III.

When lawless mobs infult the court,

That man fhall be my toast,
If breaking windows be the sport,
Who bravely breaks the most.

IV.

But oh! for him my fancy culls
The choiceft flow'rs fhe bears,

Who conftitutionally pulls

Your house about your ears.

V.

Such civil broils are my delight; Tho' fome folks can't endure 'em, Who fay the mob are mad outright, And that a rope muft cure 'em.

VI.

A rope! I wish we patriots had

Such firings for all who need 'emWhat! hang a man for going mad?

Then farewell British freedom.

ON OBSERVING

SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE

RECORDED IN THE BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA.

Oн, fond attempt to give a deathless lot
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!
In vain, recorded in hiftoric page,
They court the notice of a future age:
Those twinkling tiny luftres of the land
Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand;
Lethæan gulphs receive them as they fall,
And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.

So when a child, as playful children use,
Has burnt to tinder a ftale last year's news,
The flame extinct, he views the roving fire-
There goes my lady, and there goes the fquire,
There goes the parfon, oh! illuftrious fpark,
And there, scarce lefs illuftrious, goes the clerk!

7

REPORT

OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.

I.

BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arofe-
The fpectacles fet them unhappily wrong;
The point in difpute was, as all the world knows,
To which the faid spectacles ought to belong.

II.

So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the caufe With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learn

ing;

While chief baron Ear fet to balance the laws, So fam'd for his talent in nicely difcerning.

III.

In behalf of the Nofe, it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he faid, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to poffeflion time out of mind. IV.

Then holding the spectacles up to the courtYour lordship obferves they are made with a ftraddle,

As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short,
Defign'd to fit close to it, just like a faddle.

V.

Again, would your lordship a moment fuppofe

('Tis a cafe that has happen'd, and may be again) That the visage or countenance had not a nose! Pray who wou'd, or who cou'd, wear spectacles

then?

VI.

On the whole, it appears—and my argument shows, With a reafoning 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, fhifting his fide, (as a lawyer knows how)
He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes:
But what were his arguments few people know,
For the court did not think they were equally wife.
VIII.

So his lordship decreed, with a grave folemn tone,
Decifive and clear, without one if or but-

That, whenever the Nofe put his fpectacles on, By day-light or candle-light-Eyes fhould be fhut!

BURNING LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY. 275

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,
Sworn foes to fenfe and law,

Have burnt to duft a nobler pile
Than ever Roman faw!

II.

And MURRAY fighs o'er Pope and Swift,
And many a treasure more,

The well-judg'd purchase and the gift

That grac'd his letter'd store.

III.

Their pages mangled, burnt, and torn,

The lofs was his alone;

But ages yet to come fhall mourn

The burning of his own.