43S ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758,
With all a Pitt's undaunted force.
You Hera Corruption's headlong courfe ;
Break the vvle chain by Slav'ry worn.
And blqfs the ages yet unborn.
O may I live to fee the day.
When crowds fhaJl hail you on your way.
For felfifli fchemes of feigning good.
Of frontlefs Rapine jutl fubdu'd ;
The Mufe fhall pour her llrongeft lays.
And grow immortal by your praife.
Thus ev'ry Hate, at dillance due. If we the piece attentive view. Shews tints in fvveet afi'emblage laid. Nor all is light, nor all is fhade.
Then let us, to cur lot refign'd. All-patient ply with fleady mind
The prefent oar, howe'er it teize us ;
The reft when heav'n-born Fortune pieafes.
^he foUonjclng Fable nxjas nvrittcfi by the ingenious Mr. Christopher Smart, lafe of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, ixhen his Grace the DuH cf Dei'onjhire (then Lord Hartington) luas appointed Lord Lieutenant. cj Ire and.
Ihe Englijh Bull Dog, DuUh MajVtff, and ^all. A Fable.
AR E we not all of race divine, Alike of an immortal line? Shall man to man afford derifion, But for fome cafual divifion. To malice and to mifchicf prone. From climate, canton, or from zone? Are all to idle difcord bent, Tbeje Kentilh men, thoje men of Kent, And parties and diftintflion make For parties and dillinclion fake ? Souls fprung from an a;thereal flame. However clad, are Itill the fame ; Nor Ihould we judge the heart or head. By air we breathe, or earth we tread. Dame Nature, who, all meritorious, ]n a true Englifhman is glorious. Is lively, honelt, brave, and bonny. In Monfieqr, Taffy, Teague, and Sawny. Give prejudices to the wind, And let's be patriots to mankind. Bigots, avaunt! Senfe can't endure ye^ Bui Fabulills fliould try to cure ye.
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