T H E

Newfman's

PRESENT

TO HIS

WORTHY

MASTERS and

MISTRESSES,

On the Entrance of the

NEW YEAR, 1785.

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AS fleeting Time goes on from Day to Day,
So fill your faithful Newfman holds his Way,
In Winter's Cold, or Summer's scorching Heat,
To bring Intelligence he plies his Feet;
The well fill'd Page conveys unto your View,
With all that's wonderful, and all that's new;
With hum'rous Paragraphs sometimes it fwells,
Sometimes of Robberies and Murders tells:
Sad Themes indeed ! and terrible to hear,
And yet too true it often does appear;
Tho' Executions croud upon the Sight,
And Pity does from tender Breasts excite,
They take no Warning from the fatal Tree,
But still proceed in Vice and Villainy:
Of various Fathions, Follies, Whims, and Fancies,
And most diverting rare Extravagancies,
That fill up all this Pleasure-hunting Age,
Strange Suits of Law, and Heroes on the Stage;
A Dancing Dog, a Bear, or a Baboon,
A Mistreſs SIDDONS, or an AIR-BALLOON.

LUNARDI'S Flight, which made the People flare,
To fee a Mortal flying in the Air;
Or BLANCHARD's Journey finifh'd with fuch Speed,
That nothing furely can his Skill exceed,
Except, as fome Advertifements advance,
He means to fly from England into France.

No Blame we now receive for being late,
The Reafon's plain—there's now no long debate,
And the chief Politics we now fupply
Is the strange Buiſneſs of the Scrutiny,
And very little of it clouds the Day,
The Folks are ti'd of Fox, and Hood, and WRAY.

Down the Advertifements but caſt your Eye,
What *wants* and *wanted* will appear hard by ;
Eſtates ſuperb, by Auctio to be fold,
The Lottery, where Fortune ſtill attends,
To deal her Favour to her chosen Friends ;
Tho' ſome I fear at prituit you may find,
Will think the Goddeſs partially was blind.

Thus, thro' the Year, we conſtantly fupply
Each various Paragraph unto your Eye;
With Diligence and Care on you attend,
In Hopes at *Christmas* you will prove our Friend;
And while the ſnoaking Board is in your View,
Grac'd with Sir-Loin, and rich Plumb-Puddings too,
Your Breasts with Rapture on that Time elate,
May think on your unwear'd Newfman's Fate;
The Mead of Hofpitality expand,
That we may bleſs the Bounty of your Hand;
Our little Families will then rejoice,
And lift, in Gratitude, the humble Voice;
Unnumber'd Bleſſings flow from every Tongue,
And we your Goodneſs annually prolong.

## On the NEW YEAR.

TO the Old Year we bid adieu
Now we have enter'd on the New,
Which is a common Cafe;
When fresh Acquaintance come in Play,
The old Ones muſt no longer ſtay,
They are jſotted out of Place.

Yet certainly the grateful Mind
Will glance at what is caſt behind,
And ſean each Action o'er;
With Pity view what'e'r was bad,
At what was good be thankful, glad,
And humbly wifh for more.

Ye great Ones who by Fortune's Pow'r
With Rapture view each paffing Hour,
And taſte the plenteous Board,
Ah ! think, beneath th' inclement Sky's
What ſhiv'ring Wretches weep and ſigh !
Then ſome Relief afford.

Properity awaits not all,
And ev'n the high may have a Fall,
As Providence thinks fit;
And Charity, that Name divine,
Has fixt it as her firm Deſign
To ſpare the Poor a Bit.

Now friendly Neighbour, Neighbour meets,
With hofpitable Welcome greets,
And drinks adieu to Care;
Withſing that Happineſs may bleſs,
With sweet Content and good Succeſſs,
The New advancing Year.

Such be the univerſal Voice,
That each one may alike rejoice,
In Plenty, and in Peace;
That as Time goes his circling Round,
My worthy Mafers may be found
With Health, and fair Encreafe.

Still may the Land enjoy Repofe,
Our Trade expand—far off our Foes,
And each deſtructive Jar:
Let all in Friendhig firm unite,
Then every one, with true Delight,
Of Nature's Gifts may ſhare.

Each true-born Subjeſt then will ſing,
Long live and proper GORGE THE KING,
Our QUEEN and ROYAL HEIR;
Mirth and Fefivity expand,
To bleſs alike the happy Land,
And crown the ſmiling Year.

The Farmer, Labourer, Artiſt too,
Their diſſrent Means to live purſue,
And lend alike their Aid;
Then I, your humble Newfman, may
Join in the Croud with loud Huzza !
To view ſuch Joys diſplay'd.