L. M. of Oxon, 1709.
From the Temple Bog-House.
No Hero looks so fierce in Fight,
As does the Man who strains to sh-te.
From the Crown at Basingstoke, which was, in Ben Johnson's Time, the Sign of the Angel, and then inhabited by Mrs. Hope, and her Daughter Prudence. As Tradition informs us, Ben Johnson was acquainted with the House; and in some Time, when he found strange People there, and the Sign changed, he wrote the following Lines.
When Hope and Prudence kept this House,
The Angel kept the Door;
Now Hope is dead,
And the Angel fled,
And Prudence turn'd a Whore.