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From The Man of Taste
I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine,
And to rough-riders give my choicest wine;
I would caress some stableman of note,
And imitate his language and his coat.
My evenings all I would with sharpers spend,
And make the thief-catcher my bosom friend;
In Fig the prize-fighter by day delight,
And sup with Colley Cibber every night.
I am a politician too, and hate,
Of any party, ministers of state;
I'm for an act, that he, who sev'n whole years
Has served his king and country, lose his ears.
Thus from my birth I'm qualified, you find,
To give the laws of taste to human kind.
Mine are the gallant schemes of politesse,
For books and buildings, politics and dress.
This is true taste, and whoso likes it not,
Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool, and sot.
JAMES BRAMSTON
THE WRITER
Titus reads neither prose nor rhyme;
He writes himself; he has no time.
HILDEBRAND JACOB
RONDEAU
By two black eyes my heart was won,
Sure never wretch was more undone.
To Celia with my suit I came,
But she, regardless of her prize,
Thought proper to reward my flame
With two black eyes! ANON
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