CAREY'S WISH.

CURSED be the wretch that's bought and sold;
And barters liberty for gold!
For when Election is not free,
In vain, we boast of liberty;
And he who sells his single Right,
Would sell his country, if he might!

When Liberty is put to sale
For wine, for money, or for ale,
The sellers must be abject slaves;
The buyers, vile designing knaves!
A proverb it has been of old,
'The Devil's bought, but to be sold!'

This maxim, in the Statesman's School,
Is always taught, Divide! and Rule!
All Parties are to him a joke!

While zealots foam, he fits the yoke!
When men their reason once resume;
'Tis then the Statesman's turn to fume!

Learn, learn, ye Britons! to unite!
Leave off the old exploded Bite;
Henceforth, let Whig and Tory cease,
And turn all Party rage to peace!

[Then follow in the 1729 Text.]

Rouse! and revive your ancient glory!
Unite and drive the World before ye!

[But in the 1731 Text.]

Then shall we see a glorious scene;
And so, GOD save the King and Queen!

THE CONFLICT

BETWEEN LOVE AND WINE.

ALONE, by a lonely willow,
Poor DAMON sighing lay;
The grass was his only pillow,
Alack! and well-a-day!

I came, with my flask;
And I gave him drink.

Had it been a whole cask,
He'd have drunk it, I think.

He danced and he sang,

And he capered like mad!
And swore, He'd have more,
If more could be had!'

But CELIA, with charms surrounded,
Came tripping it o'er the plain.
The Shepherd afresh was wounded;
And all undone again.

He called her, his Goddess! She called him, an ass!

I plied him again with a cherishing Glass.

He laughed at her scorn, and her power he defied: And vowed his dear Bottle should alone be his Bride!

THE EARLIEST TEXTS OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

I. In a folio Volume of engraved Songs called Harmonica Anglicana, without date, but published before November 1742; and afterwards increased to two folio Volumes, and published, also without date, but about 1745, under the title of Thesaurus Musicus.

A LOYAL SONG,

SUNG AT THE THEATRES ROYAL.

FOR TWO VOICES.

GOD save great GEORGE our King!
Long live our noble King!

GOD save the King!

Send him victorious,

Happy and glorious,

Long to reign over us,
GOD save the King!

O, LORD, our GOD, arise!
Scatter our enemies;

And make them fall!

Confound their politics!

Frustrate their knavish tricks!
On Thee our hopes we fix!

GOD save us all!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On GEORGE, be pleased to pour!
Long may he reign!

May he defend our laws;

And ever give us cause

With heart and voice to sing,
GOD save the King!

II. The above Anthem was reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine for October 1745, in the Contents Page of which, it is described as :—

GOD save our Lord the King.

A NEW SONG, SET FOR TWO VOICES.

Which wording also occurs in the Contents Page of the Thesaurus Musicus above mentioned.

III. In November 1745, when the Young Pretender was marching into England, the Anthem appeared in an engraved musical Half Sheet, with the following additional stanza :—

O, grant that Marshal WADE
May, by Thy mighty aid,

Victory bring!

May he sedition hush;
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush!
GOD save the King!

MRS. STUART'S RETIREMENT.

FROM the Court, to the Cottage convey me away! For I'm weary of grandeur, and what they call ‘gay'; Where Pride without measure,

And Pomp without pleasure,

Make life, in a circle of hurry, decay.

Far remote and retired from the noise of the Town: I'll exchange my brocade for a plain russet gown! My friends shall be few,

But well chosen and true ;

And sweet recreation, our evening shall crown!

With a rural repast, a rich banquet to me,
On a mossy green bank, near some shady old tree,
The river's clear brink

Shall afford me my drink;

And Temp'rance, my friendly Physician shall be!

Ever calm and serene, with contentment still blest,
Not too giddy with joy, or with sorrow deprest,
I'll neither invoke,

Nor repine at, Death's stroke!

But retire from the world, as I would to my rest.