Oh, Vice! through life extends thy reign: When Custom fixes thy domain, Not _Wesley's_ cant, nor _Whitfield's_ art, Can chace thee from th' envelop'd heart! Behold that wretch! whom _Venus_ knows Has in her revels lost his nose; Still with that season'd Nurse he toys; As erst indulges sensual joys; Can drink, and crack a bawdy joke, And still can quid, as well as smoke. But, Nurse, don't smile so in his face; Sure this is not a proper place; Take from your duggs his hand away, And mind your sick-charge better, pray; Consider, if his faithful side Should hear that in their cause he died, They'd be so much enrag'd, I vow, They'd punish you!--the Lord knows how. Beside, you take up too much room, That boy-led Blind-man wants to come; And 'scap'd from wars, and foreign clutches, An Invalid's behind on crutches. The man whose fortune suits his wish, A glutton at each favourite dish; Who, when o'er venison, ne'er will spare it, And washes down some rounds with claret; That man will have a portly belly, And be of consequence, they tell ye; Grandeur shall 'tend his air and gait, And make him like--that Candidate: Observe him on the hustings sit! Fatigu'd, he sweats, or seems to sweat; Scratching his pate, with shook-back wig, And puffs, and blows, extremely big: Perhaps that paper hints about Votes, whose legality's a doubt; And will by scrutiny be try'd, Unless they're on the proper side. Stiff as if _Rackstraw_,[B] fam'd for skill, For genius, taste, or what you will, With temper'd plaister, stood in haste, From his set face to form the cast; Resting on oak-stick stedfastly, The other would-be Member see! Struck with his look, so fix'd and stout, That Wag resolves to sketch it out; Laughing, they view the pencil'd phiz.-- "'Tis very like him--that it is." Hark to yon hawker with her songs! "The Gallows shall redress our wrongs!" I warrant, wrote in humourous style; The hearers laugh; the readers smile. And lo, although so thick the rout, They've room to push the glass about! Variety her province keeps; One Beadle watches; t'other sleeps.