B ELINDA, with affected mien, Trys all the power of art, Yet finds her efforts all in vain, Belinda's haughty air destroys F ORGIVE, fair creature, form'd to please, Those charms, thofe virtues, when he fees, While each the other ftill improves, The faireft face, the faireft mind; Not, with the proverb, he that loves, But he that loves you not, is blind. WHILE WHIL HILE filently I lov'd, nor dar'd The influence of your fmiles I fhar'd, But when I once my flame expreft, If thus, Corinna, you fhall frown Then all mankind must be undone, K INDLY, kindly, thus, my treasure, Ever love me, ever charm; Let the paffion know no measure, Why fhou'd we, our blifs beguiling, Ат A T Winchester was a wedding, The like was never seen, 'Twixt lufty Ralph of Reading, And bony black Befs of the green: She look'd like a lilly' o'th' vale, With Tomy came smiling Katy, They pafs'd to the bride-house along, With Jonney and pretty-fac'd Nanny, The fairest of all the throng. VOL. III. R The The bridegoom came out to meet 'em, And ufher'd 'em in to treat 'em, With bak'd, and roasted, and boil'd. For he had a mind to the bride: And turns a beer-glass on his thumb; But Jenkin was reckon'd for drinking The best in Christendom. And now they had din'd, advancing The fidlers ftruck up for dancing, A lafs that was proud of her pelf, 'Cause Arthur had ftoln her garter, And fwore he wou'd tie it himself: And now for throwing the flocking, The bride away was led; The bridegroom got drunk, and was knocking For candles to light him to bed: But But Robin, finding him filly, Moft friendly took him afide, Was playing at hooper's-hide: Pert Stephen was kind to Betty, And wedded her with a rush-ring: An hour from the room had been gone, And Barnaby knew, by her blufhing, That fome other dance had been done: That came to the wedding with men,. |