_Sketched in the year of the world,_ 5831; _and, of my bachelorship_, 24.
(_For the Mirror._)
Chaste, as the icicle,
That's curded by the frost from purer snow,
And hangs on Dian's temple; Dear--_old maid_.
SHAKSPEARE'S _Coriolanus_.
Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,
Vel Pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,
Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundum,
Ante, pudor, quam te violem, aut tua jure resolvam.