REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN I. BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, II. So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause III. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. IV. Then holding the spectacles up to the courtYour lordship observes they are made with a straddle, As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short, V. Again, would your lordship a moment suppose VI. 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 Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them. VII. Then shifting his side, (as a lawyer knows how) VIII. So his lordship decreed with a grave solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or butThat, whenever the Nose put his spectacles on, By daylight or candlelight-Eyes should be shut! 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 isle, Than ever Roman saw! II. And MURRAY sighs o'er Pope and Swift, The well-judg'd purchase, and the gift, That grac'd his letter'd store. III. Their pages mangled, burnt, and torn, The loss was his alone; But ages yet to come shall mourn The burning of his own. ON THE SAME. 1. WHEN wit and genius meet their doom In all devouring flame, They tell us of the fate of Rome, And bid us fear the same. II. O'er MURRAY's loss the muses wept, They felt the rude alarm, Yet bless'd the guardian care, that kept His sacred head from harm. III. There Mem'ry, like the bee, that's fed From Flora's balmy store, The quintessence of all he read Had treasur'd up before. IV.: The lawless herd, with fury blind, Have done him cruel wrong; The flow'rs are gone-but still we find The honey on his tongue. Y THE LOVE OF THE WORLD OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED THUS says the prophet of the Turk, It may be proper to inform the reader, that this piece has already appeared in print, having found it's way, though with some unnecessary additions by an unknown hand, into the Leeds Journal, without the author's privity. |