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The Poetical Works of the Ingenious and Learned William Meston

... The Sixth edition

Meston, William (1688?-1745)

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THE KNIGHT OF THE KIRK:

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OLD Mother GRIM's TALES,

TO THE Most Conspicuous, most Serene, and most Illustrious Prince and Potentate, The Man in the Moon.

THE PUBLISHER, TO THE Candid Reader.

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Decadem Alteram,

The Contrast revers'd, and set in a true Light.

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Quoth Phaeton, “I love to ride,
‘Then, father, only let me guide

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‘Your hackney-jades, and until night
‘About the world drive day-light.”