The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-07-10 00:00:00, page 4

But she'll plague you and vex you,
? Diftrad and perplex you,
False-hearted and ranging,
Unsettled, and changing,
What then do you think fheis like ?
Like a sand? like a rock ?
Like a wheel ? like a clock ?
Aye, a clock that is always at firib.
Her head's like the island folks tell on,
Which nothing but monkies can dwell
on;
, Her heart's like a lemon—so nice
She carves for each lover a slice:
In truth fhe's to me,
Like the wind, like the sea,
Whole raging will hearken to no man ;
Like a mill,'
Like s pill,
Like a flail,
/, Like a white,
Like an aft,
Like a glafi,
Whose image is constant to no man ;
Like a flew'r,
j Like a fhow'r.
Like a fly,
Like a pie,
Like a pea,
Likea flea,
Like a thief,
Like—in brief,
She's like nothing on earth—but a
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Defcripti% of a Man, by a
Woman.
AMAN; he is like to—but stay,
To what he's unlike,who can fay?
And yet we can scarce db without him ;
Love sets in his breast
Like a hen on her nest, ; '^^
And his chickens are scratching about
him.,
When he's pleas'd I am fquecz'd,
j' ^ When lie's not lam teaz'd,;
And I never can tell where to find him :
He is like an old horse,
Worth but little and'erofs,'
And a woman is foolifli to mind him.
„If bechance but to smile,
And lock pleafanta while, .J
jAnd come chattering round like a chick.
He is like a gay lark, <^^
But a falfe hearted (park,.
And bis feathers are scarcely worth pick-
If foe laugh, and she chat;
Play, joke, and all that,
And withfailft & good burner farauts me.
She is like a rich dish,
Os ven'fon and fifh,
That cries from the table, ' come eat me!'
A Woman is like to—but stay—
What is a woman like, who can fay?
There's no living with or without one—
Love; bites like a fly,
Now an ear, now an eye-
Buz, buz, always buzing about one.
When (he's tender and kind,
She is like to my mind,
(And Fanny was so I remember)
She's like to —Oh dear 1
She's as good,very near
As a ripe melting peach in September.
MR. DAVIS,
Notwitbranding ,ou published in the Mirror
of the @b of ,n '96, the filming
Song, I prefume,eu will be jo impartial
as to re-insert the jam; and place under
the Song the Description, 1 new band,on,
if a Man, by a Woman, that, our rea*
dare ma, fee and judge which of the char
gaffe is most meritorious of the representa
tions given. Four's, ^c.
D.
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SENTIMENTALMEDLEY.
DILIGENCE, and proper
improvement of time,
are material duties of the
young. To no purpose are
they endued with the best
abilities, if they want adivity
for exerting them. In youth
the habits of industry are
most easily acquired.--—ln
youth the incentives to it are
the strongest ; from ambition
and from duty, from emula=
tion and hope, all the prof
peds which the beginning of
life affords
Industry is not only the in
strument of improvement,
"but the foundation of pleas
ure. He who is a Granger to
it may pcffef% but cannot en
joy; for it is labor only which'
gives relish to pleasure. It is
the indifpen fable condition of
our possessing a found mind
in a found body.
We should leek to fill our
time with employments which
may be reviewed with fatis
fa&ion. The acquisition of.
knowledge is one of the
most honourable occupations
of youth. The desire of it
discovers a liberal mind, and
is conneaed with many ac
complishments, and many vir
tues. But though our train of
life should not lead us to stu
dy, the course of education
always lurnifhes proper em
ployments to a well disposed
mind. Whatever we pursue,
we should be emulous to ex
cel. '
Generous ambition and
sensibility to praise, are, es
pecially at the youthful peri
od, among the marks of vir
tue. We never ought,to]
think that any affluence of
fortune, or any elevation of
rank, exempts us, from the
duties of application and/or!
But when he is vext,,
Confus'd and perplext,
Deceitful and vicious,
Base, faffe, and malicious,
He is like—hard to speak it myfelf—
x He is like to—alas !
Like a shake in the grass,
He is then, only then, like himfelf.
His head's like a butcher's full (hop,
Beef, mutton and pork, or what not ;
His heart'slike a pail of old fwilh,
Which the offal contributes to fill :
In short to a wife.
He is like a case knife. 1
To cut up my cake for my cheese;
Like a faint when he's civil,
But if not, like the devil ;
But will turn to whatever he please:
To a, hog, to a dog,
To a hare, to a bear, ^^
Whose cruelty yieldeth to no man $
Like a mouse, likea goose,
Like a mule, like a fool,
Like a lane, like a vane,
Like a leaf, like—in brief,
He's every thing else, but a woman.
fflffrellanp.
INDUSTRY.
•' ,0 RAISE TH3 GENIUS, AND TO MEN*b THE HEART."
duflry : Industry is the law
of our being ; it is the de
mand of nature, of reason,
and of God.
A foung Lady's Prayer for a
'HuJband.
UROM a profane libertine,
1 from an affectedly pious,
from a profufe almoner, from
an uncharitable wretch, from
a wavering religiofo and in
judicious zealot—deliver me.
From one of starching gra
vity, or ridiculous levity, from
an ambitious statesman, from
a reliefs projetflor, from one
that loves any thing besides
me, but what is just and hon
orable-deliver me !
From 4h extolled poet, a
modern wit, abase coward,
and a rash fool-deliver me!
From a Venus darling,
from a Bacchus proselyte,
from a travelling half-bred,
from all other mafeuline af
fedions, not yet recounted---
deliver me ! But give one,
whose love has more ofjudg
ment than passion, who is
mafler of himfelf, or at least
an indefatigable scholar in
such a study, who has an e
qual flame, a parallel inclina
tion, a temper and foul like
mine, that, as two talliers, we
may appear more perfed by
union. Give me one of as
genteel education as a little*
expense of time will permit,
with indifferent fortune, in
dependent of the servile lev
ees of the great, and yet one
whose retirement is, not so
much from the public, as in,
to himfelf ; one (if possible)
above flattery and affronts,
and yet as carefulin prevent
ing an injury, as able to repair
it ; one, the beauty of whose
mind exceeds that of his face,
yet that not deformed, so as
to be distinguished from oth
,s by,its uglinefe.
Q,
TN order to render ourselves
A amiable in society, we
Ihouid corre& every appear
ance of harshness in our be
haviour. That courtesy Should
diflinguifh our demeahour,
which springs, not so much
from fludied politeness, as
from a mild and gentle heart.
Our manners ought to be
simple and natural, and of
course they will be engaging.
Affectation is certain deform
ity. By forming themselves
on fantaftic models, and vy
ing with one another in every
reigning folly, the young be.
gin with being ridiculous, and
end in being vicious and im
moral.
^FFABILITY.
furing them that it was the
best school in Virginia. Col.
B. of Massachusetts, was re
quested to examine the pupils,
as to their literary attainments.
He began with an overgrown
boy :
Col. Spell bed, child.
Pupil. I can't.
Col. What does B, E, D,
spell?/
Pup. I don't know.
Col. What do you sleep
on, child ?
Pup. Straw, Sir.
Col. What does,M, I,L,K,
spell?
Pup. I don't know.
Col. What do you eat for
breakfaft ?«
Pup. Spawn, Sin
Col. What does M,O,T,H,
E, R, spell?
Pup. I don't know.
Col. Don't you know who
fuckl&d you, child?
Pup. Oh yes, our negro,
my mammy Quafha.
A sea-captain having made
some material blunders in his
reckoning, and finding that
he couldnot discover ttye lat
itude, walked the deck in
great despondence, wringing
his hands, and crying out in
a pathetic tone, " Oh ! if my
dear wife knewwhere I was."
“ By (said a (urly tar)
I had much rather, fir, that
you knew yourlelt."
A person being asked what
learning was most necessary
in human life—dnfwered, to
unlearn that which was bad.
TirHEN the American ar
my was in Virginia, a
friendly altercatian took place
between some officers of the
Newengland tine and some
of those of that State, upon
the comparative Date of Lite
rature in each wing of the
union. Col F. of the Vir
ginia troops, spoke in high
terms of a school abbot ten
miles from camp, and by his
invitation the whole party
went to visit it. Col. F. as-
Give me one that has learn
ed to live much in a little time;
one that is no great familiar in
converse with the world, nor
yet too much retired within
himfelf; one (if two such
happinesses may be granted
at one time to our sex) who
with these endowments may
have an easy honest difpofL
tion; who by his praaice, as
well as principles, has made
himfelf so, let him be truly
virtuous and pious, and me
be truly happy in my choice.
Banquet or Camus.