Imprimis, then, for tallness, I
  Am five feet four inches high;
  A black-a-vic’d, snod, dapper fallow,
  Nor lean, nor overlaid wi’ tallow;
  Wi’ phiz of a Morocco cut,
  Resembling a late man of wit,
  Auld gabbet Spec, wha was sae cunning,
  To be a dummie ten years running. 
  Then for the fabric of my mind,
  ’Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin’d: 
  I rather choose to laugh at folly,
  Than shew dislike by melancholy;
  Weel judging a sour heavy face
  Is not the truest mark of grace. 
  I hate a drunkard or a glutton,
  Yet I’m nae fae to wine and mutton: 
  Great tables ne’er engaged my wishes
  When crowded with o’er mony dishes;
  A healthfu’ stomach sharply set
  Prefers a back-sey pipin het. 
  I never could imagine ’t vicious
  Of a fair fame to be ambitious: 
  Proud to be thought a comic poet, }
  And let a judge of numbers know it, }
  I court occasion thus to show it. }
  Second of thirdly—­Pray take heed,
  Ye’s get a short swatch of my creed. 
  To follow method negatively,
  Ye ken takes place of positively: 
  Weel then, I’m neither Whig nor Tory,
  Nor credit give to purgatory. 
  Frae twenty-four to five-and-forty,
  My muse was neither sweer nor dorty,
  My Pegasus would break his tether,
  E’en at the shagging of a feather,
  And through ideas scour like drift,
  Streaking his wings up to the lift;
  Then, then my soul was in a low,
  That gart my members safely row;
  But eild and judgment ’gin to say,
  Let be your sangs, and learn to pray.

I.S.W.

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ESPRIT DE CORPS.

    Old Captain Humdrum,
    Being sent home in rum,
  The tars as they brought him on shore,
    Got drunk with the pickle: 
    “’Tis natural,” says Jekyll,
  “They should all feel the Esprit de Corps.”

Weekly Review.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE

Following Novels are already Published: 

s. d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling              0         6
Paul and Virginia                       0         6
The Castle of Otranto                   0         6
Almoran and Hamet                       0         6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia     0         6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne      0         6
Rasselas                                0         8
The Old English Baron                   0         8
Nature and Art                          0         8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield          0        10
Sicilian Romance                        1         0
The Man of the World                    1         0
A Simple Story                          1         4
Joseph Andrews                          1         6