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The Tineum

Containing Estianomy, or The Art of Stirring a Fire: The Icead, A Mock-Heroic Poem: An Imitation of Horace, Ep. I. lib. I. Epigrams: A Fragment, &c. By C. V. Le Grice

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FOR A CATCH.

A roaring Jack
Was Hynes O'Hack,
As e'er a one in seven;
For when Death stopped his throttle,
And took away his bottle,
He scraped his skull,
And fill'd it full
To drink on his road to Heaven.