Rejoice, ye Jews! the Ifraelitish walls
Require but workmen to be built apace,
A mighty Rabbi loudly on you calls,

In every Syrian town to raise Duke's Place.
Gen'ral again, he fummons Acre with

Fraternal offers; ftrange, they won't go down;
But that uncivil Knight, Sir Sidney Smith,
Was rude enough to fortify the town.
He taught the Turks to banish idle fears,
And make incurfions on the hoftile French:
They fally, and find Jacobins have ears,
Which, as fuperfluous lux'ries, they retrench.
To defperation drove, the town they storm,
And storm again; but it is all in vain:

At length they take their leave, without much form,
And forming, march to Egypt back again.

In the retreat the Arabs were unkind,

Honour 'mongst thieves-yet they committed theft-
But foon the Hero has the blifs to find

The Pyramids stand just where they were left.
He calls a council; finds the season past,
When men can fly to India in a day ;
And after much debate, concludes at last,
From Egypt he had better flip away.
And as the Hebrew youths, in days of old,
Went into Egypt to preferve their lives,
So out of Egypt, Bonaparte bold

Efcap'd to Paris, where I hear he thrives.

ADDRESS TO A LADY

ARRAYED IN MILITARY ATTIRE AT A PROVINCIAL PRESENTATION OF COLOURS.

WHY, Lady, wilt thou bind thy lovely brow

With the dread femblance of that warlike helm; That nodding plume, and wreath of various glow, That fole fhould grace the fons of Britain's realm ?

Thou

Thou know'st that virtue is of power the fource;
And all her magic to thine eyes is given:
We own their empire, while we feel their force,
Beaming with the benignity of Heaven.
The plumy helmet and the martial mien
Might dignify Minerva's awful charms;
But more refiftlefs far th' Idalian Queen-
Smiles, graces, gentleness, her only arms.

A SURVEY OF WESTMINSTER HALL ON THE FIRST DAY OF TERM.

AS holes where thieves have lurk'd all day
Vomit at night, upon the lay,

Their darknefs-loving race:

So now each inu about the town
Lets out its tribes with wig and gown-
To haunt this Gothic place.

What lengths of fable sweep along!
What groves of curls-and what a throng
Of little dangling tails!

It is no wonder fuch a fight

Should oft put Juftice in a fright-
And make her drop her scales.

'Tis faid, from Paradife when hurl'd,
That Satan vifited this world;

And, to begin our woes,

He fow'd a hellifh feed, call'd ftrife,
Which vegetated into life-
When up a Lawyer rose!

He lodg'd him in a fpacious place;
That it might wear a holy face,

He call'd the fpot "The Temple;"
And, rather than a Wolf for fign,
Plac'd on the door a Lamb divine-
As of his trade a sample.

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When thus fet up, he thought a wife
Would much affift his rife in life;
And foon he found a prize-
A Mistress Falsehood, who before
Had a large hoft of children bore—
Call'd by the vulgar-Lies.
These he adopted, brought up all;
And, I am told, within this Hall,
They first were put to school:
He taught them quibbling as they grew ;
And from their dam, a woman true,
They learn'd to over-rule.

They cheated, profper'd, and increas'd;
Nor has their population ceas'd,

As you may here defcry;
And, as the iffue has not fail'd,
I fear the curfe will be entail'd
On all posterity!

But still to them fome praise is due ;
With filial duty they purfue

The origin of evil,

And labour ftill with hand and tongue,

Το prove the cion whence they fprung

Was planted by the Devil!

G. L.

HUMOURS OF AN APRIL FOOL DAY.

[From the Looker-on.]

I PAID a visit yesterday to an old acquaintance, formerly a domeftic in the family of my grandfather, and by him established, above forty years ago, in a little fhop, where he has found means to acquire a decent fubfiftence. When but a boy, as I have heard my father fay, he was esteemed an oddity by all the neighbourhood, and always had a strong propensity to little mifchievous tricks. He would stalk through the churchyard at night, wrapped in a

table

table-cloth; he would hide the maid's fhoes, blacken his face to fright the children, and greafe the ftrings of the chaplain's violin. Indeed, my grandfather, though he had a regard for the boy, was at length obliged to difcard him, for fastening his grand aunt Anna Maria's lappet to the chair, while fhe fat at dinner, to her utter confufion, as foon as the attempted to quit her place.

I found him in the little apartment behind his fhop, with a large book open before him, in which he feemed to have been writing. On my hinting to him, that I thought he might be more fuitably employed on a Sunday than in looking over his accounts, he affured me that I was mistaken; that the book before him contained a little journal of the merriest moments of his life; and thowed me the back of it, on which was lettered, not unaptly, as will appear from what follows, DAY Book.

He faid he had been juft bringing up his accounts to the close of yesterday; but added, with a fhake of the head, "How unlucky it is, it fhould have happened on a Sunday! I fhall be below par this year. I believe I may fay without vanity," said he, feeing me fomewhat at a lofs to understand him, "that there is not a man in the parish who makes fo many fools as myfelf. Why, Sir, I have averaged for the last fourteen years, thirty fools per annum; and it would have been more, but for that plaguy fore eye which confined me laft fpring-Ah! it was a great loss to me; I had not a fingle fool, except my apothecary's apprentice, whom I fent to the upper end of Iflington to get me fome genuine pantilum pulverofum-but then the year before was a plentiful year, a very plentiful year. Do, Sir, let me read you my journal for the first of April in that year." "I affented-he put on his fpectacles, and read as follows:

"ift April-Got up early this morning to prepare for bufinefs-Sally fill a-bed-Flung the

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watchman a fhilling out of the window, to rap at my door, and cry Fire!-Sally started up in a fright, overturned my best wig, which flood in the paffage, and ran into the ftreet half naked-Was obliged to give her a fhilling to quiet her.

"Ten o'clock.-Sent a letter to Mr. Plume, the undertaker, telling him that my neighbour, old Frank Fuz, who was married on Monday to his late wife's ftep-daughter, had died fuddenly last night-Saw fix of Plume's men go in, and heard old Fuz very loud with them.

"Invited all our club to dine at Deputy Dripping's, and invited him to dine with Alderman Grub, at Hampstead. N. B. The Alderman is on a visit to his fon-in-law in Kent.

"Twelve o'clock.-Received an order, in the name of a customer in Effex, for fix pounds of fnuff, to be fent by the coach.-Smoked the bite, and kicked the metfenger out of the fhop.-N. B. Not catch old birds, &c.

"One o'clock.-Afraid Sally would play fome trick upon me, in dreffing my dinner; fo went to get a fteak at a coffee-house.-Chalked the waiter's back as

he gave me my change.-N. B. Two bad fhillings.

"Afked an old woman in Cheapfide, what was the matter with her hat?-She took it off; and while I was calling her April fool, a boy ran off with my handkerchief in his hand.

the shoulder, and

"Tapped a blue-school boy on afked what he had got behind him? He answered, A fool-The people laughed at this: I did not fee much in it.

"Three o'clock.-Sent Sally to the Tower to fee a Democrat; carried the key of the cellar with her, and spent me half a crown in coach-hire.

"Gave Giles, my fhopman, a glafs of brandy, which he took for a glafs of wine. Giles unable to attend hop the next day."

I readily