2. Base worldlings, that despise all such as need; Who to the needy beggar still are dumb, Not knowing unto what themselves may come. HEYWOOD. 3. Beggar? the only free men of our commonwealth; Free above scot-free, that observe no laws, Obey no governor, use no religion, But what they draw from their own ancient custom, 4. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, BROME. Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, BETTING-GAMBLING. 1. Would you, when thieves are known abroad, 2. In debts of play, Your honour suffers no delay; And not this year's or next year's rent 3. Look round, the wrecks of play behold, GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. 4. Could fools to keep their own contrive, 5. Whene'er the gaming-board is set, 6. If yet thou love game at so dear a rate, GAY's Fables. GAY's Fables. Learn this, that hath old gamesters dearly cost: 7. Some play for gain; to pass time, others play HERBERT. НЕАТН. 8. Most men, till by experience made sager, Will back their own opinion with a wager. BYRON. BIGOTRY. 1. The good old man, too eager in dispute, Flew high; and, as his Christian fury rose, Damn'd all for heretics, who durst oppose. 2. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. DRYDEN. POPE'S Essay on Man. 3. Christians have burn'd each other, well persuaded That the apostles would have done as they did. BYRON'S Don Juan. 4. Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds disagree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox bliss? 5. Mad as Christians used to be About the thirteenth century, There's lots of Christians to be had In this, the nineteenth, just as bad. MOORE. MOORE. 1. BIRDS. Where dwelt the ghostly owl, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air. 3. Lo! here the gentle lark, weary of rest, SHAKSPEARE. From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, 4. While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, 5. The noisy geese that gabbled in the pool. SHAKSPEARE. MILTON. GOLDSMITH. 88 6. BIRDS. The heron 7. Upon the bank of some small, purling brook, Every songster sings, SOMERVILE. Tops the high bough, and clasps his glist'ning wings. 8. I saw the expectant raven fly, Who scarce could wait till both should die, Ere his repast begun. DR. DWIGHT. BYRON'S Mazeppa. 9. But his flaming eye dims not, his wing is unbow'd; Still drinks he the sunshine, still scales he the cloud. W. H. BURLEIGH. 10. And the blue jay flits by, from tree to tree, And, spreading its rich pinions, fills the ear With its shrill sounding and unsteady cry. 11. Lone Whippoorwill; ISAAC M'LELlan. There is much sweetness in thy fitful hymn, ISAAC M'LELLAN. 12. Here look on the geese, as they nibble the grass How they stretch out their long necks, and hiss as we pass ! 13. The winglets of the fairy humming-bird, 14. The brown vultures of the woods CAMPBELL. W. C. BRYANT. 15. The robin warbled forth his full clear note For hours, and wearied not. 16. Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, 17. W. C. BRYANT. Where wide the storms their banners fling, Ofttimes, tho' seldom seen, J. G. PERCIVAL. The cuckoo, that in summer haunts our groves, CARLOS WILCOX. 18. The merry mocking-bird together links, CARLOS WILCOX. 19. Along the surface of the winding stream, 20. The robin to the garden or green yard, Close to the door, repairs to build again Within her wonted tree. CARLOS WILCOX. CARLOS WILCOX. 21. And in mid air the sportive night-hawk, seen A cheerful cry, attended with a shake CARLOS WILCOX. |