Or, when he can no longer stand,
Defires a Friend to lend a Hand;
So Atlas, left the pond'rous Spheres
Should fink, and fall about his Ears;
Got Hercules to bear the Pile,

That he might fit and reft a while.

YET Hercules was not fo ftrong,

Nor could have born it half fo long.

GREAT State men are in this Condition;

And Atlas is a Politician;

A premier Minifter of State;

Alcides one of fecond Rate..

Suppofe then Atlas ne'er fo wife,

Yet when the Weight of Kingdoms lies
Too long, upon his fingle Shoulders,

Sink down he muft, or find Upholders.

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EPIGRA M.

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Written in the YEAR 1712.

S Thomas was cudgel'd one Day by his Wife,

He took to the Street, and fled for his Life: Tom's three dearest Friends came by in the Squabble,

And fav'd him at once from the Shrew and the

Rabble;

Then ventur'd to give him fome fober Advice-
But, Tom is a Perfon of Honour so nice,

Too wife to take Council, too proud to take
Warning,

That he fent to all three a Challenge next Morn

ing:

Three Duels he fought, thrice ventur'd his Life; Went home, and was cudgel'd again by his Wife.

CORIN

CORINNA

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Written in the YEAR 1712.

HIS Day, (the Year I dare not tell,)
Apollo play'd the Midwife's Part,

Into the World Corinna fell,

And he endow'd her with his Art.

But Cupid with a Satyr comes;

Both foftly to the Cradle

creep :

Both ftroke her Hands, and rub her Gums,

While the poor Child lay fast asleep.

Then Cupid thus: This little Maid

Of Love shall always speak and write;

And I pronounce (the Satyr said)

The World fhall feel her fcratch and bite.

Her Talent she display'd betimes ;

For in twice twelve revolving Moons, She seem'd to laugh and squal in Rhimes, And all her Gestures were Lampoons.

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At fix Years old, the fubtle Jade

Stole to the Pantry-Door, and found

The Butler with my Lady's Maid;

And you may

fwear the Tale went round.

She made a Song, how little Mifs
Was kifs'd and flobber'd by a Lad:
And how when Master went to p—,
Miss came, and peep'd at all he had.

At twelve a Poet, and Coquette;

Marries for Love, half Whore, half Wife,

Cuckolds, elopes, and runs in Debt;

Turns Auth'refs, and is Curll's for Life.

CADENUS

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CADENUS and VANESSA.

Written at Windsor, Anno 1713.

HE Shepherds and the Nymphs were
feen

Pleading before the Cyprian Queen,
The Council for the Fair began,

Accufing that falfe Creature, Man?

The Brief with weighty Crimes was charg'd,
On which the Pleader much enlarg'd;

That Cupid now has loft his Art,
Or blunts the Point of ev'ry Dart;
His Altar now no longer fiokes,
His Mother's Aid no Youth invokes :
This tempts Free-thinkers to refine,
And bring in doubt their Pow'r divine,

Now