AN

ELEGY

ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX,

MRS. MARY BLAIZE.

GOOD people all, with one accord,

Lament for Madam Blaize,

Who never wanted a good word-
From those who spoke her praise.

The needy seldom pass'd her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor-
Who left a pledge behind.

She strove the neighbourhood to please,

With manners wond'rous winning;

And never follow'd wicked ways,

Unless when she was sinning.

At church, in silks and satins new,

With hoop of monstrous size; She never slumber'd in her pew— But when she shut her eyes.

Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The king himself has follow'd her-
When she has walk'd before.

But now her wealth and fin'ry fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all;
The doctors found, when she was dead-
Her last disorder mortal.

Let us lament, in sorrow sore,

For Kent-street well may say,

That, had she liv'd a twelvemonth more,

She had not dy'd to-day.

SONNET.

WEEPING, murmuring, complaining, Lost to ev'ry gay delight;

Myra, too sincere for feigning,

Fears th' approaching bridal night.

Yet why impair thy bright perfection! Or dim thy beauty with a tear? Had Myra follow'd my direction,

She long had wanted cause of fear.

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THE CAPTIVITY.

SONG.

THE wretch condemn'd with life to part,

Still, still on hope relies;

And ev'ry pang that rends the heart,

Bids expectation rise.

Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way;

And still, as darker grows the night,

Emits a brighter ray.

K

SONG.

O MEMORY! thou fond deceiver,

Still importunate and vain,

To former joys recurring ever,

And turning all the past to pain;

Thou, like the world, th' opprest oppressing, Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe! And he who wants each other blessing,

In thee must ever find a foe.