Rejoice, ye Jews! the Ifraelitish walls In every Syrian town to raise Duke's Place. Fraternal offers; ftrange, they won't go down; At length they take their leave, without much form, In the retreat the Arabs were unkind, Honour 'mongst thieves-yet they committed theft- The Pyramids stand just where they were left. 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; A SURVEY OF WESTMINSTER HALL ON THE FIRST DAY OF TERM. AS holes where thieves have lurk'd all day Their darknefs-loving race: So now each inu about the town What lengths of fable sweep along! It is no wonder fuch a fight Should oft put Juftice in a fright- 'Tis faid, from Paradife when hurl'd, And, to begin our woes, He fow'd a hellifh feed, call'd ftrife, He lodg'd him in a fpacious place; He call'd the fpot "The Temple;" VOL. III. K When When thus fet up, he thought a wife They cheated, profper'd, and increas'd; As you may here defcry; But still to them fome praise is due ; 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 K 2 watchinan 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." 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