h fish from Helicon! who'll buy? who'll buy? precious bargain's cheap-in faith, not I. much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,

much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night;

ommerce fills the purse she clogs the brain,

AMOS COTTLE strikes the Lyre in vain.

m an author's luckless lot behold!

emned to make the books which once he sold.

AMOS COTTLE!-Phoebus! what a name

I the speaking trump of future fame!-
AMOS COTTLE! for a moment think

› meagre profits spring from pen and ink!
1 thus devoted to poetic dreams,

will peruse thy prostituted reams?

390

lelved, or 'plied the oar with lusty limb, sung of Wales, nor I of him.

us against the infernal steep

ige rock, whose motions ne'er may sleep, ill, ambrosial Richmond! heaves

ICE+ all his granite weight of leaves :

E, AMOS, or JOSEPH, I don't know which, but one or ers of books, they did not write, and now writers of not sell, have published a pair of Epics. "Alfred"

PYE has been at him too!) "Alfred" and the ria."

ICE hath manufactured the component parts of a ponupon the beauties of "Richmond Hill," and the like:a charming view of Turnham Green, Hammersmith, and New, and the parts adjacent.

With broken lyre and cheek serenely pale,

sad ALCEUS wanders down the vale!

ugh fair they rose, and might have bloomed a

last,

hopes have perished by the northern blast:

ped in the bud by Caledonian gales,

blossoms wither as the blast prevails!

his lost works let classic SHEFFIELD weep: no rude hand disturb their early sleep*!

oor MONTGOMERY! though praised by every English Review, ha bitterly reviled by the EDINBURGH. After all, the Bard of She s a man of considerable genius: his "Wanderer of Switzerland th a thousand Lyrical Ballads," and at least fifty Degrade

D

rood which mangle as they prey,
nstinct, all that cross their way:
ing, the living or the dead,
ind,-these harpies must be fed.

e injured unresisting yield
ossession of their native field?

Bro

As

Sin

To

W

B

y thus before their fangs retreat,

430

H

e bloodhounds back to ARTHUR's seat*?

A

immortal JEFFREY! once, in name, uld boast a judge almost the same :

ke, so merciful, yet just,

that Satan has resigned his trust,

R's
's seat; the hill which overhangs Edinburgh.

4

in the Courts betimes, though all that law 440

t hath taught him is to find a flaw.

well instructed in the patriot school

il at party, though a party tool,

knows? if chance his patrons should restore
to the sway they forfeited before,

cribbling toils some recompence may mect,
aise this Daniel to the Judgment Seat.
EFFRIES' shade indulge the pious hope,
rceting thus, present him with a rope ;
ir to my virtues! man of equal mind!

lled to condemn as to traduce mankind,
is cord receive! for thee reserv'd with care,

wield in judgment, and at length to wear."

450