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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A HASTY BOLT-SHOT,
At a theatrical Gramacier and Buffoon whose Name was F---SH---M, and who, at York, for many Years, was pronounced by the enlightened Audience of that City, to be an Actor superior to GARRICK both in Tragedy and Comedy.
When Garrick the Buskin and Sock did assume,
He was both in the grave and the gay Thing,
So happily fitted for Mirth and for Gloom,
That Nature might call him her Plaything!
He was both in the grave and the gay Thing,
So happily fitted for Mirth and for Gloom,
That Nature might call him her Plaything!
But this Lusus Naturæ, who proudly would shrink,
In the Trammels of Garrick to trudge,
Is to Nature allied, by the same Sort of Link,
As the Hangman's allied to the Judge:—
In the Trammels of Garrick to trudge,
Is to Nature allied, by the same Sort of Link,
As the Hangman's allied to the Judge:—
For Garrick's bright Strokes from Beholders could fetch
By Turns, Tears and Smiles in Profusion;
While the Strokes of this Skip-Jack like those of Jack Ketch,
Are, at best, but a vile Execution!
By Turns, Tears and Smiles in Profusion;
While the Strokes of this Skip-Jack like those of Jack Ketch,
Are, at best, but a vile Execution!
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