Durgen Or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist. Amicably Inscrib'd, by the Author, to those Worthy and Ingenious Gentlemen misrepresented in a late invective Poem, call'd, The Dunciad [by Edward Ward] |
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Till with puff-paste they've many thousands cloy'd,
And craftily supply'd their present need,
By falsly rend'ring what they scarce could read;
These are the Bards that did old Homer wrong,
And made him lamely speak the English Tongue;
Blind as he was, he now more blindly Walks,
Stumbles at Straws, and Stammers as he Talks;
And as his Int'rest daily grows more weak,
Our Booksellers once more may see him seek
His Bread in English, as he did in Greek.
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