But I've eat of your tripe till I'm ready to burst." "The tripe!" quoth the Jew, with his chocolate cheek, "I could dine on this tripe seven days in a week; I like these here dinners, so pretty and small: But your friend there, the Doctor, eats nothing at all." "Oho!" quoth my friend, "he'll come on in a trice: He's keeping a corner for something that's nice; There's a Pasty"—"A Pasty!" repeated the Jew, "I don't care if I keep a corner for't too." Footnote 3: See the letters that passed between his Royal Highness Henry Duke of Cumberland, and Lady Grosvenor. 12mo., 1769. [Illustration: "_I had thoughts in my chamber to place it in view._"—_p._ 202. ] "What the de'il, mon, a Pasty!" re-echoed the Scot, "Though splitting, I'll still keep a corner for that." "We'll all keep a corner," the lady cried out; "We'll all keep a corner," was echoed about. While thus we resolved, and the Pasty delay'd, With looks that quite petrified enter'd the maid; A visage so sad and so pale with affright Waked Priam in drawing his curtains by night. But we quickly found out—for who could mistake her?— That she came with some terrible news from the baker: And so it fell out; for that negligent sloven Had shut out the Pasty on shutting his oven! Sad Philomel thus—but let similes drop— And, now that I think on't, the story may stop. To be plain, my good Lord, it's but labour misplaced To send such good verses to one of your taste: You've got an odd something—a kind of discerning— A relish—a taste—sicken'd over by learning; At least, it's your temper, as very well known, That you think very slightly of all that's your own: So, perhaps, in your habits of thinking amiss, You may make a mistake, and think slightly of this. SONG. O Memory! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain: Thou, like the world, the oppress'd oppressing, Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe; And he who wants each other blessing, In thee must ever find a foe. THE CAPTIVITY. AN ORATORIO. THE PERSONS. FIRST JEWISH PROPHET. SECOND JEWISH PROPHET. ISRAELITISH WOMAN. FIRST CHALDEAN PRIEST. SECOND CHALDEAN PRIEST. CHALDEAN WOMAN. CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS. SCENE—_The Banks of the River Euphrates, near Babylon._ ACT I. ISRAELITES _sitting on the banks of the Euphrates_. FIRST PROPHET. _Recitative._