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The toast

An heroick poem: In four Books, Written originally in Latin, by Frederick Scheffer: Now done into English, and illustrated with Notes and Observations, by Peregrine Odonald [i.e. William King]

King, William (1685-1763)

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To the Most Illustrious FREDERICK SCHEFFER, Tir-Oen, of the County of Cork; Sendeth Greeting.

To the Illustrious FREDERICK SCHEFFER,

BY ------ KNAPP, Ænigmatical-Almanack Maker of the City of Cork, Upon reading the HERMAPHRODITE OF Mr. FREDERICK SCHEFFER.

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AN EXTRACT OUT OF Mr. Scheffer's first Epistle to Hgarth, a famous British Painter*.

I.

Draw the Sun without a Ray,
Rambling by a borrow'd Light,
Tippling till the Dawn of Day,
With a Collier and a Knight:
Paint his Looks, when he was roasted;
Paint the Donna, whom he toasted.

II.

Draw a Cully Chevalier,
Near a crafty, wealthy Fox;
Then a Centry-Grenadier,
With a C---tess in his Box.
Shew the Bottle-maker's Gear;
And his Trulla with a P---x.
Paint the Warrior's Arms and Chattles,
And his Bloody-minded Battles.

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AN EXTRACT OUT OF Mr. Scheffer's first Epistle to H*garth, a famous British Painter.

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AN EXTRACT OUT OF Mr. Scheffer's first Epistle to Hgarth, a famous British Painter*.