ANOTHER.

CORRIGE SODES.

To a noted optician, a fimple grave man, In these terms his address for affiftance began ;"If with me, like my neighbours, you think 'twould "fucceed,

"I would purchase a glass, that would help me to "read."

Number this, number that, no effect could produce;
Concave, and convex, were alike of no use ;
The shop was all rummag'd for old ware and new;
But nothing came of it-for nothing would do.

""Tis ftrange," said the artist, “ you fee none the

"better;

"Cannot all these varieties fhow you a letter ?"

"Show a letter?" quoth he, "yes, by hundreds

"I can see fast enough; what I want-is to know

"'em."

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

WHEN two fond fouls for GRETNA GREEN en

gage,

From wife restraint, by rash elopement freed, LOVE fits poftillion; and at every stage,

Inspires new paffion, while he adds new speed.

Thus they go forth-but how will they return? Ev'n on the road, perhaps, ordain'd to prove A truth, which folly, first or last, must learn,— "That fore REPENTANCE drives as faft as

"LOVE !"

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

To ferve five churches in a day,

The curate mounts his fteed;

Thro' towns, prayers, fermons, wings his way, And all three-quarter's fpeed.

All did I fay?-why then I faid
A thing befide my text;

The laft with double hafte is sped,-
Because the dinner's next.

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

A PUBLIC fpirited peer, we 're told,

Mechanic powers had found, and try'd; By which a ship her course may hold, Without the help of wind or tide.

Two wife obfervers, Toм and WILL,

Found means th' experiment to see ; And turn'd and twisted all their skill, To settle how the thing could be.

"It can't ftand ftill, because it goes," Exclaim'd at laft fagacious WILL;

"True," anfwer'd Toм, " and I fuppofe, "It goes-because it can't ftand still!"

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

THO' far from BRITAIN, BRITAIN's worthiest

pride,

The World's great Patriot, generous HowARD, dy'd, Let not our forrow blame his wish to roam : With fuch an heart, as fuch a life display'd,

An heart, which all Mankind one Family made,

-

To travel was but to enlarge his HOME!

IN

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

N our forefathers days, for once in his life, The fquire brought to LONDON his daughter and

wife,

And great was the fuss and ado:

But henceforward, ye fquires, let this trouble

alone!

For if LONDON grows on, as of late it has grown, It will foon-make a vifit to you!

ANOTHER.

VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.

IN CHINA, when a husband's praise
The beauties of his wife difplays,
Among her charms, he never fails

To rank her growing length of nails.