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Thus Falftaff-like, I°ll live and die, 
_ Laugh long as I can fee; 
And when Death’s oS hand fhall clofe my 
eye, 
This bag of jokes I leave the Dottor’s fee: 
Then; Door, ies Pm dead, laugh thou, 
and think of me. 
— Se 
INSCRIPTION FOR A DISSENTERS MEET- 
ING-HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY. 
Alt HOUGH within cae holy hall 
The beauteous arts have neyer ftcod 
‘To image on the floriell wall 
Gur pilgrim-prophet doing geod ; 
We need no painting’s gaudy fhow 
To print his kindnefs on our heart, 
Who, while he wept at human woe, 
Pour’d balfam on the futterer’s {mart. 
Tho’ here no fculptor’s ee hands 
Engrav’d the mighty vitim’s death, 
We can obey the lov’d commands 
Taught by his laft, his dying breath, 
We claim no organ’s folemn tone 
To ee our praifes to the fky; 
The incenfe of the heart alon 
Climbs with a welcome dink on 
Not on the marble altar’s brink 
Oniy defcends Devotion’s tear; 
Simplicity high thoughts may think, 
To God the fimple mind is dear. 
— aa 
SONNET TO FORTUNE, 
From Metafiafe. - 
WHAT, hop’ thou, Goddefs, whent thy 
cealelefs care 
Spreads rocks and thorns to check my onward 
‘ way, - 
That I thou’d tremble at thy fickle fway ? 
ay 
Or toil in vain to catch thy ‘fiying hair? 
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high. 
Literary and Philofophical Inteh Nigence. 
[ December, 
With threats like thefe awake the daftard 
fears 
Of him who bows beneath thy bafe con- 
troul; 
Know, I Ee *d fee, with calm intrepid foul, 
The world in ruins, and the falling ipheres! 
Nor am J new to dangers and alarms; 
Long didft_thou ‘prove me in the deubtful 
fight 5 
From trying conflicts, and oppofing harms, 
I rofe more valiant and confirm’d in might. - 
From falling hammers thus the temper’d 
arms 
Strike with a keener edge, and beam more 
dazzling light. ~ -Lo AG 
— 
A RIDDLE. 
BUITHE Aphrodite ever young 
Was fhapen from the foam of fea: 
Of purer cryftal I am fprung, 
And {moother billows fafhion’d me. 
Cupid and I both bend our bows, 
By Beauty’s temples both incline; 
He o’er his eyes a bandage throws ; 3 
A twofold luftre gleams from mine, 
Like him, the fringed brow-4 feek, 
And aid each furleine charm to. iby § 
Like him, I pillow on “the cheek, 
_ And neftle near the languid eye. 
A quiver on his fhoulder fhines, 
In rattling cafe my powers F hide: 
In couples, he the young confines; 
in pairs, a graver throng I guide. 
Of him let head-long paffien learn ; 
Philofophy learns much through me. 
Can you not yet my name difcern—- 
I've help’ d you, I fuipeé, to fee? 

VARIETIES,. Lirzerary anp PHILOSOPHICAL. ~ 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*,* Authenirc Communications for this Ar rele will always be thankfully received. 
“R. Darwin’s new work, intitled 
Phytologia, ar the Philofophy of Agri- 
culture and Gardening, with the Theory of 
Draining Moraffes, and an improved Con- 
firuGtion of the Drill Plough, \s fo far ad- 
vanced at the prefs, that it may be ex- 
pected before SES: it will form a 
large quarto volume, illufrated with 
p! lates. 
A new and elegant edition of the 
Botanic Garden, in 2 vol. 8vo. with all 
the plates of the quarto, ana a beautiful 
engraving of Fufeli’s Night-mare, is, we 
underitand, now ready for publication. 
Mr. Gopwin has advertifed a novel in 
four volumes, under the title of St. Leon. 
Dr. Moore has in forwardnefs a mif- 
cellanecus work in three volumes, from 
which may be expeéted the fame degree of 
amufement that has been afforded by all 
his former works. 
D’Anquetit’s  Univerfal Hiftory, 
Jately publithed at Paris, is in the hands 
ot an able tranflator, and will foon be 
publithed, i in 9 vols. 8vo. 
Miss STaRKE, the author of the Wi- 
dow of Malabar, and of other works, has 
in the prefs two volumes of Travels in 
Italy, between the years 1791 and 1798. 
‘This lady perfonally witnefied ail the re- 
volutions which took place in that coun- 
try, irom the capture of Nice in 1792, to 
ae the 
