LITERARY ADVERTISEMENT.
Wanted—Authors of all-work, to job for the season,
No matter which party, so faithful to neither;
Good hacks, who, if pos'd for a rhyme or a reason,
Can manage, like ******, to do without either.
If in gaol, all the better for out-o'-door topics;
Your gaol is for Trav'llers a charming retreat;
They can take a day's rule for a trip to the Tropics,
And sail round the world, at their ease, in the Fleet.
For a Dramatist, too, the most useful of schools—
He can study high life in the King's Bench community;
Aristotle could scarce keep him more within rules,
And of place he, at least, must adhere to the unity.
Any lady or gentleman, come to an age
To have good “Reminiscences” (three-score or higher),
Will meet with encouragement—so much, per page,
And the spelling and grammar both found by the buyer.
No matter with what their remembrance is stock'd,
So they'll only remember the quantum desir'd;—
Enough to fill handsomely Two Volumes, oct.,
Price twenty-four shillings, is all that's requir'd.
They may treat us, like Kelly, with old jeu-d'esprits,
Like Dibdin, may tell of each farcical frolic;
Or kindly inform us, like Madame Genlis
,
That gingerbread-cakes always give them the colic.
Wanted, also, a new stock of Pamphlets on Corn,
By “Farmers” and “Landholders”—(worthies whose lands
Enclos'd all in bow-pots, their attics adorn,
Or, whose share of the soil may be seen on their hands).
No-Popery Sermons, in ever so dull a vein,
Sure of a market;—should they, too, who pen 'em,
Be renegade Papists, like Murtagh O'S*ll*v*n
,
Something extra allow'd for the' additional venom
Funds, Physic, Corn, Poetry, Boxing, Romance,
All excellent subjects for turning a penny;—
To write upon all is an author's sole chance
For attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any.
Nine times out of ten, if his title is good,
The material within of small consequence is;—
Let him only write fine, and, if not understood,
Why—that's the concern of the reader, not his.
Nota Bene—an Essay, now printing, to show,
That Horace (as clearly as words could express it)
Was for taxing the Fund-holders, ages ago,
When he wrote thus—“Quodcunque in Fund is, assess it.”
