Verfe fhould from their tongue fo flow, Till my Anacreon by thee fell,' [r] I think there be] "I think, Crab, my dog be the foureft-natured dog that lives." [Shakefp. Two Gent. Thou Thou pretendeft, traiterous wine, It grieves me, when I fee what fate All the world's mortal to 'em then, of Verona, A. 11. S. 3.] Be, for am or is, was origi nally the mistake of one mode for another. It, after, wards, grew into credit; and feemed to take an air of confiftency and regularity, when fomebody had bethought himself to ufe, be'ft, in the Second Perfon, for art, Hence, what grammarians call, the double form in the Indicative Prefent of the Auxiliary, to be, It is, now, defervedly exploded, Nay, Nay, in death's hand, the grape-ftone proves As ftrong, as thunder is in Jove's. XI. THE CHRONICLE. A BALL A D [s], I. MARGARITA first poffefs'd, But, when a while the wanton maid Martha took the flying ball. 2. Martha foon did it refign To the beauteous Catharine. [] This agreeable Ballad has had juftice done to it. Nothing is more famous, even in our days, than Cowley's mistresses. Beauteous Beauteous Catharine gave place 3. Elifa till this hour might reign, Had fhe not evil counfels ta'en: And ftill new favourites fhe chofe, 4. Mary then and gentle Anne Both to reign at once began; And sometimes Mary was the fair, And fometimes both I' obey'd. 5. Another Mary then arose, And did rigorous laws impose: Had not Rebecca fet me free. wear, 6. When 6. When fair Rebecca fet me free, But foon thofe pleasures fled; For the gracious princess dy'd In her youth and beauty's pride, 7. One month, three days, and half an hour, But fo weak and fmall her wit, And fo Sufanna took her place. 8. But, when Ifabella came, Àrm'd with a refiftlefs flame, And th' artillery of her eye; Whilft the proudly march'd about Greater conquests to find out, She beat out Sufan by the bye. 9. But in her place I then obey'd T. |