CYRIAC, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounc'd, and in his volumes taught our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench; To day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench _In mirth, that after no repenting draws:_ Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intends, and what the French. To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Toward solid good what leads the nearest way; For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, _And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day And when God sends a cheerful hour refrains._ _Thou canst cure the body and the mind, Rare Doctor, with thy two-fold soundest art; Hippocrates hath taught thee the one kind, Apollo and the Muse the other part; And both so well that thou well both dost please, The mind with pleasure, and the corpse with ease._ DAVIES OF HEREFORD. FRAGMENTS TO THE DOCTOR. A LOVE FRAGMENT FOR THE LADIES,—INTRODUCED BY A CURIOUS INCIDENT WHICH THE AUTHOR BEGS THEY WILL EXCUSE. Now will ye list a little space, And I shall send you to solace; You to solace and be blyth, Hearken! ye shall hear belyve A tale that is of verity. ROSWALL AND LILLIAN. A story was told me with an assurance that it was literally true, of a Gentleman who being in want of a wife, advertised for one, and at the place and time appointed was met by a Lady. Their stations in life entitled them to be so called, and the Gentleman as well as the Lady was in earnest. He however unluckily seemed to be of the same opinion as King Pedro was with regard to his wife Queen Mary of Aragon, that she was not so handsome as she might be good, so the meeting ended in their mutual disappointment. Cœlebs advertised a second time, appointing a different Square for the place of meeting, and varying the words of the advertisement. He met the same Lady,—they recognized each other, could not chuse but smile at the recognition, and perhaps neither of them could chuse but sigh. You will anticipate the event. The persevering Batchelor tried his lot a third time in the newspapers, and at the third place of appointment he met the equally persevering Spinster. At this meeting neither could help laughing. They began to converse in good humour, and the conversation became so agreeable on both sides, and the circumstance appeared so remarkable, that this third interview led to a marriage, and the marriage proved a happy one.