SCENE IX.

Enter THYKSIS, UCALEGON, and MYRTILLA.

UCALEGON.

Och! here's a fait to brag on.

THYRSIS.

Zooks! here I be.

UCALEGON.

Aye, thanks to swait Ucalegon.

(Thunder and lightning, Jupiter and Mercury throw off their disguise.)

JUPITER.

Peace, peace, ye ninnies-Cease to gape and wonder, And hear your sentence from the God of Thunder.

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Fear not, Baucis and Philemon,

This the Borough-Hall shall be:

For your bounty to the seamen,

You the Mayor, the Mayoress she.

(During this song Mercury waves his caduceus, and the Scene changes to a Guildhall.-Philemon is invested with

the insignia of his office, and Baucis throwing off her upper garment, discovers a fantastic habit.)

When you've rul'd a twelve-month thorough,
Still to grace your native scenes,
Pride and worship of the Borough,
Here take root as Evergreens.

Grov❜ling, grasping, grinding Plutus,
Hear though late our sovereign will:
For thy crimes nor rare nor new t' us,
Work henceforth a Paper-mill.

There with heart-corroding cankers,
Sort the rags, and dress the mould ;
Spreading pulp for luckier Bankers,
Starve 'mid substitutes for gold.

Thou, Pandora, thief and beggar,

Troll the ballad, cry the match;

And at night with drunken stagger

Spread thy charms at Bunter's hatch.

(Plutus and Pandora undergo a suitable metamorphosis.)

Captain, fear no more reverses,

Wrecks or storms, with Phoebe blest;

Wed Myrtilla, silly Thyrsis;

Honest teague, take all the rest.

(Ucalegon salutes all the ladies of the Chorus, who crowd about him.)

Thus our justice and compassion
Here dispens'd in portions due,
We resume our former station,

And our Upstairs-Reign renew.

Mortals! let not griefs and crosses
Rack your minds with useless care:
Life's a feast, and mirth its sauce is;

We award each guest his share.

CHORUS.

Life's a feast, and mirth its sauce is:

Here each guest shall take his share.

VERSES

ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,

ON HIS

LEAVING OXFORD,

WITH HIS FAMILY, IN APRIL, 1806.