The works of Mr. Thomas Brown Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings |
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Epigram, occasion'd by the Passage in the Satire against Wit, that reflects upon Mr. Tate, and ends thus: He's honest, and, as Wit comes in, will pay.
Rail on, discourteous Knight: If modest TateIs slow in making Payments, what of that?
So is th'Exchequer, so are half the Lords,
On whom thou hast bestow'd such sugar'd Words.
Envy itself must own this Truth of Nahum,
That when the Muses call, he strives to pay 'em.
But can we this of thy damn'd Hackney say,
Who as she nothing has, can nothing pay?
Then be advis'd, rail not at Tate so fast,
A Psalm of his may chance to be thy last.
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