[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] ---Five of the Scottish banks - the Bank of Scotland, the Royal bank of Scotland, the British Linen Company, the Commercial bank of Scotland, and the National bank of Scotland, the first of which was established by Act of Parliament, and the other four incorporated by Royal charter - do not require, in … Continue reading Banks, pp.xxix-xxx. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] The shipping of Scotland, at a comparatively recent period, was inconsiderable; and even so late as 1656, comprised only 137 vessels, of from 250 to 300 tons each; and aggregately, 5,736 tons. In 1760, the vessels employed in the foreign and coasting trade, and in fisheries, were 999 in number, and … Continue reading Shipping, pp.xxviii-xxix. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] The fisheries of Scotland have long formed a valuable and important branch of industry. - The total annual value of the salmon-fisheries has been estimated at £150,000. The Ayr, Beauly, Clyde, Conon, Dee, Deveron, Don, Earn, Eden, North and South Esks, Findhorn, Langwell, Moy, Ness, Shin, Spey, Tay, Teith, Tweed, and Ythan … Continue reading Fisheries, p.xxviii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] Scotland’s exports consist principally of the produce of her cotton and linen manufactures; and her imports, of the raw materials for her cotton and linen fabrics, and of articles of colonial and foreign produce, which are demanded by the growing taste and luxuriousness of her population. To enumerate subordinate articles, or … Continue reading Commerce, p.xxvii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] A fair estimate of the manufactures of Scotland, may be formed by reference to our articles on Glasgow and Dundee. If a view be desired of nearly the whole, reference needs only to be made further to the articles on Paisley, Kilmarnock, Dunfermline, Stirling, Hawick, Galashiels, Montrose, Hamilton, Musselburgh, Irvine, Kirkcaldy, … Continue reading Manufactures, pp.xxiv-xxvii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] Scotland and England have so freely interchanged their esteemed or approved breeds of domestic animals, that few varieties exist in either except such as, in order to be discriminated, require the nice distinctions of the natural historian. Scotland's most noted peculiar breeds, are the Shetland pony, the Clydesdale horse, the Ayrshire, … Continue reading Animals, p.xxiv. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] The soils of Scotland, as might be expected from the peculiarities of its surface and geology, are often very various in even a single field, and much more in extensive districts. Yet they have, in many instances of both the excellent and the inferior, long and broad expanses of uniformity; and, … Continue reading Soils and Vegetable Produce, pp.xxii-xxiii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] The climate of the Hebrides, of the Orkneys, and of Shetland, has, in the case of each, some marked peculiarities, which are noticed in the articles devoted to their description. Even that of the mainland, owing to the bold and singularly varied contour of the country, is so singularly various, as … Continue reading Climate, pp.xxi-xxii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    Without supplying a geological map, and writing twentyfold more copiously than our space will admit, we could not give an adequate view of the distribution of the rocks of Scotland, and of the varieties and structure of its minerals. But from ‘Malte Brun’s and Balbi’s Systems of Geography Abridged: Edinburgh, … Continue reading Geology and Mineral Productions, pp.xv-xxi. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents] The islands of Scotland are very numerous, and, in many instances, are large and important. The greatest archipelago, that of the Hebrides, extends along nearly the whole west coast of the mainland. It is broadly distinguishable into two divisions, the outer and the inner, but is capable of subdivision into live … Continue reading Islands, pp.xiv-xv. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    The lakes of Scotland are very numerous, and, in many instances, are large, and singularly rich in scenery. The principal, for extent or scenic attractions, are Ken, drained by a cognominal stream, the chief affluent of the southern Dee; Skene, 1,300 feet above sea-level, drained by a remote tributary of … Continue reading Lakes, p.xiv. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    Most of the running waters of Scotland, owing to the prevalence of mountain, and the frequent penetrations of the sea, have small length of course, and, even in the country itself, are not designated rivers. Yet though very numerous, and, for the most part, individually unimportant, they will be found … Continue reading Rivers, p.xiii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    Hundreds and even thousands of parishes in England so closely or exactly resemble one another in all their features of landscape, that a sufficiently graphic description of one might be superscribed successively with the names of all. But so wondrously diversified is the surface of Scotland, that each of all … Continue reading Surface, pp.vii-xiii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    The German ocean, where it washes the mainland of Scotland, is closed up on the east side by Denmark, the entrance to the Baltic, and Christiansand in Norway. The North sea and the German ocean, where they girdle the northern and western shores, are - as we shall afterwards see … Continue reading Marine Waters, pp.v-vii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    In enumerating the principal capes, promontories, and other headlands, we shall mark in italics those which are the sites of lighthouses, and shall follow the coast-line in the order in which we have just traced it. St. Abb’s-head is in the middle of the coast-line of Berwickshire, and forms the … Continue reading Headlands, pp.iv-v. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    From the liberties of Berwick, the coast extends along Berwickshire and part of Haddingtonshire, north-westward to near North Berwick: and there, over a commencing width of 11 miles, it yields to the long westward indentation of the frith of Forth. Over the greater part of this distance it is bold … Continue reading Coast, p.iv. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    Scotland is bounded on the north by the great North sea; on the east by the German ocean; on the south-east by the liberties of Berwick, and by England; on the south by the Solway frith, and the Irish sea; and on the west by the Atlantic ocean. The line … Continue reading Position and Extent, p.iii. →

[Gazetteer of Scotland Contents]    A VIEW of Scotland, introductory to a copious Gazetteer, must necessarily be very general. Every natural, political, and ecclesiastical division of the country, each great cluster of islands, every chain of heights and remarkable mountain or hill, each lake and river and arm of the sea, every city, town, village, … Continue reading Introduction, p.iii. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] A Sour reformation  Crawls out-thro’ the nation,  While dunder-head sages,  Who hope for good wages,  Direct us the way.  Ye sons of the muses,  Then cloak your abuses;  And, least you shou’d trample  On pious example,  Observe and obey.  Time-frenzy curers,  And stubborn nonjurors,  For want of diversion,  Now scourge the leud … Continue reading Song CXII., pp.355-356. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] KIndly, kindly, thus, my treasure,  Ever love me, ever charm;  Let the passion know no measure,  Yet no jealous fear alarm.  -  Why shou’d we, our bliss beguiling,  By dull doubting fall at odds?  Meet my soft embraces smiling,  We’ll be as happy as the Gods. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] PRithee, Billy, be’nt so silly,  Thus to waste thy days in grief;  You say, Betty will not let ye;  But can sorrow bring relief?  -  Leave repining, cease your whining;  Pox on torment, tears and woe:  If she’s tender, she’ll surrender;  If she’s tough, --- e’en let her go. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WE all to conquering beauty bow,  Its pleasing power admire;  But I ne’er knew a face till now,  That cou’d like your’s inspire:  Now I may say, I met with one,  Amazes all mankind;  And, like men gazing on the sun,  With too much light am blind.  -  Soft, as the tender … Continue reading Song CIX., pp.354-355. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] THE sages of old,  In prophecy told,  The cause of a nation’s undoing;  But our new English breed  No prophecies need,  For each one here seeks his own ruin.  -  With grumbling and jars,  We promote civil wars,  And preach up false tenets to many;  We snarl and we bite,  We rail … Continue reading Song CVIII., pp.353-354. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] OH! happy, happy grove,  Witness of our tender love;  Oh! happy, happy shade,  Where first our vows were made:  Blushing, sighing, melting, dying,  Looks would charm a Jove;  A thousand pretty things she said,  And all --- and all was love:  But Corinna perjur’d proves,  And forsakes the shady groves;  When I … Continue reading Song CVII., p.353. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHile silently I lov’d, nor dar’d,  To tell my crime aloud,  The influence of your smiles I shar’d,  In common with the crowd.  -  But when I once my flame exprest,  In hopes to ease my pain,  You singl’d me out from all the rest,  The mark of your disdain.  -  If … Continue reading Song CVI., p.352. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] ON a bank of flowers,  In a summer day,  Inviting and undrest,  In her bloom of youth,  Fair Celia lay,  With love and sleep opprest;  When a youthful swain,  With admiring eyes,  Wish’d that he durst  The sweet maid surprise;  With a fa, la, la, la, &c.  But fear’d approching spies.  -  … Continue reading Song CV., pp.350-352. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] BElinda, with affected mein,  Trys all the power of art;  Yet finds her efforts all in vain,  To gain a single heart:  Whilst Chloe in a different way,  Is but her self, to please,  And makes new conquests every day,  Without one borrowed grace.  -  Belinda’s haughty air destroys  What native charms … Continue reading Song CIV., p.350. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] Go, go, go, go fastest of thy sex begone,  Leave, leave, ah leave, leave me to my self alone!  Why would you strive by fond pretence,  Thus to destroy my innocence?  Go, go, &c. --- leave, leave, &c.  -  Young Celia, you too late betray’d,  Then thus you did the nymph upbraid,  … Continue reading Song CIII., pp.349-350. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] He, who for ever,  Wou’d hope for favour,  He must endeavour  To charm the fair:  He dances, he dances,  He da-a-a-a-a-ances,  He sighs, and glances,  He makes advances,  He sings, and dances,  And mends his air. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] AWay you rover,  For shame give over,  You play the lover  So like an ass;  You are for storming,  You think you’re charming,  Your faint performing,  We read in your face. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHen bright Aurelia tript the plain,  How chearful then were seen,  The looks of every jolly swain,  That strove Aurelia’s heart to gain,  With gambols on the green?  -  Their sports were innocent and gay,  Mixt with a manly air;  They’d sing and dance, and pipe and play,  Each strove to please, … Continue reading Song C., p.348. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] O Surprising lovely fair!  Who with Chloe can compare?  Sure she’s form for beauty’s queen,  Her wit, her shape, her grace, her mein,  By far excells all nymphs I’ve seen;  No mortal eye  Can view her nigh,  Too exquisite for human sight to see:  Tho’ she ne’er may be kind,  Nor for … Continue reading Song XCIX., pp.347-348. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] IN spite of love, at length I’ve found,  A mistress that can please me,  Her humour free and unconfin’d,  Both night and day she’ll ease me;  No jealous thoughts disturb my mind,  Tho’ she’s enjoy’d by all mankind,  Then drink and never spare it;  ‘Tis a bottle of good claret.  -  If … Continue reading Song XCVIII., pp.346-347. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HE.  AWake, thou fairest thing in nature,  How can you sleep when day does break?  How can you sleep, my charming creature,  When half a world for you are awake.  -  SHE.  What swain is this that sings so early,  Under my window, by the dawn?  -  НЕ.  ‘Tis one, dear nymph, … Continue reading Song XCVII., p.346. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] IF she be not kind as fair,  But peevish and unhandy,  Leave her, she’s only worth the care  Of some spruce jack-a-dandy.  -  I would not have thee such an ass,  Hadst thou ne’er so much leisure,  To sigh and whine for such a lass,  Whose pride’s above her pleasure.

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] DAmon, if you will believe me,  ‘Tis not sighing round the plain,  Song nor sonnet can relieve ye;  Faint attempts in love are vain.  -  Urge but home the fair occasion,  And be master of the field;  To a powerful kind Invasion,  ‘Twere a madness not to yield.  -  Tho’ she vows … Continue reading Song XCV., p.345. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] FAir Amoret is gone astray,  Pursue, and seek her, ev’ry lover;  I’ll tell the signs by which you may  The wandring shepherdess discover.  -  Coquet and coy at once her air,  Both study’d, tho’ both seem neglected;  Careless she is with artful care,  Affecting to seem unaffected.  -  With skill her eyes … Continue reading Song XCIV., p. 344. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] AS the snow in vallies lying,  Phœbus his warm beams applying,  Soon dissolves and runs away;  So the beauties, so the graces,  Of the most bewitching faces,  At approaching age decay.  -  As a tyrant, when degraded,  Is despis’d, and is upbraided,  By the slaves he once control’d;  So the nymph, if … Continue reading Song XCIII., pp.343-344. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SHall I, wasting in despair,  Die because a woman’s fair?  Shall my cheeks look pale with care,  ‘Cause another’s rosie are?  Be she fairer than the day,  Or the flow’ry meads in May;  Yet if she think not well of me,  What care I how fair she be.  -  Shall a woman’s … Continue reading Song XCII., pp.342-343. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HArk how the trumpet sounds to battle,  Hark how the thundring cannons rattle;  Cruel ambition now calls me away,  While I have ten thousand soft things to say.  While honour alarms me,  Young Cupid disarms me,  And Celia so charms me,  I cannot away.  -  Hark again, honour calls me to arms,  … Continue reading Song XCI., p.342. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHY we love, and why we hate,  Is not granted us to know;  Random chance, or wilful fate,  Guides the shaft from Cupid’s bow.  -  If on me Zelinda frown,  ‘Tis madness all in me to grieve;  Since her will is not her own,  Why should I uneasy live?  -  If I … Continue reading Song XC., p.341. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] MY Goddess Lydia, heavenly fair,  As lilly sweet, as soft as air,  Let loose thy tresses, spread thy charms,  And to my love give fresh alarms.  -  O! let me gaze on these bright eyes,  Tho’ sacred lightning from them flyes;  Shew me that soft that modest grace,  Which paints with charming … Continue reading Song LXXXIX., pp.340-341. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YES, all the world will sure agree,  He who’s secur’d of having thee,  Will be entirely blest;  But ‘twere in me too great a wrong,  To make one who has been so long  My queen, my slave at last.  -  Nor ought these things to be confin’d,  That were for publick good … Continue reading Song LXXXVIII,. p.340. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] CElia, too late you wou’d repent:  The offering all your store,  Is now but like a pardon sent,  To one that’s dead before.  -  While at the first you cruel prov’d,  And grant the bliss too late,  You hindred me of one I lov’d,  To give me one I hate.  -  I … Continue reading Song LXXXVII., p.339. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] MAY the ambitious ever find  Success in crowds and noise,  While gentle love does fill my mind  With silent real joys.  -  May knaves and fools grow rich and great,  And all the world think them wise,  While I ly at my Nanny’s feet,  And all the world despise  -  Let conquering … Continue reading Song LXXXVI., pp.338-339. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YOU that love mirth, attend to my song,  A moment you never can better employ;  Sawny and Teague were trudging along,  A bony Scots lad and an Irish dear-joy;  They neither before had seen a wind-mill,  Nor had they heard ever of any such name:  As they were a walking,  And merrily … Continue reading Song LXXXV., pp.337-338. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHen, lovely Phillis, thou art kind,  Nought but raptures fill my mind;  ‘Tis then I think thee so divine,  T’ excell the mighty power of wine:  But when thou insult’st, and laughs at my pain,  I wash thee away with sparkling champain;  So bravely contemn both the boy and his mother,  And … Continue reading Song LXXXIV., p.336. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] JAMES.  PRithee, Susan, what dost muse on,  By this doleful spring?  You are, I fear, in love, my dear;  Alas poor thing!  -  SUSAN.  Truly, Jamie, I must blame ye,  You look so pale and wan;  I fear ‘twill prove you are in love;  Alas poor man!  -  JAMES.  Nay, my Suzy, … Continue reading Song LXXXIII., pp.335-336. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] I’LL sail upon the dog star,  And then pursue the morning;  I’ll chase the moon till it be noon,  I’ll make her leave her horning,  -  I’ll climb the frosty mountain,  And there I’ll coin the weather;  I’ll tear the rainbow from the sky,  And ty both ends together:  -  The stars … Continue reading Song LXXXII., p.334. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] MY dear mistress has a heart,  Soft as these kind looks she gave me,  When with love’s resistless art,  And her eyes she did enslave me;  But her constancy’s so weak,  She’s so wild and apt to wander,  That my jealous heart would break,  Shou’d we live one day asunder.  -  Melting … Continue reading Song LXXXI., pp.333-334. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHY shou’d a foolish marriage vow,  Which long ago was made,  Oblige us to each other now,  When passion is decay’d?  We lov’d, and we lov’d  As long as we cou’d,  Till love was lov’d out of us both:  But our marriage is dead,  When the pleasure is fled;  ‘Twas pleasure first … Continue reading Song LXXX., p.333. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YE virgin powers, defend my heart,  From amorous looks and smiles;  From saucy love, or nicer art,  Which most our sex beguiles.  -  From sighs and vows, and awful fears,  That do to pity move;  From speaking silence, and from tears,  Those springs that water love.  -  But if thro’ passion I … Continue reading LXXIX., p.332. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] BAcchus is a power divine;  For he no sooner fills my head  With mighty wine,  But all my cares resign,  And droop, and droop, and sink down dead:  Then, then the pleasing thoughts begin,  And I in riches flow,  At least I fancy so;  And without thought of want I sing,  Stretch’d … Continue reading Song LXXVIII., pp.331-332. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SInce we die by the help of good wine,  I will that a tun be my shrine;  And engrave it on my tomb,  Here lyes a body, once so brave,  Who with drinking made his grave,  Who with, &c.  Since thus to die will purchase fame,  And leave an everlasting name,  Since … Continue reading Song LXXVII., pp.330-331. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] JOlly mortals, fill your glasses;  Noble deeds are done by wine;  Scorn the nymph and all her graces:  Who’d for love or beauty pine?  -  Look upon this bowl that’s flowing,  And a thousand charms you’ll find,  More than in Chloe when just going,  In the moment to be kind.  -  Alexander … Continue reading Song LXXVI., p.330. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HE that will not merry merry be,  With a generous bowl and a toast,  May he in Bridewell be shut up,  And fast bound to a post:  Let him be merry merry there,  And we’ll be merry merry here;  For who can know where we shall go,  To be merry another year?  … Continue reading Song LXXV., pp.329-330. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] Down among the dead Men.  -  HEre’s a health to the king, and a lasting peace;  May faction he damn’d, and discord cease:  Come, let us drink it while we’ve breath,  For there’s no drinking after death;  And he that won’t with this comply,  Down among the dead men,  Down among the … Continue reading Song LXXIV., pp.328-329. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] The tippling Philosophers.  -  DIogenes surly and proud,  Who snarl’d at the Macedon youth,  Delighted in wine that was good,  Because in good wine there was truth;  But growing as poor as a Job,  Unable to purchase a flask,  He chose for his mansion a tub,  And liv’d by the scent of … Continue reading Song LXXIII., pp.325-328. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YOU may cease to complain,  For your suit is in vain,  All attempts you can make  But augments her disdain;  She bids you give over  While ‘tis in your power,  For except her esteem  She can grant you no more:  Her heart has been long since  Assaulted and won,  Her truth is … Continue reading Song LXXII., pp.324-325. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] BLest as th’ immortal Gods is he,  The youth who fondly sits by thee,  And hears and sees thee all the while,  Softly speak and sweetly smile.  -  ‘Twas this bereav’d my soul of rest,  And rais’d such tumults in my breast;  For while I gaz’d in transport tost,  My breath was … Continue reading Song LXXI., p.323. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YES I could love, if I could find  A mistress fitted to my mind,  Whom neither gold nor pride could move,  To change her virtue or her love:  -  Loves to go neat, not to go fine,  Loves for my self, and not for mine;  Not city proud, nor nice and coy,  … Continue reading Song LXX., pp.322-323. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WOu’d you chuse a wife,  For a happy life,  Leave the court and the country take,  Where Dolly and Sue,  Young Molly and Prue,  Follow Roger and John,  Whilst harvest goes on,  And merrily merrily rake.  -  Leave the London dames  (Be it spoke to their shames)  To ly in their beds … Continue reading Song LXIX., pp.321-322. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] Women and Wine.  -  SOme say women are like sea,  Some the waves, and some the rocks,  Some the rose that soon decays,  Some the weather, some the cocks;  But if you’ll give me leave to tell,  There’s nothing can be compar’d so well,  As wine, wine, women and wine,  They run … Continue reading Song LXVIII., pp.320-321. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] FRom grave lessons and restaint,  I’m stole out to revel here;  Yet I tremble and I faint,  In the middle of the fair.  -  Oh! would fortune in my way  Throw a lover kind and gay;  Now’s the time he soon might move  A young heart unus’d to love.  -  Shall I … Continue reading Song LXVII., pp.319-320. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] A Trifling song ye shall hear,  Begun with a trifle and ended;  All trifling people draw near,  And I shall be nobly attended.  -  Were it not for trifles a few,  That lately came into the play,  The men would want something to do,  The women want something to say.  -  What … Continue reading Song LXVI., pp.318-319. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SElinda sure’s the brightest thing,  That decks the earth, or breaths our air;  Mild are her looks like opening spring,  And like the blooming summer fair.  -  But then her wit’s so very small,  That all her charms appear to ly,  Like glaring colours on a wall,  And strike no further than … Continue reading Song LXV., p.317. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] AMongst the willows on the grass,  Where nymphs and shepherds ly,  Young Willy courted bony Bess;  And Nell stood list’ning by;  Says Will, we will not tarry  Two months before we marry.  No, no, fie no, never never tell me so,  For a maid I’ll live and die:  Says Nell so shall … Continue reading Song LXIV, pp.316-317. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] ONE April morn, when from the sea  Phœbus was just appearing,  Damon and Celia young and gay,  Long settled love endearing,  Met in a grove, to vent their spleen  On parents unrelenting;  He bred of Tory-race had been,  She of the tribe dissenting.  -  Celia, whose eyes outshone the God  Newly the … Continue reading Song LXIII., p.315. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HOW happy are we,  Who from thinking are free,  That curbing disease of the mind,  Can indulge every taste,  Love where we like best,  Not by dull reputation confin’d,  -  When we are young, fit to toy,  Gay delights we enjoy,  And have crowds of new lovers still wooing;  When we’re old … Continue reading Song LXII., pp.314-315. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] The Parson among the Pease.  -  ONE long Whitson holy-day,  Holy-day, holy-day, it was a jolly day,  Young Ralph, buxom Phillida,  Phillida, a welladay!  Met in the pease;  They long had community,  He lov’d her, she lov’d him,  Joyful unity, nought but opportunity  Scanting was wanting,  Their bosoms to ease.  But now … Continue reading Song LXI., pp.313-314. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHen Chloe we ply,  We swear we shall die,  Her eyes do our heart so enthrall;  But ‘tis for her pelf,  And not for herself;  ‘Tis all artifice, artifice all.  -  The maidens are coy,  They’ll pish! and they’ll fie!  And swear, if you’re rude, they will call;  But whisper so low,  … Continue reading Song LX., pp.312-313. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] PHillis the fairest of love’s foes,  Tho’ fiercer than a dragon,  Phillis that scorn’d the powder’d beaux,  What has she now to brag on?  What has she now to brag on?  What has she, &c.  So long she kept her limbs so close,  Till they have scarce a rag on.  -  Compell’d … Continue reading Song LIX., pp.311-312. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] DO not ask me, charming Phillis,  Why I lead you hear alone,  By this bank of pinks and lillies,  And of roses newly blown.  -  ‘Tis not to behold the beauty,  Of these flowers that crown the spring;  ‘Tis to --- but I know my duty,  And dare never name the thing.  … Continue reading Song LVIII., pp.310-311. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] ONE evening as I lay  A-musing in a grove,  A nymph exceeding gay  Came there to seek her love;  But finding not her swain,  She sat her down to grieve,  And thus she did complain,  How men her sex deceive.  -  Believing maids, take care  Of false deluding men,  Whose pride is … Continue reading Song LVII., pp.309-310. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YE beaux of pleasure,  Whose wit at leisure,  Can count love’s treasure,  Its joy and smart;  At my desire,  With me retire,  To know what fire  Consumes my heart.  -  Three moons that hasted,  Are hardly wasted,  Since I was blafted  With beauty’s ray:  Aurora shews ye  No face so rosie,  No … Continue reading Song LVI., pp.307-308. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] AS charming Clara walk’d alone,  The feather’d snow came softly down,  Like Jove descending from his tower,  To court her in a silver shower:  The shining flakes flew to her breasts,  As little birds into their nests;  But being outdone with whiteness there,  For grief dissolv’d into a tear;  Thence flowing down … Continue reading Song LV., p.307. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] A Quire of bright beauties  In spring did appear,  To chuse a May-lady  To govern the year;  All the nymphs were in white,  And the shepherds in green,  The garland was given,  And Phillis was queen.  But Phillis refused it,  And sighing did say,  I’ll not wear a garland  While Pan is … Continue reading Song LIV., pp.306-307. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] TRansported with pleasure,  I gaze on my treasure,  And ravish my sight;  While she gayly smiling,  My anguish beguiling,  Augments my delight.  -  How blest is a lover,  Whose torments are over,  His fears and his pain;  When beauty relenting,  Repays with consenting,  Her scorn and disdain. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] IN this grove my Strephon walkt,  Here he lov’d, and there he talkt;  Here be lov’d, &c.  In this place his loss I prove,  A sad remembrance of our love.  Oh! sad remembrance of our love.  -  In this grove my Strephon stray’d,  Here he smil’d and there betray’d;  Here he smil’d, … Continue reading Song LII., pp.304-305. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] MY Cloe, why do ye slight me,  Since all you ask you have?  No more with frowns affright me,  Nor use me like a slave:  Good nature to discover,  Use well your faithful lover,  I’ll be no more a rover,  But constant to my grave.  -  Could we but change conditions,  My … Continue reading Song LI., pp.303-304. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] CUpid God of pleasing anguish,  Teach th’ enamour’d swain to languish,  Teach him fierce desires to know.  Heroes would be lost in story,  Did not love inspire their glory,  Love does all that’s great below.

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] OH! the charming month of May,  When the breezes  Fan the trees, is  Full of blossoms fresh and gay:  Oh! the charming month of May,  Charming charming month of May.  -  Oh! what joy our prospects yield,  When in new livery  We see every  Bush and meadow, tree and field:  Oh! what … Continue reading Song XLIX., pp.302-303. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SEE, sirs, see here! a Doctor rare,  Who travels much at home!  Here take my bills, they cure all ills,  Past, present, and to come;  The cramp, the stich, the squirt, the itch,  The gout, the stone, the pox,  The mulligrubs, the wanton scrubs,  And all Pandora’s box:  Thousands I’ve dissected,  Thousands … Continue reading The Second Part., pp.301-302. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] Sung by Pinkanello, merry Andrew to Leverigo the Montebank Doctor.  -  HEre are people and sports,  Of all sizes and sorts,  Coach’d damsel and squire,  And mob in the mire,  Tarpaulins, Trugmallions,  Lords, ladies, sows babies,  And loobies in scores;  Some hawling, some bawling,  Some leering, some fleering,  Some loving, some shoving,  … Continue reading Song XLVIII., pp.300-301. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] PRetty parrot, say, when I was away,  And in dull absence past the day,  What at home was doing?  With chat and play  We were gay,  Night and day,  Good chear and mirth renewing;  Singing laughing all, like pretty pretty poll.  -  Was no fop so rude, boldly to intrude,  And like … Continue reading Song XLVII., p.299. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] ΗΕ.  OF all comforts I miscarried,  When I play’d the sot and married,  ‘Tis a trap there’s none need doubt on’t  Those that are in, wou’d fain get out on’t.  -  SHE.  Fie! my dear, pray come to bed,  That napkin take, and bind your head,  Too much drink your brains have … Continue reading Song XLVI., pp.297-298. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HE.  WHere oxen do low,  And apple trees grow;  Where corn is sown,  And grass is mown;  Fate give me for life a place.  -  SHE.  Where hay’s well cock’d,  And udders are stroak’d;  Where duck and drake  Cry, quack, quack, quack;  Where turkeys lay eggs,  And swine suckle pigs;  Oh! there … Continue reading Song XLV., pp.294-297. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] HE.  SInce times are so bad, I must tell thee, sweet heart,  I’m thinking to leave off my plough and my cart,  And to the fair city a journey I’ll go,  To better my fortune as other folks do:  Since some have from ditches,  And coarse leather breeches,  Been rais’d to be … Continue reading Song XLIV., pp.291-294. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SHE.  PRay now, John, let Jug prevail,  Doff thy sword, and take a flail;  Wounds and blows, and scorching heat,  Will abroad be all you’ll get.  -  HE.  ‘Sounds! you are mad, ye simple jade,  Begone, and don’t prate.  -  SHE.  How think ye I shall do,  With Hob and Sue,  And … Continue reading Song XLIII., pp.289-291. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SEE, see, my Seraphina comes,  Adorn’d with every grace;  Look, Gods, from your celestial dome,  And view her charming face.  -  Then search, and see if you can find,  In all your sacred groves,  A nymph or goddess so divine,  As the whom Strephon loves. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] YOung Corydon and Phillis  Sat in a lovely grove,  Contriving crowns of lillies,  Repeating tales of love,  And something else, but what, I dare not name.  -  But as they were a playing,  She ogled so the swain,  It sav’d her plainly saying,  Let’s kiss to ease our pain, &c.  -  A … Continue reading Song XLI., pp.287-288. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] SEE, see, she wakes, Sabina wakes,  And now the sun begins to rise;  Less glorious is the morn that breaks  From his bright beams, than her fair eyes.  -  With light united, day they give;  But different fates e’er night fulfil:  How many by this warmth will live!  How many will her … Continue reading Song XL., p.287. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] PIous Selinda goes to prayers,  If I but ask the favour;  And the tender fool’s in tears,  When she believes I’ll leave her.  -  Would I were free from this restraint,  Or else had hopes to win her;  Would she cou’d make of me a saint,  Or I of her a sinner. 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] OH! lead to some peaceful room,  Where none but honest fellows come,  Where wives loud clappers never found,  But an eternal laugh goes round.  -  There let me drown in wine my pain,  And never think of home again:  What comfort can a husband have,  To rule the house where he’s a … Continue reading Song XXXVIII., p.286. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] OH! lead me to some peaceful gloom,  Where none but sighing lovers come,  Where the shrill trumpets never found,  But one eternal hush goes round.  -  There let me sooth my pleasing pain,  And never think of war again;  What glory can a lover have  To conquer, yet be still a slave? 

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] FRom rosy bowers, where sleeps the god of love,  Hither, ye little waiting Cupids, fly;  Teach me, in soft melodious song, to move  With tender passion my heart’s darling joy:  Ah! let the soul of musick tune my voice,  To win dear Strephon, who my soul enjoys.  -  Or if more influencing  … Continue reading Song XXXVI., pp.284-285. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] THO’ cruel you seem to my pain,  And hate me because I am true;  Yet, Phillis, you love a false swain,  Who has other nymphs in his view.  Enjoyment’s a trifle to him,  To me what a heaven it would be;  To him but a woman you seem,  But ah! you’re an … Continue reading Song XXXV., pp.283-284. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] I’LL range around the shady bowers,  And gather all the sweetest flowers;  I’ll strip the garden and the grove,  To make a garland for my love.  -  When in the sultry heat of day,  My thirsty nymph does panting lay,  I’ll hasten to the fountains brink,  And drain the stream that she … Continue reading Song XXXIV., pp.282-283. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] CElia, let not pride undo you,  Love and life fly swiftly on;  Let not Damon still pursue you,  Still in vain, till love is gone:  See how fair the blooming rose is,  See by all how justly priz’d;  But when it its beauty loses,  See the wither’d thing despis’d.  -  When these … Continue reading Song XXXIII., p.282. →

[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents] WHile the love is thinking,  With my friend I’ll be drinking,  And with vigour pursue my delight,  While the fool is designing  His fatal confining,  With Bacchus I’ll spend the whole night.  -  With the God I’ll be jolly,  Without madness and folly,  Fickle woman to marry implore;  Leave my bottle and … Continue reading Song XXXII., pp.281-282. →