To the Right Honourable John Barber, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, on committing one of my Sons to his Care. Mary Barber Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG UK
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
Taylor Institution Library St Giles' Oxford OX1 3NA UK info@eighteenthcenturypoetry.org https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 pp. 225-226. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

This e-text is part of the Works section of the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA).

XML created for the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA).

Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.

Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) text-indent: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; text-align: right; text-align: left; display: inline font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;
To the Right Honourable John Barber , Esq "John Barber (1675-1741), [a] printer who corresponded with Swift. Lord Mayor of London 1732-33." (Tucker [1992], 225) ; Lord Mayor of London , on committing one of my Sons to his Care . To the late King of Britain a Savage was brought , Which wild in the Woods of Germania was caught . This Present so princely was train'd up with Care ; And knew how to eat , and to jump , and to stare ; The Beaux , and the Belles , beheld it with Joy ; And at Court the high Mode was to see the Wild Boy . Reflecting on this , with a politic View , I determin'd to send such a Present to You . In the Wilds of Hibernia this Boy was beset , And caught ( as the Natives are there ) in a Net : The Creature has Sense , and , in my Eyes , is pretty , With Talents to make a The City-Phrase for a rich Man . good Man in the City ; Industrious , and orderly , prudent , and smart , And not too much Conscience , nor too little Art ; Not scrup'lous , but honest , a Heart set on Gain , Whose highest Ambition is fix'd on the Chain . From You may he copy to wear it with Glory ; Like You , in Return — be honour'd in Story . September 29. 1733.