Venus, they say, on Cupid's hirth-day. 
In British-made muslins was deck’d. 
If these can ’t content ye, here ’s muslins in plenty, 
From one shilling up to a dozen, 
Tliat Juno might wear, and more beauteous appear, 
When she means the old Thunderer to cozen. 
Here lire fine jaconets, of numhcrless sets, 
With spotted and 8prigp;ed festoons ; 
And lovely tambours, with elegant flowers, 
For bonnets, cloaks, aprons, or gowns. 
