The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-12-23 00:00:00, page 4

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TO THE LADIES. Q
IHE fapalone let others prize,
Or features of the fair: -.
I look forjpirit in her eyes,
And meaning in"ber air.
A damajk cheek, a fam, arm.
Shall ne'er m, wifhet win ;
Give me the animated form,.
„ flat /peaks the mind within.
Aface where awful honour /hints,
; Where sense and fweetnef i move ;
And angel innocence refines
Tbe tendernefi of love. ,
These are the foul of beauty's frame,
Without whoje vital aid,
Unfirii/b'd all her featuresjecm,
A^dall her rofesfade.
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POVERTY.
O POVERTY! thou bane of Jo, !
Thy face does ever, blijs defroy.
Th, deep funk e,es, th, thin grown hair,
Th, bloomlefs checks, th, heavy air,
Th, useless teeth,tb, paper lips,
Th, rawbone /boulders, meatleft hips—
h brief—tb, ALL, I can't endure.
Q Poverty ! behold m, purk!
Was e'er one id condition worse ?
Behold m, coat, at elbows out,
And torn and tatter'd round about !
Behold my bat,, which once was black.
Now much its former hue does lack !
Behold my waifleoat, notone butiok
Remains (fall that were once put on !
Behold m, particolour'd breeches !
Ten tboufand thousand are their flitches ;
Ofwhat firft made, Eve nowforgot,
For metaor, fades, as breeches rot.
Beheld m, bofe, not ate b, moth,
For never were tbe, chang'd in troth.
Darn'd up and down, out fide and in,
so! here a bole too /bows my fix!
Behold m, fees ! without foal leather,
Orfirings to keep the ft raps together !
Theje mifries all tothee I owe,
Q Poverty! thou nurje of woe !
HILARITY.
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C!OT very many years ago, the
French King's Taylor having
acquired a princely fortune, pur4
chafeda chateau in the neighbour
hood of Vetfailfa. In that neigh
bourhood lived likewise a little
triarquis, whose pride and poverty
were equally on a par.—The tafc
lor turned Gentleman, dined in a
late party at the house of a friend
—there too dm# the marquis,
After dinner, the quondam profef
fion of the former, was accidental
ly brought on the carpet, and the
fytquis Felt all the indignance of
nobility Gained by such an associa
tion ; he stepped up to the bur
geois gentilhomme, and, without
iny ceremony, enquired if he could
imake him alditol clothe ? " Vo-
Ibritiers," said the other, " an hon
est man should never be ashamed
of his profeffion—-my servant,"
adde^he, pulling the bell, " will
fetch^me paperand a pair of feif
fors,lhat i may proceed, without
loss of time, to measure you."
This was done, and the marquis
queftrohed as to the quality and
richness of the fluff, &c. He left
every thing to the taylor, putting
no limits to pis commission ; and
the other called the company to
witness the latitude he'had given
WiL The fuh of clothe ma few
"&yi was &li+ered to the marquit,
exa&ly such as is usually worn by
the dauphin, on a birth day, Gover
ned with gold, with pearls, and o
ther precious ornaments. On this
oraffon, the bill, you may be fare,
was not forgotten ; it amounted to
thirty thouland livres, precisely
the vald&hf the marquis' estate :
An action was afterwards inftitut
ed for recovery of the debt, the es
tate fold, and the marquis put in
possession of the clothes, which
constituted his whole property,
f^f- iTrft,— ^^
A Country Attorney happened
to be at a tavern, with an honest
}peahnt, and was very facetious at
the Countryman's expence. They
nevertheless agreed to try for a
bottle of wine who could make the
best rhyme. The lawyer enquir
ed the peasant's occupation, who
chearfully informed him he was a
tailor ; upon which the lawyer
wrote these lines :
" The world, tho' large, is but
a span,
" It takes nine tailors to make
aman."
The tailor in his turn enquired
the lawyer's occupation, and being
informed, 66 I thought," laid he,
" you were of the law by the glib
ness of your tongue, since you have
rhymed about the world, so will 1
too," and then he wrote,
"The world is wide and fu/ll of
evil,
" And half a lawyer makes a
- devil !''
A GENTL^MANridiog from
Sandwich to Plymouth, being a
franget to the way, inquired of
an African, who readilf^ave him
the following direaionifir^/im,
viz. Why Maffer, you mus keep
righte long. I dont know da be
any woeg roil you be lik to miss,
ceptin e rigbt ont. So I done fee
how you can poffiblq get out e way.
AN elderly Quaker being join
ted in the band# of wedlock with a
brisk widow of the fame persua
sion, as he was entering the sheets
with her on the wedding, night, he
calledfor the Lord to dire& him.
Nav,faithTabicha, tbtLordfangtb
"'b'!i— ^^LJ!
PEOPLE *ho are refblvhf ,
please always at all etarts, fre
quently overite' themselves, and
reader themselves ridiculous by be
ing too good.—A ladpgoing to
eat plumb cako & caudle it a friend's
house one morning, ran to the cra
dle to fee the fine bo, as soon as
Ihe came in : unfortunately the
cat had taken up the baby's place ;
before she could give herfelf time
to lee her mistake, (he exclaimed,
I with up lifted eyes and. hands,
f' Oh ! what a sweet child! the
very piElure of its father !
:CAPTAIN N. who lately ar
' rived at Beflon when going up to
ithe wharf, ordered an Iriffiman to
Ithrow over the buoy, and going
:below for a few minutes, he called
; to hit frifo fervent and asked him
iif he had thrown over the buoy ?
I —No fir, fays ht, aiid indeed 1 could
i not cateb the boy, but I threw over
1 /be old took !I
1 . MISCELLANY.
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• FROM THE EAGLE, VC.
FARRAGO.
" Now!have got a Ewe and aLa mb,ro
-1 er, one crier—Welcome PETER."
' OLD SAW.
if™ET ewes and limbs therefore,
y e p eters o f m y acquaint
- ance, if ye wilh the world's eftima
tiori. No matter if your book
selves and brainpans be empty,
provided your garners are full. —
Without wealth, I tell youTolitary
merit goes on her way sorrowing.
—Jacob, zealous to conciliate en
raged Esau, chose that flocks and
herds should be harbingers of the
conference. Though time was
then young, yet Jacob, as the
phrase is, was old. He was a pru
dent, money getting, money saving
fbepherd. He knew that it was
nonlenfe to talk to a man of the
world, about industry in the service
of Laban, or gallantry in affairs of
Rachel and Leah.—What would
it have lignified to have told a ro
mantic tale of love and honour, or
chat the losses of the fold were fuf
cained by this pastoral apprentice,
that master Laban might not be
injured. Why he would have
been laughed at by every servant in
Elau's train ; and the sojourner of
Mount Sier would have pitied
brother Jac, who could indeed
talk finely but wanted worldly in
terest and CASH.-----The trum
pet of fame may beTOunded, but
will not be heard, unless made of
gold. When we announce to the
worldling,that we have oxen, asses
and flocks, men servants and wo
men servants, then there is no dan
ger, left flighted merit "be in a
corner thrown." No, every cit
in the street, will leave his yard of
tape unmeasured, and run forward
to embrace ffi.
Are you eloquent, and hope by
charming the ears,to challenge the
commendation of men ? Burn
Quintilian, smooth the dogs ears
io your Cicero, and invoke fcmel
dumb deity to tie your voluble!
tongue. 1 tell you, igtiforords!
of Lydgate, the iM, monkW
Win minster, ttoro*ant of mon
ey you cannot speed: %I,
h one st, a °d, after pay
fog th,fymoft fatthing, demand
eft credit for a beef steak, upon the
score of thy integrity fo,' That
coin will not past here. Will be
told thee by every hostess in Christ
endom.
Does the etherial spirit of geni
us fill thy brain to the brim, or
haft thou a tafle for the fine arts,
and, wiffi tickets inscribed—Poet
ry, Painting, &c. knocked: for ad
inittaDce atihe doors of great then.
The porter, whom thou canst not
afford to bribe, will Ihut the door
and sneer at the fhabbineG of thy
coat. If thou expofeft thy talents
io the market place, customers will
ask if the man of genius cart fill a
writ, or make a soap pill, or a pray
er extempore ? No. Then his
goods are unfateable. Nought care
we for his stock of learning—how
I can business be iranfafted without
a flock in trude.
Old philosophers were wont to
tell Athenian and Roman auditors,
that the goods of fortune were of
little worth, compared with the en
dowments of the mind. This is
an obfotete doarine; you might
as well exped to find a corn of O
tho in the purse, as such a fenti
m^nt in the mouth of a modern
wiseacre.—He fees a young man,!
making a timid bow at his firft en-|
" " •'T'ti ' ' <
.trance into this greataffembiy room
the worlds He jogs his neighbour
Humdrum, who is as purse proud
athimfeif, and afa if the Granger
has ety ewes and lambs.
Haw a lad of fpiric 'tother dav,
out at elbows. Why so tatter'd
and torn, Eugenio ? I remember
you were at college the leader of a
class. I heard you pronounce elo
quently ingenious harangues. You
consumed a hundred measures of
midnight oil ; and could not only
read books, but write them. Can
not the coinage of fancy.buy you
a better ' coat ? Ah I responded fad
Eugenio, my partial friends tell me
I have a good title to a traft on
Parnassus ; but it is " land that
none let money on." I have trav
elled it oft, and not a lamb or an
ewe can be found to fecrifice on
Fortune's altar. Eugenio looked
wifi fully in my face, and, spite of
poverty, smiled at a stupid world,
which could fuppole that Parnassus
via? * grazing country.
Ye apprentices, who have fulfil
led your seven years talk; ye fchol-,
ars, whose diplomas are recently (
signed ; in a word, ye, who have
nearly reached the eventful year of
twenty one, listen to the monitory
voice of him, who, uncherifhed by
the warm fleece of ewe and lamb,
shiver sin this bleak world. Vaunt
not of talents.; fay unto yourselves,
Invention is mad, and genius, what
doth it? Buy lambs—buy ewes.
By thia, craft ye foil have wealth ;
ye sh all have fame ; for Fame is
Fortune's handmaid, in these cof
termonger times. Remember that
the claims of merit, will be like
" the voice of one crying in the
I wildernefs," while the bleat of ewes
and lambs can be diftindly heard
by the remotest miser. He will
chuckle over ye, and, with an out
stretched cordial hand, bid ye mefl
teifo welcome!
[The reader must note—that in a for
mer number of the Farrago, Peter ob-,
serves, that every body treated him con- 1
temptuoufly, till he got Ewes arid Lambs
—after which, every body bid Peter wel
come—and Peter knew every thing !]
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Wm. Duncan,
Has just received, diredly from Lon DON,
A large Afforment of
BAIZES /
VERY ELEGANT,.
Which he will fell at the Boston prices,
By Whole fale,'
At bis STORE in Concord.
— ±2^_ .59
Columbian Lodge.
to 3 "THE Brethren of the
A ancient Society of FREE and
ACCENTED MASONS, are hereby in
formed, that the Festival of St. John
the Evangelist, will be celebrated by the
COLUMBIAN LODGE, at Brother
BENJAMIN BUTLER'S, in Deerfield,
on Friday the 27th day of December next
—The Brethren are requeued to at
tend at XI of the clock, a. m.
%* DINNER will teon the table pre
cisely at II of the clock, p. m.
‘ ^ Order of the Right Worjbipfu!
JOSEPH CILLEY, Master,
NATfl^ikL Weare, Secretary,
Deeifield, Nov. 18th, 1793. ' ''V
j Wanted to hire, in j^fmall Family^
A Woman,to do house work.
Entire at tfy Mlßrouß Office.
[Concord, C^k zgtb, 1793. ~53