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Pædants
An Elephant['s] Proboscis is a Paw
That serv's him, to lay hold, and Pul, and draw.
That serv's him, to lay hold, and Pul, and draw.
For when the Comment Creeps into the Texts
No Critique such a Desprat Flaw Corrects.
No Critique such a Desprat Flaw Corrects.
An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips
And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes
And when the Poor Delinquent cannot Pearce
Apply[s] his services to Madam ------
And, haveing had his Solace for a while,
Waytes till his Happy Stars againe shall smile.
And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes
And when the Poor Delinquent cannot Pearce
Apply[s] his services to Madam ------
And, haveing had his Solace for a while,
Waytes till his Happy Stars againe shall smile.
Are unconcernd in Insides of their Books
As some unsight unseen buy Pigs in Pokes
And German Authors usd to set a Price
Upon their works, according to the Size.
As some unsight unseen buy Pigs in Pokes
And German Authors usd to set a Price
Upon their works, according to the Size.
When all his Study is t' appeare at once
To Idiots Learnd, and to the Learnd a Dunce.
To Idiots Learnd, and to the Learnd a Dunce.
That most unnaturally forcd their Brain
In all they undertake against the Grain,
As Carts draw Horses down the Steepest Hils
Tho with their Natral Legs tyd up their wheels.
In all they undertake against the Grain,
As Carts draw Horses down the Steepest Hils
Tho with their Natral Legs tyd up their wheels.
For evry Language has an Idiom,
That's only Graceful when it is at Home.
Yet Pædants falsly think, it never Pleases
So fully, as in Forraine Modes, and Dresses.
That's only Graceful when it is at Home.
Yet Pædants falsly think, it never Pleases
So fully, as in Forraine Modes, and Dresses.
The many Inconveniences they Run,
Between their Tutors folly, and their own:
Has been the Cause, That greater Stores of Fooles
Have not been Changd i' th' Cradle then the Schools.
That Breed up youth to expiate the Curse,
Prepostrously, by making of it worse;
Take Paines to Reconcyle those Languages
That first had been Divided, for its Ease.
Between their Tutors folly, and their own:
Has been the Cause, That greater Stores of Fooles
Have not been Changd i' th' Cradle then the Schools.
That Breed up youth to expiate the Curse,
Prepostrously, by making of it worse;
Take Paines to Reconcyle those Languages
That first had been Divided, for its Ease.
For Jesuites are the Regularest Pædants
Bred, all their Lives, like Schoolboys, in Obedience
And Dare not own a word of Truth, or Reason
Unles it be Prescribd 'em for a Lesson.
Bred, all their Lives, like Schoolboys, in Obedience
And Dare not own a word of Truth, or Reason
Unles it be Prescribd 'em for a Lesson.
Some use to write a Treatise in a Letter
With half a Reame of Paper in't and Better,
Enough to Fill the Largest Pacquet-male[s]
That ere were sent to th' Jesuits-Generals.
With half a Reame of Paper in't and Better,
Enough to Fill the Largest Pacquet-male[s]
That ere were sent to th' Jesuits-Generals.
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Northern Pædagogues
Are brought to their Perfection, by the Lugs,
As Large as Hounds to Keep their Hearing Close
From Hindring, and Diverting of the Nose.
Are brought to their Perfection, by the Lugs,
As Large as Hounds to Keep their Hearing Close
From Hindring, and Diverting of the Nose.
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