% 
526 
I have felt the fweet tortures of love, 
Yet afk me not thefe to declare; 
Now the poifon of abfence I prove, 
Yet afk me not this to declare. 
I have ranfack’d the world thro’ each part, 
And at length have felected my fair; 
From each bofom fhe fteals ev’ry heart, 
But her name—afk me not to declare. 
Her light footfteps, wherever fhe go, 
With her ringlets perfuming the air, 
From my eyes tears of joy overflow ;— 
Tis a joy---afk me not to declare. 
No later than yefterday night 
From her mouth, with which none can 
compare, 
J heard words of tranfcendant delight— 
Yet thofe words—afk me not to declare. 
Memoirs of Lord Rokeby. 
[ Jan. 15 
But why bite thofe lips ? Why with hint 
My fidelity queftion, unfair? 
Yes—her red ruby lips did I print, 
But her name—will | never declare. 
Maid beloved! without thee, while alone 
In this cot doom’d exiftence to bear, 
Thro’ each moment of abfence I moan 
With a grief—afk me not to declare. 
Thus at length behold Hafiz, whofe fong 
Has fo frequently flow’d void of care, 
Whirl’d by love’s tender paffion along 
With a force—afk me not to declare. 
Joun Mason Goov: 
Caroline Place, 
Guildford-fireet, Dec. 6, 2800. 
— ee 
ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
ee 
MEMOIRS OF LORD ROKEBY. 
ATTHEW Rosinson Morris, 
eldeft fon of Sir Septimius Robin- 
fon, knt. was born at Mount Morris, at 
his father’s houfe, in Horton, near Hythe, 
in the county of Kent, in the year 1712. 
His early years were fpent in this place, 
till he went to Weftminiter School, whence 
he was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cam- 
bridge, a penfioner, where he took his de- 
gree of bachelor of laws, and was foon 
after eleG&ted a fellow of the fociety, a 
place which he retained to the day of his 
death. It is not unufual at Trinity Hall 
for men of Jarge fortune to retain their 
fellowfhips. The fociety confifts of twelve 
fellows, two of whom only are clergy- 
men, and perform their regular and ne- 
cefiary duties of the college, fuch as thofe 
of tutor, leturer, dean: but the other 
ten fellows feldom or never make their 
appearance in Cambridge, unlefs at the 
twelve days of Chriftmas, at which time 
the ufual hofpitality of that feafon of the 
year is confpicuous in the college, and the 
Jay-fellows having enjoyed good eating 
and drinking, and examined the college 
accounts, return to Doctors’ Commons, 
the Inns of Court, or their country feats. 
Mr. Robinfon, in the early part of his life, 
ufed fometimes to be of thefe parties, 
where his company-was always accept- 
able, and his abfence always regretted. 
As heir to a country gentleman of con- 
fiderable property, he was not compelled 
to apply his abilities in the ufual purfuits 
of a laborious and now almoft technical 
profeffion ; he enjoyed an introduction to 
the higher circles of life, and being pof- 
feffed of the advantages of a liberal edu- 
gation and accomplifhed manners, he 
united the ftudies of the fcholar with the 
occupations of a gentleman, and divided 
his time very agreeably between Horton, 
London, Bath, and Cambridge. In this 
period of his life the celebrated peace of 
Aix la Chapelle attracted the attention of 
Europe; and the place appointed for ne- 
gociation at all times, from its waters, of 
great refert, was more than ufually filled 
with good company. Soon after the am- 
baffadors had here taken up their abode, 
Mr. Robinfon efcorted Lady Sandwich 
to this grand fcene of gallantry and poli- 
tics, where the claffical tafte of Lord Sand- 
wich, the eccentricity of Wortley Mon- 
tague, among his own countrymen, the 
prudence of Prince Kaunitz, the folidity 
of the Dutch deputies, and the charms of 
their ladies, for the Dutch belles carried 
away the palm of beauty at this treaty, 
afforded him an inexhauitible fund of in- 
ftruction and entertamment. Having no 
officiai employment, and appearing in that 
once envied character of an Englifh gen- 
tleman, his company was generally fought 
after, and the ladies of the higher clafe 
thought their parties incomplete without 
his prefence, and the corps diplomatigue 
bowed to his credentials. 
Among the women none more fprightly, 
none more ready te joi innocent mirth, 
or to be the fubject of it when a miitake in 
his language might give occafion to plea- 
fantry; butforeigners admired the ftrength 
of his chara&ter, when his converfation 
was fuited to graver fubjects, and no nn 
prefumed to laugh at his miftakes without 
repenting of his temerity. Refpected by 
the men, and acceptable to the women, he 
was noted here for a fingularity which he 
retained during his whole life, a remark- 
able 
