So wise a Law would doubtless tend

To prove our Senate, Learning’s Friend;

Whilst Trade, and such like fond Chimeras,

Might wait more fit and leisure Æra’s.

From a Window at the Dolphin Inn in Southampton.

The Wedding-Night past, says Sir John to his Mate,

Faith Madam I’m bit (tho’ I find it too late)

By your d---n’d little Mouth, or else I’m a Whore’s Son,

For the Cross underneath’s quite out of Proportion.

Good Sir John, says my Lady, then under the Rose,