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Upon King Arthur, partly writ in the Doctor's Coach, and partly in a Coffee-House.

Let the malicious Criticks snarl and rail,
Arthur immortal is, and must prevail.
In vain they strive to wound him with their Tongue,
The Lifeless Fœtus can receive no wrong.
As rattling Coach once thunder'd thro' the Mire,
Out dropt Abortive Arthur from his Sire.
Well may he then both Time and Death defy,
For what was never born, can never die.