Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern + 

From purling Streams & the Elysian Scene, + 

From Groves, that smile with never-fading Green + 

I reascend; in Atropos’ despight + 

Restored to Celadon, & upper light: + 

Ye gods, that sway the Regions under ground, + 

Reveal to mortal View your realms profound; + 

At his command admit the eye of Day; + 

When Celadon commands, what God can disobey? + 

Nor seeks he your Tartarean fires to know, + 

The house of Torture, & th’ Abyss of Woe; + 

But happy fields & Mansions free from Pain, + 

Gay Meads, & springing flowers best please the gentle Swain: + 

That little, naked, melancholy thing + 

My Soul, when first she tryed her flight to wing; + 

Began with speed new Regions to explore, + 

And blunder’d thro’ a narrow Postern door; + 

First most devoutly having said its Prayers, + 

It tumbled down a thousand pair of Stairs, + 

Thro’ Entries long, thro’ Cellars vast & deep, + 

Where ghostly Rats their habitations keep, + 

Where Spiders spread their Webs, & owlish Goblins sleep. + 

After so many Chances had befell, + 

It came into a mead of Asphodel: + 

Betwixt the Confines of the light & dark + 

It lies, of ’Lyzium the St. James’s Park: + 

Here Spirit-Beaux flutter along the Mall, + 

And Shadows in disguise scate o’er the Iced Canal: + 

Here groves embower’d, & more sequester’d Shades, + 

Frequented by the Ghosts of Ancient Maids, + 

Are seen to rise: the melancholy Scene + 

With gloomy haunts, & twilight walks between + 

Conceals the wayward band: here spend their time + 

Greensickness Girls, that died in youthful prime, + 

Virgins forlorn, all drest in Willow-green-i + 

With Queen Elizabeth and Nicolini. + 

More to reveal, or many words to use + 

Would tire alike your patience & my muse. + 

Believe, that never was so faithful found + 

Queen Proserpine to Pluto under ground, + 

Or Cleopatra to her Mark-Antony + 

As Orozmades to his Celadony. + 

P.S. + 

Lucrece for half a crown will show you fun, + 

But Mrs. Oldfield is become a Nun. + 

Nobles & Cits, Prince Pluto & his Spouse + 

Flock to the Ghost of Covent-Garden house: + 

Plays, which were hiss’d above, below revive; + 

When dead applauded, that were damn’d alive: + 

The People, as in life, still keep their Passions, + 

But differ something from the world in Fashions. + 

Queen Artemisia breakfasts on Bohea, + 

And Alexander wears a Ramilie. + 