The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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TO THE SAME,
ON HIS CALLING TO INQUIRE AFTER THE AUTHOR'S HEALTH, WHEN CONFINED TO HIS CHAMBER WITH THE GOUT.
Soon as I heard your friendly rap,I wish'd of course from gouty lap,
To greet you with poetic scrap,
But Fancy cried, “Negatur:”
She deals in vanity, a bit,—
But never, in her vainest fit,
Could think of keeping pace in wit,
With Dickins in Good-nature.
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