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A New COUNTRY DANCE.

Let's lofe no Time.

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The firft couple foot it, caft off, and lead up and caft off; the fecond couple does the fame cross over, and half figure with the third couple : lead up, caft off and turn.

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ARIDDLE for the Ladies. By H. T.

O you, ye fair, who ev'ry month

Our Magazine explore,

I now appeal, who never yet
Was known to speak before.
My talents all I will unfold,
My properties proclaim;

And humbly hope, in the next Mag,

You'll let me know my name.
Two fides I have, one tender wing,
Some other trivial parts;

But neither head, nor arms, nor legs,

Yet often conquer hearts.

For

For colour, like the circling bow,
I any fort appear;

And what in foreign climes is done,
I can exhibit here.

Sometimes the rifing fun I fhow,

Which gilds the eastern hills; The feeding flocks, the piping fwains, The brooks, and purling rills. At others represent the fea,

Where boift'rous billows roll; And often fhew the cunning wag, Who bottled all the cole.

But

you from each indecent fight,
Ye fair, I can exclude;

And hide the virtuous glowing cheek,
Which founds create too rude:
For that at first I was defign'd,
But fo with me it fares,
That, now, I'm oft❜ner much employ'
To grace coquettish airs.
The artful belles, to exprefs their scorn,
Have readily the knack,

(Where powder'd fops wou'd Dem me say)
To grace me with a crack.
I often kifs your honey'd lips,
And on your bofoms lie;
But never yet the favour afk'd,
Or broke the speaking figh.
Whene'er you shine at park or play,
I there am present too;
And-But I think I've told enough,
So now, ye fairs, adieu !

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Not fortune's frowns with this can e'er compare, When love's difdain'd, nought then is worth our care;

Great are the risks, that foldiers undergo,
But greater far are thofe that lovers know;
With glory fir'd, the foldier flies to arms,
But lovers die by fatal beauty's charms :
I, who the frowns of other nymphs have born,
Now fall a victim to Lucinda's fcorn.

Lucinda fair, the pride of Cambrian plains, Heard all my love,-and pitied all my pains; My flame approv'd, with equal ardour burn'd, A figh for figh, and love for love return'd; Blefs'd in my love, I wanted nothing more, Nor courted fortune for her fickle ftore, Monarchs, compar'd to me, I deem'd but

poor:

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Others may figh for titles, wealth, or fame,
To me, without her, all's an empty name.
Fame, titles, wealth, with pleasure, I'd refign,
I give you ali,-be but Lucinda mine:
Whilft blefs'd in her, how happy was each day?
Then fleeting hours unnoted pafs'd away.

But now, the scene how chang'd, why frowns my fair?

Strephon's no more the lov'd Lucinda's care. What can it mean? Loves the fome happier fwain?

Ah! no, the perjur'd fair is fway'd by gain:
Hear this, each ftream, and every verdant grove,
Who oft have heard our amorous tales of love.
Is this the fair, who gen'rously reveal'd
Her tender love, which I with transport feal'd?
Call'd the not Heav'n to witness, for her part,
That Strepbon only fhou'd poffefs her heart?
With joy extatic I receiv'd the boon,

Nor thought Lucinda's love would change fo foon.

Think Heav'n will punish this your perfidy; Think, cruel fair, how perjur'd you will be, Since fordid wealth has thus poffefs'd your foul,

you I fcorn a part, without the whole. Long may you live, in all the pomp of Late, But never know my miferable fate. In fome rude cliff, where defolation reigns, roam, nor ever fee those fatal plains; There rue my fate, forget the world and you; Yet, e're I go,-now take this last adieu;

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Both good and fair, almost from errors free,
Exempt from pride, except where pride shou'd
be.
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Thousands may boaft, yet few have juft pre-
To vie with you for beauty, or for fenfe.
Young, yet mature; tho' lively, yet difcreet;
Prudence and mirth in all your actions meet.
If you but speak, we liften, and rejoice;
No mufic charms like your enchanting voice.
Celestial maid, you've all you can defire,
Old age could with, or youthful fwains admire.
Come then, my dear, and be fond and fincere,
Kind as you're cruel, and constant as you're fair.
An Anfwer to the REBUS in P. 273. Vol. VI.
10 discover your Rebus I'm not at a lofs,
An O is a ring, and an x is a cross;

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A part of a river a ford we do name,
Then Oxford's a city and well known to fame.

R. K

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Farewel all foft ideas of the mind,

Farewel to love!-and faithless woman-kind.

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An ODE on the uncommon Phænomena, which
ufbered in the year 1750.
Non ita Romuli
Præfcriptum, & intenfi Catonis
Aufpiciis, veterumq; normâ.

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Hos. L. II. O. 15.

cell;

O ME, contemplation! from the cave, Where nature fcoop'd a living grave, And deign to quit a while thy mofs-roof'd Nor blush to meet the lamp of day, Which night's dark fhadows drives away, And all our guilty horrors does difpell. Da

Olet

Olet us range the world around,
To feek where virtue may be found,
From the poor wretch that does in afhes

mourn,

To pamper'd Lords; whom partial fate
Has wrongly plac'd among the great,

But fhakes for all alike one common urn.
Lo white-rob'd virtue, from on high,
Cafts down on earth a pitying eye,

Where once with fpotless luftre bright fhe
fhone;

And weeps to fee how few have stood
Faithful to her, and dar'd be good;

While Hydra vice erects her ebon throne.
Heart-foothing innocence retires
To rural fhades, and there admires

With humble fwains to find a fafe retreat;
So when the mufes fpread their wings,
From Tyber's to fair Thames's fprings,
Smiling they view'd their new fequefter'd
feat:

But foon the fweet Pimpleen maids,
Exil'd from Britain's flow'ry glades,
Wave the light wing before th' enfanguin'd

fword;

Our age, diftain'd with crimson dyes,
Aloud to Heav'n for vengeance cries,
And nature's pangs proclaim th' offended
Twice at his awful prefence ftruck,
London's proud palaces were fhook,

[LOR D.

And turrets on her quiv'ring bofom nod;

Whilft Infidels in luft and wine,

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Would fcoff at judgments fo divine,

Now all again appears ferene,

No breeze to ftir the leaves is feen,

And a continu'd drought the glebe does bine.
The cuckow comes before her time,
And budding fruits prevent the prime ;
In the pellucid rivers fifhes play,
The angler takes his mufing ftand,
Deluding with a treach'rous hand

The fcaly race in March, with flies of May.
The trees their vernal honours wear,
And Flora decks the bloomy year,

E're April funs earth's pregnant bofom

warm;

The Bees, that with unceafing toils
From breathing sweets extract rich spoils,
Early as in Calabrian climate fwarm.
With blood-ftain'd clouds our evenings glow,
And Iris hung her painted bow

O'er Belgic towns, while Cynthia fhone
ferene ;

New meteors in the horizon play,
And fright us with a beam of day,

A midnight's folemn thought awaking scene.
Our herds (tho' innocent of ill)
The air with piercing moanings fill,

The empty tall our public fins arraigns;
Whilft wide around th' infected field
The ruminating crew does yield

To dire difeafe, wafting our fruitful plains.
What diftant ocean has not been
Of British woes the purple scene?

Th' unnumber'd dead both India's fhores
record;

Lo earth and feas confefs the deep felt-Go D. But ceafe, O ceafe, thefe plaintive lays,

So when from Pharoah's bondage free,

Ifrael approach'd the Egyptian fea,

In cryftal walls the waves aftonish'd stood:
While trembling mountains skipp'd around,
The harden'd tyrant's hofts were drown'd,

And felt Jehovah in the whelming flood.
Unufual thunders thro' the sky
Roar dreadful, forky light'nings fly,
And in tempeftuous eddies burfts the wind;

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See peace her dove-like wings difplays,
And stops the deathful harveft of the fword
O gracious GoD, whofe children share
Alike thy providential care,

O yet avert thy wrath! fevere, tho' flow;
So fhall Britannia's fons adore,
And never tempt thy judgment's more,
But at thy throne in deep repentance bow.
Eugenio.

A Queftion in Gauging. HREE men A, B, C, bought a cafk of brandy, the heads of which are unequal; the form of it, the middle fruftum of a fpheroid and dimenfions as follows: Bung diameter 38 inches, greater head diameter 34, leffer head diameter 30, length 50. They agreed, that (the cask being placed with its axis parallel to the horizon) A should draw out his part first,

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after which the furface of the brandy, remaining in the cask, fhould be exactly 9 inches diftant from the bung; then B fhould draw out his part; and after that the furface of the brandy, remaining in the cask, fhould be exactly 25 inches diftant from the bung; and that C should take what then remained. Queft. How many gallons had each perfon for his fhare?

A Question. By John Young. Have the promise of a purfe of guineas, upon condition I can tell the number, and I have this given The fum doubled, and twenty-mere

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than the fquare root of the Sum added to itfelf; this, added to its fquare, is equal to 194040 guincas..

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The PROCEEDINGS in the laft Seffions of PARLIAMENT, begun on November 16, 1749:

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IS Majefty King George II. opened this feffion with a moft gracious fpeech, in which he congra tulates the Representatives of the nation, with the re establishment of a general peace, and more particularly for its good effects it has had already, towards the restoring our commerce, and raifing the public credit. He affures them of his conftant endeavours to cement and secure the faid peace; and of his refolution to do all in his power to preferve it; and to adhere religiously to the engagements he has entered into.

He then informs them of the good difpofition of all the contracting pow ers to pursue the fame good end. But adds, That nothing can contribute fo much to the continuance and improvement of this happy fituation of affairs, as the effectual Supporting of that weight and influence, which properly belong to the crown of Great Britain.

He recommends to the House of Commons the maintaining the fleet in its full ftrength, and to reduce the national debt, with a ftrict regard to public faith, and private property, defiring no more fupplies than fhall be found necef. fary, from the estimates ordered to be laid before them, for the fecurity and welfare of the nation; and then concludes:

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

Have nothing to defire of you, but that you would, with unanimity and difpatch, purfue fuch measures, as may be soft conducive to your own real and lafting intereft. Whatever good laws you fhall propofe for the advancement of our trade and navigation, and for encouraging of induftry in all parts of the kingdom, will be extremely acceptable to me; and you may be affured, that I fhall always look upon the true greatness of my crown, and the stability of my government, as infeparably united with the happiness and profperity of my people.

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On the 18th the Commons addreffed his Majefty for the same, and received a moft gracious anfwer. On the 20th it was refolved nem. con. That a fupply be granted to his Majefty; which refolution was agreed to next day, and the Friday following was appointed for a Committee of the whole House, to confider of the fupply granted to his Majefty. And, the proper estimates being laid before them, the Commons, in a grand Committee, did on the 27th agree, That 10,000 men be employed for the fea fervice for the year 1750, at 4. per man, including the ordnance for fea fervice, in all, 520,000 7.

Nesvember 28, it was refolved, after a long debate, and on the 29th it was agreed, in order to reduce the national debt, that fuch as fhall fubfcribe their names to accept of 3 per Cent. interest from December 25, 1757, fhall receive 4 per Cent. intereft till Dec. 25, 1750. And 31. 10 s. per Cent. till December 25, 1757. And that the furpluffes of fuch funds, after December 25, 1750, fhall be made part of the finking fund; and then the grand Committee, confidering further of the fupply to be granted,

Refolved and agreed, That 18857 land forces be employed in Great Britain, Guernsey, and Jerfey, for the year 1750, including 1815 Invalids, and commiffion and non-commiffion Officers, at the charge of 628230% 45. 7d. And that a further fum of 2364201. 18 s. 6 d. half-penny, be granted for forces and garrifons in the Plantations, Minorca, Gibraltar, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Providence, for the year 1750.

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The faid Committee, on the fourth of December, agreed to the report of the refolutions of Friday last, viz. That the fum of 293625 1. be granted for the ordinary of the navy for the year 1750.

That the fum of 10,000 7. be granted for the fupport of Greenwich Hofpital in 1750. That

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