So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.

* * * * *

_Beggars' Opera_.

Act i. Sc. 1.

O'er the hills and far away.

* * * * *

How happy could I be with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away.

FABLES.

_The Shepherd and the Philosopher_.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

* * * * *

_The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy_.

When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?

* * * * *

_The Sick Man and the Angel_.

While there is life there's hope, he cried.

* * * * *

_The Hare and Many Friends_.

And when a lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.

* * * * *

_Epitaph on Himself_.

Life's a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it.

* * * * *

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.
1690-1762.

_The Lady's Resolve_.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide--
In part she is to blame that has been tried;
He comes too near, that comes to be denied.

NICHOLAS ROWE.
1673-1718.

_The Fair Penitent_.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Act v. Sc. 1.

Is this that gallant, gay Lothario?

* * * * *

JOHN PHILIPS.
1676-1708.

_Splendid Shilling_.

Line 121.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood
The winter's fury and encroaching frosts,
By time subdued (what will not time subdue?)
A horrid chasm disclosed.

* * * * *

THOMAS PARNELL.
1679-1718.

_The Hermit_. Line 5.

Remote from men, with God he passed his days,
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

BARTON BOOTH.
1681-1733.

_Song_.

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.

* * * * *

MATTHEW GREEN.
1696-1737.

_The Spleen_. Line 93.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

* * * * *

JOHN BYROM.
1691-1763.

_'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini_.[13]

Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that