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ON THE

COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH*

MAKING THE CAMPAIGN.

WITH George, what hero can compare,
Or who like him a sword can wield;

That dares protect his fav'rite fair,

Amid'st the thunder of the field?

* Amelia Sophia, Countess of Yarmouth, Mistress of George II., who left her a strong box, not to be opened but by her. She was wife of the Baron of Walmoole; and was created Countess of Yarmouth. She had a son by the king, who went by the name of Monsieur Louis; but was not owned.

The Countess of Yarmouth was inoffensive, and attentive only to please the king, and selling Peerages whenever she had an opportunity.-W.

The Countess touched twelve thousand for Sir Jacob Bouverie's coronet.-W.

To Lady Yarmouth a cabinet, with contents, which they call a £.12,000.-W.

The god of war out done we see; In action Venus he dismiss'd, Till he had made his foe to flee, Then slyly after battle kiss'd. But George, to love and war allied, Both deities at once admires;

And swelling big with Martial pride, By Love allays his glowing fires.

A Poetical Epistle,

FROM A GREAT MAN IN THE ARMY,

AFTER THE

BATTLE OF DETTINGEN.

THE King, save his Grace,

Is in very good case,

Tho' scorch'd by the heat of the fire;

For all the long day,

He heard the guns play,

But would never-no never-retire.

His highness the Duke,*
Whose leg a ball took,

* Duke of Cumberland.

But did no great harm to the calf;

Is so frolic and cheary,

So pleasant and airy,

The youngster doth nothing but laugh.

So many fine clothes,

We've got from French beaus,

That I've chang'd my blue coat for a better;

From a cottage wrote I,

With Neiperg close by,

And "Bumper, 'squire Jones" in my letter.

For of the late fight,

In faith I can't write,

Because I know nought of the matter:

But in one or two days,

I'll find out some ways,

To make of it a damnable clatter.

P.S. But stay, my good Lord,

By your leave, a small word,

Of the guns which we brought from Hanover;*

Without their assistance,

What's English resistance?

With us, before God, 'twas all over.

* Earl Stair was so disgusted at the preference and partiality shown to the Hanoverians, that he resigned his com.. mand.-W.

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