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EPIGRAM CLIX.
[When prentic'd fops, in tasty fit]
MUTATIS MUTANDIS.
When prentic'd fops, in tasty fit,
Their counters and their aprons quit,
And stealing from the shops, they shut,
Half-booted lobby-loungers strut,
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And nine short inches of wanghee,
Howe'er the change absurd and strange is,
'Tis natural:—for so Nature changes;
Forms all at once the Lion's cubs;
But makes her Butterflies—of Grubs!
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