Each thinks his neighbour makes too free, Yet likes a flice as well as he ; With fophiftry their fauce they fweeten, 'Till quite from tail to fnout 'tis eaten. THE LILY AND THE ROSE. I. THE nymph must lose her female friend If more admir'd than fhe But where will fierce contention end If flow'rs can difagree? III. The rose foon redden'd into rage, And swelling with disdain, Appeal'd to many a poet's page To prove her right to reign. IV.. The lily's height bespoke command, A fair imperial flow'r, She feem'd defign'd for Flora's hand, VI. Thus footh'd and reconcil'd, each feeks The fairest British fair, The feat of empire is her cheeks, They reign united there. IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. I. HEU inimicitias quoties parit æmula forma, Quam raro pulchræ, pulchra placere potest ? Sed fines ultrà folitos difcordia tendit, Cum flores ipfos bilis et ira movent. II. Hortus ubi dulces præbet tacitofque receffûs, Illic purpureo vindicat ore rofa. III. Ira rofam et meritis quæfita fuperbia tangunt, Dum fibi fautorum ciet undique nomina vatûm, IV. Altior emicat illa, et celfo vertice nutat, Ceu flores inter non habitura parem, Faftiditque alios, et nata videtur in ufûs Imperii, fceptrum, Flora quod ipfa gerat. V. Nec Dea non fenfit civilis murmura rixæ, VI Et tibi forma datur procerior omnibus, inquit, Et tibi, principibus qui folet effe, color, Et donec vincat quædam formofior ambas, Et tibi reginæ nomen, et efto tibi. His ubi fedatus furor eft, petit utraque nympham Qualem inter Veneres Anglia fola parit, Hanc penés imperium eft, nihil optant amplius, hujus Regnant in nitidis, et fine lite, genis. THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM. A Nightingale that all day long Had cheer'd the village with his fong, Nor yet at eve his note fufpended, Nor yet when even tide was ended, So |