Philomides.
No. 73.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1750.
Stulte, quid o frustra votis puerilibus optas,
Quæ non ulla tulit, fertque, feretque, dies.
Ovid, Trist. Lib. iii. El. viii. 11.
Why thinks the fool with childish hope to see
What neither is, nor was, nor e'er shall be?
Elphinston.
TO THE RAMBLER.
SIR,