To bis Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, :&c. &c. The humble Petition of Margaret Woffington, Spinster. M AY it please your Grace, with all fubmiffion, I humbly offer my petition; Let others, with as small pretenfions, Teaze you for places and for penfions; I scorn a penfion, or a place, My whole design's upon your Grace. The fum of my petition's this, I claim, my Lord, an annual kiss; A kiss, by facred custom due To me, and to be pay'd by you; But left you entertain a doubt, • I'll make my title clearly out. It was, as near as I can fix, The fourth of April, forty-fix; (With joy I recollect the day) As I was dreffing for the play, In ftepp'd your Grace, and at your back Appear'd my trusty guardian, * Mac; A fudden tremor shook my frame, Lord, how my colour went and came! At length, to cut my story short, You kiss'd me, Sir,-heav'n bless you for't. The magic touch my spirits drew Up to my lips, and out they flew; Such pain and pleasure mix'd, I vow, I felt all o'er, I don't know how. The fecret, when your Grace withdrew, Like light'ning to the Green-room flew; And plung'd the women in the spleen; The men receiv'd me for their Queen; And from that moment swore allegiance, Nay Rich himself was all obedience. Since that, your Grace has never yet Refus'd to pay the annual debt; To prove these facts, if you will have it, Old Mac will make an affidavit: If Mac's rejected as a fibber, I must appeal to Colley Cibber. ز P By good advice I hither came, To keep up my continual claim; The duty's not confin'd to place, But ev'ry-where affects your Grace; Which being perfonal on you, No Deputy, my Lord, can do. But, hold! say fome, his situation Is chang'd, confider his high station. Can station, or can titles add, To Dorset, more than Dorfet had? Let others, void of native grace, Derive faint honour from a place ; His greatness to himself he owes, Nor borrows luftre, but bestows. That's true, but still you answer wide, How can he lay his state afide ? Then think betimes, can your weak fight Support that fudden burit of light! T 1 A. Page Page A BBOT (Archbishop) a head of Bourdonnais enters Madrass 103 316 his precautions 104 Acroftic 280 manner of inventorying the Acts of Parliament for correcting the goods 105 calendar 169 - the adminiftration of the govern- 172 Algebraical questions answered 275, Bradshaw (J.) memoirs of 276 British. See Muse. 119 Buckingham (D.) head of - - letter from the Nabab 106 ib.. 170 - letter to M. Dupleix ib. expedition continued 243 313 - 33 Won 115 259 - by whom devised - 120 and rise 260 & feq. 271 Burials (Lift of) 288 C - account of 120 Calendar (Act for correcting the) 169 J character of - 121 Canterbury (Account of) 133 Anne Petrowna married to the Duke foundations in ib. of Holstein 305 Augustus, King of Poland, fupported Viscount Rochester, his marriage by the Czar P. 108 with the Countess of Effex 214 - fucce's ib. - made Earl of Somerset - allegiance fworn to him by the Carew (J.) 274 2 Poles 161 Cafpian fea, discovery of a library 303 Bankrupts (Claufes relative to) 45 Catesby, see Gun-powder. lift of 47, 95, 143, 191,239, 286 Catharine, Empress of Russia, her ori- ginał 107 - 124 Barkstead (J.) Memoirs of laws of) 145 - 257 62 45, 141, 190, 238, 285 Blackheath (Account of) - - Phyfi- - amiable character Catharine (Peter's jealoufies of) and 108 __ scheme to extricate the to bead s Cawley (W.) memoirs of 124 132 164 - 121 57 272 - 93 Change of fortune, effects on the mind (F.) inquest on the body of 237 298 Boerhaave, his description of a - novelty, effects of 299 321 Charles of Sweden, his fuccess 109 319 enters Muscovy 110 320 - his progress III - gains over the General in the 286 Ukrain 112 - miraculous escape from Pul- towa 97 Books published 47, 143, 191, 239, Bourchier (J.) memoirs of - 36 method of taking Madrass 99 reconnoitres the Black-town 113 Я эта то звоноснCharles t |