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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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Nor is the T---m Bard intirely free
From mercenary throws of Obloquie;
The Lust of Mammon led him once astray,
And made him tag scurrility for pay;
If false, than let him clear up the mistake,
And to the following Queries answer make.