Their foul defeat, of all the corps,

Escap'd there none to tell;

Save one, who fculk'd behind the door,
Discover'd by the smell.

The ftrife near twenty minutes cost,
Ere WORTH got time to breathe,

And now in generous pity loft,
He looks on those beneath.

Tho' match'd against such fearful odds,

His life and fame at ftake,

To fee them like a heap of clods,

His very heart did ake.

Why would you so, with grief he cried,
Expofe a foldier's name?

I almoft rather would have died,

Than tarnish you with shame.

The Girls on red-coats wont to doat,

Perceiving how they err'd,

Struck with amazement! chang'd their note,

And WORTH, fweet fouls! preferr❜d.

So

So home he went with laurels deck'd;

His foes beftrew'd the field:

Thus virtue's fons obtain refpect,
And courage is their fhield.

The Nine, repriev'd for future fate,
"Gainft WORTH fneak'd off to fwear,
And each difplay'd his 1eeking pate,
Which made the justice stare!!!

Good lack! good lack! his worship cried,
Thus pride must have a fall!

Can honour be to WORTH denied.
That fingly fac'd you all?

I'I not diftrefs the brave young man
With warrants, and fo forth;
Go home, and do the best you canj
To make it up with WORTH.

God fave the King and Juftice too,
And let good fenfe increase,
That drefs'd in fcarlet, green or blue,

We may fee shows in peace.

'In SPRANGER's Booth.-The Theatre Royal, Crow-freet Dublin, built by Spranger Barry, Efq.

• At Hexham's mimic Fight.-The Battle of Hexham, a dramatic Piece by George Colman, Efq. acted that memorable evening.

3 DEE's frighted foores.-The City of Chefter ftands on the Banks of the River Dee, which inclofes it on the south and weft. 4 Nor fball thy meed in Oftmen's Town.—Dublin, so called from the Oftmen or Danes, its original inhabitants.

$ And CRUSKEEN-BOR B.-A fine patronymic termination! which luckily characterises this complicated hero, at once the Ajax and Therfites of the poem; it means in English, fierce.

• Plumb in the mark.—Mark, a technical term in the Mendozan school, by which is meant the pit of the ftomach.

7 'Gainft WORTH Sneak'd off to fwear.-This fingular circumstance, however extraordinary, is a fact, modeftly omitted by Mr. Worth in his narrative prefixed, and with equal modesty and reserve he touches upon other particulars, detailed in this ballad as they really happened. He was next morning apprized of their application to the justice, and by advice of his friends, as a matter of felf-defence, tendered his examinations, which were admitted, and the affair is at the prefent writing fub judice.

-The matter has been fince determined in the Court of King's Bench, with exemplary damages in favour of WORTHS

PRIDE

IM PROMPT U.

THE Peacock is the proudest bird;

The Mag excels in noise; VANILLA, wantonly abfurd,

Sets both before our eyes.

EPIGRA M.

Cavete, Amici!

CYNTHIA, this morning clafp'd her friend,

A chofen, tried and true one;

But fee how CYNTHIA's friendships end;
To night she sports a new one!

THE piece which first occurs in the enfuing part of this volume (elsewhere partially given, as it had been received, for another's) is the production of Mrs. CATHERINE EURY, mentioned in a note upon a paffage, page 41. She not unfrequently indulged herself in the converfation of the muses, and left many elegant and valuable performances behind her, which it is feared are now irrecoverably loft, or appropriated by characters accustomed to think fuch alienations venial, who feldom trouble themselves about the merit of reftitution.

The subsequent pieces, addreffed to my father, have also most of them appeared in print under the eye, or with the concurrence of their respective authors, fome of whom were his pupils, and are now republished together, supposing it may prove a gratification to see them connected with the writings of a gentleman for whom they have given such expreffive demonstration of their efteem and regard.

The Collection might have been abundantly augmented from original MSS. in the poffeffion of the editor.