IN THE SAME STILE,

FULL oft doth MAT. with TOPAZ dine,

Eateth baked meats, drinketh Greek wine;
But TOPAZ his own werke rehearseth;
And Mat. mote praise what Topaz verfeth.
Now fure as priest did e'er fhrive finner,
Full hardly earneth Mat. his dinner.

IN THE SAME STILE,

FAIR Sufan did her wif-hede well menteine:

Algates affaulted fore by Letchours tweine: Now, and I read aright that auncient fong, Old were the paramours, the dame full yong.

Had thilke fame tale in other guise been tolde; Had they been young (pardie) and fhe been olde: That, by St. Kit, had wrought much forer tryal; Full merveillous, I wote, were fwilk denyal.

A

FLOWER

PAINTED BY

SIMON VERELST*.

WHEN famed VERELST this little wonder

drew;

Flora vouchfaf'd the growing work to view:

*Simon Verelft, a Flemish painter, born at Antwerp. He fettled in England, and became very celebrated for painting fruits and flowers, and received greater sums for his performances than had ever been paid before for the like kind in London. Mr. Pilkington fays, " as to his "flower and fruit subjects, he handled them in a charm"ing manner, and gave them force and relief by a judi"cious management of the chiaro fcuro. He painted his "objects with great truth and resemblance of nature, and "his colouring was fresh, but as to his portraits they

were not much to his honour, though he finished them 66 as highly as he did his flowers, which he always took care to introduce in every portrait." He died 1710, aged 46. See PILKINGTON'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS, p. 667.

Finding

Finding the painter's fcience at a ftand,
The goddess fnatch'd the pencil from his hand;
And finishing the piece, fhe fmiling faid:
Behold one work of mine, that ne'er fhall fade.

TO THE

LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY,

SINCE

MARCHIONESS OF CARMARTHEN,

ONA

COLUMN OF HER DRAWING

WHEN future ages fhall with wonder view

Thefe glorious lines, which Harley's daugh

ter drew;

They shall confefs, that Britain could not raise
A fairer column to the father's praise.

PRO

PROTOGENES

A N D

A PEL LE S.

WHEN poets wrote, and painters drew,

As nature pointed out the view:

Ere Gothic forms were known in Greece,
To fpoil the well-proportion'd Piece :
And in our verfe ere Monkish rhimes
Had jangl'd their fantaftick chimes :
Ere on the flowery lands of Rhodes
Thofe knights had fix'd their dull abodes,
Who knew not much to paint or write,
Nor car'd to pray, nor dar'd to fight :
Protogenes, hiftorians note,

Liv'd there, a burgess scot and lot;
And, as old Pliny's * writings show,
Apelles did the fame at Co.

* See C. Plinii, Nat. Hift, lib. xxxv. cap. x. vol. iii.

p. 131. ed. 1669.

Agreed

Agreed these points of time and place,
Proceed we in the prefent cafe.

Picqu'd by Protogenes's fame,
From Co to Rhodes Apelles came;
To fee a rival and a friend,
Prepar'd to cenfure, or commend,
Here to abfolve, and there object,
As art with candour might direct.
He fails, he lands, he comes, he rings:
His fervants follow with the things:
Appears the governante of th' house:
For fuch in Greece were much in ufe:
If young or handfome, yea or no,
Concerns not me, or thee to know.

Does 'fquire Protogenes live here?
Yes, fir, fays the, with gracious air,
And court'fey low; but juft call'd out
By lords peculiarly devout;

Who came on purpose, fir, to borrow
Our Venus, for the feaft to-morrow.
Το grace the church: 'tis Venus' day :
I hope, fir, you intend to ftay,

To see our Venus: 'tis the piece
The most renown'd throughout all Greece,
So like the original, they say:

But I have no great skill that way
But, fir, at fix ('tis now past three)
Dromo must make my master's tea;

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