The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-05-16 00:00:00, page 4

SEAT of the MUSES.
EVERY INCH A SAILOR.
A FAVOURITE SONG.
THE wind blew hard, the sea rah
The dingy feud drew cross the Iky:
All was lase (tow'd, the bowl was flung,
When,carelefs, thus Nid Hautard fang—•
CHORUS
A Sailor's life's the life for me.
He takes his duty merrily ;
The wind can whittle, he can sing,
Srill faithful to his friend and K'ng—
He gets belov'd by all the ship,
He toasts his girl and drinks his flip.
Down topsails, boys, the gale comes on,
To ftrick top gallant yards they run ;
Ard now to hand the fail prepar'd,
Med cheerful sings upon the yard —
A Sailer 3 life, &c.
A leak—a leak—come lads be bold,
There's five feet water in the hold ;
Eager on deck fee Halyardjnmp.
And hark—while working at the pump—
A Sailor's life, We,
And fee the vessel nought can save ;
She strikes, and finds a wat'ry gra%e ;
Yet Ned preserv'd with a few more,
Sings as he treads a foreign shore —
.4 Sailor's life, &c 6
And now, unnumber'd perils past,
On land as well as tea a lad,
In tasters to his Poll and home,
See honelt Haulyard singing come—
A Sailor's life, ^fc.
Yet for poor Hauljard, what difgrace 4 —
Poll (wears she never saw his face :
He d her for a fuithleb ilie,
And singing goes again to sea,
A Sailor's life, &c.
IT is common to diftinguilh men by
the names of animals which they
are supposed to resemble. Thusa hero
is frequently termed a lion, and a
flatefman a fox—an extortioner gains
the appellation of vulture, ana a fop
the title of monkey. There is also
among the various anomalies of
character, which a lurvey of the world
exhibits, a ipecies of being in human
form which may be properly marked
out as the screech o«ls of mankind.
These screech owls fecm to be fet
tled in an opinion that the great busi
ness of life is to complain, and that
they were born for no other purpose,
than to disturb the happiness of others,
to lessen the little comforts,and Ihort
en the (hort pleasures of our condition,
by painful remembrances of the past,
or melancholy prognofticks of the fu
ture —their only care is to crush the
riling hopes, to damp the kindling
transport, and allay the golden hours
of gaiety with the hateful dross of
grief and suspicion.
To thqfe,whofe weakness of spirits,
or timidity of temper,fubje^sthem to
jmpreffion from others, and who are
apt to fuffer by fafeination, and catch
the contagion of mifcry,it is extreme
ly unhappy to live within the reach of
a screech owl's voice ; for it will often
fill their ears in the hour of de
jedion, terrify them with appre
hensions, which their own thoughts
would never have produced, and lad
den, by intruded sorrows, the day
which might have been passed in a
mufemem or in bafinefs-u ,11 bur
then their hearts with unneceflary dis
contents, and weaken for a time that
love of life which is necessary to the
LssAv on .»€
SCREECH OWLS of Mankinds
vigorous prosecution of any undertak
ing.
Tho' I have, like the rest of man
kind,many jailings and weakreffes, I
have not yet, by either friends or ene
mies, been charged with feperftition ;
1 never count the company which I
enter, and I look at the new moon in
differently over cither Dioulder. 1
have,like mod other philosophers, oft
en heard the cuckoo without money
in my pocket, and have been feme
times reproached as fool hardy for not
turning down my sleeves when a ra
ven flew over my head. 'I never go
home abruptly because a faake erodes
my way,nbr have any particulardread
of a clymaa<rical year; yet I con
left, that with all my (corn of old wo
men, and their tales, I confider it as
an unhappy day when 1 happen to be
greeted in the morning, by Sufpirius,
the screech owl.•
I hate known Sufpirius fifty eight
years and four months,and have never
yet pa(Ted an hour with him in which
he has nor made lortie attack upon my
quiet. When we were firft acquaint
ed, his great topick was the misery
of youth without riches,and whenever
we walked together, he solaced me
with a long enumeration of pleasures,
which, as they were beyond the reach
of my fortune, were without the verge
cf my defire,and which I ffiould never
have confidcred as the objetls of a wifi
bad not his unreasonable representa
tion placed them in my fight;
Another of his topicks is the negleA
of merit, with which he never fails to
amuse every man whom he lees not
eminently fortunate. If he meets
with a young cfficer,he always informs
him of gentlemen whose personal cou
rage is unqullioned, and whole mili
tary (kill qualifies them to command
armies, that have,notwithdandmg all
their merit, grown old with fobahern
cemmiffians. For a genius in the
church, he is always provided with a
curacy for life. The lawyer he in
forms of many men of great parts and
deep Itudy, who never had an oppor
tunity to freak in the courts : Meet
ing Serenus the physician —" Ah !
dedor," fa,e he,"iWhat! a foot ftilly
when so many blockheads are rattl
ing in tbeifychariots? I told yoa seven
years age flat you would never meet
with encouragement, and I hope you
will now take more notice, when I tell
you, that your Greek, and your ho
nesty, will never enable you to live
likeyonder apothecary,who prescribes
in his own (hop, and laughs at the
physician."
Sufpirius has, in his time, inter
cepted fifteen authors in their way to
the stage , persuaded nine and thirty
merchants to retire from a prosperous
trade for fear of bankrupicy>brbke off
an hundred and thirty matches by
prognostications of unhappiness, and
enabled the final! pox to kill nineteen
ladies, by perpetual alarms of the loss
of beauty.
Whenever my evil flats bring us
together, he never fails to represent
to me the folly of my perfuits,and in
forms me that we are much older than
when we began our acquaint
ance, that the infirmities of decripi
tude are coming fall upon me,, that
whatever I now get I shall enjoy but
a little time, that fame is to a man
tottering on the edge of the grave, of
very little importance, and that the
time is at hand when I ought to look
for no other pleasure than a good din
ner and an easy chair.
Thus he goes on in his unharmoni
ous drain, displaying present mise
ries and foreboding more—every syl
lable is loaded with misfortunes, and
death is always brought nearer to,the
view. Yet what always raifesray re
sentment and indignation, I do n?t
perceive that his mournful meditati
ons have much effi£tupon himfelf—
He talks, and has long talked of cala
mities, without difeovering otherwise
than by the tone of his voice, that he
feels any of the evils which he be
wails or threatens, but has the fame
habit of uttering lamentation,as others
of telling dories, and falls into ex
pressions of condolence for pad, or ap
prehensions of future mifehiefs—as all
men ftadious of their ease have re
course to those fubjedlsupon which they
can most fluently or confpicuotdy dis
course.
It is reported of the Sjbaircs, that
they destroyed all their cocks,chat they
might dream out their morning
dreams without disturbance. Tho' 1
would not so far promoe effeminacy
as to propole the Sybarites for an ex
ample, yet since there is no than so
corrupt or foolilh, but that fomeching
uftful may be learned from, him,
I could v.ifh that in imitation of a
people not often to be copied, feme
regulations might be shade to exclude
screech owls from all comply, as the
enemies of mankind,and confine them
to some proper receptacle, where they
may mingle sighs at leifuie, and
thicken the gloom of one another.
Thou propbet of evil,fays Homer's
Agamemnon,thou never forctelled me
good, but the joy cf thy heart is to
predict misfortunes. Whoever is of
the fame temper, might there find
means of indulging his thoughts and
improving his vein of denunciation,
ana the dock cf screech owls might
hoot together, without injury to the
rest of the world.
Yet, though I have to little kind
ness for this dark generation, lam
very far from intending to debar the
foft aAd tender mind from the privi
legecf complaining,when thefigh rifts
from the desire not of giving pain,but
of gaining case. To hear complaints
with patience, even when complaints
are Gain, is one of the duties of friend
ship—and though it mud be allowed
that he fuffers most like a hero that
guides griefin silence,
Sfeem TOufumfitailat, ptrhitulfumtcrde
deles em,
His outward smiles conceal'd his in
ward smart—
DANGER of HAUNTED
HOUSES.
AGIRLw^ was a servant ma
boufe reputed to be haunted,
was fufpeEled and at length con
vifled of pregnancy ; foe fell on
her knees before her miftrejs, and
craved forgiveness, alledging that
'foe ought not to be blamed, for it
was entirely the Ghost's fault.
" The Ghost's fault," exclaimed
the mifrefs, " bow could that pos
sibly happen ?" " IDby indeed,
Madam !" replied tbefimple girl,
" the Ghost one night made a huge
noise, and almost terrified me out
of my seven senses. I told John
how it bad served me, and heper
fuaded me bow fp&its never ap
peared, when two people Jlept
"together. So, as I liked bis com
pany better than the Ghoftefes, &
was mortally afraid of Gboftejes,
I went along with him, andfo,and
so indeed, Madam, Ifauld never
have loft my virtue, if it bad not
beenjor fear of the GhoJiefes H
DRYDEN.
yet, it cannot be denied that he
who complains, a&s like a man, like
asocial being, who looks for help
from his fellow creatures. Pity is,
to many of the unhappy, a source
of comfort in hopeless didreffes, as
it contributes to recommend them
to themselves, by proving that they
have not loft the regard of others ;
and Heaven seems to indicate the
duty even of barren companion,
by inclining ua to weep for evils
which we cannot reniidy.
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and Linen RAGS, at this Office.
Ihe following fall, we doubt
not will make feme cf cur leaded
smile: —Afak man in Paris fen:
for the Conftitutioral Reflor cf
bis par ifo to prepare himfor death
—be gave him ibe fewanunt, a«
bout an hour after an Arifocrdti:
Clergy man told him, that far Jrcm
eppeefiug, he bad greatly to ritated
the Divinity by accepting the com
munion from the hands oj a feed
ing pries, the patient was pre
vailed upon to renew the ceremony,
and after taking the facramenti
la) down, faying — "'I be ttevil is
in it, if 1 don't go to heaven
now," and expired.
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