The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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“I'm first!” cries Fungus,
“unabash'd I'll stand,
Nor step behind the noblest of the land!
Though, scullion-bred, my kitchen tones declare,—
Should I deny—my mother baisted there:
I rival Farquhar with my spotted hounds,
In domes, in palaces, and myrtle grounds;
What boots a doughty title more than these,
While Erskine's ragged widow crave her cheese
And Thespian harlots swim the stage by night,
To keep their peers by day, and titles bright?
More wealth than beastly
B---d I possess,
Let A---'s dowdy own her pillage less,
Let R---d wait, while Fungus leads the van,
'Tis better fortune makes the better man!
Though, late, with shoeless feet he trod the town,
And every groat was, then, a present crown.”
Nor step behind the noblest of the land!
Though, scullion-bred, my kitchen tones declare,—
Should I deny—my mother baisted there:
I rival Farquhar with my spotted hounds,
In domes, in palaces, and myrtle grounds;
What boots a doughty title more than these,
While Erskine's ragged widow crave her cheese
And Thespian harlots swim the stage by night,
To keep their peers by day, and titles bright?
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Let A---'s dowdy own her pillage less,
Let R---d wait, while Fungus leads the van,
'Tis better fortune makes the better man!
Though, late, with shoeless feet he trod the town,
And every groat was, then, a present crown.”
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