Could I with faithful pencil trace. A thousand bards would claim the praise. Have fung, in ftrains, like her divine. I praise a mind that conftant glows Spencer, and Marlb`rough feeds the tide, That fees another Devon born; Mr. Poynts was preceptor to the late Duke of Cumberland, and father to the Countefs Dowager of Spencer. Or 242 THE LIFE OF G. A. BELLAMY. Or a young Marlborough, in whose eye, His great forfather's flame I spy. I thought to have concluded with the foregoing lines, and with tolerable chearfulnefs; but that fickle dame I juft now mentioned, will not fuffer me to do fo. 1 am unhappily forced to add, that the attorney who undertook, with Mr. Batten, the joint friendly bill before the Barons of Exchequer, in order to obtain permiffion for Mr. Woodward to fell out the stock his brother had left him, has fent me in his bill, which amounts to forty three pounds thirteen fhillings, and one penny. What I fhall do I know not. If he has not lenity, the Lord have mercy upon me. But as he is a generous and opulent man, I hope he will give me time; more particularly, as he must feel the deception that occafioned our ill fuccefs. FI INI S. G. A. B. Am |