Skip it, and trip it, in merry cotillion Oļ lion O! Tsits , lit See how they gallop, for Cupid's postillion O! Wriggling, and giggling and blushing the . .. while!, : ...... miin LXVIII. Ten thousand men with streamers gay That rose so full of cheering beams: .: Which soon return'd in pleasing dreams. LXIX: "...: ,133 A year rolld on and scarcely more The Queen a smiling Cherub bore, (And now the Muse' would fain be dumb:) Ah! little thought she 'twas her dast; in i That grief would soon her life o'ercast, vT) Her hours of happiness were påst, i videozasil Her:days of sorrow all to come uIT Who (void of grace remorse, and shame,) And one, whom-scandal oft would peck at: And call’d the bellweather-Fitzhecat. Her face, which marks of beauty bore, : Tho'stain’d with guilt, and foul within: Sad monument of death and sin, P S :. LI. .: The yerriest hag of Cyprian shade; '. .LV. 4.1 . Mit eine His court a scene of vice became, dann And crimes too horrible to namestice In GOTHAM's land were held no shame, In male or female, prince or peer; The grey Seducer, curst of God, Receiv'd the Prince's smile and nod, ... He held a white official rod, it ! And poison’d oft' the monarch’s ear.!!, LVII , 1979 Husbands would prostitute their wives, Lai To live like courtiers all their lives, u. W 1911 (When folly roles, injustice thrives, a nd For one's base interest is the other's:) FITZHECAT reign'd with one accord O'er mistress, people, prince, and lord, Supreme procuress, queen, and bawd, And sons were found to sell their mothers, ; 2017? .."IVI. v. 4o7 The Laws, which Gotham’s þulwark“stood For which she'd shed her bravest blood, Attorneys vile betray'd in court; " Her judges, truth and wisdom lack'd," A Her juries all were basely pack’d, And oaths, and verdicts held in sport. LVIII. Poor scribbling rogues (there hangs á tale) Were banish'd to some distant jail, .i.'. ! Because they told plain truths, call'd libels! And plund'rers, of no small dimensions Were granted sinecures and pensions, And plays were more in vogue than bibles. LIX. But view'd the profligate with heavings; IX. There was a portly nymph of sin, : ;: Whose stomach almost reach'd her chin, si Callid LADY ROUNDABOUT MFĻINN, .. Of figure, face, and bulk, uncommon; A graceless harlot run to seed, og Whom ev'ry one that saw, agreed, mis Was surely of the monster breed, ...More a hermaphrodite, than woman; |