University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The works of Mr. Thomas Brown

Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings

expand section1. 
expand section2. 
expand section3. 
collapse section4. 
  
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
collapse section 
  
  
expand section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
To Mr. D'Urfey, upon his incomparable Ballads, call'd by him Lyrick Odes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand section 


110

To Mr. D'Urfey, upon his incomparable Ballads, call'd by him Lyrick Odes.

I

Thou Cur, half French, half English Breed;
Thou Mungrel of Parnassus,
To think tall Lines, run up to Seed,
Should ever tamely pass us.

II

Thou write Pindaricks, and be damn'd!
Write Epigrams for Cutlers;
None with thy Lyricks can be sham'd,
But Chamber-maids and Butlers.

III

In t'other World expect dry Blows;
No Tears can wash thy Stains out;
Horace will pluck thee by the Nose,
And Pindar beat thy Brains out.