The Works of the English Poets: Gay

Then took his Mufe at once and dipt her
Full in the middle of the Scripture.

What wonders there the man, grown old, did!
Sternhold himself he out-Sternholded,

Made (10) David seem so mad and freakish,
All thought him juft what thought king Achiz
No mortal read his (11) Solomon,

But judg'd Re'boam his own fon.
Mofes he ferv'd as Mofes Pharaoh,
And Deborah (12), as She Sife-rah :
Made (13) Jeremy full fore to cry,
And (14) Job himself curfe God and die.
What punishment all this muft follow?
Shall Arthur ufe him like king Tollo?
Shall David as Uriah slay him?
Or dextrous Deborah Sisera-him ?
Or fhall Eliza lay a plot,

To treat him like her fifter Scot?

Shall William dub his better end **,
Or Marlborough serve him like a friend?
No!—none of these !—Heaven spare his life!

But fend him, honest Job, thy wife !

(10) Tranflation of all the Pfalms.

(11) Canticles and Ecclefiaftes.

(12) Paraphrafe of the Canticles of Mofes and Deborah, &c.

(13) The Lamentations.

(14) The whole Book of Job, a Poem.

Kick him on the breech, not knight him on the fhoulder.

A RE

A RECEIPT FOR STEWING VEAL.

WITH NOTES BY THE AUTHOR.

TAKE a knuckle of veal;

You may buy it or steal.

In a few pieces cut it :

In a stewing-pan put it.

Salt, pepper, and mace

Muft season this knuckle;
Then what 's join'd to a place
With other herbs muckle;
That which killed king † Will:
And what never stands ftill.
Some§fprigs of that bed

Where children are bred,

Which much you will mend, if
Both spinnage and endive,
And lettuce, and beet,
With marrygold meet.
Put no water at all;

For it maketh things fmall,

Which, left it should happen,

A clofe cover clap on.

*Vulgo, falary.

+ Suppofed forrel.

This is by Dr. Bentley thought to be time, or thyme.

Parley. Vide Chamberlayne.

Put

In a hot boiling kettle,

And there let it be

(Mark the doctrine I teach) About-let me fee

Thrice as long as you preach + :

So fkimming the fat off,

Say grace with your hat off.

O, then! with what rapture

Will it fill dean and chapter!

*Of this compofition, fee the Works of the Copperfarthing Dean.

+ Which we fuppofe to be near four hours.

ACIS

ACIS AND GALATEA,

SERENAT T A.

THE MUSIC BY MR. HANDEL.

PART THE FIRST.

A rural profpect, diverfified with rocks, groves, and a river. Acis and Galatea seated by a fountain. Chorus of nymphs and fhepherds, diftributed about the landicape; and Polyphemus discovered fitting upon a mountain.