POETRY. In rage I fqueeze him 'gainst the door, Tan ran tan, tan ran tan tan, EPILOGUE TO THE NEW COMEDY OF Written by M. P. Andrews, Efq. HE drama done, permit us now to THE drafay Something about—or not about the playGood fubject ours! rare times! when fpeculation Engroffes every fubject of the nation. To ferve the state-Jews, Gentiles, all are willing, And for the omnium venture their laft fhil-. ling: Nay fome fubfcribe their thousands to the Without a fingle fhilling of their own. I'll tell you whence you came, and who you are ; But, fportfman like, to hit the game, I'll try, Charge, prime, prefent my glass, and cock my eye. What a fine harvest this gay feafon yields, Some female heads appear like fubble fields. Who now of threaten'd famine dare complain, When every female forehead teems with 167 Bad fpeculation, Bet, fo far to roam; Black legs go out, and jail-birds now come home.' That ftripling there, all trowfers and cra vat, No body, and no chin, is call'd a flat; He charms his miftrefs with this fweet harangue; What, lovely, charming, Kitty-how d'ye do, 'Come-fee my puppy,'-' No, Harry, I fee you.' You're vaftly welcome-you shall fee ftud, my And ride my poncy;'-'Harry, you're too good." Zounds how it freezes; Fly was my Sanchos fire ; 'Mifs, would you fee'-Harry I'd wish to fee the fire.' That's your true breeding, that's your flaming lover; The fair may freeze, but he is warm all over. We're an odd medley, you must needs confefs, Strange in our manners, ftranger in our dress: Whim is the word-droll pantomimic age, With tip-tops of tafte grotesque's the Then a card I can flip, and can cog a die, Can fpar like a cock, and know how to fight fhy: For without a knock down, I cam fprawling lie, And that is the best of the fport; But I'm not fuch a fool as to ftand at a fhot, Nor be fent with a curfed long pistol to pot, With my helter skelter, yoicks! O d-mme, but that's your fort! But when in the boxes I get with the tits, I badger the parfons, and bully the cits, While their wives and their daughters I leave in the fits, my And away to kiddies refort; And when home with them I am taking my tramps, I knock down the watch, and I break all the lamps, With my helter fkelter, yoicks! O d-mme, but that's your fort! And a dashing dog I for ever will be, Why my fpirits must be my fupport; And if I'm at laft led a dance with a noofe, With fuch dancing I never fhall wear out my fhoes, With my helter skelter, yoicks! L THE LADY'S CHOICE. AN EPIGRAM. UCINDA's luck did spinster's grudge, While lovers twain purlu'd her; For while fhe charm'd an old grave JUDGE, A young gay sheriff woo'd her. The judge was rich, the sheriff poor, Papa preferr'd his lordship; But Mifs, whom rank nor wealth could move, To be by dotard bedded; (For if Jack Ketch had gain'd her love, The hangman she'd have wedded). Said Since to love and cherish too BRUSH. TRANSACTIONS of the TURF, the CHACE, And every other DIVERSION interefting to the MAN of PLEASURE, ENTERPRIZE and SPIRIT, For JANUARY, 1796. 1. Trying for a Hare. 2. Capital Portraiture of Dash, a valuable Pointer, in the Poffeffion of Colonel Thornton, being the fecond Plate of a Series of Engravings on the Subject of Hare-hunting. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS; And fold by J. Wheble, No. 18, Warwick-fquare, Warwick-lane, near St. Paul's; John Hintog, at Newmarket; and by every Bookfeller and Stationer in Great Britain and Ireland. TO THE READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS OF THE WE are happy in recognizing the Signature of an Antiquarian Sportf man; and are forry to fay, his Favors arrived too late for Infertion this Month; we, however, faithfully promife him a Place in our Next. To Ch. Chefter, we are much indebted for his Account of the Petworth Courfing Meeting, which he will find particularly attended to in our present Number. The Life of Tatterfal, will be refumed in our Next. A Man of the World may enjoy his own Opinion with respect to the Affair he fpeaks of: but, were he to reflect for a Moment, on the difafterous Confequences that might probably attend his Precipitation, he would perceive, too clearly perhaps, the Impropriety of his unrealon able Remonftrance. The Sketch of a confpicuous Character in the Green Room, is too much tinctured with Malevolence, ever to obtain a Place in the Sporting Magazine. The Pigeon Fancier fhall, if poffible, be noticed in our Next. Singular Traits in the Character of John Elwes, Efq. must be postponed. Particulars of the annual Celebration of Mr. Baddeley's Bequeft arrived too late for Infertion this Month. As alfo the Theatrical Hum. An Old Fox Hunter will find bis Request attended to in our present Number. As alfo B. M.-Capt. Snug,—Humanitas,—Little B. —Au Unpowdered Crop, &c. &c. &c. ERRATUM.-P. 119, of our Laft, top Line but one, in fecond Column, for Poffeffion, read Profession. THE Sporting Magazine, For JANUARY 1796., The plot is very simple, refting chiefly on a love tale between Vortimer and Adela. The father of the lady Oddune having no fufpicion of the attachment that fubfifts between her and Vortimer, promifes to marry her to Alrick. Vortimer (whofe father, Lord Haftings, has been flain in battle), for the purpose of obtaining accefs to the object of his affection, affumes the appearance of a deranged mind, and under this difquife, has frequent interviews with her, even in the prefence of Oddune. Alfred the Great, who bears equal friendship to the houses of Devonshire and Northumberland, agrees to per form the ceremony of giving the hand of Adela to Alrick, and before the propofed time, does Od. dune the honour of a vifi at Kenwith caftle, where, and in the adjoining country, the fcene principally lies. During his ftay, being introduced to Adela, a converfation takes place between them, in which the difclofes to his Majefty her love for Vortimer. The King being averfe to any measure inftrumental in a marriage exprefsly against her will, promifes to purfuade her father from perfifting in his intention of giving her to Alrick. Night approaches, and the King while walking under the castle walls, is befet by a party of Danes, headed Y 2 |