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 Fool's last Bolt we thus let fly]
The Fool's last Bolt we thus let fly,And Cap and Bells we now throw by;—
Yet, Reader, if more pleas'd than pall'd,
With what the Witling here hath scrawl'd;
When meeting with fastidious Flats,
Who Camels gulp and strain at Gnats;
Nor draw the Line 'twixt Haste and Leisure,
But whipt up Froth will poize and measure;
While, Lingo like, with Latin Varnish,
Their grave Stultiloquence they garnish;—
“In Length,’ should Cavil cry, 'tis Brevis,”
“In Weight,’ should Carp reply, 'tis Levis,”
Tell them, “the Stuff, for killing Time is,
“Just Quantum suff---et ne quid nimis,”—
While grac'd with Jingle, the last Line is,
And, to confirm it,—Vide—FINIS.
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