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ON THE COLLAR OF TIGER,
MRS. DINGLEY'S LAPDOG.
PRAY steal me not; I'm Mrs. Dingley's,
Whose heart in this fourfooted thing lies.
EPIGRAMS ON WINDOWS.
MOST OF THEM WRITTEN IN 1726.
I. On a Window at an Inn.
WE fly from luxury and wealth,
To hardships in pursuit of health;
From generous wines and costly fare,
And dozing in an easy chair;
Pursue the goddess Health in vain,
To find her in a country scene,
And every where her footsteps trace,
And see her marks in every face;
And still her favourites we meet,
Crowding the roads with naked feet.
But, oh! so faintly we pursue,
We ne'er can have her full in view.
II. At an Inn in England.
THE glass, by lovers' nonsense blurr'd,
Dims and obscures our sight:
So when our passions Love has stirr'd,
It darkens Reason's light.
