Which Handel’s Self did not disdain to hear.
The Rape of the Cake.
A COVENT-GARDEN ECLOQUE.
Inscribed to the Musical Band of Covent-garden theatre, on account of the recent theft of their twelfth-cake.
“Quid Rapuisti?”
The night was dark! fast clos’d the plunderer’s hand!
And idle Jehu’s slept upon the stand!
The lone Piazza, erst the gay resort
Of flash and fun, and meritricious sport,