. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . are refolvd, (fince we cant be out- bravd,Nor by any foreign Invafion enflavd)Theyll try what our wily young Women can do,If they by their Arts cant our Courage fiibdue;They have tryd, and tis over
. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . are refolvd, (fince we cant be out- bravd,Nor by any foreign Invafion enflavd)Theyll try what our wily young Women can do,If they by their Arts cant our Courage fiibdue;They have tryd, and tis over 5 the Victorys won,Silks ruftle, Fans flutter, and lo! we re undone. SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 29 © SIMILE HAft not thou feen, fay honeft Natt:The Frolicks of the fimple Cat?How in a Chamber, young and gay,Her Tail fhe courfes round in Play;How round and round (hell ftill purfue,Still has the Play-Thing in her Viewj3ft catches at it with a Spring,Fhen mifTes it, and runs the ring;EVifhes to fnap the Bauble in,But whisks it back, and fools agen. So 3° POEMS ON So fares the half-complying Lafs,When warmly courted on the Grafs;With eager Looks fhe eyes her Love,And longs the foft Delight to prove:Doubts labour in her anxious Bread,She half-confenting to be blefsd;When her Will makes a clofe Attack,Fear and Sufpicion pull it back;What one likes, th others difapprove,So run th Eternal Round of SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 31 > « v^Aj^ «y*w/y* tv**/V* #u^w» » cX^nX* «X^na* tXr%A» *X-sX*« ^^Y* *)T^0(3 *j(n*vX- rO0i^ ^O**)^3 ^jf*-^* *V£S-X* 6iTs,^V> * j A N Englifh PROVERB. WHen I was but a Child, I remember, oneDaytfy Brothers and Sifters, and I were at Play,Vnd (if Im not miftaken) twas Husband and Wife,5o at it we went with great Fury and Strife:Upon this, my old Nurfe (who flood by all the while)3od reft her dry bones! thus began with a Smile,A fmoky Houfe, Sir, (fays flie) and a quarrelfore Wife,Ire two the worft Plagues, that attenda Mans Life;laughd at her Queernefs, tho
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