"This project was to catch, to cut or boil, Huge whales and other monstrous fish to oil; A stinking bubble tho' of late so dear, Yet now the greatest sharers stink for fear." Three. [Wanting.] Four. _Insurance on Horses._ "You that keep horses to preserve your ease, And pads to please your wives and mistresses, Insure their lives, and if they die we'll make Full satisfaction, or be bound to break." Five. _Bahama Islands._ "Rare fruitful isles, where not an ass can find A verdant tuft or thistle to his mind. How then must those poor silly asses fare, That leave their native land to settle there?" Six. _Insurance on Ships._ "In vain are all insurances,--for still The raging winds must answer heaven's hill; To what wise purpose do we then insure, Since some must lose whate'er the sea devour?" Seven. _Rock-salt._ "You that are willing to preserve your meat In winter savoury, and in summer sweet, Encourage this salt project, and your coin Will turn to some account--at least to brine." Eight. _Settling Colonies in Acadia, N. America._ "He that is rich and wants to fool away A good round sum in North America, Let him subscribe himself a headlong sharer, And asses' ears shall honour him or bearer." Nine. _Pennsylvanian Company._ "Come all ye saints that would for little buy Great tracts of land, and care not where they lie, Deal with your Quaking friends, they're men of light; The spirit hates deceit, and scorns to bite." Ten. _Purchasing Estates illegally detained._ "You that have dormant titles to estates, Piled on your closet shelves to feed the rats, Sell them to us, we'll gratify your spite, And plague the rogues that roil you of your right." Knave. _Coral Fishery._ "Coral, that beauteous product only found Beneath the water and above the ground, If fish'd for as it ought, from thence might spring A Neptune's palace for a British king." Queen. _Furnishing Funerals to all Parts of Great Britain._ "Come all ye sickly mortals, die apace, And solemn pomps your funerals shall grace; Old rusty hackneys still attend each hearse, And scarecrows in black gowns complete the farce." King. _Temple Mills._ "By these old mills strange wonders have been done, Numbers have suffer'd, yet they still work on; Then tell us, which have done the greater ills, The Temple lawyers, or the Temple Mills?" JNO. SUDLOW. BIRTHPLACE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.