1206.] 
And fill the frequent pleafure he’d renew, 
And own it gave the riche/? joy he knew. 
He holds no converfe with a friendly voice, 
For who would be the mifer’s friend by 
choice ? 
Unlefs, indeed, fome fpendthrift younker 
found, 
His fenfes fading, and his life unfound, 
Then plies his fuit—-would like a friend 
behave, 
And lay fuch reverend afhes—min the grave! 
So be might bring to light his foul again, 
Which dormant in his life-time did remain—= 
Hjs font being buried with his goid, to ftay 
Beneath the earth, anexile from the day, 
And asa torrent, burfiing from. its bed, 
Q’erwhelms the pafture that it might have 
fed 
With oo€ng power, 
firi feo 
Se burfts his hidden treafure into life, 
unknown to furfeit’s 
Exiracis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. | §9 
Now gold is like the Sun’s blefs’d in 
fluence, 
Xt can annul, tho’ it may cheer the fenfe ; 
Its rays are meafured from its lofty {phere, 
And temperated for our bodies here : 
But were the world an exile from his eye, 
Then man would drocp, opprefs’d with po- 
verty ; 
And place him nearer, then his pow’rful 
rays 
Would bid exiftence vanifh in a blaze ! 
January 13. ARUNDEL? 
oe Eee 
On ANACREON MOORE, Ese: 
MOURN not for Anacreon fled, 
O weep not for Anacreon dead ! 
The lyre ftill breathes that liv’d before, 
For we have one uacreon Moore ! 
Barnci. $2. 
DA TN SEw SES 
STERIL T 
RA a ee Ee Biers S27 
Extraéis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
com 
DANCING ASSES. 
a we mnay believe what John Leo tells 
us in his Defcription of Egypt, the afs 
would not feem to be fo ftupid and indo. 
cile an animal as he is commonly repre- 
fented.—** When the Mahometan fer- 
mons and worfhip are over, the common 
people of Cairo, with the whores and 
bawds, refort tothe part of the fuburbs 
Called Bed-Elloch, as well as the ftage- 
players, and thofe who teach camels, 
afles, and docs to dance. The dancing 
of the afs is diverting enough ; for after 
he has frifked and capered about, his maf- 
ter tells him, that the Seldan, meaning 
to build a-great palace, intends to em- 
ploy all the affes in carrying mortar, 
fiones, and other materials ; upon which 
the afs fails down with his heels upwards, 
clofing bis eyes, and making his belly to 
{wellas if he weredead. This done, the 
mafter begs fome affitance of the com- 
pany, to make up for the lofs of the dead 
afs; and having fpunged as much as he 
ean get, gives them to know, that truly 
his afs is not dead, but only being fenfi- 
ble of his mafter’s neceffity, played that 
trick to procure fome provender. Then 
he commands thé afs to rife, who ftill lies 
in the fame pofture, notwithftanding all 
‘the blows he can give him ; till at laft he 
proclaims, that, by virtue of anedict by 
the Soldan, all the handfome ladies are 
beund to ride out next day upon the 
comelie% affes they can find, in order to 
fee a triumphal thow, and to entertain 
their affes with oats and Nile waters fur 
the words are no fooner pronounced than 
the afs {tarts up and prances and leaps for 
joy. Bat he immediately gives out that his 
afs was pitched upon by the warden of 
his ftreet to carry his deformed and ugly 
wife, upon which the afs lowers his ears, 
aed limps with one of his lezs as if he 
were lame. hen the matter, alleging 
that his afs has a kindne(s for handfome 
women, commands him to fingle out the 
prettiet lady in the company; aid ac- 
cordingly he makes his choice by going 
round, and touching one of the prettict 
with bis head, upon which the company 
divert themfelyes by laughing and point- 
ing to the afs’s fweetheart.-Harris’s 
Collection of Voyages, Gc. vol. i. p. 354, 
ed. 1705. 
CROCODILES. 
The Dutch ufed to keep crocodiles ia 
the ditches furrounding the city of Bata- 
via, for the purpofe of preventing the 
foldiers of the garrifon from deferting, by 
fwimming acrois the water. 
CHAUCER. 
Speght in his Life of Chaucer fays, * Ye 
feemeth that Cibaucer was of the Inner 
Temple; for not many years since Mafter 
Buckley did fee a record in the fame 
houfe, where Geffrey Chaucer was fined 
two fhillings for beating a Francifcan 
friar in Fleet-fiveet. 
QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
The Maiter of the Requefts coming be. 
fore the Quen one day on bifinels, the 
cemplained 
