Durgen Or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist. Amicably Inscrib'd, by the Author, to those Worthy and Ingenious Gentlemen misrepresented in a late invective Poem, call'd, The Dunciad [by Edward Ward] |
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By fath'ring what your trusty Friends have writ;
Their kind Assistance won you early Praise,
And warm'd your Courage to attempt the Bays;
Till your own rashness did untimely blast,
The blooming Fame of all your Labours past,
And forc'd your injur'd Friends to reassume
Their own, and strip their Howlet of his Plume.
So fares the servile Lass in borrow'd Clothes,
Rig'd out by some Old Bawd, to cheat the Beaus,
Till p---d, and too well known to e'ery Rake,
Then gives her costly Silks and Sattens back,
Puts on her broken Hoop, her tatter'd Gown,
And so turns common to the vicious Town.
Take care your epick Muse, so bold of late,
Falls not beneath as scandalous a fate,
And, punish'd with contempt, be forc'd to hide
In lofty Mansion, to the Clouds alli'd,
There, in dull Scandal, gratify her Spleen,
And drudge for pay, unheard of and unseen.
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