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 CLV.
[Of great connections with great men]
MUTATIS MUTANDIS.
Of great connections with great men,
Ned keeps up a perpetual pother;
“My Lord knows what, knows who, knows when;
“My Lord says this, thinks that, does t'other:”
Ned keeps up a perpetual pother;
“My Lord knows what, knows who, knows when;
“My Lord says this, thinks that, does t'other:”
My Lord had formerly his Fool,
We know it, for 'tis on record;
But now, by Ned's inverted rule,
The Fool, it seems, must have his Lord!
We know it, for 'tis on record;
But now, by Ned's inverted rule,
The Fool, it seems, must have his Lord!
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