Such civil broils are my delight,

Tho' fome folks can't endure 'em,

Who say the mob are mad outright,
And that a rope must cure 'em.

6,

A rope! I wish we patriots had

Such ftrings for all who need 'em

What! hang a man for going mad?
Then farewell British freedom.

On obferving fome Names of little Note recorded in the BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA.

OH fond attempt to give a deathlefs lot,

To names ignoble, born to be forgot!

In

In vain recorded in hiftoric page,
They court the notice of a future age,
Thofe twinkling tiney luftres of the land,
Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand,
Lethæan gulphs receive them as they fall,
And dark oblivion foon absorbs them all.
So when a child, as playful children use,
Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news,
The flame extinct, he views the roving fire,
There goes my lady, and there goes the 'fquire,
There goes the parfon, oh! illuftrious spark,
And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the clerk.

REPORT

Of an adjudged Cafe not to be found in any of the Books.

I.

BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles fet them unhappily wrong;

The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the faid fpectacles ought to belong.

2.

So the Tongue was the lawyer and argued the cause

With a great a great deal of fkill, and a wig full of learning, While chief baron Ear fat to balance the laws,

So fam'd for his talent in nicely difcerning.

3.

In behalf of the Nofe, it will quickly appear,
And your lordship he said, will undoubtedly find,
That the Nofe has had fpeftacles always in wear,
Which amounts to poffeffion time out of mind.

4.

Then holding the fpectacles up to the courtYour lordship obferves they are made with a ftraddle,

As wide as the ridge of the Nofe is, in short,
Defign'd to fit close to it, juft like a faddle.

5.

Again would your lordship a moment fuppofe ('Tis a cafe that has happen'd and may be again) That the visage or countenance had not a Nose,

Pray who wou'd or who cou'd wear spectacles then?

6.

On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nofe, And the Nofe was as plainly intended for them.

7.

Then fhifting his fide as a lawyer knows how,
He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes,
But what were his arguments few people know,
For the court did not think they were equally
wife.

8.

So his lordship decreed with a grave folemn tone,
Decifive and clear without one if or but-

That whenever the Nofe put his fpectacles on
By day-light or candle-light-Eyes should be

fhut.

On

On the Burning of LORD MANSFIELD's Library, together with his MSS. by the Mob, in the

Month of June, 1780.

I.

SO then the Vandals of our ifle,

Sworn foes to fenfe and law,

Have burnt to duft a nobler pile

Than ever Roman faw!

2.

And MURRAY fighs o'er Pope and Swift,
And many a treasure more,

The well-judg'd purchase and the gift

That grac'd his letter'd ftore.

3.

Their pages mangl'd, burnt and torn,

The lofs was his alone,

But ages yet to come fhall mourn

The burning of his own.