The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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Methinks I hear Josephus cry:
“What if he did! so will not I;”
For of a much superior quality
To Neb's is Joe's brutality:
Unchang'd, and vegetable proof
As any Beast's that wears a hoof.
Sev'n years, and three times sev'n beside,
Has Joe abjur'd roast, boil'd and fried:
But vegetation nought supplies
Of pow'r the Churl to humanize:
Whether he writes, or quotes, or prates,
Still heart of Brute predominates.—
And will no Leech in all the land
This Essay-writer take in hand?
Help W---s, S---nds, help M---oe,
Sure you can make a cure of Joe!
Try with choice nostrums, each old woman,
If you can make the Monster human!
Your ghostly counsel give, each priest,
To change the nature of the Beast!
“What if he did! so will not I;”
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To Neb's is Joe's brutality:
Unchang'd, and vegetable proof
As any Beast's that wears a hoof.
Sev'n years, and three times sev'n beside,
Has Joe abjur'd roast, boil'd and fried:
But vegetation nought supplies
Of pow'r the Churl to humanize:
Whether he writes, or quotes, or prates,
Still heart of Brute predominates.—
And will no Leech in all the land
This Essay-writer take in hand?
Help W---s, S---nds, help M---oe,
Sure you can make a cure of Joe!
Try with choice nostrums, each old woman,
If you can make the Monster human!
Your ghostly counsel give, each priest,
To change the nature of the Beast!
Can none of you amend his nature?
Then I'll invoke the Legislature:
(He's foil'd the sage of either sex;—)
“Tolle Josephum Carnifex!”
Then I'll invoke the Legislature:
(He's foil'd the sage of either sex;—)
“Tolle Josephum Carnifex!”
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