Still let me feel for what thy pangs are sent,

And be my Guide, and not my punishment!

[A FRAGMENT.]

What, though the Horse I hired, the villain Hack,

Meek as I [am], would throw me on my Back;

Tho’ musing much—in slow and solemn pace,

The Urchin Crew would laugh me to my face!

I woo’d the Muses, meditating Song,


Some Sideway ditch would woo my feet, half Mud,