brown their bread, and mild their ale,
Gladly they view'd the plenteous store,
Dispos'd on Nature's verdant floor.
The aerial Stranger soon made free,
Nor miss'd Apollo's minstrelsy;
For chirping Grasshoppers were heard,
With dulcet notes of many a Bird
That sought at noon the umbrageous glade
And softly sung beneath the shade.
He took his place upon the ground,
With Lads and Lasses circling round;
He sat as they sat, fed as they fed,
Drank ale, and laugh'd, and talk'd, as they did;
Each playful wile, by Love employ'd,
He by kind sympathy enjoy'd;
The Lover's extasies he caught,
When looks convey'd th' enamour'd thought;
From breast to breast while raptures bound,
He prais'd the varied prospects round,
Compar'd each Lass to Beauty's Queen,
And own'd it an Elysian scene,
The jolly God smil'd all propitious,
But ah! how fatally capricious....
It chanc'd, amidst this humble Feast,
A cup of YORKSHIRE DIP was plac'd ...
A pudding-sauce well-known of yore,
When folks were frugal, though not poor;
An olio mixt of _sweet and sour_.
Soon as this touch'd his laughing lip,
That unmixt Nectar us'd to sip,
He rose, and with a threat'ning frown
Of direful Anger[11], dash'd it down,
And swore, departing in a huff,
I'll make your lives like that d----d stuff.

Too sure the Malediction fell,
As every mortal wight can tell:
For HUMAN LIFE, to this bless'd hour,
Like _Yorkshire Dip_, is SWEET AND SOUR.

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[Footnote 11: Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust.[12] POPE.]

[Footnote 12: The Poet has drawn his Jupiter according to the Homeric
Model, in it's least divine features. Yet I wish he had not. The
_Yorkshire Dip_ (the mixture of sweet and sour) might have remained a
type of Life, temper'd in like manner: not by the wrath but by the
_benevolence_ of Jupiter.

... Who hath will'd
That Pleasure be co-mate of Toil and Pain,
Lest Joy should sink in listless apathy.

_... Curit acuens mortalia corda,_
_Nec torpere gravi passus fua Regna Veterno._

GEORG. I.

And accordingly the next Poem. C.L.]

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LOVE'S TRIUMPH:

AN ELEGIAC BALLAD.

[The Expostulation.--Continued.--Fears of
Poverty.--Encouragement.--Baldwin's Song.--Deceitfulness of visions
indulgence.--Tormenting distressing Passions.--Comforts of a low
Fortune.--Poverty in