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… tuneful lay, Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine, And sweetly flow through all the Royal Line. P. Alas! few verses touch their nicer ear; They scarce can bear their Laureate twice a year: [35] And justly Caesar scorns the Poet's lays, … Abuse the City's best good men in metre, [40] And laugh at Peers that put their trust in Peter. Ev'n those you touch not, hate you.        P. What should ail 'em? F. A hundred smart in Timon and in Balaam: The fewer still you name, … let Jove incrust [75] Swords, pikes, and guns, with everlasting rust! Peace is my dear delight -- not Fleury's more: But touch me, and no Minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, [80] …

… speaker dearly loves to oppose, In contact inconvenient, nose to nose, As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz, Touch'd with the magnet, had attracted his. His whisper'd theme, dilated and at large, Proves after all a wind-gun's airy … but without the fees; Relate how many weeks they kept their bed, How an emetic or cathartic sped; Nothing is slightly touch'd, much less forgot, Nose, ears and eyes, seem present on the spot. Now the distemper, spite of draught or pill, … they must have died, they were so bad: Their peevish hearers almost wish they had. Some fretful tempers wince at every touch, You always do too little or too much: You speak with life, in hopes to entertain, Your elevated voice goes through …

… that Women, whether out of a nicer Regard to their Honour, or what other Reason I cannot tell, are more sensibly touched with those general Aspersions, which are cast upon their Sex, than Men are by what is said of theirs. When she … she was with Child by him: But he only made use of that Information, to rise in his Demands upon the Purchaser. I was so touch'd with this Story, (which I think should be always a Counterpart to the Ephesian Matron) that I left the Room with …

… and he was told how much worse I had been: for I had fainted away more than once. I think the contents of it have touched my head as well as my heart. He would fain have seen it. But I would not permit that, because of the threatenings …

… figure among the French to the beautiful of either kind, which he represents as the symbol of capering, with the knees touching, and the ankles a foot and a half distant from one another, with a broad codebeck, an immense peruke, and an old …