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The TOASTERS.

While circling healths inspire your sprightly wit,
And on each glass some beauty's praise is writ,
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You ask, my friends, how can my silent muse
To Montagu's soft name a verse refuse?
Bright though she be, of race victorious sprung,
By wits ador'd, and by court-poets sung,
Unmov'd I hear her person call'd divine,
I see her features uninspiring shine;
A softer fair my soul to transport warms,
And, she once nam'd, no other nymph has charms.
1709.
 

Mary dutchess of Montagu, (born in 1689,) youngest daughter of John Duke of Marlborough, and mother to the present dutchess of Montagu.

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