Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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Written on Foote, the Mimic and Dramatist, who, several years before his death, lost one of his nether Limbs.
Here a pickled rogue lies whom we could not preserve,Though his pickle was true Attic Salt;
One Foote was his name, and one leg did him serve,
Though his wit was known never to halt:
A most precious limb and a rare precious pate,
With one limb taken off for wise ends;
Yet the hobbler, in spite of the hitch in his gait,
Never fail'd to take off his best friends:
Taking off friends and foes, both in manner and voice,
Was his practice for pastime or pelf;
For which, 'twere no wonder, if both should rejoice
At the day when he Took off Himself!
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