ParnaJJicin Loom.
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G.
5kakespear’s Seven Ages of Man.
Tune—In a Forejt here bardby.
O.
'UR immortal poct't
Says all the world's a Aage:
And that men with all thsir airs,
Are nothing more than players ;
VIHiere dich tries by comic art.
In his turn to play his part:
All to keep up the farcical feene O !
Enter hcrt.
Exit there;
Stand in view^
Mind your cue :
Hey doW) ho down, derry, deny down, all to fill up the
feene, O.
Firft the infant in the lap,
Moling, puting, for its pap ;
Like a chicken that we trufs.
He’s fo fwaddled by his nurfe ;
Who to pleafe the puppet tries,
As'he gig?les and he cries ;
All to keep up the farcical feene O !
Hu(h a bye !
Wijjean eye j
Kifly petty.
Such a teity.
Hey down, dic
VT #
"Next the petty child of grace.
With a Ih'ning morning face.
With a fatchelon his back.
To fchool, alas muft pack:
But like a fnail he creeps.
As o’er his talk he weeps,
All to keep up the farcical feene O !
Book mi (laid.
Truant play’d j
Rod in pickle.
Bum to tickle.
Hey down, dec.
Next the lover then appears,
Soueed ever herd and ea.s ;
Like lobA^rrs on the fire.
Sighing n ady to expire :
With a lo p-holc tVroogh Iiis heart,
Ycumay through it drive a cart.
Ail CO keep up the farcical feens O 1
Bcaury fpurns Mm,
Padiun burns him ;
Like a wizard.
Cuts bis gizzard.
Hey down, Ac*
Then the foldier, ripe for plunder.
Breathing flaughttr, blood, and thunder }
Like a cat among the mice,
Kicks a duA up in a trice)
Talks of blood and Artaming veins.
Shatter'd limbs and fcatter’d brains.
All to fin up the farcical feene O *
Run to fly.
Fight or die j
Helter fkelter.
Pop and pelter.
Hey. down, &c.
Then a juftice In hts chair,
With a broad and vacant flare;
With a .wig of formal cut.
And belly bke a butt;
Well lin’d with turtle hafh,
Callipee and callipafh.
All to fill up the farcical feene O !
Pimp or cull.
Bawd or trull.
At his nod.
Go to quod.
Hey down, Ac.
Next thefKpper'd pantaloon.
In life’s dull afternoon ;
Shrunk (hank in youthful hofe.
And fpedacles on nofe j
His voice, once big and round.
Mow whiftles in its found :
All to fill up the farcical feene O !
* Vigour fpent.
Body bent;
ShAing noddle,~«
Widdle waddl*.
Hey down, Ac.
But the lafi ad of the ^ay.
Second childhood leads the way.
And like fl»eq> that take the vot.
All our fenfes go to pot:
Then death among us fweeps.
And fo down the curtain, the curtain drops*
All to fill up the farcicH feene O !
Laid in ground,
Theglafs goes round;
And Vicar and Mofes,
Toafl then-nofes.
/ Hey down, Ac*
ANECDOTE
0/ the celebrated Mr. HOGARTH.
FEW months,before this ingc-
_ nius artift was feized with the
malady which deprived fociety of one
of its moft diftinguidied ornaments, he
propiofed to his matchlefs pencil the
work he has entitled a TathPiece.
The firft idea of which is faid to have
been ftarted in company,' while the
convivial glafs was circulating round
his own table. “ My next under
taking (faid Hogarth) (hall be the end
of all things.” If that is the cafe, re
plied one of his friends, your bufinefs
will be finiflied, for there will be an
end of the painter. “ There will fo,”
anfwered Hogarth, fighing heavily,
and therefore the fooner my work
is done the better.” Accordingly he
began the next day, and continued his
defign with a diligence that Teemed to
indicate an apprehenfion (as the re
port goes) he (hauld not live till he had
liniftied it. This, however, he did in
the moft ingenius manner, by group
ing every thing that could denote the
end of all things—a broken bottle—^an
old broom worn to the ftump—the
butt end of an old mu(ket~a cracked
bell—a how unftrung—a crown tum
bled in pieces—towers in ruins—the
fign-pofts of a tavern, called the world’s
end, tumbling—the moon in her wane
—the map of the globe burning—
gibbet falling, the body gone, and the
chains which held it dropping down—
Phoebus and his horfes dead in the
clouds—a velTel wrecked—Time with
his hour-glafs and (cythe broken—a
tobacco-pipe in his mouth, the laft
whiff of fmoke out—a play-book
opened, with exeunt omnes (tamped in
the corner—an empty purfe—and a
ftatutc of bankruptcy taken out againft
nature. “ So farfo good,”cryed Ho
garth ; ‘‘ nothing ^remains but this,”
taking his pencil in a fort of prophetic
fury, and da(hing off the (imilitude of
a painter’s pallat, broken. “ Finis*'
exclaimed Hogarth ; “the deed is
done—ail is over 1” It is a very re
markable f;a£t, and Jittle known,^ per
haps, that he di^ in about a month^
after finilhing this tail-piece j and it is
never agairf took" the
pallat in hand, to the infinite lofs of
fociety. .
iake him for all in alii
Wt may not l^ok upon bis like again.
C(
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To he Sold cheapo
And on very cafy terms, the fol
lowing valuable
L A N D S
Lying between ten and twenty miles
. from Wilmington.
CMITHFIELD, fituate on both fidci
O 0f the North Wefl, between Blue Banks and Drury Alb n’s
containing, 1200 acres of land, about 400 whereof are very lick
fwamp, part of which is cleared, the reminder is vtU-timherU
The high fwamp fit for com or indigo, extends 25 chains back
from the river, which is nocommon In that neighbourhood ; and
part of the lower fwamp may be overflowed with great cafe,by a
never-failing ftream, upon vvhich is juft fiolfhed an excecdir.e
good SAW-MILL, very near the river ■ There are hami-
fome fituations for fettlements, between the mill and therivtr
on good com land. *
BLUE BANKS, fituate on
both (Ides of the river, below Smithfield, containing 1331 acres
of land, 410 whereof is rich fwamp, about 130 acres being
cleared, of which So acres may be watered, at any time, with
great eafe. The remainder fit for corn or indigo The un
cleared fwamp contains a vaft body cf cyprefs timber, and the
high land has two dreams fit forgriflmills, running rhroonh it •
between a and 300 acres are cleared, part cf it being verv" ^ood
com land. There is a DWELLING-HOUSE, centaimn- ,
hall, parlour, lour chambers and three clofrts, a kitcljen, ftabie,
and large b;ick bam.' The beauty and healthinefr of this place
|S too well known to require further dercriptiuo.
BELLE FONT, fituate on both
fides of the North-Weft, joining and below Blue Eanks, being
one of the beft high fwamp plantations on tha fivw.;-: it con
tains about 3000 acres of land, *00 acres whereof the beft
fwamp, about 100 acres being cleared, moft of which can be
watered by a ftroam ifToing out of the highland, which is like-
wife capable of fopplying a fniall grift-mill. There are on the
premifes, a BRlCKrHoufe, containing four rooms, a kitchen
bam, and other neceflary out buildings. *
One thoufand acres of laud on the
waters of Livtngfton creek, containing' fo.ne good rice land, and
a quantity of Tcry fine corpentina trees. The range for ftock ex
cellent.
A fmall piece of land lying on Rat-
tle-Snake Branch, near the North-Weft road, in an adTanUgeoct
ftand for a tavern, containing 200 acres.
A piece of land on the North-Eall
fide of Black^River, in the neighbourhood of MautH v’s p Int,
part of which is tide fwamp, or meadow j the whole con
taining 200 acres.
A tra5t joining and below thelaft-
mmioned, formerly patented to Janies Colfon ; moft of this is
prime tide fwamp and cane meadow. The high land litu^-e in
a remarkable fine range. It eontqias of high and low land, about
1000 acre..
APPLEBY, adjoining the
above, containing inthe whole S66 acres, 546 ac'rs hdng eood
tide cane meadow and rich (wamp, 30 acres complrteiy ditched
rouno, and 45 acres neariy firiiftlcd 5 on the high lard, ^- lich is
fituate in a fine range, is a very pretty and healthy fituatioa for
a fettlemcnt.**
V »'
An Idand of tide fwamp, lying op-
polite to the laft-nientioncd trafls, containing 276 acres.
A piece of land on the North -Eaft
part of which is tide cane meadow, containiitg, by dved,
100 acres.
A piece adjoining and below the
lad-mentioned, moft of which is tide fwamp and cane meadow,
containing, by patent, 320 acres.
Another piece between the laft and
that valuable body of rich fwamp, called the. Cat-Fifh land*
containing anout 200 acres.
The fert’lity, timber, (ituation of
thefe lands on navigable waters, between Wilmington and
Fayette-Ville, which will probably In a (hert time become tl's
capital of the ftate, make them definble pofleillons for prefjnt
profit, and afford certain aflTurances of their becoming extrc.ntly
valuable at a period not very diftant.—~—Approved old bonds,
ofpecially of the late Mr. Dry’s or Capt. Rowan's, and any
debts of the fubferiber, will be allowed iu part inymenc ) and
any perfon purchafing tlie whole, (hall have ihcna a very jrea»
bargain.
For further particulars, apply to
BENJAMIN SMITH.
Btividerc, Joljr 2, 178I. ig 20121*.
TO BE LET,
The BRICK HOUSE, TAVERN,
FERRIES, oppofite Wilmington.
Three good Carpenters, a Shoe-
-00*1 Bricklayer, that have lerved their apprenticeihipsia
Charlefton, to be hired out to any perfons who will ufe thco*
proporly, aod pay punduaily.
Apply as above.
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