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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF THE RIGHT HON.
GEORGE GRANVILLE,
LORD LANSDOWNE.
CONTAINING HIS
| MISCELLANIES, | PROLOGUES, EPILOGUES, |
| EPISTLES, | IMITATIONS, |
| SONGS, | DRAMATIC POEMS, |
&c. &c. &c.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with ſhame,
And death ’s a pleasant road that leats to fame.
On bones and ſcraps of dogs let me be fed,
My limbs uncover’d, and expos’d my head
To bleakeſt colds, a kennel be my bed:
This, and all other martyrdom, for thee
Seems glorious all, thrice-beauteous Honeſty!
Judge me, ye Pow’rs! let Fortune tempt or frown,
I ſtand prepar’d; my honour is my own———
For me, unpractis’d in the courtiers’ ſchool,
Who loathe a knave, and tremble at a fool———
What can I hope in courts, or how ſucceed?
Tigers and wolves ſhall in the ocean breed,
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead,
And ev’ry element exchange its kind,
Ere thriving Honeſty in courts we find.
VERSES TO MRS. HIGGONS.
And death ’s a pleasant road that leats to fame.
On bones and ſcraps of dogs let me be fed,
My limbs uncover’d, and expos’d my head
To bleakeſt colds, a kennel be my bed:
This, and all other martyrdom, for thee
Seems glorious all, thrice-beauteous Honeſty!
Judge me, ye Pow’rs! let Fortune tempt or frown,
I ſtand prepar’d; my honour is my own———
For me, unpractis’d in the courtiers’ ſchool,
Who loathe a knave, and tremble at a fool———
What can I hope in courts, or how ſucceed?
Tigers and wolves ſhall in the ocean breed,
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead,
And ev’ry element exchange its kind,
Ere thriving Honeſty in courts we find.
VERSES TO MRS. HIGGONS.
EDINBURG:
AT THE Apollo Preſs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1779.
