EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. * Mr. Purdon was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; but having wasted his patrimony, he inlisted as a foot. sol. dier. Growing tired of that employment, he obtained his discharge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. He translated Voltaire's HENRIADE. a / AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, At church, in silks and sattins new, With hoop of monstrous size, She never slumber'd in her pew.... But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more; The king himself has follow'd her.... When she has walk'd before. But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all; The doctors found, when she was dead.... Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she liv'd a twelvemonth more.... She had not died to-day. |