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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THE WIT OF THE DEAD A HINT FOR THE LIVING. |
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THE WIT OF THE DEAD A HINT FOR THE LIVING.
When Pitt's noble Father in Parliament sat,
Whose Discourse on all Subjects was pointed and pat,
He one Day a most flaming Philippic let fly,
At Priests, who in Pride, Peers and Commons outvie:
While their Av'rice was such, that their Country might sink
Under Foreign Attacks, e'er they'd part with their Chink.
Whose Discourse on all Subjects was pointed and pat,
He one Day a most flaming Philippic let fly,
At Priests, who in Pride, Peers and Commons outvie:
While their Av'rice was such, that their Country might sink
Under Foreign Attacks, e'er they'd part with their Chink.
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And when Beetle-brow'd W---rb---t---n, Prelate of Gl---t---r,
Sticking both Arms akimbo, in Billingsgate Posture,
Ask'd, “When he'd leave Preaching?”—Quoth Chatham, unpuzzled,
“My Lord, when, like you, with a Mitre I'm muzzled.”
Sticking both Arms akimbo, in Billingsgate Posture,
Ask'd, “When he'd leave Preaching?”—Quoth Chatham, unpuzzled,
“My Lord, when, like you, with a Mitre I'm muzzled.”
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