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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763 Excerpt: ...it, Mr. Pasquin. My Grand-dame had Gallants by Twenties, And bore my Mother by a Prentice. This, when my Grandsije knew; they tell us he, In Cbrist-Church cut his Throat for Jealousy, And, since the Alderman was mad yqu say? Then, I must be so too, ex traduce A gnat Bottle of Wfai, limg buries being that Daf dug up. Written about the Year, 1722. RE S OL V' D my annual Verse to pay, By Duty bound, on Stella's Day FurnishM with Paper, Pens,-and Ink, I gravely fat me down to think: I bit my Nails, and fcratch'd my Head, But found my Wit, and Eancy fled: Or, if with more than usual Pairii A Thought came slowly from my Brain, Jt cost me, Lord knows, how much Time To shape it into Sfenseand Rhyme: And, what was yet a greater Curse, Long-thinking made my Fancy worse,V f Forsaken by th' inspiring Nine, I waited at Apollo's, Shrine; I told him what the World would fay Stella were unsung To-day; How How I should hide my Head for Shame, When both the Jacks and Robin came How Ford would frown, how Jim would leer; How Sheridan the Rogue would sneer: And swear it does not always follow, That Semel'n anno ridet Apollox I have assurd them twenty Times, That Phœbus help'-d m,e in my Rhymes Pbœbus inspir'd me from above, And He and were Hand and Glpve But finding me so dull and dry since, They'll call t all poetick Licence: And when I brag of Aid Divine, Think Eusden's Right as good as tflihet Nor do I alk for Stella's Sake: 'TIs my own Credit lies at Stake And Stella will be fung, while ' Can pnly be a Standcr-by. APOLLO, having thought a little, Return'd this Answer to a Tittle. Though you should live like old Methufalem, I fofnish-Hints, and you-shottld ufe $11 'em-% You yearly sing as she grows old, You'd leave her Virtues half untold; Put to fay Truth, such Du...
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