THE FAIRIES FEGARIES.

[From Relicks of Ancient English Poetry.]

SINGING and dancing being all their pleasure,

Theyle please you most nicely if youle be at leisure,

To heare their sweet chanting, it will you delight,

To cure melancholy at morning and night.

Come follow, follow me, You fairy elves that be; Which circle round this green, Come, follow me your queen. Hand in hand, let's dance around, For this place is farie ground.

When mortals are at rest, And snorting in their nest, Unheard, or unespyde, Through key-holes we do glide; Over tables, stools, and shelves, We trip it with our fairie elves.

And if the house be foul,
Or platter, dish, or bowl,
Up stairs we nimbly creep,
And find the sluts asleep;

There we pinch their armies and thighes,
None escapes, and none espies.

But if the house be swept,
And from uncleanness kept,
We praise the house and maid,
And duely she is paid;
For we do use, before we goe,
To drop a tester in her shoe.

Upon the mushroom's head,
Our table-cloth we spread;
A grain o'th finest wheat
Is manchet that we eat:
The pearly drops of dew we drink,
In acorn cups filled to the brink.

The tongues of nightingales,
With unctuous juyce of snailes;
Betwixt two nut-shells stew'd,
Is meat that's eas❜ly chew'd;

The braines of rennes, the beards of mice,
Will make a feast of wonderous price.

Over the tender grasse,
So lightly we can passe,
The young and tender stalk
Nere bowes whereon we walke;
Nor in the morning dew is seen,
Over night where we have been.

The grasshopper, gnat, and fly,
Serves for our minstrels three;

And sweetly dance awhile, Till we the time beguile: And when the moon-calfe hides her head, The glow-worm lights us unto bed.

THE DEVIL'S WALK.
A Satire.

FROM his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A walking the devil is gone,
To visit his snug little farm of the earth,
And see how his stock goes on.

And over the hill, and over the dale,
And he rambled over the plain,
And backward and forward he switch'd
his long tail,

As a gentleman switches his cane.

And pray how was the devil drest?
Oh, he was in his Sunday's best:

His coat was red, his breeches were blue, With a hole behind, which his tail went through.

How it cut its own throat, and he thought, with a smile,

On England's commercial prosperity.

He saw gen'ral Gascoigne's burning face, Which filled him with consternation,

And back to hell his way he did make, For the devil he thought (by a slight mistake)

'Twas the General Conflagration.

R. PORSON, Gr. Prof. Cantab.

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"On their arrival at the place of meeting, they were not a little surprised, on presenting their tickets at the door, to be ushered into a room which bore a near resemblance to one of the larger coffeehouses; and the company already assembled in it gave them so imperfect an idea of a scientifick institution, that they could scarcely persuade themselves they had not made some mistake in their introduction.

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"Whilst sir Philip English was endea vouring to reconcile what he saw, with the ideas he had previously formed of what he was to expect, at a meeting of the literati of the metropolis, the gentleman, who had presented Mr. Worth with tickets of admission, entered the apartment, accompanied by a little man with a huge port folio under his arm; whom he immediately introduced to the company by the appellation of signor Papillio. This cere monial gone through, Mr. Worth embraeed the first moment which afforded him an opportunity of speaking with his acquaintance, to inquire, if the whole of the entertainment was to consist in reading and commenting upon the newspapers? Fye upon it, Mr. Worth,' replied the gentleman; that would be a poor return for a subscription of twenty thousand pounds per annum! No! no! we do not meet for nothing. We shall present you

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"Greatly edified by this elaborate dis