No noxious, herbage tempts thy burthen'd ewes, TITYRUS. When therefore deer fhall quit the earth for air, Fishes the fea for land, and pasture there, When Parthians, and when Germans, by exchange Shall thofe to Saone, and thefe to Tigris, range, Then fhall his image, who, by pity prest, Indulg'd fuch favours, vanish from my breast. MELIBOE U S. But we, alas! distress'd and driv'n from home, My much-lov'd native foil again behold? Shall Shall yon fair lawn be the rough foldier's lot? Shall foreign landlords mow that fertile spot? Behold the bleffings civil difcord yields! Behold for whom we till'd and fow'd our fields! Now graft the pear, fond fwain, now plant the vine, The fruit fhall others' be, the labour thine. TITYRU S. Yet here this night (I afk no longer) stay, IMPROMPTU, by Bp. ATTERBURY*, "The words of the Wife Man, thus preach'd to us all, "Despise not the worth of those things that are small." T HE Quill of the goofe is a very flight thing, Yet it feathers the arrow that flies from the Makes the bird it belongs to foar high in its flight, * This Impromptu is believed to be literally what its name imports; being written (as the gentleman who fent it me was informed) in the inftant, upon a challenge to the Bifhop to dictate fomething extempore in praise of a goofequill, on the words, "Defpife not the worth of thofe things that are fmall." The prefent communicator received it many years ago from a relation of the late Mr. Morice, the Bifhop's fon in-law. Makes Makes the harpfichord vocal, which elfe would be mute, And enlivens the founds, the fweet founds of the Alute; Records what is written in verfe or in profe, By Ramfay, or Cambray, by Boyle, or Defpreaux*. =Therefore well did the Wife Man thus preach to us all,.. "Defpife not the worth of those things that are "fmall." *The writer, probably, was then a stranger to the French pronunciation, or he would not have made aux, propounced as o) rhyme to ofe. INSCRIPTION at Chrift-Church, Oxford; Hanc juxta columnam S. E. Hujus ædis ornamentum, alumnus, Columen atque præfidium, Canonicus & Decanus.. Huc e fcholâ Weftmonafterienfi migravit Literis, Græcis præfertim & Latinis, inftructiffimus; Sed hauferat, concoxerat, In fuccum ipfum & fanguinem converterat. 3 H His fundamentis feliciter pofitis, Et dilucidè explicandi facultate, E facris vero fiteris quos perceperat fructus, In Concionibus frequenter habitis, Eloquentiam virilem pietate multâ perfusam ; In Scriptis, Quibus adhuc juvenis contra Pontificios Ubi Regii Profefforis vices fuftinuit, Enucleatè differendi difputandique folertiam Uno ore collaudârit hæc Academia. Neque vero eruditus Theologus audire maluit, Quam Paftor fidus & fedulus +. For Dr. Jane. See pp. 187. 195. 207. 250. Ad Dr. Smalridge was Lecturer of St. Dunstan in the Weft (the parish as to which I was at a lofs in p. 187), where he preached his Farewell-fermon Dec. 23, 1711. In 1717 he published Twelve Sermons, infcribed" to his "worthy Friends, the Gentlemen of the Veftry and others "who frequent the New Church in Tothil-Fields, Wefiminfter, in public testimony of his fincere gratitude for the repeated proofs they had given him of an hearty affection and "unde |