 | The miscellaneous works (1813) |  |
EPITAPH:
ON MICHAEL VERINO, THE FLORENTINE POET,
WHO PREFERRED DEATH TO MARRIAGE, WHICH HAD BEEN ADVISED BY HIS PHYSICIANS.
Sola Venus poterat lento succurrere morbo:
Ne se polluerit malluit ille mori.
Politian.
Ne se polluerit malluit ille mori.
Politian.
EPIGRAMATIZED.
Poor Michael pines—a wife the Wigs advise:
A Wife!—a Wife!—ah Heaven forbid! he cries.
Bleed, blister, vomit, purge away my life,
But save me, Doctors, save me from a Wife.
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