The Phoenix — Dover [N.H.], 1793-04-27 00:00:00, page 4

COME, peace of mind delightful
guest !
Return and make thy downy nest
Once more in this fad heart :
Nor riches I, nor pow'r purfae,
Nor hold forbiding joys in view,
We therefore need not part,
Where wiltthou dwfll if nwwithm.
From avarice and ambition free,
And pleasure's fatal wiles ?
For whom, alas ! dost thou prepare
The sweets that I was wont to (hare
* The banquet of thy smiles;
The great, the gay (hall they partake
The heav'n that thou alone canst
mak%
And wilt thou quit the stream
That murmurs through the dewy mead
The grove andthe fequefter'd shed,
To be a guest with them ?
For thee I panted, thee I priz'd,
For thee I gladly facrific'd
Whate'er, I lov'd before.
And shall I fee thee start away.
And helpless, hopeless, hear thee fay
Farewell ! we meet no more ?
Ye winds,that have made me your sport
Convey to this desolate shore
Some cordial endearing report.
Os a land I shall visit no more©
My friends do they now and then fend
A wifn or a thought after met —•
O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to fee.
Religion ! what treasure unfold
Resides in that heavenly word !
More precious than silver and gold,
Or all that this earth can afford.
But the found of the church going bell
These vallies and rocks never heard,
Ne'er figh'd at the found of a koell,
Or fmil'd when a sabbath appear'd.
How fleet is a glance of the mind !
Compar'd with the speed of its flight
The tempest itfelf lags behind, °
And the fwift winged arrows of ligh'
When I think of my own native land,
In a moment I seem to be there ;
But alas ! recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.
I am out of humanity's reach,
I must finish my journey alone.
Never hear the sweet music of speech;
I start at the found of my own.
The beasts that roam over the plain,
My form with indifference fee.
They are so unacquainted with man,
Their tameness is Locking to me.
Society, friendship, and love,
Divinely bellow'd upon man,
Oh had I the win'gs of a dove,
How soon wou'd I taste you again !
My farrows I then might assuage
. In the ways of religion and truth,
Might learn from the wisdom and age,
And be cheep'd by the Tallies of youth.
Bit the fea-fowl is gone to her rteft.
The bead is laid down in his lair,
Ev'n here is a season of rest,
And I to my cabin repair.
There is mercy, in ev'ery place,
And mercy, encouraging thought !
Gives even affliction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot.
That sages have seen in thy face ?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
My right there is none to dispute.
From the centre all round to the sea,
1 am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Oh folitode ! where are the charms
Verses, fapptfed Co be ^written b, A
lexander Selkirk, during bisfo~
lita>, abode in the Ifand of JUAN
FERNANDEZ.
I AM monarch of ail 1 farvey,
"" ^gj n ''" Horrible place.
FOUNT OF APOLLO.
ODE to PEACE,
The fame Jefferies afterwards
on the bench, told an old fellow
with a long beard, that he sup
posed he had a confidence as
long as his beard. Does your
lordship, replied the,old man,
measure consciences by beards ? i)
Jo your lordship has no conscience
at all. 1
When the lord Jefferies, be
fore he was a judge, was plea
ding at the bar once, a • country
fellow giving evidence against
his client, pushed the matter
very home on the fide he swore
of. Jefferies, after his usual way
called out to the fellow, Hark
you fellow, in the leather doub
let what have you for swearing?
To which the countryman
smartly replied, Faith Sir if you
had no more for lying than Ihave
for swearing, you might e'en wear
a leather doublet too.
■set— BC
From a late London Paper.
While an annoyance Jury waagtypg
the rounds, a baker was obfervedby
an arch fellow flicking his loves of
bread full of silver, (hillings and half
crowns, to make them weigh. The
Jury came in, the loves were weighed,
and the Baker was complimented on
his honesty.
At that moment the person who had
seen his trick,came in and said he wan
ted a quantity of loaves for the
Parish Work house, and desired to boy
the whole Rock, The baker made
excuses, that they were wanted for
his regular cuftomets, but in vain the
buyer per filled., appealed to the Jury
and carried off the bread ; which he
faithfully delivered to the poor of the
work house, and after paying the ba
ker, was 71. 15s, in pocket.
An Irishman being in compa
ny, was joked on the inaccuracy
of their talk artl their frequent
blunders in conversation : To
which he replied, he thought the
pope had misplaced their tongue
as well as their legs, which were
nnufually thickefl at bottom.
During the late Election for
Westminster, divers constables
with their watchmen, were fat
at several places, to hinder the
concourse of people from flock
ing thither without some necef
iary occasion ; amongst others,
one gentleman(being somewhat
in the garb of a serving-man)
was examined what lord he be
longed unto ? To which he rea
dily replied, To the Lord, Jeho
vah ! Which word being
beyond the Constable's under
standing, he asked his watchmen,
if they knew any such Lord, they
replied,^ ; however, the con
stable being unwilling to give
distaste, said, Well, let him pass,
notwithstanding, 1 believe it to
befome Scotch Lord or other.
Diogenes being asked, the bi
ting °f 'which beast was most dan
gerous ? answered, if you mean
wild beafls, 'tis the flanderer's,//
tame one's, the flatterer's.
A N^E C DO T E S.
PHEN VARNEY date of Do
ver, bu/bandman, deceased, are
requeued to exhibit them pro
perly vouched for settlement ;
and all indebted to said ellate
are desired to make' immediate
payment.
Ephraim Varney,
AdminJl'r.
TT7HEREAS I have lately been
prosecuted for defaming and
scandalizing Friend JOSEPH JACK
SON, of New. Durham, this is there
fore to make known and certify to all
people, that I never knew any thing
nor heard any thing from any other
person, tending to the dlfparagement
of the said Joseph Jackson either in
what relates to the above prosec ution
or to any other matter or thing what
ever, and whereas several people have
fworo that 1 said sundry things about
the said Jackson 1 here declare that I
never meant to fay or intimate any
thing to his damage and that the peo
ple above Eluded to mutt certainly
m^take my meaning—And 1 have no
reason to think any thing to the con
trary cf Friend Jackson's being an
honest man and am heartily sorry that
any such report ever has been cr ffiacld
be circulated or propagated.
EBENEZER JENKINS.
New-Durham, April i, 1793.
Attest, Thomas Tash jun.
AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
\ THE
FI RST BOOK FOR CHILDRENS
by ANTHONY BENEZETf.
legally married to Molly Knock,
of LebanJn—and as he never has, and
" determined never to live wi^h her, he
takes this method to caution all per
sons, against trufling her on his ac
ount, as he shall rfot pay any debrccf
her contrasting after this date.
T AKE NOTICE
WE the Subferibers being appoin
ted Commissioners by the
Hon. Judge of Probate for the Coun
ty of Strafford, to receive and exa
mine the claims of the Creditors to
the estate of SARAH GLIDEN, lace
of Lee in said County deceased, re
prefeoted insolvent, hereby Give No
tice, that we Ihill attend that business
at the house of WILLIAM DREW,
in Madbury, the last Monday in this
and the Five following Months, from
Two to Six o'clock, p. %.
TO be lett, the season ensuing,
a valuable piece of land, about
one mile from Dover Meeting house,
containing about thirty acres of mow.
ing and pasturing—on which about
ten Cows are yearly padured, and a
bout ten tons of Hay cut,—For parti
culars enquire of the fubferiber,
SAMUEL ROBERTS.
Dover, March 15, 1793.
JOHN WINGATE 7 Commif.
EZEKIEL TWOMBLY.J fioners.
Madbury, April 10, 1793.
AS it has beeapublickly as
serted that the Subscriber was
A LL perlons having demands
A against t,e eflate of STE_
WILLIAM GERRISH.
Lebanon, April 3, 179%.
CASH given hr RAGS,
NOTIC E.
NOT! C E.
NOTICE.
JUST PUBLISHED,
STATE of NEWHAMPSHIRE.
PUBLIC notice is hereby givr
' en, that a petition has been
preferred to the General Court,
by the feledlmen of Eaton, re^
preJenting the badness of the
roads in said town, and forays
ing that a tax may be laid on
each proprietor and on each
trafi of unimproved land, of
one half penney on each acre,
for the term of three years.
Upon whizh petition the Ge
neral Court ordered an hear-\
ing & the second Tuefday of the|
next f e fan, and that in the'
mean time they cause that the
Jubilance of said petition and
order of Court thereon, be pubi
lifted three weeks fucceffivelyjn
the Dover newfpaper,fix weeks
prior to said day of bearing,
that any person or persons may
then appear andfhew cause, if
any they have, why the prayer
thereof may not be granted.
Will not every age supply themselves
wth one ? efpeciall, the aged ; but
they mud be applied for soon, as
- the greater part of the inpreffi.
on in a few weeks will be lent
to Massachusetts where
they are fubferibed
for largely.
It has had two editions in England.
FOURSCORE AND FIVE ZEARSOLB.
The Calendar may be had at a leg
price than a Mug of Grog, if ap .
plied for immediately;
NINE HARROW TEETH.
The owner may have them again, by
er quiring of the printer.
And now for sale at this office
The Fourth Edition of the
OLD MAN'S CALENDAR
A SERMON delivered to his people
on the day he was Four-score and
five years old ; By the late
Venerable Dr. GAY of
Hingham from
these words;
JOSHUA 14. ,0.
AND NOW : LO, I AM THIS DA±
on hand (colliding of a great variety)
allow reduced prices,—Merchants
whobuy to fell again, will meet with
such ercouragernent as nil! tend to
their advantage in calling at said
Store.
Poftfmoutb, April 17, 1793.
INTENDING to quit bufineis in
Portsmouth, on the firft day of
August next, will fell his flock of
STO.PT, Su„&,o be STOLEN !
WILLIAM scott,
Joseph Pearson Secretary.
Secretary:-Office, „ril jg, 1793.
Sir Richard Rum,
,Ju/l Publifbed,
And tor sale at this Office.
THE
INDICTMENT and TRIAL
OF
GOODS
SPINNING WHEEL,
AT THE *TGN OF THE
At PUNCH HALL.
W Published,