Say, does thy Jeffy ever charm,
Or thy affections hold.

Yes! colder is thy Willy's breast,

Than winter's coldeft fnow; And death those ice-cold lips hath kiss'd, Which thou canft never know. "Know'st thou that skull, that long was laid

Beneath the mould'ring clay? "That is thy Willy's well-known head!". -She fhriek'd-fhe died away. The cock fhrill crew,-away he flew, Through the dim mifts of dawn; And Jeffy's Ghoft foon follow'd too, By foft attractions drawn.

Oft fitting on an ev'ning cloud,

Thefe true-love Ghosts are seen, Or wrapt amid their mifty fhroud, They ikim the moonlight green. GALLOVIDIENSIS.

Banks of Ken, July 14.

ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1797.
By H. J. Pye, Efq. Poet Laureat.

O'ER the vex'd bofom of the deep,

When rushing wild with frantic hafte,

The winds, with angry pinions, fweep The furface of the wat'ry waste; Tho' the firm veffel proudly brave The inroad of the giant wave, Tho' the bold Seaman's firmer foul Views, unappall'd, the mountains roll; Yet ftill along the murky fky, Anxious, he throws th' inquiring eye, If, haply, thro' the gloom that round him lowrs,

Shoots one refulgent ray, prelude of happier hours!

Deaf to the fhricks of agonizing woe, Views with rapacious eye each neighb'ring fhore;

Mine be th' infernal fway,' aloud he cries, 'Where'er my Sword prevails, my conqa'ring Banner flics.'

Genius of Albion, hear!

Grafp the ftrong fhield, and lift th' a-
venging fpear,

By wreaths thy dauntlefs Sons of yore
From Gallia's Creft victorious tore,
By Edward's Lilly-blazon'd fhield,
By Agincourt's high-trophied Field;
By rafh Iberia's Naval pride,
Whelm'd by Eliza's barks beneath the
ftormy tide;

Call forth thy Warrior Race again,
Breathing, to ancient mood, the foul-in-
fpiring ftrain;

To arms, to arms, your enfigns ftraight difplay!

Now fet the battle in array;

The Oracle for War declares,
Succefs depends upon our hearts and spears!
Britons, ftrike home, revenge your Coun

'try's wrongs,

Fight and record yourselves in Druids' Songs!'

His caftle is as faire a one

Afe any in the lande

And round about bedight with towers
Nere Englishe wood did ftande.
Sir Hugh this knight was called,

A bold knight's fon was he,
That ever fauzt with shynand brande,
Ör ever bent on a knee.

His Lady was of goodly make,

Her chekes were redde and white, A comlier face was never fene

With glimmering eyn fo brighte. Her father he had many a tower,

Of lynage proude was he, And many a houfe with coftly bowere, He geide for a dowrie.

Ella fhe keeped a falfe woman,

For that was our Lady's name; A falfer woman fhure never was borne, Than into this caftle came.

She wolde have layne by her ain master, If the thoughts he weld not say naye,

For

For fhe wished to ruin her goode Lady,
And get her a turned away.

So traitory ftories fhe often wolde telle,
Her Myftrefs to undo,
Which coming to the knights heering
Did caufe him very fore wo.

He writhed his minde baith back and fro,
And aie he doubled his brow,

For he wished to ha that wily knight
Who crackened his wifes falfe vow.

And he offered to them whoever wolde telle

Who this knight sholde be
That wroght him wrothe in his castle,
Sholde have lande and goulden fee.

Gladd was the Maide when she did find

The knight was ftriken with baile, Then flilye fhe hyed her till his bowere And fpake her falfing tail.

I come frae your wife as I ha life,

Your wife who is falfe to thee, And if I mayeste tell what I ha fene, I fertenlye killed fholde bee.

Speik on, fpeik on, my Maiden dear,

Bee it truei thou telleift to mee,

A boone thou fhalle ha, and to boote I wille grant

Muche goulde and goode cuntrie.

! nere will I flepe till I ha wrecked
My fweards point in his bluide,
The mickleft vilane that ever has wente
Tween this and Engish-wood.

"O Sir, quoth the Maiden, he is nae "knight,

"But a man of lowe degree, "And when the funne is flepein owre the "hill,

"At thy Ladyes bowre windowe hele "bee,

"Ycladd in your best graine doublett,

"And your hod he is bedight, "To make the folke thinke he is Sir Hugh, "And not a stranger knight."

Now anger and crumpling jeclousie

Did our knight's harte torment,

He swore to the Maiden by the Holy-roode That his fere he wolde ha brent.

"Helle take thee thou carlish theefe
"To nighte I wroken fhall bee
"Bathe of the and my aine false wife
"That I once loved tenderlie."

The knight he ftriken his heid and his brieft,

And moned moft wofullye;

"And mare at nicht theye ha agreede

"In your best bowere to meete;
"To paffe the time unkenned to you,
"And brok with kiffes fweete."

Fair Ella was grieved to the hartes life,
And fore perplexed was the,

She vowed to faint John that if it be fo
I fertainleye wroken will bee.

Heere, fayde the Maiden, tak my cleadinge,

And till your lyttle bowere hye;
For there you will witte what is doing

Thrueghe the window fecritlye.

They futhe hadd changedd ether cleading

The myftreffe the maidens did weare; And proud was the falfe one fo bedeckid, All in her Ladyes geer.

This wicked jaide had thereto biddenn
One more of her varletts vile,
To go to her Ladies little bowere
And murdeir her the while.
When it was darke the menn did cum,
As the Maiden telled to theye
For they was as wicked as fhe herfelle
In the wylles of lecherye.

They

There is never a knighte in all Englande Has one fairer or mare comelie.

The Knight he clafped her in his arms,

My wife, my fweete Ladye,
See this vyle Maiden getteth the pane
Shee meined for you and me.

Mayefte alwayes fyke luck the willye have,
My prayers fhall alway bee,

That themfelfes may alyke be catcheath
In their own treacherye.

1687.

VIOLETS ACCOUNTING, BY A BEAUTIFUL FICTION, FOR THEIR PURPLE COLOUR.

Lye there and die, fayde the angrie Knighte

Whofe lege man ever you bee:
Such mickle vilanes nere went on earth,
As two like you and shee.

At the fame tyme, all in the towere,
The lyke was doinge alfo ;

But infeede of the Myftreffe the man did ftrik

The Maiden a wofull blow.

de Medici.

Astounded he was to fee

That she was all bluidye and on the ground Moninge most pitioeuflye.

But when he kenned that it was the Maid

en,

Ybufked in his Ladies geer, "Where is my fere, what man is this "Some traitorye I do feere."

lorn

She fought Adonis, when a lurking thorn Deep in her foot imprefs'd an impious wound;

Then prone to earth we bow'd our pallid flow'rs,

And caught the drops divine; the purple dyes

Tinging the luftre of our native hue.

"O! then Sir Knighte, your Ladye deer
"The carle was to ha flayne,
"In hope that when you loft your fere
"I fhoulde ha beene your aine.

Or if he had not killed been,
"I wanted to torment

"Your hate with falfinge tailles of her,

"And fo to ha her brent."

The Ladye all this while floode bye,

Bufked in the Maids attyre;
Nor colde the fpeik a tingle motte,
She choked fo with ire.

Here tak thy Lady goode Sir Hugh,
For a truere one nere can bee

fhow'rs,

Characteristics of Love.

S it to love, to fix the tender gaze, To hide the timid blush, and steal away; To fhun the bufy world, and waste the day In fome rude mountain's folitary maze; Is it to chant one name in ceafelefs lays, To hear no words that other tongues can fay,

To watch the pale moon's melancholy ray, To chide in fondnefs, and in folly praife? Is it to pour th' involuntary figh, To dream of blifs, and wake new pangs to prove;

To talk, in fancy, with the fpeaking eye, Then ftart with jealoufy, and wildly rove; Is it to loath the light, and wish to die? For thefe I feel, and feel that they are Love.

SONNET

SONNET XX.

SONNET XLI.

To Phaon.

H! I could toil for thee o'er burning

OH

plains;

Refolves to take the leap of Leucata.

With thee, could wander 'midst a world

of fnow,

Where one long night o'er frozen Scythia

reigns.

Sever'd from thee, my fick'ning foul disdains The thrilling thought, the blissful dream to know,

And can'ft thou give my days to endless

woe,

Requiting sweetest blifs with cureless pains? Away, falfe fear! nor think capricious fate

Would lodge a dæmon in a form divine!

Sooner the dove fhall feek a tyger mate, Or the foft fnow-drop round the thistle twine;

Yet, yet, I dread to hope, nor dare to hate,

Too proud to fue! too tender to refign!

rife, Where threat'ning clouds in fable grandeur lour;

Where the blast yells, the liquid columns

pour,

And madd'ning billows combat with the fkies!

There, while the Dæmon of the tempest flies On growing pinions through the troublous hour,

The wild waves gafp impatient to devour, And on the rock the waken'd Vulture cries! Oh! dreadful folace to the ftormy mind! To me, more pleasing than the valley's reft, The woodland fongfters, or the sportive kind,

That nip the turf, or prune the painted creft; For in defpair alone, the wretched find That unction fweet, which lulls the bleeding breast!

HOUSE OF COMMONS Oct. 31. 1796.

R PITT moved the resolution to MR discharge the Navy and Treasury Bills, amounting to 11,993,167l. 19s. 6d. by funding the fame.

Mr Fox, in a long speech, oppofed the motion, repeating his objections to the funding of to large a fum, and faying, that by a calculation he had made fince the laft difcuffion of the fubject, he found the intereft that would be gained by fome of the holders of the bills, would be not at the rate, as he first thought, of 1031. but even of 1351. per cent. per an

Mr Curwen objected to the principle and operation of the Bill. The oftenfible motives alledged for the adoption of thefe measures, he faid, proceeded from the declaration in the Royal Speech relative to an invafion; but of the grounds for that belief the Houfe had not been furnished with any information: the real object, he fufpected, was to revive the fyftem of alarm, to extend the influence of Minifters, and to draw from the pockets of the people a few more millions of their money; as by the lowest eftimate the burthen created by this plan would coft three millions.

Mr Pitt called to the recollection of the Houfe the unanimous pledge they had given, to neglect no precautions to carry into effect the recommendation from the Throne. At that period he ftated his conviction that the neceffity was not only exifting, but the preffure extremely great.

If any thing had been wanting to add to that conviction, every communication that had been received in the interval confirmed that fentiment of inevitable neceffity; and established his perfect conviction with a view to the object itfelf, and the danger and impracticability of entering into a difclofure of the circumftances that induced that conviction. The danger was in

entitled them, and rendering truly va luable what they had fo nobly struggled to preserve.

And indeed to what purpose would they have gallantly fought to fave the country from the French, if they did

After the great ftrength given in 1794 to the military eftablishment, he thought that might have been fufficient, being convinced there was a general and univerfal affection to the Conftitution, not only at this day, but at the commencement of the war. So far from believing there were eighty thousand incorrigible Jacobins, as had been faid (alluding to fome expreffions in Mr Burke's late Letters,) he did not believe there was one. But if to think the war was an unjustifiable war, and that Minifters had conducted feebly what they had undertaken rafhly and ignorantly; and if to believe that till there was a change in men and measures, and fome great reform, there was no hope for profperity to this country-if this was to be an incorrigible Jacobin, he was one, and instead of 80,000, he wished there were eight millions.

If the Right Hon. Gentleman would fay there was real danger of invafion of Britain, he would not oppose the railing of the Militia. If any other part of the King's dominions were in danger, Minifters fhould ftate it; for the efforts neceffary to be exerted for one were not the fame as for the other.

Mr Fox profeffed himfelf cordially difpofed to agree, that for the defence of the country in the hour of danger we must look to the zeal of the people, and their warm attachment to the Conftitution. Should an invafion be ferioufly attempted, he would agree with the Minifter in calling on the people to collect, and urge all their exertions to fruftrate the rafh attempt, to rouze and put forth all their energies, both of body and of mind, and raise both their arms and their hearts to crush the infolent temerity of the invading foe. But he would likewife call on them to exer. cife their judgment as well as their valour; and after their courage had refcued their country from the danger that is now fuppofed to threaten it, he would as eagerly call on them to evince their civil powers, in vindicating the rights and privileges to which the Conftitution

from the encroachments of the Miniftry, and retrieve it from the violence they had fo wantonly offered it ?-It was not against foreign enemies only that the people fhould be vigilant, they should alfo be watchful and alert, to mark the conduct of their domeftic enemies.

Mr Pitt repeated the affurance, that the ferious apprehenfion of an invafion (really intended) had been confirmed by fubfequent information; to particula rife which information he did not hold to be his duty. But that there was serious danger of an attack being made on fome part or other of our territory, and that fuch was now the intention of the enemy, he had well grounded reafon to affirm; but where that particular part was, how to adopt a particular mode of defence, where a diverfion might be made, and where a real attack, it was not in his power exactly to fpecify, or deliver any profeffed opinion upon. The danger he knew to be ferious and alarming enough to make us look on every fide for fecurity, and he fhould be wanting in his duty to his King and Country not to apprize them of it.

But it was not in foreign and very dif tant parts of our poffeffions that we were fo much to dread the attack, as nearer home; for he would take it on him to fay, that the enemy's views were fixed on parts of his Majefty's Furopean dominions, little inferior in importance to the island we inhabit. As he faw the Houfe full, he was the more eager to prefs the neceffity of paffing the Bills as fpeedily as pofible; and he had endeavoured to frame them in a manner a9 fhort and fimple as he could, that they might meet with no delay from minute amendments and detailed difcuffions.

The first of the Bills only would he pafs through the Committee this night.

The Houfe then went through the feveral claufes of the Bill, with amend

ments.

The only material alteration in the Bill was, that the fubftitutes are not to be taken from the district, but from the county; but not, as Mr Pitt exprefsly ftipulated, "from any county adjoining."

Some