The New Hampshire Gazette

AN ADDRESS

TO THE FARMERS.

Say your utmost wishes great
Be your crops of corn and wheat
Turnips and potatoes growing
In profusion, all o'erflowing :
Horses in full vigor neighing.
Cows and bullocks monstrous weighing:
Shelves with ponderous cheeses bending
Firkins with pack'd butter rending.
Blith Contentment's dulcet note
All around your dwelling float.

TO THE MERCHANTS.

Ye that deal in silks and sattins,
Shoes, galoshes, tips and pattens;
Lace and muslins, cloth and linen,
Gloves and hose, for men and women
Rum and sugar, rice and brandy,
Frying pans and gridirons handy ;
Prosper still in all you do ;
Richer, and yet richer grow.

TO THE LADIES.

Gentle, loving, lovely sex,
Whom no boisterous passions vex;
Take our homage in good part
Warm and honest from the heart.
Unexperienced as we are,
We can see that you are fair ;
And may often find it duty's
Low to bow and reverence beauty.

TO THE LAWYERS

You, from others brawls and Strife
Reap a quiet peaceful life :
Bread and butter, corn, and peas,
Growing out of writs and pleas :
Pork and beef fly to their stations,
At command of declarations :
While demurrers devious course,
Keeps the chaise, and feeds the horse.

TO THE PHYSICIANS.

What is power ! what is wealth !
Rest of joy-inspiring health !
Whether with fam'd colloguida
You attack us bonafide,
Or with gentle Spanish fly
Neck, or back, or shoulders fry,
Sweet emetic's cascades pouring,
Or belov'd cathartic's scourging.
All is well so lovely ease,
Comes at last with lovelier fees.

To all other respectable CITIZENS.

Love to you my worthy betters ;
Love to science, and to letters :
And to take it at a jump,
Love to mankind in the lump.

A MAXIM.

THIS maxim long the ancients knew
" Pay ev'ry man his honest due,"
To this if some would now aspire,
And pay the labourer off his hire ;
Twould energy and strength impart,
While gratitude warm from the heart,
Should flow tho' in the storms of winter,
From whom ?- Enquire of the Printer.