Mineralog 
You cannot go with us, the horses all bite ; 
You may cry, but the goblin will comein the 
night: 
Cry on, if you please, Sir, yen shall not get 
hurt, 
Yet, girl! pray endeavour the child to divert ; 
Bolt the door ; but first call in the house-dog 
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to watch, 
And see you don’t lift, while I'm absent, the 
latch,” pede 
THE NUPTIAL WREATH. 
€¢ See, asthe lyric murmurs sweetly die, 
Love, charming boy, sits playing 3 in her eye ; 
Oh! gentle girl, no longer of our train, 
Yet we, when morning-light illumes the 
plain, 
Will crop the meadow-leaves that sweetly 
breathe, 
To weave, for thee, a variegated wreath, 
Me Iie AR ae Si ae i ae ae 
Be flowering lotus twin’d, that loves the 
ground, 
And with its blooms the Bae tree branches 
crown’d ; 
While, dropping on the shaded turf below, 
From silver shells ambrosia] unguents flow.” 
p-. 146, 
THE CITY-JILT. 
*¢ Away, thou rustic 5 nor my lips profane } 
Dost think I ever learnt to kiss a swain 
No, I delight in city-lips alune, 
Thou would’st not kiss me in a dream 3 he- 
gone ! 
No! caitiff! hands so tauny, lips so thick, 
And such a smell! begone ! for 1 am sick !” 
She spoke, and spitting thrice, the saucy slut 
Titter’d, and ey’d me o’er from head to fout 5 
And frown’d, and wine’d about, to shew her 
shape, 
And Jaugh’d aloud and mutter’d: 6 What an 
ape |” p- 151. 
THE FISHERMEN. 
‘¢ Poor, 
And lone without a neighbour on the shore, 
They pass’d their hours, with poverty their 
friend ; 
(To fish, their simple beings aim and end,) 
And ey their sheda palace ; liv’din glee; 
Nor fear’d the welcome yisit of the sea 5 
Those ripling waves roll’d round them every 
tide, - 
And wash’d their little jhovel’s. tottering 
side.” Deehog: 
THE SCORNFUL VIRGIN. 
«* Her beauteous figure but bely’d her mind, 
A form too lovely with a soul unkind ; 
No blush of Love, in soft suffusion Be dy 
Nor Pity’s dewy light her eyes illum’d; 
His raging wound, she ne’er essay’d to eae 
Nor pour’d in Tea or in sighs, a balm: 
Oft from her face, the roseate colour flew, 
And her whole soul in anger rush’d te view ! 
ry of the South West af Stairdshire; 
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Wer was she fairs and? een disdain had 
charms 3 
He sigh’d to snatch her frowning to his arms!” 
*¢ Her nurse the bloody lioness alone ; 
Her cold, cold heart, impenetrable stone !’” 
p- 179. 
AMOROUS COURTESY. 
Young Paris, the Trojan, who tended his 
herd, 
To the fair-ones of Troy a Greek beauty pre= 
ferr’d; 
He stole the gay pheanien, an amorous felon, 
I boast a free kiss from a sweeter than Helen! 
p. 204. 
THE BISTAFF. 
“¢ Thee, Distaff, thee of polish’d ivry fram’d, 
I bear, meet present to a matchless wife : 
So shall her frugal industry be fram’d, 
The genuine model of domestic life; 
Whilst her fine vests shall manly limbs adorn, 
The flowing garment, or the robe succinct; 
While o’er her water’d webs, by females 
worn, . 
Floats the rich lustre ef the shadowy 
Liat el p: 210. 
-THE FICKLE FRIEND. 
“ How can thy heart approve it tell, 
To torture one who loves so well ? . 
Ah! perch’d on‘yonder branch to-day, 
The next, upon another spray, 
With roving pinion thou art gone; 
Allur’d by all, but fix’d to none !"* 
Such is the natural simplicity of Theo- 
critus, surely without vulgarity, or 1Ssi- 
p. 915. 
pidity. And of this there is a very great 
variety interspersed, throughout the 
Idyllia. I have given you but a few sam- 
ples, which accidentally met my eye, as 
I rapidly. turned over the pages. I shall 
reserve my specimens of picturesque de= 
scription for another letter. 
Your’s, &c. 
Se 3 - 
May 12th, 1809. Crito, 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
An account of the winrRaLocy of the 
SOUTH-WEST PART Of STAFFORDSHIRE. 
Abridged by JAMES KEIR, ESQ. £.R.S. 
N account of the Mineralogy of the 
Southern part of Staffordshire, and 
especially of those valuable mines ofcoal; 
iron-stone, lime-stone, and. clay, ‘ie 
which not only the various trades and 
manufactures of that part of the country, 
and of the neighbouring ‘towns, Bire 
mimgham, Dudley, Wednesbury, Wale 
sall, Belstone, Wolverhampton, and 
Stourbridge, owe their foundation and 
prosperity, cannot but be acceptable. 
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