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The Works of Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot]

... With a Copious Index. To which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. In Four Volumes

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What modern courtier, pray hath got the face
To say to majesty, ‘O king!
At such a time, in such a place,
You did a very foolish thing?’
What courtier, not a foe to his own glory,
Would publish of his king this simple story?—