Skip it, and trip it, in merry cotillion Oļ
A day like the present, is sure worth a mil-

lion O! Tsits , lit See how they gallop, for Cupid's postillion O!

Wriggling, and giggling and blushing the . .. while!, : ...... miin

LXVIII.

Ten thousand men with streamers gay
Loud cheering, clos’d the long array,
And haild with joy th’auspicious day

That rose so full of cheering beams: .:
Nor did sweet mirth resign his power.!!
In homely, cot, or lordly tower, :.. bubo.
'Till sleep stole on the festive hour, wit

Which soon return'd in pleasing dreams.

LXIX: "...: ,133 A year rolld on and scarcely more The Queen a smiling Cherub bore,

(And now the Muse' would fain be dumb:) Ah! little thought she 'twas her dast; in i That grief would soon her life o'ercast, vT) Her hours of happiness were påst, i videozasil

Her:days of sorrow all to come uIT

Who (void of grace remorse, and shame,)
Burnd with a foul, unhạllow'd flame,

And one, whom-scandal oft would peck at:
The Furies saw her youthful mind
To lust, and infamy inclin'd,
They form’d her well to plague mankind,

And call’d the bellweather-Fitzhecat.

Her face, which marks of beauty bore, :
Was now with wrinkles furrow'd o'er,
And on her breast a cross she wore.

Tho'stain’d with guilt, and foul within:
Her locks were grey-her eyes were dim-
Palsy had seiz'd each tottering limb,
Eye scarce beheld a form so grim,

Sad monument of death and sin,

P S :. LI. .:
Her artful leer, and wanton air, ;:,i!!!
(Tho' time had silver'd ev'ry hair,) ::..1
Bespoke the harlot still was there, i

The yerriest hag of Cyprian shade; '.

.LV. 4.1 . Mit eine His court a scene of vice became, dann And crimes too horrible to namestice In GOTHAM's land were held no shame,

In male or female, prince or peer; The grey Seducer, curst of God, Receiv'd the Prince's smile and nod, ... He held a white official rod, it !

And poison’d oft' the monarch’s ear.!!,

LVII , 1979 Husbands would prostitute their wives, Lai To live like courtiers all their lives, u. W 1911 (When folly roles, injustice thrives, a nd

For one's base interest is the other's:) FITZHECAT reign'd with one accord O'er mistress, people, prince, and lord, Supreme procuress, queen, and bawd, And sons were found to sell their mothers,

; 2017? .."IVI. v. 4o7 The Laws, which Gotham’s þulwark“stood For which she'd shed her bravest blood,

Attorneys vile betray'd in court; " Her judges, truth and wisdom lack'd," A Her juries all were basely pack’d,

And oaths, and verdicts held in sport.

LVIII. Poor scribbling rogues (there hangs á tale) Were banish'd to some distant jail, .i.'. !

Because they told plain truths, call'd libels! And plund'rers, of no small dimensions Were granted sinecures and pensions,

And plays were more in vogue than bibles.

LIX.
Yet not FITZHECAT's charms alone
Detach'd the Monarch from his throne,
For him no virgin loos’d her zone,

But view'd the profligate with heavings;
And Gotham's PRINCE in life's last stage,
To satisfy his amorous rage,
Took up with ugliness and age
His servants' worn out loathsome leavings.

IX. There was a portly nymph of sin, : ;: Whose stomach almost reach'd her chin, si Callid LADY ROUNDABOUT MFĻINN, ..

Of figure, face, and bulk, uncommon; A graceless harlot run to seed, og Whom ev'ry one that saw, agreed, mis Was surely of the monster breed, ...More a hermaphrodite, than woman;