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Poem by William Shenstone


The Invidious


Martial.

O Fortune! if my prayer of old
Was ne'er solicitous for gold,
With better grace thou may'st allow
My suppliant wish, that asks it now:
Yet think not, Goddess! I require it
For the same end your clowns desire it.
In a well made effectual string
Fain would I see Lovidio swing;
Hear him, from Tyburn's height haranguing;
But such a cur's not worth one's hanging.
Give me, O Goddess! store of pelf,
And he will tie the knot himself.



William Shenstone


William Shenstone's other poems:
  1. The Judgement of Hercules
  2. The Schoolmistress
  3. Elegy 25. To Delia, with Some Flowers
  4. The School-Mistress
  5. Charms of Precedence


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