The Yahoo; a satirical rhapsody ...

40 THE YAHOO: T'hat sublunary pleasures tend to evil,* And lead baclksliding sinners to the Devil? Hence Holy-Bible grubbers quail and quake, Scared at the "' wrath to come," and " fiery lake;'9 Hence saints have all such sad Good-Friday faces Peepers turn'd up, long jaws, and queer grimaces: If singilng psalmus with godly spunlk o'erflowing, They sinrg as if they to the DRoP were going. (Whether the Lord loves music there's no saying, But sure he can not love such asses' braying! Such lullabies, tho' meant to compliment him, Anrd to his " praise and glory" must torment him; When their vile snuffling, dismal strains he hears No doubt in haste he buttons up his ears.)t All day by old Scratch haunted, in a fright They go to bed, and dream of hell at night. The " sinfulness of sin" so much prevails,T They think the Devil's always at their tails.~ * " hen pleasure's seized, compute your mi'hty gains' AWV hat is it but rank poison in your veins? " —YoeGy's Satires. - So sings this sanctified, wo-stricken soIn of the Church, wbIho, uldei thle hoeaviest denunciations agaitlst; worldly pleasures, atnd the sin of paarticipatino in them, hunted aftedr "Jilty lucre," and the " mainmon of unrlliol'teousness," with the greediness of a dragon. See a curious letter of the Rev. Doctor's, in the whiring way to Lady Suffolk, (when Mrs. Hownrd,) in The JTdi'rror, No. IS: anld also his toad-eating blarney to Silly Bub,:' Sir Robelrty Walpole, the Duke of Dorset, &c., &e., in his Satires and Dedications. ~ "And yet hoiw niany a voice, and pipe, and chord, Bray to tlhe praise and glory of the Lord! How mrerlciftll is Heaven to bear sucl pother, And not knock one thick skull against the other!" P. Pizaer.: A favorite expression of the 5lawworn tribe. ~ "A look of horror spread all o'er'em, Ae if they saw hell-fire beforae'em; And Satan with a sal)le pack Of long-tai'ed devils at his back, Reedy with pitchlforlks to begin To pusll'ela 11ll by dozens in."-iroaer Bua'lesq'eecl. " IBlul)b Doddington, it is said, complained of his Christian naane to Locrd Chesterfield, rwho advised him to prefix Silly to it.