The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM XLVI.
[Now with longs, and with shorts, all our heads are so full]
BREVIS ESSE LABORO.
Now with longs, and with shorts, all our heads are so full,
I tell you an English grammatical bull:
Compare the word “short,” and you'll find it confest,
That “shorter” is longer, and “shortest” longest.
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