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The Walse

With tranquil step, and timid, downcast glance,
Behold the well-pair'd couple now advance.
In such sweet posture our first Parents mov'd,
While, hand in hand, through Eden's bowers they rov'd;
Ere yet the Devil, with promise foul and false,
Turn'd their poor heads and taught them how to Walse .
One hand grasps hers, the other holds her hip —
For so the Law's laid down by Baron Trip.

To Lady

Your " Oh! how we miss'd you " 's a pearl of a phrase,
That many, how many, have fish'd for!
In hundreds , tho' present, what envy may raise
The one who is absent — and wish'd for!

Lines Addressed to Mr. Biggs, on His Having Set the Mad-Song , And My Love to War is Going

ADDRESSED TO MR. BIGGS, ON HIS HAVING SET THE MAD-SONG ,
AND MY LOVE TO WAR IS GOING .

While from your taste my humble lays acquire
Attractive charms to them till now unknown,
My muse deceived exulting strikes her lyre,
And loves her strains for graces not their own.