The Works of Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot] ... With a Copious Index. To which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. In Four Volumes |
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For that Piozzi's wife, sir John, exhort her,
To draw her immortality from porter;
Give up her anecdotical inditing,
And study housewifery instead of writing:
Bid her a poor biography suspend;
Nor crucify through vanity, a friend.—
I know no business women have with learning;
I scorn, I hate the mole-ey'd half discerning;
Their wit but serves a husband's heart to rack;
And make eternal horsewhips for his back.
To draw her immortality from porter;
Give up her anecdotical inditing,
And study housewifery instead of writing:
Bid her a poor biography suspend;
Nor crucify through vanity, a friend.—
I know no business women have with learning;
I scorn, I hate the mole-ey'd half discerning;
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And make eternal horsewhips for his back.
| The Works of Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot] | |