EPITAPH. 1 ELL then, poor G1 lies underground! So there's an end of honest Jack. So little justice here he found, 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. EPITAPH. Joannes jacet hic Mirandula―cætera norunt ERE Francis C-2 lies. Be civil; THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.3 OW Europe balanced, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales. 1 John Gay.-Courthope. 2 Chartres. See Moral Essays, iii. 20. Spence applied this epitaph to Coningsby, writing it: "Here lies Lord Coningsby. Be civil; " &c. 3 Written in 1709. TO A LADY WITH "THE TEMPLE OF FAME." 1 HAT'S fame with men, by custom of the nation, Is called in women only reputation; About them both why keep we such a pother ? Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other. EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716. HENCE deathless Kit-Cat took its name,2 Few critics can unriddle; Some say from Pastry-cook it came, And some from Cat and Fiddle. From no trim beaux its name it boasts, "Kits." 1 "I send you my Temple of Fame, which is just come out; but my sentiments about it you will see better by this epigram."-Pope to Martha Blount, 1714. 2 The Kit-cat Club was formed in the year 1700, and named after Christopher Katt, a pastrycook in Shire-lane, near Temple-bar, at whose house the club met. A DIALOGUE. 1717. РОРЕ. INCE my old friend is grown so great As to be Minister of State, I'm told, but 'tis not true, I hope, That Craggs will be ashamed of Pope. CRAGGS. Alas! if I am such a creature To grow the worse for growing greater; ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER. HAT god, what genius, did the pencil move, When Kneller painted these? Twas friendship warm as Phœbus, kind as love, And strong as Hercules. UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK. "Atria longa patent: sed nec cœnantibus usquam, Nec somno, locus est: quam bene non habitas." MARTIAL, Epigr. xii. 50, vv. 7, 8. EE, sir, here's the grand approach; Observe the lion and the cock, The spacious court, the colonnade, Thanks, sir, cried I, 'tis very fine, ON BEAUFORT HOUSE GATE AT WAS brought from Chelsea last year, Burlington brought me hither. 1 Beaufort House, Chelsea, was pulled down in 1740, and the gateway, built by Inigo Jones, was given by Sir Hans Sloane to the Earl of Burlington, who removed it to his garden at Chiswick, where it still stands. ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE, DRAWN BY LADY BURLINGTON. EACE, flattering Bishop! lying This portrait only paints the Queen ! ON CERTAIN LADIES. ZHEN other fair ones to the shades go down, W Still Chloe, Flavia, Delia, stay in town: Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside, And haunt the places where their honour died. CELIA. ELIA, we know, is sixty-five, How cruel Celia's fate, who hence Too ancient for our gallantry! 1 The Bishop was Gilbert; the Dean, Dr. Alured Clarke, satirised in the Epilogue to the Satires. — Carruthers. |