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Poems on Several Occasions

By Thomas Gilbert

Gilbert, Thomas (1713-1766)

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A Satire.

To the Author of some Latin Poems published a few Years ago.

To the same, on the Ladies Subscription for the English Poems.

The Nineteenth Ode of the Third Book of Horace,

Verses writ on a Glass,

The first Book of Martial, Epigram. 58.

On a Quack's Motto,

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On a Quack's Motto,

Exemplo monstrante viam.

How often learning, wit, and merit fail,
When impudence and ignorance prevail?
This Maurus knows, nor feels the world's reproach,
But bears the pointed satire on his coach.