ADDRESS OF AN INDIAN GIRL TO AN ADDER. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1740, BY A SCHOLAR OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE. STAY, stay, thou lovely fearful Snake! Then, ages hence, when Thou no more EPITAPHIUM SUSANNE SERLE, IN ECCLESIA DE TESTWOOD, IN COMITATU HANTt. CONJUX Chara Vale !-Tibi, Maritus, Quâm constans, animo neque impotente, Me spectans placidis supremum ocellis !— Quo fletu tua Te relicta Proles, Proles parvula, ritè prosequetur, TO A GRASSHOPPER. IMITATION FROM THE GREEK. Μακαρίζομέν σε τέτλιξ. HAPPIEST of the insect throng, Anthol. Thee the nymphs and swains revere, Golden Summer's harbinger! Thee, the favourite of the Nine, IMITATION FROM THE GREEK. Μυν Ασκληπιαδης ὁ φιλαργυρος, κ. τ. λο OLD ELWES once espied a Mouse you Anthol. here?" * While his relation, the late Colonel Tims, was visiting Mr. Elwes at his house at Marcham, in Berkshire, a heavy shower falling in the night, he found the rain dropping through the cieling upon his bed, on which he immediately rose and moved the bed from its place; he had, however, scarcely got into it again ere he found the same inconvenience recur and oblige him to have recourse a second time to the same experiment, which still proved ineffectual. At length, after having pushed his bed quite round the room, he gained a corner where the cieling was better secured, and there he slept till morning. When he encountered his host at breakfast, he told him what had happened." Aye, aye!" said the old gentlemen, seriously, "I don't mind it myself; but to those who do, that is a nice Corner, in the rain."-See the Life of John Elwes, Esq. page 13. "No mouse alive would hither come "That had on earth another home. ""Tis not the risk we run, not that; "You ha'n't the heart to keep a cat. "Then traps we know, are never set, "And why? because you grudge the bait. "We're in security, I grant, "But, safe from danger, die for want: "Tho' I should lodge here, why fear you? "When do you roast, or bake, or brew? "The Mouse that trusted to your shelf "Would soon grow leaner than Yourself: "For never a morsel did I see "To put to the test my honesty, "But I disdain, Sir, to intrude "After your speech so gross and rude; "And think not that I make pretence, "Upon my honour I'll go hence: "For in the rest of all your house "There's no fit lodging for a MOUSE." |