NEXT week will be publisht (as " Lives " are the rage) The whole Reminiscences, wondrous and strange, Of a small puppy-dog that lived once in the cage Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change. Tho' the dog is a dog of the kind they call " sad, " 'Tis a puppy that much to good breed ing pretends; And few dogs have such opportunities had Of knowing how Lions behave - among friends; How that animal eats, how he snores, how he drinks , Is all noted down by this Boswell so small; And ' t is plain from each sentence, the puppy-dog thinks That the Lion was no such great things after all . Tho' he roared pretty well -this the puppy allows It was all, he says, borrowed - all second- hand roar; And he vastly prefers his own little bow WOWS To the loftiest war- note the Lion could pour. T is indeed as good fun as a Cynic could ask, To see how this cockney- bred setter of rabbits Takes gravely the Lord of the Forest to task, And judges of lions by puppy- dog Nay, fed as he was (and this makes it a dark case) With sops every day from the Lion's own pan, He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass, And-does all a dog so diminutive can. However, the book ' s a good book, being rich in Examples and warnings to lions high bred, How they suffer small mongrelly curs in their kitchen, Who ' ll feed on them living and foul them when dead. WANTED Authors of all- work to job for the season, No matter which party, so faithful to neither; Good hacks who, if posed for a rhyme or a reason, Can manage, like ******, to do with out either. If in jail, all the better for out- o' -door topics; Your jail is for Travellers a charming retreat: They can take a day's rule for a trip to the Tropics, And sail round the world at their ease in the Fleet. -- For a Dramatist too the most useful of schools He can study high life in the King's Bench community; Aristotle could scarce keep him more within rules, And of place he at least must adhere to the unity. Any lady or gentleman, come to an age To have good " Reminiscences " (three-score or higher), Will meet with encouragement - so much, per page, And the spelling and grammar both found by the buyer. No matter with what their remembrance is stockt, So they'll only remember the quan tum desired; Enough to fill handsomely Two Volumes, oct., Price twenty- four shillings, is all that's required. They may treat us, like Kelly, with old jeu-d'esprits, Like Dibdin, may tell of each farcical frolic; Or kindly inform us, like Madame Genlis,? That gingerbread-cakes always give them the colic. Wanted also a new stock of Pamphlets on Corn By Farmers " and " Landholders" (worthies whose lands Enclosed all in bow- pots, their attics adorn, Or whose share of the soil may be seen on their hands ) . No- Popery Sermons, in ever so dull a vein, Sure of a market; - should they too who pen ' em Be renegade Papists, like Murtagh O'Sullivan, Something extra allowed for the additional venom. Funds, Physic, Corn, Poetry, Boxing, Romance, All excellent subjects for turning a penny; To write upon all is an author's sole chance For attaining, at last , the least knowl edge of any. ---- Nine times out of ten, if his title is good, The material within of small consequence is; Let him only write fine, and, if not understood, Why - that's the concern of the reader, not his. -- Nota Bene-an Essay, now printing, to show, That Horace (as clearly as words could express it ) Was for taxing the Fund-holders, ages ago When he wrote thus - Quodcunque, in Fund is, assess it. " | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREAT CAROUSAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT A BALLAD OF ATHLONE; OR, HOW THEY BROKE DOWN THE BRIDGE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE VAQUERO by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER |