PART II. ADDRESSED TO MR. HAYLEY. To thy candour now, HAYLEY, I offer the line, These are friendships that bloomed in the morning of life, But whence this fidelity, new to the age? Can parts, though sublime, such attachments engage? No: the dazzle of parts may the passions allure, "Tis the heart of the friend makes affections endure. The heart that intent on all worth but its own, The feeble protects, as it honours the brave, These are honours, my Fox, that are due to thy deeds; But lo! yet a brighter alliance succeeds; The alliance of beauty in lustre of youth, That shines on thy cause with the radiance of truth. Avaunt, ye profane! the fair pageantry moves: eye; Oh! now for the pencil of GUIDO! to trace, Of KEPPEL the features, of WALDEGRAVES the grace; Of FITZROY the bloom the May morning to vie, Of SEFTON the air, of DUNCANNON the Of LOFTUS the smiles (though with preference proud, She gives ten to her husband, for one to the croud), Of PORTLAND the manner, that steals on the breast, But is too much her own to be caught or express'd; The charms that with sentiment BOUVERIE blends, The fairest of forms and the truest of friends; The look that in WARBURTON, humble and chaste, Speaks candour and truth, and discretion and taste; Or with equal expression in HORTON combined, REYNOLDS, haste to my aid, for a figure divine, Where the pencil of GUIDO has yielded to thine; Bear witness the canvas where SHERIDAN lives, And with angels, the lovely competitor, strives—While Earth claims her beauty and Heaven her strain, Be it mine to adore ev'ry link of the chain ! But new claimants appear ere the lyre is unstrung, Can PAYNE be passed by? Shall not MILNER be sung? See DELME and HOWARD, a favourite pair, For grace of both classes, the zealous and fair- For BAMFYLDE a simile worthy her frame- Then follow the throng where with festal delight, As the Queen of the feast, place the wreath on his brow. INSCRIPTION For the DUKE OF RICHMOND's Bust to the Memory of the late MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM. HAIL, marble! happy in a double end! The friend once gone, no principles would stay: EPIGRAM. Reason for Mr. Fox's avowed contempt of one PIGOT's Address to him. WHO shall expect the country's friend, The darling of the House, To crack a PRISON LOUSE. The substantive in the marked part of this line has been long an established SYNONYME for Mr. PIGOT, and the PREDICATE, we are assured, is not at this time less just. ANOTHER/ On one PIGOT's being called a Louse. PIGOT is a Louse, they say, But if you kick him, you will see, "Tis by much the truest way, To represent him as a FLEA. ANOTHER, For servile meanness to the great, ANOTHER. PIGOT is sure a most courageous man, |