The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern. Panegyrical, satyrical, amorous, moral, humorous, monumental, with an essay on that species of composition / [Anon].

Date:: 1767

Credit: The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern. Panegyrical, satyrical, amorous, moral, humorous, monumental, with an essay on that species of composition / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| oH _There’s Burgundy, he lets you know, Or bright champaigne’s more fprightly juice: . There’s claret too ;—but all for fhow ; The honeft port alone’s for ufe. ue Thus vex’d, his tortur’d guefts complain, And ftare at what they fear to touch ; Thus Flrio, covetous and vain, Still does too littlh—or too much. To Avaro. HU S to the mafter of a houfe, Which, like a church, would ftarve a moufe $ Which never gueit had entertain’d, © Nor meat nor wine its floors had ftain’d ; I faid :-—Well, Sir, ’tis vaiily neat ; But where d’you drink, and where d’you eat? - If one may judge, by rooms fo fine, It cofts you more in mops than wine. ** The Hogs of H——k. ING Bladud once efpy’d fome hogs Lie wallowing in the fteaming bogs ;__ Whence iffu’d forth thofe fulph’rous fprings, — Since honour’d by more potent kings. Vex’d at the brutes alone poffefing . What ought to be a common blefling, He drove them thence, in mighty wrath, And built the ftately town of Bath. The hogs-—thus banifh’d by the prince— Have lurk'd at H k ever fince. The Impudehce of Wealth. bona Ba O, whofe pride difdains to give attention, Still afks you things above his comprehenfion ; 4 { But,$